I can't say enough good things about my water filter. It tastes delicious.
See the campaign here:
Thursday, March 14, 2013
BECAUSE I never thought walter filtration can be so impactful!
If you've been over myself and asked for water, you've probably noticed that I didn't pull a plastic container out of the fridge, instead I went to pour water from something that looks like this:
I purchased mine through anthropologie a year ago but the company who owns/produces them is making one for ONE THE GO! So I jumped on it of course, right now they're still in production stage and the estimated delivery is in May 2013 but I purchased 3 anyway because Father's Day is coming up and Boyfriend day is every day....so anyway check 'em out and BUY YOURS TODAY!
I can't say enough good things about my water filter. It tastes delicious.
See the campaign here:
I can't say enough good things about my water filter. It tastes delicious.
See the campaign here:
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
BECAUSE it's bubble tea...
known here, however,...as "bobba" and for the life of me cannot get used to. it sounds slightly gross actually. bobba? As much as I'm embracing life/lingo on the west coast there are a few that I'm rejecting from the very core of me.
Here's a list of rejects:
1. "Bobba" shocker...
2. "freeway" it's "highway".... but see point 2. below
3. endless bad drivers and traffic
4. the massive underground garages w/ confusing arrows, signs, tiny spots, and more bad drivers/parkers.
Here are a list of things I'd gladly get on board with..
1. the sun and 80 degree weather
2. not paying for the highway hahahahahha.
3. cupcakes at work- like all the time- at least once a week.
4. seeing my bf every week
5. paying under $20 a month for a gym that's open 24/7 THAT HAS A POOL!
In conclusion....LA life is great and I feel mostly blessed but 80% of complaints reside with car/traffic/driving related issues. Which means I, from the bottom of my heart and the deepest part of my soul, sorely misses life in New York....
Missing Lady Liberty and joy han.
Here's a list of rejects:
1. "Bobba" shocker...
2. "freeway" it's "highway".... but see point 2. below
3. endless bad drivers and traffic
Here are a list of things I'd gladly get on board with..
1. the sun and 80 degree weather
2. not paying for the highway hahahahahha.
3. cupcakes at work- like all the time- at least once a week.
4. seeing my bf every week
5. paying under $20 a month for a gym that's open 24/7 THAT HAS A POOL!
In conclusion....LA life is great and I feel mostly blessed but 80% of complaints reside with car/traffic/driving related issues. Which means I, from the bottom of my heart and the deepest part of my soul, sorely misses life in New York....
Missing Lady Liberty and joy han.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
BECAUSE when I stop working, I have wonderful things to look foward to...
People ask me how I've been liking LA...and to be honest, I've quite liked my cubicle at the client and the downtown office because that's where I've spent about 85+% of the last month and change since I moved here. But here is my light at the end of the tunnel, the next couple of months are looking to be REALLY FUN/EXCITING. Here's what I'm really looking forward to doing:
1. Going to the Kate Spade outlet this weekend. I'll also be hired out as Mike's personal shopper for the day. Post and pics to follow :D
2. Family visits in mid April. IMMA BRING THEM TO CHURCH!!!! and take the twins to the beach! wowowowowowwwwwww post and pics to follow.
3. Watch Mike play in the volleyball tournament. I'm hoping for a free weekend so I can stop at a craft store for supplies bc I wanna make a fan shirt. cheesy or SO SWEET? so sweet...
4. go to prom with Mike. he hasn't asked me yet....but I'm hopeful....
5. go to a Laker's game
6. Go to a USC game!
7. FLY TO SPAIN FOR AUTUMN'S WEDDING! omgeeeeeeeeeeeee i can't even. I CANNOT!
now back to excel so I can get out at a decent hour. sigh
~from me to you tired yet anticipating...
L from sunny LA
1. Going to the Kate Spade outlet this weekend. I'll also be hired out as Mike's personal shopper for the day. Post and pics to follow :D
2. Family visits in mid April. IMMA BRING THEM TO CHURCH!!!! and take the twins to the beach! wowowowowowwwwwww post and pics to follow.
3. Watch Mike play in the volleyball tournament. I'm hoping for a free weekend so I can stop at a craft store for supplies bc I wanna make a fan shirt. cheesy or SO SWEET? so sweet...
4. go to prom with Mike. he hasn't asked me yet....but I'm hopeful....
5. go to a Laker's game
6. Go to a USC game!
7. FLY TO SPAIN FOR AUTUMN'S WEDDING! omgeeeeeeeeeeeee i can't even. I CANNOT!
now back to excel so I can get out at a decent hour. sigh
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| worked every single weekend since I came here, another saturday morning pre-commute and bf surprises me with flowers HEEEHEE! i love you honey bunny #lategram #in<3 |
L from sunny LA
Friday, March 1, 2013
BECAUSE it takes an hr to get anywhere in LA...
whether you're driving 12 miles or 40. It'll take you about an hour to get there....Here's why:
why....why?
L
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| highway bleeding...me trying to get on it. |
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| my view every morning |
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| my view every night |
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| came home so late one night there wasnt a single car on the road. Oh Thank Jesus. |
L
BECAUSE I cheat...and I don't even feel bad about it...
I made it to day 4...and had dinner. The story began about a week ago.
My manager, accountant by day, health/workout guru by night, told me about a juice cleanse she did which did wonders for her skin and also helped her shed some unwanted lbs at work one day over our excel workbooks. Next thing I knew I was checking out online on Pressed Juicery's website. Come this past Monday, a carton of 6 juices were delivered to my door overnight and thus started 4 days of absolute torture.
The cleanse comes with 6 individual bottles of juices hand picked by me and delivered overnight to my door daily. They are LA based but I believe deliver nationwide via FedEx. There are 3 levels, after a brief questionnaire I landed in 2 (the 5 day one). I'm glad that I "did" it except I really didn't. I mean who was I kidding? If you knew me, you knew this was a bad idea to start...It was especially hard to stay on it when I was working past 10 every night and working in a confined room where everyone else's OT dinner smelled so incredibly mouth watering that my mouth started to, in fact, water.
So I made it to Thursday...then had Thai takeout and watched a movie with my roommates after I got home. I've never felt more hallucinatory than I did this week w/out a solid food diet...
and then this morning I did this...
and honestly I feel great that I cheated...I wish I cheated on Tuesday when I wanted to...Do I feel bad about wasting A LOT of money? sure....but you live and you learn and you give the last day's supply to your boyfriend, whom when I told how much the juice cleanse cost me, put his head in his hands and fake cried.
Mike will have to have my last day's supply HEEHEE.
Conclusion: impulsive buying is stupid and I have no self control.and I need to clean my car.
P.S. The almond milk was bomb.
Sorry but thank you Pressed...it's been an interesting week. I'm glad that's done and I'm celebrating with lunch at an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ with bf and friends tomorrow!
All juiced out and stuff,
L
My manager, accountant by day, health/workout guru by night, told me about a juice cleanse she did which did wonders for her skin and also helped her shed some unwanted lbs at work one day over our excel workbooks. Next thing I knew I was checking out online on Pressed Juicery's website. Come this past Monday, a carton of 6 juices were delivered to my door overnight and thus started 4 days of absolute torture.
The cleanse comes with 6 individual bottles of juices hand picked by me and delivered overnight to my door daily. They are LA based but I believe deliver nationwide via FedEx. There are 3 levels, after a brief questionnaire I landed in 2 (the 5 day one). I'm glad that I "did" it except I really didn't. I mean who was I kidding? If you knew me, you knew this was a bad idea to start...It was especially hard to stay on it when I was working past 10 every night and working in a confined room where everyone else's OT dinner smelled so incredibly mouth watering that my mouth started to, in fact, water.
So I made it to Thursday...then had Thai takeout and watched a movie with my roommates after I got home. I've never felt more hallucinatory than I did this week w/out a solid food diet...
Mike will have to have my last day's supply HEEHEE.
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| my stash of empty bottles at work |
Conclusion: impulsive buying is stupid and I have no self control.and I need to clean my car.
P.S. The almond milk was bomb.
Sorry but thank you Pressed...it's been an interesting week. I'm glad that's done and I'm celebrating with lunch at an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ with bf and friends tomorrow!
All juiced out and stuff,
L
Monday, February 18, 2013
BECAUSE I wrapped up my first week here...
Here's a brain dump after my first week in LA...
1. my client is 16 miles away. The commute's taken me up to 1.5 hrs. I prayed the entire way and still felt a bit of insanity setting in after the 50th minute.
2. my pandora still plays ads for local businesses (ie, ones located on 57th and Lex.)
3. I'm paying more for my car then for rent (and I lived in the east village)
4. I have to dry to drop off/pick up dry cleaning
5. my stomach is still on east coast time although I'm no longer waking up at 4:30. but since I'm eating on west coast time, I'm having about 6 meals a day....not much different from when I was in NYC though. YUM.
6. mike got me a bamboo plant for valentines day for our first valentines day in the same city (I'll devote a whole post about that later) AHEM.
6.5. I love my bamboo so much I named him Michael. I named my car Michael Jr. (Junior for short) my creativity's gone down the drain here....
7. my roommates are angels im in love with every one of them. obviously.
8. i wish i had iphone 5 bc i need audio turn by turn. and will need it for the next 6 months. off to costco this weekend to purchase a gps. so old school
9. trying to find my LA zocdoc. do they have one?
10. completely ignorant about the food scene....i feel grossly incompetent in life right now.
11. need to find LA radio stations since ill be spending my life in my car
12. placing an amazon order for many car accessories bc see pt. 11 above
13. cant wait to buy a red nose and reindeer antlers Christmas 2013 for my car see pt 11
14. oh and completely unrelated but exciting news i found out: AUTUMN SET HER WEDDING DATE! mike and i are starting our flight hunt NOW. AHORA!
15. LA office parking =$40 a day. im robbed. ROBBED. and i'm from NYC. ROBBED.
notice that 90% of my brain dump is car-related. SIGH. stay tuned for more LA brain dump :)
oh and HAPPY President's Day. working day for public accountants. sob.
lots of love from the WEST coast
1. my client is 16 miles away. The commute's taken me up to 1.5 hrs. I prayed the entire way and still felt a bit of insanity setting in after the 50th minute.
2. my pandora still plays ads for local businesses (ie, ones located on 57th and Lex.)
3. I'm paying more for my car then for rent (and I lived in the east village)
4. I have to dry to drop off/pick up dry cleaning
5. my stomach is still on east coast time although I'm no longer waking up at 4:30. but since I'm eating on west coast time, I'm having about 6 meals a day....not much different from when I was in NYC though. YUM.
6. mike got me a bamboo plant for valentines day for our first valentines day in the same city (I'll devote a whole post about that later) AHEM.
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| readers, Michael Junior; Michael Junior, my readers |
7. my roommates are angels im in love with every one of them. obviously.
8. i wish i had iphone 5 bc i need audio turn by turn. and will need it for the next 6 months. off to costco this weekend to purchase a gps. so old school
9. trying to find my LA zocdoc. do they have one?
10. completely ignorant about the food scene....i feel grossly incompetent in life right now.
11. need to find LA radio stations since ill be spending my life in my car
12. placing an amazon order for many car accessories bc see pt. 11 above
13. cant wait to buy a red nose and reindeer antlers Christmas 2013 for my car see pt 11
14. oh and completely unrelated but exciting news i found out: AUTUMN SET HER WEDDING DATE! mike and i are starting our flight hunt NOW. AHORA!
15. LA office parking =$40 a day. im robbed. ROBBED. and i'm from NYC. ROBBED.
notice that 90% of my brain dump is car-related. SIGH. stay tuned for more LA brain dump :)
oh and HAPPY President's Day. working day for public accountants. sob.
lots of love from the WEST coast
Thursday, February 7, 2013
BECAUSE there's still so much to get to in NYC...
When I think about leaving NYC, I want to just take off my socks, crawl under covers, and sob into my pillow until I pass out from dehydration and/or hysteria. one of MANY reasons why I'd burst into such an embarrassing but uncontrollable and inevitable emotional outburst is due to the fact that I can't leave all the untried restaurants behind. I mean....who has a food scene as vibrant and decadent and authentic as nyc? Let me tell you.
no. where.
not. anywhere.
And here's a spot I'm determined to try before I leave:
no. where.
not. anywhere.
And here's a spot I'm determined to try before I leave:
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| images from serious eats |
Kiwiana
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kiwiana-brooklyn
4.5 stars on yelp! looking promising!!
what are the chances I can get joy on this??
from us to you with all our love,
two best friends and lady liberty
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