When the lights go out..

Friday morning I was busy with dishes and laundry, my normal housewife duties, when the power went out. I decided to run an errand in hopes that when I got back the power would be back on. It was not. I called the DWP (power provider in LA) to see what the problem was and they informed me that the power would not be on again until midnight! What do you do when the power goes out for more than 7 hours? What do you do with no tv, no internet, no hot water, no laundry, and nothing to do?

Diet coke, french bread, cheese, and a people magazine at the Farmers Market across the street. This is my idea of a power outage.

Not to brag or anything, but..

The weather here is gorgeous.

Sunny

85°F Feels Like 85°F

Updated Jan 12 01:45 p.m. PT

I'm working on some more posts but this is all I've got for you right now. To my Midwest friends, I'm sorry that you read this post today and I don't blame you if you feel a little resentment towards me.

For the meantime, I'll be outside enjoying this beautiful day.

I Scream for Yogurt?

I am an admitted ice cream addict. In Toledo we lived less than a block away from an amazing soft serve ice cream store. As you know, ice cream shops are clearly much better than ice cream from the local grocer! You'll be shocked to know that since I've moved to LA, I've stopped eating ice cream. Gasp!

Now before you die of shock, I'll be honest with you - I am now addicted to Pinkberry frozen yogurt. Until you experience the deliciousness that is Pinkberry I cannot fully explain to you how great this treat is. If you visit California or New York (Pinkberry is currently located only in these two states) this should be your first stop!

Celeb-Alert!

One of the most exciting parts for me about moving to Los Angeles was the possibility of celeb sightings. I arrived in LA with high hopes of seeing celebrities daily. After living here for a few weeks I've found that daily sightings are not entirely true, but I do see many celebrities living in Hollywood! The most exciting celebrity I've seen so far is Adam Sandler. Christie, Bryan, and I were shopping at The Grove (my home away from home) and we saw Adam Sandler sitting on a bench! A few minutes later we ran into Kate Flannery who is an actress that plays Meredith on The Office, one of our favorite shows. Kate is as awesome and hilarious in real life as she is on The Office.

Now, to be very honest about my celebrity spotting abilities, I am not very good at it! I get caught up in my own business and forget to look. Peter is a people-watcher and spots them all! He's spotted a lot of MTV stars recently; Brandy, Angela Simmons, Tila Tequila, and Flava-Flav all in the past few days! As I mentioned earlier, Peter actually had a conversation with Flav in the bathroom of LAX. Everything Flava-Flav said was a little to R-rated for this blog! We've been laughing about this conversation for a few days now.

Pink!

No, I'm not talking about the color, I'm talking about the hot dog! Pink's Hot Dog is a famous hot dog stand on La Brea Blvd. in West Hollywood. Pink's has been around for almost 60 years and constantly has a huge line outside. We've driven by a few times and thought "it must be pretty good if there's always such a long line." Well, as I mentioned earlier my mom was in town, we were being touristy so we actually waited more than 1 hour for hot dogs.

Was it worth it? Yes.
Would I wait an hour again? No.
Would I eat it again if there was no line? Yes.



I drove by Pink this morning at 9:30 and there was no line. If you like hot dogs for breakfast I recommend visiting early!

This weekend began very boring. Peter had to work late Friday night and all day Saturday but I was looking forward to Saturday night when we planned to pick up our best friends, Bryan and Christie who live in San Diego at the airport. We had an awesome and realxing time with our best friends.

On Sunday we visited the Sunset Cliff's in San Diego. This is one of the most gorgeous places I've ever been. We all agreed that places like this make us very thankful to live in California near the ocean.

Hollywood Blvd.

My mom was in town the weekend after Christmas and it gave us an excuse to do some LA "touristy" things. Our first trip was to explore Hollywood Boulevard. We enjoyed walking up and down the street and visited the historical Pig & Whistle for lunch. It was delicious and apparently a Hollywood Blvd staple.


We also discovered that there's a Lickety Split in Hollywood! Lickety Split was our favorite ice cream place in Toledo that we walked to almost every day in the summer! This was obviously a very exciting discovery for me until we realized that there was no ice cream in Lickety Split! So here's a petition to whomever is in charge here -- OPEN UP!!