December 13 - 17

Got so much accomplished before 11 am. Kinkos to get my drafting stuff copied, whole foods to stock up on cereals, the grove to get Brandon the book The Road (as a thank you for being my no-sugar inspiration), and to target to get pictures printed for my Design Process inspiration journal. Got home and was finally able to go on a hike cause the rain had stopped. The ground was quite soggy though. But I got to use my step counter thing ... 225 calories to the peak, 220 on the way down. Not sure how accurate that is cause the way down is WAY easier... but that means that to the hollywood sign would burn like 1000 cals? I'm skeptical. After hiking I had lunch, i've been eating daves freshology meals for days cause he's not eating them, then Dorian and I went on an adventure to Rob Dyrdek's house. The door was wide open and we desperately hoped that he would come out, but he didnt. But we took pictures of his car & drama's car. Then we hit up the Beverly Hills Hotel to get the "Barbie Loves LA" book, which they didnt even have, then went to Hundreds to get Ry's Christmas present. Got him a tan plaid shirt, which i showed him the link to since return policy was only 7 days and he told me he liked the red one better. Back to Hundreds tmrw. I had a freshology meal for dinner, Jordan came over with In n' Out and tempted us all, I did more homework, then Jordan, Dave, Dorian and I went to Jordan's dad's studio so the boys could work on their commercials and I pilfered several wonderful holiday flavours of celestial seasonings tea!

December 14

No time for hiking when there's sample boards to be done. Worked on and finished my board that was due last week that i missed handing in cause i was sick, packaged up an Audrey Hepburn painting for a girl who had ordered it, wrapped Brandon's book, and had every intention of going to Hundreds to switch the shirt, the post office to ship the painting, AT&T to pay my phone bill AND go to the gym, but i managed to have time for neither. I went to Brandon's office to drop off his book, and to Taylors to give her my drafting copies and get samples from her. Went to drafting class, was told by my teacher to "go into architecture, you'll go far" and we got out of class 2 hours early which was soooo sweet, cause it gave me time to do all the things that i didnt have time for in the morning! Except the gym, no time for the gym. Went to hundreds, found out they didnt have the red plaid in L (of course), but lovely guy named mike said he'd try and order it for me by wednesday, went home and did homework until bad-influence-Dorian convinced me to go out for dinner with him. All i really wanted was grilled cheese from The Oaks, we went to Le Petit Four and split pizza and a salad. Went home, studied for my test the next day, realized i didnt know anything about chair styles, the boys all came over and tried to convince me to go to Birds with them, and I was fully down, until Leigh came home and talked some sense into me. But the boys had amazing drunken adventures and I was jealous that I wasn't able to go. I also was awakened at 4 am by Dorian yelling that he was unsuccessfully trying to spray the aerosol pancake batter can into his mouth. I got up and asked them to be quiet. They felt bad. I felt bad for making them feel bad. Colin was also wearing my ray bans and thought they were 3D glasses! (we have many pairs of 3D glasses lying around the house from A Christmas Carol).

December 15

6:30 wakeup. History of Architecture & Interior design final. Bombed it (68%). But everyone did. And I still managed to get a 94 in the course (we switched papers and marked each others... is this grade 6)? We then assumed class was over but our teacher tells us to take a break and come back for a christmas surprise... I assumed it would be treats (which i was annoyed about since i'm not eating sugar), but no, it was a slideshow of his LIFE STORY. I'm not even kidding. "This is my little brother and I when I was 4 years old" "this was my first girlfriend Linda Jane blahblahblah, but i really liked her best friend" "I hated my parents, my mom was schizophrenic and my dad was a terrible man" "This is my grandmother, she was my hero, when she died, a part of me died..." and on and on and on... Jen sent me a bbm saying that this man needs therapy, after which he proceeded to tell us details about his years of going to therapy. This slideshow lasted half an hour. We were all DYING cause we had so much to do! Went to training, my back was still KILLING me from drafting, so my trainer made me hang from a bar at the end to stretch it out. It hurt SOOOOOOO much that I started feeling nauseous and then faint and i had to lie down! It was intense. Went home, started on my sketching which i assumed would take me 2 hours, it took 4. Jordan and I had plans to go for dinner but I couldnt even go cause I had too much work. All the boys went to Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, I had freshology. I continued working on my floor plan, rendering and sample board for Lady Gaga's study and FINALLY finished it at 3:30 am. Oh - took a break to go to Home Depot with Dorian to get a glue gun and so he could fedex a package. So 3:30 am rolls around, shower time. After my shower I sat down to write my client profile for Gaga's room, finish it at 4:30. Had planned on packing but decided that i needed to get at least an hour and a half of sleep.

December 16/17

6am wakeup call. 1.5 hours of sleep and i felt great! Dave and Dorian were up because dave's car was broken down outside rogers and needed Dorian to drive him to class in Leigh's car, so the morning was fun. Went to class, realized i only shouldve worked a fraction as hard as i did on my project because mine was light years better than anyone elses ... literally some people didnt even use straight edges/right angles to cut their squares, didnt line up their samples, i dont get it. After class, Taylor, Deeann, Akela and I all went to Starbucks to jolt ourselves awake. I got a cinnamon something latte with a double shot of espresso and was WIRED! (and managed to spill it down the front of my shirt as a result of my fidm bag falling from my shoulder to my elbow and jostling the coffee, good thing I had an extra shirt in the car!) I went to Brandon's office and was soooo hyper. So i organized a bag of crumpled up receipts for him. We hung out for a bit, then went to lunch with his friend and his friends dad and business partner, they asked us why we weren't dating, they asked why i didnt have a rich LA boyfriend yet, they told me that Roger should've been paying me $20 an hour. It was a really fun lunch! Sketching class was only half an hour which was sweet, the final was the easiest thing ever (trace your homework but modify the furniture and add a light) and then it was time to RUN home to pack (with a pit stop at hundreds). Get to Hundreds, Mike's there and is like "the shirt is on its way right now!" and i said i'd come back on my way to the airport. Went home, packed like a madwoman (two huuuuuge suitcases, but only cause i wanted to bring them home, not cause i needed all the space), said a sad goodbye to Leigh, tidied my room and headed to Hundreds. The shirt had not yet arrived so I hung out with Mike and another guy who i forget his name until it arrived, and I then ewnt to meet Dave at Colins. Hung out there for a bit b/c i was way early for the airport, and then dave drove me to the airport. He was saying that my bags were gonna be overweight and i was like "no way! but if they are, one is wayyyy lighter than the other so i can switch stuff - it was Gerlinda's Neiman Marcus cakes that were like 50 pounds EACH)! So i go in, put them on the scale and both are exactly 51.5... it was bizarre. The scales totally must have been wrong. Ate a starbucks cookie -first sugar in almost a week, and it was good, but not as good as a cupcake would've been! Got on the plane and was complimented by the girl sitting beside me "oh good, you're skinny, i love sitting beside skinny people on planes!" Slept maybe 2 hours on the flight, waited foreverrrr for my bags in usual YYZ fashion, hopped in a limo and arrived at good old Melrose Ave. by 7am. Chatted with Mom & Dad & Berkley for a bit, woke Ry up to say hi, went to the bank to transfer cashmoney to Leigh, and then it was naptime. Home is wonderful for the following reasons: snow (although i'm sooooo over the cold already, it's -11 and bitter), chocolate milk in bags, Gryfe's bagels, my fuschia room, the smell of cinnamon, tea parties with mom. Berkley is being a jackass however. He wouldn't have a nap with me today, and every time my mom talks to me he gets jealous and starts whining at her to pay attention to him. Apparently he did the same thing to Ry when he got home from Aus. Oh and his fur is a smidge too long. I'm considering giving him a mohawk. Next up: going out for dinner with the fam and watching Christmas Vacation.

December 12

Day two of no sugar and going strong. But it's terribly terribly hard, but I'm determined. I had wanted to hike today to use my nike calorie/stride counter thing for my shoes, but alas, it was raining. It literally POURED all day long. But, it forced me to do my homework. I resisted going to Toast and on whatever adventures would ensue with the boys, and chained myself to my drafting table. I drafted til my eyes bled. Literally. A blood vessel in my eye is broken. I took three breaks, one to do laundry, one to eat lunch, and fourtimepourtime tea break. Finally at the stroke of 7:00 I finished. Cameron had invited me to a christmas party tonight, but i was definitely too exhausted to go. So instead Jordan and I watched Bonnie & Clyde (because it's a Christmas movie in my mind), and made a sweet plan to rob banks, cause as soon as you rob a bank, people fall in love with you. Cue banjo music. After B&C we watched Alpha Dog, Jordan had never seen it, he hated it, I loved it as much as the first time. Post movies I continued homework, Hart came over with guns for their shoot tomorrow and Jordan and I had a Bonnie & Clyde photoshoot.

December 11

Woke up and decided that my sugar binges were over. The madness has to stop. I went to pilates, which made me determined to get Anna's bod, then went to spinning. Once I was back home, Brandon called, and I enlisted him to help me kick my sugar addiction (he normally works with alcoholics, but the sugar binging is getting out of control). From now on, I'm only eating sugar twice a week (although he says I can still have hot chocolate, but I disagree), and I have to check in with him every night to tell him that I didn't cheat! This is gonna work. It can't not work when i'm accountable to someone that's removed from this temptation-filled household! (Leigh and I can't be accountable to each other because then we just decide to cheat together). So there. I'm turning it all around. The rest of the day was filled with drafting. I resisted going to Birds with Dave, Dorian & Tristan and instead had tea while watching Gossip Girl/doing more drafting. Then I started the Nicholas Sparks book "The Last Song" ... even though I generally hate all his books, I actually liked his last one, and this one seems promising as well!

Dec 10 and some days before it...

Monday

Wonderful rainy morning. Drafted all morning. Drank hot chocolate with Leigh. Went to class. Went to the gym. Came home. Baked oatmeal raisin and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for Ty the Christmas Tree salesman, made him a sweet card, went to deliver them but he was GONE. Annoying. So we came home and decorated the tree and watched Elf and it was sooooo wonderful because I love Elf, and even Leigh loved it the second time around! Little Miss Christmas (me) is FINALLY here!

Tuesday

I woke up feeling nauseous. At first I couldn't bring myself to even THINK about eating breakfast (which is crazy rare for me) and I thought it was just cause i was full from too many cookies the night before, but then I barfed and realized I was sick. Unfortch I had to go to school to hand in our History of Architecture booklet, so I went, parked in visitor parking for free (so luxurious), dropped off the booklet, and headed back to bed (with a pit stop at CVS to pick up a thermometer). Temperature 98.9. Pretty normal. I spent the day in bed feeling so nauseous, barfing 4 or 5 times, eventually having a fever (my cool thermometer does a special beep for when you have a fever), was taken care of by Dorian (he bought me ginger ale and offered to go get paint swatches for my sample board that was due the next day! I didnt make him go get the samples obvi). At dinner time he made me get out of bed to watch a movie, we watched Breakfast at Tiffany's and i'd forgotten how wonderful it was! I also realized that I was in the midst of the mean reds:

Holly - You know those days when you get the mean reds?

Paul - The mean reds, you mean like the blues?

Holly - No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you dont know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Paul - Sure.

Holly - Well when i get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If i could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then i'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!

The Beverly Hills Hotel is my Tiffany's. I'll take my lover there for lunch before we bust outta here. By the time the movie finished and we started watching 90210, I was feeling light years better! We then heard the rumble of a loud car... i was scared it was Public Enemy #1 but have no fear, it was Jordan in his purple M3, back from the dead! (Missing interior pieces mind you, but still back)! He took for for a spin and it was like a spaceship. I want one. I somehow got tricked into going to Kogi with them (the boys said Leigh said she was coming, she didnt come) but this involved another spin in the purple M3 so it was alright.

Wednesday

Woke up feeling not 100%. Walked to RealRawLive for my first food in a day... thought a green drink would be the best thing for me... the walk was definitely not the best thing for me. Felt like i was gonna faint and was boiling hot by the time i got there (it was freezing out). So i got my delicious breakfast drink (maca, coconut water, almonds, blueberries, other stuff...) came home, ate it and rested some more. That afternoon Dorian and I met Leigh in Barney's to pick up her ring, went to Neiman Marcus to get whisky cake for Gerlinda, went to several stores and bought several christmas presents, got free cupcakes, and then i parted ways to head to Robertson and The Grove for some more Christmas shopping. Mom and Dad are done, Ryan will be done on saturday, still gotta find a sick hoodie for Berkley. I went to Gelsons and picked up the ingredients for Dorian Chicken, made the chicken, leigh made salad complete with sweet buttery nuts, and we sat down to a wonderful family dinner, with sprinkles for dessert (that got quite mauled). We made funny faces, laughed our faces off, and left for our 3D Christmas Carol double date at the El Capitan. It sucked. So boring. It's just not an eventful enough story to not have muppets. It needed muppets. Got home, went straight to bed for our early wakeup call.

Thursday

Amazing day. Woke up at the ungodly hour of 6... well, 6:45 because i set my alarm for 6;15 pm by mistake... us troops rounded ourselves up... Leigh and Dave headed for the airport, Dorian and I started to head out for breakfast but decided that we didnt even feel like going out for breakfast, so we went home to kill time and then headed to Colins. We thought we were meeting Dave there, but then we get a call from him saying he's at the Porsche dealership and to come pick him up. So we get Colin, drive to the address Dave texted me, and it leads us to a sketchy alley with a run-down car fixing place full of Audis and Bentleys... but not a porsche in sight. So we call dave, he tells us some sort of cryptic message and hangs up telling us its on Santa Monica. So we find it, rearrange the car to fit passenger #4 (we had 2 surfboards and full dual camera gear), fit everything in, gas up the Xplorer and head to Ventura to surf the big waves! Colin drove, we staged an intervention about his irregular gas pedal pressure, and made it to Ventura by 11:30. The waves were massive, and were only getting bigger, Colin said he was worried about me, I said i'd give it a try. So I did. But was too terrified to really do much of anything except ride the whitewash. Literally there were 10 ft + waves. So I surfed for half an hour, attempted to tan for half an hour (it was freezing, the sun was soooo low in the sky, it was pointless), so i vowed to hit up sephora for some fake tanner tomorrow. Colin came out and we relocated to a rock pile (which he jumped off of into the 10 ft + waves) and Dave and Dorian took some snaps while I watched/had a very wonderful conversation with Brandon. He apologized for being an ass, we made amends, it was all thanks to the salt water cleansing my soul. My dark days are OVER!

After surfing was done and we were all nicely chilled to the bone the boys decided they needed some mexican food. So we went on a wild goose chase to some random mall to get some specific mexican food. Colin, Dave and I then split 60 Mrs. Fields cookies. It was delicious and disgusting. We then had the coziest drive home... Rich Hill, Kid Cudi and a little Miley singing us to sleep... dropped Colin off, drove home listening to rap songs and their girly alternates, came home, had a picture uploading party, had a re-heated Dorian Chicken dinner, Colin and Rony came over, I wanted to watch Alpha Dog but the boys insisted on watching pieces of movies, so i went upstairs and watched Melrose Place and painted my nails. Now we're watching fear and loathing in las vegas. Fun full day.

December 3 - 6

Fantasyland is no longer Fantasyland. My spirit has been broken, the downward spiral has begun. Toxins are getting to me and it’s time to go home for some recuperation.

Thursday

I have never procrastinated more than I did today. I had disgusting amounts of homework but just couldn’t bring myself to start on it. Leigh and I hiked, we came home, I tried to start on work but ended up doing laundry and having a nap because I felt miserable. At some point in the day we decided to give up on trying to do work and to snap ourselves out of our low morale (both of us have been in terrible moods for days now) and just go to The Oaks for hot chocolate and a cupcake, while wearing matching Ray Bans (I dug mine out and realized they were actually nice – for some reason I hadn’t worn them for over a year cause I thought they were ugly). We got our hot chocolate and it ended up tasting just like warm milk so I went back and asked for more chocolate. He put double chocolate in and I brought it back out for Leigh and I, but it was still gross. So we threw it in the garbage and went to Gelsons and bought fat free 20 calorie Nestle hot chocolate and 5 calorie per tbsp whipped cream and went home and made it. I had my doubts about how much of a flavor punch it would pack… but it was great! Keep in mind we added baileys, peppermint shaky stuff, marshmellows and whipped cream. We drank our hot chocolate, ate our advent calendars and did some more procrastination/pitied ourselves. Dorian and Dave arrived back home from doing film stuff around dinner time and Dorian and I went on a date to the Roosevelt for dinner. We split grilled cheese and a burger and sweet potato fries and it was sooooo amazing… minus the water that tasted like hotel tap water… but we were in a hotel so what did we expect? We came home and watched Funny People or whatever that Adam Sandler movie was called and it was horrible. We also did the “find my lover” application thing on facebook and soooooo weirdly, I was Dorian’s lover! Ryan was my lover, which I found to be sooooo hilarious.

Friday

Slept in and missed spinning, but I didn’t care. (Christine not caring about sticking to a schedule? Something is definitely not right in my life)… Made it to GST class, felt so strong, Anna told me my hair was delicious and that she wanted to dive into it… maybe things were starting to look up after all. Nope. After GST I texted Roger to see if I could pick up my cash money and a couple hours later I get several horribly mean messages. Seriously the meanest things anyone has ever said to me. Shockingly shockingly uncalled for and mean. Did you know that I’m fucking ridiculous? Did you know that I’m nothing but problems and nagging and that I cause more problems than solutions? There was also plenty of swearing and a request to leave him the fuck alone. He’s done with me. So obviously I burst into tears, luckily my lover was downstairs so I read him the messages and cried on his shoulder. (We’re talking crazy sobbing and intense waterworks). We then went to the Oaks to meet Leigh to give her my ipod, and I cried on her shoulder some more. Then Dorian escorted me to Brandon’s office where I had to pick up my money (from the front desk too… I’m so low on the Goodman Life totem pole that I’m not even worthy of seeing Brandon face-to-face. Death to The Goodman Life. Got my cash, cashed my cheque, and was done with that bullshit. Next stop was Hot Rod to pick up Ry’s tee. Dorian got some LA stickers. We talked Drake with Kyle. We then went home, Dorian got lunch from the Oaks, I cried my eyes out in bed while listening to the good old Sarah McLachlan Christmas cd, and we waited for Leigh to get home. Once Leigh was home we went on our Beverly Hills mission to get her running shoes like mine. It was the most wonderful mission ever full of Williams Sonoma apple cider and peppermint bark (kind of illegally swiped by Dorian), Christmas lights, Christmas carols, Santas hiding in trees, etc etc etc. I love Beverly Hills at Christmas at night. Unfortch when we tried to get free Sprinkles there was a line and I didn’t feel like waiting. Leigh was SO shocked… it really was a day of ridding toxins from my life! … but then we went home and decided to go to Birds for dinner, and my lover persuaded Leigh and I to drink (blueberry stoli vodka sodas). But that doesn’t really count because we all know that sugar is my only real vice. After birds we hit up the oaks for cupcakes. We got free coffee cake because we were cute, and Dorian bought more blueberry vodka. We went home, Leigh and I had hot chocolate and get this – I didn’t even eat my cupcake… maybe because I was lying on the floor surrounded by a chalk outline with X’s on my eyes… I don’t think corpses are too into cupcakes.

Saturday

My slump continues. I had a good talk with Derek and realized that the life is being sucked out of me by public enemy #1… because as soon as he becomes a presence in my everyday life, I start falling apart. It explains everything. The lack of willpower, the extreme sugar binging and late night unhealthy food eating, the coffee drinking, the not reading books, the homework procrastination, the all around down in the dumps-ness. I’m not myself these days and it’s slowly but surely killing me. As Matt Morrish once said, “you should never be with someone who drains you of your energy, you need to surround yourself with people who give you more.”

As for today, I drafted all day long, shed a few tears, then babysat. Came home and stayed up til 3:30 doing my stupid Architecture scavenger hunt group project that obviously I ended up doing all the work for. It was hell. The chalk outline from the previous night was still waiting for me on the carpet… I was ready to dive in.

Sunday

Woke up at 9 and went straight back to Architecture homework. Thankfully at 10ish Leigh, my lover and I decided to go to The Oaks for breakfast burritos which was actually the most wonderful thing ever. I got a “fun latte” to wake me up, and my lover looked really hot in the hat and hoodie combo that he was wearing. Went home, sprinkled some sea salt over the door thresholds to prevent bad energy from entering (just in case public enemy #1 decides to stop by). Did some more architecture work, did some more drafting, went to this cute café with Leigh and Dorian for lunch (brought my laptop and continued working). Leigh and I split a cobb salad and I got a banana latte. Leigh stayed there to work and Dorian and I went to get free cupcakes from Sprinkles. After Sprinks I went to Kinkos where I remained for over an hour while Edwin the assistant manager took his sweet ass time printing my History of Architecture book. Upon my arrival home, my lover and I went for a romantic dinner date at In n’ Out. In n’ Out never fails to entertain – last time it was getting stuck in a broken down pickup truck in the drive through with Derek with scary gang members making fun of our footwear, this time I dropped my two ketchup containers on the floor, and a lady comes up to our table and is like “just so you know, people are getting ketchup all over their shoes. SO not classy.” Excuse me, but I wasn’t aware that In n’ Out was a classy establishment. Can these people not watch where they’re stepping and avoid the ketchup spill? Did she expect me to pull a mop out of my purse and clean it up? Lover and I had a good laugh about that one… as well as the man sitting beside us who we realized only ordered fries after we spent our entire meal criticizing the fries… “they taste like cardboard” “they taste like hickory sticks without the flavoring” “they’re so dry” “they’re so dense” etc. We went home, played on our computers til Dave got home, lured Leigh home from the coffee shop with the promise of Christmas tree purchasing, and went to get our tree! Leigh picked out a horribly small one, but it was bizarre cause there were only like 3 big trees… do Americans not like big trees? Came home, the boys took quite a while trying to put the tree in the stand (ended up being sooo crooked and falling over) while leigh and I searched for the lights. We couldn’t find them. So we decided to just drink hot chocolate and watch desperate housewives and eat cupcakes and do the tree tomorrow.

I’m feeling substantially better than yesterday. Maybe cause I got some of my homework done? Maybe because Dorian is wonderful? Maybe because it was overcast? Maybe because my day was free of public enemy #1 toxins? Or maybe the sea salt really is working…

Tomorrow is a new day. And one day closer to tea parties with mom, pasta dinners with dad, blanket fights with Berkley, the Unit, dinner parties with ryan, sarah and Derek, Rui & the club, proper winter weather, real Christmas spirit and cuddling on the couch with Bailey’s, hot chocolate, and Christmas movies on my little tv set up beside the tree. 10 days.

Week in Review

Sleep has taken precedence over blogging and I haven't even been getting much sleep. Here's the re-cap:

November 25

Class. Brandon's office during break. Designed Roger's business cards. Class again. Spinning. Walked Henry. Picked my California Loves (Leigh and Robyn) up from the airport (in CRRRRAZY pre-thanksgiving traffic... i definitely was the biggest asshole driver and cut in front of several long lines of traffic) but we had to get to Pinkberry before it closed! ...This would be foreshadowing for later in their trip.

So I picked up my corporate sisters, had a glorious reunion and singalong time in the car, and made it to the Beverly Hills pink with tons of time to spare!

November 26

Happy American Thanksgiving! We felt SOOOOOO weird for not cooking a big dinner, but we were all cooked out from Canadian Thanksgiving still, so we celebrated Christmas instead. Leigh and Robyn had brought us advent calendars from my mom, and presents! Smores fixin's and cake and cupcake christmas tree ornaments! We had got up with every intention to hike, but were moving in slow motion and ran out of time, so we did the next thing on the agenda: Surf's Up HB! We had an amazing drive down, singing along to all our surfing classics (Kiss the Girl - AshTisdale, Come Go With Me - Beach Boys, Dirty Heads, Vampire Weekend etc). Mixed it up and drove to HSS cause we were too lazy to walk, got the boards for free, Me: "we usually don't have to pay," Keith: "then why are you handing over your credit card?" Went to our trusty lot, got given a paid parking ticket by some people that had bought way too much time, surfed it up in perfect sized waves but in the most crowded conditions we've ever dealt with. We almost didnt even wanna go in... but our wetsuits were on, and once they're on, there's no turning back! Tanned for an hour, went back to the car, realized I hadn't even put the ticket on the dash, but we didnt get a ticket cause we're soooooo lucky! (Or cause it was thanksgiving and the parking guys werent working...). Returned the boards, got chai lattes and an apple muffin (warm) and headed back home. Roger had called asking me to dog sit Henry so we went and picked him up. We took Henry for a walk, had a coffee/baileys party in the backyard while Henry ran around in the swampy grass, washed his paws, bid farewell to Leigh and Dave who were going to a Thanksgiving dinner, and tried to figure out what WE should do for dinner. After calling every single restaurant in LA, we had nothing. Nothing was open. And the places that were open were hotels that had stupid prix fixe or buffet menus and we obvi didnt want that. So we decided to just go on an adventure and find somewhere. We dropped Henry back at Rogers and decided to call the Chateau Marmont one more time to see if there was magically room for us. There was magically room for us! We were so excited. We had a wonderful but windy dinner, they messed my order and i ended up with two desserts (pumpkin pie and apple crumble with cinnamon ice cream - the crumble was amazing), were accosted by a drunk guy and got free tea. We came home, decided to bake pumpkin muffins and ate them while watching the trailer for Leigh's movie and Britney's new video. We went to bed wayyy too late for waking up at the ungodly hour of 6 am.

November 27

Get your fatigues on, all black everything! BLACK FRIDAY! Saks sale started at 8 and we wanted to be there by 7:30 AND hit up starbucks on the way. We all dressed in black, piled into the black xplorer, got our starbucks (i'm developing a bad habit of coffee drinking) and were third in line at saks. Apparently Americans don't know how to form lines. They form mobs. Mobs that push and weasel and bring their young children to try and get them to the front. It was ridiculous. But we held our ground, and I made it up to the 6th floor in time to nab the Mike & Chris leather jacket i'd had my eye on, AND an Elizabeth & James wickedcool blazer (there were hardly any people up there yet). I scooped up my finds, handed them to a sales girl and asked her to start me a room (brilliant thinking on my part). I found a bunch more stuff and headed to my room. Leigh squared and Robyn eventually joined me and we had a change room party. Live nudes, it was hot. So we all read our tags and the sale signs wrong and were SO pleasantly surprised when we got to the cash and realized that everything was HALF the price we thought it was! I got my $800 leather jacket for $220! It was unreal. After that, I was so satisfied with my buys that i didnt even care about shopping anymore! But we continued. Hit up Barneys, got nothing, Lulu - flow Y II bra, glasses place - Robyn got wicked shades, planet blue - no sales, williams sonoma & pottery barn - got nothing. Next stop was Robertson. Didnt find anything at Kitson, Lisa Kline or the crowded store, discovered "All Saints Spitalfield" which is my new favourite store. I got a wicked scarf and they have the COOLEST biker boots that I need to get. We then went to Philip Lim where we saw Nicky and Cathy Hilton, some bathing suit store, Undefeated - got my MSTRPC shirt, oh, and got a call from Jordan saying that he'd picked me up a cool Rogue Status tee as well as one for Ry for Christmas (I love Jordan). Our last stop was the store in Sunset Plaza that was soooooo good last year but sucked this year. We then went home to have a cupcake/tea party in the backyard. Roger and Henry came over, he sat around and critisized me for a while as usual, and then we all got ready for dinner. M Cafe kale salad and sushi!!! We loooove the kale salad. Dave then got coldstone, us girls got pinkberry. We all came home and put on the proposal (Jordan also came over and brought me my shirts), but I was SO on edge and couldnt concentrate on the movie so I went upstairs and had a nice cry-fest (cry-fests are okay when its the 1 year anniversary of your very favourite aunt in the world dying). I then got a call from Roger saying he was going away for the weekend and for me to come pick up Henry, so i cried along to Sarah McLachlan Christmas songs on the way there, got ridiculed by Brandon for having crying eyes, picked up H Dawg, brought him home and took him for a romantic late night walk. We could actually see stars - you can never see stars in LA. It was wondering, Henry was just what i needed to lift my spirits.

November 28

Early morning hike. Ran on the way down and got Henry to take him for a walk. Walked him to meet Leigh, Leigh & Robyn finishing the hike, ran around with him like crazy because he's crazy and i love it. Me and the corporate sissies went to Malibu to try and tan, but we got there and it was horribly cold (surprise surprise, stuff like that always happens to us in Malibu) so we turned right back around and came home ... with a brief stop at Big Sugar in studio city! We got buckeyes and a 7 layer bar to eat at tea time. We came home, rescued Henry from lonliness, made coffee (again) and drank it with baileys during our 'tea' party. Took Henry for a walk and then we had a nap. It was the most wonderful nap ever. Probably because I havent had a real nap in YEARS and mainly because Henry was cuddled up in the crook of my knee and it was adorable. Oh, and we had wonderful mellow and classical music playing. Woke up after two hours, had a shower (Henry waited outside the door for me)! and then got ready for dinner/going out. Went to Katsuya for dinner with Jess & Tony, then went to Teddy's at the Roosevelt. It sucked. It was freezing and empty and the only boys there were from ... TORONTO. Bo-ring. So we decided to go home... and at 3 am we decided to make a pumpkin pie. So Leigh and Leigh watched while Robyn and I made the crust and the pie and while it was cooking Robyn and I went to Rock and Roll Ralph's to get ice cream and whipped cream ... and an almond joy and a king size reese's peanut butter cup. We were accosted by men in the parking lot asking if they could come have some of our pie, i told them we didnt have enough. Sooooo we went home, the pie was ready, we ate the entire thing (2 pieces each), at 3:30 am and I was in bed by 4:30... cuddled up with Henry.

November 29

Happy Birthday Caleigh! At 8 am I awoke to Henry sniffing at my face. It was the cutest thing ever. I tried to get him to lie down again, and he did, but after 15 mins was moving around and wanted to get up. So I got up and took him for an hour walk cause I knew the rest of the girls wouldnt be awake for at least 2 hours. Once they woke up, Leigh, Robyn and I went for our sunday Barneys lunch tradition and had the most eventful meal yet. These two guys requested to sit beside us, and eventually made their way into our conversation so we were basically lunching with them. One guy was HILARIOUS and one guy was lame. Obviously the lame one gave me his number and asked me out for dinner. I told him i was too busy and would get back to him next week. After Barney's we went to Hot Rod to get the shirt cameron had on hold for Ry, Cameron wasn't there. I called him and he was home sick with a serious phlegm throat disease. Next stop, Fred Segal. Marvelled over the latest free citys, decided that i didnt need another one. We then decided that we NEEDED more Big Sugar baked goods, so we hopped on over the hills to studio city, got our treats, and headed for the backyard. Walked Henry again, delivered him back to Roger in the worst traffic i've ever seen (santa claus parade), went to Urth for pie and cofffee, went crazy and committed suicide in insane traffic on the way to the Arclight to see New Moon, met up with Leigh, Dave, Jordan and Todd there, hated the movie, finished it at 10:50 and litearlly SPRINTED to pinkberry (closed at 11), but we made it and they gave us huge ones and it was AMAZING. Came home, ate the pink, watched some Leeroy Jenkins with the boys, watched jordan karate chop a cardboard tube with his head, went to sleep minus a schnauzer.

Novmeber 30

Farewell L&R :( Leigh and I hiked, came home and packed the girls into the Xplorer. We went to Fred Segal, got Leigh's white free city hoodie, went to sprinkles, got them cupcakes to bring home, went to planet blue in search of a bracelet that they didnt have anymore, and then went to La Scala for lunch. For some reason i didnt realize they had a chicken chopped salad (maybe cause i've only ever gotten takeout and never looked at a real menu?) but it was AMAZING! And we split an apple crumble cheesecake that was more amazing than the salad! It was my favourite lunch EVER. We then got a carwash, (my car looks so hot clean), and i delivered them to the airport. Sadness. went to the gym. came home to watch my sisters keeper with leigh, watched GG, went to sleep.

December 1

Class. Gym. A whole afternoon of nothing. A whole night of homework. And Melrose Place and 90210.

December 2

Class. Gym. Class. Home. Promised myself i'd be in bed by 10 but was invited to go see The Road with Cameron at 10:30. So i drank coffee and went. And bundled up in a cozy hoodie, hat & uggs cause i knew how bleak and cold the movie was gonna be. I thought the movie was great. It was sooooo close to being equally as good as the book (which is SO rare). It was horrible and dismal and gloomy and morbid but that's what its about and i was expecting it so I really liked it. Not so sure that Cameron liked it as much as I did.

December 3

Hollywood sign hike with Leigh. Popcorn hip action is back. Miriam was right. Got home, chatted with Leigh, Dave & Dorian until they all left to do various errands. Tried to start my homework but ended up tanning and falling asleep. Procrastinated doing drafting hwk ALL day. Didnt get anything done. Went for hot chocolate at the Oaks with Leigh, went for dinner with Dorian to 25 degrees, had a really frustrating text conversation with Roger ... he's draining me of ALL my energy... and now we're watching the Adam Sandler comedian movie and its horrible.

Goodnight.