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 

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.

Jour Onze

Well, the blog has officially reached well over 1,000 hits. And evidently I'm big in Russia & the UK (oooo) Yeah, my home people! Ukranian's unite! Lets go eat some pirogi's! Can I eat Pirogi's? No...I don't think I can anymore. Boooo. Related note: best Ukranian restaurant I went to a few years back with my friend Anna and I went to in Manhattan, Veselka. OMNOM.

So lets start with today. It in fact is NOT raining. Yippie!

But it is f*cking cold.

What is up with this weather? Seriously?? Winter Yetti...I'm looking at you. I swear when I find you, we're gonna have a throw down and sunshine is going to shine through them clouds and LA will finally feel like LA again and not like every other city in this country.

For vegan breakfast I got so sick of vegan toast that I went straight to...a vegan salad from the Alcove! (omnomnom) So I eat salad for breakfast? Whatever. It was gifted to me by a co-worker the day before and still tasted great the next day, throw in some spinach, tofu, avocado, pecans, apples, vinaigrette. YES. Please. But, in my weirdo "I eat salad for breakfast" defense I was only able to eat about three bites of it before becoming totally full. I guess that's why people don't eat salad for breakfast...

For lunch today I impulse called Sabrina just as she was out the door to do some much needed shopping because....she GOT A JOB! YAY!!! (and in this economy)(please read in yiddish accent.) And it was even off the UTA list, which I thought was just a newsletter sent out to those hoping for a new job to encourage them to commit suicide for population control since no one ever gets a job from there. Regardless, Congrats Sabrina!!!

I was really craving an avocado roll for some reason, so we went to Kabuki down the street. Now besides the company at lunch being excellent, I'd just give this restaurant a B-, just no real substance in it and the service was super MEH/borederline bad. The whole place feels generic...but I guess that's to be expected. Give me something unique YO. It did s till do the fix nonetheless. (when in doubt as a vegan, just go asian cuisine. Easy)

We had a very lovely discussion about what's going on with our lives now over some miso soup..edemame, veggie tempura...mmmm. And as it seems now I am dating my career, perhaps one of the best boyfriends I've had. He's there for me when I need him, he's supportive, understands me, knows when to go away and sleeps with me every night! Yay cheesy justification for not getting laid! But in all seriousness, there is no time for dating these days for me as Sabrina and I discussed. It's either all or nothing. Like serious boyfriend that I can see when I want, or nothing, because that in between stuff is Bullshit and a waste of time. (no not still just a wee bit bitter over break up with MS)

And then at the end of the day...one of the best things EVER happened to me....

I saw an acupuncturist!!!!!!!!
...That probably wasn't what you were expecting.

Now you won't understand this if you don't have CHRONIC SEVER BACK PAIN EVERY F*CKING DAY. But if you do....imagine if you went somewhere and 90 minutes later...it was magically gone. Yeah. best thing EVER. This woman Stephanie Hayman was AMAZING. She is located in a cool office in Larchmont Village and I immediately felt calm, relaxed, and ready to get poked with needles. Look at me...all Vegan and Chinese Medicine getter now.

But honestly the experience was just oh my god, can't stop gushing about it. Afterwords it was like magic. All my pain just vanished, POOF. GONE. And she was super sweet and stayed later/let the appointment go longer to make sure I got the treatment that I needed. So yes. HIGHLY recommend.

Afterwords, I went to my wifey's house to pick up her car for ye ol' Car switch. Well vespa for car switch. I had to run errands involving a car, plus it was going to be raining and then of course getting Micah from the airport tomorrow. (Italy, wutever.)

Her roomate has joint custody with his ex girlfriend of this dog...and it scared the shit out of me. Like, WHAT IS THIS THING?! ARE YOU AN ANIMAL? If so, that's an animal I would eat cause it just looks retarded. I'm sorry. Just straight up retarded.

Now we're off to step four, HOME DEPOT PAINT CHOICE. Well first run into old college friend, Cindy (! small world!), then HOME DEPOT PAINT CHOICE (Exotic Purple). For the record the way that sounds in my head is Home De. Pot. So that's how it should be read in this blog.

And I'm spent. Can't wait to come home Friday and have my room magically be purple, YEAH.

Over & Out.

Jour Cinq

Good Morning Vietnam!!

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I've got to stop watching the news when I first wake up....or just wake up earlier so I can watch more of it. Every now and then I try to give fox news a try...and after suppressing the immediate urge to throw up I click the channel away.

Today we learn that Barack Obama is not only out of touch with the country, but spends to much time at Harvard. Something that's simply hysterical said by a multi-millionare who himself went to Harvard. Can someone PLEASE start paying attention to what's being said? PLEASE please please! Just last week the supreme court ruled that cops can strip search you for ANY reason, meaning if you're arrested for a parking ticket, YOU can be stripped searched. Corporations are people, Bush won the election...can we get rid of the supreme court now? They obviously are 100% out of touch with what their job actually is.

MOVING ON, today has been decreed as hippie day! well...just for me...and not even by choice. Mostly because my jeans I generally wear with this top are dirty and I forgot to do laundry last night because I was super busy....super duper busy *battlestar gallactica*

Okay to my defense, I only put in a couple episodes before writing my webseries. AH I am so excited to release it, and I wish I had photos that I could put here to like be all witty about it, but oh well.

Anyway , for lunch we got Mandarette which is pretty decent Chinese food. However we live in LA, so lets be honest, it's only going to be okay. That's one draw back for me about the city of Los Angeles, there's just no decent Chinese food.

In all the places I've lived (NYC, DC, DF) there's always been baller chinese food. My favorite place ever is called Chinatown Garden, it's in Chinatown in DC and I head straight there whenever I go back home. They have an AMAZING Vegetarian menu on top of an AMAZING not vegetarian menu. I don't care what you say Yelp. This place is Bomb.Com

Last time I went there with Lisa over X-mas we got stuck sitting in the window alcove which was annoying and super weird because they were like two feet away. Right away I picked up on how up-tight this couple looked. Like just polite missionary style (if ever) couple. So me and her launched into our regular talk...which involves you know, sex, vaginas, expletives. Not loudly or rudely, but just as is. Sure enough, the couple moved within minutes and we had a delightful window alcove to ourselves.

For lunch I made myself a DELICIOUS feast. Yeah I know I just went on a tangent about bad Chinese food, but whatever, hungry, don't care. Only problem is afterwords I realized...the spring roll I had might have had egg in it....or was it an egg roll? I don't know!!! This could be my first accidental break, it was totally un-intentional, my hunger just overcame my desire to save chickens and read the label.

Then for dinner....mmmm...are you ready? are you ready? M Cafe. (thanks paul!)

Now I HATED that restaurant before, I don't know why. I just did. Maybe Vietnam flashbacks from the old job that ordered it so much. But now I am obsessed with it. holy god, their vegan club.YESYESYES. Tempeh Bacon, Veganise, Tomato's, Avocados, carrots, organic lettuce, vegan cole slaw. YUMMMMM!!

End the day right with a visit from a friend to the office and then....MANI PEDI'S!! YEAH! WOMEN'S LIB!!! Okay, I just have to say, if you're reading this and you live in the city of Los Angeles, go get your nails done at Moon Nails NOW if not sooner. That place is like god's gift to women (besides president santorum of course). It's only $37 and it's worth every penny. And today I had the pleasure of being joined by Sammi.

After a few hours of spa pampering, discussing careers, men(boys), politics, friends, life, we very appropriately made our way to the Glendale Galleria to do some shoopppppppinnggg!!

Why I like the Glendale Galleria: It's the grove, BUT ITS NOT THE GROVE. Designed by the same master creators, there's parking, there's the same stores...it's not as crowded, it's not as "coveted" it's not as pretentious. Oh and also once I saw a petting zoo there. It does have a lot of weird quirks...like a bathroom attendent...ostentatious decorations....but whatever, I'll give it that.

Another reason why I liked Glendale Galleria....THEIR EPIC H&M Oh my god, I could get lost in that store and live there if I had the chance...I went for two things. Hat & Black sweater. I only got one but that's okay. I got some rad pants & sunglasses too

Quote from Sassy, "Don't let me spend more then 60 dollars. Quote from Sammi, "Don't let me buy a grey t-shirt"

Welp that's cool. ANNND enter LA Friday night. I suggest that we check out the 4100 bar as I hadn't been there for a while. Honestly, I'm trying to find a new haunt, as we've already established Birds is no longer a variable because of sleaze factor. 4100 however did not make the cut.

I mean it was fun, there seemed to be a diverse enough crowd, but something about it just didn't feel right. Not in the sense that it was sketchy, it just did not have the vibe I wanted to be the place I frequent on Saturday nights. Maybe it's just to generic...yeah that's it. It's just a bar. SO if you want to go to a bar bar on a friday night with decent priced drinks, go to 4100!! How's that for a pitch?

However, I did have a blast with Sabrina and her friend Laura who just moved here. Ahhhh to remember those days. One thing I did not enjoy though was TWO guys, count them, one, two, who while walking past me LIFTED UP MY SKIRT.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT.

Have we progressed so far as a society that it's now suddenly okay while drunk to violate women? Who raised these boys? It's lucky for them I wasn't angry Sassy last night or else I would have gone off on them like a motherfucker. I wish I had in retrospect, but it happened so quickly I didn't even have time to think about it. Men, here's an image I want you to remember.

So next time you think it's cute to lift up a girls skirt, or slap her ass, or rape her or trample on her freedom as a woman, remember she was once a girl, hanging out with her grandma, so excited and nervous to go dance in her adorable ballet recital for her parents. TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT.

On that note, I ended with two hefewizen's down (orange's are vegan!) and one gifted vodka tonic per a co-worker I ran into. Friday night complete and beyond satisfactory due to amazing friends :)

God Bless America.


Over and Out.