Happy Birthday (to me) again
April 29th, 2008
I did have a wonderful birthday on Saturday. My biggest present: being home for the first time in a while! And a very nice stack of presents from my husband and other relatives. But no time to relax because it was off to UCLA for the annual LA Times Festival of Books. Unbelievably, 70,000 people plus come each day- all in celebration of books. Originally, I wasn’t too happy about my timeslot right at the Festival opening. But it was unbelievably hot and I ended up being very grateful I wasn’t signing at 2:00. There was already quite a crowd at 10. I got to sign with fellow LAYA, Michael Reisman, who just had his first book published to great success – starred reviews, movie deal – all well deserved! The book is Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper and there will be more. LAYA Paula Yoo (her almost brand new book is Good Enough) also stopped by – I didn’t get her picture, darn.
We browsed a bit, then returned home for a lovely, long call from son Walshe and his girlfriend, Ania, then off to Beverly Hills for dinner with Becca, Gary and darling granddaughter, Remy. Becca and Gary took us to a favorite restaurant, Kate Mantilini’s. You can see that Remy was a lot more interested in helping me blow out that candle than with photography. When we returned home, I saw that Desi had a little celebration of her own. Desi is a 12 year old puppy – and I do mean puppy. She doesn’t play with her toys a lot but that night, she pulled her entire toy basket out of the corner of the den and scattered toys everywhere. I wish I’d had a hidden camera filming that! Whoopee!
So another year has come and gone and it was a very, very good year, for which I’m grateful.
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