6:33 p.m. - October 18, 2005
beverly hills...
So for those of you who don't know i was in LA this weekend for my cousin Phoebe's bat mitzvah.. god i feel old... anyway I arrived friday afternoon and heard the latest gosip like any jewish family about what was going on. So my aunt Lina, Phoebe's mother, descided that my dad my aunt and my uncle were to say a blessing at temple. But she just informed them that day.. My dad who had just gotten back from a 2 day trip to london was like wtf. and remeber it's not just any blessing it's in freaking hebrew and they are given less than a day to learn how to say it. But not just that she wasn't really sure what blessing it was so they didn't get it until the party( when you are with my family there is alwasy some sort of party) that evening. So it went like my dad and aunt where to say the blessing while my uncle was to stand there b.c since he's not jewish he can say them.. yet my aunt hasn't been bat mitzvahed so techncally she should be speaking anyway ... so that caused drama. Then my aunt, carla not Linda, told me she had to meet Lina and the family for something to do with the bat mitzvah the other day at like two but linda didn't show up until 4... lets just say she wasn;t too happy yet it's not supprizing becuase linda pulls that kind of shit all the time... So that was the day before...
The next day we all got up and walked 3 blocks to this amazing temple.. it was soo pretty like in the outside it looked plain but you went inside and were like wow. So the bat mitzvah it self took 3 hours! My dad said his lasted less than an hour. sure there was another girl there getting bat mitzvahed but we could have saved at least an hour if the rabi didn't talk so damn much about Minnesota and living in the stuid hut thing( that i can't rember it's name and nancy isn't online) for the hoilday and it was cold so they would build it next to the dryer vent and his mom would do londry so they would be warm the he kept asking why god would make it rain while they wer doing this. at this point i was reaedy to shout SUFFER LIKE MOSES or GOD ISN'T REAL CAN I LEAVE NOW!
Then after that was finally over after much bowing and standing and sitting.. we left and got changed and drove to Beverly hills to our seocnd hotel where my dad's 30 th high school runion was.. But we drove around B H and drove past where my paretns lived after college and while my dad was in law school then they tour down the house and him and my grandfather bulid 2 apts one for my dad and my mom and me( I was on the way or soon to be on the way) and the other to sell. Then my dad got an offor to go east to NY and took it since my mom wanted to be closer to her mom in PA.
The outside was cute and it was a really nice aria just outside of BH in west hollywood. I had to wonder what would my life be like if they hadn;t sold the place and moved to CT then maryland.... Would i be a diffrent person? I guess it lead to the nature vs. nurture debate. I tend to be inbeween if not more towards the nurture side but who really know. But it did make me wonder what life would be like growing up in cali not maryland... and yet even though i lived in md for most of my life i'm still drawn to the west coast or cali no matter what people say it's one of those things in me that hasn't changed much.. cali is where i want to be....
So after our little tour down memory lane we went to the farmers market for lunch and I demostrated to my brother how to get dad to buy things for you 101.. lession go into the store and don't leave resutling in a new very cute I pod case for me.. He still has much to learn..
Then that evening was the after party in the vally where my cousin lives at a county club... my blood is thinning i was freezing... Phoebe's pary room was sooo cute decorated with pink and orange everywhere. The apptisers were aswome and there was soo much to drink i had 2 1/2s of pink matrines and a glass of pink champaign. The dinner was something else Jordan my older cousin by a few months and i were seated at the kids table with all the 16 year olds.. I have a head ace for the bad booze and he's drinking a beer at the table... Linda really dosen't think... The kids got a buffet and cold chinses chicken salad out of a take out box. The buffet was veggys, nasty beef, and weird tasting mashed potatos... We only stayed until 9 since my dad wanted to go to his runion and matt and i left w. him.. i orderd room service which was wayyy too much money...
It was an intersitng weekend
