Category Archives: films

Did someone say corn dog?

Late night Saturday, Antz and I were hanging out watching True Grit *awesome movie* on Netflix with Liv tucked away in bed. I decided since he gave me my Mummy’s day present early, he could have his a few hours early too. I told him if he could find where I hid his present he could open it. Well, the scavenger hunt took all of 3 seconds because he found the present in my grocery bag under my desk. Mr. Snoop saw it when he emptied my trash can under my desk that afternoon when I was at the bridal shower so zero points to me for hiding skills. Anyways, he ripped it open and was super happy to see his new toy. Happy Papa’s Day to the best dad ever!!

The next morning I made Papa’s day breakfast and expected to hang at home while he played on his ipad. He totally surprised me when around noon he said let’s go to Balboa Island! My ears perked up because that is one of my favorite places to walk by the water and eat fried things. Last time we went to Balboa I was 32 weeks preggers.

We are still in a June Gloom but the overcast weather was a great thing because the beach wasn’t as crowded as it would have been if it was a sunny day. The sun did pop out for a few minutes

We walked around, ate corn dogs, drank lemonade, it was a FABulous Fathers day!! Well, I need to hop in the shower, I’m seeing Gilli today. Tonight we are going to Sedthee *yum* with my friends Jessica & Trevor.

My favorite hobby

Did you guess correctly?? Shopping, of course!!

Yesterday I didn’t get to all the places on my list but I did make it to Anthropologie in Pasadena. I am beginning to not like that one, they never, ever have what I’m looking for in stock. The Beverly Hills store would have had what I wanted, we’ll go on Sunday.

Tin Roof Switchplates

Yesterday I started off buying 12 tickets at Arclight so all my friends can sit together for Sucker Punch. Since I was up early I decided to run some errands. I had to return the shower curtain liner at Bed, Bath & Beyond since the one we bought was too narrow. I picked up a new toilet seat and I found this bird hook for the bathroom door.

Not bad for $10 bucks, Antz needs to spray paint it, of course

 

This is the hook I wanted from Urban for $16 plus $10 shipping, no deal.
I am still considering this owl bank “Rosa” but that depends on what we find when we go to Wacko’s. Urban bummed me out because the Buddha lamp and my sewing machine were only available online but they placed the order for me over the phone and waived my shipping fee. I even got this cute comforter on sale for $69.
I went to Paper Source for find pretty paper to line the medicine cabinet with.
I was happy to see that they were donating 10% of all sales to Japan.

Paper Source is one of those overwhelmingly lovely stores. It’s so difficult to choose from all the prettiness but this Japanese floral print won me over. I also couldn’t resist this adorable bird frame which will go on the top shelf over the mirror.
I had to return some things at Target and I found these rugs
I really want a new 4 x 6 rug for the bedroom. These are pretty good contenders and they are on sale. They look plush and I like the mum print but I have to see what Antz thinks.
Last night Evelyn & Dion bebesat for us while we met our friends and saw Sucker Punch. It wasn’t the most clever story but the makeup was impeccable *all the chicks had stellar false eyelashes* and I almost pissed myself when they played Björk like 20 times!!! I was entertained but I did roll my eyes at the overly ridiculous CG and lame script *what did I expect from Zach Snyder*
Tomorrow we are going to Wacko’s with Aimee to find some goodies. Antz installed the faucet *after 2 frustrating hours* and he’s still trying to figure out the new shower shelves.

Babies are sneaky…

This is by far one of my favorite movies. Aside from the obvious adorableness from Maya Rudolph *who was really preggers during the filming* and John Krasinski, it’s directored by *Kate Winslet’s ex hubby* Sam Mendes, has Maggie Gyllenhaal *crush* and Catherine O’ Hara *so funny* On top of this cake of radness is part of the film is set in *I want to go to there* Montreal!!

Here’s a snippet of what makes this movie so stellar

So my Mumsy stopped by on Saturday and we went to breakfast at Cindy’s *our fave local diner*

Then we went to Home Depot so my Mom could help us look for materials for our floor tile. She is loaning us her wet saw, so that’s saving some $$ already!! The guy in the tile dept was super nice and helped us procure everything we need. I would have bought it all then but Malcolm *the Plumber* is coming over on Tuesday to give us a repair quote and I want to make sure we are staying on budget. Antz said he’d rather hire someone to install the tile but I am gung-ho about DI-Ourselves *hopefully I won’t regret it later*. It sounds seemingly easy and I picked up these 2 books to read up on

So I was all set to find the hexagon tile sans the black *as seen in my mood board*
Until….I spied with my little eye…
You had me at $25.70 per box!!!

With all the tile *3 boxes, materials, grout, supplies* the total to do the floor will be $225 with tax
*Duh, WINNING!!!!*

We scoured Goddess Martha’s paint swatches and came up with these intriguing colors. Antz and my Mommy prefer a darker grey *we are using a natural grey grout* so Winter’s Day was the clear winner. Pure white will be the trim but we want to be certain it will match with the tub/wall reglazing.
We bought 2 squares of tile to sample at home. My only concern is what we’ll do with this hideous brass threshold strip?

Our cringeworthy laminate floor, I cannot wait until it’s gone!!
So last week Antz found this guy at Home Depot

The price is so right but the color is ALL wrong. The exact same sink/vanity combo in rich and yummy espresso is $198, Lame!

So we are considering painting the natural vanity and throwing on some fancy Anthropologie knobs and a minimalist faucet…?
When we put Winter’s Day on the wall with the lights on, it suddenly felt too dark for such a small space. I put all the greys I had up to the white trim and the blue canvas and we unamimously picked Driftwood grey as the new winner!!

We may paint this weekend but the weather has been on the verge of rain *it always seems to rain when we plan to paint* also we are going to a party at the Edison for our friend Carlos’s birthday and I don’t want to have paint all over me.Not sure if we want to be bathroomless this weekend. Either way, I am super excited about the makeover!
Sunday we did absolutely nothing. I took lazy Sunday to a new level, I watched HGTV, ate yummy Thai food *had it delivered* and vegged *I just realized it really shouldn’t be referred to as vegging out, that sounds to healthy* anyway, I vegged out on the couch all day.
Today Mr Mailman delivered my Gap order and I tried on everything with these adjectives floating around in my mind….
tight
lumpy
paunchy
Sigh!! It appears that I need to spend more time using the Wii Fit and less time on the couch, eh?
I adore my new clothes but they won’t be making their debut until I drop about 10 lbs.
I am still nerding out about my Librarian chic look!!!

Still waiting for these fabulous Seychelles to arrive and Thursday I’m going to pick up my boots at Nordstrom with Aimee. I heart SALES!!!

Well, time to box and hula hoop this blubber away. Ta-tah!

Oscar Noms

I love awards season *yummy fashion, Hollywood glamour, what’s left of it, and Micheal K’s live blogging makes me laugh until my face hurts* I was too busy trying to make figure out how to make my Mom’s documentary play on our retarded surround sound system, to blog about the Golden Globes this year. I thought Ricky did a fantastic job and I never understand why the old farts hire a controversial comedian to host these *formal* events and then get bent of shape when they tell fucked up jokes. Well this morning the Academy Award nominations were announced and here are my picks *please do not run to your nearest bookie, my choices hardly take home Oscar* Sadly since the joyous new addition to our lives, we no longer go to the movies as often as we’d like to. Let’s just celebrate that Meryl was NOT nominated this year!

Liz’s Pick/Likey to Win

Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem, “Biutiful”
Jeff Bridges, “True Grit” *The Dude abides*
Jesse Eisenberg, “The Social Network”
Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech” *I suppose acted with a stutter can be difficult to pull oo..ooo…ooooff*
James Franco, “127 Hours” *doesn’t he wish, it’s already a fluke he’s hosting, Billy Crystal wasn’t available??*

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christian Bale, “The Fighter” *He took it at the GGs, he may take home his first Oscar, he definitely has been playing the douchebag roles down to a science! Now he just needs to cut his hair*
John Hawkes, “Winter’s Bone”
Jeremy Renner, The Town”   *Jeremy, you were the “It Boy” last year, count your lucky stars*
Mark Ruffalo, “The Kids Are All Right” *Mark is super cute*
Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech”

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening, “The Kids Are All Right”
Nicole Kidman, “Rabbit Hole” *she is Hollywood royalty… with the guys who pick winners*
Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone”
Natalie Portman, “Black Swan” *she doesn’t get my vote because she still owes me $8 for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace*
Michelle Williams “Blue Valentine” *Aimee LOVED this movie but I didn’t see it, I know Michelle is incredible, rooting for her*

Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, “The Fighter”
Helena Bonham Carter, “The King’s Speech” *I’ve been a fan ever since Fight Club, she’s batshit crazy but she’s a good actress*
Melissa Leo, “The Fighter” *The Fighter is owning awards this year*
Hailee Steinfeld, “True Grit”
Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”

Animated Feature Film

“How to Train Your Dragon” *I really enjoyed this movie and my friend worked on it, I am rooting for it to win*
“The Illusionist” *I LOVE Sylvain Chomet but he can’t compete with the Disney Mafia*
“Toy Story 3”

Music (Original Song)

“Coming Home” from “Country Strong” Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
*Ugh, nothing good ever wins in the music category, this won at the GGs so I would say it will win again but for some reason Randy Newman always takes the gold*
“I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
“If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
“We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ Music and Lyric by Randy Newman *HORRIBLE! but he will take it*

Best Picture

*Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous that they can nominate EVERY  film that came out last year, let’s pick best out of 4, I know many were worthy but some of these are not going to be Prom Queen!*

“Black Swan” *Good luck, Darren!*
“The Fighter”  *I am choosing based on the director, I haven’t seen it, but David O. Russell directed one of my favorite movies I Heart Huckabees and he went off on Lily Tomlin. He has become my homeboy ever since*
“Inception”
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3”
“True Grit”
“Winter’s Bone”
*WHAT!!?? No Tourist??*

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

“127 Hours” by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
“The Social Network” by Aaron Sorkin *I don’t understand the hype behind this movie, I think it’s a weak plot with a weak cast, yeah I said it…WEAK!!*
“Toy Story 3” by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
“True Grit” by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen *The Coens are brilliant, we KNOW!! I have only heard great things about this movie*
“Winter’s Bone” by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Writing (Original Screenplay)

“Another Year” by Mike Leigh
“The Fighter” by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
“Inception” by Christopher Nolan *Flawless storytelling, this was an original story for a change!*
“The Kids Are All Right” by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
“The King’s Speech” by David Seidler

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky, “Black Swan” *I know it has a slim chance of winning but I really enjoyed this movie, I think The Fighter will take it because of it’s cast and it was drama-ier*
David O. Russell, “The Fighter” *You’re a misogynistic pimp, David!*
Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech”
David Fincher, “The Social Network”
Joel & Ethan Coen, “True Grit”

Best Foreign Film

Biutiful (Mexico) *I don’t know, it’s spelled wrong and has Javier Bardem in it…no other reason*
Dogtooth (Greece)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Incendies (Canada)
Outside the Law (France) *Sadly I didn’t see any of these, but I did add them to my Netflix queue, so I vote for my favorite country, viva la France*

Can’t wait to watch the lameness of Anne Hathaway & James “Crossdresser” Franco!

I’ve been Naughty!!

I’ve been pretty busy and lazy and I cannot believe I haven’t posted since Tuesday. Tuesday!! That was like 5 Mom years ago. So, Wednesday was actually a pretty laid back day, our lovely Liv turned 27 weeks old

I ran some boring errands and we sold Liv’s swing to one of our friends for *a steal* $100!

I’m really going to miss this guy, it was a gift from Gilli *my amazing acupuncturist* and it was a major life saver for helping us get her to sleep. At least we know it’s moving to a good family, my friend Roxanne is in labor as I am writing this.

Thursday was a super busy day. Antz was off so we started early and dropped Liv off at Antz Mom’s house. We picked up Aimee in Venice and can you believe we missed Black Swan AGAIN!! I don’t know why it’s so hard for us to get to Arclight on time. Since we missed the 11:20 showing, we went to West Hollywood Target. Sigh, why do I keep going to this Target? They never have this weeks magazines, they don’t have everything on my shopping list and it’s just not one of my favorite stores. It was half-fun/half-lame shopping with Antz. He was very adament about what shouldn’t go in the cart, yet he was grabbing stuff that I wouldn’t have thought of and he kept Aimee and me on a strict schedule so we wouldn’t miss the 12:30 Black Swan showing. We got to the theater, this time with plenty of time and it was surprisingly full. I guess it was so much buzz about the movie and the Arclight was the few theaters showing it before it’s full release. Holy shit!! It was sooo worth it. I was like, damn Darren, you are one dark, twisted but talented dude. I am now a fan of Mila Kunis. She used to annoy me with her cutesy routine but, I really liked her in Extract and she was bearable in Forgetting Sarah Marshall but in Black Swan she made her breakthrough. Natalie Portman was flawless of course and Vincent Cassel was really sexy *and I think he looks like a weasel*. So 5 stars, 2 thumbs up and all that critic jazz.

We had to get back to Antz Mom’s house before 3pm so we just made it *thanks to my racecar driving* and we drove all the way to Pasadena to have dinner at Afloat Sushi. Well, we were excited for Aimee to try it *we had been raving about for weeks* but 5pm was the wrong time of day to go because it was just us and another guy in there. The boats were almost totally empty. BOO!

We had to order directly from the chef which sucked because I wanted Aimee to try the stuff we didn’t know the names of. We ended up eating much less than we usually do *which I admit, is a good thing* but I didn’t feel like she got the full experience which makes the place so cool. She wants to bring her son Holden there during his Christmas break so I guess we’ll have another chance. We grabbed some ice cream *see, I never have room for dessert* and went to this store in Hollywood called Wackos. Cobb & Jenn told us about it but we underestimated the power of radness this store had. We had to pick up a birthday present for our friend Dave and Antz Secret Santa gift. We were in the store for over an hour. There was an art show taking place and we wanted to buy everything!! I took as many pics as I could but I only had my iPhone with me. We seriously LOVE this store. So many cute toys, cool books, rad stuff for our house. It was almost tooo overwhelming, even Liv was in sensory overload! These are just a few of my favorite things

Olivia was well into the spirit of things

I love these Calaveras pieces. I couldn’t find a Groom to replace the one I decapitated.

Dear Santa,
I know I have been naughty, but if you can find it in your reindeer abusing heart to please put this super rad Clockwork Orange bust under my Christmas Tree.
PS I ate all those cookies I left for you!!

They have pretty much a little bit of everything

Antz & I are self-admitted Twilight Zone nerdies. One of our favorite episodes is called The Masks and The Howling Man, therefore it should be mandatory that I own this Jason Foster/Devil toy figurine.

Aimee and I were soo creeped out when the release of the infamous “Spider Walk” from The Exorcist came out in theaters. How cool would it be to have this in our toy collection?

I LOVE Gloomy Bear!

I wannit!!!!

I love Bewitched Barbie. All I wanted in the world as a little girl was to find out I was a witch and twitch my nose like Tabitha and make magic.

Sorry so blurry, I was so excited, I didn’t focus on taking halfway decent pictures.
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I adore this guys work *the striped series* however, the pieces were a bit pricey for us.

I love the vibrant colors and circus theme of these paintings

I was surprised to see my friend Danni’s work was in the show. Isn’t she talented??!!

I was drooling over these miniatures, sooo adorably morbid. Only $4,000 a pop!

The detail and realism is fucking ridiculous!

So proud of how I showed buyer’s resistence

I ended up sticking to our budget and we got a Dexter *from the TV show* bobble head for Dave *it’s his fave show* and a set of horror movie *Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th & Texas Chainsaw Massacre* toys for Antz Secret Santa *luckily he picked one of our good friends, I can’t reveal his identity just yet* I could easily spend all day in that store!

After prying me from Wackos we headed back to Venice to hang out a Aimee’s for a few hours. Antz brought his tools and hung some frames in Aimee’s living room. She loved the mood board I made for her so we have to start shopping to get her bare apartment looking pretty. We were absolutely exhausted when we got home at 11 but after putting Liv to bed, we stayed up wrapping presents. They look lovely except we need to buy ribbon.

Today Liv and I are going to the grocery store and I’m doing some much needed laundry, thrilling! Antz is working hard on a freelance project this weekend and he scored some pretty sweet finds at a Thrift store on Wednesday, so we may work on them this weekend. *photos coming soon*

The Happy, Happy Post

I seem to be pretty disgruntled lately, I was looking at my last few posts and I’ve been on a emo, angst-ridden campaign. I took my dose of Prozac and as Aimee loves to tell me, “Spider Mike says chill the fuck out!” *sorry, inside joke* and now I feel much better. Today *after spending all morning with the DirecTV guy* I finally got our new telly/DVR set up.

I love you, technology!
Buh Bye old satellite
Hello, new fancy-pants HD Dish

 

That’s the good news, on the bad news side I still can’t get our Wii and our new surround sound system working. I am at a loss. I’ll have to find a video on youtube because I am standing here with question marks over my head. The new DVR is HDTV but I really don’t see a difference, my friend told me I need to change my settings. Well, I bought the wrong printer ink from Target yesterday *this is the second time I’ve done this* so I had to exchange it. I checked out the Christmas decor aisles to see what I could jazz up the house with so maybe some Holiday cheer can melt my icy, black, Scroogey heart. I still haven’t found anything that blew me away so I popped into Macys *my Target is in the lamest mall in the planet but at least there’s a Macys* The decor was pretty but a little too frou frou for my taste.

My iphone camera didn’t really capture the true essence of this cupcake tree. Well, I found a few things to spruce up the fireplace mantle *and showcase my new B stand from Anthro!*

Me and my bright ideas. I put up the garland and while I was humming silver bells and putting away the groceries, I heard the garland fall and a tragic shattering followed. LAME!! I accidentally maimed my groom Calavera that Story & Chris brought us from New Orleans. I thought, okay, I can salvage him, I’ve got krazy glue. Well, I tried to gather his broken body and I only recovered his legs and torso. Sadly, I couldn’t locate his decapitated head. I feel horrible!

 

*My headless Groom*
On a lighter side…I got my stand mixer on Thursday. I was out all day so I didn’t get to play with it yet but I’ll whip up something this weekend.
Sooo pretty!! I was jumping up and down when I got the box *which was as big as our house*
Today we are meeting Jenn, Cobb & Charlotte at the Hollywood farmers market. Last night Story made an impromptu appearance which was great because she helped me set up the HD *I really see a difference now, whoa* and I set up the Wii *still clueless about the surround sound*
Tomorrow I’m going to see Black Swan with Aimee
Antz is babysitting for me. I love Darren Aronofsky. Requiem for a Dream is one of my fave movies and I really loved The Wrestler *I really gravitate to dark, depraved films*

The Babysitters Club

Please tell me I am not the only oldie who read these series of books as a wee lass??

Yesterday we had our own BSC with Evelyn & Dion. I went to meet Antz at his job so we could go see Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. It was good, I read the book so I knew what to expect. They did a good job staying true to the book but it was quite long and I was starving!! I picked up Sedthee *super yums* for Evelyn & Dion and I came home and we hung out with Liv until Antz got off. Liv was an angel, she didn’t cry once and they had an awesome time with her *of course now Evelyn wants a bebe of her own*

The Babysitters Club

Dion did his best DJ Lance impression for Liv, she was totally cracking up!

At the movie theater, I couldn’t resist the Biebs, Darrell got in on the action too!!

By the time we got back from dropping Evelyn & Dion home, Liv was knocked-out.

This morning Antz and I put on a mini fashion show since Mr Mailman dropped off her order from BabyGap. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her new clothes!! I ordered everything in 6 – 12 months but she can fit them now.

She’s wearing this today, doesn’t she look like an adult?? I would totally wear this outfit.

Punk rock face!!
We went to the South Bay Galleria *all the way on the other side of the Earth in Redondo Beach* to pick up some things at the Gap *they had a one day only 40% off everything sale* and it was a madhouse!!
We couldn’t find anything in our sizes, because the place looked like a hurricane hit it. Nothing was folded, everything was thrown askew, we were lucky to find anything. Antz got a sweater *I call it the Professor sweater* and some business socks and I got a gorgeous sweater. We also went to Nordstrom to see if they had some Uggs in Liv’s size but we found out they only carry size 4 *toddler* in stores. Antz bought some sweet Adidas.

Dammit Janet!!

After spending All Hallow’s Eve on the party circuit, I flaked on T-or-T in Venice and opted for staying in bed, all toasty, watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show marathon. I wasn’t that tired, we managed to make it home just before midnight, and I had one measly wine cooler *so 10th grade, I know* Antz worked on freelance all day to his heart’s content. At dusk, we were all ready to hand out candy *the unwanted leftovers from the Nick party* after waiting an hour with our gate open and Antz pacing the porch in his grisly face

*He’s ghastly!!*

we didn’t get one kid this year. Oh well, fine with me, last year the costumes were super lame and we kept worrying the kiddies might trip on our front stairs. The parties were good, the first one was Tom & Jes’s *at their newly renovated pad*

Salut!!!

Antz was not a fan of his Ameretto shot.
We spend much of the night discussing our love of the horror movie genre. The Shining is my ATF *all-time fave*
and I was going nuts talking about my wanderlust for all things European *except the food*
So we headed over to party #2 at Connie & Justin’s

We hung out with Leslie & Stephen but I was really cold and Liv was a sleepyhead so we didn’t stay long. Connie & Justin live about 4 blocks from us and they have a raised veggie garden
 that I want *but not at this house, our next house* Leslie & Stephen invited us to their non-profit’s Day of the Dead Festival on Tuesday but we have a full day *voting, Liv’s 5-month doc appt and I need to get some laundry done* So overall it was a great Halloween but we are looking forward to next year when Liv is older and we can really trick or treat or maybe take her to one of her friend’s house. I was looking online and I started planning Liv’s 3rd birthday at the Treehouse Social Club.
Hi, My name is Liz and I am a planaholic!

Paranormal Activity 2 *was a bust*

Yesterday we went to Pasadena to use a gift card I got from the Right Start. Since we were in the area, we stopped by my favoritest store in the world *which of course is Anthropologie* to check out the kid’s clothing line. The saleswoman told me they always have kid’s clothes at holiday time so I know they are out for a limited time. Hopefully, I’ll score some good stuff on sale *which she won’t be able to wear for a few years*

Me having my typical Anthro freak out, I love to sniff everything!!!

It was so difficult to not buy everything in this corner!!

I love this hat for Liv!!

I tried to get my jump photo of the week but Antz couldn’t get a good one of me. I had to take one of him since he told me I needed to improve on my jumping skills. I am convinced it’s my photography skills that captured this awesome jump!

So we were looking for where to eat lunch and I wanted Bob’s Big Boy for brunch *that’s alot of B’s*
however Antz wanted Chipotle so I gave in. We hadn’t eaten there in a while and I wanted a quesidilla.

I can’t get enough slobber kisses!!

We finally bought the Fisher Price Vintage toys I’ve been wanting for some time now for Liv’s Christmas presents.

Since I had a gift card I was thinking of getting her a Bumbo seat but The Right Start only had a Bebe Pod by Prince Lionheart.

We had to put Liv in it because although the box says 3-12 months we along with the sales ladies agreed she’d definitely outgrow it by the time she was 6 months. We also made the discovery that based off of Liv’s height, she may be outgrowing her car seat soon than expected. I really like this convertible seat from Clek that we can take to London since it folds as a backpack and it got great ratings on Amazon.

I also picked up some Diaper Dekor refills and more Mustela moisturizer *love how yummy it smells*. As we were leaving Antz mentioned that they didn’t have any Yo Gabba Gabba! toys so I got the brilliant idea that we need to make an outfit for Liv to wear to the show in November. Crafty Antz said let’s go to Michaels and get some felt and I’ll make a Brobee shirt. We picked up the felt *for a whopping $3* and made it home in time for his sister Debra to arrive to babysit Liv.
We rushed to Paramount and just missed the first 5 minutes of Paranormal Activity 2 *but we didn’t miss much* We saw the first one and I thought that one was much scarier since it was original and we didn’t know what to expect. The second one was just a lot of the same with a lame ending. Almost everyone in the theater hung out until the credits were over expecting more to happen *a bunch of nothing, so I guess that leaves it open to a part 3, BOO!*
We went home and Debra had made spaghetti for us for dinner, so we ate and had some red wine *Yellowtail, I believe* and I made cookies. Deb hung out for awhile which was fun and we had a nice time. We had a chance to catch up on our DVR shows and made it to bed before midnight *hence no post last night* Another quite boring day in my life but I am perfectly content. I am smacking myself for slacking on sewing my fabric for my Halloween costume. I also just found out that not everyone from Antz job was invited to the party this Friday so we don’t know who will be there *LAME* If noone we know is going we just might slag it off and stick to our original plan of Trick or Treat on the BOOlevard in Atwater Village. Although, there is a high possibility that Nick Jr. characters *crossing my fingers Yo Gabba Gabba* may be at his company party and I can never pass up a photo op!! You know what’s sucks?? I had this Brobee pillow in my Amazon cart and today I checked it and the price went from $16 to $30!! *LAME TO THE MAX!!*

Farmers Markets Galore

Our movie night was pretty awesome, we arrived at the 6:30 showing just in time to NOT  win any of the trivia DVDs they were giving out. It’s absolutely fine because the DVDs were beyond lame. It looked like they were setting up for a red carpet event at Paramount but we had to rush home after the movie because I only pumped a lousy 3 oz bottle and Liv was screaming that she was hungry. In fact, she was so upset, Debra had to call us during the movie to ask if she can give Liv a bottle of water. I felt guilty the rest of the film but it was such an awesome movie it was hard to leave early. *I was drooling for Jason Schwartzman, my celeb crush* and Edgar Wright has outdone himself, I thought nothing could surpass Shaun of the Dead *on my top 5 fave movies ever* and I was not happy about Michael Cera *playing the same damn character AGAIN!!* but this movie was amazing!! Very well written, very graphic and visually pleasing, only a little bit gay *thanks to stellar Kieran Culkin* There wasn’t anything I didn’t like about it. *4 thumbs up*

This morning we straightened up the house a little and gave Liv a bath. We dolled her up in her new shortalls. I wanted roasted peanuts so we went to the La Canada/Flintridge farmers market. After getting stellar parking and putting Liv in her stroller, we were disappointed by how sparse the FM was.

There was hardly any food stalls, no peanuts and no kettle corn! We did get a bargain with these $1 dahlia bunches.

Lame, since it was early, I drove to Victory Park in Pasadena to try that FM for my nuts.

This was *again* a pretty lame market, it had plenty of fruit and veggie stalls but the only hot food stall was Mexican soup *Boo* So it wasn’t a total loss Antz bought some walnuts so I can put them in his cookies *I’m baking for our friends coming over tomorrow* I was dying for fresh squeezed lemonade however there was nothing but Horchatata. Antz was ready to call it quits but there was one more market I was willing to check out *and I really wanted my nuts*. I was expecting a mega lame market *in East LA* but we were planning to go to Little Tokyo to check out toys for Liv and it was in the vicinity. Well, I was plesantly surprised! It was located at the East LA Civic Center and although it was the smallest market I’ve been to, it was at a beautiful park and I scored my NUTS!

One nutty lady. The weather was really sunny but breezy so we took Liv by the lake to check out the duckies.

So at this point I was starving and since we were headed to Lil’ Tokyo anyway, I suggested we go to our fave sushi place Tenno Sushi for lunch. However, on the drive towards downtown we passed our friend Leslie’s art gallery *her hubby Stephen is on the board* and saw an event going on so we had to stop by just in case she was there.

No luck seeing Leslie so we hurried back to the car and continued on our journey. It was almost 2pm by the time we parked and it was metered parking so we only had about 45 minutes worth of quarters *really downtown? $2 PER hour!!* OMG! Yummiest lunch ever, and I tried out my new Hipstamatic app.

I am positive Mark Ronson *yummy* is in this photo with the chef, one of these days I’m going to bump into his fine ass!!

After our delicious meal we fed the hungry meter and went to the Japanese Plaza to look for toys. There was nothing at American Apparel *we are constantly hunting for cute socks for Liv*

I was disappointed we didn’t find any cool Totoro stuff but Antz bought Liv this monkey he has had his eye on since I was preggers. Coco Monkey is cute in a creepy way.

I still wanted to look for a map puzzle so we drove ALL the way to Pasadena *for the second time* so we went to South Pasadena to check out the Dinasaur Farm *super cute store*

We bought this doll for her whom we later gave the name Kennedy *love her* We also bought a USA map puzzle *it says the state capital when you put the puzzle together* and a mat with all the presidents for her to study. We got dessert at Fair Oaks Pharmacy *super cute place* I had a yummy root beer float and Antz had what he called *the BEST chocolate milkshake he’s ever had*

We had a busy day, she need to finish cleaning and wash Max. I am still doing laundry and it’s 2:30 am.
Nighty Night