Fascinating

Some things i've come to realize:

1) Californians love to use the word "bomb"

Jenna: My mom got these bomb ass burritos at Ralphs. Wanna try one?
Ashley: Bomb

2) New York has a specialty store for everything, where as here in LA, things can be found in one lumped place.

New York: Peanut Butter and Co, Mamouns falafel, Pluck U wings
California: Hot wings at Pizza Hut, salads and wraps at Jamba Juice: nothing special

3) The world will begin to take shape for you only when you start to truly love and believe in yourself!

Average girl: I'm not that pretty and I don't have much to offer.
Bomb girl: Do you have a job, money in the bank, good friends, and future prospects?
Average girl: No...
Bomb: Exactly, honey. Love yoself and then the world can start loving you back.

Fathers Day

On Friday we had a joint celebratory dinner: fathers day and my birthday. We went to this bomb restaurant in los feliz called The Vermont. Los Feliz is really cute and the community seemed tight knit. I had a kobe beef burger. Sooo good. I love a good hamburger!


I also did shots with the fam. First one was a chocolate cake shot, second one was a wedding cake shot. THEY WERE AMAZING.


This morning I made waffles for dad. This picture says it all: Obama, flowers, "I can't believe it's not butter", waffles, and orange juice. Divine.

TGIF vs CPK

My mom is back in town for a few days. I decided to cook a japanese stir fry of sorts with udon noodles. It was like chicken lo mein. It was one of the best things i've cooked, i must say!


I was going to be a model on the finale of "Shear Genius" but I didn't contact the lady in enough time, so she offered me the next best thing: to be in the audience. I invited Corinne and Lindsey but after waiting around for an hour with only warm water bottles and a 24 pack of chips from costco (we were promised snacks and non-alcoholic beverages, not middle schools snacks!), we decided to just leave. We hung out in Hollywood and ate at CPK. I personally was rooting for TGIF's (jack daniels chicken is so bomb.) We wanted a celebrity sighting, but no such luck. We were all hoping for Shia La Beauf to show up somewhere. Where is he?!?!



I'll be seeing this guy in a little over a month. I miss him and New York and subways and walking everywhere! July can't come soon enough!

Pictures

My favorite part of Indian food is the bread. This is paratha. When you pan fry it, it puffs up and gets really flaky and buttery!

The udon soup I made. It was even better the second day.

Currently reading: The Artists Way by Julia Cameron and I know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Currently watching: The Graduate

Currently drinking: Roasted Almond Tea with half and half

Currently eating: Greek Yogurt with orange blossom honey, strawberries, and granola

on a roll

I've been cooking all day.

Breakfast: banana, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry smoothie with soy milk and honey

Lunch: Udon soup with veggies and chicken dumplings

Dinner: chicken tikka masala with some indian side dishes (that i'll probably get from TJ's) and paratha!

Dessert: I'm thinking...cookie dough malt?!

it's been awhile!

Booked my 10 day flight to NY in July. Very excited.

Tried the pomegrante pinkberry flavor yesterday. Thumbs up, AND they have fresh pitted cherries as a topping option! Next month they're gonna have tangerines as an option. Gotta love Pinkberry.

In homage to amsterdam, I'm gonna bike ride. It's sort of embarrassing though. No one (at least where I live) bike rides or walks, so I'd be a lone ranger on the streets. But who cares what people think, right?

DefJam Rapstar: Day two and three

Lots of media people showed up the 2nd and 3rd day: ESPN, gamespy, THE FOUNDER OF DEFJAM INTERACTIVE! Kevin Liles is big stuff in the record industry. At 30 years old, he was the President of DefJam Music Group and is now the Executive VP for Warner Music Group. He was there watching the demos we did for media folk. Look, this game is gonna blow up. I don't play video games and I'd buy it. I can't wait for it to come out. We wrapped up today and there was an after party with more Patron than I've ever seen, and I've never seen Patron, so there. I didn't stay long, but I'm sure they had fun. Here are some pics of the loft:

Stairwell leading to the roof

the roof. view of Downtown LA

the hallway

infamous kobe beef sliders. I'll be dreaming of them.

The fridges were stocked with these, as well as perrier, beer, and cokes. The new Berry Cherry vitamin water is good!

DefJam Rapstar: Day One

E3 is this week at the convention center. As apart of the events, they're testing a new video game called DefJam Rapster (rock band for rappers and hip hop folk) for the next 3 days at the sick loft in Downtown L.A. (Pictures to come tomorrow.) We're basically getting paid to look good, mingle, play a bomb video game, and eat really well. For example, for dinner we had:

kobe beef sliders with blue cheese aioli and crispy fried onions
brie and fig quesadillas
gazpacho with shrimp
tuscan chicken skewers
fresh ahi tuna in small ice cream cones!
veggies

The only con is that it's far away, so I'm gonna take the metro there!

Oh no

I'm getting chubby.
I MUST EXERCISE.

Why?
Because I'm eating things like this:

Baked mac n cheese. My first attempt at it.

The problem is that I'm not motivated to run. I'd happily go to a yoga or dance class, but in California, those cost $15 and I'm trying to save all my money for my July NYC trip.

disappointment :( Where's GTG when I need him?