What Can I Tell You?

A month goes by. A new year materializes. I apparently have very little to say or share. I think my brain shut off for a while.

And because my brain now compartmentalizes thoughts, here’s my recap of everything that’s happened over the last month

–Anxiously getting ready for xmas. Ran to the Paul Smith store to get socks for Ryan and argued with someone about the color schemes available in store vs. online.

–Decided I really have too much wrapping paper. Note to self: Moratorium on buying wrapping paper.

–Hide presents in my closet in a bag. Almost forget to dig them all out for everyone.

–Ooh and ah over Lissa and Tom’s presents to us: new baking sheets, coffe, magazine subscriptions. Must bake something before it’s 90 degrees again.

–Head to San Diego for 4 absolutely awesome days with Leslie, Nikki, Justin, and a great Xmas night of Chinese food and local gay bar with Steve and Rick, who were in town, too. Dance drunkenly before hitting Jack in the Box and giving a big tip to the awesome drive-thru woman.

–Ryan gets me a TV for xmas. Yay! I can FINALLY get rid of the Fry’s electronics TV from 1998.

–Score incredible lamps and mirrors at a thrift store in Poway. Yes, Poway.

–Head home in a funk because it’s all over.

–New Year’s Eve at a gay piano bar with bad showtunes. Ryan and I drink our fill. I stop. He continues. Meet up with friends and their friends for more drinking and late night house parties. Sober at 3 am, I drive Ryan home, fearing he might be hungover Jan. 1.

–Watch Ryan be hung over Jan. 1. Poor guy.

–Back to work. Jessica is gone to NYC and I am in her office. Everything feels the same but different.

–Post New Year’s funk. Now what? Get back on the trapeze. Try acrobatics class. Manage a no-handed cartwheel for first time in 15 years. Hurt neck on backward roll. Oh, right, I am 36, not 13.

–Start piling up things to sell in the dining room. We want this crap outta here. Theme for 2010 seems to be: get rid of what’s really unnecessary. Keep what matters.

–Make Lesley watch “The Ice Pawn.” Feel some regret. But she’s seems entertained. Phew.

–Make plans to meet with L.A. Youth, a local nonprofit organization and newspaper written by teenagers. I’ll talk with them about their social media plans. Excited to be doing something new and different.

–Download a slew of new music. Geek out over YACHT. Then have that immediately replaced by Kristin Hersh’s new album. Fierce.

–It’s been a year since I was in Mexico. I’d go back to Tulum in a heartbeat.

–Buy plane ticket for trip to Tokyo and Shanghai. What the…? YES.

–Watch it rain 5″ in one week in L.A. and pine for the snow and the Pacific Northwest. I don’t miss the sun too much yet. I miss real weather.

–Social plans. Drinks with friends. Birthdays. Outings. Enjoying the changes and challenges now that the new year funk is past.

–Finally nail the elusive Hip Circle maneuver on the trapeze. Spinning around and around the bar in the midst of a downpour I can hear outside. I feel like I could go forever, bruised forearms and all.