How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Judy Greer

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Chances are, you’ve seen (or heard) Judy Greer successful 1 of her galore roles implicit her prolific, multidecade career. She’s played Maggie Lang successful “Ant-Man,” voiced Cheryl Tunt successful the long-running animated big sitcom “Archer,” and appeared arsenic Jennifer Garner’s bestie successful the 2004 rom-com classical “13 Going connected 30” (the 2 are friends IRL too). She’s besides joining the formed for the 2nd play of Garner’s Apple TV bid “The Last Thing He Told Me.”

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In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

Streaming present is Apple TV+’s heartfelt caller play comedy, “Stick,” successful which Greer plays Amber-Linn — not a champion friend, but the ex-wife of erstwhile nonrecreational golfer Pryce Cahill, played by Owen Wilson. You don’t person to beryllium a instrumentality of the athletics to watch. “Honestly, I’m not a golfer and I emotion it,” she says.

As for her cleanable Sunday, she’ll instrumentality adjacent to Larchmont, wherever she’s lived for 20 years. “I question a batch for work, truthful I don’t ever similar to spell acold and wide connected my weekends,” she says. “My imagination Sunday is to not really exit the threshold, but contiguous I’m going to.” And she’ll get a batch done, from speechmaking a’plenty to hitting up the farmers marketplace and Dodger Stadium, taking successful a movie and getting prime clip with her husband, Dean Johnsen, her stepkids and her terrier mix, Mary Richards.

6:30 a.m.: A cookware of java and speechmaking successful furniture

I get up astatine 6, 6:30, and not connected purpose. My hubby likes to sleep, truthful if the sun’s out, I tin work successful bed. If not, sometimes I’ll travel downstairs and work and person coffee, and past erstwhile helium wakes up, I’ll spell backmost up and we’ll person java successful furniture together. I emotion to commencement my time with a cookware of java successful bed.

The java maker, it’s similar a basal bitch, a Cuisinart java maker. We get this marque called Punk Bunny. That’s our favourite benignant of coffee. We did precocious effort the acheronian roast, but we some person decided it’s excessively overmuch for us. We’re going backmost down to the mean acheronian roast. And I conscionable enactment soy beverage successful it.

Whenever I’m traveling for enactment and staying successful these Airbnbs and apartments and stuff, there’ll beryllium a cappuccino maker, and we’ll ever beryllium like, should we get 1 of those? and past we ne'er extremity up doing it. If I spell retired to a cafe, similar Lamill oregon Go Get ‘Em Tiger connected Larchmont, I’ll get a cappuccino, but I don’t request to beryllium making cappuccinos successful my house.

9 a.m.: Two loops astir the Silver Lake Reservoir

Then I would thrust to the Silver Lake Reservoir, and I would locomotion astir it twice, which is astir apt conscionable nether 5 miles. I would instrumentality my saccharine canine — she’s a truly bully walker, adjacent though she’s tiny. After my walk, I would marque a parfait for myself astatine home. I besides similar to spell and get the macromolecule pancakes astatine Cafe Gratitude. That would beryllium a truly large treat. I don’t emotion getting meal connected Larchmont connected Sundays due to the fact that it’s truthful crowded.

11 a.m.: Hit up the Larchmont Village Farmers Market

My hubby and I, we’re not cooks oregon chefs oregon anything. We person a mates go-tos astatine the farmers market: There’s the crockery feline who has the frozen soup, and I similar to get flowers and usually berries. We don’t truly devour meat, but erstwhile successful a portion we’ll dainty ourselves to salmon. My hubby volition marque salmon connected the grill, truthful he’ll get food from the fishmonger and sometimes those Parmesan crisps helium truly likes (and past I devour them, adjacent though helium is like, they’re for me). If we’re reasoning of making a large crockery oregon something, we’ll get crockery stuff. But again, we’re not those people, adjacent though we truly privation to beryllium those people.

Noon: Stop astatine Chevalier’s Books

Then I would locomotion down to Chevalier’s, our small section bookstore, and accidental hullo to everyone who works determination and rotation astir a bit. I person truthful galore books and it’s a problem, but past there’s usually thing determination that conscionable came retired that I’m truly excited about, and truthful I’ll get it. I’ve lately been buying hardcovers due to the fact that it’s benignant of amusive to person a archetypal variation of thing that could perchance triumph the Nobel Prize oregon Pulitzer.

My hubby was like, “The happening astir you is you bargain a batch of books, but you bash work them.” So I’m not conscionable randomly buying books. I’m speechmaking a publication by Barbara Kingsolver close present called “Unsheltered.” That 1 I deliberation I astir apt swiped retired of a small room connected a canine locomotion due to the fact that it’s decidedly not marque new. I conscionable finished “Martyr!” [by Kaveh Akbar] and I was truthful blown distant that I astir didn’t adjacent privation to work different publication for a while.

1 p.m.: A speedy dip successful the pool, immoderate buying and Dodger Stadium

Now, we’re coming home, and we’re going to rinse disconnected successful the pool, which is gross, but I don’t care. And past we’re decking ourselves retired successful our Dodger cogwheel and we’re going to spell to Dodger Stadium and we’re going to ticker the Dodgers triumph astatine Dodger Stadium. We would conscionable my stepkids determination and the 4 of america would ticker the Dodger crippled and they would person immoderate beers and astir apt immoderate nachos. I’d beryllium with my peanuts and Diet Coke, and we would ticker the Dodgers. I emotion Sundays astatine the ballpark due to the fact that it’s fun, it’s chill, it’s tons of families.

Dodger Stadium has truly go 1 of my favourite places successful Los Angeles. It’s conscionable a truly beauteous place. Sometimes I’ll locomotion astir the full loop of the stadium, conscionable get my steps in, rotation astir and spot everybody, and spot each the food.

4 p.m.: An day movie and the champion popcorn

Mann Chinese [TCL Chinese Theatres] is wherever my hubby and I mostly spell to the movies due to the fact that it’s weirdly person to our house, but benignant of a symptom successful the ass due to the fact that it’s truly touristy. But present we cognize wherever to parkland and however to get successful and retired truly quickly. So we’ve got it down.

I’m astir apt going to get myself into a batch of occupation now, but we popular our ain popcorn. This is hubby territory; helium makes it connected the stovetop with kernels and coconut oil. We’re an Orville Redenbacher family. I’m not ashamed to accidental we person tried each the fancy popcorn kernels, but honestly, I consciousness similar Orville gives you the champion pop, truthful that’s what we buy.

Oh, I’ll amusement you thing dorky. Hold on. [Greer disappears and returns with a ample Ziploc bag.] I usually sneak it successful my tote bag. I emotion having popcorn successful the movies, but the movie popcorn is usually not ace bully for us. Sometimes I volition besides sneak successful immoderate dried mangoes, and usually I’ll inactive bargain a Diet Coke. I consciousness blameworthy not buying anything.

I emotion that large theater. It’s conscionable truthful beautiful. There are specified large movie theaters successful L.A., specified aged theaters, and that 1 is truthful historical. I’ve been to a clump of movie premieres determination too. But astir apt I similar it erstwhile I’m conscionable similar a national watching a movie.

7 p.m.: Pasta for dinner

I would decorativeness my time by going to meal astatine Osteria Mamma and getting — I don’t privation to get successful occupation for this, due to the fact that they took it disconnected the paper — their pasta pomodoro. Sometimes I’m conscionable like, “Can you conscionable marque maine the pasta pomodoro?” It’s conscionable truthful good. My hubby gets the cacio pepe, which they marque tableside successful this immense food wheel, which is bananas, and I similar their tricolore salad. We usually divided that. Yeah, we’d person a bully small cozy meal and not person to navigator connected a Sunday night. We didn’t truly bargain overmuch astatine the farmers marketplace anyway, let’s beryllium honest.

8 p.m.: Watch a small TV oregon work successful bed

Sometimes we’re watching a amusement and we’ll ticker an episode, oregon we’ll conscionable spell to furniture and work successful bed. I similar to ascend astir 9. This week, I’ve been truly tired, truthful I’ve been going up astatine 8:30. I’m like, the prima is inactive out. But by the clip I’m done with each my ablutions and the flossing and each the things, it’s decidedly astir dark. I get cuddly with my canine and work for a small while, and then, yeah, lights retired by 10, but that’s adjacent sometimes a small spot late. On a Sunday, I privation to get a truly bully night’s slumber earlier Monday morning.

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