la jolla

pictures from last weekend

 

Greg and I at Neptune's in Malibu last weekend

Krista and I @ Jekll's

 

 

...flowers from my walk around town...

life and road trips

It's been an odd week so far. Maybe that is because it's been fairly cold and gloomy out, whatever the reason, i feel the need to be alone to gather all my thoughts. Life can be so confusing at times. I need a new job, I need to figure out what I want to be, I need to get over a friend that I am head over heels for, and I def need to keep saving money for that mini cooper convertible I have been dreaming of...

Anyways...A friend and I were talking about going on an adventure up north in a few months. Los Angeles to Santa Cruz to San Francisco...and where ever else in between.

San Francisco is such a beautiful city. Everytime I go it seems to be smack in the middle of winter, so a summer road trip sounds very pleasing. I hope it happens.

Pic taken with b&w film December 2004 at the Panhandle in the Haight Ashbury district of SF.

I've always thought there was a spirit in the center of the photo. It's more likely the reflection of the water, since it had rained that day. What do you think?

[watching Idol gives back and it is making me teary eyed]

the outdoors

I did a lot of walking this weekend. It was such a beautiful weekend, I felt guilty driving, so I decided to walk to where ever I wanted to go. Today I walked to Starbucks and sat outside and did some reading and enjoyed my iced chai latte. I have to do this more often. When I went to the UK, we walked everywhere! American's can get so lazy. While walking, I felt more in-tune with the birds flying in the sky, the trees swaying the in breeze, the truck drivers honking at me (hah), and the aroma of Sunday BBQ.
I walked over to Target and bought myself a new baby blue bra for only $7.99, I met a guy at Subway, and got some new pantie's at TJ MAXX.

fat tire and sunsets

I took a little trip on Friday to the beach with Krista. I left work a couple hours early and we were off to Neptune's Net. Our buddy, Greg, met up with us there, and we had drinks and food. It was a good time.
The rest of the weekend was good. I didn't do much besides shopping and sleeping. I amaze myself at how many hours I can sleep on the weekends. Oh well, it was a nice weekend! I need to stop drinking beer tho!

neptune's

Yesterday I text Krista asking if she wanted to go to the mall, since my date had stood me up. I wasn't upset, since I am really not into the guy I had been dating for a couple weeks. Thankfully, he made it easier on myself to end things.

I text Krista, and she text me back asking if I wanted to go to Neptune's for food and drinks.

How ironic! I was supposed to go there on my date.

I replied, telling her I was down.

It was a beautiful day! I got Calamari and Krista ate onion rings. We drank plenty of fat tire's and enjoyed the nice breeze. Our friend Greg came down and we all had a very nice time.

I love the ocean.

[P.S. No, we did not drink all those beers]

i wish i lived in san fransisco

[picture taken by me in dec '08]

San Diego

I went to San Diego last weekend with some friends to visit a friend. We only stayed a night, but it was a great night! We went to Pacific Beach, layed on the sand, BBQ chicken, steaks, shrimp wrapped in bacon, red peppers with feta cheese and onions. The food was amazing! We drank sangria and played 7, 11, or doubles. The next day we stopped in La Jolla, got breakfast at The Cottage, saw seals, walked around in tide poles and took in the beauty of the ocean.

I love San Diego

rainy birthday's

I think I may have sprained my ankle last night. :-x I tripped a few times, and this morning I could hardly walk on it! Oops. It was a fun night, we celebrated Mike's birthday by going out for seafood. I tried a blueberry ale, which was very tasty! We got calamari for an appetizer, which was amazing! I ended up ordering the fish & chips! I haven't had fish and chips since I was in England (summer 2008). After a delicious dinner and a happy birthday song for Mike, we went over to Mary's (Mike's girlfriend) house and drank wine for a few hours and had great conversations. We were supposed to go out to a pub, although, it was raining, so we stayed local.

Good times.

i went a lil darker...

 

 I dig it. It'll be a nice change. Maybe during summer I'll add some highlights. We'll see.

Happy March 1st! I can't believe it's already March...

Time has surely flown by!

<3 LC

cha cha cha changes!

Got my hair done today!

I went from blonde to brunette and I LOVE it.

<3

Alexander McQueen

Designer Alexander McQueen died early this morning in London.

Rest In Peace

Beirut

While browsing Rockstar Diaries, I came across this video that Naomi posted.

...I love love...

and these...

birthdays

MmmMmmMmm...i'm sitting in my room, eating a mini cheese pizza from Pizza Hut!

I got off work today and stopped over at Cosmoprof. Picked up Back to Basic's Blue Lavender conditioner. I haven't used it before, but the girl recommended it, so I thought I would give it a try.

After shopping, I headed over to the gym. I love my gym! It's privately owned, it's never crowded, the owner is nice, the people are nice, and the equipment is nice! Plus, since my parents go to the same gym, the third person to sign up in the family (me), only pays $13.95 a month! Can't beat that!

I did 45 minutes of cardio and 20 minutes of weights. Not too shabby :)

Anyway, I just celebrated my 24th birthday the other weekend. I went out with Katie and Greg to Hollywood for some tasty Mexican food for lunch, sprinkles cupcakes afterward, and sushi for dinner. Here are some photos:

Me and my banana margarita! (i had two)

My blue dress only cost me $14.50 at Forever 21. Hahah. I had a great time! The waiter at the Sushi restaurant put whipped cream all over Ryan and my face, since it was both our birthday celebration. (Me-Jan 30th, him-Feb 1st) He also gave us three free bottles of cold Saki. Amazing.

Coyote's scare me

I just heard the most god awful sound...i think some coyote's just killed an animal. I want to cry...

these are not the sounds I would like to hear before I go to bed...

I am glad my babies (my doggies) are inside safe. I won't let them go outside in the backyard unattended. We live on a hill and the coyote's freak me out.

I hope I can have sweet dreams tonight.

good nite.

p.s. I know I haven't written in a while, but no one reads my blog anyway, so i don't feel bad. Although, maybe if I were to blog more frequently, people would read! HAH.

Kona, my love!

Isn't she beautiful?!? I love my angel <3 <3

Solstice Canyon

I went hiking in Solstice Canyon, with two girlfriends of mine, Krista and Angel last weekend. Solstice Canyon is located of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Malibu. Take Kanan all the way down to PCH and make a left, go down for about a mile, until you see the 76 gas station, make a left onto that street, which will lead you to a parking lot.

Krista and I did not know what to expect, since we haven't been hiking very much. Angel knew the trail, so she was our little tour guide.

We went down a pretty easy trail over to the burnt down mansion. This mansion was build in the 1950's and in the 1980's, a fire broke out and the mansion burnt down.

We sat around and drank some wine (it's legal to drink and walk around naked in the santa monica mountains) until we build up the energy to hike up a mountain. Krista was not happy, since all she had were converse on.
We managed to make it to the top without our heart exploding! It felt great! We could feel the burn!
When we reached the top, the sky looked amazing that day!


What a beautiful hike! There are so many trails around where we live, we want to do this every Saturday!
We headed to the beach near Zuma in Malibu, to watch the sunset and finish our wine. Can you believe this sunset!?


We decided to take photos of our silhouette and the sunset behind us, which turned out great!!!
We finished our wine and decided to headed back up the canyon, looking out the back window, as we listen to the white album, watching the sunset fall into the ocean...beautiful.

Michigan

Who knew that on January 2nd, 2010 it would be 75 degrees outside?! Poor Shirley, will have to leave this 'summer' behind and return to the actual winter that is Michigan. We have been entirely spoiled rotten with such beautiful weather. It's a bit ridiculous, but for the price us Southern Californian's pay, we expect this beautiful weather! Although, a part of me misses the actual four seasons. Sometimes, I close my eyes and it takes me back to a time when I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For the three years during High School, I did adapt to it fairly okay. I was blessed to have two snowboarding/ski hills within a mile from my house, I lived on a lake which made ice skating fun (i was a figure skater at this time as well), and I had a sweet boyfriend to cuddle and drink vanilla chai's with...life was different. A part of me truly misses Michigan. Los Angeles, can be quite toxic. Michigan felt real.