San Diego

I had a pretty good time on Friday night hanging out with a friend, although, getting home at 3:00 A.M didn't help me to be particularly excited to wake up at 8 A.M to head down to San Diego. Thankfully, I wasn't driving and got to rest a bit on the drive down.

San Diego was beautiful, like always. We visited Liz, while her husband was out of town on business. She is two months away from having a baby! She's getting bigger everyday!

We went out to dinner for some Chinese food, hit up the Red Light District, ate pizza, drank wine, and watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was my first time, and it was hilarious. :)

Sunday, we went to Balboa Park and walked around, went to an orchid exhibit, saw a bunch of trippy flowers, turtles, got pictures of airplanes flying over my head, drank good coffee, yummy oatmeal and a pomegranate mimosa.

Liz's Great Dane puppy, Bear.

It's always very nice to get out of town (even for a day) to help get your mind off of things. :)

Photos taken with my hipstamatic app on my iPhone

modcloth

This weekend would of been a great day for rain boots. Even though it wasn't very rainy, the sprinkling would of been a damn good excuse to sport these rain boots (color is similar to the underneath part of my hair!) from ModCloth

and these light lace caramel brown boots also from ModCloth.

Or this retro green "Hawk Ridge Coat"

and this sweet cupcake iPhone cover

Is also loving this black dress from UO and this couch, perfect for reading a book on a rainy day Sunday.

i love veggies

veggies are the best.

<3

cho cho san's and late nights

Ahhh, how I LOVE my weekends and appreciate them so very much. Friday night I met Katie after work at Starbucks and we hung out there for a while and ran a few Halloween errands at Target. Got some dinner at Wood Ranch. I got a delish Strawberry Basil martini and an Asian salad. I ended up going home afterwards since I still had a bit of a cold. After watching episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, an unexpected surprise of a text message from Devin poped up on my iPhone. Apparently, he was at his mom's house for the weekend before flying home to Colorado. I drove over there at 1am Saturday morning and chilled with him. Spent the whole weekend pretty much with him. We chilled outside talking until 4am drinking Pumpkin Ale and talking politics and life, which is what we always did back in the day but we would be on the roof of my parent's house.
Saturday, I got my hair done (blonde with dark red/purple underneath) and went out to Cho Cho San's for some delicious sushi with Devin, Ben, Devin's mom Christi, and Greg. It was a good night. A good cold and drizzly night! I tried one of Christi's stuffed mushrooms she ordered, which was heavenly beyond words. I also got my favorite roll, the 911. Melts in your mouth! nom!

Conor

Me and Conor Oberst in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2002 at a Rilo Kiley concert.

GOOD TIMES.

I've got a cold. Time to get some sleep. xoxo

Vanity Fair Nov 2010

"I picked up a light-weight chair and slammed it...against the glass intentionally. It took a lot of banging to get even a small piece of glass- so I went over with the glass concealed in my hand and sat quietly on the bed waiting for them to come in. They did, and I said to them 'if you are going to treat me like a nut, I'll act like a nut.' "

-Marilyn Monroe on being in the psychiatric ward.

 

Go pick up the lastest Vanity Fair with Marilyn Monroe on the cover. 

photo cred: vanity fair [dot] com

Bob's Big Boy and Bev Hills Hotel

Lots of driving today! Katie and I went to Cinema Secrets for make up and to check out Halloween costumes. We found this Marsha Brady wig that would be perfect as a Sharon Tate wig! I still don't know what I am going as but my initial idea was to be a hippie, so I think Sharon would be perfect!

After buying make up, we made our way to Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake! We magically found Marilyn Monroe sitting at the counter!

How cool is that? I wonder if she dresses like that everyday or if she is an actress or impersonator...? maybe an impersonator at universal studios, perhaps? I may never know, but what I do know is that it was awesome and that I just had to walk up to her and ask for a photo.

After dining, in total 50's diner style, we went over the hill down Benedict Canyon. Made a quick stop at Cielo Drive to take a picture and then off to The Beverly Hills Hotel to drop Katie off with Noelle.

I eventually made it home after a few stops and made some spiced pumpkin bread 

i seriously suggest going to your nearest world market and pick up their mix. it is SO good.

More Vegas photos

lunch @ the grand lux inside the venetian

Thursday

it's been cold, cloudy and rainy all week! Today was a mix of sunshine, blue skies and fluffy dark clouds. It was really beautiful actually, especially during sunset.

walked with Greg to Albertson's during lunch to get some tea. I am loving Pom's peach tea.

i love walking out of these doors...not in.

peanut butter chocolate and carrot walnut cupcakes from Sweet Arleen's in Westlake. the peanut butter wasn't mine, but the carrot walnut was delicious! 

right now i have a sudden urge to be weak and contact a guy who could care less if i am dead or alive so instead i am writing this post. i am strong and won't be weak. i will not let a guy's mind games bring me down. i am worth SO much more. :-P I am glad I recognize this..

I'm addicted to...

my new boots

strawberry hi-chew's

vanilla bean candles

cloudy days

The Strange

I just had kinda a strange experience...but it could just be me. Sitting in bed, watching the news, when all of a sudden, my iPhone (which is LOCKED...password locked as well) starts playing "Above You" by The Whitest Boy Alive off the album "Dreams". That's never happened, and I don't know how it happened. I haven't listened to that album in months, and when I clicked back on my iPhone it was open to Passion Pit, which is what I was listening to last.

I am confused.


Anyway, I need a new job before I pull an Office Space. Just kidding.... I'm trying though! Two interviews last week. There must be something out there for me, just like, there must be a man out there for me. Things take time and I have to be patient.

Went through some old photos of when I met Alex in London yesterday. 

The best time of my life.

My space

I rearranged my bathroom cabinet into a nail polish cabinet! It was a pretty relaxing weekend, minus Friday. Friday I went out to Mary and Mike's, walked down to Sunset Terrace with the crew and had a good night drinking. Saturday I ran some errands, cleaned and organized my room, and today I went to Urban and got the magenta holga 135 cam. It's $29.99 online and was $48.00 at the store, so I went home and printed out this page and they gave me the online sale price! Which means I didn't have to pay for the shipping and wait a week for the delivery! ;-)

fun apps

I love the "Picture Show" app on my iPhone. It will take a photo and add multiple exposures to it! Unfortunately, it only does it with one photo at a time. It's cool though, until they make an app that will allow multiple photos for multiple exposures, I'll continue to play with my split film cam and hopefully soon my holga ( i still need to buy one).