yesterday, took a water aerobics class at the spa, it was so great!!! also an abs class and worked out a little at the gym and swam 1/4 mile. then we drove home and my sister and I fought the whole way. girl is a back seat driver, which is anoying since she's the suckiest driver EVER!! I camae home and ate chocolate bars for dinner, not the best thing to do after a great few days of healthy eating at the spa.

the big news back at the homestead in westchester, my mom's bird clock isn't chirping on every hour. oh did i not tell you that my mom has a bird clock that has a different bird chirp every hour? I must've forgotten, yeah we've had it for years, i think it was a Christmas gift from my nutty aunt who gives bad gifts but it turns out this gift my mom liked. so she put it up. Now this year, my mom went out and bought another clock that plays christmas songs every hour, and this clock is about 1 minute behind the bird clock, so it's like a fucking rock concert in this house every hour, first with a blue bird chirping and when that's done, santa clause is coming to town racket and need i forget, the grandfather clock is also bonging away! I NEED THOSE BOSE HEADPHONES EVERY STRIKE OF THE HOUR!

went out last night to brute on 9 with Tina, emma and alyson (shout out) and we gossiped about who we thought was gay from our high school. We also harassed Tina to try and be an adult, but failed once again, she's 30 so my guess is it's a lost cause. Suffice it to say, I do not think I act like an adult on most occassions, but trust me, compared to Tina i'm a fucking elder statesman in the British parliment. I had a quite enjoyable evening, although my wine sucked balls. heading into the city tonight to meet up with friends from LA and amy and noah.

more pics from the estate sale

as i metioned a few weeks ago, i went to tori spellings estate sale and here are the pics I took. i didn't actually get in since the line was so f-ing long and it was hot out and i didn't feel like standing in the sun, but here are the pics with the papparazzi and the ridiculous waiver you had to sign to be part of her reality show and the hulla ballooooo

here's my watercolor painting, I TOLD YOU IT WAS PATHETIC! I'M A PATHETIC PAINTER!!!

the lodge at woodloch.

I am loving this place! it's like summer camp for adults. I am up early again for a yummy b'fast. there are activities all day long. yesterday I took a boot camp class for an hour, did the ellptical for 20 mins, biked for 15 mins, swam 1/4 mile, and took a spinning class where i was the onlyperson in the class so it was like a private lesson. I also took a 2 hour water color painting class and this is where my concerns lie:so in the watercolor class were myself and a mother and daughter. the daughter, amy is 28 and we were looking outside at the same landscape and we decided to sketch and then paint the same picture. well if you saw the difference in our pictures... SCARY! hers was this beautiul interpretation of the woods that looked straight out of a fairy tale and mine was literally a green blob (a bush) a brown blob (dirt) a few grey blobs (apparently floating rocks) and a few more different shades of grey blobs that were supposed to be a stone path. basically the only thing i really accomplished during this 2 hour class was mixing yellow and blue paint to make a green color and to be perfectly honest, I barely pulled that off.

I shall take a picture of my painting to really give you an idea and post it tonight upon my return to NY. What i love also is that everyone, well, that would be an exaggeration, but most people just walk around in their robes! like at b'fast yester. I went in my robe!! and then at the cooking demonstration yester, one of the women was in her robe! The cooking demonstration was fun, the chef was cute and made cooking look fun and easy. Then last night after dinner my sister and i went to the seminar about hypnosis. all the seminars are about improving yourself/the mind body connection, etc. My sis went to another one yester while I was at the spa in the steam room, about talking to the dead, it seemed silly to me so i skipped it.

well, i need to strap on my bath robe and head to b'fast. I'm going to have beeet/ginger/carrot juice!! the juices here are so good and then maybe i'll have an egg white omelet! YUM!

merry christmas

merry christmas everyone! a few days late, i know. went to philly for the holiday to hang with my brother and his familiy, went to the Lutheran church where my sister in law sings and my newphew and neice are in the cherub choir, soooo cute watching them sing.

Yesterday my sister and I drove to the poconos (which isn't so lame anymore, losing it's lame ass rep. as a cheesy lovers destination from the 80s) and we're staying at a destination spa called the lodge at woodloch. it's amazing!!! The food is unbelievable and in very small portions which i prefer, and all ridiculously healthy. Got a deep tissue massage yesterday and spent the afternoon under the waterfalls that beat down on your shoulders neck giving you a massage. sat in the steam room and had dinner with the owners of the place, the loveliest people.

just got up at 645am, had a wonderful b'fast and now we're headed to a boot camp class. Later today I'm hitting a spinning class, a water color class and a cooking demo. i'll also hit the gym (need to work off all those Christmas goodies) and the spa. there's an outdoor hot tub which is great because it's cold outside so it's nice to sit in a hot tub when the wind is whipping by you. Ah, life is good.

NYC

went on tues night in NYC with stacey my old LA roomie. Well, she's not old.. actually she is, it was her birthday so she's older, but i digress. we went to a fancy party at a fancy hotel for her christmas office party. free drinks awesome free desserts, i love me some desserts, and kareoke with some spectacularly bad singers and white, internet geek dacning happening, oh how glorious.

got off the train in irvington and ran into my good friend suzy, SHOUT OUT TO SUZY! we chatted until 1:30am in the cold by my dad's sweet ride and come to think of it, it wasn't that cold, that's what's weird about this trip, it's not cold at all! it was colder in LA last week! it's not beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.

the big apple

just got back to NY. sat next to this annoying woman on the plane trip from houston to laguardia. I had the luxury of an entire row to myself and this bitch from another more populated row took it upon herself to move into my empty row. I had dreams of spreading out and sleeping across the entire row and then this fat btich sat down. I made it perfectly clear i did not care for her presence, so much so that she said do you not want me to sit here, to which i replied, no its fine, but i lied, it wasn't fine, i hate her even now!

i have no car and i'm stuck at my parents house alone while my dad is at the gym and bed, bath and beyond. I would've gone, but am too tired from the insane red eye i took to houston and then on to ny. i dont even remember my time in houston, i was a walking zombie with 2.5 hours of sleep in me.

party time

hit up a bunch of parties this weeeknd. my friend michaela had a bday fest on friday night, silver lake style. I never hang out there much, i'm not hip enough (not hollywood hip mind you, but more grunge hip) but it was fun.

saturday night I saw Apocolypto, which i didn't want to see on principle cause I dont like mel gibson and his hate spewing ideals, but my friends were going and it was raining and i thought what the hell. turns out i loved it, wwaaayyy too much violence for my taste, covered my eyes for about 30% of the movie, but still thought it was worth it. then headed to santa monica for my friend ferells party, it was awesome, but way too many chicks there, i mean the reason i leave the house is to meet men, and was wildly disappointed, but enjoyed dancing to justin timberlake whose concert i'm going to in a few weeks AAAWWWW YEAH!

so bad

another week has gone by and i don't know what i've been doing that caused me not to update. I saw the movie holiday with my friends jackie and jeff and HATED IT! which is odd it is sooooo the type of movie I would love, but didn't, except i love jude law LOVE!!

I had sushi at sushi dan with my friend jeff who i've known for like 10 years out here, but haven't seen in a year, it was so good to catch up with him and gossip about the old gang, the big group of people i used to hang out with all the time when i first moved out here and we all only knew each other. now with all of us having worked on a million different shows, we have branched our social circle outward and i rarely see them, so it was nice.

last night i went to warner bros studio to see WE ARE MARSHALL. i didn't love the movie but LOOOOOOOOOVEEE the story and matthew fox who is my boyfriend of the week!

yesterday i ate blueberry pancakes for lunch, how strange. I never do that, but just felt compelled to. I went to the chisel class again today, i liked it better last week. this guy also teaches the class outside on saturdays at some park in west hollywood, i think i'm going to try it on saturday. I leave for NY on monday night for 2.5 weeks, so excited!!!

chiseled

went to a class at crunch yesterday morning called chisel. and let me say I'm not chiseled from tgoing to it, but i think it's only a matter of time. last night went to Iiz's had a some wine and played board games, it was very nice, but now on to more important things...

TORI SPELLING'S GARAGE SALE!!

yes, that's right seems as tori is having a garage/estate sale in studio city, like 2 miles from my house so naturally i head over and damn what a crazy cluster fuck it was. there was a line up the street and around the corner, news vans, papparazzi GALORE!!! i got a good parking spot and my friend michaela and i stood in line for like 10 mins when we heard the peopel in front of us say they had been there for an hour and I was like see ya! we left, but pics to follow of the hulaballoo when i get them off my camera!

really funny stuff.

blood diamonds premiere party

last night i saw a screening of the new leo dicaprio movie, blood diamond and went to the premiere party where I rubbed elbows with Leo himself!!! holy crap is that man hot in person, seriously, his face is chiseled, boy can wear a suit real and don't get me started on his cocky swagger!!! ME LIKEY SO MUCH!!

the party was at the roosevelt hotel and i went with my Warner bros connections who know people who work with the top stars of the movie so we had VIP access to the after after party at teddys next door. but before we went there, I spied djimon hounsou, who was in the film, quite possibly one of the best films this year, and he was wearing this pin stripe suit that I wanted to tear off with my teeth and then procede to lick his gorgeous chiseled abs (which are prominantly displayed in the film, all the more reason to see it)

also at the party: kevin connelly from entourage, dr. burke from greys anatomy, wearing a baseball cap to remain inconspicous, PUH-LEASE DR. BURKE YOU'RE A NOBODY WHEN LEO AND DJIMON ARE IN THE SAME ROOm, you're at a movie premiere party, one of the places you don't need to try and hide, and I saw one of the guys from Lost and a few other movie stars. at the end of the night, we were leaving teddys (paris hilton in the house, yo) and missed out on the gift bags, but the lady was still there and gave us a bunch, she gave my friend 3 and my friend gave me all the t-shirts b/c they are freaking awesome and al ldifferent styles and colors and now I have 3 news soft awesome tees in my wardrobe!!!

saturday night

on saturday night i ran into this guy who I totally made out with like 7 yeras ago. he was the roomate of one of the guys who worked on a show I worked on and naturally since I was still in my mid twenties I was totally wasted and don't even think i talked to the guy very long before sticking my tongue down his throat. anyway, we made out on the front lawn of the house next door to the party, with people walking by, the works, oh yeah it was ridiculous. so for the past 7 years my friends whose party it was still bring him up.

so my friend steven introduces us at the party the other night and he's like "i feel like we've met before," and i'm like yeah, you look familiar (let me stick my tongue down your throat to be sure) so he starts trying to take the time to figue out how he knows me and naturally that's the LAST thing I want so i try to dodge the issue but he was relentless and so he asks me what shows I've worked on and I purposefully leave out the show that would connect us being like um, let me think, yeah, that's all the shows i've been on, yup not a single one left off the list. anyway, he seemed interested in me, but i wasn't having it. been there..

what have i been up to lately?

well, on friday night i stayed hom cause I had a cold. Yes, a friday night at home, not very often does that happen and it made me feel so awkward. Then on saturday I slept a lot, I did manage to hit the gym to do some ellipticalling to sweat out my sick and then went to 2 awesome parties that night. first was my friend tal's annual Christmas party, free booze and the who's who of hollywood TV people. love it every year.

then i headed to my friend murray's 30th bday party at his house and that was really fun, i knew a ton of people and his house is an awesome display of bachelorhood. for some strange reason one of his friends made a video of himself naked, dancing around, showing EVERYTHING, on a rooftop and also spread across a couch like a professional photo shoot and this video was playing on a continuous loop at the party on murray's flat screen 10000 inch TV (i could be exaggerating but it did look as long as my car) and the naked guy was at the party not at all embarrassed about this video. And yes at the party he was wearing clothes.

denstist

I am not one of those people who hates going to the dentist like a lot of people I know. I'm also a big fan of flying. So i am not scared of the things the average person is scared of. I on the other hand, have an irrational fear of mayonnaise and olives. So who can really understand my fucked up brain. So i had a dentist appt. yester. for a cleaning and the dental hygenist who I am convinced was totally banging my married dentist last time i was in, didn't show up for work, so my dentist had to clean my teeth. He's from italy and i'm not sure over there they taught them how to clean teeth without hurting the gums of a delicate american such as myself. I mean i was hemmoragging blood like I felt like i was in the movie "the holy grail" when the guy got his arm sliced off and blood was squirting out and he'd be like "oh, just a flesh wound." Now I don't want to ever go back. I mean he literally i think lifted my gums off my teeth if that's even possible and then cleaned underneath them and returend them to their natural position.

that's what it was like. I must've drank a gallon of blood, i did not like it, so i guess I can scratch vampire off the list of alternate professions.

watched greys anatomy at remi and carrie's last night, always fun to watch with girls and comment on it in a very caddy way. Must run, i've returned to the writers guild today for the first time in weeks and have told myself i need to write for 3 hours today then i can go on a hike or a run as a reward.

also amy and i are trying to lose 5 pounds before new years, so i need to start to work out more. I want to start boxing!

my dad

I love my dad, for example he picks me up and drops me off at the airport even at inconventinet times like yesterday morning leaving the house at 6am. Granted I got up early and made us both oatmeal, that's something, but still, a pretty stand up guy.

well today he emailed me and told me he googled "finding a husband" and sent me the top 3 links to what he found. Apparently desperate times bring desperate measures. anyway, one of the links is ivillage which is strange seeing as they are my current and only employer! I shall see if they ahve anything good to say and then give them feedback perhaps. oh that reminds me i got to go check my eharmony account, i got 6 more matches yesterday, none of them every good, but it's something!

FYI I'll be on chic chat radio today again. I'm now their resident TV expert coming on every few weeks to talk TV. Pretty funny. i think you can podcast them to hear my pearls of wisdom on earth shatter topics like oprah and lost.

big day

yesterday i joined eharmony.com to find my soulmate, yup they tell me that's what is going to happen, so fingers crossed... or uncrossed b.c whenever someone tells me they have their fingers crossed for me, it never works out. UNCROSS YOUR FINGERS PEOPLE!

I just checked and they found like 6 more matches for me, what am i doing updating my blog when my future husband could be sitting in my inbox! inevitably, the guys they send me never look anything like the cute guys in the commercials, but i will keep you updated.

yesterday i also hit bellas, my fave b'fast joint here in westchester. went on saturday with emma and vicki but yesterday i went with my parents, yummy chocoalte chip pancakes! then i got tina out of bed and we took a walk at the park, 2 miles, (still working on gettig those steps in, only got 7500 yester) then last night watched the most awesome bad TV movie ever, it was on CBS and it was one of those hallmark movies with alicia silverstone and of course she returns to her home town and of course living there was her next door neighbor who was in love with her and of course she's hiding a secret that she's dying and of course she needs someone to adopt her 12 year old son and of course her best guy friend does and of course she dies. but it was so bad it was good, i was laughing the entire time.

it's not a hard knock life

Yesterday, my friend amy gross and i went on a hike at the rockefeller estate. One of my goals every day is to get 10,000 steps on my pedometer so we went hiking and cranked them out. we then headed to barnes and noble to do some research on potential vacays to take next year, we're thinking asia i.e. cambodia and laos. So excited. I was worred that my leg might get blown off by a land mine in cambodia ALA paul mccartney's wife, but she's made a good life for herself sans leg, so who knows maybe I could marry a beatle if i got my leg blown off. Is this an insensitive thought? I think perhaps it might be.

last night had thanksgiving dinner #2 at the pomeranz's house, i'm so fat right now, i cant wait to get bck to LA and go back to starving myself and working out obsessively!

twas the night before thanksgiving

Last night we headed down to the city to see the balloons being blown up before the htanksgiving day parade, it was really fun. it was my mom, dad, sister and stacey (my old roomie from LA who now lives in NYC) and her mom and dad. It wasn't that cold at all, as it has been in years past. if you've never seen the balloons being blown up for the parade, it truly is one of the more fun things to do in this city. we saw dora the explorer baloon, big bird, super grover, snoopy, a bunch of weebles and many others, and they're being blown up and then they're tied down under like a big military net. It looks like the balloons are trying to break free! Now that would be a site

today I ran a 5 mile run with emma and matija. It was cold and spitting rain at 8am and we wanted to not do it, but we did. I was leading the way toward the end, but in the last 1/8th of the race, my leg muscles just did not want to move and became really heavy and cold and emma and mat crossed the finish line just in front of me, only seconds, but still. Regardless, last year I walked about amile, so this year was a vast improvement! headed to jersey for t'giving with the fam, my sister in laws fam is down there, had a big meal, but even the 5 miles will barely crack a dent in the calories I've consumed!

btw how great was grey's anatomy tonight

sorry

for the lack of posts. again. on thurs i got on a plane to NY and was involved in a car accident after I dropped my dad off in the city for a class and drove out to westchester in torrential rains and flooding and trees down and leaves everywhre on the saw mill parkway and a huge tree branch came a crashing into my dad's car, very scary. ON friday i drove up to cape cod where i am now thoroughly enjoying my existance for once in a very long time. I wondered into falmouth today and shopped around and got some b'fast with katie, joe and alyce, my bf from college and her parents. and went for a run, ahhh and it's so nice and crsip and gourgeous up here. Katie, alyce and i made cookies tonight and i ate so much fucking cookie dough, i'm sick to my stomach.

some more much needed R and R tomorrow and i'm going to see casino royale with joe, katie's dad. hot date!

monday

yesterday i went to the writers guild and once again failed to accomplish anything. this is starting to become a bad habit. I'm excited that I head to NY in 2 days for the t'giving holiday. I booked the ticket like last week so the only reasonable flights avail were way before and way after the holiday. which means i'm going to be at my parents for waaaay to long. dont get me wrong i love them, but i'm an adult and hate having to ask to borrow the car. so i'm clipping my trip a little and heading up to the cape on friday for a long weekend, then i'll be back in NY on monday for the holiday week, that's cool with me.

yesterday i also had lunch with my friend Trae who works at Fox and who i've worked with for like 6 years on various shows. we went to the grand lux cafe at the beverly center, it blew, the lunch not the company. anyone who knows me knows i love trae. then i hit the gym and wrote a few things for ivillage and crashed. All in all, not a bad monday as far as mondays go. nevertheless, i'm SO FUCKING BORED from being umeployed for almost a year now! time really flies when you're miserable and depressed.

weekend

saturday night i hung out at the cat and the fiddle with a bunch of friends. Kristen and I got a bunch of friends togther and drank some beers on the open courtyard. sometimes a beer feels so good going down, right? I rarely drink beer, but when i get a nice crisp one, deeeelish!

My exboyfriend's friend showed up, shes really nice and I like her, but the prob. is she's alwasy still talking about him and we broke up like forever ago. she walked in and I was like "oh where did you have dinner?" normal question people ask, right? and she's like oh, i was at a birthday dinner for (fill in ex's name)'s girlfriend. Now, why would I wnat to know that. She could've just said, I had dinner at domiciks with a bunch of friends... but no, she gave me the specifics. Oy

sunday i tried again to hit 10,000 steps on my pedometer, i hit the mid 9000s. so close. I walked around a lot. went shopping with bernsie, hung out with jill at her potche(gifts, lotions, etc) party and picked up something for one of my agent's bday party last night, met a cute writer talked to him forever, turns out hes fucking engaged, as soon as i learned that , was like i'm outtie. then i realized i still only had 5000 steps so i drove to a nice neighborhood and hit the pavement, yes at 9pm, because i'm obsessed with hitting 10,000 steps!!!

holy

i didnt realize it had been so long since i last posted? what have i been doing? The answer is nothing, absolutely nothing. I took the week off and now I can hardly believe it's saturday, i really maybe ran 4 errands and donated blood that's all i did, but i cant believe how fast the week went. I donated blood on tuesday AND voted, such a good Amerian I am. I saw borat on wed. night with bern, kyle and Brian, loved that movie, then we hit an italian restuarnat at the grove, very good night. On thursday night, Brian and I went to see the guy who started postsecret.blogspot.com talk. He was so freakin incredible talking about people's secrets and why the site and the books do so well, covered the anatomy of a secret, etc. It was a haunting, moving talk. We were both totally blown away. Now i'm going to send in a secret and see if it gets posted. he only posts 20 a week and gets 1000, so the odds are against me. Seeing as this year I've been rejectecd by every major network and every guy i liked, i highly doubt i'll get mine posted. I am hoping rejection tour 2006 will end when 2007 starts. SO sad if my miserable existance continues at this pace.

Last night I also so Shut up and Sing, the documentary about the dixie chics when they said that thing in london when we were going to war about hating george bush, it was really really good. I dont really remember the controversy, but it makes you really angry that all these stupid, red neck americans were calling country stattions and saying they'd stop listening to the station if they continued to play the chicks. I actually knew nothing about this group until I saw them on Oprah and then went to see the film. It's actually really really interesting and well done, i highly recommend it.

Bought a pedometer yesterday, apparently we're supposed to take 10,000 steps a day, yesterday I took 7000 and today I'm only at 4,000. I better get a walking!

weekend

those are tori spelling's massive pregnancy boobs!!!




awesome tee!







holy crap on fri night i went to the bevl hills 90210 aND melrose place DVD release party. it was awesome. I have pics and everything. so freakin awesome. The party itself actually blew, it was like a bad barmitzvah with colored gels over lights and a lame DJ and lilke a salad bar, i'm serious, it was lame-o considering this show made and contiues to make millions of dollars for the companies involved. anyway, i was on the red carpet and met brandon, andrea, kelly, whoever brian austin green's character was (he looked so fucking hot by the way, wasn't he the geeky kid?) and steve sanders. No luke perry or shannen doherty. boo. they didnt come to the party. anyway, i roamed around with bernadette, scored 2 gift bags complete with dvds from both shows, season 1, and an awesome 90210 tee with a picture of the cast on it, i wore it saturday and got mucho compliments. I didn't get lipgloss and hairspray in my first bag which were supposed to be in there, so thats why i helped myself to another one.

and the blues continue

like i mentioned yesterday I'm blue from my recent male rejection fest 2006. to make matters worse last night i fell down a flight of stairs and now i'm in a super bad mood. I'm never in a bad mood, i might be in a "don't talk to me mood," but bad mood so rarely happens, but now i'm in one because my wrist hurts as does my ass and so one down the body.

I wasn't even drunk or drinking unless you consider water a vice, i was just going to my bathroom down these windy stairs to brush my teeth and the next thing i know I'm on the stairs flying down them on my ass. I dont even know how it happened. now i'm more blue than ever, black and blue that is.

pitch day

yesterday I pitched to these networks, haven't heard any news. We have more introspective issues to deal with... yes, this is a public blog, but this is what i'm writing about because I can't actually see any of you right now.

So last month or maybe 2 months now, I told you how i had like a double date at a bar, my friend jamie was setting me up with this guy and we hung out all night and was totally chill and I wasn't even sure i thought he was cute enough, but regardless i was pleased that he asked for my number, like I had won a prize. I think girls always want the number asked for even if we don't like the guy, but in this case, i liked him. so then i never heard from him and saw him at the gym and hid. so he didn't like me, clearly.

Then on saturday I had a sort of date with a guy who's a friend of a friend and i thought he was nice and cute and charming and SMART! hello he used to work at ted kennedy's office briefing him for senate hearings!!! and i haven't heard from him!

Then on sunday i met the love of my life, of course i'm exaggerting, but a really cute guy who i was instantly drawn to the minute he walked in the door, and that SO RARELY HAPPENS TO ME IT'S LAUGHABLE and so my friend who was throwing the party emailed him the next day (monday) and was like i saw you talking to sarah and I'm just always a matchmaker so i was wondering if it's a match or some shit.. anyway, SHE HASN'T HEARD FROM HIM!!

holy crap, i used to be turning down guys, coming up with every which excuse why i coudln't be with them and now I'm 0-3 in th past 3 males i like interactions!! the only guy who has liked me this year has been the worst date i ever had in february who wouldn't shut up about the sci-fi channel, apparently he's still talking about me! I am not repulsive, but maybe in LA i am, what is going on? what am i doing wrong that I can't even get a guy who asks for my number to call me. I hate life.

weekend update

here's me on saturday night looking so fucking fat, newman on the left is slutty candy corn, the liz is a scarecrow and rachel is some sort of egyptian lady. not sure who the guy in teh back was.

also this carved pumpkin sits outsdie the gates of tom cruise's house down the street from me.




and am i the only person sad that reese witherspoon and ryan phillipe broke up? Yes? okay i'll shut up

halloween

I hate halloween, hate it hate it hate it. I hate getting dressed up but have done so for the past few years, so this year I decided I was going to take the year off, but my friend Liz wasn't having any of that. So she came to myhouse before we went to this huge halloween party (zach braff was there) and made me put on her costume from last year, rainbow brite, see pic. So I put it on but i'm taller than liz is so the costume came to about the end of my back or the begginning of my butt, either way, not okay to wear in public. so i had to throw on a a pair of jeans. I have an actual pic, but my camera is not cooperating, yet.

yesterday before Carter's big bash (carter created how i met your mother, very fancy) bernadette and I spent the ENTIRE day getting together her costume for halloween, the best costume at her office wins a computer A COMPUTER!!!! she's going to be ugly betty and we got had to put together the costume piece by piece. we coudln't find the giant guadalaja poncho anywhere so we had to re-creat it and i think we did an ubelieveable job, pics to follow next week!

Medium Premeire Party

working for ivillage has provided me many an exciting opportunities. last night I got invited to the medium premiere party. Medium is a show on NBC with patricia arquette who I got to interview and who I now love. Of course my favorite person I interviews was masi oka from heroes, he's so sweet!!! Courtney cox aruquette was there with her daughter and I took a few pics of her daughter's juice box, so cute. I had so much fun at the party, it was an awesome night. I knew nobody so I had to make friends with people who all work togetehr, so it's hard to inject yourself into such a tight knit group, but I managed. Also jason bateman was there, so cute!!!

next week I get to hit the red carpet of the 90210 / melrose place dvd release party and get to go to the party after! bernadette is going to be my plus one so I'm not alone in that one! cannot wait, loved 90210!!!

very exciting day

yesterday was exciting. I started off the usual way, coffee, yogurt, fruit salad, and proceeded to sit at the writers guild and do no work whatsoever. The laptop computer with built in internet airport card is both a blessing and a curse. I could have taken this whole week off quiet frankly and not come tot he guild at all seeing as i've done nothing. so i decide to go to yoga at yoga works in larchmont and i get there and place my mat down and right before the class starts in walks NICOLE FREAKING KIDMAN!! that's a huge celeb sighting, right? I mean I see celebs all the time in the coffe shop, in restaurants, going about their daily life, usually just lame ass tv stars, but nicole is a huge freaking movie star, probably my biggest sighting as of yet!!!! she also didnt use a hairband, and she has totally long hair! that was strange and she's good at yoga and has a great body, ugh, hate perfect people like her.

then i went to see the prestige with remi and carrie and my friend carrie is in it and we were at a private screening so whenever she came on the screen all her friends and co-workers were hootin' and hollaring!

tuesday october 24

yesterday i went on a 2 hour hike with Jenny, very nice and relaxing. I did nothing yesterday once again, although I did go to the writers guild and play on the internet, which is what I'm also doing today, not getting any work done on my Grey's anatomy spec script I've been writing since june (to be fair i've taken the last 2 months off) so that's what I'm trying to finish so i can hand it in to my agents. but i'm procrastinating. I told myself today i have to write 5 pages, i've done one. but i'm not leaving this place until 4 more are done even if it means I'll miss my yoga class at 4:30pm.


tonight I'm seeing the prestige at warner bros at a screening with my friends remi and carrie, very excited! didnt actually want to see it but it's free so now i'm totally on board! also NASA is offereing $6100 to anyone who will lie down for 3 weeks as they do tests on them, they will naturally lose muscle, etc, but i'm seriously considering it, SERIOUSLY. if i dont get the tv writing job i'm up for, i'm submitting my name for it, read about it in todays NY times, 3 weeks for 6 grand, come on! and i get to be in bed for 3 weeks!! dude, awesome.

I'm so fucking bored

with life. When is something going to change and mix it up. I have no job, no boyfriend, no kids, just a car and too many pairs of Nike shoes. I need to take a trip, where should i go? Also I just foudn out today that I'm still in the mix for the show I met on last week, but they're not deciding for another 2 or 3 weeks. That means I can probably go home for thansgiving, which is cool, so i'm going to book that ticket soon! I need to take a vacay although staying with my parents and asking to borrow the car is not my defination of a vacation, so if anyone has time off and want to go somewhere, let me know!

sup yo

I have led the mose boring life recently. Yesterday I had lunch with my friend at the century city food court which was completely re-done in past years and looks amazing, I used to work with this guy on my old show, I totally adore him, too bad he's married, oh well, such is life.

Last night I went to a party for my friend carrie's husbands movie premiere, didnt' actually see the movie as it's a horror film and I'm not allowed to see those, per my mother when I was a little girl who got scared by Tom and Jerry. So I jsut hit the party which was in a phat house in the hills, it was really fun, except when I found myself with a group of women talking about how to sleep train their children, that was when I suddenly got very tired and had to leave. I had a major thing for the director's son who is 19 and from NJ and is ridiculously hot, minus the chains and diamond earrings. But he's a teen and I couldn't even make the effort, i'm like 40 years older than him and i would've been pathetic for me to even try to talk to him.

One of my BF's from college who works at Nike and who i stayed with at the olympics is in town today and we're gonna meet up in bev. hills for some lunch, so i should go get ready.

ass

i'm currently looking at a woman's ass right now and i feel that one day my ass might look like hers. it's like a mom's ass, no not young moms, but like an older mom's ass. I'm afraid now i'm going to get that ass. I'm not exaclty sure what about it i dont like, it's not overly huge it's just rounded. I now have to go into the bathroom and check out my ass to make sure it's not that rounded. Why am i obsessing over this woman's ass?

on another note, i saw 2 old people yesterday and did not feel the need to race them, maybe my phase is going away

and on a final note, i saw THE best movie last night with bernadette. it's called the Last King of Scotland. it's amazing. so far my 2 fave movies this year have been in the comedy dept: little miss sunshine and the drama: the last kind of scotland. SEE. THIS. MOVIE.

important day

I've decided today after many days of consideration that I hate canteloupe. for the past 10 days every day i've eaten this yogurt/fruit salad/granola thing they sell at the farmers market and they have canteloupe in it. So for the past 10 days i've been eating it and today it dawned on me that i fucking hate canteloupe. first of all look how it's spelled, too many vowels for my taste, also it's big and awkward to eat and finally it tastes like nothing. but i will still be eating it every day as i love the rest of the salad especially bananas, mmmmmm bananas.

suck it

so i had my meeting yesterday, don't think it went that well, which sucks b/c from what I understand i was pretty much a shoe in for the job. these meetings are so fucking strange and weird with diffrent unique personalities all together, hard to explain.

then i met up with amy and monique for a ladies lunch and spa day! so much fun, we hit a restaurant in sunset plaza which is like tourist heaven, but was really f-ing good and then went to the ole henriksen spa and got a 1.5 hr hot stone massage. Yeah, it's the good life. I didn't love it to be honest, i really liked it but loved the hot stone massage i had at the peninsula hotel back in may!

last night i hit the gym for over an hour, i'm trying to get off the last 6 pounds. it's a totally random number but it's something to do. i'm bored...

OH AND DID U PEOPLE SEE ME ON THE TODAY SHOW THIS MORNING? I WAS INTERVIEWED ABOUT DEATH AND THE AFTER LIFE, MY FRIEND AMY GROSS SAYS IT'S ON THE TODAY SHOW WEBSITE SO CHECK IT OUT. I'M ON FOR LIKE A SPLIT SECOND SO DON'T BLINK

aids walk

today carrie and i did the aids walk for the 2nd year in a row. 6 miles baby and then i came back and ate a million bagels. yum, i earned it. this weekend went out to venice friday night with liz and the gang, ate grilled cheese at Rick on main and then got cold stone creamery and then we all went to the brig for a few more drinks. i wasn't having any, but hung out for while. Yesterday i went to barnes and nobles at the grove and read magazines during the day and went to a party in santa monica last night. My friend phil and his roomie live in this shitty apt and have lived there for 8 yeras and are now moving on and they threw a party because they didn't care about the deposit. it was such a guys apt. with beer in the bathtub and a rented margarita machine. I tried to pick up a guy but he had NO INTEREST and then when i went back to my group of friends i said "i just tried to pick up this guy but he was not interested. at. all. I then realized he was stading with his back to my friend who i was telling this to and if you know me, you know my voice is LOUD! so he totally heard, i wish shit like that would stop happening to me. then i met a cute lawyer named Avi, who was like 26 and i fell in love with him, but he wan't intersted probably because i was so tongue tied with him, i sounded like an idiot. and so it goes...

i am meeting on a show tomorrow so i need to get back to working on story ideas that i'll pitch to the creators... I hope i get it. It's cool a show is staffing on the off season. (shows usually staff in may!)

Mac Vs. Old people

There is something definately wrong with me, that much I know. Let me tell you why. whenever i get out of my car and see an old person heading to the ATM machine or same coffee shop as me, i always and i mean always break into a sprint to beat them to their desitination so i can get their first so i dont have to wait for them. I know this sounds mean, but it does make sense

Do not judge me until you have been stuck behind an old person trying to figure out what to order at the coffee bean. the menu is not really that confusing, you'd think they never ordered a cup of coffee before and dont get me started on them trying to pick out a treat to eat from the glass container. It takes forever. but now I find myself racing old people every time i see them, and you dont see many in LA, but it happens at least once a week. most recently in the trader joes parking lot, i saw an old guy get out of his car at the same time i did and i felt the need to race him to the door. Is this normal? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say no.

PS was over at the FOX lot yesterday and saw hugh laurie going into his trailer! i love him to much, it's insane.

food coma

last night I had girls night with my gal pals. Ive talked about girls night before, well, monique annoucned she's preggers, which is so amazing. However, amy the first girl in the group to have a baby had to pull out of girls night last minute because her 18 month old was having a fit, so now i'm worried that the same thing will happen to monique and eventually girls night will just be me drinking a bottle of wine watching "love, Actually," and wanting to kill myself.

we went to erika's house and her house ive said before is the one straight out of a movie that has the most incredible view of the valley and an infinity pool and hot tub and floor to ceiling windows and it's UNREAL. we ordered pizza and tehy delivered it, and they screwed up the order, so they sent up another pizzz, once again, they screwed up the order so my friend erika called the place and said "can i ask you one question? are you guys high?" THEY SCREWED UP 3 PIZZAS!

I'm super excited becasue monique is taking the day off of work on monday and erika doesn't work, nor do i, so we're having a spa day!!! Hot stone massages are amazing!!!! i cannnnnooottt wait! i've earned it!

one more thing about me you might not know

a few weeks ago i posted 5 things you didn't know about me, i just thought of another.

#6 I OFTEN WEAR HEADPHONES IN MY EARS EITHER ATTACHED TO NOTHING OR WHATEVER THEY ARE ATTACHED TO ISN'T ON JUST SO PEOPLE WILL LEAVE ME ALONE

ALSO, i recently learned how to bold in HMTL (the computer language i'm learning) so that's why i have started bolding stuff!

i'm totally eating cookies right now

i know i talk a lot about wanting to lose weight, but these cookies are from whole foods and reportedly quite good for me! Anyway, just ran over to the farmers market and the grove mall across the street from the writers guild to get fresh fruit for lunch, so freaking good and cheap, and then get my niece rowan who turned 4 yesterday an outfit from the gap, like Godmother, like Goddaughter... so cute. I was busy last week and wasn't able to get a gift to her for all those who are judging me my auntie abilities, i was trying to sell a freakin' show to pay for her college education, biatches!

ok so on my way back, the TOday Show stopped me and asked to interview me about the afterlife!!! how hilarious is that!! so i'm going to be on the today show on tuesday talking about how i think the afterlife is like a bunch of green golf courses and friends hanging out. Hopefully there will be no boy troubles in heaven!

just another manic monday

today i could not concentrate. I wrote one thing for the tv blog i write for, i'm finding it harder and harder to come up with tv news. turns out there's not much tv news to report on. Its not like celeb gossip which is always happening, TV news isn't so prolific. oy vey, anyway, i think I've decided that I want to get back together with someone who dumped me a while ago. not sure exaclty how to accomplish this... very tricky. i mean, this person didn't want to be with me, so theres that, then there's the chance he has a girlfriend, a good chance since it's totally easy for men to get women, so there's that also, and i dont have his number any more and i've forgotten his email address, so i feel like the cards are stacked against me... i need to think about this some more as i know it's going to end terribly with me feeling sorry for myself. I just need to busy myself and forget about him.

update: I have been assured by my friends that me contacting Mr EX is a bad idea. Like i said i've lost all his contact info, so that pretty much makes my decision for me, but why the need to get back together with him? dont know. Speaking of exes i had a stalker EX a few years ago and I just was on his myspace page (yes even though he was a sorta stalker i still allowed him to be my myspace friend) and even he has a girlfriend, so i have to believe that mr. ex has one too.

have you guys been reading my TV blog? see the link down below, a few posts down, check it ou and post commments.

mets

the best part of my weekend was going to the mets/dodgers game. holy mooly it was the most amazing game!! i went with my friend alan and i had arranged to have this guy sell us tickets before the game, he had put an ad up on craigs list. so i call the guy as i'm pulling into the parking lot and he says he was at lot #13 and so i park and we start walking and calling him and he doesn't pick up so we call again, he doesn't pick up, again, again, so we're walking around lot 13 and there are only 3 groups there and so alan goes up and asks each group if someone there is sean, the guy's name, so the 3rd group he goes up to and as he's asking, i call again and the group says they have no sean, but as they're saying there's no sean, i see a guy look at his cell phone that has just started ringing, (i was calling) and looks at me on the phone and alan and i are pussy's so we walked away. clearly the guy had told a few people he'd sell them the tickets, and gave them to the first people who showed up. anyway, we scalp tickets to get in since we were already there and unfortuatnly we were sitting near a bunch of gang banging looking types, yeah, it was scary since i'm wearing a Mets hat which i prompttly took off when i realized i could easily get my assed kicked and alan would be of no help seeing as i could beat him up. soooo the game rocked, but the fans were drunk and belligerent so i culdn't really cheer that loud for the mets but WE WON!!! so now we're going to the NL playoffs, hopefully in san diego so i can go down there for a game!! LETS GO METS!! oh and the yanks lost so i guess all my friends who became yankee fans in the mid 90s will now jump on the mets bandwagon, but i will be pushing them off, we dont needs fairweather fans, thank you v. much.

big day

did you guys see me in USA today on thursday?

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-10-04-mcsteamy-returns_x.htm

so that was fun,but the other big part of my day on thurs. was pitching a tv show to executives at the peacock network, home of some tv shows like cheers and seinfeld.

well, the pitch went amazing, i kicked some serious ass and made them laugh and they usually never laugh, so that was good, but unfortunately the pitch wasn't bought due to the fact that they have a similar project already in develop. sucks to work for a month straight on something like that and it literally goes away over night. but we might take it to other networks the reason why i took it to the one i did is becuase the production company i'm developing with has a deal with them and we had to go there first. but seriously pitching a tv show and developing one too is the hardest thing i've ever done in my life, so fukcing ridiculous, but at the end of the day, a great experience for future times I'm going to have to do it over and over again until i get a show on the air... we shall see.

this weekend was fun, saw the most amazing movie, The Departed, seriously unbelievable although ridiculously long. I loved it, how hot is leo dicaprio, did i just turn into a 12 yr old girl? on saturday am had b'fast at my friend carrie's house who i went to high school with. she's married and has a kid and lives in bev. hills, it was fun because she made the most amazing pancakes, seriously, how did she make them taste that good?

today i watched football with liz at my friend bryan's house and now i'm eating soy chocolate pudding, yum!

hell

i'm in hell, creating a TV show is hell, i'm in hell. I pitch to one of the networks tomorrow so no more updates until after that, just know i'm in total hell. Oh, the hoops i'm jumping through...

TV blog

for the past month i've been writing for a tv watching blog over on ivillage. here's the link

http://tvcocktail.ivillage.com/entertainment/

anyway, a bunch of us write for it, but i'm the main person who does reviews and tv news. Everyone else just writes recaps of episodes of whatever shows they watch. anyway, i just got a call that USA today wants to interview me and it's going to happen any minute, i'm so nervous!! i'll let you know when the interview comes out, eek, i've never been interviewed by a major publication.

UPDATE - THE INTERVIEW WILL APPEAR IN THE LIFE SECTION OF THE USA TODAY ON THURSDAY

boulder insanity

so much happened this weekend, had so much fun. Erin's wedding was beautiful, Jamie and I got wasted, classy, huh? but it wasn't our fault, the servers at the wedding kept refilling the wine glasses on the table and we had no idea how much we were drinking. anyway, we ended up at chautaqua where all the guests were staying and hung outside the cabin erin and chris were in and everyone was just chilling and drinking and jamie and i were wasted and just left and started walking towards the hotel that we had to get cause we were too drunk to drive back to dennver. so we we get to the hill where all the students go to party and there are a lot of frats there and we go to a frat party and i walk in and no one says anytyhing, but they stop jamie and start harassing him and i come back and tell the guys that taylor invited us, knowning that every frat has a guy named taylor in it, well, lo and behold pi kapp does have a taylor in it and guess who was standing right next to me when i said this, TAYLOR, the one and only taylor in the frat! WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?!?! so we're like okay bye, then we stumble down to circle K and convince these guys who were filling up on gas to drive us to the hotel, they are seniors at the air force academy and were on their way back to colorado springs, so they drive us to our hotel and when we get there no one is behind the desk which makes sense since it was 3 am, so i call the hotel from my cell and jamie reaches over the counbter and picks up the phone, this went on for anumber of times even though i was like jamie, stop that, but we were drunk and some guy in the lobbby found us very amusing.... then came yesterday's hangover.... oy vey! more on that later...

boulder bound

i'm in colorado right now at my friend jamie's apartment hanging. I'm about to head up to boulder in a little for my freshman year college roomate's wedding!! I love my friend, ERin and i'm so excited for her. actually tonight i'm going to the rehersal dinner in boulder, the wedding is tomorrow, and jamie is coming with, oddly because jamie and erin's fiancee are colleagues at the rocky mountain newspaper. weird, small world, right? Fingers crossed that i make out with a cute boy!! so excited to be back in boulder, it's beautiful!!

I do not heart boys

a few weeks ago, my friend jamie set me up, in a group date setting at a bar, with a guy named russell. over the course of the evening russell asked for my phone number and said let's get coffee. and it wasn't like he had to do that, we were in a group we were both talking to everyone all night, so why did he ask for it? Well, Duh, me thought, i was A. going to hear from him and B get coffee. oh, sarah, how naive you are. HE HASN'T CALLED! so suffice it to say, i realize that ship has sailed. but last night, while at the gym, that we talked about us both belonging to, i for some reason looked down the line of treadmills while i was on the treadmill, which i never do and i saw him about 5 treadmills away from me. i'm like, say what? is that russell? so i was done with my cardio and heading upstairs to the weights area and got a better look and yup, it was him and we may have made eye contact, but I pretended i did not recognize. seriously, my life is sucky.

weekend

all i did this weekend was write. I'm submitting something for a show that i really really really really want to write for. so i have to write a very specific submission for them and that's what i did all weekend. good to know that I"m going to spend 4 days on this thing and probably won't get the job and won't get paid for all my hours on the computer doing research and writing. that blows, ahhh, the life of a writer.

saw the movie "the last kiss," with zach braaf, i love me some zach braff. and i really liked the movie, but found it to be a little whiny about a guy who's 29 and afraid of growing up, guess it has something to do with being dumped by a 25 year old earlier this year who freaked out when he found out i was in my early thirties. I hate whiny, i'm scared to grow up bulls hit, these guys are lucky they didn't have to fight in a fucking war like the men in the early 1900s.

we shall see....

well the big night is here, the greys anatomy premiere, i'm so excited, i can't see straight. also i just emailed my new tv show pitch in to the company I'm writing for, hopefully they will like it, the security guy at the front desk of the writers guild asked me if i was proud of it and i said yes and he said then that's all that matters, his lips to God's ears. Anywho back to greys, i'm going to my friend michelle's house where she's having a bunch of ladies over for a fiesta, i might be throwing back a few too many glasses of wine, so watch out, i need a little relaxing!

LETS GO METS

ALRIGHT METS, fuck off to all the yankee fans out there that used to be mets fans, but were fairweather fans and now the mets just clinched the NL east for the first time since 1988!!! AWWW YEAH,! THIS IS OUR YEAR!! I LOVE THE METS!!

depression back on

I'm totally stressed out. I met with the producers of my show and they totally changed the concept to where it's unrecognizable to me. And now I have to come up with an entirely different show based on their criteria, which by the way was 2 sentences long!! I'M HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.

had a great weekend in seattle despite my nervous breakdown, my aunt and uncles 50th wedding anniversary party was amazing, they showed a video of their life together and it included my dad walking my aunt down the aisle on her wedding day (their dad died when they were young) anyway, i totally cried seeing my dad as a young guy and seeing my grandmother who i never met, but have heard a lot about, it was incredible or i'm a pussy, not sure which one, afraid it might be the latter. anyway, ineed to get back to work on my idea that is pretty much due this week and ih ave no idea what hte fuck i'm doing.. AAARRGGGGHHHH! nervous breakdown is in full effect yo.

wednesday

alright, so i have just spent the entire day at the writers guild library surfing the internet. secretly i wish they didn't have access to the internet because I find myself doing things like playing on itunes store and downloading songs from the new greys anatomy soundtrack when what I really should be doing is coming up with my new tv show idea seeing as I have a meeting tomorrow for it. then on early fri morn I'm off to seattle-ish for my aunt and uncles 50th wedding anniv. party. i'm psyched to see my immediate family including my bro fresh from Iraq!

On the note of downloading songs, you must download my new favorite song, HOW WE OPERATE by gomez!! I LOVE IT AND CAN'T STOP HITTING REPLAY!!!
also you need to email me for the new TV blog I write for this company.

depression lifted

just found out last night that the tv show idea i pitched last week, the people wnat to do it with me. next step is to go to all the networks and pitch it to them and hopefully one of them will want to buy it and I'll get paid to write the script!! SO EXCITING, WHAT A BIG DEVELOPMENT!! I'm so psyched that the first time i've ever pitdched anything ever, i won! Yippee! that's the news on my front.

weekend update

blind date went well, it was just a chill night at a bar with friends, but the dude asked for my number, so that's good. and he was cute (in a dark bar, who knows what kind of monster he is in the light of day...) and then saturday i had to run errands I blew off the past 2 weeks because of pitching and wedding commitments. I watched football all day with some friends and worked out. I took a lot of naps this weekend which i actually never do, I'm not a big napper, but more of a solid 12 hours sleeper. I think it's screwing me up! I hope my date calls me this week... oh and here's a pick of me in my brides maid dress from B's wedding in malibu.

holy moly

so this week has been crazy sorry for the lack of posts. I pitched a tv show on wednesday, like one that came to me in my brain!! It was so freakin' intense. I had to pitch out the premise and possible characters and story ideas, etc. it was the hardest thing I've ever done. Imgaine giving a speech to 2 people and it's not like teaching where you have the materials that are facts like science, but i had to make them up and entertain and be energetic for an hour. And i had to memorize 4 pages of single spaced microsoft word paper of all that information. Phew. I'll keep you abreast of what happens. then yesterday i had a movie meeting for a possible movie re-write. so today i'm totally exhausted. also I'm being set up tonight on a blind date by my friend jamie. but it's a triple date with jamie and his girlfriend and my friend kristin and a guy jamie is setting her up with too. so the pressure is off, but i'm so tired, i dont know how entertaining I'm gonna be. so much going on...

what the?

yesterday at the gym, i went into the ladies room. you walk in and the stalls, about 5 of them are on the left, sinks to the right. so i walk in and go to the first stall and tug on the door ands it's locked, so I notice that the 4th stall's door is wide open, so i headed over and when I got there, i saw a woman sitting on the can and she looks at me and says "hey." HEY?!! not ooops the door must've opened, or oops i forgot to lock the door. but HEY! now the dooor had been open since i stepped in the bathroom, but i just chose to go to the first one first because I like that stall better. anywya, this is one of those ladies you see at the gym whenever you go, she's totally emaciated and takes a spinning classes before and after the mat pilates class you're taking with her, so clearly there's something wrong with her.

wedding

so the wedding was awesome. On friday night we had the rehersal. I was nervous becasuse I had high heels about 2inches and all the other bridesmaids had wedges and we had to walk on grass and uneven terrain down the aisle. so i was in major ttrouble. AFter the rehearsal, i broke out the shoes and did a test run and did fine. that night the bridesmaids spent the night at the malibu beach house kyle and berna rented for the weekend. we had a big girls slumber party!!

So the next day, was the wedding. it was on this bluff in malibu looking over malibu and the pacific ocean and the sun was setting during the reception and wow, words can't even begin to describe it. bernadette looked amazing as did all the girls (us bridesmaids) I got my hair and make up professionally done, pics to follw in a few days, and danced with my drunken friends and got no action other than a few innapropraite hands on the dance floor. oh well, i met another writer who gave me some great advice on how to pitch a tv show, so it wasn't a waste of my time. on sunday they had a brunch and matija and i drove all the way bacdk to malibu and hung out with the happy couple. then we worked out in brentwood, doing the stairs, which are just a bunch of stairs that people go up and down up and down up and down, sweating their asses off. so i did it 8 times, and was dying because it's a major heat wave here... last night i headed over to my friend pau's house for a BBQ and hung out with some friends until I was about to pass out, I was so tired from all the weeekends events, and I came home and just sat in peace and quiet! all and all the weekend was pretty damn nice. who can complain about a malibu weekend.

ugh

i wrote this whole long post and then my computer crashed... basically this weekend is the big weekend for bernadettes wedding in malibu, very excited. I paid 400 bucks for the bridesmaid dress, so i better look hot in it and hopefully get some action, even though I hear there's not many or any single boys going to be present at this wedding. really what's the point of going to a wedding in the first place. anyway, thankfully i'm wearing the dress again at my aunt and uncles 50th wedding anniv. party in seattle in 2 weeks and again at a wedding in boulder, CO of my college fresh. yr. roomie at the end of september. what does that bring the price per wear down to... i dont like math, so i'm not going to do it. anyway, off to malibu for the rehearsal (gotta get a workout in beforehand to buff up my arms for the dress!)

me and my BF hugh at the TV guide party. one i'm talking to him and then the next i'm listening to him play in his band called band from tv which is made up of tv stars, see post a few below...

Frederick Fekkai

OKay so i was just at Frederik Fekkai in Bev hills to get my hair cut. It was like 6 feet long. anyway, I get there and there's a camera crew and lighting, etc. welcome to LA, where you can never just go to get your haircut or go to the gym without a reality show or makeover show filming htere. so they were broadcasting live from there, i believe a channel 5 reporter was getting a hair makeover and she was kinda rude, turns out she came in with a mullet and the stylist said something to the effect of it kinda looks like a mullet, and the newscaster was like "i like my mullet," but the sytlist wasn't being rude, she was just saying what hair people say when they first take a look at your hair when you sit in the chair. anyway, they kept doing these stupid things like putting a big silly wig on the lady and then going back live to the studio "you said you wanted me to go blonde right?" oh it was so lame and painful to listen to. meanwhile, i'm rocking a nice cute do!

hangover day 2

so yesterday was ridiculous the hangover I had. But it was all worth it to meet hugh laurie. anyway, went to see dave matthews last night at the hollywood bowl, the least far venue i've ever travelled to to see him. Oh how i love him. the concert was pretty mellow but the venue amazing, the bowl is a great place to see the show. I'm not sure why they chose to play so so so so many slow songs, maybe because there are loudness regulations due to the neighborhood where the bowl is located. so he didn't play some of my fave songs like grey street. it was a great night, although my friend who i went with got really drunk and mad at me for something and left the concert so i was there alone like an idiot towards the and then i had to walk to hollywood and higland where i parked my car and of course did not remember where so i walked around the ENTIRE freaking place looking for the stupid stupid car, oh that's frustrating. I just had a coffee with 3 shots of espresso, so now i'm finally feeling myself.

where to begin..

i worked the red carpet at the emmy's yesterfday it was so fucking hot, really you have no idea how hot, think surface of the sun hot! i hate the sun so this was a definate problemt for me, but i lathered up the sunblock and was fine. Everyone on the red carpet has to be in formal attire, so i was in a fancy dress my friend lent me. she went to the emmy's last year. the red carpet was whatever, but the big news of the night was MEETING HUGH LAURIE!! We all know i love him, so i'm at the TV guide party and he walks into the outdoor smoking area, i wasn't smoking, but was hanging out there becaseu it was so crowded inside, but it turned out to be THE place. Debra messing and her hubby were out there, as was the ENTIRE cast of grey's anatomy, minus mcdreamy, but justin chambers who plays alex on GA was there and TOTALLY WASTED!! he was dancing around with is tie off and around his neck and his sunglasses on and was a total mess, it was hilarious, him and his wife were at the table next to ours. The cast of house came and kicked us out of our table but then decided to go somewhere else and let us have our table back, hugh wasn't with them, he was with his wife and they were having a smoke and a drinky by the bar. so he walks in, i freak out, my friend suzy is like just go talk to him, i couldn't do that, so she marched right up to him and introduced me and i almost passed out. then his band,i think they're called band from tv or something, played. they're a cover band with greg grunberg, my boy hugh, james denton from des. housewives, and bob guinney who was the bachelor and an all around geek. the guys from the band seem to hero worship hugh, it's pretty funny. I'm not sure if Greg grunberg is in love with him, but he might be.

emmy emmy emmy

so excited!!! the emmy weekend is here, suzy is on her way from NYC right now, this afternoon we're going to a jewelry show/spa thing to preview the jewelry the celebs will be wearing and then getting massages, so excited!! even more exciting is that i lost 1.5 pounds this week!! yeah me! i got real serious about weight watchers again!! so only 8.5 pounds to go!!!

emmyweeeknd

very excited about going to the emmys this weekend. i'm going to be working them with ivillage, and we're going to be on the red carpet and talking to celebs and then heading off to the tv guide party and partying with them. hugh laurie who we know is my future husband is going to be there playing with his band of tv show stars including greg grunberg from alias and the plumber guy from desp. housewives. speaking of hugh laurie, i was jut over on the fox lot having lunch with my friend who writes for a show that's filmed there and i was stopped by a sound stage, trying to read my email on my phone and i look up just in time to see my beloved walking up the stairs of a trailer. his trailer i presume since his motorcycle was parked outside it.

last night i went to the beerfest premiere afterparty. it was really fun on hollywod Blvd. the theme was beerfest, so it was a giant parking lot with saw dust on the floor and tons of drinking games and beers and women dressed in beer wench outfits and hooters girls (hooters catered). my friend from warner bros invited me and we walked around and it turns out my friend will forte, who's on SNL is in the movie, so he was there as were a bunch of his friends who i know so we all had a great time. in the center they had a boxing ring where they were playing a fierce game of beer pong. another stall had this cup flipping game. also lo and behold i ran into my exboyfriend who i hadn't seen since he dumped me back in january. i first saw his roomate who i adore and was so psyched to see, then he was all "hey did you see will?" andi was all oh cool he's here, i gotta get a diet coke. so my friends and i headed over to the bar and had a pow wow on what i was to do, should i say hi, should i blow it off, should i get rip roaring drunk and make out with someone else these are all things that crossed through my mind. but i decided to be the bigger person and say hi, i hate being the bigger person, i'm always the bigger person and it blows. just once i want to be the smaller person, but i digress. i walked up to him, gave him a big hug, i was nervous but it wasn't awkward, which is always a good thing, and we a pleasant conversation and then my friends and I moved on. thankfully that's over, now if we see each other again it will be like nothing happened.

weekend update

so friday n ight i drove 2.5 hours down to costa mesa to see my cousin maureen and her family. they were in town to drop off their daughter at college down there, it normally should take 1 hour, but alas, friday traffic did a number on me. the only thing that made me happy on the trip down was when i saw a rich girl driving a sweet escalalde that daddy totally bought as she looked 19 years old, and she left the gas pump in as she drove away from the gas station and it ripped out of the gas pump and dragged behind her car, my car was next to hers, so i had a front row view. so i get down there, hang with the cousins, we had a great time, went to BJs pizza place in balboa, ate too much including a pizookie which is a choc. chip cookie in a pizza pan that is fresh out of the oven and topped with vanilla ice cream, it was to die for!!! see picture. then on saturday I worked out for over an hour to try and counterbalance the damage, but only added to it when i went to see "step up"with my friend jackie and we got bulk candy and soda pop, on top of that, we went back to her house where her husband made me a grilled cheese sandwich. thankfully i rocked out with her 3 year old to the wiggles and danced to the henry the octopus song, hopefully that burned off some calories.

am i old

last night i was at a kareoke extravaganza brithday party for the 2 guys who created how i met your mother. it was very crowded, a lot of people were there i hadn't seen in a while including this guy chris who is in the tv comedy writing crowd. anywho, we alwasy run into each other at parties and what not and i think i one point i had a crush on him, this was back when i was a chubby chaser, i'm not anymore not is he chubby, but not into him anymore, anyway, i was struck by how much older he looks. and it made me wonder have i aged as well and just haven't noticed? I mean who am i to assume ihaven't aged and everyone around me has, how arrogant of me to think that. So just as long as i haven't aged as much as he has!!

pretty dresses

Last night i went to my friend's house who's a writer on scrubs and has a great dress from last years emmys. I'm going to this years emmy's working the red carpet with NBC/ivillage.com, interviewing nomineees and what have you, yes, so glamourous, i'll give a full report. anyway, i had to go try on the dress and it fit!! yippee! it's not a dress i would pick off the rack and think, "this is so me," but it looks very emmy-ish and why go spend money on a new dress! then after the red carpter, we're gonna hit the tv guide party, where my beloved hugh laurie will be. Oh, i just got hugh laurie's book! he's an accomplished actor, musician and author! it's called the gun seller, and he's hot!

worms

I told u about my housemate who put his cat's litter boxes in the kitchen, right? well yesterday he discovered that one of them had... please stop eating if you're eating and reading this.... okay, worms coming out if it's ass. pause while i throw up in my mouth a little.. that's all i'm saying... I'M A GERM A PHOBE AND NOW CAT ASS WORMS ARE PROBABLY EVERYWHERE IN MY HOUSE. And i never let those stupid fucking cats in my roomm, but the other day, they got in while I ran downstairs to the bathroom. FUCK, WORMS ARE EVERYWHERE!!

the year of magical thinking

this weekend i read joan didion's book the year of magical thinking. its the only thing i did other than work out and feel sorry for myself, oh yes, the pity party continues. anyway, the book is so well written and really moving, i highly recomend it. I did nothing all weekend, literally nothing, i know some people who always do nothing, but i never do, i didnt' go out either night of the weekend!! this terrifies me as i sink deeper into my isolation chamber. But i have to say,i liked it, it was peaceful!! I had coffee and b'fast with friends. Actually had b'fast with my friend and she went to the cash machine and said it wasn't working and then went to pay for the food and said it wouldn't take her card, so i had to pay for her food as well, which is v. annying seeing as I haven't gotten a paycheck since ummmm FEBRUARY. but what was i supposed to do, sit there and eat while she sulked about her card being rejected and listening to her come up with all the reasons why it might be rejected. this is my same friend who's dad bought her a condo in malibu with a view of the pacific ocean, and i'm buying her b'fast... papa mac hasn't paid for anything since may 1996.

todays number of the day

I first noticed it on the Yahoo home page. every day they have "THE 9." the top NINE things that are making news/headlines/starting trends. THE NINE THINGS!! how wickedly free thinking! get it, nine instead of ten, see ten is what the old people count down from, but we're YAHOO and we're young and hip and breaking the rules our parents set up, so we're counting down from fucking nine! then, today i was on itunes and came across the TOP 27 SONGS from the soundtracks of the blockbuster summer movies. TWENTY FUCKING SEVEN?! what?!@?!?!? not 25 or 20 too mainstream, we're fucking rocking the 27 cause we're hardcore!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD?

celeb. sighting

this week has been crazy with celeb sightings, here's one more a mr. clint eastwood at the warner bros. studios. he is really tall and was dressed like a tourist, khakis and a random t-shirt.

top 5 things people don't know about me

well maybe not the top 5, but 5 things people don't know about me

5. I have 5 shelves of anti-aging, anti-wrinkle, alpha-hydroxy creams, gels, moiturizers, etc. I'm obsessed.
4. I do not floss everyday
3. When i'm told about someone who's died, I laugh
2. i read an article once that said if you eat, write and brush your teeth with your other hand (i.e. if you're a righty, then do that stuff with your left hand) it will make your brain more flexible and have a better memory, etc. I now do these things.
1. I need a new keychain

happy birthday castro

that's right lets take a moment to celebrate castros 80th birthday, what? you didn't know I was a communist?
I made zucchini bread last night, i've never made zucchini bread ever before, it was interesting. I should go pro.

new begginings

the guy who owns the house i live in (and he lives here too) is enganged and his girlfriend just moved in. That's right, it's the happy couple and the depressed girl. anyway, they have 2 cats and the litter box and water and food he always kept in his bathroom, but now that he and the GF share a bathroom, they moved said litter boxes (plural one for each cat) INTO THE KITCHEN!!!! umm.... does anyone else see something wrong with this?!??! litter boxes in the kitchen, where food is prepared and consummed.... THE KITCHEN!

I'm blue

as you all know i've been down recently, what with no job and no love live and nothing of real interest to speak of, and while I probalby won't kill myself today, here's a reason why I might. Let me take you through the story

friday night, out with kristin, when i say
me: how come no one ever sets me up with guys? Like when my friends have a guy to set up, they never think to set up me, but they're always setting up you
Kristin well, you're a really strong flavor.
me: a strong flavor? like curry?
kristin: Not everyone is going to like you. dont' worry I'm a strong flavor to.

CUT TO

Saturday, poolside the avalon hotel, bernadette's bridal shower. Kristin telling story of setting up bernadette and her fiancce kyle. I bring up the "strong flavor" conversation from the night before and how no one ever sets me up with anyone.

Kristin points to the plate of chesee that sits before her.

Kristin: see how there's not a lot of brie on the plate, everyone likes brie. brie goes with everything, bernadette is a brie, see how no one has touched the blue cheese, you're like blue cheese, not many people like blue cheese, but some do.
stacey: you just need to find your cobb salad.
me: I'm going to kill myself.

seth green

went to have a meeeting with my agent this afternoon at the endeavor buidling, you might have seen it on entourage, the building Ari was seen out of last week and ducked behind the car... anyway, i guess seth is repped by the same agency as me and as i was pulling into valet, he was waiting for his car. i love seeing celebs, for the shear fact so many people can't. also seth played patrick dempseys little brother in Can'T buy me Love. he rocked in that, has not aged as well as PD though.... he's not my mcdreamy, but my friend karen is in love with Seth, to each their own...

celeb sighting

you take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have... THE FACTS OF LIFE!!

anyone seen natalie from the facts of life recently? I have!! saw her yesterday when i was leaving crunch! she was taking the escalator to go to the indi movie theatre at cresent heights and sunset blvd. she has a sally jessy raphael thing going, with short spiky hair that is dyed platinum blonde circa 2000 when all the celebs were going for that look! I can't beieve i even recognized her!!! She doesn't look great, but she doesn't look terrible. she was with some guy which is more than i can say for my current state of love life! anyway, Natalie, i think her name is mindy cohn and I have the same birthday. May 20th. so i always felt a special kinship with her!!

STOP TALKING TO ME

so instead of going to an office since i dont have a job, i go to the writers guild of america where i am a member and i'm allowed access to thier lounge for members only. it has free coffee, tea, hot cocoa, water, printers, faxes, copiers, etc. it has chairs and desks and couches to work, it's like an office. everyday the same people give or take a few, are there working on whatever we writers work on. anyway because i've been coming so often, some people have begun to talk to me, which is annoying, but anyway, one guy sits in the rooom with the printer, etc and he introduced himself to me a few weeks ago and now whenever i go in there he says to me:

guy: I hope you're having a more productive day than I am.
me: proably not.

EVERY DAY WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION!!

seriously messed up

I was just at the ATM at melrose and fairfax. I went to the drive up ATM machine but it was out of order, so i had to pull a u turn in front of 2 cops, basically going through a red light and go to the walk up. now at this point i was late to where i needed to be, so i see a woman with a walker heading to the ATM machine and i fly into my parking spot and and get out to beat the walker lady because i naturally assume sehs' going to take forever at the ATM and i'm in a rush and so i start into a light jog to beat her to the machine, but didn't want to be too obvious sprinting from across the parking lot, and so she beat me to the the ATM machine. something is seriously wrong with me why do i do these things. who am i?

abducted israeli soldiers

Over the past 23 days, world wide people have been tuned to CNN watching the events of the middle east unfold, I have not been one of them. Sure there have been a lot deaths and a lot infrastructure damage, always interesting to watch, but I tuned in early on in the strife and now haven't been that into. BUT THAT'S ALL CHANGED... I recently stumbled upon the pictures of the 2 abducted israeli soldiers who when kidnapped started this whole disater, have you seen these guys? they're totally hot and they're probaly like 20 years old, HELLO SWEATY HOT MUSCLES!!! I'm watching CNN now to try and find out what's going to happen to my war hotties. is this wrong? am i totally f-ed in the head? don't answer that...

I'm lost

i'm working very hard at remainging upbeat about my current lack of work situation. I think i'm supposed to be coming up with my own show, am i or is a company supposed to pitch one to me and what if i like it and what if i dont? I have no direction and the problem is i have no one to turn to to give me this direction, this direction is supposed to come from within, but since i've never travelled down this road before I'm not sure which exit ramp to take if i'm supposed to take one at all. despite all this, my mood is much better. went out with newman last night, we were supposed to go to an Oakley party for the Xgames, but we drove by and the line was ridiculous and so instead we went to the cat and the fiddle and sat outside, had a drink (i had lemonade) and caught up. very fun night. christie is also in town for the Xgames and i'm spending the night at her hotel... hellooooooo expense account, room service please send up another bottle of red and some tuna tartare!


ps how awesome was the free gas yesterday? seriously, hilarious!

free gas

have you ever heard on the radio that the radio station is giving away free gas and they tell you where and it's like an hour away and you're like "man, why can't they ever do it near me," well today was my lucky day. I was listening to the lame top 40 station and they said theyr'e giving away gas at the station at beverly and fairfax and i'm like, that's where i'm going today!!!! so i head on down, wait in line for like 15 mins creeping along and when i reach the front of the line, the guy says, no more free gas, i'm like WHAT?! i just fucking waited for 15 mins in the heat with my car running!?!?! so i'm on empty anyway and i wait and another guy says they still ahve free gas and I'm going to get some, yippee, so i sit there and wait anotehr 5 mins and then pull in and sure enough, the pump starts hooking my passat up with some free gas!! FORTY BUCKS WORTH BABY!!! I've never done one of those gas things and probably never willl again, but when you ain't go no job and you're on the dole, it's a bright spot in an otherwise bleak existance!

bad date

i had a meeting yesterfday for the possibility of developing/creating my own t.v. show. it was awkward, not sure if that stemmed from me or the person i was meeting with, regardless, i left there feeling like i just had a bad date and was never going to hear from that person again. then i had a meeting today and we totally jelled and i thought he was great and i felt like it was an awesome date and i'm hoping i hear from hiim again. anyway, i worked out yesterday pretty hard, i'm on a hard core turn my body hard core kick AGAIN!! but this time i'm serious!! AGAIN!! watch this space as they say...