tonight jula and i watched ‘gone with the wind’ (her first time, my second) and during one of scarlett and rhett’s frustrating miscommunication-based fights:
jula: oh my god, can’t they just hug it out??
one reason, anyway. after i looked at our australia/new zealand trip itinerary:
me: wow this is so expensive
me: i owe you forever
mom: naw
mom: you’re worth it
mom: 🙂
mom: you might go back there some day – but i doubt if we will
me: i don’t know if i will – it’s so far away!
mom: i’m sure nathan (your future husband) will want to go there
mom: fillion
when lindsay was in town, i admired her little otsu planner and lamented an unexpected side-effect of having an iphone – i hardly ever write with my hand and a pen anymore. i went online and bought the mini version of the planner, this cute travel diary that i plan to use on my trip to australia/new zealand in january, and a dateless calendar i’ve been wanting for awhile (just themed illustrations of gordon the fox throughout the year).
i was excited to get my new fun stuffs, but got even more excited when i saw the cute packaging – very simple, but it’s the little touches that make unboxing an order more like unwrapping a present.
brown, textured, cushy packing paper
largest to smallest, paper between to protect cover art, stiff chipboard under the calendar to protect everything else from the wire comb
handwritten packing slip!
AWESOME noir webcomic i read about on io9. as promised, very lynchian (or daniel clowesian, more like). i’m totally drawn in – start here.
so adorable it makes me actually want a dog.
On Thursday afternoon I picked up Lindsay from the Burbank airport. We went to Maria & Clayton’s and Megan and Elaine came over and we had a fantastic BBQ! After that we hung out and talked for hours. The next day, I took Lindsay to brunch at the Artisan Cheese Gallery, then to Griffith Observatory and down to the Venice canals, where we ran into Ashton Kutcher’s movie shoot. After that, Maria made a Korean food feast and Megan brought over two kinds of cheesecake.
Saturday Maria, Megan, Lindsay and I met up for breakfast at Megan’s. Then we met Elaine on the lot for a private tour of Warner Bros. We got to look around the museum and get our photos taken with the sorting hat, and then Elaine showed us around the backlot. Clayton, Maria and I took Lindsay to Santa Monica to show here the pier and we got Xooro and watched the beach bunnies and the high waves and the billows of smoke from the wildfires. On the way back to Burbank we took a detour and had budae chigae in Koreatown. Later that night we met up again, plus Meghan and Megan, for a birthday party in Silver Lake. The CoolHaus truck happened to be parked down the street so we got some awesome ice cream sandwiches! Megan and Maria rolled back to Burbank early and ran into an actor at the karaoke bar around the corner from their building.
Sunday Maria, Clayton, Lindsay, Meghan and I went to Zuma beach. The waves were high again – good for body surfing – and Lindsay and I made a sand sculpture of a rose. On the way home we hit the Polo outlet at Camarillo then got stuff to make dinner. I caught up on ‘True Blood’ and we watched the new one and the new ‘Mad Men’.