NEWLOVE

i don’t like action films but this was good. go see it.

i stumbled into this restaurant on a fluke as the restaurant i had planned to go to, café marly, was closed. oh, and by the way, café marly is now called le bistro français and it seems that they are never open. super annoying. but cube was delightful. fresh. delicious. i had an incredible corn soup. love corn. topped with BACON!! bacon bacon bacon.

at the artseen gala this weekend there was a real live photobooth. FUN!! of course we jumped right in, you know, being modest, delicate flowers and all.

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this rakku designs shoe wheel is just what brad needs to get his shoes OUT. OF. THE. FREAKING. LIVING ROOM. ALREADY!!

*photos by ann friday

during my last trip to nyc, my friend, ann, and i went to see spamalot.  if i didn’t know before the show that clay aiken is gay… i do now.  overall, it was pretty fun.  both ann and i were in love with the female lead.  she was kick-ass.

afterwards we stopped in at an irish pub for a beer and just as we were thinking about going home to bed, we were approached by two british blokes.  the older one, martin, introduced himself and his younger brother, damian, and then said something along the lines of “we’re not trying to pick you up but we were just wondering if you’d be interested in a beer and a chat.”

a few beers later, damian and i mistakenly left ann with martin alone for maybe 5 minutes.  the second we got back to the table ann got up and white as a ghost she said, “i have to go.  i’ll explain later.”  and poof!  gone she was.

shortly thereafter she called me and i stealthily got the details while locked in the ladies restroom - the only place it was quiet enough to hear her.  luckily there was no line and i wasn’t pissing anyone off.  as it turns out, martin told ann all about his romanian wife asleep upstairs in their hotel room and how he missed the days before they were married when he could come home, bend her over and “take her from behind” whenever he damn well pleased.

smooth, romeo.  really smooth!

hahaha.

martin

damian

i got so turned on by the first 15 seconds of this commercial…

ok, maybe not turned on.  maybe i’m not good at identifying my feelings.  maybe i just wanted to eat a big, juicy orange.  really really badly.

had a lunch meeting at PALIHOUSE today and immediately fell in love with the decor. so cute!!

the waitress was sweet and my breakfast was great. i highly recommend the fresh squeezed grapefruit juice and the croque madame.

after the meeting, i spent an hour or so lounging on the couch surfing FREE INTERNET on my laptop. i am so jealous that my friend g lives next door - literally. he can go there whenever he damn pleases, lucky bastard! if i was him, i’d cancel my isp and rent out my living room to make some extra cash and i’d spend every day at the palihouse.

brad and i are having dinner there next week so we’ll see if palihouse is a good evening location.

the “why” of brad and i dining at palihouse next week is more interesting than the fact that we plan to dine there.

we were in a car accident a few weeks ago and the person that hit us happens to be an executive at palihouse.

to help lessen the sting of the hassle of getting the car fixed, he is comping our dinner. too bad it’d be rude to bring 10 of our closest friends! hi dude who is comping our food. there’s no way in hell that 2 apps, 2 entrées, 2 bottles of wine and 2 desserts can make up for the annoyingness of having to get up at 7am and drive my boyfriend to autobodyshops full of greasy men and you know, all the stuff brad had to go through as well. you better make it 10 apps, 12 entrées, 20 bottles of wine and 6 desserts.

all morning i’ve been excited and thinking about tomorrow - dunkin donut’s annual free iced coffee day. i though of who i would email that would be interested and want to go with me. i was thinking hiko, the stupid snoring machine, the stupid snoring machine’s girlfriend, magic dan, jakies and ivy. i thought about how many times i would go once i read it’s one free coffee per person PER VISIT. i even thought i could try and set a guiness world record of free coffees in a 12 hour period. i would photograph it, videotape it and blog it. then i went to find out where this would all be taking place.

NOT A SINGLE DUNKIN DONUTS IN LOS ANGELES OR 50 MILES AROUND IT?!

how is america supposed to run on dunkin when all the movie stars and film makers can’t even get their hands on any?!

then i searched 50 miles around san diego, santa barbara, palm springs, san francisco all the while calculating how many free coffees i’d have to drink and how many friends would have to carpool with me in order to balance the cost of gas and the hours it’d take to drive there… NOTHING.

either the dunkin donuts website store finder doesn’t work or california has fallen out of grace. there’s a baskin robbins on my corner, i’ll have to go down and see if they’re still partners with dunkin.

i was just minding my own business when my computer decided to go on strike WITHOUT WARNING mind you.

i couldn’t turn off any applications or even force quit because i COULDN’T SEE SHIT! so annoying. and i just downloaded all that music! if i turn off my computer, will i lose it as it’s not backed up? that would be just like murphy’s law to do that to me.

so i had to call apple technical support.

i love them. jeremiah, will you marry me? you are so cool and so smart!! jeremiah is 21 years old and from the potato capital of the world, blackfoot idaho.

you’re probably wondering why i am on such friendly terms with my apple tech guy. well, it’s amazing what kind of random conversation you find yourself striking up while you’re waiting for machines to do their thing at their own damn pace.

me: “so i took my finger off the shift key when the thingy started spinning.”

jeremiah: “good.”

long pause

me: “uh, so now what do you want me to do”

jeremiah: “when the login pane comes up DON’T LOG IN”

me: “uh, okay dude. but just so you know, i don’t normally have a login pane.”

jeremiah: “that’s okay. you will this time.”

dude can see the future!!

me: “ok”

long long LONG ASS FREAKING PAUSE

me: “um, it’s still spinning.”

jeremiah: “that’s okay. it can sometimes take awhile.”

at this point i’ve finished my entire breakfast and cup of coffee during the call and since he’s been polite enough to listen to me chew, i figure i should make polite small talk as a reward.

me: “so, where are you? canada?”

jeremiah: “no.”

me: “it’s just that a lot of time i call you guys and get routed to a call center in toronto or something.”

jeremiah: “yeah. we have an office there and in niagara falls as well as houston (blah blah blah) and boise which is where i am.”

me: “i’ve never been to boise. but i’ve been to blackfoot.”

jeremiah: “really? that’s where i’m from actually.”

me: “how old are you?”

jeremiah: “21″

me: “oh. i was going to ask you if you know michael doran but he’s too old. i think he has a sister around your age but hell if i know her name.”

at this point, he’s probably deeply enthralled with the conversation and wanted to come down to socal to marry me but we unfortunately got cut off because my computer started doing something and we went back to working on fixing our problem.

we met some cute boys all under the age of 3 and half today at the park. the oldest one knocked all his brothers down repeatedly and tried to get harper’s attention by yelling, “hey girl! hey giiiirrrrlll!!” i have a feeling he’s gonna be a real lady killer.