I'm Baaaaack

It's the beginning of the end, i'm back in vacation mode, so I thought i'd write about it.

November 4
The last day in my apartment.  A sad, sad day in the history of my LA life.  I wake up (on my blow up mattress because my furniture had been carted away on Friday by the Moura Starr mover dudes) and start with my final packing efforts.  But then Meredith and Ashley invited me to brunch.  I convinced them to go to the Fountain Coffee Room at the BH Hotel so I couldn't very well pass that up!  And then Alessandra invites me to Soho brunch, but since I already had prior brunch plans I agreed to meet her after.

So I don my felt floppy hat to cover my hasn't-been-washed-in-5-days hair, and pink lipstick to match (cause it's still has pink halloween mermaid leftovers... pretty sure there's still some rubber cement remnants in there as well).  I scurried on over and met the girls, we had a wonderful catch-up session and I ordered grilled cheese.  It arrived, i took a bite, and they'd forgot the cheese!  Literally two perfectly grilled pieces of bread, but nothing inside!  Andrew Garfield who was loitering behind us waiting for food laughed at me because of it.  And i was making eyes at him even though i didnt know who he was.  Ashley later enlightened Mer and I:
"you guys didnt even flinch!"
"about what"
"that was Andrew Garfield!"
"who's Andrew Garfield?"

So we finish our breakfasts and then walk over to peruse the gift shop and who walks by but Ozzy Osborne! Meredith casually says "Hey Ozzy" and he says "oh, hello" ... I later realized that I should've been like "I interior designed your dining room!"

We frolicked by the bungalows taking pictures and then parted ways.

I was feeling a little irresponsible that I was being a lady of leisure when I knew I had to be out of my apartment that night and needed to babysit for Annie that evening... but the delusional me thought it would be no problem!  So I hop on over to Soho and join Alessandra and Melis for cocktails and gossip on the roof... 3:00 rolls around and i check my phone for the first time in a while... I realize Annie wants me there at 4:30... totally impossible considering I need to move a chair and drafting table to Matt's and a bookshelf to Pats.  So i bolt outta there at 3:15 like a bat outta hell, drop a garment bag off at Cavalli left over from a photoshoot, and synchronize my arrival at my apartment with Pat's.  We load the bookshelf into his truck, I freak out and realize that my only option is to put both the armchair AND drafting table in my trunk.  Thankfully they fit.  Thank you again Black Beauty, you've served me well!  So then i rush off to Annie and Ryans, but realize that my car is completely full and can not fit my surfboard, suitcase, or a bunch of other random things, so i have to get Leigh to bring her car over and trade with me so I can go home after babysitting and fill hers (to the brim).  So that's what I did.  From 11 til 2, throwing shit out, and packing Leigh's car tetris style. I drive over to Leigh's (cause there's no way i'm moving into William's place at 2 am), unload some small items from her car into my car, and then finally sneak in and rest my weary head on her couch.

November 5
Hell day.  I get up and start unloading leigh's car at 7:00 cause i have to get my car over to Matt's and unload the chair and drafting table and then get to Natalie's to do more photoshoot returns by 9:00.  I was super stressed.  Traffic was terrible.  I get to Matt's and his car is in the driveway (blocking my easy access path to the garage) but he's not answering his phone or doorbell.  I conclude that he's either 1. in the shower or 2. his dad has for some reason picked him up and taken him to work.  #1 was the correct answer.  Anyways, so i manage to wrangle the chair around his car and into the garage.  There was no way i was carrying the drafting table though so i had to leave it in my car.  This is when the first of the waterworks started.  I hate feeling helpless and I hate relying on people for help, cause when you don't have parents or a boyfriend, it's quite hard to rely on people for help.  So i head over to Natalies, 20 mins late, and get into her parking garage and see her and just start bawling my eyes out.  So embarassing.  She offers me wine, water, and to go over to Matt's and help me with the table, but I wouldn't take her up on any of the offers (except water).  I load every inch of available space with garment bags and head out on my 8 showroom journey in 33 degree heat.  Then I realize my AC is busted.  More tears ensue.  All in all the showroom returns went off without a hitch, except Dolce, while trying to park my car in a tiny tiny spot beside the dumpster (the only spot that's ever free cause it's impossible - but a spot that i've squeezed into in the past) i hit my car on a metal pole thing.  More waterworks!  But these are the sobbing-hard-to-breathe kind... i pull back out into the alley and a poor UPS man is looking horrified at me and my teariness, but he's like "there's no damage!" and thankfully there wasn't.  Oh and then after doing all my returns (and meeting Natalie at the wrong gas station causing her to drive all around town looking for me cause my phone was dead) I go to time warner to drop off my cable box... but the address online doesn't exist.  So a kind man tells me where the real one is (pretty far away) and i'm under a time crunch cause i have to be at Sarah's at 5:15, but i get there with enough time... until I walk in and realize the line is a million miles long.  I storm back to the car and once again start crying.  Can I just say the the main reason for all the tears was the fact that since halloween I had had 16 hours of sleep (in 4 nights) and I was just soooooo uneasy and anxious about the fact that I didnt have my apartment anymore, my belongings were scattered around town, and I was too scared to move into Williams because 1. i'd never seen it and am scared of the unknown, and 2. Westwood just seemed uncomprehensibly far away.  So once again I slept on Leigh's couch.

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Terre des Hommes

I'm infinitely proud of myself. It's nearing the end of January and i've successfully held fast to my resolution of never again falling for an asshole/bad boy/player.

Life is so much easier and stress-free when your only crush lives 2,500 miles away!

Seriously, who needs crushes when you have a million boy friends to waste your time with? I spent the weekend with boys. Friday night Jordan called and convinced me to break free of my autocad enslavement so I headed over to Venice. As soon as i walked in I was swept away to some random dive bar in some random part of town that I can't even tell you where it was... near the airport perhaps? Anyways, we danced up a storm, caught up on each others lives, and went back to Dave's at 2 am. Obviously Jordan started setting up for a photoshoot (white seamless and everything) and we posed our lives away for the next two hours. At 4 am my platonic true love and I parted ways, with plans to go to Big Bear next Friday.

Saturday and Sunday were filled with tanning, homework and Mad Men. I set up shop at Cam, Matt & Ben's apartment (since i'm watching Mad Men Season 2 from Matt's iTunes) - although this doesn't really qualify as "hanging out with boys" (unless you consider the boys in the show) cause they were all in Big Bear. But it was wonderful. I bought them dark pink gerbera daisies because sunny Sundays are meant for buying flowers!

My Days are Numbered...

Today my truest of LA loves got her Visa application denied. If this means that she's going home, my days here are definitely numbered. Although LA is a dream, it's just that - a dream. And one can't live a dream forever... Real life misses me. Moving here was the boldest thing i've ever done. It was the greatest example of making an impossible dream come true. It gave me faith in myself and molded me into a crazy extreme wonderful version of Christine. I'm the most competent girl I know. I've proved this 100 times over.

BUT I love my roots. I love my family. I love my best friends who i've been best friends with for over 20 years. And they're not here. Even though I love my LA friends and my little LA life i've built for myself, it's just not home.

Buttttt... I did just apply for my OPT Visa, so maybe I'll take advantage of this dreamland life for a little longer!

Champagne & Plastic Cups

Monday

Monday, Monday, Monday. Hiked with Leigh, got my smoothie, and headed to school to pick up my work from last quarter. Found out that my presentation boards had been on display in Dina (the Interior Design chair)'s office! Lifelong goal #6648 complete! Stopped by Mood fabrics on the way home to get some fur (faux and a real fox tail) to make my fur vest. Got home and commenced construction on fur vest. NEVER attempt to make a fur vest. I must have swiffered my floor 50 times over the course of 3 hours. I thought it would be easy as pie (a silly analogy since pie isn't so easy) but when I got down to it, I realized I had zero idea what I was doing. But I decided to wing it... and i think i'm on the right track. I cut and sewed until 4:00 when I needed to call it quits because there was fur EVERYWHERE.

Tuesday

It's rare to have a day when it's appropriate to wear my 3/4 sleeve corduroy jacket. Today was one of those days. Chilly but not too cold. Worked all day, spent most of the day in the office which was rare, but nice! Went home, had dinner, opened my package from Planet Blue and realized they sent me the wrong shirt... so annoying! Did nothing to my hair and picked out a random outfit to wear to go out with Cameron... we were supposed to go to Palihouse, he was trying to change plans to Trousdale, I said i didnt want to go to a club, he told me to come over and we'd go somewhere on the west side. So i did. I get there, we sit in the dark listening to radiohead while drinking champagne out of plastic cups and perusing his myspace profile, and I prove to him that i indeed have had facebook since 2004. Matt came home, we tried to convince him to come out with us and gave him more love lessons (specifically that petting someone's face is NEVER attractive). Cameron somehow convinced me to go to Trousdale (i think it had something to do with him saying we'd only go for a bit and then go to the Chateau Marmont afterwards for dessert). So we went, I actually had a lot of fun, his friend introduced me to three "Torontonians" who were actually from Etobicoke and it was sooooo painfully obvious that they were 905 from the second I laid eyes on them! Cameron got mad at me for hating that they were 905 and saying that they were from Toronto... he just doesnt understand the dichotomy between 416 and 905! So we stayed at Trousdale until the bitter end, and then i got Chateau gypped. We ended up at some place on Beverly, but I must say, the grilled cheese was delicious! Was in bed by 4, woke up at 8 cause i'm crazy. Best part of the night: singing our hearts out to Rumors by Lindsay Lohan.

Wednesday

Lounged around, went to the Century City mall to study fur vest construction (i'm soooooooo on the right track!!!!!) and to look for a christmas present for my mom. Nothing yet. Then went to Hot Rod to make a video of all the shoes for Ry so he can tell me which ones he wants for Christmas. Cam and I walked to the pizza place to get 4:00 lunch and then I went running around on errands for tomorrow. First stop, Urth on Beverly. Called to order two slices of pumpkin pie for leigh and i for tomorrow... SOLD OUT! Called Melrose... SOLD OUT. Santa Monica.... obviously, sold out. I was devastated. We just decided that it was a sign that our pumpkin pie that we already have lined up will be good and we'll just make christmas cookies instead. Then i hit up Blockbuster to rent Christmas movies for our viewing pleasure - obviously Miracle on 34th Street was included and i'm really excited to watch it on actual American Thanksgiving! And this means i must make the "Christine & Courtney Hate Queen's Cookies!" Had dinner. Booked my flight home. Went over to Cam & Matt & Ben's and we all went to The Basement, which was terribly crowded and stuffy and clammy so we left, tried to go to the Viceroy but the bar was closed, came THISCLOSE to getting a room and having a sleepover, and decided to go to some other bar that i don't remember what it was called. Matt was up to his petting my face tricks again, and obviously ben and cam joined in. On the way home we had a Lady Gaga car dance party and planned our Holiday Kickoff Party! SO EXCITED.

Baby it's Cold Outside

Friday

Christmas Christine is here. I'm in full out Christmas mode. Kristin and I listened to Christmas carols in the office today and it was amazing! It was also the gloomiest chilliest day - about as wintery as it gets in LA and it was amazing! I was tanning yesterday and now it's fully cold.

Went to the gym after work and then got ready to go out. Met Leigh, Katherine & Thomas at the Hudson, were joined by a whole crew of their friends, Leigh and I ate grilled cheese, took photobooth pics with Cam & Matt and then peaced to go to Hemingways, which is my new fave place. They make a mean mojito. At Hemingways Matt tried to steal me a book from one of the many bookshelves, Leigh and I saw one of the Andrews, and we danced until it closed. I then drove the boys home and was basically crying from laughing cause Cameron was being soooo ridiculously hilarious. He was also insisting the whole night that my eyes were brown. Oh! And we saw a car that had driven through the window of Edible Arrangements on Fountain and La Brea! And this had just happened this past January as well! Craziness!

Saturday

Slept in til 10. LA record. Although it makes sense since i didnt go to sleep til 4. Finished Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad - - an amazing book, and then wandered over to Hot Rod cause i was bored and had to get my dad's christmas present. Got the present, had tea time with Cam, chatted with Robert about joining Equinox (i'm going to check it out with him on Wednesday) and then went home to go get ready for the night.

My hair is the longest it's ever been right now. i had plans of straightening it for the evening but i just couldnt because it's too long and its ridiculous. Dead mermaid messy-ness and a hat solved the problem. Met Leigh at M Cafe for dinner and Pinkberry, met Caitlin and Thomas at Starbucks where we all drank coffee and baileys, and then we made our way up to Laurel Canyon to Jeff's party. It was called the "Laurel Canyon Friendship Conference," everyone had nametags (which was SO fun), it was full of really cool people and good looking boys and it was the MOSTCROWDEDPARTYI'VEEVERBEENTO!!!!!!! Seriously you could barely move by the end of it. But i talked to a bunch of really cool people and it was nice to see the Andrews and it was all in all a really good night!

Sunday

Slept in until 11. Who is this new Christine that stays out late and sleeps in? Again I went to Hot Rod for tea time with Cameron. Which turned into shopping time at the Westside Pavillion to get his friend a wicked cool bday present, followed by dinner time at the Culver Native Foods, followed by dropping off the present - - and this girl was literally me. It was CRAZY! She was soooo cool - we wanted each other's hair (she had my old hair that i want back), we had the same computer, purse, camera, and fridge contents (cam looked in her fridge, not me)... it was bizarre! I want to be her friend. After that we headed to the grove for the Christmas tree lighting... but it was crazy insane crowded so we decided to go to Urth on Melrose for lattes instead. He let me put on Christmas carols on the way home and it was a wonderful end to a wonderful day!

Back

I'm back after a lonnnnggggg hiatus. 

What has happened since then... went home, came back, took the quarter off school, got an internship, got a tentative job offer, had a badass birthday, got my heart broken by two boys in one week, discovered the glory that is whole foods caprese pizza, partied in a cemetery, drank wayyyy too many unsweetened soy green tea lattes and basically hung out with Cameron every day.

Where was I? Sunday?

Sunday

Today was an amazing day but i'm too tired to type enough to do it justice. So here's the condensed version. Was at Dave's by 9:00, headed out in the porsche for our Malibu Lava Rock Pool hike/swim. Got there, wasn't much of a hike, more of an easy 15 minute stroll, but it was sooooo cool once we got there! (After going the wrong way and ending up at the wrong body of water). I have an incredible sense of direction. Never doubt it! So we get there and Dave doesn't wanna go in cause it's stagnant water (although it wasn't actually stagnant cause there was a dam on the other side of the rocks and it led to a small stream), dorian doesn't wanna go in because he doesn't wanna hike back to the car soaking wet. Wimps! Leigh and I manned up and jumped in! It was wonderful! The water was perfectly refreshing and just being able to swim in fresh water here is wonderful! We're totally gonna come back when it's not a weekend and kids are in school.

Walked back to the car and headed north to Neptunes for lunch. Had wonderful deep fried fishy goodness and cherry coke. Definitely the first time i'd had cherry coke since the year it came to canada (but it will always remind me of florida trips when it didnt exist in canada).

After lunch we went to our next destination, El Matador Beach. Cool rock formations, cool cliffs ,but way too crowded. Again, need to come back on a weekday!

Next up: Blockbuster to rent The Bounty Hunter, Whole Foods for dinner and back to Venice for movie/cuddlefest round two.

Monday

Hiked. Green drink. Picked up Raph and surfed Venice. The waves were viscious and I got tossed around a lot, however, I rode some good waves. Dropped Raph off at his place, went to the sepulveda gym, tanned for an hour and read in a cabana for half an hour. Went home, did homework, went to Culver City M Cafe for dinner cause I had to draw a reflected ceiling plan/furniture plan for my lighting class, met Leigh and Pinkberry after and heard the most devastating news: Jordan Steele my Pinkberry boyfriend no longer works there! I feel so bad! The last time i was there he told me to add him to facebook but when i tried i couldn't find him, and then i went home for a month so he probably thought i just didnt care about him! Mr. Steele, wherever you are, I hope you've found a job that is much more enjoyable than good old Pinkberry. Then Leigh and I went back to her house to watch The Bachelorette. Got home at 10:30 and did homework, cause that's what happens when Dorian's in town and he doesn't let you do your homework.

Tuesday

Woke up. Did homework (that was due today - this is SO not my style). But got it done and got it done WELL - thanks to Daddykins and his help with controlled natural lighting and fritted glass! Went to my trainer, it was sadly my last sesh for a while cause I can't afford it anymore, I'll miss you Jad. Came home, finished homework. Had lunch. Went to school for my 2:00 career services appt.

Get there at 1:45 and Ray tells me to come on in. Several mins later the secretary comes in saying his 2:00 appt was here, i was like "that's me!" and she checks her list and it turns out that i'd signed up for LAST week. How embarrassing. How unprofessional. BUT he said that the architect called him about me and is interested and that if I get this internship I should take it even if it is in Long Beach. Wish me luck for my interview on Thursday!

Went to class, we had a canadian oreo party - everyone agreed they were better except Caitlin. But she loves Oreos so i can understand not liking something thats so similar but so different.

Presentation Techniques rocks. I love it. I love Harper. I love markers. I love rendering! It's just three hours of pure toxic smelly fun! It makes me love school so much... and then i go to Lighting Design and want to light my hair on fire. Our midterm is as much work as our CDC FINAL. She doesn't explain ANYTHING. She doesn't seem to like us very much. BUT she's from Montreal so at least we've got that Canada connection and maybe hopefully she'll like me. I also did a kickass presentation today - Daddykins: she didn't even know about fritted glass! And she loved the airport.

Got home at 9:30. I hate this schedule. I have to get up at 6:30 for class again in the morning and then i somehow have to get all my shit put together and printed for my interview ... I might be up REALLY late tomorrow night. I"m scared.

Goodnight!

x

Adventureland

This has been the longest, most fun week ever! Let me start with yesterday, one of my favorite days in a while!

Friday

Slept in til 8 (soooo luxurious), did my sketching homework and went to GST at 10. It was sooo hard today! After GST I went home and continued to do homework until I got a text from Leigh asking if i wanted to bike to Manhattan Beach today instead of saturday or sunday. YEAH I DID!

So I cancelled on Tony Turbo and headed on over to Venice. By the time the boys got home from wherever they were and we rounded up the bikes, it was 4 (but felt like 2 in my mind), and we headed out on the OPEN ROAD! Oh how i love the open road. This time we took it further than pinkberry, and it turns into a DREAM! You go over this cool bridge in marina del ray and past these wonderfully deserted beaches that i'm totally gonna hit up because i loooooooved deserted beaches, and past some REALLY crowded beaches with idiots clogging up the bike path. My question of the day today was not what happens if you run over someone's dog, but what happens if you run over someone's baby? We did happen to cruise by two perfectly placed dead rabbits. Anyways, Dorian and I were in the lead (him on the black beach cruiser, me on leigh's real bike - which i was totally annoyed about when he said he wanted the beach cruiser, but i ended up liking the real bike so much more! Made me feel like a kid again! Oh, and Dorian looked way hotter on the beach cruiser than I do. We made it to Porto's for "lunch" at 5, only took us an hour - and that was with several breaks - Dave needed water, I needed to re-tie my unravelling hoodie around the bars of my bike, Dorian ran over a small dog, chicken and waffles a deep sand trap. So back to Portos, which is apparently called Sando's now? Or has been called that forever and the boys just called it Porto's? Who knows. Leigh and I got our favorite salads (the Primo), Dave and Dorian got delicious sandwiches and free iced tea, i mean "sweet tea" (do we live in Louisiana?) cause the people that work there thought it was disgusting.

Next stop, walk to pinkberry. After walking like 4 blocks and coming to residential streets leigh said that pinkberry was at the pier. "The Pier?! That was as far as the eye could see!" -me. So we hopped on the bikes and headed over to Pinkberry. The pinkberry that i was pretty sure existed as well. "Ashley got pinkberry here!" -Leigh, "It was right across from jamba juice!" -me. But, apparently it was a figment of our imagination, because it didnt exist in real life, or on the internet. So we decided to head back out on the open road and hit up our beloved Marina del Ray pink. The way back seemed much shorter, but I guess it's always that way. We made it in time for pinkberry happy hour! BUT you had to get watermelon in order to get it half price. So i mixed watermelon and plain and it was actually REALLLLLLY GOOD! We ate our pink, went to Ralph's to get dave more water, he tried to convince me to buy a 40 oz bag of peanut M&M's, I declined cause I knew i'd eat them all, Dorian and I almost died of laughter while waiting in line, listening to this girl talk about "all the nerds at camp" - but then we turn around and she's gotta be FORTY and is with a guy wearing black running shoes, white socks, hiked up black sweatpants, and glasses! Ultimate nerd! Anywayssss, got back on the bikes, back on the open road, and arrived home at 8:00, just in time for a rooftop sunset.

After sunset we went inside and watched PIRATES! (of the Caribbean) cause I brought it over cause Dorian had been talking about it the day before. So we had a cuddle-fest movie night, complete with peanut m&m's (small bags). I LOVE PIRATES. Obviously. I've always loved them. But i really miss having pirate-ness in my life (pirate flags, cottage boys, skull scarves). I decided to pirate up my surfboard by spray painting it black, but colin said this was a bad idea cause it would explode from heat. (Or if it didn't explode, the wax would just always melt itself off). Scrap that idea. Oh, and Dave told me it wasn't normal that I enjoy long drives alone at night. He thinks i'm a sociopath. I was telling Leigh that she needs to embrace the drive home from dave's instead of hating on it. But really, who doesn't like a peaceful nighttime drive? Singing along to good nighttime music (minor chord songs are preferable), not having to deal with traffic, having windows open and smelling night air. It's the best. Needless to say, I enjoyed my drive home. Soundtrack included The Background by Third Eye Blind, some Band of Horses tunes, Sorrow & The Geese of Beverly Road by The National and Patience by Guns n' Roses.

Saturday

So by today it feels like monday, but it's only satruday. Sweet.

Was at Dave's by 9:30 to teach Dorian how to surf (with the help of Emmy-award-winning-ex-pro-surfer Colin Pierce). We walked to the beach, surfed on the south side of the jetty, which was SWEET! I liked it way better cause it was empty. And i was soooo good today! Like best surf day ever! the waves were perfect, my elbow was perfect, and it was relatively shallow so i wasn't killing myself with paddling! Wait a second. That's a lie. Best surf day ever was me & Colin's cozy rainy day surf sesh. That was epic. But skill-wise, today was the best. But sea water sinus action was at an all time high. Dorian was introduced to snot rockets today. I'm so glad he experiences the same phenomenon as me cause I thought I was the only one! Leigh thinks we're disgusting. Anyways, we surfed it up, met Leigh back at Daves at 12:30, realized that Dave was M.I.A. so we went BACK to the beach to find him (with Dorian carrying the longboard again). Found him. Tanned for 2 hours. Everyone got terribly burnt, i got a slight burn on my nose. The sun is stronger here. Cause totally at home by this time i would just be rocking oil but i know if i hadn't been wearing my 4 today i would've been burnt. Or maybe its just that i havent been tanning much, cause the first and second palazzo years i definitely wore oil here.

Anyways, once leigh got bored we went home and went to whole foods to get food for "lunch." The boys eating schedule is crazy. Breakfast at 9, lunch at 5, dinner at 11. At whole foods we stocked up on free samples, and saw a very fresh baby. Like straight up born in aisle 4 ten minutes ago. It didn't have bike tire marks on it's face... yet. So we went home and had a nice little barbecue on the roof, and contemplated the night's events. In summary:

L: "Dorian do you wanna come to Inception if Christine isn't coming."

DC: "What! Why?"

C: "I hate seeing movies in the theatre, I get too restless or I fall asleep."

DC: "A threesome date!? I'm not doing that. Find me a new girlfriend for the night."

C: "How about ______. She kinda looks like me."

DE: "Nope, _______ won't like that."

C: "Whoa whoa whoa, this isn't like long-term, it's just a one night stand! I'm not cheating on you with Turbo so don't go cheating on me!"

So I started out to my car, but then TT cancelled on me (or more like I declined an invitation to his pool) so I went back inside, but then Leigh and I decided to just go home and get good sleeps for our adventure tomorrow.

I'm watching Gidget. Brings back such fond memories of Summer '97 when I would watch it every day... until it mysteriously disappeared. How is it legal that Kahuna lives in a shack on the beach? Maybe he knows what happens if you run over a baby with your bike...

Party Time?

Dorian is back! And you know what that means - PARTY TIME! Or so he would hope. "Did you forget who you were coming to visit? Leigh and I don't party."

Today was a wonderful day, and the BEST part about it was that all day I was thinking it was Saturday... BUT IT'S THURSDAY!

Woke up and went on a steamy hot hike. I was at the canyon by 7:30 and it was already no shirt weather. It was a hot and sweaty hike and the running part nearly killed me, but I did it. (With the help of Miley & Drake). And then got a delicious super maca smoothie for breakfast from Real Raw Live. Went home, my apartment was already a sauna, set up a carefully constructed fan/breeze circuit which managed to cool it down, but still hid out in the kitchen (the coolest room) to do my homework. (Which makes sense. My drafting table is in the kitchen). Arranging my 47 rendering markers into rainbow order took QUITE some time (what comes first: eggshell or cream? light cerulean blue or sky blue?), and I didn't even get a chance to start on my color chart because it was time for pilates!

So i went to pilates. Gotta love Jen's class. Leigh didn't show though which was a huge disappointment. Went home, emailed some work samples for a possible internship and then headed on over to the beach house. Got there before the boys so Leigh and I had a nice catchup reunion! I missed her so much! We marvelled about how wonderful Dawn is, how light my hair is, and about various other news that we hadn't really discussed.

The boys got home, bearing popsicles. The only popsicles i like are banana or chocolate. These ones were cherry pineapple. I ate one anyways so i wouldnt hurt their feelings. We then ventured out on "The Open Road" our favorite bike path! They hadn't eaten lunch yet (it was 4:00) so we went and got them lunch at that mendocino restaurant or whatever its called, which was followed by beloved pinkberry! We then explored a sailing store, tried to convince dave to have his birthday on a boat (he said no because of seasickness) and reminisced about cottage times.

We then went biking all around Marina Del Ray, went to some bar by the pier and got drinks (water for me, margaritas for them), walked along the pier, biked some more to check out a bunch of really cool houses - the coolest being a black shingle style one at the very end (or beginning) of the boardwalk. We then made plans to bike to Manhattan. By this point it was like 7:00. I was shocked! The day had gone by so quickly - for some reason i was thinking it was 3, but Leigh reminded me i didnt get to daves til after 3. So we biked home, and sat on the roof and watched the sunset while discussing roadkill, smashed dirt bikes, snowmobiles and cars. Oh... and the fact that a certain person can now track my whereabouts if i start using a certain iphone. I don't like that one bit!

We then went for dinner. Sushi on Abbot Kinney. It was funny at dinner cause Dorian started telling this story really enthusiastically and i started imitating him, and Leigh's like "you make fun of him but you do the exact same thing!" And it's soooooo true. He really is the boy version of me. We were all falling asleep at dinner (barely talking... it was funny), so we got outta there as soon as possible and then I headed back home. To the sauna that is Beverly Hills. I need to move to the beach... when i'm done school.

I'm so excited for the next two weeks! Disneyland, golfing, beaching, surfing, bike riding, Dave's birthday, aerosol pancake batter eating parties....(?) and whatever other adventures we happen to go on!