November 24

Today felt pretty unproductive, even though I did several productive things. 8:30 History of Architecture class, we found out that one girl in our group is kicked outta the class cause she's missed 3 classes, sucks for us, now we all have to do her stupid work. I fucking hate group projects.

Training at noon. I love my trainer cause he always says how much he loves working with me cause i'm so fit and have such good form and i'm so flexible. It was a good workout, but I still miss RR.

Rogers house. Walked Henry. Got paid. I'm no longer poor. Roger had no more tasks for me so I figured I better spend my free time going to get my car checked out. The engine light was on. After dealing with the most lovely old man at the car service place, I found out that my gas cap wasnt screwed on tight enough. But that can't be! I'm always sooooo diligent when screwing on my gas cap! Soooo many clicks...

Anyways, I came home and was hoping Jordan would be here so I would have someone to eat a good dinner with (Leigh has acting class, Dave has Freshology). So I drive up to the house and there in my parking spot is a Mercedes with a Hundreds sticker! Jordan! But then I wasn't so lucky cause he told me that he and peeps were going to Hurry Curry. Not so interested. So now i sit here starving, trying to decide what to have for dinner, trying to figure out what to get my family for christmas, trying to figure out how i'm gonna pay for it...

November 23

Relaxing morning, headed to Westwood to 1. take a picture of a buttress of some church for my architecture scavenger hunt project and 2. visit Cameron at Hot Rod. So that's what I did. Cameron is wonderful! Such a genuinely nice person! First we got Starbucks. Then we realized it was lunch time so he took me to a cute restaurant in Culver City called M Cafe and I fell in love. It was vegan food and it was sooooo delicious and i'm sooooo eating there all the time now! We went back to the shop, I picked out a couple wicked shirts and tried really hard to decide between two pairs of nike kicks. But in the end I couldnt decide on a colour palette I liked... christmas or swamp monster? I'm kinda leaning towards swamp monster... But I also can't even afford to buy shoes anyways, should be saving my pennies for black friday! I was held there against my will for a while, we stickered my car, and then I had to head out to take more annoying pictures of architectural features.

After picture taking I came home and was zombie tired. I had every intention of going to the gym but realized that it closed at some crazy early hour on Sundays (it was 7 or 8 or something). So instead I watched Melrose Place (which sucked, I can't get into it). Did homework, ate an ice cream sundae and wanted to kill myself, and made a vow that tomorrow would usher in a new era of being strong.

November 22

Hollywood sign hike, watched Vertigo with Dave, (I loooove relaxing Monday mornings), ate a leftover freshology meal for lunch (and felt very proud of myself that I had two real meals so far... no more of this liquids or apples trend that i've gotten so accustomed to... it's a new era)! Had a nice facebook chat with momsie, got sooooooo excited for Leigh and Robyn's arrival (they're bringing me Christmas cheer - in the form of advent calendars from my mom)!!! So I started listening to Christmas songs! I also can't get enough of Rich Hill, some guy who Roger produced. Track 8 has replaced Bad Romance on my repeat schedule. Went to class, was told my work was perfect, was told by a girl in the class that i reminded her of Megan Fox (YES!), got to leave an hour early because i'm perfect, went to the gym, spinned, got asked out by another guy who wasn't worth my time (this is getting annoying) - i'm trying to figure out what the nicest way of declining is? So far i've just been saying "no thank you" and then smiling and running away. It seems to work. Leigh tells me that eventually hot boys will start asking me out... but I think i'd still be turned off... they don't know me. It's too random. It's weird. Maybe its just cause they think i'm Megan Fox?

We were hugely let down to find out that GG was a re-run. Talk about disappointment. I made my third real meal of the day... a grilled cheese. And I didnt even feel guilty because I didn't have any sugar today! A new era is upon us!

November 21

I love barely having any homework. It lets me do the following things:

-Sleep in until 9:15

-Hike to the peak

-Get my nails done

-Attempt to go to Hot Rod but change my mind after finding out Cameron wasn't there

-Go for lunch at Le Petit Four with the Eaton/Bush's

-Tar & feather several unsuspecting victims

-Go to Planet Blue with Leigh & Dave

-Pick up Roger's 4:00 meal from La Scala

-Drink 2 litres of vampire pirate blood

-Walk Henry while wearing a hat because baby it's cold outside

-Finish my drafting hwk in 10 mins

-Draw sharpie tattoos all over my body

-Do some witchcraft

-Decline going to Sunset Marquis with Cameron because I barely know the guy and we all know how anti-social I am

-Have a computer party and get late night Kogi BBQ/Yogurtland with Jordan

-Listen to the Rich Hill cd and be pretty shocked at Roger's talent.

Daddykins, I'm still waiting on that pancake recipe...

Night y'all

November 20

Today was fun because it was relaxing, but I feel guilty for not being more productive. (I should've done some homework). Slept through my 8:30 spinning class cause I needed sleep, went to 10 am pilates and went spinning after. As i'm riding the bike in the empty studio (with the lights off and my ipod on - clearly I want to be alone), some dude comes in and starts asking me if i'm doing a class (????) I was just like "umm no," and then starts asking me how long i spin for and if i was going to do weights after, I told him 45 mins and no. I was really irritated cause obviously I don't like to talk while doing an intense cardio workout. He totally threw off my flow. Before leaving, he asked if we could go for lunch. I said "sorry, i've got a busy day." Idiot. Doesn't he realize that if a girl is being short with him she's not interested in going for lunch? Moral of the story, don't talk to me if you're not worth my time, or if i'm on a spinning bike. hahahaha.

Then I received a call from Roger to take Henry for a walk, so I took him out for half an hour - he was going CRAZY chasing birds and people and it was hilarious! I really wish Berkley could meet Henry, they'd be soooo badass together. Went back to Roger's, he told me to stay awhile cause Dave was coming over, I watched him in the studio making some beats (which was pretty cool), read my book, ate a delicious green drink from News Room on Robertson (apple, ginger, banana, wheatgrass, spirulina) - normally I don't enjoy drinking these things and i force them down, but this was quite enjoyable thanks to the banananananana! Went back to Rogers, was sent on more errands to go to the bank, fill my car up with gas, and pick up food from Jerry's Deli.

Came home, had chicken and salad for dinner with Leigh, was talked into going to this girl's birthday party (I was dead set against going out but then Leigh was like "but i've already planned your outfit! You're wearing shiny leggings, gold bathing suit and your off the shoulder black top!" - it was a black/gold/silver themed party)... obviously I couldnt resist such an amazing theme, so i got ready to go out. Tony came over, we sat around waiting for Jess & Julia, went to Tony's to pre-drink (I was driving obvi), had a Lady Gaga Bad Romance singalong in the car (she might be my new girl crush) then went to the party. The house was SO cool. It was in the valley which sucks, but there was an awesome pool, fire pit in the backyard, and these two wicked rooms with sloping barn-style ceilings. And boys lived there. it was impressive. Party was fun, Leigh and I introduced ourselves to the birthday girl and she was like "you guys are pretty, let's be facebook friends and go out," it was cute. And yes, Leigh looked SOOOOO pretty. Like, smokin' hot. Probably the hottest i've ever seen her. We were both wearing gold headbands and she totally rocked it better than I did. I kept getting elf ear and mushroom hair action... Tony and I had a quality dance party (although it was lacking Bad Romance - the dj didnt have it, we were horrified), and we were all disappointed that there was no birthday cake, so we left. And went to get pizza. And then came home and had ice cream sundaes. So much for no sugar... I'm proud of my yesterday self, and i'll do it again tomorrow. For now it's bedtime.

November 19

First low key day in a while. Hiked to the Hollywood Sign, did sketching homework, sat in with Leigh and the stylist (who makes me want to wear only black, white, grey & denim even more than i already do), walked to Real Raw Live to get super slimming smoothies for lunch with Leigh, saw Caleigh's lady love, Amanda Seyfried there (and got to scope her out for a reallllly long time since the place was sooo busy), came home, got my act together and finally went to deal with banking, paid my phone bill and then got a call from Roger asking me to pick up his lunch. So I did. And then I walked Henry. Came home, went back to his house several hours later, made us pasta for dinner, walked Henry again. Came home, watched 90210, got a call at 10 asking for a box of latex gloves cause Mel was coming over to do his scary/beautiful girl tattoo, so I went and bought latex gloves, picked up an order from Jerry's Famous Deli for him and dropped it off. And then I walked Henry for the THIRD time. Went back in, the tattooing was starting, so I stayed and watched while Mel did the outlining and it's gonna look soooooooo cool when it's done! Arrived home at the same time as Dave, he showed me a rough cut of Roger's websie video (it's hilarious and amazing), and now it's time for bed.

November 18

Today I was a zombie. I think it's been about 4 days of only getting 5 hours sleep and its definitely catching up with me. Design Process class was a field trip to the Getty Center which was sweet. Driving through Bel Air & bbm-ing with Caleigh in the morning makes me happy. Since L&R and I had already been to the Getty, it wasn't so exciting, but it was much better than sitting in a classroom. I also got sooo many pictures for my history of architecture scavenger hunt project, which was sweet. After the Getty I had to go to Sprinkles to get a birthday cupcake for Brandon and Taylor, Deanne & Akela came with. Taylor tried her first sprinkles and loved it! (Totally a girl after my own heart - she got three and ate them all today). I feel your pain Taylor! So I then headed downtown to Brandon's office where we ate cupcakes, fruit from a fruit thing sent by Mark Zuckerberg (of facebook fame), and I did my sketching homework while he did work for Roger. And then Roger called Brandon and was yelling like a madman (speakerphone), I told him he needed to chill out or he'd get cancer, and he fired me. I'm not sure that he was serious, but if so, that's fine, it wasn't worth my time anyways, and I wish him luck trying to find someone else that will put up with him! Also in one of their three conversations one of them was like "God damn it!" and I couldn't help but laugh and think of Leeroy Jenkins... "God damn it Leeroy!" After birthday time with Brandon I headed back to school for sketching class, where we had another field trip - into the hall - to sketch real life things instead of copying them from handouts. The class was a gossip fest as usual and I just love it!

Headed to the gym after class, came home to a delicious dinner made by Terrie, watched top model and ate ice cream sundaes. Leigh and I decided that we need to start of slow with this whole diet thing because obviously our contract isnt working. I've gained 10 pounds since i've been here. It's not pretty. So we shook on two days of liquids, starting tomorrow. Let's do this!

Oh, and my repeating track of choice is no longer Whatever You Like... I think it will forever remind me of making chocolate chip cookies at twilight (not a bad memory). It's replacement: Bad Romance by Miss Gaga. It's funny, cause the song is kinda old now, but I just became obsessed with it today.

November 17

So I'm sitting in History of Architecture and receive the following text from Roger:

I have a few things that I need done today - you can do this for me til i find someone permanent if you'd like. I just don't want to employ people i'm friends with etc. Lemme know.

Looks like someone had a change of heart. So I went over to his place after class for a day full of errands. So much for getting all my homework done. I grocery shopped, pet store shopped, mailed a package to his mom, dropped off 3 bags of old clothes at a clothes place, (and had to go BACK to the grocery store to get garbage bags to put the clothes in), walked Henry (the best part of the day by far), went to La Scala to pick up "dinner" (4:00) for him and the guy who wrote Disturbia (was recording in his studio) and then finally made it to the gym for 5:30. Post spinning I came home, showered, had dinner and settled in at 8:00 to write my essay and do my sketching homework. 9:00 hits: "I'm gonna need some dinner and Henry needs a walk." I was pissed/laughing at how ridiculous this all was. So I managed to convince him to come over here, cause he had to check out his bio video that Dave and Jordan are doing for his website, and he agreed to come here, so I start back at my essay, but then he calls back saying that Tristan was coming over to his house and i needed to bring food for both of them. So I dragged my ass down to Birds, got their chicken, drove to Beverly Hills, stopped for diet cokes on the way (which he changed to sprites after i'd already gotten the cokes) and delivered the food and took henry for a walk. I also stayed at his place to finish my essay because i didnt wanna be distracted by boys eating sundaes at home. So I got the essay done, tried to print it, but he was being an asshole and wouldnt help me find the usb to plug in my computer or look to see if he had paper and then he asked me to go get him rocky road ice cream and pretzels. I was not impressed. So I got the fucking ice cream and pretzels and then came home at midnight, with a finished essay but unfinished sketching homework. The plan: do it tomorrow at Brandon's office on my 3 hour break. Who am I? I never leave work til the last minute!

Oh - funniest part of the day - Dave, Jordan & Colin got home and asked me how the food run went, I said something about how it was great cause the magic was wearing off and my crush on him was fading fast, and then Dave's like "but the magic of your retainer is definitely not wearing off!" It was funny. Wanna join my retainer club?

November 16

Lazy hike. I'm soooooooo bored of the hike. I couldnt bring myself to do hollywood sign so I just did the peak. And now that i'm scared to run (Miriam emailed me saying she sees me hurting myself running and having to go to the doctor) it's not even that great of a workout. So yeah, did that. Tried doing Colin's mom's meditation/chakra visualization stuff at the top while stretching. Came home, Terrie & Leigh's stylist arrived and she was soooooo cool. Angelina lookalike, wearing all shades of black and grey, cool wrist tattoo, just a really cool chick. I watched her show them dresses, got my drafting stuff organized and headed to school. Class was amazing, no one had done the homework right (except me) so he gave us the whole class to do it. In this time I managed to finish almost ALL of next week's homework! I just need to do the door/lighting schedules! So amazing. Too bad L&R aren't coming this weekend!

Went to the gym, came home, hung out with Dave, Jordan & Todd while they worked on Roger's video for his website, watched GG and ate an ice cream sundae, went back to the kitchen and hammed it up with the boys while I made study notes for my history of architecture quiz. Roger came over, ate our food, told me that in order for him to hire me as his assistant i'd have to be a completely different person, and left. I stayed up way too late (being distracted by Dave & Jordan and funny internet videos will do that to you), a dangerous trend that I seem to be starting here...

November 15

November 15

Ice Cream Sundaes with a Side of Grilled Cheese day! I officially am sick of having parties. They have to stop. Leigh and I literally spent soooooo many hours and dollars preparing for and making stupid grilled cheese sandwiches and ice cream sundaes. Don't get me wrong, both were amazing, but i'm over doing all this work. Let's sit back and wait for someone else to have a party. ... we say this now, but i know we'll end up doing something for american thanksgiving... and then i know we'll end up having our christmas party sleepover pancake breakfast party... oh man...

So today. I woke up at 7:30. A quality 4 hours of sleep. Showered, drank liquid breakfast and then went on the hugest cheese/bread mission with Leigh. Of course we needed amazing cranberry walnut bread, and of course The Oaks didnt have any (or the fancy cheeses we needed) so we ended up going to Gelsons, Trader Joes, the hated Santa Monica Whole Foods (which obvi had nothing) and the W 3rd Whole Foods. But coincidentally there happened to be a marathon going on around the grove so EVERYTHING was blocked off and we were literally battling traffic trying to get to whole foods at 11:20. The party started at 12. Leigh hadn't showered, my hair was wet and i had no makeup on. But we finally made it to whole foods, got good bread, got good cheese, but couldnt get loose leaf jasmine tea. WTF? Leigh and Robyn, i'm gonna get my mom to send some good tea with you when you visit. Ok so Leigh and I get home, get ready at light speed, and luckily all the girl guests were very late. Like... hours and hours late. The boys entertained themselves in the backyard while leigh and i prepared:

-Straight up cheddar grilled cheese on sour dough.

-Cheddar & Bacon on sour dough

-Muenster/cheddar sometimes with bacon, avocado & tomato on whole wheat and sour dough

-Our crowning glory: Brie, Fontina, Cherry Confit, Dried Cherries on cranberry walnut bread. This took three hours. It was hell. I hated it. Oh by the way Leigh and I were in terrible spirits all morning, beginning with our lack of sleep, morale dropped lower on our cheese/bread mission, and hit rock bottom while preparing the cheeses. Thankfully "Whatever You Like" on repeat got us through.

Sandwiches were a hit, sundaes were a hit, Leigh and I ate too much as usual and indulged in some barfing action, the boys took some sweet snaps, watched some horrible documentary about arcade Donkey Kong competitive players, and I ended off the night nicely with a little Desperate Housewives.

November 14

Obviously I woke up at 7:30 even though I went to bed at three. Ate breakfast with Leigh and gossiped about late night events, went for our hike, discussed grilled cheese plans while we walked, and then embarked on our daily errand run. Errand driving was made better with the girl version of "Whatever You Like" serenading us on repeat. First stop, planet blue. Leigh got jeans. Second stop, sunglass hut. Leigh got sunglasses, I got my gucci shades adjusted so they don't sit crooked. Next stop, Williams Sonoma: chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, pumpkin pie samples. Next stop: Frederic Fekkai for Leigh's haircut. Kelly apologized profusely for my birthday hair disaster (she had the day off and recommended a guy who ruined my hair). Then onto Hundreds to get a sticker for my car. Then it was back home so Leigh could meet with her stylist (she's such a movie star) to find dresses for daves brother's wedding and new years. Dave and I went to Costco which was a nightmare, and they had nothing we needed. It was bizarre. So we went to Ralphs and got all the sundae stuff and coincidentally the lady behind us in line was having a sundae party too. It was weird. We had better stuff than her. Then we went home, and I started in on cookie dough making (sundaes need both cookie dough and cookies), make a lot of dozens of cookies, got ready for dinner, went to Katsuya, came home, Leigh and I had a late night waxing party, got ready for bed and then got calls from Roger and bbms from Brandon saying to come back to tattoo mania cause they were getting more tattoos, so Dave and I ventured out at midnight, me again with zero makeup, looking like roadkill. We get there, Roger's getting Uncle Pennybags tattooed on the back of his leg, and everyone thought his name was Mr. Moneybags. I proved them wrong cause i'm the smartest girl in the world. Roger looked like a little kid. Brandon looked like death. I literally thought he was gonna die. He was getting his arm all filled in and was basically going crazy. So we hung out there for a couple hours, and then ended up going back to Rogers, watching some horrible movie with Kurt Russell and ninjas, and Roger and I made plans for him to hire me as his assistant. My first job is to go get him a free city hoodie. We got home at 3:30 and I was not looking forward to waking up...

November 13

Today was a wonderful/horrible day. It started off with an EARLY morning spin class, followed by GST with Myara. But today was more fun than usual cause Leigh was there! And Anna (the GST creator) told me that my bum was looking good. This was an amazing compliment cause Anna has the hottest bod ever. We went home, had lunch and i started in on a lonnnnggggg afternoon/evening of drafting. I was supposed to go to William's birthday but at 9:00 when i was supposed to start getting ready, I was on such a roll with my floorplan that i just wanted to push through and finish the elevation, so I did. Basically 8 hours of my day were spent on drafting. Actually less, cause there were plenty of distractions (Leigh, Colin, Laundry, Pasta sauce, Jordan, stand up comedians, the usual things), so i finish my drafting at 11, the boys come back from shooting their comedy show, I FINALLY finish Her Fearful Symmetry (the ending was HORRIBLE, i was so disappointed), and then got ready for bed. I then get a bbm from brandon telling me that he's getting tattoos and that i should come hang out. So I go to Tattoo Mania on Sunset and hang out with Brandon and Roger while Brandon gets three tattoos. Roger was flirting big time. The whole thing was so fun (minus me putting my foot in my mouth about 500 times about other tattoo artists).

November 12

Today was an amazing day. Up at 7:30, outta the house by 8:30, picked up Colin at 9:30 and hopped on the 405 to San Diego. We had appointments with Colin's mom that afternoon for chakra cleansing but we decided to go for the day and do a little surfing as well! So first we hit up Colin's house for a little snacktime (luna bars & chocolate almonds - which dont count as sugar cause they're dark chocolate and not tasty), picked up a board and wetsuit for leigh from his garage and headed to the beach (that was like 3 blocks away). I want to live by the ocean sooooo badly. At least while i'm young and carefree... So we went to the beach, and I proved that my wicked surf day with Surfer Drew at HB was NOT a fluke. I can actually do it now. Leigh and Robyn, just wait, we're gonna be awesome. So we surfed for a while, took some pics that all ended up being terrible... my death zombie face just wasn't working for me (tired + salt water clogged sinuses + suntan lotion irritated puffy eyes = not a good look), dropped Leighs board back at Colin's and went to his mom's spa.

Colin's mom is the coolest. She's beautiful, (Court - she looks like your mom), she's so nice, and she's magical! The cleansing started off with a wonderful massage (my neck and shoulders are crazy tight these days so it was awesome), then the stones and crystal stuff. She knew that I was an artist (says that i'll do really well and make a name for myself!), she knew I worked with my dad, she knew that i was disappointed about a certain love interest, she said California is where I belong, and told me some VERY interesting information about my chakras that totally aligns with what Miriam was seeing, and told me that i need to start meditating to release energy from a past life that is blocking me, and told me how to do it. It was sooooo relaxing (and the massage table was heated!) and just so wonderful! During Leigh's turn I went in some infrared sauna which was pretty wonderful too. We both loved it. We're gonna go back on a somewhat-regular basis.

By this time we were pretty starving so Colin took us to the "best mexican restaurant in the world." And it was REALLY good. Leigh and I split a chicken quesadilla and chicken tacos. The drive home was quite relaxing, filled with death cab and other mellow music.

November 11

Happy Remembrance Day. Lucky for me school was cancelled for Veterans Day. I hiked with Leigh, went to the gym to spin, came home with the intention of doing homework, but just ended up reading (because it was overcast and fall-ish and wonderful) and planning the grilled cheese/sundae party with Leigh. Then it was time for pilates (I decided to go to Myara's reformer class with Leigh) and it was an amazing class! Soooo hard. My body hurts today. We got home, ate dinner, watched Top Model, drank tea, and went to bed.

November 10

6:30 wakeup. History of Architecture class. Got out an hour early. Hit up Home Depot for some screws to attach the picture hanging wire to the paintings. Was accosted by several mexicans asking if i needed any construction work done. Yeah right, isn't it obvious that i'm constructionally competent? On the way back to my car I was also asked out on a lunch date by some guy looking for a parking spot. I said no thank you, he said i had beautiful teeth and told me to have a nice day. The teeth comment was kinda strange considering last tuesday someone at the gym told me i had nice teeth. Came home to a movie set (Colin's Doritos commercial), and a werewolf sitting at the kitchen table. Unfortunately he shed his hair all over the house. Leigh and I had lunch in the backyard, I read in the backyard, and then drove over to Roger's to deliver Brandon his paintings. The paintings were well received (by Brandon, obviously Roger had some sort of critical comment about them being too small), I hung out for the tail end of meeting with the guy from the Hot Rod clothes store who's working with Roger to make shirts and hats. His name was Cameron and he was wonderful. He complimented me on my signature. I then took Henry for a walk (sorry Berkley for my unfaithfulness), and then left the boys for the gym. Post gym, came home, had a 90210/Melrose Place night with a freshly mohawked Dave (looks SO amazing, Leigh hates it) and Jordan, walked in on them roasting marshmellows and making smores over the stove. I was so jealous. But i'm back on track with eating and haven't had sugar in two days so i'm pretty proud of myself. Ummmm after tv time the boys wanted food so we went on an adventure to find a food truck. Unfortunately the Kogi trucks were too far away so we stopped at some random one across from Pink's hotdogs. Jordan let me drive his car really fast. Oh! I forgot the best news of the day! I was talking to Colin about his mom and she does energy cleansing!!!!!!!! So Leigh and I are going down to San Diego on thursday to get cleansed. Good thing I brought my crystals!

November 9

Hiked to the peak with Leigh, came home and worked on the Megan painting until I had to leave for class. Class was breezy if not a bit embarassing. The teacher is praising my drafting a little too much and let me leave an hour early cause I know what i'm doing. So I got an early start to the gym, had a good spin sesh, went home, painted more, watched GG with Leigh - amazing episode - highlight: the girl version cover of T.I.'s Whatever You Like. It's been on repeat all day long. Literally. Stayed up way too late cause I wanted to finish Megan, even though i had to get up at 6:30, but it was alright cause it was "friday" the next day cause of veterans day!

November 8

Drafting Sundays blow. I woke up at 8:30 and sat at my drafting table drawing a bathroom plan and 4 elevations basically from 9 - 5. Dad you never returned my call about free-handing a toilet... I took brief breaks to 1. Visit with Kim - she and her friends came over for a bit. 2. Eat lunch. 3. Do back bridges to stretch my back. I finished just as Leigh got home from dance class and we ate our dinner and finished princess diaries. Then I worked on more tattoo font ideas, and went up to my studio to start painting Megan. Leigh and I had a cupcake party (and re-discovered the ice cream in the freezer from thanksgiving... bad news) and watched Desperate Housewives. We also planned a grilled cheese/ice cream sundae party for next Sunday! It's gonna be amazing. I'll make my famous BBQ grilled cheese. Ummmm started painting the black on Megan... so far she looks soooooo good (and it'll only get better). Probably will be my fave painting yet.

This week is gonna be wonderful because I only have 2 classes! No school on Remembrance (Veterans) Day!

November 7

Today started off fabulously. I got up to go on my hike, and heard the familiar voices of Brad & Pax out on the street, so I decided to go out the front door instead of the back like always. And there they are, right in front of our doorstep, so I waved and said "good morning" to Brad, he waved back and said "morning." And he's beautiful in real life.

Hiked. Started watching The Princess Diaries with Leigh but then realized that I had to go to the art store to get new white paint, picture hanging wire and a super skinny brush cause I didn't bring all my brushes. So I did that then came back and worked on drawing Brandon's Megan Fox painting while Leigh, Dave and I watched Vampire Diaries. We had a wonderfully lazy day, then went to visit Mel Cox at the tattoo shop in Venice. She was sooooo beautiful. I have such a girl crush on her. Unfortunately all the fonts I wanted wouldn't work (unless I basically want half my forearm instead of just my wrist tattooed - which i'm totally cool with now, but definitely won't be as a mom) and they were trying to tell me just to get a standard cursive font, but yeah right! Some generic computer written font? No thank you. So I went back to the drawing board (literally - sitting at my drafting table devising a new font)... but first we went to Santa Monica for dinner. Jordan & Ben had come to meet us at the tattoo place so we all went to some restaurant on a corner by the ocean and sat at a table with a fire pit in the middle (would've been really handy for Dave & Jordan having one of those at the saddle ranch so they didnt have to leave the table to roast their marshmellows)... Anyways, our waitress was horrible, our food was delicious, and then we went for amazing frozen yogurt after. It was one of the self serve places and of course mine ended up being huge, but it was so good so I didnt care. Jordan played Wii bowling with the asian owner's little kid and it was pretty much the cutest thing in the world.

The boys then tried to convince leigh and I to go out with them, but we wouldnt have any of it, so we went home. Leigh went to bed, I drafted up a font, drew a tattoo on my wrist the size that Mel wanted to do it (so huge), Jordan drew the same one on my ribs because all the boys said I should get it on my ribs, but I still hold firm to the belief that my ribcage is far too wide and therefore not hot, and it interferes with the ones on my back. I then continued working on Megan while the boys busted out wayyyyy too much food - first came pad thai, next was pizza, next thing I know Dave is defrosting cupcakes! Obvi I had to have a cupcake. It was a really really fun night and I really really love hanging out with boys all the time! It feels like the summer with the cottage boys - makes it seem like summer hasn't ended yet - the weather helps as well. Although it's been really cold at night which is nice.

November 5

November 5

I LOVED today. I actually slept til 9:40. A California personal record! I seriously can't remember the last time I slept in past 9. So Leigh and I were too late for hiking (gets too sunny, bad tan lines), so I went to spinning at the gym and then to an art store to get canvases and an easel! My easel is pretty. AND it was 30% off. I came home, worked on drawing the painting while Dave & Jordan edited footage. Once done painting I was lying on the couch reading (STILL trying to finish HEr Fearful Symmetry - i just have no time to read!), listening to +44 (Jordan has good taste in music), drinking ginger green tea, and loving daylight savings time. It was sooooo cozy. We met Lauren and 3 people she works with at The Saddle Ranch for dinner and was it ever a cheat meal (but we're allowed 2 a week so it's okay)! I had a steak sandwich that came with sweet potato casserole that was amazing, we split a brownie and warm cookie/ice cream and smores desserts and the waitress brought us this huge thing of cotton candy. It was disgusting but sooo delicious. Oh - so we're sitting there eating, and then all of a sudden this huge bodyguard walks in and Leigh's just like "look" and it was J Lo and Marc Anthony! She was beautiful, but also wrapped up in a huge sweater. They then proceeded to sit on the PATIO on Sunset Blvd! Are there still rumors that they're splitting up? Who knows... Oh, I also forgot to mention the amazing cornbread that came with cinnamon butter... Leigh and I ate a lot of it.

November 6

No sugar today! I'm quite proud of myself. Today was insane, but enjoyable. Leigh and I got up at 7:30, were out the door hiking by 8, back by 9:10, and I was en route to GST pilates by 9:25. After GST I met Matt at the gym and led him in a spin class in the studio. It was pretty hilarious. He wouldn't turn his resistance high enough and when i'd tell him to put on more he'd say he was at the same resistance as me but he was just in better shape. Bullshit! It's pretty easy to tell when you're not struggling to keep up with the tempo... And then after I made him do my ab routine and he seriously looked like he was gonna die and couldn't finish it. Christine's Ab Routine claims another victim!!

I then came home and painted allllllll afternoon. I'm not happy with the canvases I got. They say they're triple primed... but they're still sooooo grainy. The canvas grain totally shows through a LOT through the white and its driving me crazy. I finished Brandon's painting of Questlove (drummer from The Roots) and it's pretty sick minus the annoying white. I might have to re-paint the white part - which requires re-edging all the black near it. Super annoying. I was supposed to have to paint Sarah Palin for him but thankfully he changed his mind cause she sucks. We're doing someone hot. Like Foxy or Angelina...

My ear is being all weird. Leigh says i'm going deaf. It keeps plugging and unplugging. I can hear my heartbeat in it occassionally, the back of my neck/top of my spine clicks when i'm walking sometimes and i've had headaches for three days. But it's nothing. Cause I can't afford to get sick!

November 4

Hell Day Wednesdays are no longer hell days thanks to transfer credits! I was able to drop my middle class so I only have two classes today, but unfortunately I now have the annoying 3.5 hour break in the middle! But, I armed myself with a fidm canvas bag full of textbooks and my laptop, so I could get work done in the break!

I barely got any work done in the break. I get a bbm msg from Brandon saying that he's at fidm, but my message asking where he was wasn't sending and by the time I got to his moms office he was gone. So I called him and he told me to come to "his office" so he gave me the address and I start driving, and realize that the area looks all too familiar from my ghetto flower shopping adventure! I passed good old skid row and eventually got to the address he gave me, a printing company building, and was a little scared that he'd sent me to some random address in the ghetto! But then I called him and he came outside and it was his dad's printing company. We hung out in his office (where he does his life coach/intervention/superhero work, and Roger's work. We chatted for a while, he ordered 2 paintings from me, then we went for sushi lunch. There was still time to kill after lunch so we came back to the office, I wrote an email to some lawyer for him, did some school reading, resisted halloween candy from his dad (the snickers/twix mix!!!!!) And then he had to go meet roger so I went back to school. What a lovely way to spend a 3 hour break!

After school I went to the gym then came home and watched Leigh and Dave eat wonderful grilled cheese... Leigh decided to use up one of her cheat days on Day 1. I was sooooooo jealous. I then drove out to Santa Monica cause Kim & friends had just arrived, I brought her a cupcake cause it was her birthday.

Tomorrow's agenda: Hiking, Surfing with Drew, starting Brandon's paintings.

November 3

Busy but productive day. 8:30 class, we got out an hour early which was SO sweet since it meant that I could run home and do my design process trend report homework before venturing down to Bev Hills which I knew would wind up taking me the entire day. And it did. First stop, Kinkos to print my trend report. Next stop, Whole Foods for honeycrisp apples. Next stop, Tiff's because somehow I managed to lose the ball on my keychain AGAIN. Twice in 4 days. Ridiculous. Definitely need some lock-tight. So the kind man gave me a new ball, shined up the old ball and keychain (it looks brand new!) and even shined up my X necklace for free (it's supposed to cost ten bucks)!! I then made my way over to the gym to have my free personal training sesh. I loooved the trainer, and now I have to figure out a way to afford him. Some random also came up to us and complimented me on my figure & my teeth. It was weird. After the gym I went to Home Depot to get some paint swatches for my Trend Report (soooo fun, i LOVE paint swatches), and ran into Roger walking Henry. Our conversation went something like this:

R: "if I was the happiest person ever and lived in like 1946, would I get to be as lucky as you?"

C: "What? 1946?"

R: "Like if I was on I Dream of Jeannie or was the Bewitched husband or something?"

C: "You just have to think that lucky stuff will happen and it will. I also have a posse of angels that follows me around and helps me out"

R: "See that's where you lose me"

After home depot I hit up Gelsons for spinach soup ingredients, went home, found Leigh sick in bed (hope it's not the swine!) and found Dave & Jordan concentrating really hard on something in the tv room. I thought they were doing school work, but when I went to investigate, they were cutting holes in foam to put in huge camera cases cause Dave decided to buy the Canon 7D in addition to his 5D. I made my spinach soup, ate my spinach soup (following the contract to a T) and then sick Leigh came down and had spaghetti and a chocolate bar for dinner. I couldn't resist. She'd already broken the contract so I did as well. Then Lauren & Todd came over and it turned into a party and we all ate lots of chocolate, but it was good cause now the only things left are plain M&Ms, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers & Hershey bars. Not tempting in the slightest! We drew up a new contract and it starts tomorrow!

October 31

The past several days have been a sugar-induced blur... let's see if I can remember them:

October 31

Woke up early to go to spinning... knew i'd need a bit of a caloric defecit. Did some last minute halloween costume errands (decided to salvage the wonder woman costume), ate some candy. Came home, ate more candy and carved Nightmare Before Christmas pumpkins with Leigh (hers was Oogie Boogie, mine was Jack Skellington), put up spiderwebs all over the backyard entrance while eating candy, ate cupcakes for lunch with Dave, with chocolate bars for dessert, set up pumpkins, candle holders, and dinner party things, and then it was time to get ready for our 4:00 dinner party/street party. The Davis/Crain crew arrived (as cowboys and indians), we checked out the street party - where Brangelina's security guard's wife tried to set me up with her nephew, and we were told that we were lovely quiet neighbours. All the neighbourhood kids then assembled for trick or treating - we were told that we had the best house with the best candy (full size chocolate bars) ... one kid (astronaut) took a handful, then while we were all telling him cute he was, he held eye contact with ashley as he reached in for several more handfuls of chocolate bars. It was the cutest! I ate more chocolate bars, we had a steak & salad dinner (thanks to KC & Leigh), had cupcakes for dessert (i had 2 and 3/4), Julia came over, the Davis/Crains left, we sat around the fire eating more chocolate bars and smores, then decided that we weren't going out, so we went inside and watched Nightmare Before Christmas and Jordan came over as we were all falling asleep/barfing. Yes, I barfed from too much candy. I'm disgusting.

November 1

There's something about November 1st that I really love. I always used to find the day really depressing but now I just see it as the very very beginning of the leadup to Christmas. And the song "Mr. November" by The National makes it a wonderful day as well. I woke up early to get a start on my drafting homework. I had declined my movie role because I had to do my homework, but then Ashley invited us to go tan at Casa del Mar, so I had to get my work done so I could go. Got the site plan done while Leigh hiked (I WISHED I could be hiking - I was so full and so PUFFY from so much disgusting food). We left for Santa Monica around lunchtime with a slight detour to Porto's in Manhattan Beach to meet Jordan & Ben for lunch. Leigh and I got Primo salads, our favourite. We then made it to Santa Monica, just a couple hours late... and enjoyed a lovely afternoon lounging by the pool with the Davis/Crain crew. Dinner was a disaster. Dave and Jordan drove separately from Leigh and I and they arrived home with Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles AND Pimai Thai. Disaster. We ate so much and felt so disgusting once again. So much for a fresh start to November... I then had to buckle down and get my drafting homework done. Jordan chronicled the action by doing a light-testing photoshoot. After I was done my homework and everyone had gone to bed, I settled down in front of Desperate Housewives with a sprinkles pumpkin cupcake. STOP THE MADNESS!

November 2

So I was all ready to stop the madness. For breakfast I had living fuel. (This drink that's full of all kinds of goodness - basically you can live off of it and be totally healthy) Lunch was an apple. Leigh and I hiked in the morning and I read in the backyard until it was school time. Went to school, met with the head of Interior Design and got my Principles of Color class waived since i'm an Interior Design Rockstar. So now I only have 4 classes! Sweet! Went to drafting class, was praised once again for having perfect work (with slight criticism about the vertical lines in my printing... but i'm not changing them... I've been perfecting my printing style my entire life and am not changing it now). My friend Ginny and I got to leave class early cause we're the only ones that actually know what were doing and didnt need to stay to ask a million obvious answer questions. Went straight to the gym. Gluttonous binging neccesitates two workouts a day. Came home, had spinach soup for dinner, and was already just to have tea with Leigh while watching GG (that rhymes) but then we broke down and had more chocolate bars! then dave came home and we had even more chocolate bars! We felt disgusting so we made another contract (cause the one 2 summers ago worked like a charm). check it out:

The “We’re Fat Lards, Let’s Get Cokehead Skinny” Contract

We, Christine & Leigh vow to:

Eat a maximum of 1200 calories per day even if we work out.

Drink 2 L of water per day.

Limit sugar to one day a week (Christine) - max 1 cupcake

Limit alcohol to one day a week (Leigh) - max 3 drinks

One cheat meal per week.

Avoid condiments at all costs.

No eating after 9:00.

Cardio minimum 5 days a week, strength minimum 3 days a week, ab routine every day.

5 days a week, eat the following food:

Leigh

B - Smoothie

L - Leaf drink or salad

D - Protein & Vegetables

Christine

B - Living Fuel

L - Apple

D - Protein & Vegetables

Start date: November 3, 2009 upon waking.

End date: November 26, 2009 upon waking.

Signed,

____________________ ____________________

Christine Leigh

*Remember:

The short-term satisfaction of food will never outweigh the satisfaction of being skinny.

Zac Efron likes skinny girls.

Casting directors like skinny actresses.

We're in our prime, we need to look the part.