Friday/ Saturday

Yesterday was a wild ride. The owner of our building (and pretty much all of Belmont shore) came over while I was running errands in LA, and told Steven he would not only give pay for the $3,500 floor we wanted (and were going to buy no matter what), but that he would pay for the $6,500 floating floor that we REALLY wanted. You just don't have landlords like this anymore, and we KNEW it at the time. When everyone was telling us to wait a year, that we would find another space, we knew that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Hes also going to rip the weird tile border that's on part of the wall, and do crown molding on the ceiling for us as well. We are beyond stoked.
Then I got an email offering me a 5 city engagement at anime conventions across the country and Canada. I think I'm going to do it. Free travel to cities I haven't been to, and another voice actress I know, Anndi, will be going as well. A little escape is always nice.

I'll also be seeing anndi tonight, as Ive got a bachelorette party, and shes invited as well. The mutual friend is Georgina, also a voice actress, who I worked with on The Sims game. She's tiner than me, and the sweetest thing ever.
 I haven't been in the mood all week for a bachelorette party, but as of today, I feel ready to go. Steven is being awesome and driving me, which makes my life so much easier. We're doing the cahuenga corridor, which isnt really my scene, but fuck it. I don't have many nights in Hollywood left, and I can count them all on my hands to begin with.
I somehow end up on Hollywood blvd on a saturday night about once a year, usually for birthday party or some such thing, and tonight is the night. I don't mind growing old. But seeing all the young kids out and looking for prey has the ability to make me feel old. Although, theres nothing wrong with not being young, aimless, and wandering Hollywood looking for tail. always feels so bridge and tunnel to me, and tonight, I join the ranks. But isn't that the point of bachelorette parties? Being a bad cliche can sometimes be a lot of fun.
This is I think my 4th bachelorette party, although I've been to probably 10 wedding showers. Surprising to me that most women I know my age haven't been to that many, if any. That's all about to change however. I can already feel that the next 5 years are going to be wedding centric.
My favorite bachelorette party?
Camping up north and white water rafting down the California river. We got thrown out of a bar in a town of about 1,000 people.

Oh! And I think we also found steven the PERFECT assistant. She came in yesterday to drop off a resume, incredibly cute, well spoken, great hair. She had been a stylist a few years ago, then became a cosmotologist and want to get back to hair.
The kicker is that she took a vidal sassoon cutting class, which you dont take unless youre very serious, as the cost is 7k. So far the other assistant aplicants fresh out of beauty school (which is typical) pale in comparisson to her. She comes in next week for a second interview. All signs pointing to yes!

Night At The Museum.

Last night we went to a free event at the natural history museum. We love working on the salon, but we've been trying to not let it eat our life. We walk around dead tired, but are making a point to go out here and there anyways, just to let loose and have a distraction.
I have a certain soft spot for this museum, not only because its beautiful, but because a large part of it remains largely untouched from my childhood, in the most marvelous way. There were some rooms that had recently undergone a very nice renovation, but I love that most of the rooms are still rocking it 70s/80s style, complete with old documentaries about mining in Sri Lanka (the kind you used to have to watch in school) still playing. 
As a kid, my parents took me to museums constantly, and we had memberships to all of them. That, coupled with field trips makes going to most of them is highly nostalgic for me. Who didn't love field trips? You could walk to LACMA and the Tar Pits from my grammer school, so we went all the time.
Museums aren't things that need to be updated constantly, and sometimes when they are, things like this happen:


I don't care what they say, or how many times they change the names of dinosaurs! This is a goddamn Pterodactyl!


 We got there right when it started. Food trucks, alcohol, I had to say I was surprised they let both in the museum, but way to take a chance on the hipster crowd. Perhaps they thought they were all tired out from Coachella the week before. On the ground floor all the halls had djs, lights.....we stayed away from the crowds and just wandered around. 

There were tons of people there, but since the whole museum was open (not just a few rooms as I had originally thought), there was ample space for everyone.
The gem hall was a particular favorite. Not only was the music the best in there, but who doesn't like shiny things?

I feel like if the museum ever needs money, they should just sell off some of their MASSIVE gold nugget collection, which includes the 2nd biggest nugget ever found in America.

Wanna see pictures of us goofing off? Yeah you do!


Little known fact: I am inexplicably obsessed with llamas/alpacas.

Another little know fact: Steven inexplicably is weirded out by birds.

RAWR!!!!!!!

In case you can't see whats behind me:

In one hall with dinosaurs they had it caveman themed. Girls dressed as cavemen doing face painting, and fake rocks you could draw on with chalk like cave painting. 

We saw it when we first got there, and when we circled back later on our way out, some stupid hipsters had tired of drawing on the rocks I guess and were drawing on the museum walls behind it. Firstly, no one wants to see you shitty art. Secondly, who the hell do you think you are, essentially tagging the museum in general, but also in front of hundreds of people? Very few things shock me, but my jaw really dropped on that one. 
I don't exactly think it was a bright idea to mix cocktails, chalk, and a museum together, but STILL. NOT COOL.
People like that just fuck it up for everyone.
As we walked out I found two people working the event and narced on them. Assholes.



Phew! End rant.


All in all, a super fun night...and free! Cant beat that. 
I hear about things like this all the time and rarely go. I usually just want to avoid the hassle, but this sounded too good to pass up. Sometimes when an email lands in my inbox, and it sounds fun enough, you just gotta rally.