AJ and I planned an LA day, and by that I mean I told him to set aside Saturday so that we could go to LA and do a bunch of things I've wanted to do. The main thing that prompted it was that I wanted to go to the Brickyard Pub in North Hollywood to get Yuengling beer, apparently they're the only place that sells it in LA (and entirely west of the Mississippi as far as I can tell) but turns out they don't even sell it anymore! So crushing... but at least we found out before we drove up there!
We dropped Anana off with his mom and then headed up to visit The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles was nasty. Every corner smelled like urine and there were tons of dogs. I still don't understand why people like Los Angeles but whatever I guess.
The Last Bookstore was a little underwhelming, but still pretty cool to see. I had seen some of it from friends' pictures before and really wanted to visit, but aside from the few cool displays, it was still just a bookstore with a few cool flares, and it did have an art gallery upstairs which was neat too.
We went to a nearby bar afterwards for beer and to watch some of the Barcelona/Madrid soccer game being shown and made friends with our Colombian bartender. Then, we headed to West Hollywood for sushi before we went to a Groundlings show. It was so much fun! I haven't been to the Groundlings in too long, although the show we went to was mostly scripted and not much improv, so I was a little sad about that, but it was still fun.
After that, we did a drive by of the LACMA and did a little walk around and a quick photo shoot before heading back.
We had to stop by AJ's mom's to pick up Anana, but in the end we just crashed at her place cause why not? In the morning, AJ's mom was on the ground playing with dog Pippa, which made Anana jealous, so Anana kept fighting for her attention and trying to hold her hand hahaha so sweet! Even though it was because she was jealous...
Originally we had planned to go that evening to a friends' house to watch Game of Thrones but we ended up being too tired from it all to do that, so I took a picture of us watching Game of Thrones to text to our friends so we could feel like we were all doing it together!
And I finally took a video of Anana eating mini carrots, one of her favorite snacks. I love watching her eat and hearing her little crunches!
Okay, off to a lunchtime yoga class in the park at work now...
Last week I was mostly on my death bed, with what I thought was food poisoning but who knows anymore, I still feel like I'm not fully recovered, and it started with me spending all last Tuesday night throwing up and hallucinating and having painful aches and chills.
Anyways, on a following day that I had off from work, I caught this photo on the Petcube, which is extra special because Banana is so NOT a cuddler, but she still laid with me for awhile on the couch like this.
We are those horrible people who let their animals everywhere. I can't help it!
My dreams came true last weekend when I had a perfect Saturday, complete with one-on-one brunch time with a friend, Sex and the City, BBQ with our men, drunk Jeopardy, and, the best: POOL FLOATYS!!! Yes, I am a basic bitch. Deal with it.
Anana behind her lolololol
She wouldn't let her mom have the ice cream back
In other news, Game of Thrones officially restarted and it was siiiiiick! We had a feast at our friend's house and I definitely showed up in my pseudo Kings Landing handmaiden dress...
The episode was awesomeeee! Some people were hating on it but I enjoyed it. Countdown's on until next Sunday again already...
I'm obsessed with the girls (Khaleesi and Anana), don't mind me. I may need to rebrand this blog as a pet site, but anyways, until then, I'll just keep going. I loved this picture of Anana chilling and Khaleesi doing her little catwalk on the fence.
Yesterday, as soon as I got home, AJ told me that Anana had just chased a raccoon up into the tree and that it might even still be there. I went out and sure enough, there it was.
The poor thing was just trapped up there, a little paw wrapped around a branch, and just staring down, unsure what to do and too scared to do anything. It was soooo cute!! On the one hand I was really proud of Anana for guarding our home (I worry about raccoons being too aggressive with Khaleesi who is usually outside) but on the other hand, the poor raccoon was just so terrified and I only wanted it to make it's way home! I'm sure it did, but not until late at night when we could convince Anana to come away from stalking it!
Also, I've seen (and really enjoyed) this hot dog craze going around, although I didn't know what it was from, and once I learned it was on Snapchat I really struggled to figure it out (I really hate Snapchat and do not understand it at all #old) but once I did, I've been all over it lolololol!
Lastly, for my birthday, my really great friend/coworker gifted me with a month pass of unlimited yoga for a studio right across the street from work. I was saving it until I was done with crossfit so I could really take advantage of all of the yoga, and yesterday was the first day! I reallyyyyyy enjoyed it and learned how much I had been missing yoga! I'm even a little sad because I doubt I will be able to continue going to this studio once my free month is over, it's pretty expensive womp womp. But, going again tonight after work and really looking forward to it, aaaand Game of Thrones season premier on Sunday!!!!!
I had a really busy weekend these past few days, and mainly hung out with girlfriends. Although Friday night AJ and I went to Downtown Disney to do dinner with some cousins at Rainforest Cafe, which was so cute because their 9 month old daughter was mesmerized by all the animatronics and everything, it was sweet.
On Saturday I did a lot of work around the house and then we had a crazy planned girls night since a few of their husbands were out of town. I hadn't been out clubbing like that in a long time, and by clubbing I mean we went to Pacific Beach and just went to a rooftop beachside bar.
Afterwards, we split up in our Ubers and had one car go to Del Taco for food and the other go to liquor store for more alcohol and then we played an insane dance game at my friend's place. I'm still in 2005 where DDR requires a pad that you step on, while my friends are in 2017 with some consoles that need nothing and you just follow the TV and it can sense you and judge you on the moves and show your silhouette and stuff. I was entranced.
On Sunday I had to get up early-ish following that night and drive out to Riverside. My friend Marisa and I went to see her niece perform in a children's theatre performance of Mulan, and her niece was even the title character. It was a little painful, even for children's theatre, but still cute, and I love Mulan so I was able to make it through.
I didn't get home until the late evening but took a power nap and then was up until well past midnight. (That's a big deal for me). AJ took this picture of Anana waiting for me to come home when she heard my car pull into the driveway.
I can't be that sad that it's Monday because I really want to get through this week already so we can watch the Game of Thrones season premier this upcoming Sunday!!! #stoked
It's July and it's most definitely summer! Normally it should be a bit more relaxing and chill but things are just as hectic as ever. But, it was helpful having some time off and lots of funtivities. Last Friday I actually had a half day for the doctors and got a chance to visit Luca, who looks like an evil scientist wringing his little hands...
I checked into the Petcube at some point too and saw this gem of Khaleesi relaxing on the couch...! On Saturday I got to go to breakfast and visit grandmama, who seems to be doing more or less pretty well!
Oh and this is how grandma exercises, I don't know why I thought it was so cute. After I took the video, I grabbed a laundry buggy and did my own exercises behind her lololol
I should also add that at breakfast, I asked grandma what she has learned in all of her 99 years of living and her responses was "Oh you know, just stay quiet" lololol that's my grandma!
On Sunday AJ and I went to his dad's house, and then to our friends' place for dinner and Jeopardy (for some reason we all really like Jeopardy). I drank a lotttt of wine since Monday was going to be dumb with like no one working, and then Monday night we went to a friends place to do some real 4th of July warmup celebrations with BBQ, beer pong, baseball, cornhole, and fireworks!
I got really comfortable with Scout, who
wasn't entirely thrilled about the fireworks
And I know that no one likes shitty fireworks videos, but these are in slowmo so I thought it was pretty sweet.
We went pretty crazy, and by 'we' I mean them lololol and AJ who seemed to be playing nonstop baseball and beer pong ALL. NIGHT. LONG. But the 4th itself was fabulous. We slept in, AJ went and got McDonalds for his hangover (so I got a hashbrown too mmm) and we chilled on the couch with coffee and watched Moana. If there's one thing I really love about AJ, it's his sincere love of Disney movies. Like, really. After Moana he downloaded Frozen because he had never seen it before (and we're planning to watch it tonight!) even though I said it was "eh" because he hadn't seen it and insisted he has to see every major Disney movie.
When Moana was over we put on music and cracked open some beers and got ready for the day, where we were going to be poolside all day with our friends. They live in an HOA with a great huge pool area including a lot of grass and fields, so we set up cornhole and played endless games in the grass - seriously we had beach balls, bouncy balls, football, soccer balls, volleyballs, smashball, whiffle ball and had a blast having every ball going at the same time. We lounged and drank and I fell asleep in a pool chair. It was a pretty perfect day, although I may argue that mine was the most perfect because I took Wednesday off so I wasn't feeling the dreaded work day creeping in but instead knew I had another day to lounge!
Back home, fireworks were going off everywhere all around us. We would stand outside in the street and there were fireworks every which way, in the sky, on the street, people throwing them from balconies. It was pretty cool. Anana is fine with them and Khaleesi mostly is too, but I think they got to be too much in the end because she ended up under the bed in the bedroom, but all's well.
Anana's not a cuddler so her laying on my
leg was super exciting
On Wednesday I slept in, watched The Office, did some consult work, read, and then Anana and I took a walk to go get my eyebrows done and then to Petsmart to pick up some cat food. It's always very offensive when the cashier's don't offer Anana a treat when they have the bowl of them right there on their till... ugh. Whatevs! AJ plays beach flag football with our neighbors on Wednesdays so me and Anana went with him to check it out. It was a beautiful day and nice evening and I managed to get a slowmo of AJ catching a football and running in a touchdown, even if it wasn't the most exciting.
The summer feels like it's already flying by even though it barely started!
