out of all the things that happened today...
- a great friday phone meeting with my talented & creative business woman friends- a trip to the coffee shop for an iced coffee (cuz it's sooo frickin hot here lately!!!)
- a day with my friend Trina for painting (!) Look!
- a scurried rush home to get ready to go out for Jee & Kat's birthday soiree (and the many darling friends of mine who joined us!)
- my quick bite and entertaining conversation with the cute Algerian/Parisian boy at Crepes-a-Go-Go... and my outright No to his request to take me to dinner sometime (which as handsome as he was he obviously wasn't used to that response!)
- a friend of Jee's crashing on her bike and having to get an ambulance to the hospital (!!!)
- and then (of course less dramatic, but not to my water soaked cat), my getting home and spilling my entire glass of water all over the floor
..... out of ALL of that..... the saddest, most alarming news of my day is that I just realized John Ritter died. :(
When I was in the coffee shop getting my iced coffee (see activity #2 of the day) I could have sworn that's what I heard said on the radio in the coffee shop. And I even asked the girl "Did you hear that?!" and she flippantly said, "Ya, I think they said you could win something." ... so I thought, ya, of course... He's too young. But I could have sworn I heard it - the unbelievable truth that John Ritter had died.
I know so many amazing personalities have left this world lately that I haven't posted about here.... but personally I grew up on the cheesy puns and sexual innuendos of Three's Company. Not to mention I personally met and chatted with THE John Ritter when I was about 15, in my hometown of Steamboat, Colorado. He was at our public pool trying to arrange for a private pool party when we came in for a swim on a slow weekday afternoon one summer.
Anyway... I can't believe it's true. I thought I had heard it wrong. He was so young.
Good thoughts to Jee's friend who went to the hospital tonite too... I hope her knee's ok - apparently it got pretty messed up in the bike fall. Who knows how much she had drank (as everyone thought she seemed pretty sober). All I know is I have a scar from College to prove alcohol and biking don't mix.
I'm not sure what else to say as it's 2am and I'm ready for bed. But I will say that I LOVE LOVE LOVED painting today - even though a bit of it was such a struggle with myself and my own abilities. I have great respect for those who paint!!!
Tomorrow I tackle drawing!! About 4 of us are taking a live model drawing drop-in class. Woohoo!! Then I'm going sandcastle making!! wooo-eee!!
Only because I feel like here I've talked about such enjoyable life events & the sadness of death do I feel like I need to wrap this up somehow delicately. But I tried that... and what I wrote doesn't sound profound or amazing - it just sounds like I'm trying to wrap it up delicately.
Goodnight.
