Lizards and Liza

Lizards, lizards everywhere! Or so you'd think, watching Lucas. He's still on high alert around here.

Also watching the season finale of "Rocco's Dinner Party." Liza Minelli's there to celebrate her 65th birthday, along with Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Cumming, Sam Harris, Sandra Bernhardt and Kenneth Cole (plus Rocco).

Sandra Bernhardt is a bitch, complaining about almost everything. She looks ugly and unhappy (always has, to my mind). Never been a fan.

I guess the best chef of the night won - not the one I was rooting for, however (the opera singer). But her main dish, the filet mignons (one of Liza's favorites), were poorly executed, according to Rocco (I could see she was definitely struggling to get them to come out correctly on time). (Time being a big constraint in this show.)

The other contender, a caterer in NYC, did a beef stew that apparently everyone found delicious, even though he prepared only half the number of courses as did the opera singer, who BTW had had her own restaurant and done the whole chef thing. She got out of the business because she found it way too exhausting - and she had her voice to "fall back on." She now's the lead soprano at an opera company in New York City.

Was at the gym tonight, after a nap with Lucas. I'm still not letting him sleep in the bedroom tonight. I'm still afraid he's too keyed up over the lizards and will wake me up too early with his meowing. I was really dragging on Monday, fighting fatigue from bad sleep on account of Lucas's lizard frenzy. I have to be on my toes at work, especially nowadays with so many people out of work and willing to do my job for less.

Liza looked good, definitely not your 65-year-old granny (but I assume she's had some work done). (She looked a little fake, I have to say.) She's tiny, too. Who knew?

Actually, the lizards on the terrace aren't green, but I loved the photo. Most of the lizards of my childhood were green (anoles), which we erroneously called chameleons, since they could change from green to brown (and back). The lizards out on the terrace are consistently brown, and not as handsome as the anole. (I haven't seen any anoles in a while. Maybe they're dying out from global warming.)