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!