Birthday Weekend Movie Viewing: The Sheep Detectives.

On my way to Disney concert hall wearing a pretty dress.

My sister called me while with my mother in her hospital room. Got a happy birthday from my mother.

Have steamed a LBD from COS that I haven't worn since a wedding I went to in December of 2019 for my birthday trip to see the Los Angeles Philharmonic tonight.

43 now.

The news is as bad as it is every day, but I'm choosing to ignore it for the next couple of days so I can celebrate my birthday. I can go back to paying attention on May 10th.

This will be the first time in ages that I won't wake up to a voicemail from my mother singing Happy Birthday to me at the ET time she gave birth to me in 1983.

Treating the arrival of my birthday tomorrow like New Year's Day by cleaning my apartment.

Me reading all of the news out of Real Madrid today: "Wow, and I thought Chelsea were messy."

The age of consent in Massachusetts is 16, and I thought that was fucking wrong when I was a teenager living in Boston.

#MetGala co-chair Venus Williams showed that you can embody the themes of the night, look drop-dead gorgeous, and still serve up a look full of personal meaning tomandlorenzo.com/2026/05/met-...

One of my best days of senior year of high school was for a project with a classmate where we had to create a picture book for a class. Neither of us could draw, so we collected our American Girl dolls and some from another classmate with two sisters and took pictures of them to illustrate our book.

A lawyer friend likes to tell me that she would love to have me on one of her juries because I'm generally a rational person.

I think it's important to mention that many of the people who "support" the arts view it simply as a commodity. Not just fashion.

Just watched the full trailer for The Odyssey, so now I, a nerd, feel the need to read it again since the first time I read it as a high school freshman.

Just got a text with this news that said "Is this Succession?"

Red carpet gowns that reference John Singer Sargent's Madame X are some of my favorites because I fucking love that portrait.

The Spider-Man Hot Wheels toy I got for one of the five-year-olds is very much liked.

The "hanging out with the adults" part of the first child birthday party I went to today was great. Sliders! Stargate SG-1! The sleepover parties of our childhoods! How varied the different translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey are!

Today in Texts (sent to my main friend group in Los Angeles): "How do people feel about going to see [The Sheep Detectives] at The Americana on Saturday? One, I want to buy myself a gift at Kiehl's. Two, Coke Freestyle machine."

*sees that current Los Angeles temperature is under 60 degrees* 🎉BARBOUR TIME🎉

Paradise (2025)

Having my once every three weeks bout of insomnia.

Usually I can handle my fashion impulses, but sometimes when I see the Peretti bone cuff from Tiffany I think "I would punch someone in the face for that."

Bought my ticket to see the LA Phil for my birthday in a week.

Talking with my best friend about Pride & Prejudice (1995) and the first proposal. She said it was "arrogant begging" on Darcy's part.

If you have suggestions for books that new five-year-olds would like, please let me know.

Bought my LA Phil ticket for my birthday in a week. Going to put on a pretty dress and thoroughly enjoy myself.

I'm still mad about SCOTUS, but I got a video from a friend of the open house at her children's school where all of the little kids of various races were dancing together, and that made me smile.

Isn't part of reading to your children the cuddle time and them also complaining about you reading it wrong?

Was still dealing with mother stuff so missed SCOTUS tearing more strips off of the VRA.

A tip it you're a child in your late 30s or early 40s. Make sure your parents put your name on their accounts so you can handle things if they end up in the hospital.

Called to make a lunch reservation in Beverly Hills for tomorrow and got called Mrs. Powell. I guess my New England girls' school voice makes me sound like a Mrs of a certain age.

Going to dinner in Santa Monica tomorrow. It's been literally years since I've been there.

I don't care either way about the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, but I'm enjoying this press tour because it's giving us LOOKS.

It's interesting to see The Wintour so involved with the press tour for The Devil Wears Prada 2 when I can't remember her being at all involved during the first one.

This dum dum obviously knows nothing about military history. Camps during wars used to basically be agar plates when it came to the proliferation of diseases.

Talking with a friend from Boston. I forgot it was Marathon Monday!

To pivot heavily, J. Crew Factory is having a spring sale, and I have obviously put a number of navy and white striped items in my cart.

*looks at timeline* Very glad I've missed most of the discussion today about how GLP-1s make people feel, and if writing about your personal feelings about them is good or bad.

In very Samantha Things, I'm currently watching a documentary on Netflix called American Godfathers: The Five Families. The narrator (and one of the executive producers) is Imperioli.

Was thinking again today that this country currently being a disaster and FIFA being corrupt as fuck is likely going to ruin this upcoming World Cup.

So many things are happening. episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/04/16/a...

The Allbirds thing is hilarious to me because trying to make fashion into a tech company is stupid. The aesthetics of clothing is important.

I read this, and it was a truly lovely, personal essay. www.vulture.com/article/supr...

Got a picture yesterday of the baby in my family wearing a pink, Chanel-esque skirt suit with matching pink beads in her hair and Blair Waldorf white tights.

Me looking at the likes for this post and thinking about the interest in such a project:

These motherfuckers.

Just got a jury summons. I am due I suppose. But when doing the registration, I realized that I can't list my mother as my emergency contact for the first time in my life.

Things are still up in the air about when I should go back home, so I think I'll still be in Los Angeles for my birthday. Thinking of going to see the LA Phil perform Rachmanioff and also watching The Sheep Detectives, both of which happen my birthday weekend.