“What’s the Buzz?”
June 27th, 2010
Landed in LA on Thursday ready to meet the moving truck and get settled. Don’t you love it when you make a plan, and the Universe says “yeah right”?
Well, to begin with, within an hour of landing I’ve now learned that my furniture (which was due to arrive in LA on Thursday or Friday) is now delayed because someone didnt show up to meet the truck for their things…in Kansas. Really? Your whole life is on a semi and you are late to meet it? Anyhow, thank you to that lovely person or persons in Kansas, because missing the truck delayed my things for 2-3 days!
From the Big Apple to the Hills of Hollywood
June 26th, 2010
Its Friday, June 25th and I have just arrived (yesterday) to live, for a year, in Los Angeles. An editor friend of mine suggested a blog, daily snippets of life in LaLa land, as they call it. So I decided that I’m up for the challenge.
But to begin with my first day in Los Angeles, I need to back up a week. Thursday the 17th of June. Moving day.
I have lived in my apartment in NYC for 7 years – and in the same building for over 8. Its a nice building on the UES. Nothing overly fancy…but safe, clean, and for longer than any other place in my adult life – home. My next door neighbors are this wonderful elderly couple who I know pretty well. We commiserate over inconsiderate tenants upstairs and every November the gentleman and I walk to the local voting station together bright and early. I believe they’re both in their mid to late 70s. Other than this couple, I have never really interacted with the other neighbors on my floor. So it was a huge, and pleasant, surprise when moving day rolled along and literally every tenant on my floor stopped in to wish me well. They each expressed what a nice neighbor I had been – I think that means quiet. Everyone seemed overjoyed when I let them know I would be back and forth.
There I was in NYC where its true, you can have a good neighbor and never know who they are (I still don’t know any names – but I know they are there and they know I’m there and it was a very comforting revelation. Read the rest of this entry »
