This is the dress I got in SB yesterday. I love it!

When I was little I really wanted to be Brittany in the Chipettes, but I sort of knew that I was really Eleanor.

Thanks

Well, I certainly ate like a fat little piggy this Thanksgiving weekend. On Wednesday night I went over to Terry's for some wine and games. On Thursday I went to Jeff, Laurel, and Frank's for Thanksgiving dinner complete with The Chipmunk Adventure movie. Man I love that movie. Friday morning I drove up the coast to Lompoc to celebrate Thanksgiving with my mom and dad. We spent the day at Pismo Beach on Saturday. Then today I drove back to LA with a stop in my old favorite vintage store in Santa Barbara and bought an awesome dress. I would say that it has in a successful long weekend.

Childish

I'm fully aware of when I act out like a child that just wants attention even if it's not good attention. I can even stop myself from acting out. What I can't seem to stop is the nagging desire to act out. I absolutely hate when it comes out of me in the form of passive aggressiveness. There is not much I hate more then passive aggressive people and it kills me when I see myself acting that way. This post was inspired by me almost doing something extremely passive aggressive but I stopped myself. Right now I'm in check. I need to drink my tea and watch the last disc of the second season of Mad Men. Time Out as an adult is so much more fun then when someone else got to decide my punishment when I was little.

*Oh shit! It has just been pointed out to me elsewhere that I am not passive aggressive at all and that I'm aggressive passive. That is so dead on.

Oh dear god, I can NOT stop listening to this song! So goooooood!!!

Changing

The before and after of getting ready.

educational

Amanda, Erin and I went to see An Education last night. It is a wonderful movie.



Lead actress in it Carey Mulligan is so damn charming to watch.



Afterwards we went out to eat and I got nachos. Wonderful yummy nachos. nachos!

Zoo Boo

I've never hear great things about the LA zoo but I thought I'd check things out myself yesterday. Now I have to sort of agree. It is a depressing place. The whole set up and the upkeep of the zoo is just sad. Next time I want to go to the zoo I will just have to track down to San Diego. Oh how I love the San Diego zoo. The animals there actually look pretty happy.

The Giving Tree is Really a Fucked Up Story

So far I've bought 2 Christmas gifts. I'm finally doing what I say I'm going to do every year and fail at...start early. I even know what I'm going to get the parents and my brother, though I haven't done it yet. I want to do this and not stress out about it this year and feel like my gifts are last minute fail. Also, spreading the hurt out over a few paychecks helps. I do love giving thoughtful gifts and wish I could financially give more. I give when I can. Sometimes it isn't in the monthly budget and that makes me sad. Hope I've never made anyone feel left out.

I Should Get Your Number

Damn! I didn't know that that nerdy guy in the movie Garden State, Karl, that works in the store where they return the knifes and is involved in some sort of detergent pyramid scheme was married to Mad Men's Joan Holloway. Facts!

Mad About Joan

I just finished watching Mad Men Season 1 and liked it so much I bumped up season 2 and hopefully will be getting it in the mail today. I am so obsessed with Joan Holloway! She is just the most incredible looking woman. I wish I could be Joan when I grow up but sense we are probably the same age I don't think that is going to happen.
*edit* I just looked this up. She is 6 years older then me. Hmmmm, I have 6 years to get my act together haha

Oh Baby

Looking at some old photos, man was I not a cute baby. It's okay, things got better around the 9 month mark.

Happy Days

This is my new motto. I need to get this baby framed.

I feel like I use to be more confident, I'd like to get that back. I'm not really sure how though.

I also feel like this blog has gotten bad. I'd like to work on making that better as well. I wonder who reads this thing anymore. I guess the less people read it maybe the more honest I can be and I haven't been terribly honest here. Not that I lie, I just leave out so much. Though I leave out even more in person. I'm not an open book.

These Precious Things

Last night I was leaving Frank's birthday party and winding through the twists of Laurel Canyon Rd when I came around the corner to find the taxi that was a few seconds ahead of me crashed. It was just stopped in the lane with glass everywhere. The silhouette of the driver was still and limp. The truck that had crashed into it was on the sidewalk on the other side. There was only 2 lanes of traffic so I was stuck behind it. Some people were already pulled over and helping. The giant truck behind me was flashing its high beams at me to move. I'm not really sure where he expected me to move to, what a jerk. Finally I was able to get around. Its funny because I had this sense of dread all day like something terrible was going to happen. If I had left the party 10 seconds earlier then I could have been that unconscious silhouette in the car surrounded by glass.

Today I walked over to the Arclight to watch "Precious." I got so angry at the rich white people that sat next to me and snickered at parts that weren't suppose to be funny just culturally and economically different then them. They also made "ewwww" sounds at her weight. I'm still so angry about this. What did they think the movie was going to be like? I started feeling dirty, like they were at the zoo watching the animals.

Heart of a Lion

Let Me In

Slowly Dying

I have not dyed my hair sense I had it done almost 2 months ago. I loved the color so much. I thought about getting it touched up by a professional but right now I need to save some cash. I have an inch of somewhere in the ashy land between blond and brown roots and something had to be done. So I am sitting here right now with hair dye on my head. I hope whatever is going on under that cap doesn't ruin my hair. For the first time I am totally happy and satisfied with my hair and it would be nice to remain so. I mean I won't have the same highlights and lowlights but I hope it is still pretty.

The Times They Are A Changing

I can't believe I'm still not mentally in the time change yet. I want to go to bed every night by 10. I just want to eat a ton of food and hibernate for the winter. And yes I know that it is neither cold nor winter. I am a sleepy bear that needs time to cuddle my blankets.

Fuck you Katy Perry! I never liked you and now you took my dress and turned it into an ill fitting trampy gown. Booo, booo to you!

In The Garden

Lets see weekend, what did we do together? On Saturday I woke up and stayed in bed and watched Anvil the documentary. I enjoyed it a lot and it was fun knowing that the singer is Ali's uncle, I got to see her family which was cool. Then I headed to Long Beach which I haven't been to in years, wait no I did go to the aquarium last year (oh duh, I go to the flea market there all the time I'm not thinking). They have a bunch of vintage shops on 4th street which a vender was telling me about and I checked them out. I was mostly looking for things for work and didn't end up getting anything except a coffee and muffin at the coffee shop on the corner. Then I came home and bummed around and watched the Brothers Bloom which had some parts I liked but I think movies about cons and then who's conning who but wait is this a con or is the con artist being conned really start to annoy me and I felt like they were trying to hard. Then in the evening I went to a bar called Tee Gee, or something to that effect, for Byron's 30th birthday. I didn't eat anything before I went because the taco truck ladies were coming and I thought I could get a taco with no meat. They ended up only having meat and tortillas. I was so hungry I ate a tortilla with salsa on it. The salsa was so hot that it burned my mouth and I couldn't feel my tongue anymore. I wasn't in the most social mood and still hungry so I just ended up sneaking out early. Today I went to the Rose Bowl flea market and then to the Huntington gardens all which were nice but for some reason I just wasn't in the mood for either. I think I will read and watch my last netflix tonight in my last remaining hours of the weekend.

Lego Land

Um...I haven't set up a vintage shop yet. I think maybe this weekend I will start working on that but I did buy myself another vintage dress because I am weak. Is it weird to buy a dress because it reminds you of Legos???

I was looking at some on-line fashions and I came across this beautiful dress. In a world where I would be the type of girl to pick out a wedding dress even though I couldn't be more single and not feel like a crazy bitch for doing so I would pick this one. But sense I don't live in that world lets pretend I never posted this.

Skin & Bones

For those that didn't see me on Halloween I reprised my Dr. Bonesaw outfit that you may or may not remember from this photo. The whole outfit is 100% made by me.

Metal Heart You're Not Worth a Thing

The problem with the day after Halloween is you wake up and your back to being yourself again. I need another chance at being someone else. I feel like I botched up being myself too much and I need to start over. I can't bring myself to get out of bed but at least I have my sketchbook.

I really want to tell the story of my trip walking home last night on Halloween. It is the type of story that sounds really bad if you don't know me well or if you are a bit more judgmental on my unladylike side haha. Those that want a funny story ask me about my walk home next time you see me.