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Holiday Cards *The RAD ones* and a surprise too!

Hello There,

I’m sure holiday cards are flooding your mailbox *wow, doesn’t snail mail feels so foreign?* I absolutely loved our card this year. It was difficult to top past year’s awesomeness

2008 Pre-Olivia
2009 Preggers with Olivia
2010 Olivia’s 1st Christmas
2011 She’s a pro now!

This is one AWESOME card drawn by the talented Story & Chris
This card wins at everything! From Warren & Kim
Incredibly creepy and wonderful, YAY!!

I’m going to attempt to keep this brief since I must get ready for the yard sale *of pretty things* in a minute. Yesterday Antz finished the re-organization project in our laundry nook. We bought this wire holder from the Container Store to hold our card/foam board we use for our chalkboard signs *since Liv tries to draw on them. We thought we could hook it under the shelf and slide them in and out easy, peasy. Well it didn’t turn out as we imagined so Antz went to the hardware store and came back in MacGuyver mode. He built a special shelf that holds all our paper/boards and other things that were homeless. Dude! I am always blown away by his resourcefulness, he takes $10 and does the impossible. So now our shelf went from this

2008, not that bad
2009, at it’s worst, we lost the curtains due to a paint accident
Last weekend

Now look!  We got rid of so much junk and organized. I can’t tell you how overwhelmed it felt before. I would go to Target and bring stuff home with nowhere to put it. We also had to spend 10 minutes going though everything to find something. It was a Hoarders situation.
Yesterday, See my handy dandy new shelf for oversized paper and cardboard. Of course Antz is painting it white but it’s pretty
My Real Simple mags now have a cozy new home
We used the wire for my binders and other supplies, our orchid is being rehabilitated so it’s hanging out on the shelf far from Livzilla’s wrath.
We will be curtain shopping after Christmas

 LOOK WHAT I WOKE UP TO FIND!!!!

Antz painted the pantry door in chalkboard paint. I’ve been wanting to do that for a year…Happy Happy!

Holy SHIZBALLS!! I LOVE IT
Even have a cute bucket to hold chalk.

Now I must run to the sale…I’m keeping my fingers crossed I find something SPECTACULAR!

Rainy Saturday

It’s pretty gnarley weather in LA, we have kept the heat on and I’m not ever getting out from under my electric blanket *I’d take it to the bathroom if I could* so it seems we’re staying in today. Luckily I found a new obsession *like I need one* HOUZZ!! I already forgive them for the zz’s but I’ve spent all morning drooling over the lovely home decor. I’m kinda feeling lame uploading my shack’s meager photos. I totally need to kick up my home improvement projects *bedroom makeover, kitchen renovation, plumbing repair, new bathtub and shower tile* but I keep putting them off. Mainly because with every project we complete, another one sprouts up *I’m talking about you shitty plumbing* and I have so many important things on my list of priorities, our house doesn’t hold the same passion I used to have. I also worry that if we do repairs and renovations now,  by the time we sell *fingers crossed 2015* they will need updating again. I am constantly in a Catch-22 situation. I really wish we purchased in the early 2000’s like our other friends. They don’t know how good they have it with such a great purchase price and sitting on so much home equity. Zillow is generously estimating our house at $351,000. I know that’s a low-ball appraisal but remember folks we paid $489,000 for this house in 2006!!

There’s also the hazards the house is beginning to present for Liv. The front stairs and backyard aren’t exactly toddler-friendly *or drunk friends for that matter, I’ve seen some nasty spills on those stairs* Liv is starting to want to play outside and she finds every dangerous scenario to put herself into. The maintenance on an almost 100 year old house is very costly. Our HVAC unit definitely needs replacing. Our roof is showing it’s age and our foundation…I don’t even want to think about it. Our front porch and stairs are starting to move again *and every time it rains it worsens* which is bad news for any potential buyer. It will certainly be a miracle if we get any offers despite making all the repairs and renovating the kitchen. My philosophy is make it pretty as possible without any extensive costs and hope for the best. It makes no sense to me to spend $50k on this house and not recoup any of it. I would rather save that money for our new home. Then I look at the gorgeous homes on Houzz and I start to feel differently *way to be wishy-washy* and want to makeover every room.

Well, maybe once we makeover the bedroom I’ll feel better. I am positive getting that rad bedding from Anthropologie and finally getting a good night’s sleep on a new bed frame and mattress, I will be my happy happy self again!

I almost forgot to add…my friends are super talented and amazing. This is the fantastic art of Story.

NELA Art Walk *this time with pictures*

So I must share with you something that blew my mind. 2 Saturdays ago we walked to the Highland Park Art Walk *only 2 blocks from our house* and I was shocked to find so many art galleries on York. We went to at least 8 on one block and there was an upstairs loft over the stores that we didn’t even know existed. I cannot believe there is something cool about Highland Park after living here for 5 years. We met a ton of awesome folks and of course, Liv received dozens of compliments about her wings. I even passed out my new Etsy cards Antz made me. *I made 2 sales this week!!*

Fancy pants biz card
The walk was super fun, I hate to admit it but Highland Park is kinda cool *however my heart still belongs to Atwater Village*. Antz is all stoked about how hipster-ery the hood is becoming.

Every month we see a group of about 100 people on bikes at night, it turns out to be a biking tour that meet up for night events like the art walk. We are going to join in October when we finally get a trailer for Liv.

Hooray for crappy blurry photos!
I have never seen so many people on my street, it was packed!
We discovered this fucking rad vintage record shop *how is it I’ve never seen it before?*

I almost peed my pants when I saw the macrame in this store, Matters of Space. We met the owner *who is fucking rad* and she told me how she bought the fabric for her macrame from a dude in Tokyo. I told her about the class I took and she is going to try to find some cord for me.
I love her necklaces but they cost a million dollars

Liv played at the coffee shop on the corner, Cafe de Leche

There was a huge building on the corner we always thought was empty, to our surprise it’s an art gallery/huge warehouse full of crazy art. Sculptures, furniture and taxidermy, it was pretty awesome.

Those sculptures were made out of buttons

The chaise you are looking at was made entirely out of the tabs from soda cans… it was bananas!
You had me at Taxidermy!!
This jewelry was made out of silver flatware
We drove over to Eagle Rock to my favorite store Leanna Lin’s Wonderland. They always have the most incredible artwork *I wanna buy it all*

I wanna make one of these pendant banners for a cake so bad!
there was a mobile photo booth that we took these at

It was a little truck and you walk up a ramp in the back and there’s a curtain and you take your photos *sorry I tried to take pictures of the truck but they came out too dark* I am definitely hiring the booth for one of Liv’s birthday. I would also love to hire this adorable band that was playing in front of the warehouse. I need to look them up on itunes, they sound like a Parisian Tom Waits, really fucking rad!

The art walk happens every second Saturday of the month. I want to take my Mom but next month is Carlos & Steph’s wedding *can’t believe it’s almost here, remind me to not get stagefright* Speaking of my Mom, after close to 40 years in the music industry, she finally has her very own Wikipedia page. I am trying to work on adding her photos but I have no idea how to do it *I suck about programming html*

My Mom is mega awesome!!

She’s so cute!

My Mom played on the Rocky soundtrack…dun, dun-dun, dun, dun dun-dun dun dun duuuunn!

Mommy & Stevie

My Mommy began her career in Motown *Detroit* so she played with pretty much every single Motown band there was. I wish she didn’t write on her photos, now I’m helping her restore most of them.

Now do you see where I get my hamming it up for the camera from?

Bobbye toured the world with Bob Dylan for 2 years right after I was born. This is a pretty awesome photo of them on a train in Japan.

My Mom hired me as her make up artist when she appeared on the Late Show with Craig Ferguson with Dwight Yoakam. He begged her to go on tour with him but she wanted to stay home since I was preggers.

I don’t remember which band she was playing with but this was for a TV show in the 60s. LOVE her bouffant!!

This is her playing with her current band, she’s retired but she does perform every once in a while.

Yep, my Mommy is a superstar!

Tim Fucking Burton at LACMA

Sorry, I’m still trying to catch up from last week. Monday was Aimee’s birthday. I already had bought tickets to see the Tim Burton exhibition so Antz took the day off. After my last acupuncture appt.*Gilli is due with boy #3 any day now* we went to LACMA *Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art* Since the show began in May there has been lines around the block. Surprisingly *well, it was Monday* there weren’t many people there, yay I detest crowds! The show was AH-MAZING!!

Practically a ghost town

Inside the exhibit, there was a strict no photos policy but you know I had to snap away. Sorry if a bunch are not in focus, I was using my iphone and pretending I was texting. Oh and Liv slept through most of the museum, she only woke up when we were leaving.

 How lovely would these numbered prints be in a nursery?

The music in this room was rad. I’m sure it was Danny Elfman.

Thanks to this random nice guy who offered to take a pic of the 3 of us. Nice people RULE!!
Since our tickets included the rest of the museum, we swung by the Kid’s painting room and tried out some Japanese brush painting.

I am pretty sure Olivia is going to be left-handed! *like Aimee*

Mom and Dad’s crazy Tim Burton inspired art

Some of these pieces are really incredible

A phenomenon happened, I did a jump picture and Antz got it on the first try!!

Total radness!! It was so fun and inspiring. Antz is all excited to start painting and sculpting again. I got a Tim Burton book of his work. We went to Aimee’s apartment and while we waited for her to come home from having her sleeve worked on, we put a few things in her place. Antz framed a poster for her. I made this banner *which is available for sale in my etsy shoppe.

Antz painted these adorable guys for Aimee’s bathroom
I got her this shower curtain from Urban Outfitters

Aimee freaked out when she saw her terrarium. I bought her one from the Renegade Craft Fair but we had an accident and it broke so we made a new one. I think we did pretty well, you can’t tell the difference at all.

Speaking of terrariums, I couldn’t post any pictures of the booth I bought them from so I wouldn’t ruin Aimee’s surprise but here it is. Love it!!

Here’s my little one

So we took her and Holden out for dinner at Kabuki *super yummy*
Yep, we are both 12!

She was in major pain on her arm but it is turning out pretty stellar.

We are throwing a huge birthday/apartmentwarming soiree this Saturday. I am making a fascinator for Aimee to wear. I hope it turns out cute cause she’s wearing it, like it or not!!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER!!

Signage

So a while back I was pinning my favorite things and I asked Antz if he could make me this print and this is what I woke up to…

FUCK I love my husband!!
If you don’t remember these are the photos that used to live there

Sorry that’s the closest I’ve got but it’s these guys

Maxwell & baby Lola

Liz & Antz at the Montery Plaza Hotel *so lovely* for his birthday
I feel so much more motivated to wake up now!! Off to meet Aimee for our Thursday date.
Au Revior!
PS Congrats to NYC for passing a historical law. If there are two things I love it’s…
Get it together California.

Here’s My Art A Yo Gabba Gabba Gallery Show

YIKES! I am just realizing I forgot to post about the Yo Gabba Gabba Art show!! We drove in from San Diego on Friday *never travelling on a Friday ever again, you are my witnesses!* and with so much traffic, we ended up arriving home just in time to change Liv’s diaper and head right back out to Hollywood so we would be early for the show. We made it with 10 minutes to spare so we hung out with this other couple and their adorable son. I was expecting much more people but it did get super crowded an hour into the show. It was AH-MAZ-ZING! We met Mark Mothersbaugh *I actually got nervous around him, NERD* and we saw a bunch of the crew from the show. The best part was Muno, Foofa & Plex were actually there so we got to take pics with them. YAY! I really wanted to buy the Party in my Tummy piece but couldn’t spend $400 willy nilly with Father’s Day and Antz birthday right around the corner. We did buy a limited edition Muno poster by David Wain and we got a super deal on a frame at Aaron Bros!

Mark freaking Mothersbaugh *greatest composer ever!* Mark was a sweetheart, he said Olivia look darling and he graciously posed for this photo. Can you see how much my Nikon hates me? I am sure my Nikon is haunted by Hitler’s ghost!

So yummy!!
Sukho Lee *from cool tricks* Turns out he works at the same company as Antz but a different location, small world!

I want this SOOO BAD!!!

Foofa & Plex!!

Look at my face, I was more stoked than Olivia

This guy is super rad

Muno now lives in our living room.

Best art show ever!!

Weekend Wrap-up sponsored by Banksy!!

Wowzers, what a fun weekend!! We spent most of Saturday sunbathing, lazing around and catching up on telly before our date with Carlos & Stephanie in Little Tokyo. We met them at Tenno Sushi and of course, we ate like it was our last meal. I was a bit peeved at the staff at Tenno because not only did they seat us in a lame spot *right next to the bathroom, which was closed, so we got a ton of folks walking by us interrupting our meal* but they also they completely forgot a portion of our order and when they did remember, they gave us the wrong thing! BOO! We have been going there for years and I hate to bring people to a place we recommend and then get poor service. However C & S *sorry, but they are getting abbreviated* said they liked the food. So I was a wee bit nervous presenting the ceremony I wrote. They said they liked it and they want simple, quick and to the point. So no Elizabeth Barrett Browning poems or biblical verses but they definitely gave me the thumbs up. I got all the wedding details I could squeeze out of them. The colors are dark grey, lavender and off-white….LOVELY!!
I mentioned my wedding attire and it seemed as they wanted me to go the more conservative route and then change into my party dress for the reception.
Hmmm…

I have to rethink this whole thing.  I want to represent them to my best ability, yet I also want to look FABulous in their photos. Another conundrum, Carlos’s bachelor party is the first weekend of August *Antz has been invited to attend* and I was hoping it would be the weekend of our anniversary *although our anniversary falls on a Thursday and I checked the rates at my favorite Vegas hotel and weekends are super pricey!!* so we could kill 2 birds with 1 stone if you know what I mean!
I would hate for Antz to go to Vegas without me but I would never tag along for a boy’s weekend in Vegas *The Hangover, right?* but if we happen to already be out there for our anniversary *on Wed-Friday* we could really live it up for $89 a night!! *Eye roll!* I am always scheming for a vacay!

Well, aside from my Vegas troubles, the wedding sounds delightful. They are having a small wedding party, a medium sized guest list and I got all the important dates, rehearsal, bridal shower, the stag parties and the big day time and magnificent location. I even suggested these amazing cake toppers from Together Forever on Etsy *I want one so bad!!*
We walked around the Japanese plaza and witnessed some hilarious karaoke.

Thanks dear husband, all my strict organic/veggie diet down the drain. She attacked his Rocky Road, oh well, it would happen sooner or later.

Mr Carlos is like a mini-Donald Trump! He always has business in the works and his latest venture is awesome tshirts. He is wearing one here and he just launched a facebook page.

This guy was horribly funny, he kept telling the audience that nuclear plants are bad!! Fuuuccck yeah!! NO NUKES!!

Ugh, I look like the nanny with my bangs pulled back!
So we checked out the shops and I had to pick up this adorable nightlight for the bathroom
Super sweet for ten bucks and matches the interior paper of our medicine cabinet.
So let me tell you something about Carlos and Stephanie…I have known them for almost as long as I’ve know Aimee *which is quite some years* they were at our wedding
Look at those fresh-faced kids!!
They have always been kind and generous but they overdid it…here I am feeling absolutely HONORED to officiate their wedding and they went and gave us this thank you gift…
Sorry for the blur but these are Florence + the Machine tickets!!
HOLY SHIT!!
These are amazingly rad seats too, like section A! The venue is at the Greek *one of my favorite concert sites* These guys are the best!! I am so happy my friends are dope. WOW, thanks guys *smiling extra hard*
So after our date we were all amped up and decided to grab a SECOND *cause that’s how greedy fuckers do it* dessert. We stopped by the amazing Dorothy Chandler Pavillion *where I saw my very first Björk concert, so incredible* so we had to take a few pics in front of this massive water feature.

She moves fast!!

Don’t ask me how we ended up in Beverly Hills but we got red velvet cupcake for me and chocolate brownie bites for Antz. We drove past something I had to immediately brake and reverse to check out! Last month I saw Exit Through the Gift Shop, and since then, I have been obsessed with Banksy. I love the mystery and sheer genius of his artistry. I mentioned to my friend and Banksy fanatic, Mia, that I want to go Banksy art hunting but she couldn’t make it last week. I feel terrible for spotting a Banksy piece without her but I didn’t expect to find an actual Banksy piece.
Pissing Doggy

This is BULLSHIT!! My camera blows at night. I was devastated when I saw how poor these shots came out. We tried it with the Nikon, the Canon Powershot and it turned out that the iPhone took the brightest shots. GRRR! Like I said, a Gypsy must have cursed my cameras because the shots went from bad to worse. Sigh! Please bear with these awful shots. I was exhilarated finding this street art in of all places the heart of Beverly Hills.
I couldn’t stop staring at the piece, I was really thinking “How can I remove this spray painted wall so I can sell it for millions on eBay??”

My iPhone was the most decent shots

Here’s the best we could conjure. Well, my adrenaline was pumping and I got hooked. After some iPhone research, I had to get some more photos of lovely art so we headed over to Melrose *which is the Mecca of graffiti and street art*

That blur you see is me jumping…thanks alot Nikon motion setting!

Where the Wild Thangs Are!!!

It is rumoured that this lovely lass is a Banksy but after checking online she is, in fact, a fake! But I LOVE her.
This however is another Banksy original in downtown LA…SCORE!!
Okay maybe my sugar rush wore off but I started to feel terrible for Liv having to sleep in her uncomfortable car seat since we were out until like 2am *I had no idea we were out that late, eeep!* and the locations started to feel scary so we called it a night. 
I’ll have to post Sunday’s good times tomorrow, I am much too tired and I started this post at 9pm and after uploading all these pics, I must call it a night. I will leave you will last week’s photo.
Her Dad is her stylist and she looks like a 5 year old!!

Good Nights!

Date Night

Not so much this type of night but a lovely evening in Little Tokyo at our favorite sushi place, Tenno Sushi. Friday night isn’t the best night to dine there because they were s    l    o   w…it was funny because our waitress asked us how was everything twice while we had only been served water in a half an hour. However we made friends with the couple next to our table *after being served their sushi accidentally* after our yummy meal *Liv dined on peas, bananas and apricot juice* we took a walk through Little Tokyo.

Liv rocked her new pink converse *finally a pair of shoes she cannot take off, WIN!*

Translation: Japanese Restaurant in case you were wondering

*Me going a little stir crazy waiting for our eel!!*

SCORE, I got a pic of her bottom teeth! YAY!!

The store indeed was ILL!
Me likey Japanese dragons that cost $2500.
We went to Hold Up Art gallery to find the most awesome, magnificent, gnarly show. I am in LOVE with this artist Sean D’Anconia *heart*

Two of my favorite things Hello Kitty & Gloomy Bear *I wannit!!!*
We stopped by one of my favorite store, Kools, and I asked if they carried the adorable Hello Kitty bag I saw last time we were there *totally not expecting them to still have it in stock*

YAY!!! I got my early birthday present!! Thanks hunnie bunnie 🙂
So typically I *try to* stay away from Hello Kitty bags, I have been an avid HK fan since the early 80’s and I have learned through trial and error that they are made to be super cute to overcompensate for the fact that they are poorly made with low grade materials. Not the case with my new bag, it’s not Sanrio brand therefore it’s made with better quality and comes with a dust bag *hello, Sanrio, purses get dirty without them*
So now I’m all smiles and on the drive home I stopped on the side of an abandoned building *because thats how I roll* and Antz snapped these pictures *safely from the car* that I’ve been saying I’ve wanted to take ever since I saw the incredibly beautiful graffiti wall on the outskirts of downtown LA. Love it!!
Monster make friend?

Antz instructions was “Look weird!”
I look DIRRRRTTY!! No makeup and just washed hair equals mediocre Lizzie

If I were a graffiti artist, this is most likely what I would draw…er, umm I mean tag?

I love this ghetto fabulous wannabe Angelina Jolie, that’s a good look for her.
Once we got home I decided to put technology to the test and try out these nail stickers I keep seeing in magazines. I have a serious issue with keeping my polish chip free *despite allowing hours to let them dry, dipping them in ice cold water to seal them and using high grade chip impossible top coats* so here’s my review.
Nice color selection, I got gold glitter, neon green and hot pink…you know hooker colors. I love that there is no drying time involved, no matter what I do whenever I finish painting my nails to perfection, I always seem to have to go to the bathroom and end up in smudgeville, BOO! I did not like that there is 2 layers to peel, the first has a tab and wasn’t a problem but the second top layer gave me trouble because I clumsily ripped the polish part and when I peeled off the rest of top layer it caused air bubbles in my polish *although I did figure out how to smooth them* overall, it’s a cool product but sadly I only finished one thumb because I’m a Mom ie: I never have time and I really didn’t have the patience to finish the rest *but I will in the morning*
**update** These stickers are a total Monet *that’s Clueless speak for cute from a distance, a mess up close* I can’t believe my right hand turned out better than my left, oh well Antz said they look like they are for teenagers so I guess that’s appropriate for me!
Well, I’m going to watch Waiting for Superman *which I’m certain will piss me off *thank God Liv is going to private school!!*
I leave you with WINNING!!!
http://www.hulu.com/embed/Exof-3fNWVyETs6tLnXOYg

Dia de los Muertos

Yep last night was the Day of the Dead and we went to Stephen & Leslie’s charity event in East LA. Since we were on that side of town *sort of* in Arcadia at the mall, we took our tired asses over there. We have been to the event many times before but this was the first time we went to it at the Civic Center. You may remember this place from my hunt for fresh roasted peanuts a while back. I was shocked to how crowded it was. We thought we would never find Les in the crowd but you couldn’t miss her rad hat. There was a live band, tons of arts & crafts for sale, I was looking for rad hairbows for Liv *and myself* but the ones I liked were a bit pricy and Antz kept telling me he could make it himself for me *we shall see*. We did pick up a pair of pink Calaveras bows for Liv. I am super tired, so I’m going to upload these pics and edit the post tomorrow morning when my brain is functioning properly. Nights!

 *CREEEPPY!!!*

I am a creature of random habits and on the drive home I ended up driving over a bridge so I had to bust out my jump shot *despite Antz telling me how dangerous it was that I was pulled over on a bridge* I couldn’t get a good jump shot so I became determined to get a rad jumping shot somewhere cool. Our destination was right in front of us. We were in Little Tokyo and I saw the Kyoto Grand hotel *a place I’ve wanted to check out for years* We sauntered in like guests of the hotel and headed up to the 3rd floor which is the garden level. Antz & I got some pretty sweet shots but I am sad my cellulite made an unexpected appearance in some of my jumps.

After an hour of jumping all over the place like a flea, I realized the joke was on me because Antz seemed to accidently miss my jumps and tricked me into a workout *my legs are still sore*

Yay, chairs are my friends. So I got my fill of whacky photos so we went home and Antz did some voodoo magic *he wore Liv in the BabyHawk for a few hours while he used his laptop* and kept her asleep in her crib *so far, so good* Dr. Wang said once we start feeding her solids, she should go back to sleeping through the night. *Choir of Angels singing, HALLELUJAH*

Adventure Sundays the Barbie Edition

On the way to Culver City *our old town* we stopped at the park in Downtown LA because we saw a bunch of tents and about 10 food trucks. It was some kind of Mexican Festival but there was hardly anyone there. We checked it out but I wanted to get to Royal/T before 5 and it was already 2. These 2 girls went nuts over our baby girl and they were nice enough to get a shot of all 3 of us.

*Boo, I guess I reached the max photo storage on Google {a whopping 1 GB} so I just had to purchase annual storage and it won’t be in effect for 24 hours* SADS!!

This really makes me want to start a raised garden in our backyard*only problem is, I hate veggies, I ate dirt even more and I wouldn’t want to make the effort to take care of it. I just want to have the full grown plants and reap the benefits without the work*

Well, how do I put this? I LOVED Royal T, I was literally like a kid in a candy store. I had great expectations for this place and it was soo rad! Antz and I were worried it would be an uptight place that didn’t allow photography but the second we walked in this cool chick greeted us and we asked if she would mind if we take pics. She was like, Pssh, take as many as you like! This month’s exhibit was Andy Warhol and Barbie *swoon* I was freaking out when I saw they had the same Barbie Dream House I got for Christmas as a kid.

*Sidenote: How rad is my Mom’s 1970’s speaker pod chair??!! I remember napping in that guy. It totally looks like it’s from the set of A Clockwork Orange*

 I want this in my living room sooooo bad!

I ADORE Johnathan Adler!! We have his bath accessories in orange but I want this set!!!

This is the dining set I want from West Elm…well not exactly but super close.

Yeah, that’s me and a bottle of $861 Dom Perignon!
There were some awesome Cosplay waitresses and one of them wanted to know where I got my bunny ears. I was like Target, it’s the best!! Antz bumped into someone from work and we stopped by to say hello. I cannot tell you how rad this place is…art gallery, shopping, restaurant/bar, visual arts space, a private room *the Dom Peri room* and another art gallery in the back. I am now obsessed with throwing Olivia’s *not sure which year* birthday party there. I basically turned into a Japanese aninme character.

I wannit NOW!!! 

Sushi jewelry *YUM*
This Japanese treat was offered to me, I thought it was mochi *japanese ice cream* but Antz tried it and said it was gross so I tossed it. *Egads, my eyebrows!!*

So after Antz dragged me out of there we went to have lupper *see what I did there…lunch+supper=lupper*
I convinced Antz to try Johnnie’s Pastrami because I wanted chili cheese fries and he never eaten there before *I’ve been with my Mom a few times* It took forever to get parking and the place is half the size of our house, so it was pretty packed.

Papa’s multi-tasking!!

I LOVE her face in this pic…..*so in love!!!*

I am not a fan of pastrami but Antz is so he was really skeptical. I told him this place is pretty famous for it’s french dips so he tried it and he liked it…

*Why is this our favorite song right now? nerds!*

He said it was yummers and I had my fries and a hot dog drenched in chili and cheese and a root beer float *so yum* I couldn’t finish it all and I thought I was gonna barf from being so full.

We were going to hang out with his Mommy but we were so full we decided to come home. It’s rare for us to get home before dark so we took advantage of it and watered the backyard *yay us* and I pumped a bottle for Liv *thanks Mother’s tea*. Next week my Mommy is coming into town and she wants to go to Sedthee again *sweet*. I don’t have much planned except spending Thursday with Aimee and Friday Antz is off and we’re taking Olivia to the Underwood Farms pumpkin patch. I am bummed I can’t upload my pics but they are super mega awesome fantastic!!!