so excited for my new business venture!!!

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LA street food trucks

the expolosion of food trucks in the past year in LA is mind boggling. Thanks to twitter you can follow any of the food trucks any time you want. these trucks range from ones that have build your own ice cream sundae, to outrageously good taco trucks (thanks KOGI!) to buttermilk trucks whihc cook up anything with butter milk, to grilled cheese trucks to cuban food trucks... anything you want you can find, trust me.

ive been dying to hit up the grilled cheese truck forevs! the BF was going to take me to it on my bday, but they sceduled a private party. On saturdday night after my 23 year old cousin's bridal shower (yes age 23 and getting married... yes, she's going to miss out on life in my humble opinion seeing as i've been to 20 countries since age 23) anywhooooo, we headed on over to santa monica and got ourselves some really freaking good grilled cheese.

I got an original, i mean hey why stray from the sammy that started it all. I also got a small tomato soup. the BF got the Cheesy Mac and Rib - macaroni and cheese with sharp cheddar and bbq pork, caramelized onions. next time i'm getting the dessert melt: Roasted banana puree, Nutella and marshmallow. HOW AMAZING DOES THAT SOUND.

well, while doing research on the grilled cheese truck on sat. i found out that next week, like 15 of the different food trucks are going to be in the same location in glendale for a night! holy crap! my friends and i are def. heading up and hitting up all the different trucks and getting our grub on! so excited!

Belmont

THIS PICTURE ISN'T OF MY FRIEND!

last night we went out to meet some friends who have kids and aren't usually A. out and B. on my side of the hill, meaning they live in the valley. They were at a friends 40th bday party. So they call us after dinner and invite us to meet up with the group at the belmont in west hollywood.

So bernsie, my boyfriend and I head on over... so we get there and the thing you need to know about the birthday girl is pretty much all i know about her is that she's a huge drinker, HUGE. every story i've ever heard of her invovles her falling over the couch drunk (last year) or drinking during her pregnancy and then and I quote "i'm going to have my baby shower when i'm 6 months pregnant so i can drink during it.." um, ok.

needs less to say we show up and i'm like hi barbie (not her real name but she looks like barbie) this is my boyfriend and she is WASTED and says "how cute are you? how cute are you? how cute is he?" i'm like, and then she stands up and i have to catch her and hold her up while she talks to me and we couldn't make heads or tails of what she was saying so every so often, i'd just laugh and say "that's so funny," or "really," "totally," things of that nature.

so shes talking to my friend amy and is ridiculous. oh wait, before that, when she said hello to me, she said it 3 separate times, meaning she thought she was seeing me for the first time 3 times and tried to give me a kiss on my cheeck hello, but just ended up bascially giving me a hickey and missed my face compeletely.

ok, so she's talking to amy and i'm talking to amy's husband and barbie's hubby is talking to my boyfriend. So then amy's husband says to me, get your BF's attention b/c i need to get barbie's husband's attention becuase now shes barely awaake. So boyfriend and i go to the bar and watch as barbie sit in a chair and is completely passed out. like passed freakin out so hard. so her husband pulls the car around and they have to carry her out, over the shoulder, her ass in the air, dress falling ovr her head, everyone at the place is in shock at how much she's revealing. Amy's husband is trying to pull down her dress, but it ain't working. it was insane! I've never seen a 40 year old do that! perhaps at your 21st birthday, but 40th??? it was insane! When I'm drunk, i just know it and stop drinking. but she was out of control and the weirdest part about it was that it was a very small, like 10 person gathering at a dinner table, not a raging fiesta!

well, i've arrived at the end of the road of my entertainment career. I'll give a proper eulogy soon, but it doesn't look like i'm going to get a job on a show this year, sooooo that means, i need to get a real job in the real world. can you believe that? the real world, ick. they dont even give you days off in jobs in the real world. so like i'm going to have to start a job and then work it every day for like a year until i get a day off! what if i have weddings to go to, or triathlons i want to do or trips I want to take???? personally i think it's bullshit, but what choice to i have.

i start school in august with math camp, stats camp, excel camp and accounting camp. yahooo!!! so excited for this new chapter! now i'm off to find a real job! i figured i've put off having a real job for my entire life and i'm 36, so i guess i'm okay with getting one now.... wait, at what age can i retire!

laundry

I'm headed out to wine country for the weekend and needed to do laundry. I have insane laundry right now since the staph infection and if I wear something for even 2 seconds, it gets washed no matter what. yes I'm being obsessive. But i've been on antibiotics for 17 days!!!! done yesterday!

okay, so i'm leaving and have no clothes AND no laundry detergent AND im feeling lazy and dont want to run back to the grocery since i was there this morn and FORGOT to get detergent....

so i go down to my laundry room to see if the washer is avail and it is! but then i see a botle of tide just sitting there all alone and i check and it has soap in it!!! so i know i shouldn't steal a cup of detergent... but i just needed it so bad, SO I DID!!

this is so not like me being a stealer like that! but i plan to replace the cup if the bottle is still there next week!

happy bday to me!

yesterday was my birthday and like every year i head to the spa. I got a good group who i usually go with, my friend carrie from high school has been coming with me the longest, but this year, she had to cancel last minute b/c her son was home sick from school! hello, that's why you have a nanny!!!

so intead it was my friend kristin and her mom who loves me and my manners. yes, i do hvae them!

so we hit up the montage spa which is the fanciest spa in LA and i had a 90 minute massage and loved every fucking second of it even though my masseur rubbed my ass and it was completely exposed. I wished that bothered me, isn't that supposed to bother me? every masseur usually skips the actual ass and he was like seriously grabbing my ass, seriously like baseball glove hands all up in there!!! But i didn't care, who cares, it's an ass!! And it felt good! I work out too damn much so my ass muscles are tight... NOT ANY MORE!



after the hot tub, spa-ing, we headed up to the rooftop deck for a little lunchie and poolside hanging. we also ate way too many sprikles cupcakes, holy shit ar they goooood!!!!

afterwards we met up with my BF and some friends for burgers (veggie for me) and fries and beers at this place on melrose called the burger bar. I sually go to dominicks for my bday but this year is all about changing it up (except still going to the spa.)

i used to also go to church on my bday to just go and say a prayer for a good year and a good one to come, but 2 years ago I went to my church in bev. hills and the doors were locked! i took that as a major sign!!

Ricky Gervais is coming to LA!!! And I'm going tomorrow night as a surprise from the BF for my Bday!!! I saw him in London a few years ago, and I freakin' laughed my ass off! I might love him! I am so excited, i dont even know what to do with myself.

Hit up yoga this morn. it was a tough one. not the class per se, but I wasn't able to workout this week, so if you dont work out, your body gets stiff, and so the class was quite challenging. This afternoon i shall be reading the 76 page book about the California Primary. Oh yes, in california, if you're going to vote, your ass has to read through all these ridiculous props to figure out which way to vote... unless you're a republican, then its easy and you dont educate yourself about issues at all, you just let Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, etc to tell you what to do.

Thankfully this in not MY staph infection, but mine is pretty bad. I had it for a week thinking it was just a bug bite but it never got better and in fact got worse so last sunday i went to the doctor and he was like "duh, that's staph." DUH? no it's not duh, it's holy f-ing shit, staph is crazy bad if it spreads. They think i got it from the gym, that's most likey, but which gym: yoga? boxing? regular gym? lesson learned, i needn't be working out any more! now i'm on crazy anti-biotics. point beeing: disinfect everything before you touch any buttons at the gym or equpiment, and then disinfect your hands after using it. Bleach your yoga mat, and everything.

cold and gray

it's been so cold and gray in LA recently! I hope may gray and june gloom hasn't now started as early as april! in case you dont know, every june it's grey here in LA, so do not visit and bitch hows theres no sun. Its called June Gloom and I love it. But it has spread into late may and now people call it May Gray... do we really need a name for everything that happens in this world?

anyway, i reached lifetime at weight watchers a few weeks ago, and so you only have to go once a month now and have to weigh your goal weight each time you go or you have to pay, other wise its free! so I have gained like 1+ pounds and now the end of april is coming up and i need to go to WW by next friday and lose that weight before I do, so i'm back to being super crazy eater. I've discovered the challenges by bob harper who is the biggest loser trainer and so now i'm doing them, he doesn't post them every day but i'm going back and doing his past ones, theyr'e just very small things to do each day like "50 pushups 100 situps, 200 squats, walk 6 miles" is what i'm going to do today, but i'll do 300 situps cuz 100 isn't that big a deal since my boxing trainer makes me do a ton of abs even though I hhaaatte them.

anyway, this post is short today cuz i'm tired and need to hand in this outline for this stupid episode I might be writing for a tv show that no one has ever heard of and these people micro manage which is annoying since it's a show for pre schoolers!!!!

anna paquin and stephn moyer

yesterday, the 2 stars from the hit show true blood were coming into wild card boxing gym as i was leaving from my crazy ass boxing workout. now this gym is a total awesome place but its not a celeb type gym. it's one big room, with 2 boxing rings, and a few heavy bags and about 4 speed bags. it's gritty, no frills and i love seeing celebs there cuz it's not a typical place for them and i freaking love that place!!

People magazine has this running twitter feed for celebs. Now I consider myself pretty educated in pop culture yet I dont know who the fuck half these people are on this people feed... juliebenz?? who the fuck is that? I love the word "fuck" yet I'm trying to quit that, but I cant quit it just yet. Fuck yeah!


just got back from Malibu, took the dog to Leo Carillo state park, turns out he hates the ocean. Much like I hate sun. now i'm back on the couch and ready to hit the showers.


What I'm grateful for this week: 2 weeks ago I wrote on an NBC pilot and was sent a Godiva chocolate gift basket. It was in my apt when I arrived back from NY for Easter. Then on Wednesday, Godiva delivered A SECOND chocolate gift basket. I alerted the apropriate people, but they said KEEP IT!!!

FUCK YEAH!

gluten free!

so since october i've been living a gluten free life! well with the exception of australia where I subsisted exclusively on Cadbury chocolate bars!! YUMMY!

But in my real life, i'm gluten, dairy, wheat, sugar, processed foods, soy, egg, free. Thats a mouthful. Actually in australia, they have gluten free things at freakin woolworth, but here in the USA, you gotta pay a fortune at whole foods only!

i went out and bought some gluten free treats for myself today. i know what you're thinking... processed foods! What? you weren't thinking that? only an obsessive, nuerotic eater would think that? FINE! but it's true, these treats are processed but fuck, it's been 6 months, give me a break!

so i bought these crackers, and theyr'e good. also bought gluten free pretzels. just think about eliminating gluten, it will be so good for you, people!

pilot time

it's that time of the year again, time to work for free on peoples pilots. often i'm asked by the studio or network and therefore i dont even know the people who's script I'm working on. yesterday i worked on a new show for NBC and went to the table read which is when all the actors, studio, network, casting, director, writers, etc sit around in a room, and listen to the actors read the script. it gives them the sense of what works and what doesn't.

anyway, the script was written by the guys who wrote a movie last year with the "500" in the title. And they rule. I loved working with them! they are seriously awesome. also there was a show runner from Friends and a few other writers I have met in passing. I had blast, got a bunch of jokes in the script and left very happy.. now I sit and hope i get some sort of present for the free work I did.

anyway, when i first arrived the room was enormous and people were talking to each other and i didn't know another soul, so I went to the bathroom to hide until it was time for the read to start. I'm so weird sometimes. had I had my book, i would've just read, but i felt stupid, so i hid in the bathroom and took a picture of the toilet to prove it. but then as i looked closer, i saw saran wrap on the back of the toilet that looked like it had something in it, but was now empty.... and it got me thinking... did someone bring a wrapped sandwich into the toilet and then leave the empty wrap on the back of the toilet????

this bathroom was in the offices of the tv show Parenthood, so it had to be someone associated with that show, right? but seriously? that's gross right? IN THE BATHROOM? SERIOUSLY??

any other ideas what could've been going on with this saran wrap? curioser and curioser, alice. quote from alice in wonderland.

workout central

the other day I did the stairs on santa monica. they are out doors, aobut 6 flights of about 40 stairs and all day long people just go up and down them. And they're steep and get steeper each flight. I love them, but you really only can do about 6 or 7 before you die. Granted there are people who can do them for what seems to be hours, but the most i've ever done is 7 which i did the other day.

I only have one friend who can do them with me, all my other friends do one set and throw up or give up. I'm 100% serious on this and the only other person who can do them with me, moved away and she probably could do more than me that's why i liked going with her because she pushed me to do better. The picture just shows one of the stair cases, just think it's that times 6 or 7 i can't remember how many flights.

Anyway, doing 24 flight of stairs though doesn't take that long and so i often would rather go to the gym and do an hour of cardio than go to the stairs all the way in santa monica and only work out for like 30 mins. tops. But I did them the other day and my calves are still crazy sore as are my quads.



this weekend I googled randomly, Mr. Belvedere. Remembeer that TV show with the british butler, it was on friday night, one of the only 2 nights i was allowed to watch tv growing up so i watched it despite it not being very good. But i liked the brit butler. Anyway, i googled mr. belvedere and foudn out that he was a deacon at the church I go to in WEst. Hollywood (which is also boystown) until he died in 2001. How insane that I was probably being served communion by MR. FREAKIN Belevedere and didn't even know it or get to stop and appreciate it!!!! I also go to the Catholic church in beverly hills because I live 1 mile from the church, but from 1996-2001, I lived in West Hollywood and would frequent Belvedere's church every Sunday!!!!

runyon canyon

just finished hiking the runyon canyon loop TWICE!! I'm exhausted. I went with my friend who works at nike who is in town and her boyfriend. almost 2 hours of hiking, then we hit Toast for some breakfast and lattes!

now i have an enormous amount of oatmeal sitting in my belly and I want to take a nap. This hike, as well as a few others, is one of the great things about living in LA, that you can hike this 365 days a year!

I'm still boxing, but only once a week now as that's all i can afford. I swear if I was working, i'd go 3 times a week and my body would be sick!!! anyway, my old boxing gloves were rubbish and were time to go! so pepe my trainer hooked me up with some new pink ones, and my lovey!!!

although my old once were 8 ounce and these are 12 ounce so my arms were so tired, insanely so just from those measley 4 ounces.

I'm certain I had the lamest st. patricks day of any 100% irish person out there. first, my BF cooked me chicken parm sandwhiches, which were insanely good. (you'll see a trend here that he cooks for me a lot, but hey I cook sometimes too!! I made turkey chili one night!) but I also appreciate the nights we dont see each other and he stays at his place so I can just juice veggies and call that dinner. anyway, back to st. pattys so after dinner we headed over to Mccormick and schmicks in beverly hills, which is the oddest place to meet anyone under 100. I feel like only super ridiculous centanarians go there for social calls. Also it's in the queer area off rodeo drive called "little rodeo" whihc is supposed to be like this cobblestoned european windy shop area that houses Porsche designs and Tiffanys and stores of that caliber... it' super lame. Tourists are the only ones who go to Rodeo dr., but there I was on St. patricks day.

sure enough my friends and i were the only youngins there (and we ain't that young) and we watched as this old old old guy groped his girlfriend? wife? lady of the night? all night. she had this green sparkly dress on and a short gold lame jacket. very interesting. However, since I gave up alchohol for lent, i didn't get to drink anything other than water... see? this is what i'm talking about how lame I was!

weird thoughts

I play tennis every friday morning at 8am at the Bev hills tennis center. Its all sorts of crazy early for me, but still, i do it and have a really fun time with my friend jennifer who is also an out of work TV writer. Anyway, i won today... AGAIN.!!
but it made me think as i looked at all the balls laying near the bleachers... WTF happens to tennis balls when they're no good anymore? do they just go to the land fill? I've never been to a landfill but seen pics and never seen any tennis balls in these photos. are they biodegradable? this is really stressing me out! i have tennis balls in my trunk and in my house (they're great if your back hurts and you cant get a massage right away, roll on a tennis ball, feels great!)

had great sushi last night with my friend from college, christie who was in town from portland. itzakaya katsuya sushi in LA is THE BEST! by far i've ever tasted! I'm glad it's walking distance from my place. also went on a fun hike and had a great organic lunch. I dont know why everyone doesn't eat organic, non processed food. It's so yummy.

ok, back to learning italian from rosetta stone, today is day one and my brain already hurts. oh and think about those tennis balls and let me know if you have any answers. think about how many there are in this world. should this be my new charitable venture? i'm sure id get so much press and money.

ex boyfriends

do you ever find yourself googling your ex boyfriend just to see what they're up to? I recently did that for a guy i dated for 5 months back in 2005 ish. No idea why, well, maybe because there's a building near where I live that's named after his grandfather and I see it whenever i drive that direction... anyway, i googled him and he most recently worked in a very impressive capacity on a recent oscar nominated movie that broke box office records. And I was just annoyed by that. I do not wish him ill will, quite the contrary, i really dont have a bad word to say about him, and would be very happy if I bumped into him, but for some reason I was just annoyed that his career has taken off, but that's what you get one you are raised on park ave, attend the best private school in NYC and have tons of money. Instead I went to some stupid ass public school where I learned nothing and look where it's gotten me!

Damn you life circumstances!!!!!

p.s. i realize i'm being a brat.

Gabourey Sidibe

I went to the Oscars last week and worked the press room. It was a blast, but I do have one question, is Gabourey Sidibe obese? i can't tell. but can i not tell because she's all glam at all these galas? or is she not obese or is she or what?

workout weekend

this weekend i had a major workout weekend. I hit up yoga on sat. morning with bernie, it was packed, and with nearly 50% men. the only thing that annoyed me was the guy next to me who was obviously in yoga teacher training or something kept trying to help me, which is apprecitated, but the first time that's ever happened to me in yoga that someone other than the teacher offers to help. that is such a male thing to do also. When i worked at warner bros. studios, i'd work out in the gym there and typically i'd work out next to jennifer aniston, rob lowe, brooke shields etc etc basically anyone filming a show there. oh and clint eastwood. i have the best story about how i was on a treadmill and jen anniston got on the one next to me and started sprinting, and i was like "i can go as fast as her" so i sped up the treadmill and then of course, i fell and grabbed onto the bar and held on as the treadmill kept going... and was humilated and yeah, the women on the ellipticl next to the treadmill leaned over and hit the stop button. and i had quite a treadmill burn. FYI I can't keep up with jen anniston.

anyway, at that gym guys would always come up to me and give me advice on what i was doing wrong, what i should be doing, etc. it was very annoying. so this yoga guy was annoying, although very kind. i love this yoga class we go to on sat. mornings, the guy anthony at city yoga is so awesome, and just gives the best classes EVER!

then sat. night we went to a st. patty day party and this irish band was playing in the backyard of my friends house and we were all dancing up a storm. I was sober since i gave up sweets and alcohol for Lent but that didn't stop me from getting up on stage and singing "what would you do with a drunken sailor." then sunday my BF made me french toast and we went on a 28 mile bike ride and it was awesome!!! last night, a hot shower and a hot cup of cammomile tea was the best reward for a hard weekend of dancing, yoga-ing and biking.

FYI, biking is much easier when you have 2 pedals. my pedal came off my bike and i had to bike for 6 miles before we came to a bike shop that could put it back on! don't ask how i biked with one pedal, i have no idea, sheer determination i suppose.