I made it

I did end up making it to Denver last weekend. After calling the airline twice and getting frustrated , going to the airport, going home, sleeping, calling the airline at 4:00 in the morning to see if they were flying, getting up, hardly able to stay awake in the car, seeing a Big Blue Bus on fire, waiting for 40 minutes in security, not being able to get on plane 1, being able to get on plane 2 but not knowing if I would be stranded in Vegas and finally getting and plane 3. I made friends with some of the 15 of us waiting. I hope Pam made it in time for her son's college graduation.

This was my first standby experience and it wasn't my idea of a good time. I have never had a bad experience with Southwest, but now know why so many people call it SouthWorst.

I wanted to keep you posted via my blog on my ipod, but it isn't exactly compatible with blogger. I am glad I found this out before my trip to Europe. I will be keeping you up to date with Twitter.

Next stop Denver.....

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my flight was canceled.

tomorrow

Cross your fingers that our flights to Denver are not canceled tomorrow due to snow. Keep track of our adventures at ajeindenver.blogspot.com

LACMABCAM

One of the things I wanted to accomplish while I was unemployed was a visit to LACMA/BCAM. I didn't get there though and decided that it would be one of the stops on my tourist re-birth tour of Los Angeles.

I was very excited to see the Vanity Fair portraits show. (Sorry this show ended March 1st, so you are unable to see it) It was interesting to learn the history of this ahead of its time magazine. Dorothy Parker! I had no idea.

BCAM:
The new wing of LACMA opened last year and this was my first visit. It is all modern art. Some of it is strange, but a great collection. Yes even th gigantic balloon animal.

I hope to see more of Los Angeles, but before I do that I am off to Denver.

Traveling is Nice-catch up 2

I am so excited, I bought my plane ticket to join Asher in Cannes. I will be joining him later in the festival since I do not have the credentials to go to a lot of the events. Even if you do have credentials, you have to be invited to premiers to go.

I will go to the last 3 days and then travel down the Riviera and off to Rome. It is a lot to accomplish in 8 days. I will try to keep you posted on my comings and goings as much as I can. I will probably do that via twitter. I will have my ipod, which is hard to type with even with my minuscule hands so big blog posts will be hard to do.

Shockingly this will be my first trip to Europe. Do you have any tips for me? You know my email eyemheer2 at yahoo dot com.

catch up-1

Things have been crazy lately and I haven't had the chance to type it all out in a blog.

Las Vegas:
I just fly back from Vegas and boy are my arms tired.

I am very honored to be the Maid of Honor in my friend's wedding. I flew to Las Vegas to help her make sense of the nonsensical world of weddings. It was a lot of appointments and a lot of running around. Weddings are expensive.

The thing I like about going to Vegas with my friend is that I get to experience the Vegas of locals. It just isn't "The Strip", there is a more laid back, come as you are Vegas. I went to the newest casino called "M" The people watching was great.

The one lame thing though is that there isn't a lot of Non-chain places to eat. It is a vast sea of IHOP, McDonald's, Jack in the Box or the ever popular buffet. If you are really hungry, like you just got back from being stranded on a deserted island, I would strongly recommend eating at Hash House a Go Go. The food is great, but it sure is big. I watched a nine year old girl struggle with pancakes as big as a hubcap.

Pistol Packin'Mama:
One of the highlights of the trip was going out to Sloan Canyon and shooting guns in the desert. What a great stress reliever and I guess after all of these years of not shooting a gun I am still a pretty good shot.

I didn't take a single picture. I can't believe it. I was assured that I will be sent pictures of my Annie Oakley day.

nothing is that funny

Although I did not see him, Mick Jagger visited where I work last week. I just heard about it, even in doors word travels fast.

If you are not sure why I titled my blog "nothing is that funny" my dad has a great joke for you. If you haven't heard it yet or more than five times.

golden laurel

Some of you might have heard, but Asher's short film Piece(s) was accepted into the Short Film Corner of CANNES. It is very great news since he has been working so hard for so long on his films. We do not have too many details about when it will be showing, but this is what I do know:

• His film will be shown as part of the festival. Out of those films shown (not sure how many) the top 10 or so will be shown as part of a contest/awards show.
• Cannes is May 13-24th this year

Maybe there will be blog posts from there?

If you feel like sending him a congratulatory note, send him an email at asherglaser@yahoo.com