The sky was a little gloomy all week but the weekend brought beautiful crisp fall weather. It was the perfect opportunity to spend a day at the Getty and snack at its amazing cafe (the Getty burger and garlic fries are a delicious YES, but the funky, non-food-tasting onion rings are a big HELL NO, despite what that crackhead on Yelp was raving about). We also frolicked and took 80 bajillion pictures in the amazing garden, before finally perusing the photography exhibits. The whole day essentially had a photographic overtone since Scott brought his SLR and I am in the midst of preparing to purchase my own. We thus spent the day making mental tallies of how many museum-goers had Canons v. Nikons. It seemed that the general trend is that everyone and their mom has a Canon except for aZn guys, who have Nikons.
Yukai also had a Thanksgiving dinner/joint bday party for the Ishi/Ichi-kawas last weekend. Turkey, stuffing (with the critical apples and onions), yams, mashed potatoes, cornbread, and the best ham I've ever had (and I have had a lot of ham in my life), which turned out to be from Costco. Watched the kids play Beer Pong afterwards - who knew Beer Pong had such intricate rules? Or that Ryan could make accurate shots 50% of the time by backing up 3 steps and shooting the ping pong ball like a basketball? Learn something new everyday.

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Forgot how much I love these.

"If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have "under" in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness."

"You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea."

"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to that old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do."

"It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight."

"If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, "Well, technically that's illegal." It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party."

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if you were falling, then I would catch you
if you need a light, I'd find a match

cuz I love the way you say good morning
and you take me the way I am

if you are chilly, here take my sweater
your head is aching, I'll make it better

cuz I love the way you call me baby

and you take me the way I am

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It's been 2 months since I've moved into my West LA apartment and the walls of my room are still painfully bare. I'm giving myself a week to at least get started with the decorating. I've decided what I need are some plants. Little cutesy herby plants and maybe a couple gerber daisies to sit in the Coronita/mini-wine/pink sake bottles I have lined up on my window sill.

In other news, this is a picture of my future (future, future) house. You can't tell from the picture, but you basically step outside and you're in the ocean. And look how modern it is. The inside is going to be even more modern. People are going to come in and be like, "oh my, your house is so MODERN" and then they're going to cut themselves on some glass table/chair/carpet.

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Until at last I've finally found
A place to lay my anchor down

Going to invest in a digital SLR very shortly. Have an idea of what I want, but any suggestions are still welcome!

Also, my new favorite eatery is Sloopy's!! Pictures and a more detailed description on my geocities.

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Sometimes I'm watching one of those boring commercials where a boring luxury car is driving around on a boring mountain and I'm like, who comes up with this stuff and who the hell is paying them to do so. And then there are gems like these. Absolutely brilliant - almost made me pee pee my pants.

That's not stuff Meredith

Promotion Pit

One job please

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