Saturday Saturday Saturday!

Since I've moved to LA, Saturday and Sunday are the days I look forward to the most. Mainly because Cameron works 2 jobs during the day and night Monday-Friday. And on Saturday and Sunday (most of the time) we get to SEE each other. 


I've been "alone" since I left Cameron at the airport at 9:45am Thursday. And much to my relief, I've done quite well on my own in Los Angeles. I wouldn't want to do it all the time, but a few days, no problem. 


 I headed for the subway station that's a few blocks away to travel downtown to NBC4 Alive and Well LA's expo at the convention center. 


Now I really had some low expectations for this health fair expo. Sure they advertised that Mario Lopez and Dr. Robert Rey from E!'s show Dr. 90210 would be there, AND they were having free FREE health screenings. So 1, I thought that it would be full of homeless people. and 2, I figured that the "free stuff" wouldn't be anything that I could ever benefit from. 


BOY WAS I WRONG! I left with THREE reusable shopping bags! TONS of leaflets and brochures about different things, a couple of Breast Cancer Awareness pins for my Aunt Rose Jane, pens for Wayway from the Ovarian Cancer booth, AND I walked away knowing that I did NOT have kidney disease! All for a $1.25 train ticket! 


The kidney disease thing was great. I figured why not? My Dad had kidney failure, but his was due to all of the other crazy medicine he was on for the liver to not be rejected after the transplant. So the test couldn't hurt. Parts of the test were height and weight. Crazy lady nurse said I was 5'4" (WHAT?!?! I think not!) And I had LOST weight since the last time I climbed on a scale when we started working out at the gym. AWESOME! 


I came home, went and sat by the pool (and got in, even though that water is still freezing!) cooked a lasagna, cleaned up, and then settled in to listen to the Widespread Panic show online. Yes, the very same one that Cameron was there live for! It was so great to be able to listen! I love WSP as well. I was even on the WSP chat board (not chatting, just reading) just like Cameron. haha, needless to say he was impressed! 


Tomorrow I am going to sleep in! And finish cleaning. I actually created more of a mess while cleaning up tonight. Get that taken care of tomorrow. 
And I'm sure a visit to the pool will be in the schedule as well. There is NEVER anyone down there. It blows my mind. Great pool, great lounge chairs, and there's a huge wall in front so no one can see you. I love it! And they have tables and chairs and the tables have umbrellas, so It's really great for having lunch or dinner. 


Cameron comes back on Monday afternoon/evening. I think he had a fantastic 26th birthday tonight! 

Holy SNL Batman!

Most people that know me, understand my sense of humor. The people that don't get it, usually tend to walk the other way and think what in the world is her deal? 

Lucky for me, I currently live in LA. The land of the freaks, home of the weird. Everyone has a weird humor here. 

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is something I look forward to every Saturday night. Rerun, or a new episode, I'm tuned in. (Well... the DVR records it whether I manage to stay awake long enough or not). 

Yesterday I went into Studio City, CA which is right up the road from Hollywood. I was in desperate need of a Starbucks pick me up in the form of white chocolate mocha, double shot- please and for the love of everything don't you dare put whipcream on the top. As I walked in the door this lovely blonde was walking up to the line when all of a sudden teenage girls start screaming and digging in the tiny purses for their cameras. Really the only thing on my mind was "if they're going to take pictures, that means I can order next." I played nice and just tried to figure out who it was. Blonde-Skinny-Fancy shoes-sunglasses = famous. At least in this case, because people in Starbucks obviously knew who she was. I was apparently the only one out of the loop. She ordered  two drinks and paid. Then I finally placed my order and walked to the other end of the counter to wait patiently for my drink. 

As I was walking down, the bathroom door flew open and out skips Fred Armisen from SNL. Walks up to pretty blonde lady and BAM! I knew who she was! Abbey Elliot! BINGO!

So, there I am in Starbucks with two big SNL stars, and what do I do? Nothing. Camera was in my purse. I had a list that they could have signed. No, I just stood there. Who knows why. I love both of them on SNL but Andy Samburg is a personal fave. 

So, after 6 months of life in Hollywood I finally got to see people that I recognized. (Even if it took 10 minutes to figure it out) 

Sidenotes: Cameron's in Denver (Boulder, actually, for tonight) First Panic show tomorrow night. God love him. He could hardly sleep last night he was so excited. Like a child on Christmas Eve. I admit I was slightly annoyed because when he's restless, I don't sleep well either. But I couldn't help but to laugh at him when I dropped him off at the airport this morning. 

Tomorrow I think I'll head to see Toy Story (YES! AND in 3-D!!!) Perhaps another afternoon by the pool and who knows. :) 

Preparing for my weekend alone

Well, 
Cameron leaves on Thursday morning for Denver for three days of Widespread Panic concerts at Red Rocks... One of which will be June 26, when Cameron will be turning 26! A full moon, a Panic show at Red Rocks... half of me is glad I'm staying here... the other half is slightly jealous. BECAUSE, in the two years and change that we've been together, I have been turned on to the music of Widespread, and introduced to the whole world of PANIC. Eye opening- yes. Amazing music? YES. And What's Cameron's number one rule? Never miss a Sunday show. So, he'll be back on Monday. :)


On that note, I'm getting prepared for my four days alone. Most of which I intend to be pool-side or if the mood really strikes me, I may head for Santa Monica to lounge on the beach. However, that would require packing a cooler, sandwiches and snacks, sunscreen, towels AND paying $10 to park for the two hours that I would actually last on the beach by myself. 


So, I suppose a trip to Border's Books will be on my to-do list tomorrow or Thursday so that I'll be well prepared for the pool. 


I did manage to get the laundry done today so that he has clean clothes to pack tomorrow. I even offered to pack for him, but he declined. Saying something about how I would leave something out on purpose... (Where he got THAT idea, I haven't a clue! ha!) 


As for everything else, not much change. Heidi and Steven, two dear friends that I met at St. Paul's Lutheran who relocated to the Raleigh area just welcomed their first baby! Cara Brianne Craig was born on Father's day!! I'm still not positive on how they are pronouncing Cara... In my opinion it should be exactly like I say mine... but there are "Cara's" in the world that pronounce it "Car-uh" which unfortunately most every class I have ventured into was what my name turned into during Role Call. 24 years later, I survived. :) I'm SO happy for Heidi and Steven. They are going to be AMAZING parents and I can not WAIT to get my little hands on baby Cara!! (Too bad I'm lacking in the Gap Kids discount department now!) 


Speaking of that discount... My nephew, Keller Allan, to whom the award of "getting the most of Aunt Kara's discount" (Don't worry, niece Morgan is a VERY close 2nd)  goes to, will be turning TWO, I repeat, TWO YEARS OLD July 18. I still can't get over that. I had so much fun seeing him when I went home! He's FULL of energy and I can't get enough of that little redhead! 


I'm off to fold laundry and perhaps head to bed early.. ! 

Home sweet Home!

Well, I left LAX at 12:50am Tuesday "morning" and flew home to Wilmington for a week of visiting.
A little of an unplanned trip, but sometimes those are the best.
I've had a great time getting to see people that I haven't seen, and that I didn't get a chance to see the last time that I was home. And I get to see my precious nephew tomorrow! I can't get over the fact that he will be 2 years old in July! It's so amazing and crazy how fast they grow up!

I'm hoping to get to the beach for a day or two before I head back to Cali. And perhaps get rid of the sock line tan and tank top tan that I have from doing the Canyon behind our apartment! We'll see how that works out.

Plus, driving to the beach in Wilmington requires less patience and not as many bad words coming out of my mouth, which is what normally happens in California. :)

Job Interview

Well I just got back from an interview at YAS Fitness Center in Silverlake. Silverlake is 15 minutes from Hollywood. It was actually about 3 minutes from where I was a nanny. So at least I sort of knew where I was going. Although I did program the GPS to get me there. (And yes Dora, she was recalculating. Although not 5 times in 3 seconds like she did with us!). So I showed up and walked into a quaint little yoga studio. This place actually specializes in yoga for athletes and spinning classes. So it's not the typical yoga place. The interview went really well and I was confident when I left. So we shall see what happens.

Dora (Cameron's mom) came out to visit May 19-25. We had such a wonderful time! It was her first time out to see us, and so we had lots to show her and of course, she and I had a lot of places to shop!
We really did have such a great time. And I know Cameron was so happy that she was able to come out!

Now we're in for a four day weekend! Cameron has Monday off for Memorial Day. I'm hoping we'll be able to get to the beach or at least be lazy by the pool one day! I've got this awesome tan from walking in Runyon Canyon. And I need to work on that! :) Not as bad as Cameron's golf tan though! He has me beat on that one!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'll be sure to update about the job if I hear anything!

Also, Many thanks to Jaclyn's blog... Shabby Blogs kept me entertained and made my Blog pretty :)

A new week! Full of exciting things!

Andrew left on Friday to head back to Wilmington, NC after a 4 day visit! We had a blast! He even got to do a little surfing in Malibu! Cameron and I have had a pretty un-eventful weekend besides his iPhone breaking. Just the screen, and he's ordered a repair kit on Amazon to hopefully fix it himself instead of paying $199.00 for the Apple "Geniuses" to fix it. 


Tomorrow I'm going to be cleaning like crazy and doing a mountain of laundry that I've been ignoring. Dora (Cameron's mom) flies in Wednesday afternoon! She'll be staying for a few days. We are very excited that she is coming- she hasn't made it out here yet so it will be exciting for her to see everything out here as well!

G-mail makes my life simple

Now, I've tried this blogging thing before, and to my knowledge, the other one I have still exists but I can't remember how to get to it, and if I did, I wouldn't know the username or password. Thus, a new one.

Which actually works better because it's attached to my G-mail account. So as long as I'm on my computer, there's no need to remember usernames or passwords. So it works better for me this way.

I went back home to Wilmington, NC April 27-May 1. Got to see a lot of my family and a few friends. Keri Dawn even came down from Greenville just to see me!! And that was Fabulous! I was totally in need of some girl time. Don't get me wrong, I love living in LA, and Cameron... but I haven't been lucky enough to find my "go to girl" for LA. I loved being able to spend time with my mom, and going shopping! Although we did go a little over board. But, as I have put on several pounds since August 2009, I immediately went through everything I have here in LA and took two huge bags full to Good Will. (Yay me! Good deed!)

After doing that, I actually had room for what my wonderful Mother got me in Wilmington.

The only bad thing that happened on my trip home was losing my Nanny job. Friday mom and I ran to a coffee shop downtown and the phone rang, it was Stacey the mother that I was working for. It went to voicemail and I called back once I got to the car. Apparently they are going through some financial issues and had to let me go. At the time I was perplexed about the situation. 1- the money was amazing, 2- I had applied to Gap Kids here in LA for the same job I had in NC and was hoping to get that after 4 interviews (Including a phone interview with the district manager!) So by the family letting me go, it made the situation easier if I got the job with Gap. However, Gap decided that they didn't want me as a manager in the same job that I had before, but as a sales associate making less money than before and with no guarantee of the amount of hours I would have. So, Cameron and I decided it would be best to look for something else.

Long story short, it's been two weeks and I still have no leads. But the resume has been dusted off and here's to hoping to find SOMETHING!

Andrew, a friend from church that I grew up with came to Visit on Monday and leaves tomorrow. First time to LA and he's loved it!

I really hope I actually keep up with this, this time. Thanks G-mail!