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A Couple of Things…March 26, 2013

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Surfer's Point, Ventura, CA

Surfer’s Point, Ventura, CA

(Originally posted on Facebook, March 26, 2013

1. I love industrious men with a plan and a sense of humor.

2. In radio, I had more than my 15 minutes of fame.  It really is overrated.

3. I’m trying to think of something I can no longer do because of my advancing age.  For instance, I can no longer……I’ll get back to you on that one.

4. I have to do a self-portrait in my photography class.  It has to be a picture that shows who I am or what I love.  Ideas are brewing, photo to come.

5. Meanwhile, I’m loving getting out and shooting my town.

6. 2012 taxes are done. And yes, I’m smiling.

7. Getting ready for Ventura Music Week June 7th through the 16th.  I’m taking the whole week off from City.  Should be a blast!

8.  Starting when Sydney Rose was a baby up until she was around eight or nine years old, she would reach up to my face and rub one of my cheeks.  Somehow it comforted her.  She did this the other day quite unexpectedly.  I just about melted.

9. From my “Favorite Facebook Posts File”:   “My neighbor listens to good music, whether it likes it or not.”

Photo taken February 2013 from the parking structure looking out at Surfer’s Point using my long lens.

A Couple of Things…March 21, 2013

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VenturaRocks.com 4th Anniversary Party

VenturaRocks.com 4th Anniversary Party

(Originally posted on Facebook, March 21, 2013)

1. Spring has sprung.  Life is incredibly good.

2. I love participating in parades, especially in a small town like Ventura.  It’s so corny, you just have to embrace it! The look on the children’s faces makes being goofy so worthwhile.

3. It fascinates me how loud women get when there are more than four at  a table.  I also find that the volume increases exponentially by the number of drinks ordered.

4. I love a good book.  I love a good movie.  I love a good song.  But most of all, I love a good friend.

5. Sydney Rose said the funniest thing the other day when I mentioned that she gets her assertiveness from me.  She totally agreed and then pondered out loud wondering what she got from her dad.  Not missing a beat, we both said at the same time, “Flakiness.”  To which we had a good laugh!

6. I want you to succeed.  How can I help?

7. From my Favorite Facebook Quotes file:  “I’m a non-violent person until I see I see a spider.  Then I turn into Al Capone, and “I want him DEAD!  I want his family DEAD!  I want his house burned to the GROUND!”    Yeah, that’s me.

8. My friend reminded me recently, “In no way are you ever responsible for another’s bad behavior.”  That may be true my dear friend, but we can hold them accountable for it. And more than that, we can shame them and let them know we won’t stand for it.

VenturaRocks.com just celebrated our 4-year anniversary on Sunday.  I selected a few of the photos to share in the montage I posted. I want to  thank my BUSINESS partner Eve for all her hard work. If you get a chance, please read my annual State-of-the-Ventura-Rocks-Website address:

http://venturarocks.com/blog/venturarocks-com-4th-anniversary/

Thanks for reading and for your comments!  I really do love our discussions!!

A Couple of Things…March 11, 2013

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Bob's Big Boy

Bob’s Big Boy

(Originally posted on Facebook March 11, 2013)

1. Spring Break is here! Yippee!! What am I doing?  Working more!!! Nice.

2. I learned this weekend that beets on pizza is not such a good thing.  For starters, in a dimly lit room, they look like pepperoni.  Trust me, they taste nothing like pepperoni.

3. However, I tried Collard Greens for the first time last week, and nom nom nom! Delicious!!

4. I recently had to turn down the advances of a very nice man. Either the chemistry is there or it isn’t.  It’s never ever an easy thing to do, that is unless they’re a complete jerk.  But you know I don’t attract complete jerks.  Oh wait…

5. Book or movie first?  Discuss please.

6. Oh!  I’m learning bandspeak.  When a band says they go on at 9:00 pm, that actually means somewhere between 10 and 10:45.  It’s not an exact science.

7. So, VenturaRocks.com is having its first ever  event.  It’s our 4th anniversary so we’ll be celebrating with a few hundred peeps at Bombay Bar & Grill on St. Patrick’s day with our favorite bad boys The Shoemaker Brothers.  Join us if you can!

8. Living with three women has its advantages.  For instance, I find a lot more reading material around the house, little notes if you will.  Case in point, the other day I found this sticky note:  “Eat Me”  on a container of homemade peanut butter cookies.

9. It looks like  Sydney Rose landed another job. Yep! She’s about to be once again gainfully employeed at a new burger restaurant here in town.

10. I thank my lucky stars I no longer work in a burger joint.

11. Saw a post which stated, “The way people treat you, is a statement about who they are as a human being.  It is not a statement about you.”  author unknown.  True, but not always easy to see.

Photo was taken back when I was working at Bob’s Big Boy on Beach Blvd while I was attending Fullerton College. I was around 21.  We use to turn up the
music, take off our aprons, tie up our shirts and hitch up our skirts, and we became…The Bob-ettes!!!  One way to get your side-work down after a long night of schlepping  burgers. I took the photo on the right…so you don’t get to see my dance moves, which is a good thing.

A Couple of Things…March 4, 2013

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Syd and I at Farmer's Market, LA.

Syd and I at Farmer’s Market, LA.

(Originally posted on Facebook, March 4, 2013)

1. It’s not intuitive for me to withhold my communication.  It’s a blessing and a curse.

2. Looking forward to Spring Break.  Don’t know why.  It’s not like I’m going anywhere, but it will be nice to have those four nights for something other than school.

3.  When I first came to Facebook, I thought 15-20 Friends would be enough.  Now I have 100.  Of course, some of them are just acquaintances, even
one or two are friends of friends but I enjoy their posts.  From time to time I Unfriend a person…for one or two of the following reasons:
a.  We’re already Friends on the VenturaRocks.com Facebook page.  I don’t need to see their post twice.
b.  and, they never comment or Like anything I post.
c.  and/or they never post anything.
d.  They piss me off.

4. VenturaRocks.com 4th year anniversary is on Sunday, March 17. We’ll be celebrating all weekend long!

5. Sydney Rose totally has my back.  This past weekend when she came down to join us at Bombay’s for music and fun, a guy came up and started  hitting on her.  He said, “Why don’t you come hang out with me and get away from your mom.” To which she responded, “Dude, I came down to hang out with my mom!”

6. Staci Brown is thinking of making Syd and I t-shirts, one saying “Team Molly” and the other “Team Sammy”.  Hehehe.  That’s just funny.  Go Team Sammy!!!

7. It’s real easy  to point out all the bad things and decide why things are not going the  way you want them to.  That’s all fine and dandy as long as you’re
rolling up your sleeves and doing something about it.   Otherwise, shut the hell up.

8a. If I die anytime soon, be assured that I have no disappointments other than having never learned to surf.   Hopefully I can check that off my list this year.

8b. I chose the word disappointment instead of regret because one definition of regret implies a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a fault, act, loss, etc.  Case in point, I regret that I couldn’t fix a falling out, or I regret when I ate that last piece of pizza.  Regrets suck.  Let them go.

8c. That being said, I should probably add more items to my list of things I want to accomplish (NOT A BUCKET LIST) such as taking a photography trip to New Zealand, learning to bake bread…

9. One of the funniest posts I’ve seen on the VenturaRocks.com Facebook page was from a fan of our page, he simply wrote, “Apparently Man With the Golden Arm is not a James Bond movie.”

Photo taken last summer at the Original Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA.

A Couple of Things…January 27, 2013

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Syd in driver's seat

Syd in driver’s seat

(Originally posted on Facebook, January 27, 2013)

1. Choosing your friends wisely is only half the process. The other half is creating those relationships.  It doesn’t happen by itself.

2.  Just because you trust someone unfortunately doesn’t mean they are trustworthy.

3.  Taking a compliment is really hard!  Why is that?

4.  Sydney Rose’s driving is improving; however, consider it a public service announcement that she still hasn’t passed her driver’s test.

5.  This is by far my favorite semester of college.  Everything I’m learning is useful!  Hmmmm. Learning for the sake of acquired facts and to get a grade, is no where near as satisfying as being able to actually apply new knowledge and get results.

6.  Ventura really does Rock!  I love how our community rallies around special causes.

7.  Playing it safe may be sound, but I finally realized a couple of years ago that life is so much more fun when you take chances, and you have to actually be willing to lose sometimes; because if you don’t take  chances, you’ll never win.

8.  Girl’s Dress Night Out could actually catch on.  “She’s got legs, she knows how to use them.”

9.  I was unfriended this week. That kind of stung!  See #1 and #7.

10. Thank God I’m basically a happy person!

The Cancer Card Update…January 16, 2013

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My Wedding 1989

(Originally posted January 16, 2013 on Facebook)

Update from the cancer front.

In case you missed it. My friend got the news late Saturday night that the Path report was in. There was no invasive cancer anywhere in her tissue. There was no invasive cancer. Her doctor said, that’s it. No chemo needed.”

She told me last night, “Thank you for beautiful post on my health and recovery on Facebook. That made me cry. A Good cry.”

She also wanted to express her gratitude for the love and kindness from those who Liked & made comments. She said that the love and good energy makes all the difference and it was really appreciated.

I told her, “My message on FB was completely heartfelt. I’m glad it was a good cry. Continue to mock up being healthy, because you are!”

My friend belongs to a prestigious business community here on the Gold Coast and so I will keep her anonymous. She continues to keep a strong front for her colleagues, friends and family, especially for her beautiful young son.

We’ve been though so much together: grade school, jr. high, high school. We’ve celebrated the best of times being in each other’s weddings, and then the births of our beautiful children, a daughter for me and a son for her. But we’ve also been through the worst of times, our divorces, my mother’s suicide, very bad men and illnesses.

But let me just sum her up to our conversation we had last night. While she thanked me for that post, she was all about trying to help me solve a problem I’ve been dealing with. I love her!

She really is a big tremendous being.

I’m thrilled to know that we’ll continue to grow old together.

A Couple of Things…January 11, 2013

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In my wedding dress

Sydney in my wedding dress

(Originally posted on Facebook January 11, 2013)

1.  Did you know that I have the ability to communicate with anyone on any subject?  Kind of fun.  Just ask Staci Brown.

2.  I have come to terms that I really love men.  Which kinda sucks.

3.  There comes a point in your life where you stop bending over
backwards for that certain person and you start bending forward…so
they can KISS YOUR ASS!  (author unknown).

4.  Completing those small projects so opens up one’s ability to take on more responsibility.   Bring it on.

5.  Oh! By the way, Fuck you cancer. Leave my friends alone!

6.  Sydney Rose is about the cutest thing in the whole wide world when I
come home from work and she’s making me dinner…wearing an apron.
Trust me, I’ll capture a picture of her wearing it one of these days.

7.  I couldn’t shoot hoops for almost two weeks with acute bronchitis.
(mock up Roseanne Roseannadanna voice)  “I thought I was gonna die.”
Back to it now and getting my three-pointers back.

8.  Looking forward to starting school on Monday again; four nights a week is going to be rough (see #4).

9.  We’ve been going out a lot more “shaking hands and kissing babies”
and the response to VenturaRocks.com has been completely gratifying.

K, thanks for listening.

A Couple of Things…December 27, 2012

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Me and Sydney

(originally posted on Faceback December 27, 2012)

1.  2012 was not the best of…nor was it the worst of years.  But it’s one
of my favorites because I’ve made a lot of new friends who have
enhanced…and some who have challenged me.  Both have made me a better
person.

2. The whole dating thing is over-rated.  If I keep saying this over and over, it’s bound to come true…one of these decades.

3. I’ve learned to never slow dance with a man wearing cologne. It’s
like he’s marked his territory because you smell like him the rest of
the night.  Ick.

4. I have to say, that Sydney Rose is pretty funny. I love how my friends have all embraced her.

5. Two more classes this semester starting mid January.  Accounting and
Photography.  Since I’m thinking both classes will be applicable, they
should be fairly easy, no?

6. Clipper Nation!!!

7. Never for a second think you will NOT have an opposing force when you
want to do something/anything to better your community.  YOU ALWAYS
WILL!!!  Stick to your guns, rally the troops, and git ‘er done.
Ventura has a lot of musical talent, and amazing venues to showcase
them.  Let’s keep the momentum going.

8.  New Year’s resolutions?  Lose weight?  Stop smoking?  Someone not too long ago said
to not loose the caboose.  And I quit smoking over 20 years ago.  I
think this year will be all about finally making VenturaRocks.com a
viable entity.    It will not only help Eve and myself with supplemental
income, but it will help benefit our town and our music community by
helping to get the word out and people into the venues to support the
arts.

A Couple of Things…December 11, 2012

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Sammy

(Originally posted on Facebook, December 11, 2012)

1.  I finally confronted wearing a dress again.  Other than the “Are you
going to a funeral?” question, and the small hole in the back of my
tights, it wasn’t so horrible.

2.  I forgot how confusing dating can be.  Me thinks I’m still not ready.

3.  Sammy is starting to slow down. This makes me sad.

4.  I got the best compliment from my daughter ever!  And she didn’t
even know it was a compliment!  The other night going to different
venues for music.  I asked her about her old friends, and she said, “Why
do I need friends when I have you!”

5.  I love this town even more.  But I tell you what, getting people out to support our music scene is no easy task.

6.  I think I’m coming to terms with geekdom.  I’m taking the day off today to study for finals, and I’m alright with that.

7.  You’d think I would have stopped shooting hoops by now.  Over a year and half in…I love it even more!

8.  Ok, ok, ok…I’ve put it off long enough.  I’m hitting the books.  Going for that “A” in math.

Just One of My Mistakes Raising Sydney

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The man himself

The man himself

(Originally posted on Facebook May 29, 2011)

I may have made some mistakes when raising Sydney Rose, but none could be funnier than when I introduced her to David Bowie.   Let me back up. There are two key points to make before we get to Bowie.

1.  Sydney must have been in the third grade when she started playing Britney Spears and I knew an intervention was going to be necessary.  At that point I went out and bought her a London Calling CD from The Clash, and I am happy to say that another life has been saved.

Within the year she had the infamous poster on her wall and she knew most of the lyrics from the title track to “Train in Vain.”  I couldn’t have been more proud.

2.  I made it absolutely clear to Sydney that language does not hurt.  Language is only made up of words. Words are just symbols, they can’t physically hurt.  I’ve never had a problem with her bringing up any topic, nor using any words from “fuck” to “shit.”  But I made it crystal clear to her that with language comes responsibility.  Other people can be offended (for whatever reason) with certain words and especially in the context in which they are used, so she needed to be cognizant of the words and the people she used them in front of. Sydney knew she shouldn’t swear in front of certain adults like teachers, some parents and grandpa. She never once got in trouble for swearing in front of any adults while growing up. She was very responsible.

Then one day I received a promotional copy of female indie artists covering David Bowie tunes.  It was amazing.  This was back when I was still working on Buzzine magazine.  The CD was called Spiders From Venus: Women Cover David Bowie. I’m sad to say that when I just looked it up on Amazon the status was “currently unavailable”.

In any case, we’d be driving up the 101 with this CD blasting in the car and Sydney came to know and love Bowie through these women covering his music.  Neither one of us can carry a tune but that doesn’t stop us from singing along at full volume…especially in the car.

One day I was walking her to school when she started singing “Cracked Actor.”  My smile of pride dimmed as I realized with mild horror and chagrin that she was singing correctly, the following lyrics:

“Crack, baby, crack,
show me you’re real
Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel
Suck, baby, suck,
give me your head…”

Now with her being in the third grade I didn’t want to have to broach the subject of fellatio.  If she had asked, that would be different.

I stopped walking, and held her hand and said, “Baby, you’re going to have to trust me on this one, you can’t sing this song in front of your teachers.”

She looked at my calm, yet serious face, thought about it, and cheerfully said, “Okay.”

Years later we revisited this subject and to this day she finds it hysterical that her own mother introduced her to David Bowie, which she continues to sing to, albeit judiciously.

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