-New Zealand actor Marton Csokas
as Stephen Gold in the 2011 film THE DEBT
Twenty-five years ago today:
April 5, 1987
Sunday
I woke up and headed over to mom and dad’s house for breakfast. Mom was getting ready to attend the baby shower for my first cousin, Donna Armijo.
I was feeling very lazy today. I couldn’t help but notice the beauty of the day. I went over to John and Sherri’s house to see my niece, Ashley.
Ashley smiled and kissed me.
I turned on my Video Cassette Recorder and placed the VHS videotape of the film WITNESS into the slot. I started to watch the movie while at home when I could feel myself drifting to sleep.
My brother, Tony, dropped by to visit. He looked at some of my photos in my most recent albums. He was doing the finishing touches on John’s income tax return while at my place. Once he was done with all he needed to do he left.
Sherri said, “I’d like to go there on May 10th for Ashley’s birthday weekend.”
I shared the idea of the GREAT AMERICA outing to Tony while he was here.
I said, “It would be fun to go when Helen returns on the 26th.”
Tony nodded, so it seemed like he was ‘sort of’ interested in going.
I watched a TV-movie called THE ABDUCTION OF KARI SWENSON, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. After the kidnapping movie I went to mom’s house for avocado, tortillas, roasted pine nuts from New Mexico and banana cream pie. Yikes! I sat around with ma and pa, watching a sit-com and a TV-movie called DADDY that was about teenage pregnancy.
A bit later Eileen telephoned me. Eileen confirmed that she would come to San Francisco this coming Wednesday night.
I was ecstatic and said, “Great! We can go to the ZUNI CAFÉ and COIT TOWER.”
“That sounds fun!”
“It will be. I have something ‘heavy’ to discuss with you, too.”
“Oh really, this could be fun,” she stated cheerfully and curiously.
The big questions will be ‘How do you feel about me?’ and ‘Where do you want--or feel--our relationship should head next?’ I mean, I really don’t want to beat around the bush with her. I want to know ‘When are the braces coming off?’ and ‘When will you marry me?’ Ha-ha. Is this what I really want to say/ask? Yes. Perhaps with the exception of that last question (When will you marry me?). I believe that can be held off for a while…maybe.
“It is from rings that chains are made.”
-as heard during the NY
Broadway Play MARY STUART
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