Health and Welfare

I'm convinced that living with someone else strengthens your immune system - or mine at least.  I could probably take a minute or two to search the interwebs half-heartedly for some "proof", but I'll just choose to believe it.  

As I write this I'm in the late stage of...a cold?  a mild flu?  a respiratory malaise?  I don't know what it is.  I do know that nearly half of my office has something similar.  And this is my second "something" in this new year of 2016, along with a weekend bout of either food poisoning or a stomach bug last month.  Oh well...Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker, and all that, right?

I did have a wonderful interlude during all of this:  a long, Presidents' Day weekend in LA with my Hubby to visit our friends Jamie and Clinton.

Oh, Los Angeles, you confound me.  Could I live there?  Couldn't I?  Would I ever truly know which direction I was going?  Maybe it's years of looking from the west over the ocean to the east which threw me off.  Maybe it was the lack of familiar landmarks.  Jetlag?  Heat stroke?  Too many lemons?  Who really knows?

We did have a great time, though.  It was wonderful to see Mark since we hadn't seen each other since he was in Charleston over Christmas and New Years.  It was great to see Jamie and Clinton and their new home.  It's always fun to explore a new city.  And, well, the weather was beautiful:  mid-80's during the day and low 60's to high 50's at night.  It had even rained about a week or so before we arrived, so things were slightly more green than brown.  Perfect!


Jamie (L) and Mark (R) and some green!

We saw the ocean:





We went to the Getty Villa:





We visited the Yogananda Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple, but somehow I have no pictures.

We went to the Santa Monica Pier and rode the Ferris Wheel





There was the Broad  - the newest, hippest art scene in LA.  BTW, this is a great museum and if you're in LA you should definitely go -- it's free, too!











Chinese New Year in Chinatown:









We saw the San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura







And we saw seals





I didn't see any Hollywood stars, though.  Maybe next time.

Thank you Jamie and Clinton for a great weekend!  I can't wait to come back and also to have you come visit me in Charleston.

Now, where's my old school pseudoephedrine-- the kind that actually works?