February 5-6

February 5

Pilates with Myara. It was awesome becasue Leigh came and it was just the two of us in the class! I then went to the gym for spinning, came home for lunch, then headed out to Venice to go surfing with the Emmy-Award-Winning-Ex-Pro-Surfer Colin Pierce! Keep in mind it was POURING rain and freezing cold, but I totally needed some salt water in my life. So I arrive at Colin's at 4:30 and we drive to Venice Beach. We park 5 blocks away and RUN to the beach cause that's what he does during rainy surf sessions to keep warm, and it was soooo funny (but freezing) running through puddley streets barefoot! And the BEST part was that once we finally arrived at the ocean, we were already soaking wet so the water was warmer than the air! My favorite thing in life! We had an AMAZING time - I rode the longest wave of my life! And there was only one other person in the water and it was sooooo gloomy and miserable and pouring and I absolutely loved every second of it! And then driving home was soooooo wonderful cause i had the heat blasting! Got home, made dinner, and started Mercury in Retrograde by Paula Froelich which seems like it'll be a cute light read. Leigh and I cuddled on the couch, drank tea and video ichatted with Brandon and Peter Clerkin.

February 6

Wonderful morning followed by a not so wonderful rest of the day! Woke up and didn't hike! Instead put on the cutest outfits ever - Me: Black & White striped long tank, black zip up huge hood hoodie, black leggings, white knee socks with black stripes, hunter boots. Leigh: Black hoodie, grey leggings, white socks with grey stripes, hunter boots. So we first venture out to American Apparel in Los Feliz to get our thigh high socks for our Super Bowl outfits, but it doesn't open til 11. It was 10. So we spy a ghetto grocery store across the street and decide to see if we can get some of our chili/cocktail party ingredients there. As we're waiting to cross the street, we notice two firemen checking us out. We wave, they say "nice boots" on their loud speaker thing. We burst into laughter. It was soooooo awesome. Then we crossed the street talking about how we're perfect for each other because she's blonde and i'm brunette and we make the perfect duo! Got a couple staple grocery items at the ghetto store, tried to buy some flowers from a ghetto flower shop (unfortch we didnt have time to go skid row flower shopping) but the flower place was closed. We did however see a mexican peeing in an alley. We rain away. Decided we couldnt kill any more time before Apparel opened so we hit up Ralphs and Gelsons and went home to prepare food. After food preparation I ran back to Apparel while leigh put things in boxes and threw those boxes in the garbage. Came back with white socks with black stripes. We tried them on, they were hideous. Thigh high striped socks sound so hot in theory, but in reality, knee high are much hotter. But we decided to try black instead (cause the Saints are black and not white anyways), so i went back and got those and they were much better. Although we're still not sure whether or not to just wear knee highs... We'll figure it out tomorrow.

Our cocktail party started at 4. It was somewhat of a bust. It was supposed to be so the Thirst Project board members could meet the staff members, but none of the board members showed up... so it was basically a staff meeting. Now we're in for an exciting night of homework and chili making! Even though all i really wanna do is watch The Virgin Suicides...