im allergic to cats

Lately i spend most of my time in long beach , having recently aquired a job

that is close to there and with Michelle's big move there i have more of a reason

to hang around.



I love that city actually having lived there as a younging (but not having any recollection of it_) I always knew that i would somehow end up back there. (even before it became "the new silverlake") The people there are chill, the housing seems to be a radical mixture of poor, vintage, and luxury that i really don't get, but the best part of Long Beach has to be....

Hole Mole!!!
i am beyond addicted to this little mexican food restaurant.
The prices are affordable , there are 81 cent refillable chips.
Their sopes are to die for and if you don't want to
eat too much you can always go for a .49 cent bean taco ....
This is really what i have surrendered to for the last 3 weeks.
I don't crave anything ever but Hole Mole.. there have been
days where i've had it twice in one day .
My order :

2 bean tacos
2 potato tacos
chips
..
sometimes i get
one carne asada sope
and
1 bean taco
and
1 potato taco
......................... you have to change it up sometimes ya know?

Someone needs to find out if they lace there food with coke because of how majorly addicted i am ( it is long beach)

Anyways besides hole mole..i've been spending lots of time with Michelle and in her apartment she has two loveable cats which would be fine if i wasn't allergic . But the first time i slept over i took two allergy pills and somehow still ended up not being able to breathe and spend the whole night with an AWFUL asthma attack. On my second stay i took the pill again and she vaccummed her entire room and her clothes (that were on her btw) and it was fine , light sneezing but fine. Now i just take a pill and hope for the best and you know what i think im becoming immune to those little fuckers..but im still not allowed to touch them because im scared of going to the emergency room but i do really want to play with them :(




today is Luis' birthday ....
so here is a picture to remind me of how much i love him...





happy birthday luis!

san francisco...

First off it was hella hot..i don't get what is in the air but every other state is
probably freezing while we are sweating i just don't think it's fair. Anyways to
start of the day really we got stuck in horrible traffic jam on the 5 which added
an extra 2 hours to our trip. We got in around 3 and i didn't even get to the city
till 5ish..
I met up with Nick and Jen at Urban Outfitters where the greeter was pretty much
the least enthusiastic person to be at an urban outfitters since Jorge. We then headed
to get some grub because well i don't think any of us had eaten. They had a great idea to
eat at the cheesecake factory that is located on top of the macy's (the biggest macy's next
to the one in herald square..we can thank jen for that little fact) The funny thing about that
place though is that you put your name down, you wait 10 min to get a buzzer, you then wait
anywhere from 40 to 50 minutes for your buzzer to go off and just when you think your done
you are told to move to the side till they call you..hmmm
So you can imagine the mountain like apetite we had all had . Our waitress came over
and we immediately ordered appetizers, i had crab fried wontons and jen ordered ardichoke
(those damn vegetarians) sadly though our waitress didn't even take our real order till
we were halfway done with my appetizer so i just anticipated being way more hungry
then i was and so did nick and jen. Somehow we ended up with way more food then we
could eat and a bill that was over 100 and just 3 people.
We all vowed we would never eat again and headed over to some random theatre to
watch Across the Universe. On our way over there we passed the great american musical hall
that was having some sort of private event. Dozens of kids screaming, camera's going off, huge
limos etc. They were filming a super sweet 16!!!! now just like most of america i am hooked on
this show for no other reason than to despise the creatures that appear on it, and now here i
was able to be face to face with someone who could most likely be satans spaun. But there were
too many kids screaming , too many obnoxious girls wearing barely anything to even try to
get a closer look at the overpriviledge slut whose birthday it was i guess we will just catch it on tv. We got to the movie just in time for the previews. I really have to say i loved the movie the second time around. It didn't lag , it was a lot funnier , maybe it was because the room was packed and everyone got the jokes , well whatever it was i defitnetly left with a better feeling about it (sorry diego)
We walked around san francisco streets trying to get to our bart station . Really San francisco has some interesting characters...hahaha.. Jen really wanted to go to a bar and she would recount this to us a few times hahaha we finally got to nick's house where he was nice enough to drive me to some rando hotel my dad got in the middle of nowhere. I got there and just crashed.

i have been losing sleep this week

spending my time doing more important things like
engaging in random conversations, looking through a strangers
phone, and feeling ackward for no apparent reason.
i defitnetly wouldn't change it for the world..

sometimes cute guys make funny faces.

golf n stuff

sometimes mini-golf can be fun...
other times it can be an excuse to take some random pictures
this day was one of those days...

family is what i need...

I don't remember climbing trees as a kid. Luckily i have two lovely sisters that remind me how great it is to be a kid everyday ....
Sometimes they climb trees , drink slurpees while clapping along to rilo kiley, and other times they just run a muck at my favorite thrift store.
I love love love days like these.

street scene 2007

This was my original outift. You can't see it but there is a huge peace sign on my shirt. I figured that it was a little trying to be from brooklyn so i opted for a more simple i just wore what i wore the previous day outfit.





We left around one, and i was wayy worried i was going to miss Sondre Lerche since he was the only other reason i would go to yet another festival. Don't get me wrong i love brand new but it's becoming way more about my atmosphere than catching a band i've seen a gazillion times over.
So anyways the ride over was nice, barely any traffic some good conversation and a million laughs.We got there to a sea of cars luckily we had v.i.p. parking thanks to annel so when we entered Luis let me know there was 15 min. left of Sondre's set so we rushed over there in time to hear one song then a melody of two way monologue and sleep on needles...it made my day for sure . Unfortunately i missed out on all the witty banter that goes on in between his sets. It was a wonderful view though his little small stage was on top of the lawn and the sun was right behind him . Then i decided it was alcohol time , we got some beers then headed down to see the album leaf. I seriously fell in love with them again...sometimes i forget bands exist if i don't hear about them all the time ...they sort of slowly get forgotten about on my ipod but now i will start listening to the album leaf again.

I guess Luis was doing some major scouting cuz he found a photobooth for us at the captain morgan tent, we headed over there after the album leaf and basically invaded that poor booth. If anyone knows me they know that i am OBSESSED with photobooths ...of any kind so we did that for awhile. I went on a hunt with annel for a margarita then we watched clap your hands say yeah. They played that great song "satan satan SAY DANCE" ..it reminded me of roxanne and her crazy religious stories and how we would dedicate that song to her all the time at work..
Then we got in place for brand new which was really really enjoyable . The crowd was tame but not lame (eeeyoooo that rhymed) they played a wonderful set. I had room to dance and sing with my friends it was all very lovely , all except the joke of there last show being in hawaii this weekend..(if it was a joke? i hope it was) After i recovered from the awesomeness of them ..i realized i wasnt feeling to well brushed it off headed BACK to the captain morgan tent but found the "rave tent" on the way ... We all went inside and jumped around and danced like idiots . Then i "challenged" this one raver ..glowsticks in hand and all ...and i think i won if i do say so myself. Artic Monkeys were on and i fucking love there new cd so i HAD to hear it live ..their stage presence sucks but the music speaks volumes and i know that if i was not sick and a little bit more into them i would of enjoyed it more. We were waiting for the killers to come on because well we werent going to leave without seeing them i guess its a thing ya know..then derrick called and came by to say hi for a bit which is always nice to see that boy ....the killers came on and we were very unimpressed...too much gold..too much confettii...just too much of everything. We left 3 songs into it and headed to sombrero's mexican food..so we thought! We got directions from 3 different sources all telling us to get on junction 94 west exit 1b4 broadway/30th st. a street me and my friends now dont believe exist ..after 40 min of exiting..and entering random freeways and streets..we decided to hit up the only mexican food we can find some place called saronga..(sp?) where a drunk girl begged us to let her cut in line because she just got dumped and needed to soak her sorrows in a burrito..then this drunk bitch kept calling Luis her pioneer because he ordered a breakfast burrito. um ok? this is why san diego is weird.... we got out of there ASAP and drove home listening to everything from saves the day to the first brand new album to help shadi sing and stay awake..sometimes on nights like these i think im the luckiest person in the world.

hollywood afternoons

There is something about the weather when it's gloomy and gray outside. For some reason i am obsessed with the smell of wet asphalt, it's addicting. The first rain of the season so im very happy with today. Diego called early in the morning we made plans to head to marc jacobs, candice was going to meet us there and we were just going to "hang". Marc was very dissapointing there was nothing cute there, i dont think diego has ever left the marc store empty handed but he did today. After we decided to go to American Apparel on robertson to meet up with Candice, we looked around the shops for a bit then just decided we were hungry and headed to Canters where i got a very filling roast beef sandwich....

i left my heart in san francisco...

SAN FRANCISCO....always , and i mean always puts me in the best mood.
There is something in the air there i call it little new york because
it has the heart of a big city without being intimidating.
I headed over today with my dad both of us with different intentions to visit.
It was a day of reunions...
Somehow Jean was in town. Kind of random but awesome.
Jean was my roomie in new york and it was nice that we were both out of
our respective cities enjoying time somewhere else. Not going to lie it made me
feel like i was in new york again and i kept thinking that at one point we were going
to go back to the apartment haha .
I met up with her in fisherman's wharf as soon as i got there we were going to "in n out" it
but decided to hit up a local joint called Joanie's instead. The place was not bad , not the
best but it was just nice to catch up with her and ill be in new york by end of november
anyways even if its just for a bit.

I rode a cable car down to market so i can visit the most amazing forever 21 to grace my presence where i finally reunited with Jen. I love love love her . It's funny how grown-up friendships are , you can go months without talking and pick up right where you left off.

We did some shopping which is a typical girl pastime and then we decided to grub. There

was a cute little restaurant that prided itself with the title "world famous small pancakes"

so you know we HAD to try them...

I was a big fan of the 18 small pancakes and bacon not sure if jen felt the same way..haha

Then it was time for the best thing about San Fran...black and white photobooth pictures.

Now if you know me you know i have a huge collection of photobooth pictures..it's one of my

obsessions. I have visited san francisco in the past just so we could visit the booth in the museum of mechanics.Me and my friends have spend a pretty penny on these pics( 40 dollars

in one sitting , and at 3 dollars a set that's ridiculous) we took only four sets..we were good,

then headed to haight st for escape from new york pizza which is the best pizza i've had besides

porto fino's in long island and lets remember im not even a pizza fan.
We drove around a bit more and picked up her lovely boy . I love Jen as my guide to san fran there might even be talks to a possible move in the future..nothing set in stone there are soo many places i want to live so im just keeping my options open right now.

oh yeah and it's freezing here