i'm blogging from the sky! this virgin flight is wifi enabled and for $12.95 you can get online. yes i know $12.95 is a lot of money but hell, i fucking hate flying and this helps distract me. and also considering i barely spent any money this weekend i think i can splurge for some wifi. i think i might shoe shop for awhile. that can easily waste an hour or so...
the trip to DC was good. i don't love DC but i like visiting it. there are so many museums and things to see and i barely saw anything! we went to the national portrait gallery which was across the street from our hotel. the hotel was cute and funky and if you wanted a fish in your room they brought you one. here is a photo of hugs looking at the fish and driving the fish crazy.
cute huh? our fish was named bill cosby. the fish in the lobby somehow had a long double name of "michael jackson & farrah fawcett" but today when we left the hotel there was a new fish. i forget it's name. haha
anyway, the DC trip was filled with WAAAAAAY too much food. not enough dunkin donuts coffee. and only a moderate amount of touristy attractions. we saw the lincoln, jefferson and FDR memorials sincce those were the ones i didn't get to see when i was there for the inaug. still no white house tour. still no air and space musuem. still no lots of things. this shit takes forever! but we did get to see the newseum today which is a really rad museum. i could have spent even longer in there. but we had to get going. i will have to return to DC again and just plow through all the museums i guess. one day...
alex's mom was super happy to see us fly out for her bday. we had a fabulous dinner that first night. i got to get to know julia's bf, jeff, more. i really like him. i think he's great for her. so i hope they get married one day. ok time to write a blog post for work and do some other distracting internet things. haha
ok so at work we do those design challenges. the last one was the mixed cd which we all rocked. now this time we did "if they mated" images. i made a few but my piece de resistance is that badboy up above. it all stemmed from this image of chris (most of the person is chris) that i found where he had that pose. arms crossed. lips pursed. i thought it would be a good one to use. i started by mating him with andrew because andrew was the first person in my pile of people to use being that his name starts with an A. as i was making this person i realized that andrew and chris has a lot of similar features. such that in the end the new person didn't look THAT different or that weird. i went on to make other people but then came back to this one and decided to push it farther. i casually said to someone, "he kind of looks like a boy band guy or heartthrob." then i thought about the old magazines i used to look at for NKOTB and 90210 and realized this is what had to be done. so i made a version of those pull out posters you find in the teenybopper mags. i went with tiger beat since it was the easiest to find the logo and such. i went to their site and saw that they had all these 3D galleries of like the jonas brothers and such. so i decided to take my poster one step farther and go with a 3D heartthrob poster complete with "autograph" and all. i wasn't sure if my quick and dirty 3D method would work but by god it did! now this bad boy is hanging up in my "office" at home and on the pillar behind where i sit at work. people have stopped by and used the 3D glasses to check it out. i think it's pretty fucking sweet. a little pat on the back for me.
ok i gotta get back to work. i'm dead tired and i had to work late tonight. at least i finished all my packing for DC. i'm taking my laptop (virgin has wifi!!) and my boombox duffle/oversized bag. i'm excited to use it for the first time!
i guess it is true that with twitter and facebook and all these other means of quick self expression and/or snippets of life, the blog really does fall by the wayside. nevertheless i want to continue it because when i'm old i can look back at it but twitter not so much.
this past week has solidified for me the idea that summer is amazing and this summer will be full of as much greatness as last summer. i'm totally excited!
i saw 2 shows this past week, 1 film festival movie, and solidified AA vegas plans.
the 2 shows were both at the troub and the first was white rabbits and the second was grizzly bear. both, i believe, are NY bands. both were excellent. white rabbits i realized i didn't have their latest album. half the songs they played i didn't know but still loved. so i must check out their new album. i went to that show with byron. it was very chill. in and out in an hour. good stuff. the grizzly bear show however, was more epic. it was one of those shows that made me think "i'm really glad i live in LA." they are totally larger than a troubadour type band and they had a show slated for friday at the wiltern. at the last minute they added a show to the troub and alex and i jumped on it. and we were not disappointed. they were really fucking good. the crowd was speckled with a few assholes which made for some money moments btwn songs but it didn't tarnish the show one bit. they didn't play the one song i to-die-for-love but oh well. what can ya do? they were definitely on point with their sound and it was well with my $35+ ticket including ticketmaster charges.
after the grizzly bear show, alex and i met up with rick, gen, neil, amanda and visiting friends greg and reina at a bar in hollywood for some drinks followed by late night roscoes. all in all a good night.
friday night was when i went to the LA film fest with brian and jessica to see "hump day" which was an interesting and funny low budget film about two friends who want to make a porno. right before the movie started i was reminded of the film "chuck and fuck" and had hoped it wouldn't be like that. and it wasn't. thank god. cuz that movie was just WEIRD and awkward.
this coming week alex and i are having dinner with sungmi and will on monday. i have to ship a bunch more plastique* stuff. i set up a chase business bank account yesterday and i'm going to send back my paperwork to legalzoom for the seller's permit. so it's nearly all in order. my stamps and boxes and postcards should be arriving soon. it's great! thursday night alex and i are flying out to DC for a long weekend to celebrate his mom's birthday. i hope the weather is good and not crappy east coast summer thunderstorm weather.
oh what a failed day. we were all supposed to go camping and then it just went all wrong. well, sort of. first up, last night alex, byron, stacey and i went to taco zone to rejoice in the fact that it went back into action 1 day after some stupid fucks threw gasoline on it and set it on fire. no one was hurt but they had to repair their truck. we went last night to celebrate.
oh man it was so tasty.
today was supposed to be camping day right outside of LA. but i'm at home with alex and brian and jessica are on their way so we can go see a movie. basically the visibility SUCKED driving up there. amanda and christine barreled through while brian and jessica got a flat tire and turned around. rick just called from a payphone and said it's gorgeous up there. too bad. i was not willing to drive through this for 35miles to find out:
alex and i assumed it was going to be shitty up there. i guess you are above the clouds so there's no problems. but i wasn't willing to drive with practically no visibility to find out. i don't care what anyone says. it's not like it's some amazing place. like when alex and i were in south america and we were trying to hike to the base of the towers with the group and it was raining and the visibility was super bad. we were willing to stick it out. even though the group eventually collectively decided not to continue after about 45min. but we tried since we had come so far. this place is an hour outside the city near pasadena. we can always go again. i think we made the right decision, even if it is gorgeous at the top. so yea, total camping FAIL today. sad. but now we're gonna go see "away we go" at 7:40 so it's all good.
other things to recap. we had another company party on tuesday. went well. got to have a verbal spar with paula's friend pete. i love giving people shit. and he does too. so it worked well. wednesday we went to psychic bunny to shoot some stuff and i got to play around on their awesome sit and scoot type scooters. oh man. hours and hours of fun!
had a big couple of days with plastique* this week. i took 12 packages to the post office today. woo! good times. i got my business cards back from the company and they look awesome. the green was a bit more green than i wanted so now im just shifting all my greens a bit more to match the card. oh well. but overall they look awesome. i'm totally excited!
long weekend! technically not long but felt long. perhaps because i left work early on friday. what a lovely way to end a week. leaving work 2.5 hrs early. not that much, but really makes a difference.
i went to get my legs waxed with my extra time. went over to westwood village and got some more vitamins followed by a lovely wax at bliss. it's summertime and i had a wedding to go to so a wax was in order! after that i went home and got ready for dinner with alex and his parents and their friends. alex's parents were in town this weekend starting thursday night. dinner was lovely. we went to providence which i've been to before. so damn tasty.
yesterday i got up early to get my brows waxed. then alex and i went to his parent's hotel to have lunch. then we went to pick up alex's desk and lounged around the apt for a bit. then we walked over to space 1520 to get some coffee at snackbar because they serve colomb coffee which is a philly coffeeshop that's really good. plus it was just a relaxing way to spend an hour or so since dinner was so early. after that we got dressed and headed out to dinner at little door. alex and i set up the dinner. well, mostly alex. i was just trying to help with location ideas. it was very last minute and we had a huge group of 15 people. so it was a bit intense. we were lucky to get this res. little door is so cute and quaint and romantic. the food is excellent and the service is quite good too. we sat down to a lovely 4 hour dinner over wine and lots of food including 3 dessert samplers for the table. i was stuffed by the end. conversations were great. it was all just fabulous. so what does something like that cost? well i was able to nearly guess perfectly. $1450 with gratuity. but given the number of people, not surprising. in fact we were discussing how little door is such a great date place but then it's like how many dates does it take til someone would take you there since it's very romantic and kind of pricey. i'd say at least a month of dating. maybe more. unless you want to try and be ultra slick. then i'd say about 3 dates. either way, it's a great spot. totally worth checking out.
after dinner we were completely stuffed and the chances of seeing a movie were getting slimmer by the moment. plus i had to wake up early today for the wedding and alex had to get over to hang out with his parents a bit before they flew out. so after dinner we just went home.
today was jessica and tyler's wedding. jessica and tyler are really good friends of laurel and they were so kind to invite byron, jeff and i to their wedding. we've met them countless times but it's never expected to get invited to a wedding if you don't know the bride and groom THAT well. so very nice of them. jeff never made it (OF COURSE) but byron and i did and it was the epic journey to get formal shorts for byron so he'd fit right in with the well-dressed men of hour. here are a few photos:
i think they worked out well in the end. actually byron and i felt a bit overdressed for the occasion. the wedding was very non-traditional and lowkey and a lot of people that showed up were wearing very UNformal clothing. i mean i toned it back and wore a sundress (albeit bright and thusly attracting attn... ehhh) and sandals since laurel said everyone would be wearing sandals and the like, but i still felt really dressy compared to say the uncle wearing new balance cut off sandals and cargo shorts. oh well. it's nice to look nice and overdressed rather than underdressed. so fuck it. byron and i looked good.
i did however get a lovely sunburn all over my exposed skin areas. i mean nothing terrible but i'm definitely pink. i didn't realize it was going to be so warm and sunny. she said bring sunscreen but i just sluffed it off. oh well. i needed a tan anyway. they had a whole huge spread of candies to take much like a candy store and i ate so much that i felt a bit ill. definitely need to hit the gym tomorrow after this gluttonous weekend. when i got home i was so tired from the sun and all the sugar that i passed out for a few hours. oops! and now it's just about time to go to bed. camping next weekend!
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