New Year 2007, my 32nd, and other events...

Photos: At a belated holiday party on the night of my 32nd birthday-having fun with my Aussie friends (had 2 glasses of wine and was toasted!), my brother and I walking through an exterior NYC set at our tour of Paramount Pictures, my b-day present from my brother-it's actually an all spray-painted landscape made by this artist in Venice beach who has been doing it for 16 yrs (not best picture as it's glass and reflects stuff on my opposite wall), my brother and I celebrating New Year's 2007 at this English pub in Santa Monica, ,me with my feet in Richard Gere's footprints at Mann's Chinese theater in Hollywood, picture of Paramount movie studios entrance.
Allright, I have been slacking on the blogging. My last entry was almost a month ago. I don't even remember much that has happened, other than having vacation off from work. That was nice. My brother came to visit and we did a lot of eating, sleeping, and touring LA-we hit Venice beach, West Hollywood, took a really cool movie studio tour of Paramount (saw sets for Dr. Phil, a new movie with Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks called Charlie Wilson's War; toured the tv show Entertainment tonight and chatted with the producers, saw them putting together that night's segments), ate at the celebrity hotspot in West Hollywood called The Ivy (pricey meal, my brother was hoping to see celebrities but all I saw were skinny models wearing sunglasses),
had a chill New Year's until we met my friends at an English pub and danced like crazy!
I really liked the time off, it was hard to go back to work this week. But I have renewed energy-the end of 2006 was so crazy between all the travel, Matt's death, grants, shitty experiments, that I am glad it's a new year.
This weekend, I had a low key birthday day. Spent a lot of it on the phone catching up with ecoast friends, family, went to lunch near my place with two gal pals, then went to my Aussie friends party which was awesome. Wonderful people, homemade food (samosas, quiches, appetizers, cheese, etc), and since it was my b-day, drank a few glasses of wine, started to feel a bit queasy, and realized that getting older means you can't hold much liquor (for me, who couldn't hold it to begin with ever, it means that I can hold even less), so I started drinking water. Crashed at the hosts' place, helped them clean up, came home today and took a nap. I am however going to play tennis tonight-it's beautiful at this park nearby under the lights. So I will get some activity in.

Julie