Zap Myself

“Doesn’t your head get covered with dust when they shake out the rugs in the morning?” “I don’t go out in the morning...I go out when LIFE has already been dusted.” --Ramon Gomez De La Serna, The Trials and Tribulations of the Hater of Hats, EIGHT NOVELLAS 
Well, Mrs. Doubtfire opened on the 24th and Alan and I went on the release date adventure and just loved it.  It was the right time to go out.  It was hysterical.  Robin Williams dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire really cracked us up.  It’s worth watching it again. It's the perfect Thanksgiving movie with great, thoughtful messages.  
November 25th was Thanksgiving.  I didn’t go to Alameda this year but that’s okay.  I can’t always work it out.   I actually have to work the day after Thanksgiving.  That’s ridiculous.  It will be so slow—but we may be able to leave early.   My niece, Lauren, updated me with a letter: 


11/27/93,  Dear Michael, I missed you at my first ballet recital.  Grandma and Great-Grandma came.  Sharon and Bobbie, my friends, gave me some flowers.  They smelled so good.  I missed you on Thanksgiving, too!   I liked the eggnog, turkey, corn, mashed potatoes and salad.  Yum!  I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  I hope your cooking was good.  Did you have turkey and ham? I can hardly wait to see you at Christmastime.  Hope you will stay a long time.  Perhaps you will visit my ballet class on Saturday. Mom and Dad are going on a cruise, so Grandma Virginia will stay here with Leigh and me for a week.  It will be fun. Love, Lauren  Of course, her letter made me miss everyone.  It would be nice to zap myself from one place to another like Elizabeth Montgomery did on BEWITCHED.   I always imagined what it would be like to zap myself to other parts of the world.  Maybe if I think really hard it can happen.Samantha: Darrin is a marvelous human being. Endora:  Oh, that’s a terrible thing to say about anyone! --Samantha Stevens (Elizabeth Montgomery), BEWITCHED, Season I, Be It Ever So Mortgaged