ringing in 2012, an aesthetically pleasing year
I went shopping with my sister after the last entry, I bought the shoes I actually needed and then some fun and unnecessary (but actually kind of necessary in a really fun way lol) make-up. Like THESE PAPER EYELASHES, FOR EXAMPLE, this amazing sparkly-as-fuck powder, and THESE GLITTER LIP TATTOOS. Moar glitter, moar. Then she and I visited our mom for about an hour and then came home and did nails, make-up, and had a dance party in the living room until four in the morning. It was quite girly!serious, we were doing choreography and everything.
I went to Jason's when she went to bed, he was not as energetic as I was. He was kind of a buzzkill, actually lol. I made chicken and french fries at like 5am because that's how I roll, and watched Arrested Development. I slept super late and then did make-up, it took forever and was traumatic and I didn't even have time to do my hair the way I wanted to. AND THEN! We called a cab and it was a half hour late! Had I known that, I COULD have done my hair, ugh, ugh. We ended up just hailing one and that was way faster.
We had reservations at Buca, we made them late in the week so they said they'd try to squeeze us in. When we were late I was worried but when we got there, they walked us right to a table even though there was a huge number of people in the doorway. I ordered some riesling, we split garlic bread and ravioli and were, in general, the couple that I used to think was lame/probably-really-simple-and-boring in restaurants. But we had a very nice time. There was this ADORABLE LITTLE KID at the table next to us, seriously, he was two years old and he was wearing a FUCKING SUIT VEST AND PANTS, with a red dress shirt under it and TINY-ASS TIE. He kept looking over the back of his chair at me and when I'd smile or wave, he'd whip around super fast and "hide", omg it was adorable. And then when we were leaving, I was sitting by the door when his family came and sat down on the long bench too. He was hiding behind a hanging piece of decorative fabric, he kept peeking around at me and playing the same cute game. His older sister asked if he made a new friend, and his mom was like, "Aw, are you flirting?" I was like, "LOL yeah, he's getting a pretty decent head start." His sister said that he got a head start the day he was born, lol. "Arnie! Give her a lady kiss!" I asked her what that was and then he GRABBED MY HAND AND KISSED THE FUCKING TOP OF IT LIKE A GENTLEMAN OH MY GOD I DIED AND THEY ALL LAUGHED AT HOW MUCH I WAS DYING. So precious, it completely made my day.
We went outside to catch a cab and the rain I watched during dinner had turned to snow. We went to my friend Dani's - who I met at the film fest last year - downtown loft which was cool as hell. They had cement floors and old hard disks or some shit up on the walls, it was decorated so coolly and modern, I wanted it so much for my own. A few other people showed up, none of which I had met before but we all had so much to talk about because everyone works in film, and, AND, literally everyone in that room is planning to move to LA in the next year. One of the girls, Ana, she's an actress and a general artist (painter, musician), we had talked a little and I really liked her. When I heard her mention to someone else that she was moving I turned to Jason and was like, "Potential roommate? :D :D :D" THEN LIKE FIVE MINUTES LATER, I mentioned I was moving too and she was like, "DO YOU NEED A ROOMMATE?" She said it's really important to her that she have an artistic roommate so that'd be really cool. I emailed the producer from the production company today to see when I should come out to visit/meet her, and she said she was meeting with her team tomorrow and would know more.
The snow had really gotten slushy and gross by the time we left. We headed to a club for a New Years party entitled Mystique and marketed as a circus-type show but just like last year, I didn't see much - I saw one dance routine, ONE, and it was shoddy at best, the woman did not have the level of technique and control I'd expect for a party like this, IDEK I'M JUST JUDGMENTAL BUT I WAS DISAPPOINTED. We checked our coats and got drinks before we managed to find an open area on a cushion. I took my camera out and took a couple of photos on the stairs before some asshole bouncer told me I had to stop and "keep moving" even though there was no one trying to get through, the stairs weren't even busy/full, lighten the FUCK up. Shit like that always destroys me way more than it should, especially when it has to do with photos or art and especially when I'm not hurting or inconveniencing anyone.
A guy was walking around with a bunch of light up flowers and leis. I told Jason I wanted one and he came back with a pretty purple rose with a light inside. I smiled and thanked him and was perfectly content, but then he started waving his open hands in front of me in a magic trick that suddenly produced a flashy ring as well. He had trouble turning it on and it was so adorable. I held out my left hand and he put it on my ring finger where it flashed all colors for the rest of the night. I was really happy. I love when he's thoughtful especially in terms of the tiniest things, and I love when he does magic.
He went to get us another drink from the bar downstairs and when he came back some asshole was with him and he was all, "YOU CAN'T BE HERE, YOU HAVE TO GO WITH YOUR ~BOYFRIEND~." APPARENTLY, we were in the VIP area? Even though there were literally NO ropes and signs and even though we had gone up and down the stairs like three times and never got yelled at. I just... I can't, with people in public anymore. What happened was, Jason got stopped for ~not having a wristband~ and said that his girlfriend was up there and he couldn't just leave her there and he wouldn't let him go get me! He like, grabbed his arm and then ~escorted him~ to get me. I mean, really.
So we went to the ~other side~, which was literally, exactly the same, and even had a door for people to go outside and smoke, so. We found an open couch over there except some bitch was just standing in front of it talking to somebody. Either sit on it, or talk somewhere else? Like, people are just so fucking rude. I went over and sat on the couch by way of climbing over the arm. Jason said she gave me a bitchy look but I neither noticed nor gave a shit. (The Honey Badger!) Then things got better. We had fresh drinks and a couch and pretty much kept to ourselves in the midst of the chaos. We were making out and one point and some guy ran over, yelled "WINNING!" and then ran off lmao lmao sklajdfhalkj. I twirled my flower in my hand and thanked him for the surprise ring, which I liked even more. "If this goes the way I'd like it to, I'll get you a more sparkly one someday." I told him I knew that if we did ever get to that point, that I love that he'd pick one out that I actually like. He's got a great eye and appreciation for aesthetics and that's one of my favorite things about him. I wasn't as put off by his comment as I expected I'd be. I'm not really sure what my deal is.
They had sandwiches catered at like 1 (lol seriously I was so excited for them, Jason offered to just make me one when we got home but I was like NO I NEED IT FROM ERBERT'S AND GERBERT'S) so we grabbed one of those before we left. I decided to go to the bathroom once more and there was a line, which was cool... until some girl came up behind me and literally started feeling me up? She grabbed my hips and I didn't react because I thought she was just trying to squeeze through people and that's totally fine, okay. Except she didn't stop and then started moving her hands and lol, I like took a step to try to shock her drunk ass into realization that she was touching me except she still never stopped. I literally had to grab her hands and pull them off of me lmao, I can't tell if this is amusing or annoying, but I'm leaning towards the former.
We had planned to catch a cab back to his place except everything was so fucking busy we couldn't find one and that was something we never really accounted for. Right? How stupid of us. So we started walking in the hopes that it'd be easier to hail one further away from the venue. No such luck. My feet started to hurt like fuck so he carried me a ways and we had to keep stopping in random buildings to warm up. It occurred to us that we could take the skyway. Except actually not, because it was closed, because that's clearly a nice decision on New Years when plenty of people might drive drunk. I don't get it. But lmao oh my god we were waiting for an elevator and I heard this SMACK! I didn't see it but I instantly knew it was a bitch falling down just by how it sounded. I turned around and I couldn't see anything except a bare leg with a high heel. LOL then her date was like, "Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME" and tried to pick her up except she didn't come up, she just spun around, her legs flying every which way. Yeah, she was not wearing any underwear. I looked at Jason and died laughing but he was like, legit traumatized. "I can't... I can't unsee that." The chick said something I couldn't at all understand, and her date was like, "No! Don't you *facepalms himself dramatically* GET it?! There's no cab!" LMAO SDFLKJHA.
We stopped off in a hotel a few blocks away from his apartment and called a cab but it never showed. So he offered to run home, get the car, and come back for me. I said no, that I didn't want him to have to go alone but I eventually caved. He was so incredibly fast about it, I can't even believe how fast he was and he is so sweet to do that just so I wouldn't have to be cold anymore.
We got back to his apartment and made new drinks. I rolled around the bed in my long black dress, drinking and eating chips and laughing... until we realized that we had no condoms? On New Years. Are you fucking kidding me. "I suck. God. Every other guy, that'd be the first thing they thought of." I think he wanted me to love the fact that sex isn't the first thing on his mind and sometimes I do but a lot of the time I do wish he was more like typical guys in that area. Because I like sex. And I bought sequined underwear for the occasion. And we couldn't even fuck. GOD! He went to the gas station across the street, which didn't have condoms? Because, again, that'd be way too smart/convenient. So no, I did not get laid on NYE. I got head though so it wasn't all bad. And yeah... that was the New Year. The party and subsequent events following the party could have been better but in all honesty that's typical of my New Years and I can make peace with it because I spent it with an amazing date.
In other news, I started Project 365 the next day and I figure I have to keep up with it this year because I'm doing it on my ~business page~. So that itself holds me a little more accountable lol.
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I hope you all had a good weekend and have wonderful things in store for 2012!
I went to Jason's when she went to bed, he was not as energetic as I was. He was kind of a buzzkill, actually lol. I made chicken and french fries at like 5am because that's how I roll, and watched Arrested Development. I slept super late and then did make-up, it took forever and was traumatic and I didn't even have time to do my hair the way I wanted to. AND THEN! We called a cab and it was a half hour late! Had I known that, I COULD have done my hair, ugh, ugh. We ended up just hailing one and that was way faster.
We had reservations at Buca, we made them late in the week so they said they'd try to squeeze us in. When we were late I was worried but when we got there, they walked us right to a table even though there was a huge number of people in the doorway. I ordered some riesling, we split garlic bread and ravioli and were, in general, the couple that I used to think was lame/probably-really-simple-and-boring in restaurants. But we had a very nice time. There was this ADORABLE LITTLE KID at the table next to us, seriously, he was two years old and he was wearing a FUCKING SUIT VEST AND PANTS, with a red dress shirt under it and TINY-ASS TIE. He kept looking over the back of his chair at me and when I'd smile or wave, he'd whip around super fast and "hide", omg it was adorable. And then when we were leaving, I was sitting by the door when his family came and sat down on the long bench too. He was hiding behind a hanging piece of decorative fabric, he kept peeking around at me and playing the same cute game. His older sister asked if he made a new friend, and his mom was like, "Aw, are you flirting?" I was like, "LOL yeah, he's getting a pretty decent head start." His sister said that he got a head start the day he was born, lol. "Arnie! Give her a lady kiss!" I asked her what that was and then he GRABBED MY HAND AND KISSED THE FUCKING TOP OF IT LIKE A GENTLEMAN OH MY GOD I DIED AND THEY ALL LAUGHED AT HOW MUCH I WAS DYING. So precious, it completely made my day.
We went outside to catch a cab and the rain I watched during dinner had turned to snow. We went to my friend Dani's - who I met at the film fest last year - downtown loft which was cool as hell. They had cement floors and old hard disks or some shit up on the walls, it was decorated so coolly and modern, I wanted it so much for my own. A few other people showed up, none of which I had met before but we all had so much to talk about because everyone works in film, and, AND, literally everyone in that room is planning to move to LA in the next year. One of the girls, Ana, she's an actress and a general artist (painter, musician), we had talked a little and I really liked her. When I heard her mention to someone else that she was moving I turned to Jason and was like, "Potential roommate? :D :D :D" THEN LIKE FIVE MINUTES LATER, I mentioned I was moving too and she was like, "DO YOU NEED A ROOMMATE?" She said it's really important to her that she have an artistic roommate so that'd be really cool. I emailed the producer from the production company today to see when I should come out to visit/meet her, and she said she was meeting with her team tomorrow and would know more.
The snow had really gotten slushy and gross by the time we left. We headed to a club for a New Years party entitled Mystique and marketed as a circus-type show but just like last year, I didn't see much - I saw one dance routine, ONE, and it was shoddy at best, the woman did not have the level of technique and control I'd expect for a party like this, IDEK I'M JUST JUDGMENTAL BUT I WAS DISAPPOINTED. We checked our coats and got drinks before we managed to find an open area on a cushion. I took my camera out and took a couple of photos on the stairs before some asshole bouncer told me I had to stop and "keep moving" even though there was no one trying to get through, the stairs weren't even busy/full, lighten the FUCK up. Shit like that always destroys me way more than it should, especially when it has to do with photos or art and especially when I'm not hurting or inconveniencing anyone.
A guy was walking around with a bunch of light up flowers and leis. I told Jason I wanted one and he came back with a pretty purple rose with a light inside. I smiled and thanked him and was perfectly content, but then he started waving his open hands in front of me in a magic trick that suddenly produced a flashy ring as well. He had trouble turning it on and it was so adorable. I held out my left hand and he put it on my ring finger where it flashed all colors for the rest of the night. I was really happy. I love when he's thoughtful especially in terms of the tiniest things, and I love when he does magic.
He went to get us another drink from the bar downstairs and when he came back some asshole was with him and he was all, "YOU CAN'T BE HERE, YOU HAVE TO GO WITH YOUR ~BOYFRIEND~." APPARENTLY, we were in the VIP area? Even though there were literally NO ropes and signs and even though we had gone up and down the stairs like three times and never got yelled at. I just... I can't, with people in public anymore. What happened was, Jason got stopped for ~not having a wristband~ and said that his girlfriend was up there and he couldn't just leave her there and he wouldn't let him go get me! He like, grabbed his arm and then ~escorted him~ to get me. I mean, really.
So we went to the ~other side~, which was literally, exactly the same, and even had a door for people to go outside and smoke, so. We found an open couch over there except some bitch was just standing in front of it talking to somebody. Either sit on it, or talk somewhere else? Like, people are just so fucking rude. I went over and sat on the couch by way of climbing over the arm. Jason said she gave me a bitchy look but I neither noticed nor gave a shit. (The Honey Badger!) Then things got better. We had fresh drinks and a couch and pretty much kept to ourselves in the midst of the chaos. We were making out and one point and some guy ran over, yelled "WINNING!" and then ran off lmao lmao sklajdfhalkj. I twirled my flower in my hand and thanked him for the surprise ring, which I liked even more. "If this goes the way I'd like it to, I'll get you a more sparkly one someday." I told him I knew that if we did ever get to that point, that I love that he'd pick one out that I actually like. He's got a great eye and appreciation for aesthetics and that's one of my favorite things about him. I wasn't as put off by his comment as I expected I'd be. I'm not really sure what my deal is.
They had sandwiches catered at like 1 (lol seriously I was so excited for them, Jason offered to just make me one when we got home but I was like NO I NEED IT FROM ERBERT'S AND GERBERT'S) so we grabbed one of those before we left. I decided to go to the bathroom once more and there was a line, which was cool... until some girl came up behind me and literally started feeling me up? She grabbed my hips and I didn't react because I thought she was just trying to squeeze through people and that's totally fine, okay. Except she didn't stop and then started moving her hands and lol, I like took a step to try to shock her drunk ass into realization that she was touching me except she still never stopped. I literally had to grab her hands and pull them off of me lmao, I can't tell if this is amusing or annoying, but I'm leaning towards the former.
We had planned to catch a cab back to his place except everything was so fucking busy we couldn't find one and that was something we never really accounted for. Right? How stupid of us. So we started walking in the hopes that it'd be easier to hail one further away from the venue. No such luck. My feet started to hurt like fuck so he carried me a ways and we had to keep stopping in random buildings to warm up. It occurred to us that we could take the skyway. Except actually not, because it was closed, because that's clearly a nice decision on New Years when plenty of people might drive drunk. I don't get it. But lmao oh my god we were waiting for an elevator and I heard this SMACK! I didn't see it but I instantly knew it was a bitch falling down just by how it sounded. I turned around and I couldn't see anything except a bare leg with a high heel. LOL then her date was like, "Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME" and tried to pick her up except she didn't come up, she just spun around, her legs flying every which way. Yeah, she was not wearing any underwear. I looked at Jason and died laughing but he was like, legit traumatized. "I can't... I can't unsee that." The chick said something I couldn't at all understand, and her date was like, "No! Don't you *facepalms himself dramatically* GET it?! There's no cab!" LMAO SDFLKJHA.
We stopped off in a hotel a few blocks away from his apartment and called a cab but it never showed. So he offered to run home, get the car, and come back for me. I said no, that I didn't want him to have to go alone but I eventually caved. He was so incredibly fast about it, I can't even believe how fast he was and he is so sweet to do that just so I wouldn't have to be cold anymore.
We got back to his apartment and made new drinks. I rolled around the bed in my long black dress, drinking and eating chips and laughing... until we realized that we had no condoms? On New Years. Are you fucking kidding me. "I suck. God. Every other guy, that'd be the first thing they thought of." I think he wanted me to love the fact that sex isn't the first thing on his mind and sometimes I do but a lot of the time I do wish he was more like typical guys in that area. Because I like sex. And I bought sequined underwear for the occasion. And we couldn't even fuck. GOD! He went to the gas station across the street, which didn't have condoms? Because, again, that'd be way too smart/convenient. So no, I did not get laid on NYE. I got head though so it wasn't all bad. And yeah... that was the New Year. The party and subsequent events following the party could have been better but in all honesty that's typical of my New Years and I can make peace with it because I spent it with an amazing date.
In other news, I started Project 365 the next day and I figure I have to keep up with it this year because I'm doing it on my ~business page~. So that itself holds me a little more accountable lol.
You can follow it on Facebook and Tumblr, and please do! ♥
I hope you all had a good weekend and have wonderful things in store for 2012!