June 3, 2009
It’s the day before Sevonne’s 27th birthday, and she is leaving for a couple weeks of fun in California. Becky and Sevonne talked about the trip, and who she’s going to visit, all in Orange County. Grandma kept asking her questions about things in LA, and Sevonne kept saying that she’s not going to LA, but Grandma couldn’t understand someone going to LA, right next to LA, and not going to LA. Sevonne explained that she was visiting several different friends who were all in Orange County.
Sevonne will be back on June 16, and we talked about doing a Shabbat dinner that Friday. Anyway, Sevonne chose Hole in the Wall, so I got several emails from family members worried about getting a table, worried about waiting etc…but Sevonne offered to go early and arrange the table, which is what happened. You know who you are; now that I’m organizing a law center, I can certainly organize a family lunch!
Matt told us that he is searching for a replacement car, and found a2002 Audi A4 with 35,000 miles; I think that’s one of the cars Dani likes. He asked about selling the Mustang to Emily, but Milton made it clear that she has not gotten the expected grades, and they won’t be helping her buy the car or pay for insurance. At our end of the table we all felt bad for Emily, because she is so smart and could be getting wonderful grades. We joked about finding a good mentor who might be able to motivate her. Meanwhile she finished finals and thought she did okay. Her boyfriend Grant came along to lunch, but as usual we didn’t hear a word from him (not his fault this time since they were at the other end of the table).
Matt told us about taking handicapped people sailing this summer, and how he just bought a new super-sonic life vest (Marty understood the nuances but the rest of us just nodded politely). He also told a funny story about wanting to date Jen Lev, who is about 3 years older than him, and how she did a shoulder move that he demonstrated to all of us. We laughed that she is out of his league.
Ibby told a story about running into the Levs when they were in Italy, and how actually they ran into two Glencoe families, which is pretty funny. Ibby’s stories led to remembrances of other ‘running into people in different locations’ stories.
David came since it was Sevonne’s birthday celebration, and went for a while to the other end of the table to chat with Milton and Emily. Matt assured the table that he was indeed going to take Gabe, Joe, and Sam to a day of paintballing, and this time he is going to give us enough notice. Marty said, “You mean this time you might call us at 11:00?” Last week he called at noon to go right then!
Marty told us that Joe has decided to transfer to Elm Place; he has a couple of friends also transferring from Schechter. Some of us had hoped he would stay through middle school, but as Marty said, it was Joe’s decision.
Somehow we got onto a discussion of stupid criminals; because Matt asked if Gabie still has his bb gun. I told a story I’d read in the paper about a nanny who used a bb gun to stop a robber and make him wait until police came. The best story was about the robber who got locked in the garage and had to eat dog food but couldn’t get out. He was arrested for home invasion, but then he sued the family because there wasn’t a way for him to get out of their garage. And he won!
Sevonne emailed everyone today: Thank you everyone for making lunch so fun! Can't tell you how good it feels to have you celebrating life... I'm sure you know :) Missed those who couldn't be there. Love you!!!