naomiland

bring it on...

i need a little fun, though i doubt i will find a worthy competitor in my critic who calls me "gross" and "classless" after reading my little story about the cult upstairs...*cuhhhliccccckkkk*

so by the way, i am moving! yay! going back to laurel canyon. mt. olympus, to be exact. gotta love that name.

a fun fact about mt. olympus: the house that belonged to jenny garth's character (kelly) on 90210 is in mt. olympus. it's cool. i can drive by it every day now. hmm...who am i on 90210? i guess i would have to be brenda, huh? OH NO - WAIT - CLEARLY i'm andrea. (ahhndrea, for those who remember) reluctantly, of course, but the token jew thing wins out in the end...

damn you, mini carrot cakes

which, by the way, are only "mini" when you eat ONE.  i think that two mini carrot cakes = 1/2 BIG carrot cake.  and god forbid you find yourself eating 3 mini carrot cakes.  it's all trader joe's fault.  see that fat man in the illustration?  exactly.  damn you, fat man.  and by the way - the mini carrot cakes ain't that mini.  they're the size of large cupcakes.  with a generous dollup of cream cheese frosting on top.

so when i bought them today the check out guy asked for my zipcode before he took my money.  i guess they're creating a registry of all the known pastry eaters in the city of hollywood.  they know where to find us.  sitting alone in our apartments, secretly getting fat.  i'll probably be required to alert my new neighbors that i'm moving in...and i have a history of eating pastries.  let them decide if they can trust me around their families.

i awoke this morning with the best of intentions.  i'm sick, you see, so i decided that i should drink lots of fluids.  did that.  then went to greenblatt's for the best matzoh ball soup in los angeles (cause my mama lives in new york).  and suddenly i was at trader joes, purchasing fat and sugar.  oh well.  and so it goes.

i was at the concession stand at a theater up north the other night where they were selling water, coffee, wine and beer, cookies, brownies...the usual...and one woman, completely serious, referred to the cookies as "carbs" - she asked her partner if they should get some carbs.  and she was not being funny.  this is a society gone mad, i tell you!!! 

huh?

so i'm not sure if this is a new viral marketing technique or simply a glitch in the weblog system, but i keep getting comments like this on my posts:

"The second British Fly Tying Fair was held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 November, with Fish & Fly one of the sponsors for an increasingly popular event. Roland Henrion suggests a number of ways to look after and care for your rods, reels and fly lines to ensure many years of happy fishing."

i'm sure some of you have noticed this sort of thing when you go to read the recent comments...it's bizarre. there are some very obvious ads (they post links along with their comments) for things like online casinos and cyalis (which i learned = viagra) but these random comments just leave me confused. they have nothing to do with what i've posted. i guess i'm supposed to then click on the person's name which links me to their site. i don't erase them because i believe in the whole viral marketing thing...hopefully someday someone will use it to my benefit...but it's just weird.

THANK YOU!!!

to everyone who responded to my "i'm sick and canceling my san diego show" email...your sweet messages have really cheered me up. i sent out that email feeling sort of defeated, not used to canceling shows, feeling bad...and then i got all these emails - i'm working my way through them, one by one, answering all of you! i feel so lucky to have supportive people in my life.

and now i have some sad news. many of you have followed along as i told stories of my dog osito who i adopted from the shelter last year. he was in rough shape when i brought him home but he slowly recovered - came to life, as i often said - and became a truly wonderful companion. he was one of the sweetest animals i have ever encountered, with his soulful eyes and old man bark.

i went to boston (where he had been living during my tour) this past week, planning to bring him back with me to los angeles. when i took him to the vet to get his pre-flight check up it turned out he was very sick. he had tumors all throughout his body, and probably had been sick for a while. i won't get into the details of his illness, but it was severe, and we had to put him to sleep on monday. he was very peaceful, surrounded by the people who loved him and his "brother" cali, and i felt as though it was a big relief to him. who knows. but he is no longer suffering, which is a good thing. it was a very sad day and a sad week and he will be missed. in the last year and a half of his life he was part of a family that loved him very much. if nothing else, i am happy that he got to see the ocean in big sur and the mountains in southern california. he was completely loved.

following my brother's lead

i have added a link to a tsunami relief fund...it's over there...to the right...click on it and you can donate money with your credit card. there's no excuse not to do it. i've made it too damned simple.