What a difference 24 hours makes

I'm sitting here, at my dining room table, tapping away, happy as a clam. Was not the case at this time last night. No. This time last night, my stomach was in knots, as I was suffering through Valkyrie.

What possessed me to watch this movie? Well, H and I were having the nicest of nice days. It was Friday, and since I don't work on Fridays, I spent a few hours at my mom's house. H called me as we were leaving, about 1:30, and said he hadn't left the house and had just been working from there! This rarely happens, so Maya and I scurried home so we could all hang together. We played, danced, practiced standing.... H gave Maya-le a bath, and we put her to bed. We made an easy dinner together, I poured a glass of wine, and we turned on the tube. "Wouldn't it be nice to see a movie?" ... we thought. After cruising through all the lame-ass movie channels, we went to Pay Per View. And there it was, starting at 8pm.

I really don't like war movies. I really really don't like Hitler/WW2 movies. The reason being that it's not make believe -- this really happened. And it's painful to re-live. At least after a horror movie you can (try to) convince yourself that it's just make believe and the sun will come out in the morning. That the imaginary boogie-man under your bed won't come out and grab you. But with these movies, you can't do that. It's part of our history, and it's so damn sad.

Well, Tom Cruise did a good job, but I can't say I liked the movie. Gah, it's about the failed plot to assassinate Hitler. You don't have to know the story to know that it was an unsuccessful attempt.

Anyways, I rolled around in bed for a while. H fell asleep RIGHT AWAY. I got up to look for an ambien - half a pill always does the trick. But the bottle was empty. I went to go lie down in the extra bed in Maya's room. Brain racing. I came out to play on the computer a while. I went back to bed. Can.not.sleep. I came back out to try and sleep on the couch, when out of the corner of my eye I spotted the oh-so-elusive ambien. I popped in half a pill and made my way back to bed. Placebo affect or not, it shut my brain off and I was able to fall asleep. A good two hours after initially getting into bed. OY VEY, if I do say so myself.

Mamma Mia is on tonight, and I couldn't be happier.

We had a cool day today. During Maya's morning nap I took an hour snooze on the couch... i never do that but I was going on 6 hours of sleep and that really just doesn't do it for me. Once Maya woke up we got ready, my sister came over, and we got ready to head to the Getty to meet my dad and other sister. We were going to celebrate my dad's birthday. We live literally a few miles from the Getty Center off Sepulveda, and I haven't been there in YEARS. silly, no? I've wanted to try the Restaurant forever, and this was a perfect occcasion.

We had SUCH a nice time! I didn't snap any shots from inside, but the architecture is great... big open windows overlooking the city, lots of natural sunlight, it's really just so pleasant. Maya was eating up a storm, I swear this girl loves food like crazy. It's so crazy, that she even likes lemons.


Seriously, she didn't even pucker her lips! It could have been a saltine cracker for all she cared. We were cracking up!

After lunch we went to take some pictures. As hot as it was today, there was a glorious breeze up in the hills. Did I mention it was beautiful?






It was just so nice. After lots of photos we went for a nice walk, and even checked out the photography and sculpture exhibitions. They were not very inspiring, but I believe people come to the Getty more for the ambiance then for the actual art.

We came home, Maya crashed for a nap, and we just stayed cool. It was effing hot outside. H took a late afternoon nap, and Maya and I just went up the stairs over and over -- she gets a total kick out of this. God bless entertaining wee ones!

And now H is down south picking up Bella, and I'm listening to Pierce Brosnan Abba it up! Truth be told, everyone gave him too hard a time for this performance! I love me some Pierce!

Buenas Nochas! :)