{"id":315,"date":"2009-11-24T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisabrounstein.com\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:39:45","slug":"where-have-i-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Where Have I Been?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"squirrel\"Where have I been? Everyday I think about writing here and then more life happens and I just don’t get to it. \u00a0 It’s funny. \u00a0 It isn’t like I am terribly busy. \u00a0 I have been home for almost three weeks. \u00a0 I have been trying to keep the apartment clean around the chaos that we have in here. \u00a0 I have been “looking” at what’s next for me. \u00a0 I know what I want to do, clearly. \u00a0 It isn’t like I can just pick up the phone and call Judd Apatow and say, “I have a great idea for a script. Let’s work together…” \u00a0 Or can I? \u00a0 I am still drinking a lot of coffee and walking since I have returned. \u00a0 Here it is a bit more of a chore. \u00a0 Not the coffee part…although, it is different it is great here. \u00a0 We have a French press as opposed to my sister who has a Nespresso machine. \u00a0 Definitely two different brews that both get the job done in a delicious way. \u00a0 Walking on the other hand just isn’t as easy here for me as it is there. \u00a0 There I had to walk. \u00a0 Here I have to force myself to walk.<\/p>\n

\"lis_john_grove\"We have been walking to the Farmer’s Market on the weekends. \u00a0 It is over 3 miles round trip from our apartment. \u00a0 The walk there seems easier…it’s down hill. \u00a0 Breakfast at Charlie’s wasn’t as good as it was the week before. \u00a0 It seemed like they had forgotten our order as other people got theirs before we did even though they ordered after. \u00a0 Then my two eggs over easy came out and it was one egg…which was fine. \u00a0 I only need to eat one egg if I have toast and potatoes but I paid for two. \u00a0 They remade them too quickly. \u00a0 They came out a bit like over easy. \u00a0 That’s an exaggeration. \u00a0 It was more like they showed the eggs the flame. \u00a0 They were done on the outside but barely cooked on the inside. \u00a0 Not much worse than a cold raw yolk. \u00a0 I ate one for the protein and called it a day. \u00a0 We walked around the Farmer’s Market and The Grove. \u00a0 We went to Crate and Barrel and fantasized about the furniture magically being in our apartment. \u00a0 How I would love to get a new couch! \u00a0 (Someday I will write about the couch saga…) We went to the French store there Mr. Marcel Gourmet Market. \u00a0 They were giving away samples of fresh Truffled Ham. \u00a0 Really tasty. \u00a0 Not the same as the Truffle Salami in Amsterdam, but it had a subtle flavor that was delightful. \u00a0 The owner said to us in a deep French accent, “You know how I eat this? \u00a0 With my fingers!” \u00a0 We went to the fish guy and bought fresh red snapper for dinner and then bought lemons from one of the produce stands. \u00a0 Then we walked home. \u00a0 Around half way I was ready for a cab. I half jokingly asked John to walk home and get the car. \u00a0 But I persevered and kept on. \u00a0 It was a great day. \u00a0 It ended with an amazing home made dinner of red snapper with home made tartar sauce (I used shallots and Bubbie’s pickles) and Brussels sprouts snapped off the stalk and itty bitty potatoes.<\/p>\n

\"fountain\"I have been going to the Farmer’s Market at 3rd and Fairfax since I was a child. \u00a0 When they decided to build The Grove I was so worried they would ruin the feeling of the Farmer’s Market. \u00a0 There was, of course, the concern of traffic and such. \u00a0 I am happy to say I don’t think they ruined it. \u00a0 Sure there are things I miss about how it used to be. \u00a0 But I really do like it. \u00a0 I like The Grove for what it is and I still enjoy poking around the Farmer’s Market. \u00a0 In my opinion, however, they ruined Dupars. \u00a0 I don’t know if it is the new ownership or the remodel or what it is exactly. \u00a0 The food isn’t as good. \u00a0 Maybe the food never was that good but the ambiance made up for the multitude of sins and now that it is all clean inside one expects more from the fare. \u00a0 I don’t know. \u00a0 What I do know is there used to be nothing like their grilled date nut bread with cream cheese on it. \u00a0 Really, it was like heaven in your mouth. \u00a0 And, the pancakes with the ladle full of melted butter poured over them was genius. \u00a0 Now, not so much.<\/p>\n

When you walk you see so many things you never see or notice when you are driving. \u00a0 Sure there are the smells of the neighborhood…not all of them great. \u00a0 There are the people. \u00a0 A lot of people walking their dogs. \u00a0 There is a house I have seen for years while in the car. \u00a0 \"disturbing\"I had no idea they have a HUGE aviary with all kinds of exotic (and not so exotic) birds. \u00a0 Big yellow and green ones and smaller parrot like \u00a0 birds all living together in one big aviary. \u00a0 We walked by the stores and poked in and out of the thrift stores on Fairfax and then to counter balance the filth we went into Jonathan Adler on Melrose. \u00a0 I love the dichotomy of this neighborhood. \u00a0 The old and the new. \u00a0 The rich and the poor. \u00a0 And, all the in between. \u00a0 It is fascinating.<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is Thursday. \u00a0 Mom will make my Grandmother’s stuffing. \u00a0 That will make life worth living all the more. \u00a0 It is also my mother’s birthday and we will all be together. \u00a0 I have much for which to be thankful and much for which to be grateful. \u00a0 I am living a great life!<\/p>\n

Oh, and today is the 150th Anniversary of On The Origin of Species. \u00a0 150 years ago today and people are still debating its validity. \u00a0 What the…?! People are funny. \u00a0 Scary and funny! \u00a0 I have a lot to say on the matter. \u00a0 Boy, do I. And, I think I need to know my audience a bit more. \u00a0 I don’t want to alienate my base so-to-speak.<\/p>\n

So, I am off. \u00a0 My car won’t wash itself. \u00a0 Groceries won’t just show up in our apartment and someone needs to find me a job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where have I been? Everyday I think about writing here and then more life happens and I just don’t get to it. \u00a0 It’s funny. \u00a0 It isn’t like I am terribly busy. \u00a0 I have been home for almost three weeks. \u00a0 I have been trying to keep the apartment clean around the chaos… Continue reading Where Have I Been?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-los-angeles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lisabrounstein.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}