I snapped this picture about 11am today. What you’re looking at is one of the busiest stretches of the famous Sunset Strip…To your right and left are trendy and hip shops and restaurants that on any other day are normally crammed with people and cars. In fact, on weekend nights this street is usually so busy that I avoid driving on it completely.

Driving on it today without a creature stirring not even a homeless person, it felt like a scene from that crazy 1984 movie Night of The Comet.

Today’s HIGH is supposed to be 70 degrees and sunny….That pretty much explains the weather we get all year long. God forbid we get a little mist of rain…If that happens, the TV starts announcing HURRICANE warnings. Of course, if I lived in one of these WAY OVERLY PRICED mud slide houses being held up by stilts in the dirt on the side a cliff, I’d be highly concerned as well.

Yeah, I know this journal entry is coming across very “non-Christmas” but I’m not going to pretend it’s my favorite time of year. Though, I am happy to be spending my holiday with my two little Italian Greyhounds…Boris and Ivan. [yes, I know it's weird to have Italian Greyhounds with Russian names but if you knew these animals, you'd understand how their names are so fitting.]

Last year’s Christmas was nice because I was getting a bunch of dental work done(Xmas gift from Mom).

Kicking and screaming, ok…I’ll admit it…it was nice to be home for the holiday last year. I spent some really great quality time with friends and family…

I talked to my mother and my aunt who’s visiting MI from PA…They’re having a holiday gathering tonight. Christmas Eve was always our families Christmas Morning….We were smart I think we tried that whole “hey let’s wait till the morning to open the gifts” but it never really worked out.