Monday, December 29, 2008

Heading to Alaska

Today I found out I am officially heading to Alaska to work production on a Sarah Palin interview for a documentary that is in production with our company. I am very excited. Next Monday I will actually be at Sarah Palin's house right there in Wasilla. Who would have ever thought? Certainly not me. As big a fan as I am ... I never really thought I'd get to meet her, let alone go to her house!

My husband and I fly out on Friday night from Burbank to Seattle and then on Saturday morning we take a flight up to Alaska. We will stay in Anchorage in Saturday and then Sunday head up to Wasilla. We are supposed to head out on Monday at 1:30P.M. --- but I am a little mixed about this. I would rather hang out one more day and leave at 1:30P.M. on Tuesday. At this point I will see how it all unfolds. We can easily change the flight if need be.

I had an amazing massage today. My new health care plan for 2009 -- weekly massages at Massage Envy! I have never had a better massage than I had today. I have probably said that before ... but today I really mean it.


Sunday, December 28, 2008

Live from Studio City

Holidays. Seems like a natural thing to write about three days after Christmas. I am not much into holidays anymore. Perhaps I will get that groove back, but about eight years ago Christmas literally blew up in my aunt's living room and I have had holidays without tradition since. Even though the tradition I had prior to that blow up was insane ... it was an insanity I understood.

Now I have converted to Judaism. To top it all off, I live in California -- talk about a holiday season buzzkill -- Los Angeles is not really a holiday kind of town. It has nothing to do with being Jewish -- my hudband is Jewish and he wishes we had a tree, despite the fact that rabbi's frown on that sort of thing, especially if you are going to raise a family. So don't tell -- I have too many Christmas ornaments to give up the tree ... what am I to do with my Troy Aikman and Ladanian Tomlinson ornaments? (The Chargers just trounced the Broncos and made it into the playoffs, by the way. I love football.)

I was never all that religious, so it seemed like the best thing to do for our future children. Do I feel Jewish? No. Not like people who just are Jewish, feel Jewish. They may not know one prayer -- but they inherently have that Jewish way about them.

When you convert you have to practice until you feel Jewish. I don't practice because I have not found a temple I really connect with and my husband does not practice because he has never been the temple going sort. I am in search of a new temple for us in 2009.

I have not thought about New Year's resolutions yet ... but that seems like a reasonable one. Two things that WILL NOT be on that list: losing weight and exercising more. I want to do those things, but there has to be a better way than a "resolution". Saddam Hussein defied the United Nations every time they made one ..