Road Rage

L.A. Traffic is HORRIBLE!

Well, today I woke up a little bit late... after getting the dogs up & ready and getting myself up and ready I headed to The Grove. I returned Lulu's sunglasses (yes, I said Lulu's sunglasses) because they didn't fit right on her. Instead I exchanged for a pink ribbed tank top that says "Princess" I would post a picture but I think I've been posting too many pet photos recently. I walked around and did a little bit of shopping... but I'm pretty sick of The Grove (Richard's favorite weekend spot) so I headed over to Kitson. The store has become annoyingly overcrowded nowadays... not to mention there were a ton of papparazi just standing outside (waiting for a celeb to walk in?) Who knows.

Anyhow it was at that point that I made a bad decision that punished me in the car for a total of about 3 hours. I decided to meet some friends at Fritto Misto over in Santa Monica for a late lunch... this was about 4pm. Since I was on Robertson, I figured I'll just take Santa Monica Blvd. all the way to Santa Monica... it took me 1 hour and 15 minutes. It took me that long to drive 9.96 miles... Mapquest estimates the drive to be only 15 minutes!

And THEN... since we left at around 5:15pm we figured we had enough time to drive to Barneys before they closed at 7pm. Wrong again. It took until 7:15pm to get there! Almost 2 hours to drive 10 miles??? Not to mention Barneys was already closed by the time we got to BH!! ARRGGHH.

Ridiculous.

Well, at least today I had the chance to pick up the iTrip for my iPod. I've gone to the Apple store 3 times before to try to buy one but each time the salesperson would always talk me out of it. "Too hard to find a station" "Reception sucks" "Doesn't work that great" etc etc.

I tried it out today on the default 87.9 and it worked great! I was stubborn and decided to get one anyway because my radio has pretty good reception and I've been scoping out for blank stations whenever I'm out and about (yess.... see that's how bad traffic is around here!!!) So now I'm happy.

Party Planning

It's time to start thinking about Lulu's 1st Birthday Party!

Rain Treats

Rain, rain, go away Part II

AUUGGHH!

Water damage!! After 6 months of construction on our building... the walls are still leaking rainwater! Today's damage was the worst ever in the bedroom. The half of the room near the window was wet- we had to move our computer desk, bookcase, nightstand and bed over and Serv-Pro came and cut half our carpet out! They said the carpet could not be salvaged so they cut right through it and now there are two huge fans running. The living room also accrued some moisture and there is now a huge dehumidifier running and I also have a leak in one of the new windows.

The entire apartment is a mess with furniture everywhere. I'm miserable. Moley and Lulu are miserable too. :'(

New year, new kitchen

My parents are finally remodelling the kitchen! Today they started ripping out all of the cabinets and installing the new ones. (They as in the contractors... not my parents :P) My parents also planned to get a new sink and refridgerator.

I really wanted to do something for my parents for being so accomodating this past month so I decided to help them complete the renovation. I bought them a new stove/oven and dishwasher. Here is what I picked out at Best Buy today:


Frigidaire Range with Stainless Steel



I didn't realize how hard it is to pick out appliances! I knew I wanted black/stainless steel appliances because our new cabinets are light maple with black granite counters. I wanted sophisticated looking appliances... didn't realize stainless steel was so expensive! So I picked a simple range with a built in digital oven. The Frigidaire matching dishwasher in the stainless steel was reportedly not very good at dishwashing so I had to opt for the newer black on black model... plus I had to find a very user-friendly one because my mom has never used a dishwasher before (just as a drying rack for her hand-washed dishes) and I want to convert her.