Thursday 8/6/09
We had breakfast at Voula’s on Northlake Way–yum–with an old theatre friend who is planning her big move to NYC this fall–Yeah! I’m looking forward to having this friend in New York. We’re the same age. We’re both from Montana. We’re both actresses. We both have one daughter (but her’s is finishing college) We’re doing the same things with our lives just in different order
After a stop at University Village (where My Kid continued her search for a purse–what is that about?) We returned to our hotel for a swim before going to dinner at our friends’ house. Their bathroom has an old clawfoot tub like the one we installed after having a new clawfoot made to order at a foundry and possibly the same pedestal sink we’d put in our house. Grass and plants, a worm bin and a garden hose.– A front door AND a kitchen door!– These things become amazing to an apartment dweller. They have a 3-year-old we haven’t seen since she was a baby. I can’t believe we thought (everybody thought) we needed to send our little girl to preschool when she was that big. We thought she was so mature in comparison to a baby, but 3-year-olds are still so little. The little face twisted into tears instantly distracted by the next thing–so funny. Our 9-year-old gazelle-like tween-in-training is a different species entirely.