How Lucky Can You Get?

Regretfully, my best gurl Chi Chi LaRue and I have both decided to cancel our trips to London for Hustlaball this week. LaRue had to have her gal bladder removed and there were some major complications with the surgery, which you will soon hear about on her blog at ChiChiLaRue.com. She is well and back at home in West Hollywood, but has done the smart thing by taking the next week to fully recover.

In the middle of her nightmare, I came down with pneumonia. I was put nearly an entire week off work by it so I have a lot of "catch up" to do this week and am still actually recovering. So us sickies will be right here this week! Sad but... smart.

I have often wondered if getting sick isn't the universe's way of making you stop to slow down and reevaulate certain things in your life. I've done some of that over the past few days. I think I need to take better care of my body than I have been in the past year. In fact, in general I need to be taking better care of a great many things that are important to me. If you don't show appreciation for the things that are important to you, that you care about and love, they will be taken away from you and that goes for everything from your body to your friends to your talents to your home.

I need to get back to a more well rounded lifestyle. It can't be porn and parties all the time or else even those things will eventually get old and I'll grow to resent them. Trust me, I know. It's happened before and it took quite a lot to get me out of that frame of mind. I don't want to go through all that again. I happen to really love my career at the moment, so I need to return to a few hobbies to balance it out and to ensure I continue appreciating it. Some time at the gym, some time in Kabbalah study, a play or acting project per year like I used to do, some nights singing in nightclubs or piano bars, etc.

Aside from the introspection, I've watched a ton of TV and movies while sick in bed too. I loved seeing "Streisand Live" on TV last night. I was in the first few rows just feet away from her on that tour, her last stop in Los Angeles, and a few of the songs from the show were actually taken from the footage shot that evening. Her voice is in a much deeper register than it used to be which was surprising and at times disappointing, but there are some moments in the show I think are really stellar, like hearing her sing "Funny Girl" live for the first time all these years later and the new song "Unusual Way."





I left The Mans for the first time in many days this afternoon. Rob took Chi Chi and I to see "Obsessed" at The Grove. (Great guilty pleasure movie!) Accompanied Chi Chi on some serious comfort shopping at Nordstroms, had some sushi and then tried to force her to sit through "Funny Lady." She only made it about 3/4 in before she could take no more. lol

We both agreed this scene is fabulous though. It's probably my favorite in the movie. The song, "How Lucky Can You Get?" is about the idea that those you may think "lucky" are not so lucky at all, that success, prosperity and celebrity equaling happiness is only an illusion, that there's more to life.

...Like recovering with mutually sick friends and taking care of each other.

Now that's lucky.