Celebrity Sightings

Since moving to Southern California I've had a few minor run-ins with so-called celebrities. I wish I could say that I had met some exciting movie stars, but these encounters have mostly been at a distance and without actually speaking to these people. I'm not one to bother someone for an autograph or a picture because I just don't care enough, but it is still interesting to see TV personalities in person.

Probably the most popular actor I've seen was John Krasinski, known for his role as Jim Halpert on NBC's show "The Office." I do admit that I love that show and was pretty excited to see him. We actually saw him checking in for his flight from BOS to LAX on American Airlines while we waited in line for our first class seat upgrades. Luckily for us, we got our upgrade for our flight back home from Boston. It was much needed after a long trip with a tired, wiggly baby. So, we were actually in the same row on the flight as Mr. Krasinski. I was impressed that no one bothered him, and that he seemed like a nice, regular guy just making his way home to LA.
The other TV personalities - I won't call them celebrities as that is a stretch - were Maria Menounos who is a reporter for an entertainment show on TV, also on an American Airlines flight, and William Hung(!!!) of American Idol fame a few years back. I saw him at LAX when I was waiting to pick up my mom and actually wouldn't have known it was him until someone stopped him and asked to have their picture taken with him.
During one of my few trips to Malibu I saw Ricki Lake - who had a bad daytime talk show years and years ago - but I don't consider that very exciting.
We'll see who will be next on the list. I'm hoping for Tom Selleck, Ellen Degeneres, or Will Smith since all of the above are rumored to live not too far way from us. I'll report back here if I do have any good sightings.

They saw me coming...

Last week I took Christopher to a photography studio to get his first (at 8 months old) professional photos taken. I had never done this before because Chris thinks we can do just as good a job taking pictures at home as a professional can do. I know this isn't really true, especially because of the background setting at home and the slow shutter speed on my point and shoot camera, and I wanted some more "official" shots of the baby.

I got what I considered to be a great deal - a whole package of prints for a really low price and no sitting fee. I guess I should have known that is how these studios get you in the door and rope you in to buying more than you thought you would. Mothers who bring their cute babies to the studio and are shown 24 adorable pictures to choose just one print from are also known as "suckers". They saw me coming from a mile away! I could not choose just one print - there were so many very cute poses. So I walked out of the studio spending almost 10 times as much as the so called "deal" I purchased ahead of time!

When Chris got home that evening and I showed him all of the great pictures he knew I fell for the studio trap and that I spent way more money than I should have. All I could do was apologize and keep showing him lots and lots of cute photos of his son. Here are some of the poses (because I of course also ordered a high resolution disk of all the images) for your enjoyment.