Video Chat w/Mara & Adelin

In case anyone hasn't visited mara's blog yet, here's a photo of my first video chat with the baby today...

MUCH Belated Post

So July 11th was the day we celebrated Sage's 35th BDay. And we did so in style...at the Hollywood Park racetrack, on a day with a hat contest, so all the ladies were sporting their finest wide-brimmed hats!



Sage's best party-throwing quality is that wherever we go, she manages to work out some deal for her party. Always some kind of special deal or extra thing to have thrown in - it's quite impressive really. And for this bday, she reserved boxes for us to be in, a man came over to explain all the betting rules and options for us, AND she had a race run in our group's honor. The awesomely dubbed "Sage Against the Machine" group.

For that race, we got to go down to the winner's circle to watch the horses run right by us at the finish line, and we had our photo taken as a group in the grassy area of the Winner's Circle. Here's a video of the last leg of the race


All in all, it was a great day, despite the fact that chris and I had very little luck with our picks. And when we did decide to randomly pick a horse b/c 8 was my lucky number, he turned out to be the favorite! So when we won, we won like $8. Haha. But the day was really about celebrating Sage, so we didn't care much about the results.

p.s. One of the reasons I didn't post for so long was b/c of all the excitement and running around with the work thing (see my last post!) and b/c Mara just had her baby! You can click on her blog site to the right to see photos.

Woohoo!!

I'm on the verge of selling my very first project on my own here at the office. YAY!! Offers are being made and we're all very excited. Deals have to be closed before anything is definite, so send me good karma but alas, it appears I've finally set something up!

What's up? I rule. JK. I'm just in a GREAT mood now. This means my first producing credit ladies and gents. that's right- I don't know what it'll be yet, EP, AP or CO-P but it'll be something.
Go me! Go me!

I will post again when it's official but once last time - WOOHOO!

How am I going to celebrate you ask? Seeing HARRY POTTER 6 tonight. YAY! Good day. Good day.

Kit-tay Post

Look at the handsome kitty posing for me...awww. So distinguished.

And now...a little to the left. that's it!

Hollywood Bowl

For the 4th, Sage, Jeff, Sharon, Rich, Chris and I decided to do the Hollywood Bowl again this year for an evening of fun music and fireworks! We picnic-ed about two hours before the show and enjoyed some seriously gourmet good including Sharon's curried chicken salad, some delicious sun dried tomato and olive tampenade, fruit, chesse and crackers and of course my flag cake :) (oh- and we had like 5 bottles of wine for the evening)



This year, the special guest performing along with the LA Philharmonic was John Fogerty (of CCR). The concert is typically split into three parts - the first being the LA Phil performing some hits by LA composers, then the special guest, then the LA Phil along with the fireworks. While typically the special guest has just been okay (we've seen Kenny Loggins and Randy Newman before), this year John Fogerty was AWESOME! I was so surprised by how fantastic his voice still is and his guitar playing was seriously sick. Plus he played all the big hits and the songs people want to hear, which is nice since not all performers do that. Sometimes I get that they want to perform their new stuff and show they're still developing their art (or whatever), but come on-play what people want to hear! And truthfully, last night I was surprised how many of his/CCR's songs I did know. Jeff was most excited to hear "Centerfield" and literally heard two notes of the song and yelled "YEAH!" really loudly. It was hilarious and I think we all agreed we'd never seen him so excited about anything...ever!

Anyway, we all had an amazing time and I took a little video of the end of the fireworks for your viewing pleasure.


Happy Bday USA!

Happy 4th of July!!

I'll do a bigger weekend post tomorrow night, but I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 4th! If you're on a boat, don't fall off. If you're at a bbq, don't burn yourself on the grille. If you're on the beach, wear sunscreen. No, I swear I've not been drinking when I am writing this post!

Look at my fun flag cake!

BBQ at the Newlyweds!

On Friday, since we were all lucky enough not to have to work, we went just down the street to our friends Leigh & Ward's house for a midday bbq. Along with Sage and Jeff, we all had a great afternoon of beer, burgers and other yummy munchies.



As the afternoon wore on, we played some flip cup, beer pong and then Kings...which I think was our undoing. The afternoon turned into night and two beer runs later, we were all a bit tired. Luckily Sage was our DD with her allergy meds keeping her on a strict (well mostly strict) Diet Coke regiment for the day.

You can see Leigh & Ward have two beautiful black labs, Turk & Tiller, who are absolutely adorable! They were a bit overexcited when we got there, but I think the boys managed to wear them out with some fetch and rough-housing.

It was a great start to our weekend!