Metro: I-405 PM Closures for Wednesday, January 2, 2013

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday	SU MO TU WE TH FR SA	All Wilshire Sunset Mulholland	ALL WIL SUN MUL

 

Here are the PM Closures for Wednesday, January 2, 2013.Closures are subject to change. The latest closure information can be found atmetro.net/405. The Wilshire Segment runs from National Bl to Constitution Av.The Sunset Segment runs from Constitution Av to the Getty Center ramps. TheMulholland Segment begins at the Getty Center ramps and ends at Ventura Bl.

WE-ALL: Thirty-five closurestonight, the majority in the Wilshire Segment.WE-WIL: Westbound I-10connector to northbound I-405 closed tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Eastbound I-10connector to northbound I-405 closed tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Northbound on-rampfrom eastbound Wilshire closed tonight, 8pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Northbound off-rampto westbound Wilshire closed tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Southbound off-rampto eastbound Wilshire closed tonight, 9pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Northbound on-rampfrom Santa Monica Bl closed tonight, 8pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Northbound off-rampto Santa Monica Bl closed tonight, 10pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Northbound 4 lane closedfrom Pico to Olympic Bl tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Northbound 3,4 lanesclosed from Pico to Olympic Bl tonight, midnight to 4am.WE-WIL: Northbound 2,3,4lanes closed from Pico to Olympic Bl tonight, 1 to 3am.WE-WIL: Southbound on-rampfrom Santa Monica Bl closed tonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Southbound off-rampto Santa Monica Bl closed tonight, 9pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Southbound5/auxiliary lane closed from Waterford to Wilshire tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Southbound 4,5 lanesclosed from Wilshire to Santa Monica on-ramp tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Pico Bl fully closedfrom Sawtelle to Cotner tonight, 10pm to 3am.WE-WIL: Exposition Bl fullyclosed from Sawtelle to Sepulveda Bl tonight, 3 to 5am.WE-WIL: Ohio fully closedfrom Beloit to Cotner tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Sepulveda Bl reducedto one lane each direction near Wilshire tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Sepulveda Bl reducedto one lane each direction near Constitution tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Northbound off-rampto Montana closed tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Northbound 1 laneclosed from Moraga Dr to Getty Center Dr tonight, 10pm to 6am.WE-SUN: Southbound HOV laneclosed near Getty on-ramp tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Southbound HOV/1 laneclosed near Getty on-ramp tonight, 10pm to 4am.WE-SUN: Northbound 1,2 lanesclosed near Skirball Center Dr ramps tonight, 11pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Sepulveda Bl fullyclosed from Montana to Church Ln tonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Northbound Church Lnfully closed near Sepulveda Bl tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Sepulveda Bl reducedto one lane each direction from Church Ln to Constitution and Casiano to Moragatonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN: Sepulveda Bl reducedto one lane each direction from Moraga to Church Ln tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-MUL: Northbound off-rampto Skirball Center Dr closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL: Southbound on-rampfrom Valley Vista closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL: Southbound HOV/1 laneclosed near Skirball Center Dr tonight, 10pm to 4am.WE-MUL: Southbound HOV/1,2lanes closed near Skirball Center Dr tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-MUL: Southbound HOV/1,2,3lanes closed near Skirball Center Dr tonight, midnight to 3am.WE-MUL: Sepulveda Bl reducedto one lane each direction from Mountaingate to Skirball and Fiume Walk toValley Vista tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-MUL: Skirball CenterDr/Mulholland Dr fully closed from Sepulveda Bl to Zeldins tonight, 10pm to5am.

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"Yeah, I'll take one of those."

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Holiday super-pillow fabric front from Atomic Vixen Vintage. It's got all the holidays except Christmas!

 It's time for me to start thinking about Christmas. For reals. I'm excited about it and I want to allow myself adequate time to remain excited before it's all over (less than 100 days!). Did you know that I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up on Christmas Day and haven't done anything Christmassy previous to the big day? Total devastation! I feel like Macaulay Culkin-screaming, but then I wake up and realize it's June/January/etc and I'm just having a classic anxiety dream. (My fellow Christmas-lover Oh Meaghan may be able to add some insight into this situation.)


One of the things I fear most about getting older is that I'll stop being excited about things. I think this is a depression issue too, as there are days when you could put me in a Wes Anderson-Jon Hamm-Santa Claus sandwich and I would just stare blankly out the window. But I just never want to be blase about the good stuff in life, you know? Here's a good example: I was so freaking excited after seeing Rushmore in the theater back in 1998. I bought the soundtrack, the screenplay, everything. Excited! I don't know if I would respond the same way at 33 vs. 18. I don't even go to movies anymore. I want to work on that. I mean, come on:
I don't want my Christmas nightmare to be realized! Thusly, I just ordered a bunsload of Christmas crafting supplies from Meyer Imports, which is a place you should spend some time if you like to be excited.

pic from Craft Critique

Are there things that you forget to get excited about? How do you bring back that magic feeling?

I Made a Cake of Jeff Goldblum's Back from THE FLY.

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 Last year I had a small Halloween gathering because I had an idea that I wanted to bring to fruition. My favorite horror scene of all time is in The Fly when Geena Davis discovers wiry hairs on Jeff Goldblum's back (I also like the scene when all his teeth fall out!). It's disgusting and hilarious and everything I love about that movie. I also thought that it would make a really great cake. 

 So I made a cake, and I had some people over to eat it and watch The Fly.

It was just a chocolate sheet cake with black licorice hairs and a white frosting with a little raspberry puree for color. Easy! I cut off some edges to make shoulders and a neck, and surrounded the whole thing with donuts, marshmallows, and also served candy bars as they are the fly's foods of choice, in lieu of straight-up sugar. 

I'm posting all of this today because I just spaced out last year and didn't get around to it until way after Halloween. Just pretend I made it today. That's the magic of the Internet!

 I also served a delicious cocktail. If you recall, the Fly can't eat anything without barfing gross white stuff onto it first, so I made a coconutty concoction to help with digestion. 

It was an awesome party; we all drank way too much digestion enzyme and ended up watching The Fly II, which is an abomination against film and all that is good in this world. Don't make that mistake; watch the original The Fly instead. Help meeeeeee! Help meeeeeeee! Help meeeeee!
I also made some signage for the house. 

I couldn't find the back hair discovery scene, but the trailer does show and discuss the hairs in question.  Happy Halloween!

It's here! Craft fair season, that is!

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I had an excellent first holiday craft fair of the season last weekend! It was a total pleasure to get to spend a few hours inside the lovely Bedford Gallery; the current exhibition was so awesome and is actually worth going all the way out to Walnut Creek to see. 

These little critters were part of the exhibition and were tucked away next to my booth. I love doing this show because the crafters get to be right there next to the art, and it's a really neat mix. 

I'm happy with how my display turned out for once! This is how I'll keep it for the rest of the shows this year. 

Next up: PATCHWORK OAKLAND next weekend!

Happy New Year!

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I'm not a resolutions person as I immediately break even the smallest ones (remember the gym membership I had for a full year, thought about daily, and never had the gumption to use, except for the one day I walked through the door and quit? Yeah.). But I always start the new year feeling so hopeful. So I'll share a nice  vague goal. This year I want to work harder at accepting the quiet parts of my life and find more joy in simplicity. I hate the term "self-care," but I want to work on that too. I used to be much kinder to myself, and it sure makes life better.

I first saw Misao and Fukumaru  in the window of Kinokunia Bookstore in San Francisco a few months ago, where I happened to be treating myself to the best kind of cheap self-care: hanging out in Japantown and browsing through beautiful books. As I am wont to do when I can't afford a book but want to remember it, I took a photo (iPhone is so helpful with this!). Now that all the holiday stuff is over, I was able to do a little research and find out more about this lady and her white cat. 

 Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara started chronicling the life of her grandmother Misao and her cat Fukumaru about ten years ago. They spend all their time together and Misao still works in the fields at 87 years old! The book is filled with images of these two doing regular stuff and looking pretty fulfilled.

 From the publisher's imperfect cover translation: "When the white cloud float across the blue sky, the grandmother and her cat go out in the field today too. This photobook is full of preciousness and beauty of the daily life."

 What's happening in these photos is what I want for this year. 

Today's Metro: I-405 AM Closures for Wednesday, December19

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The abbreviations below help us organize the Daily Updates by segment.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday	SU MO TU WE TH FR SA	All Wilshire Sunset Mulholland	ALL WIL SUN MUL

Here arethe AM Closures for Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Closures are subject tochange. The latest closure information can be found at metro.net/405. TheWilshire Segment runs from National Bl to Constitution Av. The Sunset Segmentruns from Constitution Av to the GettyCenter ramps. The MulhollandSegment begins at the GettyCenter ramps and ends atVentura Bl. Unless noted below, AM closures occur from 9am to 2:30pm.
Streets
WE-WIL:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Wilshire to north ofWilshire.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Montanato Bronwood.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced from SepulvedaWay to ChurchLn.
WE-SUN: Sepulveda Bl reduced from Bel Terrace to Moraga.
WE-SUN: Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from ChurchLn to Moraga.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from GettyCenter Dr to Moraga.WE-SUN: ChurchLn northbound 2 lane reduced near Sunset.
WE-SUN: Sunset Cul-De-Sac closed with flaggers.WE-MUL:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction near Fiume.
WE-MUL: Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction south of Skirball toMission Dump.
WE-MUL: Fiume fully closed from Sepulveda toSherman Oaks.



Freeway
WE-SUN: Northbound off-ramp to Montanaclosed.
WE-MUL: Northbound off-ramp to Skirball closed.
WE-MUL: Northbound on-ramp from Skirball closed.
WE-MUL: Southbound on-ramp from Valley Vista closed 10am to 2:30pmWE-MUL:Southbound off-ramp to Valley Vista closed.


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Today's Metro: I-405 PM Closures for Wednesday, December19

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The abbreviations below help us organize the Daily Updates by segment.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday	SU MO TU WE TH FR SA	All Wilshire Sunset Mulholland	ALL WIL SUN MUL

Hereare the PM Closures for Wednesday, December 19, 2012. Closures are subject tochange. The latest closure information can be found at metro.net/405. TheWilshire Segment runs from National Bl to Constitution Av. The Sunset Segmentruns from Constitution Av to the Getty Center ramps. The Mulholland Segmentbegins at the Getty Center ramps and ends at Ventura Bl.

StreetsWE-WIL:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Wilshire to north ofWilshire tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Wilshire Bl fullyclosed westbound/eastbound from Sepulveda Bl to Bonsall Av tonight, 10 to 4am.WE-WIL:Beloit fully closed from Massachusetts to Ohio tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl fully closed from Montana to Church Ln tonight, 10pm to5am.WE-SUN:Ovada  fully closed from Sepulveda to Acanto  tonight, 10pm to5am.WE-SUN:Church Ln reduced to one lane in each direction from Sepulveda to north ofSepulveda tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Sepulveda Way to south ofMontana tonight, 9pm to 10pm.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from Montana to Constitutiontonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane each direction from north of Getty Center tosouth of Getty Center tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Getty fully closed at Getty Center tonight, 9pm to 4:30am.WE-MUL:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane in each direction from Mountain Gate toSkirball tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Sepulveda Bl reduced to one lane in each direction near Getty ramps tonight,9pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Sepulveda Bl fully from Sherman Oaks Av to Valley Vista tonight, 10pm to5am.WE-MUL:Skirball Center Dr/Mulholland Dr closed flaggers from Sepulveda Bl to Zeldinstonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-MUL: Skirball northbound(right-turn pocket) closed at Mulholland tonight, 10pm to 5am.FreewayWE-WIL: Northbound 1,2,4,5lanes closed from southbound 101 to 10 fwys tonight, 10pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Southbound 1,2,4,5lanes closed from northbound 10 to 101 fwys tonight, 10pm to 4am.WE-WIL:Northbound connector to eastbound I-10 closed tonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-WIL:Northbound on-ramp from Olympic closed tonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Northbound on-rampfrom eastbound Wilshire closed tonight, 8pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Northbound off-rampto westbound Wilshire closed tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL:Southbound connector to westbound I-10 closed tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-WIL:Southbound connector to eastbound I-10 closed tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Southboundon-ramp/auxiliary lane closed at Santa Monica tonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-WIL:Southbound on-ramp from westbound Wilshire closed tonight, 11pm to 5am.WE-WIL:Southbound off-ramp to eastbound Wilshire closed tonight, 9pm to 4am.WE-WIL:Southbound off-ramp to westbound Wilshire closed tonight, 9pm to 4am.WE-WIL: Southbound 5/auxiliarylane closed from Waterford to Olympic tonight, 9pm to 5am.WE-WIL: Southbound 4, 5 lanesclosed from Olympic to I-405/I-10 connectors tonight, 11pm to 4am.WE-SUN:Northbound off-ramp to Montana partially closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Northbound 1lane closed from south of Getty Center to northbound Getty off-ramptonight, 10pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Northbound 4, 5 lanes closed from south of Getty Center to north of GettyCenter tonight, 11pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Northbound 3, 4, 5 lanes closed from south of Getty Center to north of GettyCenter tonight, midnight to 5am.WE-MUL:Southbound on-ramp from Getty closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Southbound HOV lane closed from Getty to south of Getty tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Southbound HOV/1 lane closed from Getty on-ramp to south of Getty tonight, 10pmto 4am.WE-SUN:Southbound 2, 3, 4 lanes closed from south of Getty Center to north of GettyCenter tonight, midnight to 3am.WE-SUN:Northbound on-ramp from Sunset closed tonight, 8pm to 5am.WE-SUN:Northbound off-ramp to Sunset closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Northbound off-ramp to Skirball closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Northbound 5 lane closed from Skirball off-ramp to Mulholland tonight, 10pm to6am.WE-MUL:Northbound 4, 5 lanes closed from Skirball off-ramp to Mulholland tonight, 11pmto 5am.WE-MUL:Southbound off-ramp to Valley Vista closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Southbound on-ramp from Valley Vista closed tonight, 7pm to 5am.WE-MUL:Southbound 5 lane closed from Valley Vista off-ramp to Skirball tonight, 7pm to4am.WE-MUL:Southbound 4, 5 lanes closed from Valley Vista off-ramp to Skirball tonight,10pm to 4am.