In Sunday Funday, L.A. folks give us a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration for the place to go, what to eat and find out how to get pleasure from life on the weekends.
For kids of the ‘90s questioning no matter occurred to predictability, Jodie Sweetin brings some consolation. Together with starring in Hallmark motion pictures, doing stand-up on the Comedy Retailer in West Hollywood and parenting teenagers, the 41-year-old actor is rewatching outdated episodes of “Full Home.”
“How Impolite, Tanneritos!” is a brand new podcast during which Sweetin and her former co-star Andrea Barber rewind to their early days as sassy center baby Stephanie Tanner and door-busting neighbor Kimmy Gibbler, respectively, and discuss it. For Sweetin, who’ll even be becoming a member of the “Full Home” forged at ‘90s Con in September, it’s at all times been a thrill to remain related with longtime followers.
“I’ve had folks inform me that watching the present was how they realized about American households after immigrating to the nation,” Sweetin says. “I’ve had followers who grew up with nontraditional households of all types, and so they mentioned that seeing the ‘Full Home’ household was proof that their household mattered too. And I do know some folks really feel that approach nonetheless.”
Sweetin lives within the Valley together with her husband, Mescal Wasilewski, and her two daughters. Her perfect Sunday consists of studying, stress-free, testing artwork and making her dwelling an always-welcoming “central zone.” Right here’s a rundown. (Editor’s observe: This interview happened previous to the SAG-AFTRA strike. It has been edited for size and readability.)
8:30 a.m.: Get up with espresso and soccer
At the beginning is espresso. My husband and I get up, and the very first thing we do is make a pot of espresso. There’s additionally an ideal little neighborhood espresso store referred to as Espresso Repair that we prefer to go to.
We undoubtedly have Premier League soccer on in the home. My husband’s an enormous soccer fan, and my older daughter performs soccer, so we like to look at soccer on the weekends. However normally it’s on very low. We’d like a pleasant, mellow, quiet morning.
9:30 a.m.: Feed any sleepover visitors
I’m organizing doughnuts for whoever has slept over on the home. My children at all times have sleepovers. And within the summertime, they invite mates over on the weekends to return soar within the pool and hang around. Our home is type of the central zone. I’ve a buddy whose children are older than mine, and she or he was like, “All I’m saying is that when they hit highschool, attempt to be the home the place all of them come collect as a result of you may be within the know on what’s occurring just by having them round.”
11 a.m.: Do some procuring
I’m an enormous antiques individual. I like to go to Melrose Buying and selling Submit, which is a extremely enjoyable vintage-slash-antique-slash-hipster spot. I can spend an hour wanting by the outdated black-and-white pictures, questioning who these individuals are.
One other spot I really like is a jewellery retailer referred to as Awe Impressed. The newest factor I purchased was a necklace that claims, “Say sure to new adventures.” It’s all of the little letters linked collectively, so it simply type of seems like a gold chain. One in every of my massive new adventures has been transferring into stand-up comedy and reside comedy reveals. Though I’ve at all times carried out, doing so with my very own writing, as my very own self, with my humorousness and never enjoying a personality — that’s been new.
1 p.m.: Discover downtown L.A.
I really like downtown L.A. — it’s seen such a cool resurgence. And I’m an enormous artwork and structure individual. So I might like to hit up Grand Central Market and get a Filipino rice bowl after which go to the Broad, the Biltmore resort and the cool, outdated theaters down there, like the Orpheum. I really like doing avenue images, simply strolling and absorbing the town life. Residing in L.A., you don’t at all times get that metropolis vibe. So it’s good.
5:30 p.m.: Head to Santa Monica for a comfortable dinner
My husband launched me to a bit of place referred to as Gilbert’s El Indio. It’s on Pico. It’s a family-owned Mexican restaurant and it’s been there perpetually. He’s been going since he was a child. It’s simply such an ideal traditional California-Mexican restaurant. It’s bought an ideal patio. All people that works there may be like household.
7 p.m.: Ice cream time
Ice cream, sooner or later, has to occur. I’m an enormous fan of Ben & Jerry’s. There’s, in fact, one down in Venice on the boardwalk if you happen to’re down there. After which I additionally love Van Leeuwen. When my husband and I first began courting and he was residing in Brooklyn, we’d at all times stroll to the Van Leeuwen by his home. I might order Vegan Planet Earth, which was like a vegan oat milk ice cream.
7:15: Benefit from the sundown
After which we’ll go all the way down to Santa Monica and watch a fantastic California sundown and sit alongside the boardwalk there and simply people-watch.
8 p.m.: Get cozy within the ‘pod’
Sunday nights are normally for preparing for the week forward with the children. However then I prefer to wind up in my “pod,” which is what I name my big, actually snug bean bag. It’s the place I learn — I’m studying “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles, and it’s actually nice. And I learn my buddy Jen Pastiloff’s e-book “On Being Human,” which is a extremely fantastic memoir and dialogue of life and human frailty and simply getting by.
I additionally like to take a seat in my pod and play silly crosswords on my cellphone.
8:50 p.m.: Discover a present to go to sleep to
My husband and I like watching reveals and documentaries. My husband completed “Beef” and I began the primary episode — there’s undoubtedly a journey we’re occurring with this present. After which there’s at all times the nighttime present, you realize, like “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” — some comedy that I’ll placed on to simply watch and type of wind down earlier than I inevitably go to sleep by, like, 9 p.m. And that’s the top of my Sunday Funday. Nothing too loopy.
