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!