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First post of 2010!

Old photos first:

November

December

First time seeing one another in over a year! C just arrived from Osaka, I’m in line for Edmonton. December 26th

North Saskatchewan River, -30oC

Old Strathcona Farmer’s Market, Edmonton

Sometimes I get so excited about blogging but then hunger or Jeopardy or something always trumps and the interest wanes. Pas aujourd’hui. I suppose it also doesn’t help that I left my camera-computer cord here in LA. Having a photo makes all the difference.

I’ve been back in LA for about 2.5 weeks. So far, my 2010 has consisted of: January, February, JUNE. Today’s forecast is a high of 83 F. That’s 28.5 oC. The rain we never got in August was a weekly, monsoon-esque affair when I first arrived (always occurring on our precious limited Saturdays) but now it’s sunnified itself as we head into “spring” which means the rain has stopped and the few trees that lost their leaves are all abud and the cherries and pink magnolias are all abloom and we can leave our windows open during the night and I have resumed sitting on the patio by the spa between 1-2pm. The rain has made the mountains green and the grass happy and the morning air smells like lilies and jasmine. Pansies and ranunculus have been planted in the windowbox. Are thriving. Citrus season is intense. You don’t even wanna know what’s happening to those trees. They are begging like fat-uddered cows for a harvest relief. More fruit than leaves. Fat oranges and lemons rolling into the streets. Am eating so much. E and I are pretty sure we found a potentially prize-winning football-sized Meyer lemon still clinging to a branch in a yard off Victory Blvd. No camera on that day. Sad face.

Last evening’s daylight savings-sponsored 10-miler prompted my foray back into blogging. I love where we live in prox to so many rad things to run past: Warner lot, Forest Lawn & Mt. Sinai grounds, LA Zoo, Griffith Park, LA Equestrian Center, Disney. A dream is a wish your heart makes.

My most favourite new thing ever in life is that I have started volunteering at the Discovery Shop in Toluca Lake. 3x/week. I feel alive with responsibility & ADORE my co-volunteers. Think supercute vintage sold by supercute 65 yr. old+ women (Suzanne is 90!) who gussy themselves to the nines for their shifts. THEY THOUGHT I WAS VOLUNTEERING BECAUSE I CAN’T WORK BECAUSE I’M UNDER 18. I love them. They all ask me to join them for their shifts on my days off so we can “hang out” even more. The shop’s famous, too. Jennifer Aniston dropped off all of Brad Pitt’s clothes there, back in 2005 after their split. Factoid.

Am eating almost exclusively local, farmer’s market food. On my arrival we shared the pomegranate grown from our tree on the balcony! Faves revisited: the beach, mandatory drive thru Compton via Rosecrans, Little Tokyo/Chinatown/Galleries, Beverly Center celebrity sighting (Vienna from Bachelor ugh), Bev Hills & Hollywood hikes, Riverside & Melrose strolls, falling asleep on the 96 Grand/Venice. Sake sake sake.

I don’t want to return but it looks like I might have to, fairly soon actually, for work. I feel like Ali Fedotowski. Or Ed Swiderski.