California

We've been almost moving to California for a year. Here's the metaphor for how we're handling it. It's from Spy Kids 2...and I know...my metaphor standards have definitely changed.

The Spy Kids are falling down a bottomless pit and they're screaming. But after a long time they start getting bored of the terror. They yawn. They get hungry...

Carmen: How can you eat at a time like this?
Juni: You know that feeling you get when your falling?
Carmen: Yeah.
Juni: Well I kind of lost that feeling after the first hour.

So after a long year of uncertainty and bouts of despair and hand wringing...we chucked it all and got on a plane to visit the place we keep almost moving.

We're still here. It's been wonderful.

The whole time...on the beach in Santa Monica, on the backlot at Warner Brothers, snaking down Rte. 1, in Santa Barbara, San Simeon and Carmel, the Peninsula and San Francisco...that Counting Crows song keeps going through my head...you know the one...

A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last

I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it's one more day up in the canyonAnd it's one more night in Hollywood

It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should