Vacation all I ever wanted...

We leave for Vegas in the morning! I am on vacation!!!! I apologize if I'm "off the grid" for a few days. Enjoy your week! We will be enjoying ours in Sin City :D

Adventures in Weekend Dogsitting...

A couple of weekends ago I dog sat for a friend who has a roommate who parties with a few crazies. We had a pretty fun weekend and here are the pics to prove it!

















It was pretty fun! We can't wait to have our own though (with a little more training than Miss Mimi here).

Sorry for the lack of posting-I have been a busy gal! Loads of work. Prep for my trip to Las Vegas next week!!!! Eeek! I'm so excited for a little mini-vacation. I need a mini-break let me tel y'all! And I get to see some friends that I went to college with and did theatre with. And then Saturday I have my movie audition!

So I just need to finish the week, find a bathing suit for Vegas, do laundry, pack for Vegas, memorize my lines for my audition, and get ready to have some fun!

In other news I have been busy helping a friend out who just got "dumped" (sort of). I feel awful for her. She is heart-broken. I just want to make it better for her. I, however, really feel that this guy was wrong for her. He is just working out too many things right now with 2 ex-wives, and his job, and apartment, and child support, and not having any money to live, etc. etc. etc. My friend just moved here 3 months ago, is fresh to the area, loves very quickly and deeply, and is 35 and has never been married. Everyone cautioned her that this guys might not be ready but he pursued her so hard (and she loves to be wooed) she fell for him. And now he recognizes he has too much on his plate and ended it. And she is just down. I have no idea to help other than to listen and support her and try to be there. But she just keeps saying "I hear that and logically I know it makes sense but my heart hurts and is broken". It just makes me sad for her. What's a friend to do?!

It just a lot going on as usual. But I'm trying to keep it all balanced. And stay positive. And shopping at Target where I got 4 of the CUTEST dresses. Oh, and get excited for this next week in Vegas! So, what's going on with all of you? ;)

"I'm not ging to do anything I don't wanna..."

Oh my dear, dear friends. What a silly night this has been.

Let me first start with what's been going on this week. I have been working a lot and two of my dear friends have come over in the evening because they were having rough weeks. We had a few cocktails (Monday night with my nurse/actress/fellow hat maker friend we had blood orange mimosas, Tuesday with my actress friend from Chicago who now also lives here in LA we had Irish cider and beer) and they got out all they needed to vent. It was really nice. I love being able to be there for my amazing friends who are always there for me. Love them!

Also yesterday with the delicious ciders/beers Joe and I made a picnic dinner. We made my own recipe of pasta salad: cooked and drained pasta (your choice), sliced carrots, cucumber cubes, diced onions, capers, sliced olives, chunked mozzarella, robusto italian dressing, a little salsa verde, italian seasoning, fresh cracked pepper, and garlic salt. So tasty! Then we made special turkey framani sandwiches. First pick your favorite bread, spread goat cheese on your 'bottom' slice, place thinly sliced braeburn apples on top of the cheese, place your turkey on top of the apples, lay thinly sliced red onions atop the turkey, then comes some lettuce, then on you 'top' slice of bread spread sun-dried tomato spread or if you're in a pinch some tomato paste. This sandwich is inspired by my fave sandwich at a LA restaurant called The Curious Palate. They use only fresh and local organic ingredients. And their framani turkey sandwich is heaven sent. MMMM!

So to keep in the I'm cooking mood I was going to make a feast for my little math geek whilst he was at school teaching and then at chess club. I borrowed my good friend Kari's jeep, went to the store, and started cooking my feast (after some puppy distractions). I was making the delicious cookies found here My Favorite things, my mom's grape salad recipe, and the pasta a la Marlboro Man from The Pioneer Woman Cooks.

Well I made the cookies to perfection. I was getting everything prepped for the pasta. I started to make the grape salad. I washed and dried the grapes, put softened cream cheese, cool whip, brown sugar, and was starting to blend it up with a stick blender (we don't have a kitchen-aid or hand mixer). Well some cream cheese was stuck under the blade and I stuck my finger to scrape it off and with my other hand was trying to take the motor part off. Well instead my pinky hit the on button and I sliced open my finger. Deep and bloody style. Big time bad. So I applied pressure, called my little PhD Math guy home to help save me, called my nurse friends, and when it stopped bleeding nu-skin-ed the crap out of it. I am avoiding paying the $100 ER visit copay. Needless to say my lil math man had to finish the pasta for me and mix up the rest of the grape salad. It was amazingly delicious but my finger is numb and throbbing. My poor bf had to rush home and he didn't get the feast I promised to make for him.

At least we ate some great food! I'll just have to be careful with my finger the rest of this week. Hope you all are a little more careful than I am when it comes to stick blender blades... ;)

"It's 2 AM?! I'm about to turn this dump into the new era of entertainment..."

What a busy week!!! Lots of work.

Tried Pink's Hot Dog for the first time. Pretty good but not as good as Budacki's in Chicago. Chicago has the best hot dogs! And pizza (tied with NYC)! Mmmm!

Auditioned for a play. Went alrighty. Auditioned for a tv pilot...A TV PILOT-AHHHHH!!! My first one, and it went pretty well. They laughed at all my funny stuff. So hopefully I hear something from them-it would be most exciting. :)

Now I'm dog-sitting my friend Meghan's little pooch Mimi-she's a pom and a BIG handful. Barks at everything! It's nice to get puppy cuddles though. :)

Oh and I just got a phone call about a movie audition. So hopefully soon things will start picking up on the old acting front. I need to get out there more. Hopefully this will be the start of it. :D

Hope you all are having a great week too! Take care!!

Oy vey!

So yesterday was quite the emotional trip. Kari described it perfectly. Craziness but I am so happy he was saved and is going to a great home.

Today was a busy/stressful work day preparing for arbitration. Then I went to an audition for a little theatre company. And I found out that I booked an audition for a pilot on Friday!!! YAY! So it is going to be a busy week! Wish me luck.

I'm off to some well-needed sleep.

Puppy Power!!!

So today I am on a mission. And not just one of my usual missions to get a million things done in one day or to not eat all the junk food in my apartment. On a good mission. As the Blues Brothers would say "a mission from god" (whom I don't really believe in so I'll just say a mission of goodwill). My friend Kari and I are driving about an hour away to save a dog from being euthanized for a family who lives in San Diego. So we are saving the life a dog so that he can be loved and given a forever home! I am so happy to be a part of this! And so happy the little guy wont be put down. I hate kill shelters! HATE THEM! So I cannot promise I wont cry a ton or come home wth a little beagle friend myself (they are my favorite breed) BUT I can promise we will save him and that we will take loads of pictures of our rescue mission! Wish us (and our little guy) lots of luck! I love doing things for a great cause, don't you? :)

Adventures in Dog Sitting (kind of)

Sleepover pictures! I got to borrow the pups from My Life With Dogs for some late night snuggles. First was Big Carl's sleepover:





























Next was Baily's sleepover day!












































And look what we ate for dinner yesterday-HOMEMADE GYROS!!!! Mmmmm! :D







And look at the great wines we got for our Greek dinner: