i'm so tired. disneyland wiped me out! i know it's a place for little kids, but shit, standing up most of the day walking around or waiting in line is enough to tire an aging hipster like myself. haha but it was a fun time as i suspected. it was just me, emily and her bf, yves. it was really good to get some nearly one-on-one time with em. and i think yves is awesome. i was glad to get to know him a bit better. gotta know who my em is involved with! haha we hit most of the rides in a very timely fashion. we got lucky with a lot of the lines and fast-passed the big rides. it went really really well. i was surprised. they weren't nearly as good with the teacups as i would have liked but c'est la vie. and it's a small world was closed. so sad. but the rest of the rides were open and we got to all the ones we wanted. all in all it was about a $100 day which is what i expected. expensive yes, but well with it.
the night before we went to little bar for trivia and didn't win. if alex had stayed to the end we could have tied for first. he knew the answer to the final set of questions. gah!! oh well. then some of us went over to the good luck bar since emily wanted to take yves to a themed bar. we closed out the night there.
and finally, on a very personal note. i knew this was coming for years but now the wheels are finally in motion for real. my parents began filing their divorce papers today. it will take several months to finalize and once all is said and done they intend to continue to live together til they retire mid next year. but yea, it's finally ACTUALLY happening. i can't say i ever thought they were going to change their mind. i mean this is years in the making. i just was never truly sure they would go through with it. cuz i mean, they said it was going to happen when i moved to college and that was many years ago. but today is the day. it doesn't bother me that much considering i already knew it was inevitable, but it is affecting me more now that it's real. i have really mixed feelings about it all as well. whether i think it's a good or bad idea. i'm not gonna get into it all cuz it's really, really complicated and those of you who i've spoken to this about know the depth of the situation. anyway, if i start to become terse or weird about shit in the next coming months, this is probably why.
i'm SOOOO full. we went to the griddle this morning for brunch and holy hell i'm full. i mean this is typical when going to the griddle. you eat way too much but it's really really tasty. emily got into town last night with yves and so we went to the griddle this morning. we saw donald faison there! and just the other day when i was at this place across the street from work for lunch, we saw christopher guest. that's two star sitings and unconventional places in one week! haha it's LA. what can ya do?
last night i went to the container store and as usual, i flipped out while i was there. i just love that place. my OCD kicks in and i freak out. i could get this container or that container to organize my shit. i get overwhelmed and have to calm down. i was there for like an hour and i bought a lot of shit. and now that i've put all my shit in the containers, i think i need to get a few more. haha my god.
anyway, now that emily is here we have to go out and party! but first i need to digest my food and take care of my apartment shit. haha
ugh. i HATE HATE HATE doing laundry. look at this mess of clothes i have to put away. 3 loads full and i still had more to do. i just chose not to do it. and i'm not even worrying about my sheets being dirty. i'm moving soon and i won't even own this bed anymore so i could give a fuck about my sheets. but yea. i have to put all this shit away. i am NOT excited about this. rick called me earlier asking if i wanted to go to the edison to see this girl since and i really want to go to that bar very badly but i had no underwear left so i HAD to do my laundry. ugh and now i'll be consumed by it for probably the next hour. i'm also trying to finish this girl's press kit so i can invoice her and be done with it. i want to be free of this project. ugh...i was taking a trip down memory lane earlier reading old journal entries and all i have to say is thank you to all my friends for not shoving my ass to the curb when i was being a whiny bitch. i couldn't even stand reading my pathetic drivel. good lord. ok back to work.
ugh, wednesdays are fucking brutal. i get no real lunch and i drive a shitload and sit in class for 3 hrs. i get home at like 10:30 hungry as hell. at least alex always makes me dinner that night. tonight he made this cajun salmon pasta dish. spicey but really fucking good. yum!
i had dinner with josh last night as planned. his car was boxed in at work so i had to return to the hollywood area two nights in a row. no bother though because we went to the rainbow which i have never been to in my life. yes, i know. it's an LA staple and i have never been. well now i have! i met josh at his work and he said i could park my car in their lot cuz it's for production crew and he's in charge of them so if anyone would be towing my ass it would be him. it was great to catch up. i forgot how much i enjoy our chats. it's been seriously way too fucking long. and mostly i think it's due to the fact that we've been in steady relationships for the past 3 yrs. he just broke up with his gf a few months ago so now he's more free but i've been dating someone consistently for a good 3 yrs. damn! me? jen who used to whine about boys? i reread some of my blog just now and MAN i was a whiner. man o man. i surprised someone didn't slap me. haha
one thing i appreciated out of the 2 hr chat with josh was his willingness to admit our past relations. i find that many guys tend to gloss over and trivialize their past with girls. like i recall most recently i was having dinner with andrew and he had the nerve to say "when we were hanging out..." as if our entire relationship was boiled down to that! hanging out. pfft! last night josh mentioned that at least 3 girls he dated were in the crowd. me, this other girl, and his most recent ex. and for a split second, right as he said that, i thought to myself "huh....but we didn't actually date...not really..." and then he said "well, i mean, i guess we didn't really date, but you know..." but i was glad he at least acknowledged our relations. if he were andrew he would have just said "back when we were hanging out..." haha anyway, men! i was telling laurel about this and she said that she agrees with this statement and starting rattling off examples. i believe i also mentioned this to kyla who agreed. though i could be wrong. i know it was someone i spoke with about this in the past. anyhoo, i will end this post with a photo of josh's relatively new car because i find it baffling. mind you, this boy is a rocker. in a band. tattoos. piercings (well he took most of them out). skinny. works at a club. i mean, you get the idea. actually, i'll leave with a picture of him and a picture of his car.
it's a chrysler 300. it's a total PIMP car! he got a white one like that with 22" rims and tinted windows. i promptly asked where his fur coat and bling were. seriously, i don't get it. this car doesn't suit him AT ALL!!! mind-boggling...
and on a final final note (i know...the car was supposed to be the end), emily comes in two days!! this is very exciting. much fun and debauchery are to be had. :)
so i just got back from seeing josh's band play at the key club. his band is called A.O.V. which is short for astronaut on vacation. i haven't seen josh in ages aside from the random time i ran into him at hollywood video like a year ago. he looks the same except he has this new chest tattoo. gah! ugh. no good. his sleeves were nice but this chest thing. i dunno about that. anyway...
the band was good. best sound i've ever heard from the 3 bands i've seen him in. the lead singer needs a bit of work but the music is solid. it's very rockin. not my usual taste. but i can judge just the same. they looked good out there tho i agree with stacey's comment that the lead singer girl needs to loosen up a bit. she has a nice voice too but then it gets a bit screamy at times and i don't love that. she should just sing in her regular voice. it's much nicer.
right when we got to the show stacey spotted jeffrey from project runway. he was shorter than i expected and was sporting this cowboy hat and boots and a killer stache. my god that thing was intense. during the show she and i realized that the lead singer and the one guitarist were wearing outfits of the same style and material. then we thought that maybe jeffrey designed them. so i asked josh and as it turns out, they did. and now that i am at home and online i realize via myspace that the lead singer is DATING jeffrey!!! this all makes sense. i thought jeffrey was there because his ex-gf and mother of his child, melanie, was good friends with the lead singer, ali, of josh's old band. but nope. what a small world. incestuous indeed.
after the show josh was working and putting the gear away and such and so i couldn't see him. i waited around for a bit and the band that followed was just god awful so i had to split. and just as i was about to go into the parking lot josh called me. so we met up outside for a moment. but we'll catch up tomorrow because i'm taking him out to dinner for an early birthday celebration since i can't make his sunday event. he's turning the big 3-0! so we'll catch up more then. good times.
silly me. i forgot to mention how the jens lekman show was on friday night! the damned heat must be getting to my head....haha anyway the show was fantastic!! i ran into my brother there as well. the opener was this dude who was part of a band i think but the band decided not to show. so it was like karaoke night with this dude singing songs we've never heard of. and he had no enthusiasm. it was just sad really. like the songs sounded really pretty and nice. but DAMN the man needs to get the act in gear. where is the band? why isn't he playing at least some instrument? he was just standing there singing with his hands in his pockets. wtf?
anyway, then jens came on after a nearly hour long break in btwn. jens is adorable. just adorable. he was telling funny little stories btwn songs and would make little gestures and whatnot when he was singing. his backing band is entirely female except the guy who does all the sound effects. ahh it was just too cute. when he sang "a postcard to nina" he told the rest of the story behind it in btwn the lyrics. and then during the encore he brought out the horn section and did a great and energetic rendition of "a sweet summer's night on hammer hill" which was just too cute. then he came out for a second encore and did some accoustic stuff. the crowd was really into it all and i was just loving it. i love jens!
it's all happening. i've begun the packing process and i feel a bit better about how manageable it will be. i started throwing out a ton of crap that i haven't touched in years. like old essays and shit. i mean really, when am i going to need a paper i wrote in high school? or a comparative film essay? really? come on. i've been toting this shit around for years and haven't touched it once except to put it into a box and move it yet again. so out the door it all went. it felt good. but now i have a huge pile of crap on my floor that needs organization. i am going to buy a bunch of plastic containers of various sizes to put my photos, portfolios, letters, cards, etc. once it's all in containers it will be very easy to store and transport. i tried to go to the container store today to get said containers and forgot that practically everything is closed for easter. grrrr... so i'll have to go tomorrow after work and before josh's show at the key club.
i am struggling to get my flash work done. i don't want to do anything. it's so nice outside i just want to do nothing. yet i'm at my computer trying to start working. it's super sunny and hot outside right now. almost unbearably so. i mean it's march and it's like 85 outside. jesus!
this friday emily comes to town with her bf, yves. very exciting. i've never met this boy. i can't wait to see what he's like. they've been going out for quite some time now so maybe he's the one! regardless she's coming to town and and for sure we're going to disneyland. i can't wait. my wallet can, but i can't! damn tickets are like $65 and then there's all the food expenses and the random crap you inevitably buy when trapped in the magical land. ah well. it'll be fun. you can't put a price on fun. well...maybe you can. haha
i'm tired and rundown and i think i'm getting sick. when is the weekend coming?!
so my latest musical obsession is the soon-to-be-released new mystery jets album. it comes out in the UK next monday. i got my hands on it via james and GODDAMN it's good. originally my favorite song was "flakes" which i had heard awhile back before i listened to the whole album. but now having listened a few times i must say my fave has changed to the following:
mystery jets - "young love"
i love the baseline in it and the lyrics are so cute and remind me of my college years... let's have a look:
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets
for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
tell me have you seen the girl
i've met just once before
one night of love
nothing more nothing less
one night of love
to put my head in a mess
is that you on the bus?
is that you on the train?
you wrote your number on my hand
and it came off in the rain
one night of love
nothing more nothing less
one night of love
has put my bed in a mess
is that you on the bus?
is that you on the train?
you wrote your number on my hand
and it came off in the rain
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets
for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
tell me have you seen the girl
i've met just once before
woah-oh
young love
never seems to last
far too young
until they have a past
playing games
people move so fast
you don't need eyes to see
if someones got a heart of glass
young love
never seems to last
far too young
until they have a past
one night of love
nothing more nothing less
one night of love
has left my heart in a mess
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
searching all the crowded streets
for the face that i once saw
if i only knew your name
i'd go from door to door
tell me have you seen the boy
i've met just once before
woah-oh
it's totally the kind of shit we all went through in college. meet a guy/girl at a party, make out with them, maybe stay the night, and then never see/speak to them again. ahhh, the memories. maybe not as drastic as to NEVER see them again. but practically never again and definitely that same sentiment of "he seemed cool. maybe it could have been more?!" and then just never pans out to be anything. i love this song cuz it's catchy and it resonates with me. so i felt compelled to post it much like the other times i have posted songs, usually out of the song really just hitting me over the head. i mean this isn't some mp3 blog so i can't just be posting any ole shit i like. that would be too much. but this, this song is a gem. listen and love it.
alex just made amazing pot stickers and peanut sauce from scratch! he found this recipe on a magazine or something and set out to cook them. and while they took awhile to make, they were damn good. definitely one to file away for the "special" recipe times since they took so long to make. not really appropriate for the standard monday night. but eh, live and learn. the point is that they were really really delicious!! alex is a much better cook than i will ever be. i realized that one downfall to my cooking is my OCD. when i walked into the kitchen in the middle of his cooking it was a huge mess. i was sort of freaking out. and when i cook, things get messy and then i try and clean them as i go but meanwhile the food is suffering. burning, needing to be flipped, or whatever because i'm there trying to clean. i just can't handle it and i don't know if i ever will. so fair trade off. he does the cooking and i do the cleaning up. it works well.
this weekend is sadly coming to a close. too soon as always. i woke up uber late today which was no help of course. ah well. gotta sleep in sometimes....
friday night alex, peter, and i went to see be kind, rewind. i have to say, i was pleasantly surprised. i had read about the movie and seen the trailer and was not really that interested. i WANTED to be interested because i love michel gondry but i couldn't get into the premise or the trailer. jack black is funny but sometimes he's a bit much. and i wasn't sure which was going to the case. mos def was awesome in hitchhiker's but would he be good in this? moreover, would there be any cool visuals like in gondry's past films and if so, would they trump a weak story/plot as they did (sorry to say) in science of sleep? despite all these worries, i went to see the movie anyway and i left the theater with a smile on my face. it was just so cute and fun. i mean the plot is totally silly and not that exciting but the the characters are so endearing. it's just a fun movie. so i recommend it if you want a feel good time at the movies. that's what you'll get.
saturday was errand day extraordinaire. i went to get this picture frame that holds about half of my glorious vintage women's and men's clothing postcards. i want to display them nicely in the new apt so i wanted to get a collage frame and the only place that sold one which held a lot was linen's n things out in glendale. so i had to trek out that way. then alex and i enjoyed some delicious chicago-style deep dish pizza at this place called masa right next to the echo. MY GOD it was sooo fucking tasty. granted i've never had this type of pizza before, nor have i been to chicago, so i'm not sure how this stacks up to the "real" deal. but i know this was tasty so that's about all i can say. i think if i lived in chicago i would order deep dish all the time. it's like taking pizza to a whole new level. a level which i can hang with.
after pizza i went to FINALLY get my haircut. it's been far far too long. i walked down to fresh pressed while i waited and spoke with the people there about the procedure and pricing and such. they were super nice people and i'm totally going to get a shirt made there. i will return next weekend probably. after my haircut i walked to intelligentsia where alex was hanging out with will and dawn. they have the clover coffee machine there which is a this one cup brew system. i still haven't had it yet. the line was too long when i got there so i opted to not wait. and the only other place i've been that had this machine was in brooklyn where the guy that worked there told me about intelligentsia actually. but when i was in brooklyn with kyla i was sick so all i could drink was tea. no coffee. anyway, no clover for me.
after that alex and i went to home depot to get paint for our new apt. yes i know we don't move in for a month but hell, i want to get this shit in order. PLUS, if we get the paint before april 1st, we can have the people paint it for us before we move in. while they fix up the place after the current tenant moves out, they can paint the walls we want to paint. if we wait til we move in, then we have to wait for them to paint and therefore wait to move stuff in. so it makes more sense to give them the paint now so they can get it done! so we went to home depot and bought our paints. then we went to target to return some crap. outside target i saw brand new parking meters that take credit cards!!! i've never seen these before. i guess they are fairly new. i love the idea. i am always looking for quarters and can't find any. now i can just swipe my card. brilliant! i took some photos for show and tell.
later on in the night we headed out to venice to celebrate arian's bday at this bar. people were already at arian and sai's place and then mosied on over to the bar where james, alex and i went to straight away. it was good times even if it was crowded and loud as hell. on the way back home, james was telling me (yet again) how much i need to get a nintendo DS. james has been trying to convince me i need one of these for awhile now. but i think it's finally sticking. the reason being that i'm going to be riding the metro once i move and therefore i'll need something to occupy myself. reading a book will probably make me sick since i tend to get sick riding on vehicles so that's out. so a DS sounds sensible. so when i got home i looked up some games he told me about and i have practically convinced myself i need one of these. if i get one it won't be til late next month once i've moved and started taking the metro. if i get one beforehand it will just be one more thing to move to the new apt and also will collect dust since i can't see myself playing this in my spare time. i just don't like video games that much. but this thing has a couple games i would play. namely this one that has a bunch of cards games including spades, hearts and my fave, bridge! i haven't playing bridge in so long that i'll need to brush up. there's also this puzzle game that looks cool. i'd play games like that. nothing that requires time and effort to beat. like sidescroller type games. no no. just small mini games. anyway, i have time to stew over this idea but yea, i might be getting a game console. something i haven't done since my parents got me the original gameboy ages and ages ago. man that thing was brick! haha
BLARGH!!! my ikea idea won't work! the table tops they have are too stainless steel looking and dont match the powder coated steel of a cabinet. UGH! so i have to start my endeavors all over. i really just do NOT know what to do. in order to have a nice desk i have to shell out so much cash. and it pains me greatly. ugh. i dont know what to do. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!
oh man. alex's house is full of crap right now. we ordered some stuff for our new apt and it has all arrived and it's awesome. in particular we got this one lounge chair that is just so comfy and really cool and modern looking. alex's parents got it for us for our housewarming gift. it's just awesome. i fucking love it.
meanwhile i am trying very hard to find a desk that i can afford and like. it's like IMPOSSIBLE to find an affordable desk that is nice. it really is. and when i say affordable i mean like $200. if you go up to about $500 you can maybe find something. and if you go up to $1000 you'll find some cool stuff. it really takes about $1500 to get a really nice desk. but i mean that's just out of the question. i really want to spend about $500 at the most. i looked ALL OVER THE PLACE. we all know how much of a research internet whore i am. if i can't find it, it probably doesn't exist. so i have devised a new plan. i will try my hardest to build my own desk out of ikea parts and hopefully one cabinet from west elm. i want to make my own version of an L-shape tanker steel desk. not because i'm so creative or inventive or like challenges. no, no. i just can't fucking afford an L-shaped vintage tanker desk. they are at least $1500 and that's just too damn much. so i'm going to try and make my own. i'm going to ikea tomorrow to see if what i planned out is going to work. i'm crossing my fingers for a masterpiece.
and don't even get me started on mid-century modern style desks. those are gorgeous and even more expensive. le sigh.
ahhh it's so weird. it's 5pm and it feels like its 2pm. it's so goddamned sunny out right now. ahhhhh!!!! daylight savings is always so weird at first. i mean it will be lovely to drive home in pure sunlight but it's just weird. like today, it must have been at least 75 degrees outside. it was hot as shit. wtf? it's MARCH!!! gah. and i'm cramped up inside working on this god awful website that i signed up to do just because i wanted to the quick cash to pay for apartment stuff and yet i'm just like UGH I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS! but whatever. it will help pay for shit. so far all of the freelance i've picked up in the past month has paid for all the apartment shit that alex and i need. i think we've got it worked out where the only thing we'll have to pay for out of our own pockets (like out of our actual paychecks, not this freelance and whatnot) is the couch. so that's not too bad. i want to make this move as painless as possible. mentally, physically, and monetarily. so alas i'm stuck inside on a beautiful sunday working on a goddamn website. sigh.
yesterday one of the main things i did was go to home depot with alex and look at paint swatches. oh god i know the hell of the paint swatch situation. alex and i figured that we want to paint 3 walls in our new apt. the big wall behind the couch in the living room, the wall behind the bed in the bedroom, and one of the walls in the bathroom. basically we don't want to paint EVERYTHING cuz it might be overkill so just some accent walls would be nice. so we wanted to pick up paint swatches now to stew over them a bit. then get the paint in time so the guy can paint the walls before we move in. cuz once all the shit is in there, i certainly don't want to paint the walls after that. that's why i never painted my room here. once all the shit was in place i didn't want to move it.
so i've been looking at interior design stuff for color scheme ideas and based on the furniture we have/intend to buy for the various rooms, we agreed that a light blue for the living room would be best. i think because we are getting an orange chair and a black couch, the blue should have hints of green. just subtle hints. so we picked up a bazillion swatches and of course as i look at them now, they are all just slightly different. it's like one minute i think "fresh water" would be a good color, the next minute i think "ice flower" would be better. that sort of shit. the bedroom wall we want to be a really dark blueish green. i think this one will be easy. we got 4 swatches and i think i know which one i like best. and then the bathroom we want to be a punchy lime green. i have two swatches and now it's just up to how punchy we want it to be. that shouldn't be hard either. it's just the damned living room wall. i think partly because it's the biggest wall we are going to paint and you'll see it immediately when you get inside the apt. so it feels so important and it's the "wrong" color it won't feel right. gah!
anyway, last night was a great night out. true dance party form. we all convened at the short stop (minus a few faces who couldnt make it sadly) and danced the night away. byron even came along! he always gives me one too many drinks/shots and in the end i puke it up. but the entire night was stellar til 2 min before i went to bed. i puked up that last shot i did and then just hit the hay. hardly missed a beat. that's cuz i'm a pro puker as i always tell people. we took two photobooth strips but i don't feel like posting them because they aren't amazing. just so so. they are on my facebook if people care to see.
ok. seriously now. wtf? i, as a faithful graphic designer, cannot NOT have these. PANTONE fucking mugs?!?!? i JUST bought the helvetica mug the other day and now these come along? bloody hell. these are also $18 each before shipping. gah!!! i can't afford all these mugs! i mean i guess i don't need every color but still. i can't even decide what color i like best. i think maybe orange since it's brightest but i do love red in general. sigh...just more crap to spend my money on. haha
i am getting ready for flash class right now and as i was driving here i had a flashback to like 4 yrs ago when i did shrooms with this guy from art school. he lived out this way near otis and i recall how the incident occurred. i had known him around campus very randomly and we had spoken a few times. one night we were chatting and he said he had some extra shrooms leftover from some other night. he invited me over to share them with him. mind you i barely knew this guy but he seemed cool and i was young and impetuous. so i went over and we ate the shrooms, did some art, made out, and the next day i woke up too late to go to type class and played hooky. i barely spoke to the guy afterwards. ah...those were the days. i don't do shit like that anymore. partly cuz i'm dating alex but mostly cuz i'm getting older, have a job, and just all the other things with maturing i suppose. but those were the days indeed.
last night i got a text message from josh who i used to hang out with all the time. our hangouts were always totally random though. "hey, it's 2am. wanna get coffee and cake?" sure! shit like that. granted out hangouts were sometimes just glorified booty calls since we were hooking up, but even long after we were hooking up, we'd still just randomly hang out at weird ass hours. but then we both started dating people steadily and i got a regular job and all that ended. again, so sad...but josh texted me last night cuz his band is playing before metal skool later this month and he put me on the guestlist. i think i'll go cuz i haven't seen josh in ages. and i haven't seen his new band either. we're gonna try and hang out this weekend. something we haven't done in a LONG time. the last time i saw him was when i ran into him and his gf like a few months ago at the hollywood video by my house.
sigh.
to be young and impulsive again....haha well i don't yearn for it per se but sometimes i think about how awesome it would be if i could just do that shit and not worry about repercussions.
anyway, class is about to start. time to jet.
so i finally broke down and bought this. it's been around since the helvetica movie came out but i just never bought it due to price. it's $18 + tax and shipping. so really it's like $25. but shit, i fucking LOVE helvetica. i own the movie and the book. i have to own this mug. and i mean $25 isn't breaking the bank. it's just in relation to the cost of a regular mug it's super pricey. but last night i caved to my urges and purchased it. i can't wait to drink my coffee out of it!
i just saw a guy dancing on the bus. i don't know the details of this because i was driving but like i saw a guy on the bus next to me, dancing up a store. like in the aisle of the bus. it was quite bizarre. i had better get used to such things as i believe i will be taking the metro to work once i move. alex and i found a place at the sunset and vine complex which means i'll be like a block away from the metro stop. this is a glorious thing considering i HATE driving and to take the metro to/from work would be simply amazing. the apt we found is quite large and not particularly cheap. it's like expensive apt price. much like brian and jessica's apt. but as i have seen them love their apt and i am starting to love their apt for them, i think i would like to live in such a place. at least after living in a messy house for so long it will be a nice change of pace. and since alex and i can afford, so be it. the complex is super new and has a pool where you can project movies onto the blank wall above and have a pool/movie party. that sounds like fun for the summer time. and it has lots of fireplaces throughout the common areas where there are fountains and foilage. the gym is large enough that i think i can quit my gym membership as well. and of the apt has all the assumed ammenities of a nice new apartment. these things include an in-unit washer/dryer and super large (like seriously it's the size of a small room) walk-in closet. it's a very hip complex and i would guess a lot of unemployed trust-fund wannabe actors live there. the reason we didn't choose to live in brian and jessica's complex is that first of all they didn't have any 1 bedrooms that we found large enough and even if they did, it would have cost more than this apartment on sunset and vine. i think miracle mile is just a bit more expensive than hollywood. anyway, i'm excited to buy furniture, paint walls, etc. i want to live in a nice apt!
in other news, my car battery crapped out this morning. i mistakenly left one of my tiny dashboard lights on overnight and it killed the bugger. so i had to get AAA out this morning and i was late to work. the man tested my battery and found it was suuuuuper weak. turns out it's the original battery from when i got the car nearly EIGHT years ago! i could have sworn i got a new one but i guess i didn't. this would make sense why it died so easily. so i bought a new one and now all is well.
yesterday i had lunch with gino FINALLY. we work across the street from each other and tried to have lunch like a month ago and it didn't pan out cuz i was working long hours to finish this booklet. and we just haven't made a plan since. so yesterday we had lunch finally! and of course the place we ate at did NOT have dessert which sucks cuz i told him back in january i'd take him out to lunch for dessert for his bday. sigh, the quest continues.
this weekend i saw jen run the marathon and she looked really awesome! i commend her for her efforts. if only amanda could have joined her. she got a stress fracture in her foot like 3 wks ago and so she couldn't run. how fucking shitty is that? all that goddamned training and then you can't run it! i would be so fucking pissed. though from the way she describes her anger, i think she was more pissed than i could ever imagine amanda being pissed. but rightly so i say, rightly so.
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