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.
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