Monday, June 25, 2012

2 Busy 2 Blog

So as it turns out once again I am TooooO busy to be vegan.

Once things calm down I shall return on the quest!

In the meantime, check out my webseries True Perfection! http://www.trueperfectionshow.com

Over & Out

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Day 1

Here we go......VEGAN AGAIN!!



So I postponed the starting date two days because I got caught up in the weekend and forgot to take photos of what I was doing and then I had the WORST date ever on Saturday night. Oof, still recovering from that. I mean, jesus are all the sane, not dorky, not self-centered, salaried eligible men in Los Angeles taken? #EVIDENTLY



Today for breakfast I forgoe'd the delicious delicious bagels and went straight to a fruit drink and a banana. I mean if you're gonna go vegan, go vegan all the way and get healthy right? No way am I craving cream cheese and cheesy onion bagel....no way at all.....Ughh



Here's something cool that happened over the weekend. I got comissioned for my first paying social media job! (ooo!) and it got my mind a-turning and I realized that I should totally turn this into a freelance thing. I mean why not? I already do it for my work, might as well do some ish on the side. So next project is BellaWest Eco Salon, I'm looking right at you and the social media sexiness you're about to get.


In the True Perfection world, things are moving pretty swimingly there as well. Today the newest video was released featuring the lovely miss. Chloe Jane Clemons and her never dying love for True Perfection! Basically before we shot the actual show we shot some funny pre-production videos of the actors as their characters. I think they're hysterical. Sure they're ultra ultra low budget, but who the hell cares, it was fun!




Okay and lets talk about the mini lunch saga. I was SUPER stoked to be ordering from Blu Jam Cafe because I heard it had great vegan food, had great reviews. Everyone at the office was super stoked as well because I mean grass fed organic? Yes please! And then get this, when I go to order they say they don't take orders more then 10! WTF. I tried to rationally talk it out, since they have a catering menu on their website, how this makes a difference and the chick goes "I've had people try and bribe me, they just won't do it." Then I asked if I could just place an order for ten then call back with an order for four, and she said that wouldn't work....even though it would....Uhm...Right.



So here's my official review of that place DONT GO THERE. It's just like the Griddle Cafe, they're so high on themselves and know that they have great food that they're total DICKS to people who try and order from them. I mean, also shooting themselves in the foot by losing business of all the production companies in the area.



To pull it together last minute I went to ol' faithful known as the alcove. And talk about a total switch around, the woman was so pleasent on the phone, they went out of their way to make sure everything was taken care of. And get this...gave us a free PIE. And not like a small pie. Like a ginormous pecan pie! (that I couldn't have)(I made up that it wasn't vegan)



For lunch I got a really nommy chinese wrap that I don't know the name of I just said asian cuisine, tofu please and they whipped it together. Now THAT's how you start off being vegan.


No Photo. Nommed it. Sorry.



The rest of the day was a blur of work, an amazing conversation with Sydney that could start the venture of the rest of our lives (oo!) And then watched the film Alpha Dog which kind of made me want to kill myself. Christ, talk about depressing movies.



Rio ticket next week!!!





Vegan Day 1 P0wn


Friday, June 15, 2012

Tree Leaves - 1 Day Left

We're here. The big LAST DAY. Last Day. Last Super. Last everything. Noooooooo. But I love the animals so much.



INSANITY WORK OUT DAY 42!! YAH P0WN IT. I'll tell you exactly what I did for breakfast too. Dairy McDairy Dairy. It was engligh muffin, some mayo, some cheese with crushed red pepper on it. Talk about delicious, YES PLEASE.



Today Michele is out which is super sad, but luckily I have Valerie to keep me company up front for the next couple days. Weee, Temporary FDFiends.



So what else I got about today in my last day of bliss? Well for lunch we got Poquito Mas, which is not poquito delicious. Okay, bad joke, I went for it. And I was in such a rush/so hungry I wolfed down my cheese heavy meal of mimi burritos, guac, rice & beans and cheeese cheeeeese cheeeese.



Here's something fun! (Ooo) the first part of the...pre-part of True Perfection came out today. haha. Basically since this project has been going on for so long we have a lot that we shot before we shot the actual show, a pilot, some pre-production videos. They're pretty rad, crude, and not nearly at the caliber of the actual show, but interesting nonetheless.







 


Besides that just work work work, True perfection, work work work. I did spend a lot of my afternoon caught up in Happy Holidays which was my first feature. I'm re-doing my website see and they needed information on it. and would you know, Facebook got rid of the group!! WTF facebook!! So now  I had to recreate another group for Happy Holidays, which you should totally check it out here! Happy Holidays FTW



As I'm writing this post fact, I'm kind of spacing on what my last cheese venture was...suffice to say I believe it to be super duper cheesy. OMNOMNOM



Sabrina by the luck of the draw one free tickets to The Temper Trap show at the Palladium which I mean, hey I like that one song...why not go?










So go we did, joining up with the slightly older crowd of hipsters who congregated together on a friday night to listen to a band that we had no idea what their deal really was. Well Sabrina knew, I did. I just went along for the jams...



I realized there I really do need to start going to more show's. Maybe I'll ask my imaginary boyfriend to take me to some. George Glass! get your ish together. And speaking of dating, Re-blogging Sammi's post here:

"How about the guy that ON THE FIRST DATE kept calling me "baby" and "darling" and every 3 minutes said "OMG you're so beautiful". And even when I thanked him for saying kind things, but expressed that he was making me feel uncomfortable and would he stop so we could actually HAVE a conversation.... kept doing it. And then after the date proceeded to "like" everything on my fb (I mean EVERYTHING... even comments I made on OTHER people's pages) and text me no less then 25 times per day.


OR the guy who tripped and fell flat on his face while getting coffee... and then couldn't get over. And kept bringing it up. And wouldn't let it die.


OR (my favorite) in college when I went out with this guy who picked me up, and WHILE DRIVING me to dinner admitted that he had forgotten about the date until 5 minutes before he was suppose to get me, and that he was high as fuck. Yeah. That went over well."

Yup, dating these days sure is a fun sport to play isn't it?



After the concert we went to The Well, and my review of it is a big F. The crowd was weird, the waiters were weird and the drinks were TERRIBLE. I don't even know what Sabrina got, suffice to say it was super gross. The only bonus was the music, but that could hold you for about 5 seconds.


We went for a post drink ritual to get some food. (well sabrina did, I was cheesed out) and I went to eat at The Waffle for the first time and Oh My God I am in LOVE. the ambiance of that place is Amazing!! You know when you walk in somewhere and you're like, Yup, I could spend some decent time here? That's how I felt. The servers were nice. The food looked great, this place gets a freaking A+++



Welp thus ends my life as a vegetarian...time to go to the dark (light?) side and save some animals.....



Oh noo.....

Over & Out 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Layla Cam

3 days. THREE DAYS LEFT!!

Layla CAM!



Oh sorry, I didn't see you there.



Well we're winding down to the final home stretch of "I can't eat cheese." I almost wrote I can eat cheese, whoops Freudian slip! What can I do in this final stretch to overload on delicious dairy before I give it up forever? Should I chug a gallon of milk? No. Probably not. Should I snort cottage cheese? No probably not that either. I know what I can do though.....PIZZA FOR BREAKFAST. Tomato Pie. We've covered them. They're good people.



See this is where the insanity workout comes into play. Sure, I'm not doing the diet so I haven't dropped 20 pounds, but what I am doing is eating normally (maybe a little extra cheese) working out like a fiend, and not gaining any weight. WOAH. look at that equation right there.



Today was a relatively uneventful day. SO uneventful that I almost wonder if I should be blogging about it. Maybe I need to add more excitement to my work week. Maybe I should blog about boy things going on? ehhhh, I'll save that for later. In the mean time we can just make up a boyfriend.



I DO have to say though, match.com has proven very....interesting. Michele says I should blog about dating since I go on so many first dates. I thought that was a great idea, except for the fact I'd prefer to be going on second and thirds....speaking of bad first dates, there was one where I felt like the guy viewed relationships like a business transaction, like what is that? Or my favorite terrible date from many moons ago, some guy kept going on about how he owned hundreds of pairs of shoes, and how he just loved shoes so much. Then kept bragging about how he never got carded (this was before I was twenty one) brag brag brag, Not only do I fake illness as quickly as possible and run away, but I run off with shoeman's favorite jacket. Much to my horror he liked it enough to keep CALLING ME for 6 MONTHS after the fact. jesus christ dude, get over it. I wasn't interested and you're not getting the jacket back.



Hmmm....maybe that's not such a bad idea. Or try this. Write YOUR worst date story here, and we'll take it from there. Post the good ones. Sammi I'm looking at you.



Besides the fact that the rest of the day including the food that I ate was albeit busy, very uneventful, I made it through alive and thankful to have one more day where I can eat cheese, but sad that I was unable to help the cows as much as I could. Boo!



Tonight was yet another ADR session for True Perfection. I swear this stuff is neverending. It's always one thing that's left with this project! It's not that I mind doing it at all, it's quite the contrary, I love working on it. I just wish it were finished so that I could show it to the world!



End with CAT CAM


3 days left

Over & Out

Monday, June 11, 2012

Crimped Hair

6 days left.



Six days of pure dairy bliss. Then I'm off to save the world or whatever it is I'm doing.


It hasn't really sunk in that I'm doing the diet switch as of yet.  I mean it is actually kind of heavy. Being vegan changes the way you view everything, peoples clothes, products, food, it's like you have to view the world in very specific (non animal product) glasses. Sure, it could be worse. I mean....doing this is not making me a little sad at all.....*insert my look of shame here for loving dairy products so much*


Today I started it off right and TOTALLY unhealthy, but I figure might as well get all the cheese in now that I can so maybe it's like storage and my body thinks this is what I'm actually digesting. But anyway, keep it simple, Cheese, avocado and greens sandwich. nomnom. Blah, being a vegetarian is so boring and easy.



And can we talk about fashion this summer? Cause I'm really excited about it. Lets see we have high waisted ankle cut pants (yes), vintage 50s style retro rockabilly is back!! (yes). And then my new favorite thing...CRIMPED HAIR. And I'm not lying, I will show you the fashion blogs: http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/beauty/galleries/11808/10/crimped-hair-crimped-hairstyles-crimping-crimp-hair.html#index=1



so HA, i'm not insane (well that's up for debate) and I'll crimp my hair if I want to!! Time for some hair experiment blogging 



Next, I had to travel to the dark and distant land of the valley.



Honestly, I was more scared driving around up there then I am driving around downtown. And I'm not talking like cute Sherman Oaks, lets go to that other arclight valley, I'm talking THE VALLEY. like Dogs guarding houses that are falling apart VALLEY. a VALLEY I wish to not have to return to for a while.



The cause was good though, because it was to work on the edit of TRUE PERFECTION, which slowly but surely is coming along. Here's your True perfection photo of the day.



As I am about to give up cheesey cheesy cheese forever, for dinner I had a DELICIOUS veggie burger from Juicyburger, uhm YES please. lets talk about it, cheese, sautted mushrooms, onions, tomatos, lettuce, garlic Mayo, veggie patty = 5 pounds = I don't care = eff off.



Juicy burger is one of those amazing places that you should go to if you have a second, it's maybe not the best burger I've ever had (veggie burger) whatever, but it's def up there.



Let's go on an unrelated tangent here, Don't do drugs. Just don't. Lately it seems more and more of my friends are winding up on some kinda drug that's ruining their lives. And whatsmore, I don't see the appeal here. Like frying your brain and then wasting a whole bunch of money? Yeah sounds great to me....



So after a traumatic event, yes it had to do with drugs, no we were not the ones taking them, Sabrina and I just learned we never ever wanted to do them, and we were so scarred that we fled to the closest "normal" LA bar that we could find...if you can actually count bars in LA normal. We literally walked into five different ones, veto'd them then got the fuck out of dodge.



Settling on the ever mediocre Kitchen 24, we had some noms, drank some dranks and appreciated the vague normalcy that our lives and families have. Btw, true story, you get a free cupcake if you check in there on foursquare. There's your tip for the day.



6 days....6 days....til V day

Over & out.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

H to the izo - 8 Days

That's the song that came on while I was driving my electric car. Lets all take a moment to appreciate the art that is Jay-Z






As the eve of veganism approaches, I'm trying to wrap my head around how I feel about the whole thing. Will I stick with it forever this time (probably not) (want to). Will I be able to veto delicious delicious cheese every time it is placed in front of me? Ugh, willpower. You better be strong.


Strong it was this morning though as I got my ass out of bed and did INSANITY. The thing is with insanity is it's so insane you really just have to talk about it all the time, because of how much of a challenge it is, when you walk away from it, it's like, "Yeah, i f*cking did that! I can p0wn anything!" (except being vegan) 37/60 people. Lets do this.



For breakfast I was a champ and had a smoothie, god how delicious are these things? And actually vegan. So for all your vegan hopefuls out there, you do get to cling onto many delicious delicious smoothies.


Something I want to do this time around is come up with some more freaking creative breakfast's besides hipster english muffins. So let the research begin! Here's one site that I found in case ya care. 


In other news, I've almost come to terms with the results of the Wisconsin election and how those 52% of the people disgust me. Yes, teachers are just sitting on piles of cash that you're not getting. That's why they drive such nice cars right? No it's cool 1%, just bleed us out and keep your private jets. What is going on with this country anyway? Mitt Romney? Jesus Christ.









ANYWAY, cool deal today, Sabrina launched her online magazine which I'm SO excited about. You MUST check it out! http://lollymagazine.com/ Not only will she be covering awesome LA spots, trends, eateries but she will also be featuring this blog!! (oooo) 


For lunch today we got catering from Baja Fresh. And despite my whole, I hate corporations thing, the food was delightfully delicious. Again I forgot to take a photo! Ugh, must get back in blog mode. As a vegetarian I had a nommmmm fajita just w/o chicken. See guys! Not eating meat is easy!! Here's a cute picture of a chicken:




Overall today was relatively un-eventful. Unfortunately I have to keep a lot of what I'm excited for close to my chest. Ughhh...just want to BLOGGGGGGGG. Or maybe I just want to dance. No...probably a fair share of both.



One super cool thing is the date has been set for Rio ticket purchasing. JUNE 29TH! YEAH. Finally this is happening. Plan of attack, Rio, New Car, New apartment. Adult life upgrade complete! Woof this is going to take a year. At least it'll be set by the time I'm 26 and a half. Ehhhh



End today with an awesome sound mixing session for True Perfection. Nathan Whitcomb kind of rocks my world in every single way. Just thought I'd put that out there. #bestsoundmixerever Cannot wait to release this project! So long in the making. Here is your TP photo for the day. 



8 Days



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