September and fall almost here!

September is almost here, fall is the time of year I love the most, its the beginning to holidays and now it is the beginning and new start for my son in the next part of his life!  Adulthood, College, and all his dreams coming true!  He will start acting classes with a great teacher, preparing himself for his movie which I believe should start shooting in mid-Sept. From what I am hearing they are getting everything ready and are fixing up loose ends!  He has his script in hand and just waiting!  Lots going on and so ready to join in the excitement of it all! I just know in my heart that all will go well and he will fly!

Purpose!

Do you ever sit and wonder what purpose you can make in ones lifetime, such as myself is thinking right now!  After my trip to Los Angeles, I wonder, what could be done for those in need in our own country!  Helping other countries is all well and good, but I wonder about the USA, the needs that are needed here.  Are we really doing enough for our own!  I know what your thinking, she goes on a trip and comes back and now she wants to change the world!  No, that's not what I want to do, I would just like to be able to lend a helping hand!   I really have never been around as many homeless people as I was in LA, and it really affected me to the very core of my soul.  I know you are probably thinking, like I always did, there is work for people, go get a job like everyone else.  I am now very ashamed of myself for thinking and feeling like that!  I realize now some people make there own problems and most people have no choice at all!  I figure(as much as its worth) that all the people I seen with all there belongings living in streets are not doing it by choice but because they have no choices, if we believe that these people want to live like that, than we must be crazy! I am confused and feeling useless right now, it is not a good feeling at all to have and I really need to find a way that I could help others in need or at least try! Most people live week to week like I do, you try the best you can with what you have, I worry so much about me and mine that I forget about them, (others a lot less fortunate than me).
Just a little compassion, really does not hurt anyone. Its time at least for me to think of others and not always about me and mine!

Still tired!

Do you believe, I am still exhausted from my LA trip, site seeing really wares you down.  Starting to get back a little more energy now, whew that reminds me need to take my vitamins after writing this blog, LOL maybe it will help. I forgot to tell you all, I went on a tour of Warner Brothers studio, learned a lot about sound stages and how they change everything. They shoot The Ellen show there and we sat in audience seats when guide told us how it is filmed each day!  The surprisee of the tour is when they took us to the old series set of the Friends , the cafe set where the cast would sit there and Lisa Kudrow would play and sing the Guitar!  The Guide took a picture of my family in the chair which is so cool! Like I said we ran around so much I keep forgetting little things we did!  My son climbed this mountain on Zuma beach and the pictures are so awesome and beautiful, and wait until I show you a picture of this sunset we experienced on the Sunset cruise we went on, the deepest orange I have ever seen so far in my life, other than a picture, was there right in front of my face!   Amazing!!!  I said it before and sorry I am saying it again, I needed that vacation so much!  I laughed till I hurt and we even recorded ourselves driving in the minivan we rented, there was six of us so we needed room! Now, for one minute picture this, 4 adults and 2 young men!  1-24yrs old and 1-19yrs old., for reasons we all know those two twain's don't mix, but on this trip it did and we had a ball! Overtired and all the running around and the traveling in a car with 6 people always make for good times and good laughs and I really needed that! Now back to the real world!

If I hear Ashton Kushners name again?

I will think of something to do to myself and put me out of my misery LOL, my nephew and son were relentless on getting near his house, not because of him but his girlfriend Milla (what ever her last name is) LOL.  They love her, which made them so determine on finding and getting a closer view of his home, it was getting so annoying !  For one day we went  to the top of the hills near the Hollywood sign, if you could Imagine that!  The streets up there are like a death trap or I would say like a roller coaster ride.  How in the world these people drive up and down these roads without having a heart attack (like my sister almost did numerous times) I will never know! To get to Ashton's house is pretty much impossible because of stalkers like my son and nephew! lol  But after awhile and a whole lot of laughs, all turn out okay when we were on the Hollywood boulevard and the kid he starred with on The 70's show walk right by us (his name is Wilmer Vanderama or something close to it) he played the Spanish kid on show..They were ready to take flight and start taking pictures of him and his girlfriend and follow them.  Rob, my son said he had eye contact with Wilmer and that you could tell he did not want to be noticed and that when he realized Robbie knew who he was, he started to move faster in the crowed! I had to stop the stalkers again, only kidding they were just having fun with the star gazing stuff!  Do you believe I missed Valerie Bertinelli getting her star on the walk of fame by a few hours, she Betty White and the rest of the cast from her show were there to honor her! We also went to this great shopping mall called the Grove where the best of the best goes.  Every car you see is Bentley's, Rolls Royce's, and a whole lot of others that my son knows the names of and right now do not have a clue, but I do know one thing one was more expensive than the other!  So much to do and see!  We went to this little strip mall, to go to Carvel no less and a Rolls Royce and valet parking was to the left of it, we found out that that restaurant had the best Sushi in town and all the stars go there, who would have thought it was not much on the eye this mall to say the least!  The Carvel ice cream we were in was one that Bob Hope went to all the time and Jay Leno goes in there every Sunday faithfully! All the little tidbits are coming back to me a little at a time!  You have to remember, there is only so much this little brain of mine can store, so little things are coming to me as the days go by.  Later guys!

Los Angeles,California land of the rich and poor!

Well let me tell you, I had a ball, from Beverly Hills to Zuma beach and the Hollywood hills, Newport beach, Manhatten beach and so much more, Madame Trousseau wax museum, Graumans Chinese Theater with all the hand and foot prints so much to do with so little time! I laughed sometimes so hard I almost pissed my pants (I know to much info) but what can I say it was one of those weeks where I sometimes laughed so hard it hurt, kinda of thing! We went on tours, The dearly departed tour, with all the unsolved mysteries of the stars and their demised and of course the tours of all the homes of the rich and famous. I am such a sap for all of this, with being a nostalgia buff, this is right up my alley! We went to the Nethercutt museum, This family is amazing.  They have the most wonderful collections of cars, pianos, organs sounds I have ever heard in my life and can you believe it, its all free.  Amazing family and amazing people to share their wonderful collection with the world is to me truly special in this day and age, when everything is about money! We went to great places to eat, and the last day we went on a sunset cruise in Newport that was just breathtaking to say the least, and the houses on this cruise will take your breath away! I have pictures galore with loads of memories and good times with people I love! I did not make the Hollywood Cemetery on my last day, because they closed it to the public. This is the resting place of some of the greatest stars in the world, like Rudolf Valentino and so much more! My family was like why do you want to see a cemetery, I said it is not just a cemetery it is the last resting place of the most famous people in the world! (they thought I was nuts, so be it, I did not care, oh well it was not in the cards this time maybe the next).  Now for the sadness of the trip, I have personally never seen in my lifetime, so many homeless people!  Mostly wherever you go in California you will see homeless people, laying near walls of buildings, talking to themselves and they look so lost and alone! In Hollywood Hills, where houses are worth millions and have gates and bushes about 15ft high blocking the views from the street for privacy we would see homeless people laying in the bushes in some spots sleeping with all there belongings with them, how sad is that, on one hand there are people with so much money they really do not know what to do with it and on the other hand you have people starving in the streets.  I did have a wonderful time, but when I go to sleep at night I seem to remember all the faces of the homeless and starving, and that was something I did not expect on my trip at all! I spoke with some people and I asked them how do you get used to being around this and seeing this each and everyday!  They said it is the California way of life and you get use to it!  I do not believe being from New Jersey where the homeless are not laying in streets that I would be ever use to it, nor would I want to be use to it!  Help is what is needed, not getting use to it!  Sad very sad indeed!

I'm backkkkkkk!!

Hi everyone, had a wonderful time in LA with lots to talk about, but as you know being away from work for a whole week leaves plenty of catching up to do.  All good stuff and not so good stuff will have to wait till I have some free time. Just wanted you all to know I was planted safe and sound on my own home soil, so to speak, lol.  I really was a great trip with loads of site seeing and loads of laughs!  Before I go back to all my catch up work, I just wanted to say I really missed you guys and its great to be back!  Later all!

Hi everyone!

Well you all know I am leaving tomorrow, so there will not be to many posts coming your way, I will miss the talking I am able to do on my blog, especially in the next coming week and  most of all the feedback you all give me, so don't forget me will ya!  When I get back I promise you I will have loads of thinks to say of everything we did!  Today is a really busy day at work, and I am feeling really bad, even though I should not about leaving my job for a week!  But its family time and I am looking forward to spending quality time with them!  I might get annoyed a lot at my job but I really do enjoy working there.  I know, Fran you are an airhead, what could I say, I am what I am and I am me!  Plain and simple, take me or leave me, change me, I think not! Oh and I forgot take me or leave me!  I hope you all take me!  See ya all on the 26th and to all have a great and wonderful week!!  Wish me Luck!  XXXOOO