thanksgibblins

this year i was invited to spend t-day with a friend's boyfriend's friends from grateful dead tour in Folsom.

favorite parts included:

tiny dogs

hourly group tequila shots with pineapple chaser

 food forever

so high right now

tvland

I went to LA last weekend for my cousin's wedding. I had never been to LA before really. I went to orange county once a couple years ago and like stalked all the places that KCav went on Laguna Beach. But this time I was in LA proper, so i made us go to all the other places i've heard about on TV.  First night, we went to the Standard hotel which has a swanky/sleazy rooftop bar that smelled like stale vodka and drakkar noir. We also went to Melrose, and I dropped some serious cash that I don't have. What else, uh, we ate pastries and coffee, and went to the Grove shopping center (where I'm pretty sure I saw LC go on the Hills at some point), and ate mexican food at the Farmer's market. I don't have any good photos from the wedding but it was super fun. The brides and grooms families are Egyptian and Greek so there was like a lot of techno. Then the next morning we had epic greasy diner brunch at Nick's and then drove around Beverly Hills in the pouring rain looking for David Schwimmer's house. I tried to find the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf where Perez Hilton used to work out of, but we kept getting lost and finally had to go to the airport. fun. 

can't stop doing big arms.

 

gimme

hyphy pizza

must be the hyphysauce

SF loves

Acme Bar and Co, Berkeley, 11/11.

DC loves

old: ladiez, day stooping with boozy coffee and pie.

new: neighborhood bar with deviled eggs, fried pickles, and orange clove toddies.

sweet virginia

Last week was long and busy with a bunch of informational interviews at a bunch of places that aren't hiring. i'm beginning to think I should start planning for a sad lazy winter spent job searching in pajammas on the couch in front of one tree hill repeats with whisky in my cocoa.

At least I got to go on another groupon vacation to Shenandoah country in Virginia. we went apple picking and local wine tasting and hiking in Sky Meadows State Park and saw cows and lamas and goats and freaking ostriches at the petting zoo down the road from our inn. We stayed at the kind of place where there's a bottle of champagne and truffles in your room when you check in. my kind of livin.

and I made a lot of big arms.