Today is
Mother’s Day.
It’s
8:39 a.m. and as far as I know, everyone is still sleeping.
I’m taking a little me time in a week that had very little of it. This week I was in New York Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tuesday
was for a business event, traffic and timing were off, and I decided not to go
to the event as I was missing a good part of it by the time I would have
finally parked, etc. Instead I took
Rachel to dinner. I was frazzled and she
was trying to get through her last week of finals. We chatted and enjoyed a meal but it wasn’t
our best night.
Thursday, on the other hand, was one of my
favorite nights so far this year. I’m
new to New York Women in Film and
Television and took Rachel to the Designing
Women event, which honors make-up, hair, and costume artists. The emcee was Kristen Schaal and presenters
included 2 of my favorites, Tina Fey and Steve Bescemi. The forum was mid-sized; I think there were about 300 people there, and
we were able to talk with Tina Fey briefly, which was fun. We were able to talk with Kristen Schaal for
a bit longer when Rachel opportunistically stopping her to chat in the
hallway. Kristen was, by the way, truly
lovely. Rachel had seen her at the UBC
and was a big fan, referencing her favorite joke that Kristen had told. We snapped some photos, and would have had
some good ones had I not spazzed on the iPhone (again) and only came away with
Kristen talking with her head down to a nose and some blonde hair. (Kristen seems to be about 5’10’ and Rachel
is about a foot shorter.)
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| Kristen Schaal with Rachel's Nose |
I was so energized being around all of those
creative people. The award recipients
are all amazing artists with such passion for their work and the world around
them. The creative high lasted well into
the next morning.
Friday afternoon I talked with a business owner
who is starting to do more with WebTV. I was really jazzed up about his ventures and
excited for him.
Friday evening, after lots of commotion and
more traffic than predicted, Marc and I had dinner at The Left Bank on Perry
Street in the city with Ruth and Len. It
was a truly wonderful evening. They are
a delightful couple--the conversation was all over the place and fun, the
drinks (sidecars for me) were perfect, the food was delicious, and we even
shared desserts that we passed around the table until they were all gone: rhubarb crisp, olive cake, and maple syrup tart. With a parking garage right across the
street, really, it couldn’t have been any better.
Saturday was uber stressful. We had to move Rachel out of her dorm and there
was a street festival on 2nd Avenue, which made navigating to her
street tough. When we finally go there,
we parked in a no-parking zone and what I thought would be one trip down the elevator
with a cart turned into 3. Thankfully
Ali and Marc came in his car and were great in helping get it all done. I stayed with the cars in case we were forced
to move them. I was very agitated the
entire time, between the cryptic skywriting going on over head, the angry
yelling (that I later learned was for a movie being shot up the street--out of
view but not out of earshot), and being in a no-parking zone (good girl
syndrome).
Then came the trip to Caldwell to Lisa
Palombo’s studio, no easy task when your navigation system has a sense of humor. After a few loops on the GSP we were finally
there. I had wanted to purchase
paintings of hers for a long time and now she is working in acrylics and doing
some smaller pieces, so I purchased a large poppy painting called Desire 2, and
a smaller print, Independence. Lisa is
getting the larger one framed for me and I can’t wait to have it in my home. Marc bought me a beautiful framed print of a
blue vase with red poppies in and around it.
I’m looking at the prints now, they’re on the desk across the room from
me here in the study. It will be great
to look at beauty every morning even when the view outside isn’t nature at her
best.
Today Rachel, Wil and I are going to Monmouth
Park, a family-friendly racetrack near the shore. It’s a beautiful day, and I love watching the
horses run. Hopefully the weather will
hold up—when I was younger and scientists were predicting the climate change
we’re now experiencing, I remember them saying we would have highly changeable
skies, and now we do. When I was
younger, it would be beautiful for days on end, not a cloud in the sky. Now it seems that no longer is the case…sunny
one minute, clouds and rain the next.
It was a challenging week from a work and
scheduling perspective, but a wonderful one in terms of renewing my spirit and
energy by being around creative people who share their ideas and passion. I need more of that, much more!
P.S. It’s
9:57 now, they’re all up, and it’s chaos! My
brother called to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day and I couldn’t even talk to
him. See previous post about it getting
quiet around here. J
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