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| October,
2006
Do
I start explaining why I haven’t posted anything since
April, or do I just jump in? I think I’ll just jump
in, because at the end it doesn’t matter why I haven’t
written an LA-update in 5 months, fact is: I haven’t.
So
here we are, it’s actually Fall in LA…and I’m
LOVING it!! We’re finding ourselves in one of those
rare weeks here, where it actually looks like Fall. It doesn’t
quite feel like the Fall seasons I was used to back in Europe,
but this is as much Fall as LA will ever get, I think: anywhere
between the 65-80 F (18-26 C) during the day to cool at
night. The trees on our street are losing their leaves and
we even had our first rain last week!!! (That was the first
real rain since, let me think….April I guess.)
Gosh,
what has happened this summer? Let’s see… In
May we did indeed get our motorcycle license. Only 8 more
weeks (as I’m writing this) and we’ll be off
to the “Land Downunder”. We’re so excited
about it and…so much still needs to happen before
we can even start to think about packing our bags.
As
you may know, David had his big birthday this year: we celebrated
the 2nd anniversary of his 39th (hihi) with a great surprise
party which he did not see coming. On top of that I treated
him to a 2 day trip to Vegas, where we had a chance to see
Cirque du Soleil’s “O”, a magnificent
show for which we’d received complimentary tickets
from one of my friends and tennis clients.
Oh
my, I almost forgot (he’s become such a part of our
family that it feels like we’ve had him forever):
in June, we adopted Boomer, a brother for Buster. He’s
an Australian Shepherd as well. He’s a Blue Merle.
For those to whom that doesn’t mean anything: he’s
got the white, tan and grey colors and has 1 bright blue
and one blue-brown eye. He was around 8 weeks when we adopted
him and he’s growing like there’s no tomorrow.
If you click on the following link, you’ll be able
to see some pics of him: Boomer
Pics.
He’s absolutely adorable and Buster loves his new
brother to pieces. Chaplin has come to terms with “another
thing” in her house and is back to being
all loving and affectionate again.
David
has been one busy bee lately: several weeks ago he opened
a live show at the Santa Monica Playhouse with his friend,
writing & comedy partner Tom. They’ve got 2 more
weekends of show to go as they close on October 29. In addition,
they’ve been very busy with the development of their
mobile phone content, their podcasts and online ventures.
Over the past couple of weeks, David has been busy commercially
as well: at the beginning of the month, he booked a national
(and international I believe) commercial for Visa, which
he spent an entire week working on. This week he filmed
a national Hertz commercial, so you can imagine, we’re
very happy with that.
I’m in the middle of the Fall semester. I’m
teaching 3 classes this semester, which means: 6 days /
week. Monday – Friday are extremely early days when
I get up at 5 am, as classes start as early as 6:45. The
good thing is that it gets me back home early in the morning,
with the rest of the day in front of me. Saturday's class
goes from 9-12:30. My tennis coaching is going well. I’ve
got several regular clients and am very much enjoying it,
especially as we can see great improvement in their game.
And
then there is the home remodel: we started construction
on August 29. It’s going well. We had a couple of
set-backs in the beginning when we found out that one of
the existing walls of the house (of our current bedroom)
had completed rotted away as a result of water leaking in
the wall from the ugly turquoise awning that was attached
to it and had been hanging over the patio probably since
the house was built in 1951!! Then there was the incident
where Boomer had decided to entertain himself by chewing
(and puncturing) a plastic bottle of motor oil on the newly
poured concrete which is going to be our finished floor…
Out of all the places where he could have laid down to do
that, he (of course) picked the one spot where there would
be no furniture: the area that you would see upon entering
the bedroom!!!! Go figure… But, that’s all behind
us now and we’re making progress. I’m keeping
a “photo diary” where you can see the changes
over time: Remodel '06
That’s
all in a nutshell. If I’ve forgotten anything, I’ll
include that in my next post. Hopefully until soon!!
Love
from the 5 of us,
The
Beelers
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| April,
2006
April
was pretty much characterized by our bathroom renovation.
(Oh, sexy!) What we thought would cost us a long weekend,
ended up taking 2 1/2 weeks. In addition to unexpected surprises
when we opened up walls, I do admit it was also a slight miscalculation
on our part…oops…, BUT on the bright side: we
learned a lot and now have an amazing new bathroom (see
photos). The vanity still needs to be built, but the big
and heavy work is behind us.
We’re extremely excited about our upcoming trip and
are researching, reading and watching DVD’s on both
Australia & New Zealand to familiarize ourselves with
some of what awaits us. In addition, we have decided to explore
New Zealand by motorcycle – yes, we’re getting
our license. Our classes are scheduled in May, so hopefully,
we’ll be able to share in the next letter that we indeed
passed
We’re so incredibly excited about the prospect of learning
all these new things in anticipation of our trip. In addition,
we’re also planning on becoming certified scuba divers,
so we can scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef. And then of
course, the preparations in order to travel light…how’s
that for a challenge (understatement of the year)...
As I’m writing this letter, I’m enjoying the last
weekend of Spring Break. Teaching starts again this upcoming
week. I’m really enjoying it, my classes are great,
it’s a joy to be working with them. Tennis practice
is going well as well. I look forward to building my practice
over the summer, it’s great to be back on the courts
again.
David’s busy with writing and exploring new comedic
business ventures with his writing, acting, and laughing partner
Tom. By the end of the month they’ll have video podcasts
of their work available on iTunes, DVD’s of their work
for sale on their website and they’re exploring the
possibility to broadcast their work on cell phones. It’s
amazing where technology has taken us over the past couple
of years. 5 years ago, we would have never thought of watching
video on our cell phones while waiting in line at the grocery
store.
I believe that this is pretty much a complete update for this
month. I’ll be back in May with more and exciting news.
Love from the four of us,
The Beelers. |
| March,
2006
Oops,
how did we get from 2004 to 2006?? I realize that it's been
way too long since I've done this and many of you have already
asked us for updates on life, the house,etc. and I haven't
done it. I really want to use the excuse of "we've been
so busy" and I know that it just wouldn't fly.
I mean, isn't everyone? Anyways, truth is that we have been
incredibly busy, no moss on the Beelers' rolling stone here
in LA.
2005
was amazing and went by in a flash. We continued working on
the house (as you can see on the photos). In February, Marieke's
folks visited for a month, we had a wonderful time. In June
the Beeler family expanded with the adoption of Buster, our
Australian Shepherd. He was Marieke's birthday present and
is a wonderful and adorable addition. Chaplin even has come
to accept him. (Yes, miracles DO happen.) Over the summer,
we had an exchange student stay with us from Spain. Babiche
wanted to improve her English and learn more about life in
LA. She got what she wanted: Yostemite National Park, Potluck
dinner party, Dodgers Baseball Game, Venice Beach, Hollywood,
Beverly Hills, Santa Monica AND Las Vegas!! (Just to mention
a few)
In
the fall we re-financed our house, in anticipation of a big
remodel that we have planned for this year. We'll be adding
a Master Suite to the back of the house: master bedroom, bathroom
and (Marieke's) walk-in closet.
2006
is bringing so many more changes: I (Marieke) have started
a part-time teaching position at Glendale College in Speech
101 (Public Speaking). In addition, I've picked up tennis
again! Instead of playing competitively, I now train and coach,
it's so much fun, I'm really enjoying it.
And
then the big news: we're going Downunder. We just booked our
trip for the Holidays. We'll be going away for a month: starting
out with Australia (Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock & Sydney),
followed by New Zealand (driving and covering both islands)
and Fiji to relax and indulge. I call it our 2nd Honeymoon,
David calls it "the last hurrah" before we start
with a family. But for those of you who know Marieke a bit,
you'll know that children will not keep the traveling bug
away, this is definately not our last trip, I can tell you
that much.
Workwise,
things are going well as well. David's Tostitos commercial
is still playing a lot (for those of you who haven't seen
it already, it also plays online: http://www.tostitos.com/promotions.php
Click on the green button "Play" next to the little
photo that says "Window", give it a second to load
and it'll start playing.
Furthermore,
Beeler Greetings is moving forward as well. We're in the process
of getting reps, to help us get our cards "out there".
The feedback we get is good and inspiring, we look forward
to what 2006 will bring us in that respect.
Finally,
David is spending time with his different writing partners
writing scripts, and short comedy. New developments, which
may lead to fun and exciting projects later this year.
Well,
that's all for now. I hardly dare to promise, but I will try
my best to keep this writing up on a monthly basis.
Love
from the four of us,
The
Beelers.
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