Home from travels

I was traveling for several days and didn't have access to my blogs, but I was doing many Something News every days while I was gone, and since I've been back.

I was in Los Angeles with the double intention of seeing a play of mine performed and catching up with some of the friends I left behind when I moved to Seattle.  It was an almost perfect stretch of days.  The weather was good, not too hot, not too smoggy.  The performances of my play were pretty good, good enough that I wasn't embarrassed for friends to see it.  And best of all was getting together with one of my best best best friends, plus good friends I haven't see in quite a while, plus finally being face to face with a writing colleague I'd only met online up to now.

It was my first time going to the theater that produced my play, even though this theater has been in existence for 60 years.  So that was new.  Driving the streets of Los Angeles was new because I was in an area in the San Fernando Valley I didn't used to frequent when I lived in Hollywood.  Even the car I was driving was new, my first time driving and parking an SUV.  It wasn't huge, but it did take some getting used to.  Happily for me and the rental company, no accidents nor dings.  All of the restaurants I went to for meals with friends were new.  (When I was on my own, I went to the Denny's across the street from my hotel.)

Since coming home, I've done several new things, including going to some consignment stores with Sweet Hubby to look for a new couch for our living room.  I have to say, I'm going to feel some sorrow when we move our old couch downstairs.  That couch was the first big piece of furniture I chose and bought all on my own.  I've had it for 20 years, and it has served me and us very well.  I like the way it looks (denim blue), it's comfy for sitting and for stretching out on for a nap, and it is by now soaked through with memories of me and SH sitting on it watching movies with cats in our laps.  We've found the new couch we want and are now in the process of deciding what fabric we want it covered in.  We're also on the verge of finding new kitties, so the time for making new memories is approaching.  Still, I love my old couch and will miss it when it's out of sight.

One other Something New: I tried a bottled drink, Honey Water with Ginger.  Yuck.  I drank it because both honey and ginger are supposed to be nutritious, but still - yuck.  Once was enough.