Photo-A-Day (or So): 1-2-10

View from Mama Young's Kitchen

Disaster Strikes!

So apparently, I'm not allowed to leave LA anymore. The first time I left, the ceiling in me and J's bathroom collapsed. I was actually home the time the bathroom tub was leaking, but most recently, there was a fire in our kitchen oven. I'm not sure what the roomies are going to do while I'm in London for most of December...

Kindred Spirits

At the drive thru Starbucks today, Dan, with a pleasant voice took my coffee order. Once I arrived at the window, I noticed a very interesting tattoo on his arm as he is handing coffee to the girl in the car in front of me. When I reached the window, I told him I liked his tattoo. He was surprised and asked if I knew what it was. DUH! You are a Death Eater. I love Harry Potter. : )

Happy Things, Bad Things

Things I am happy about:

1) Katie and Jason arrive in LA tomorrow!

2) Saturday we get to see Harry Potter 6, all 11 of us!

3) July 26th, Jen, Ellen, and I get to see Chris Pine and Chris Noth in the flesh!

Things I am not happy about:

1) Unemployment.

2) My knees.

3) Cavities.

15 Books in 15 Minutes

Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Copy the instructions into your own note, tag 15 friends, and be sure to tag the person who tagged you.

1) She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

2) Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

3) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

4) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

5) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

6) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

7) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

8) Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling

9) Let Me In by John Lindqvist

10) The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

11) Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy

12) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

13) Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

14) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

15) King Lear by William Shakespeare

Summer in LA is the best

Summer = vacations! Well this year, I got lucky. I don't have to go anywhere, everyone is coming to me! This makes summer much more cost effective, plus I get to be a tourist in my own city, which should be interesting. I will be averaging two visitors a month in July, August, and September, so I'm trying to find fun things to do with all these people besides just going to see the Hollywood sign ten times. Here is what I have so far:

Sites to See:

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood and Highland, Grauman's Chinese Theater, Walk of Fame

Venice Beach

Santa Monica Pier/3rd Street Promenade

Malibu/Driving through the Santa Monica Mountains

Studio Tours of Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, or Universal

Universal City Walk

Getty Center, Getty Villa, LACMA, MOCA

Rodeo Drive/Beverly Hills

Griffith Park Observatory

Hollywood Forever Cemetery/Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park

Westwood Village

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Reagan Presidential Library

Arclight Cinemas

The Grove

Places to Eat:

The Griddle

4 N 20

Diddy Rieces

Farmer's Market

Suggestions welcome, and much appreciated!

I remembered a dream!

So, I very, very rarely remember my dreams, but this morning I remember bits and pieces of one. Corelyn and Andrew were getting married again, and this time I was a bridesmaid, along with friends Meg, Mary, Katie, and new additions Jen and Jennie. Except my dress was reallllly ugly, and also way to big. I was very late to the wedding, getting ready in a hurry, and then standing with the other girls, I realized how terrible I looked. The dresses were very teal colored, and mine buttoned in the front, which is just a bad idea for a dress in general. 

I blame this dream on Corelyn, just in general ; ), Jennie for also having a weird wedding dream, and Jen for introducing me to the show Hitched or Ditched.