LA and Mama Gena

Last weekend in LA was great. Sean and I threw a housewarming party that was off the hook. We had about 80 people there. We had crabs flown in from Maryland. We had a huge ass, and absolutely finger-lickin' delicious bbq. We had tiki torches burning. We had the booze flowing. We had a blast. :)

On Sunday I went to a very interesting wedding at Temescal Canyon Park in LA. It was a real traditional Jewish wedding. It was beautiful and lots of fun -- so joyous. My favorite part was the beginning when the women and men split up. There was a little vegetarian buffet. At first the women gathered around the food, but soon a group of women gathered in the clearing and started singing a beautiful song in Hebrew. The bride, Anita, is a singer and her singer friends and family members sang this song in perfect harmony. They sang and then started dancing. They held hands and danced around in a circle. They then split up into separate circles. Then the married women were called to dance. Then the single women were called to dance. Then the mothers were called to dance. I jumped in with the single women and didn't stop dancing. I couldn't sing the song, but I locked arms and/or held hands with my fellow women and we spun and we jumped and we danced with reckless abandon. It was great!

Later we went up to the Hoopa (spelling?) and I ended up sitting next to a woman who looked very familiar. Wouldn't you know it, she and I had attended high school together and university and had officially met way back when in college in a Funk Aerobics class! We were both friends of the bride, but from completely different ways. It is such a small world! The rest of the wedding was a blur of food and interesting people. I sat next to a very cute and interesting young man. He had to leave early, but he waited for me to say goodbye. He made a point to find out where I worked and said he'd send me an e-mail. He hasn't yet, but that's ok. We had a grand time flirting.

Sunday night, after that fun wedding, I went to see War of the Worlds with Sean, Vanessa and Sebastien. We saw it in Mann's Chinese Theater. I'd never seen a movie there and it was fun seeing a flick in such a Hollywood institution... walk over the Walk of Fame and the hand and foot prints of stars past to go in there. Very cool.

Monday I went on a nice long hike through the Santa Monica mountains with Sean and Vanessa. On Monday we also took care of some house stuff. Sean and I got together with the landscapers (our landscapers live two doors down from us. They're a really cute Mexican family and they just stop by and work on our garden all the time. It really rocks. :)) I'm excited because we're getting lemon, lime, and orange trees, lilacs, roses, and jasmine. We're also adding a kitchen garden with sage, oregano, cilantro, parsley, mint, and lavendar. :) I can't wait. As much as I love and appreciate being in LA, I love and appreciate being in New York too. I'm always happy to come back here.

Last night I started my Mama Gena class. I can't say too much about it because we agree to keep everything that happens there confidential. All I can say is that the energy of being there around a group of inspired, inspiring gorgous sister goddesses was amazing. I practically floated out of the Pleasure Palace. I was feeling that high! Rrrow! I am already quite a force to be reckoned with, but after 4 weeks of this I will be unstoppable!