oh and ...

i might be going to NY tomorrow. not sure yet. my friend's sister works at the airlines and can get me a buddy pass which i guess means i dont have to pay very much for it, but have to wait on standby and see if there are extra seats, so i'm gonna try to leave tomorrow morn and then spend a few days in NYC before heading up to cape cod for the long weekend.

sorry folks

looks like i've been remiss about posting. Nothing new to report. this weekend, had a few dinners, saw a few movis, skip the movie Click with adam sandler, it blows hard!!! worked out a lot, and pretty much just chilled. My roomate got a new kitten and the other cat is jealous and because my roomate is insane and love psychological drama, he keeps bringing the little kitten out and trying to get the other cat to make nice, but he won't, so the the roomate proceeds to put the kitten back in the room, and lie down with the cat and talk to it like it's a human being telling the cat that he is still his daddy but he's also the daddy of the new kitten, etc etc. you cannot make this stuff up. I caught him doing this on three separate occasions yesterday. he's thinking about putting the cat on medicine to take away his depression. it's a pretty crazy situation i'm witnessing.

the best show on TV

is HOUSE md

starring hot english actor hugh laurie with a killer American accent. Seriously, it's now being double pumped on FOX every tuesday night. It's such a well written, brilliantly acted, all around superb show, whatch it, it will not disappoint!! i'm totally obsessed and went out and bought the first season DVDs yesterday and have been consummed with them all day!!

http://entertainment.ivillage.com/galleries/0,,9b7zz7n1,00.html
check out one of my recent entertainment stories.

sit n spin

was supposed to go see sit n spin last night which is a show in LA where a bunch of comedy writers go and read their funny personal essays. some of them are ridiculously hilarious!! it's sponsored by comedy central. pulled up to the parking lot where I was the next car that was supposed to get in and then BAM!! the valet guy put an orange cone in front of my car and said LOT FULL!! i thought it was fitting seeing the way my life is going these days. so i drove to the farmers market where a bunch of peeps were gathering and hung out there with some amigos and cuaght up with people I hadn't seen in a week since the last farmers market gathering. I actually enjoyed myself and thought, hey life is good, until a black cat darted right in front of my car last night and it was too late to uncross my path, so now i'm anticipating even worse luck. oh boy!

suzy

i love my friend suzy. she's totally hooking me up with writing jobs at the website she writes for! I'm not sure if i shoudl mention it, you never know who's reading this thing. went to the dime last night didn't see anyone famous, disappointing, but had a great time on Sexy tuesday. that's what i called last night as i was dressed sexy. liz and i were walking to the dime and almost got mugged as this guy started chasing after us after i insisted Liz pick up the pace cause i saw him heading for us. I pretended to be meeting up with a couple who was just up the street a bit from us and was yelling "hey guys, hey, we're here," this did not deter the would be assialant as he crossed the street as soon as we did and was hot on our heels. then we turned the corner with the couple and then told them we're pretending to be with them. They were totally freaked out though as the guy was carrying their 4 week old baby!!!! i was so freaked!! i'm not kidding, this guy was menacing. on a side note, my friend amy's company is hiring a guy i used to kiss 9 years ago from college who moved to NY and amy met 9 years ago and then on one of our dates he brought a guy back to his place and made out with him in front of me. we haven't seen or heard from him and now her firm is hiring him. small small world. she is totally dying to see him!!

the weekend

so this weekend i used a certificate i had for 2 nights at any ritz carlton in the world. yes, i know this sounds like such a perfect gift, but it's not. we got it as a christmas present from my job last year. however, the certificates are nearly impossible to use due to endless restrictions and fine print. one guy i work with told me to just burn it becuaes it's useless. you have to send it in wait 2 weeks, then 60 days from that point after it's been processed can you use it, but in only can be used from like may to november, when most tv writers are working and therefore can't go to Dubai for a week. so i picked the ritz at half moon bay, just south of san fran. now when i got the certificate for 2 nights, i had a boyfriend, alas, i no lnoger do, so i brought my friend bernsie along and it was fun. look how beautiful this is! we walked along the edge and went to the spa and sat in the sauna and the hot tub and steam room and drank wine watching the waves crashing and saw a movie and played tennis. a lot to accomplish in just 2 days. but it was very relaxing!!

npr story of the day quote

NPR has podcasts of almost all their contributors. you can download pretty much any of thier programs. I get a podcast every day with their story of the day. I guess the people pick which story they liked the best that day. well, I'm going to quote one of the stories from last week. it's from a contributor named brian unger, and this is a quote from an ominous commencement speech he gave recently at a college. so fitting fo rmy life. sometimes it's back to basics.

"Life is filled with problems and it’s never gonna be this easy. This moment is as problem free as it gets. Cause from here on out, life gets irreversibly harder. In fact life gets so ridiculously hard sometimes that you think life can’t possibly be this hard. And just then, life will get upsurdly hard. Not including all the problems classified as merely awkard, complicated and difficult."

it just made me laugh. I actually had a reallly nice weekend, will report on that tomorrow!

the dime

last night i was at the dime. It's a cool bar in LA, owned by one of the olsen twin's boyfriend. it was the scene of the jessica simpson/lindsay lohan fight last month over director/playboy brett ratner. I was there with a big group of friends, including this guy in the nacho libre poster, he's a friend of a friend and is in town from mexico city. he's so sweet and so cute and i loved the way he said my name in a spanish accent!!!

OVER RATED

let me just do a little review about the movie cars and here it is:

I liked it better when it was called Doc Hollywood and starred Michael J. Fox

the end

if you 're planning on seeing it, don't. I heard how great it was, and how much like the incredibles it was or toy story (which blew me away) and i was sadly disappointed and you will be too. It's the exact same movie as Doc Hollywood, right down to the love story, stickler country judge and red car. skip it!

mid week blues

quote: maybe it's kinda nice that you don't have a job - my friend who has a job

here's the thing. when you're a writer in hollywood and you don't get staffed on a t.v. show and have to accept the realization that you are now on eof the many unemployed writers in this town, it's a pretty bitter pill to swallow. Since all tv shows staff in may and as you know i did't get a job, i now have to push myself every day to get out of bed and write. I'm a writer, I write. I like to write, i like to sit at my computer in solitude and excercise my brain. this year that i now have off is not going to be fun, i need to generate material that will get me paid, i.e. write a movie which takes about 4-6 months to do depending on your experience. i keep getting over and over comments form people saying "oh, i woudl kill for a year off. THIS ISN'T A YEAR OFF!! this isn't fun or nice or anything. this isn't a sabbatical where i'm going to sell all my belongings and pack a back pack and see the world. I still have bills and i still have rent and i still have my agents calling me asking me for my next script. this might be the most stressful time in my life! (unless i ever have kids, i would imagine that might top this) but they say that losing a job is just as stressful as moving, a death or a divorce. Imagine waking up every day and no one is expecting you to be anywhere. you have to be diciplined to write instead of meeting friends for coffee or going hiking both things you would much much rather do!! It's not nice to think to yourself "hmm, i spend 2 bucks a day on coffee, that's 60 bucks a month, maybe i shouldn't buy coffee since i ain't got no job" i like to spend money on myself, so these things are major roadblocks into doing that. that's my bitter rant for now. my friend amy said she likes bitter blogging sarah

oh la la

you know when you see movies about los angeles, and the main character is always living in a house that is amazing and has glass windows from floor to ceiling exposing an incredible view of the city and houses below and the mountains in the distance? this is the house my friend's just bought and are re-doing. my friends are incredibly successful, like this guy writes and sells movies as much as i sleep. he's right now in new mexico on his movie set with 2 of the biggest blockbuster movie stars of all time, i'm just not willing to say who. anyway, he's on the set, so i went over to the house and hung out with his wife in the back patio (the size of a elementary school playground) and sat at the firepit and watched the sun set and then got into the hot tub which is attached in the infitinty pool! now i live in bev hills and the house i live in is pretty big, but this one is so incredible. i can't believe how far my friend has come. I met her when she was a PA on one of the shows I worked on and i was a PA too. she doens't need to work, can go to the spa all the time and is living the good life, i just wish i had a job and could be living the good life too! at least i can pretend to live the good life every time i visit her. i'm just sad to think of the day when i have to move out of the house i live in and back into some shitty west hollywood apartment while she gets to live in the most incredible house i've ever been in!!!

thats amore

last night was my friend kristin's birthday party!! it was really fun! she grew up in long beach and they have these canals there ala venice, italy, so we went ot her parents house for a BBQ, then walked to this gondola place where they will take you out and around the canals. there was wine flowing (none for me of course, realized maybe i was drinking too much due to no job blues) and cheese and bread and the guys sang songs like that's amore!! it was an hour long and we had 2 gondolas with 14 poeople each. whenever you go under a bridge you're supposed to kiss your lova! i have no lova! so i got this guy michael to kiss me, he ripped off a piece of bread and it stuck out of his mouth and i grabbed it from his mouth and everyone cheered. i'm insane. at the end of the ride, we got off at the pier and had cake and coffee. red velvet cake from doughboys, one of the best cakes in the country, so says gayle king, oprah's best friend on the "where are the best cakes" epiosode on oprah last month. it really is amazing, like mind blowingly good!!

grey gardens

last night i went to see grey gardens at the new beverly cinema. It might be the most awesome documentary ever made. it follws the lives of Big edie and Little edie bouvier beale, aunt and cousin of jackie kennedy. It was filmed in 1974 and They live in a 28 room mansion in east hampton that has been over run by cats and racoons and is the filthiest place any one could ever imagine living in. It was raided by the town of east hamptom in 1971 and it failed every single health code on the books. So they were going to raize the house, evicting these co dependent women until jackie swooped in and paid for it to be cleaned. they used 40 gallons of insecticide. you start out laughing at these two woman who seem completely off their rocker, little edie is first introduced wearing a skirt upside down and cinched, and has a sweater on her head, and tied back like a ponytail. She brags about her "costume" asking "isn't it the lovlieest costume?" and says to the camera that her mother wanted her to wanted to wear a kimono and they had an awful fight about it. Little edie says she used to be a great dancer, and in almost every scene twirls in and out of rooms, but all her moves seem oddly the same, so i'm not sure how successful she was before she came back to take care of her mother. over the course of the film, you realize you've stopped laughing at these woman and at some point, realized that this movie and story is just plain tragic. seriously, if you can find this movie, rent it. it's a cult classic, so its really hard to find, but sometimes an art house theater will show if for a night or 2 llike they did here in LA.

what's today?

it's really hard to keep track of days when you dont have a job. it's already tues night and i have no idea what i've done to pass the time. it's already june for fuck sake, i've been out of work for 4 months!! WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE?! right now i'm working on writing a greys anatomy spec script, so my agents can send me out for hour longs as well as comedies. want to switch to hour longs anyways as comedy is DEAD!! i think i might meet bernadette for a drink later tonight, shes going out with all my girl friends for girls night for dinner and a movie. i'm skipping dinner (ate too many points) and i've already seen the movie the break up, but i have just enough weight watchers points for a glass of wine. Oh and i saw jessica simpson on robertson blvd today.

PARTY

quote: don't throw up on the warhols... Lauren

this weekend has been insane due to the amount of wine i have consummed. last night I went to my friend Lauren's 30th birthday. she plays on my soccer team. anyway, the address on the evite was in malibu, she's a lawyer, i told my single girlfriends i thought we should go to the party to meet some lawyers!! so we drove a long long way out to malibu, and ended up in this awesome neighborhood, i really think barbra streisand lives near there. so we get to the house, and walk past part of the house to... AN ELEVATOR, that's right, this house has an elevator. we took the elevator down 3 floors to the lower part of the house, you come out of the elevator and into the lower house that is amazing that has 2 levels of decks overlooking the beach and the waves are crashing underneath. did i forget to mention the infinity pool, THIS HOUSE WAS SICK!!! so my friend lauren blows out her candles and says dont throw up on the warhols. and that's when it hits me, all this art are original andy warhols!! like totally amazing art on every space on the walls!! so i'm like who lives here, well, it's lauren's mom and step dad's house.... her step dad is max, as in max factor!! yes, the makeup guy!!! the party was pretty sweet, i got drunk danced to justin timberlake... awesome!!!!

drunk

last night i went over to my friend amy's house and got drunk. her husband greg was in NY and she was home alone with their baby, so i went over with a bottle of wine, kristen and bernadette came over and we all got drunk and ate pizza. i stayed over and woke up on the couch at 5am and moved into the guest room where i was actually supposed to sleep. getting drunk sometimes is great when u really need it! does that sound like i have a problem?

hello kitty

why all of a sudden is Hello Kitty everywhere! Everywhere I turn i see her smiling face. but last year they celebrated her 30th birthday (must find out the skin care regime to stay looking so young) so it's not like she's just coming onto the scene. Do older women like her becasue of nolstalgia? do young girls like her because she's so cute and pink and fun! is that the reason i love hello kitty? I'm not sure. I have a friend who had the cutest hello kitty wallet, with hello kitty in a cowgirl outfit doing rope tricks and i loved it so much i went on an all out search that took me from google to ebay to find it, with no luck. Shouldn't i be wanting a leath prada wallet or the hot new louis vuiton wallet of the moment? am i stuck in arrested development and trying to appear young, while i just keep getting older? what is it about hello kitty that's so damn cute? honestly, if my friends would allow me, i would decortate my entire room with hello kitty, i'm talking hello kitty sheets, alarm clock and hello kitty snowbaord leaning off in the corner. look how happy this girl is in the picture waking up every morning surrounded by hello kitty! that should be me!!