visitors 1 & 2
olivia and louise
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o is one of my closest friends from college, we met in our first days at swells. her relocation to vancouver from santa barbara a couple of years ago has definitely cut down on our visits. whereas we used to pimp around every few months, it had been nearly a year since we'd gotten together. she came with her foxy dutch girlfriend louise.
trip highlights:
- the tastiest sushi in west hollywood after which
-olivia and louise learn that adam lambert rules and everybody else on american idol drools. ben figured out how to play youtube videos on our tv, so the ladies could watch his past performances. they are now lamb-fans/adamaniacs.
a fantastic but short stay, and i thank them for the trader joe's spread they left in their wake - sparkling sake, lobster rolls, and vegan cookies for our next pals...
visitors 3 & 4
alyssa and adrienne
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next to natalie, alyssa's and my friendship is the "meet cute(st)". she tagged along when an old family friend came to see me during my first year at wellesley. since she also had a friend at wellesley, when joy came to see me, alyssa visited her friend. her friend would turn out to be CNE - in a coincidence-tornado, my dad once taught at their high school and my "uncle" stan was her biology teacher. neither alyssa nor i are still in touch with the girl who introduced us, but we've stayed friends for 15 years. alyssa and her ladyfriend, adrienne, were in san diego for a conference which they parlayed into a visit to la.
trip highlights:
- phenomenal dinner at vegan thai restaurant bulan
- ridiculous sighting of danny devito and rhea perlman at vegan restaurant in BFE (Tarzana),
-watching the ladies try to motivate to go out dancing but the pull of 'the biggest loser' on tivo was too strong. they went out the next night instead.
visitors 5 & 6
allison and kelly
unbelievable that we have not seen allison and kelly since their wedding in september 2006. but this weekend we made it happen. they drove out from vegas on a baby-meeting junket (they have several friends in la with babies). it was wonderful to spend time with them when none of the three of us was wearing a wedding dress.
trip highlights:
-learning what a raw diet is (they eat about 70% raw) and then lunching at Cru in silverlake. that place is BANANAS.
-cajoling allison into joining kelly and me in the photo booth at space 15 twenty, a new shopping and art venue in hollywood
-meeting eli patel fruchbom! son of rachna and dave fruchbom.
-re-igniting their passion for 'the biggest loser' - they do not have tivo in vegas so they had yet to experience tara's tenacity and the sleaziness that is ron.
space 15 twenty self timer on the chair sculpture
allison is the baby whisperer. seen here with eli.
visitor 7
olivia r.
(old photo below)
i first met olivia last february when we convened in scottsdale to celebrate emmy's birthday. this weekend she was in la on vacation with a friend, and we made dinner plans for sunday night. she was going to schlep to an airport hotel but we decided it would be a lot more fun if she checked in here instead. hers was the shortest visit of all, but that did not dampen our good time
trip highlights:
-spotting one drag queen and one tranny while enjoying wine-enhanced dinner with natalie at basix
-attempting to watch 'daisy of love' but deciding it's just too terrible - even for us!
-trying to diagnose strange water-rushy sound coming from the ceiling
trip lowlight:
-sewage line backup in underground garage just in time for olivia's arrival. p.u.!
millicent, emmy, olivia and me* atop the valley ho february 2008.
(emmy is the only person in this pic who has not spent the night in our apartment but we are working on changing that asap.)
* the coat i am wearing is featured in us weekly's 'who wore it best' this week! clearly i wore it better than rachel bilson and whitney port.
BONUS VISITORS!!
visitors 8, 9, & 10
kristin, christopher and teddy mcgraw
wow! kristin and christopher are old friends from my david e. kelley days who moved from la to denver about 5 years ago to open a pizza restaurant. their place is a raging success but they took the weekend off to bring their 21 month old son, teddy, to the beach. we zipped down to hermosa beach, where they were staying, for happy hour and teddy-meeting. he's simply gorgeous. what a special surprise that the mcgraws popped into town!
teddy knew the bar was BYOB (bring your own bike)
ben plays firetrucks with teddy and christopher
1 comment:
this is more of a question:
is "daisy of love" anything like "flava of love"?
also, i think it is funny that i am commenting on your blog post about visitors when you were my visitor last night! har har har! okay, i'm over it now.
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