As you know Tiff and I had a most awesome adventure together!
A few of the highlights (for a recap)… But first an admission… I had NEVER HEARD INTERPOL before our road trip.
Boise- Tiff and I share our first of several McDonalds meals. Yummmm… blah! We enjoyed the hospitality of her good friend Christen… Thanks Christen. We braved booming downtown Boise on a Tuesday evening to see Interpol… My first time seeing them & my first time hearing them! The music was great! THANKS TIFF! We made many friends that night. Of note: Harley, the sound guy for the band. And with that the ball was set in motion. *Note: Harley will be a recurring character in this blog. Off to Washington the next morning… the speeding ticket was mine. The onions all over the highway were a secondary hazard from ID-WA only to be topped by my WA wine tour about half way to Seattle... I needed a driving break!
Washington- So much love to Tiff for missing the Interpol show! I am sorry but the wind was huffing and puffing and I was afraid it might blow my house down, or the bridges off their moorings… instead it just took out a large tree in my yard. Again, thanks Tiff for playing it safe with me! We did some arctic weather shopping. Aaah, shopping, always a feel good! Dinners at home and some down time… Thanks for hanging with my family! Noodle loves you! Off to Portland…
Portland/ Eugene- Great dinner, SUSHI, great company… a silly boy we met at dinner… great Interpol show (we did not pay for parking or the show)…A shout-down to Harley… and off we went. TO EUGENE… well, since returning home I have had to people warm me about the backwards civilization that is Eugene… oops! Yeah to the Courtyard, Yuck to the IHOP, Triple Yuck to the IHOP bathroom! Off to Reno…
Reno- The drive to Reno was so beautiful. If anyone is looking for a road trip… Portland to Reno is a spectacular choice… in the fall. Beautiful scenery and cute towns… some with some humorous character (as previously mentioned in Tiff’s blog)… the best! Reno for sleep and off to Vegas… the drive was so silly! We stopped for coffee, nail polish (yes, nail polish), and native crafts, SHOES, McDonalds, Gas, WATER, candy, brothels and lots of potty breaks! Tiff even tried to invent a new game called “block the drivers vision” J We definitely stretched out our time on the “LONLIEST HIGHWAY IN AMERICA” we were even warned on our first stop out of Reno… “Hope you have good music and good company.” Tiff, we were CHAMPS! We make a lonely highway proud!
Vegas- ALWAYS THE BEST FOR LAST! The Hard Rock… Rocks! Made some money, lost some money. Tiff & I became blackjack junkies! We met some odd folk and hot folk. A special note or recognition to the three hot ladies from AZ! We stayed up late and slept in… found the mall (obviously)! The Interpol show was a hit… Harley and I became phone buddies. We had drinks with the band and well you know the rest… Tiff hung out with her boyfriend Paul, the lead singer of Interpol… See her postings for photos!
In the end exhaustion and alcohol set in and our time together was up… never enough time for two hot chicks on a road trip… Thanks Tiff for the fun! VIVA LAS VEGAS!
*A special thanks to Kelly (even my husband thinks you are fabu!)
Many fun adventures,
Jessica K.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
jimmy kimmel, joe sorren and shag!
so interpol on jimmy kimmel was kind of strange - there were issues with the sound but i think it made things kind of extra funny. it was a free show for goodness sake! here is one of the songs, no i in threesome. i love it! yes, i am determined to make you all love them, too! ;)
joe's preview dinner on friday was awesome! his work really is so unbelievably gorgeous. he's a really amazing artist. check out his work in person at bsfa if you can or online at: http://www.billyshirefinearts.com/current.html. i got to catch up with many of my favorite kids so that was great. i was seated next to two awesome couples - one was "oil field trash" as they put it from houston moving to dc and the other were totally rock and roll. i may go see one of chris' shows with his band out in europe and his wife was a music journalist. how cool is that?!?!?
plus carrie fisher (yes, freaking princess leia), patricia arquette and the farrelly brothers were there. it doesn't get much cooler than that :)
the shag opening in laguna on saturday was fun and josh was so sweet (as always). he asked if i had quarters so i could play the totally cute disney arcade-esque machines that told you what your vice was (mine was shopping, duh!) and where i would be in a year. it said on the street. i wasn't that happy with that answer and josh said "yeah, on the street in your bentley!" which works out well with the other result i got from his wheel of fortune - that being fortune!!! his new pieces are really cute - nudes! you can check out his work at http://www.shag.com/.
i leave for dc tomorrow - hope to see lots of you kids there at din din at lebanese taverna!
MWAH!
tiff
joe's preview dinner on friday was awesome! his work really is so unbelievably gorgeous. he's a really amazing artist. check out his work in person at bsfa if you can or online at: http://www.billyshirefinearts.com/current.html. i got to catch up with many of my favorite kids so that was great. i was seated next to two awesome couples - one was "oil field trash" as they put it from houston moving to dc and the other were totally rock and roll. i may go see one of chris' shows with his band out in europe and his wife was a music journalist. how cool is that?!?!?
plus carrie fisher (yes, freaking princess leia), patricia arquette and the farrelly brothers were there. it doesn't get much cooler than that :)
the shag opening in laguna on saturday was fun and josh was so sweet (as always). he asked if i had quarters so i could play the totally cute disney arcade-esque machines that told you what your vice was (mine was shopping, duh!) and where i would be in a year. it said on the street. i wasn't that happy with that answer and josh said "yeah, on the street in your bentley!" which works out well with the other result i got from his wheel of fortune - that being fortune!!! his new pieces are really cute - nudes! you can check out his work at http://www.shag.com/.
i leave for dc tomorrow - hope to see lots of you kids there at din din at lebanese taverna!
MWAH!
tiff
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I want to live in los angeles... Not the one in los angeles...
so i'm so happy to be back in l.a. i'm staying with annie and really enjoying it. i went to the interpol show on monday night and it was really great. they played one of my favorite songs in the encore and harley gave me a copy of the set list. SWEET!
yesterday we headed down to the oc for some down home eats at memphis. i love that place. it was so good and a lot of fun.
tonight i am going to see interpol for the last time stateside at jimmy kimmel live. i can't wait!
tomorrow will be awesome - i'll be attending a preview dinner for the joe sorren show at annie's gallery, billy shire fine arts. from what i hear the dinner guests will be varied and interesting!
saturday i am heading to the shag opening in laguna. i picked a good time to be out here art wise!
more about that stuff as it happens :)
btw, my friend jason back in dc has a really fun blog called inside the district. he's always running around like a crazy person doing fun stuff. check it out: http://insidethedistrict.blogspot.com/.
mucho besos! :*
tiff
yesterday we headed down to the oc for some down home eats at memphis. i love that place. it was so good and a lot of fun.
tonight i am going to see interpol for the last time stateside at jimmy kimmel live. i can't wait!
tomorrow will be awesome - i'll be attending a preview dinner for the joe sorren show at annie's gallery, billy shire fine arts. from what i hear the dinner guests will be varied and interesting!
saturday i am heading to the shag opening in laguna. i picked a good time to be out here art wise!
more about that stuff as it happens :)
btw, my friend jason back in dc has a really fun blog called inside the district. he's always running around like a crazy person doing fun stuff. check it out: http://insidethedistrict.blogspot.com/.
mucho besos! :*
tiff
vegas baby yeah!
ok, so jess and i checked in and as i mentioned before, we saw the interpol guitarist daniel coming off the elevator as we were getting on. very exciting!
we headed up to the room and got ready. we grabbed a bite to eat at mr. luckys. this is where we met the jackass who asked us if we were prostitutes. lovely! and he seriously wouldn't let it go. he didn't believe us.
we ditched him and grabbed a drink at the bar and then decided we would try playng black jack. neither of us gamble so we were totally green. we had the best little black jack dealer ever - his name was drew. he made us a lot of money! then we had crappy dealers after that and i ended up down about $150. so we headed back up to the room around 4:30 and went to sleep.
we woke up the next day and had lunch around 2ish. we had the best seats in the house for people viewing. all of the sudden, daniel walked by and i told jessica her boyfriend was coming up behind her. then about 20 minutes later paul walked by. i couldn't talk for a bit because i was too excited.
then we went shopping at nords and got our makeup done at mac. it was a lot of fun. a girl who worked there was going to the show and the l.a. show. the girl who was doing my makeup loved them, too. it was so awesome and we had so much fun.
jess and i headed back and finished getting ready. lolita was coming up from tucson to go to the show with us. we had dinner with her, her sister victoria and her friend adrianna at the pink taco ;)
we then were on to the show and it was fantastic! they played the lighthouse from the new album for the first time and it was really amazing!
after the show we met with harley, the sound guy, for drinks. we gabbed and drank for a while. then daniel came up to talk with harley and harley introduced us to him. he was really nice and he chatted with us for a while. then a few of the other sound boys came over and we all hung our for a little bit longer. it was a lot of fun and the guys were hilarious. one of them was named bob and he was really enjoying messing with me in my intoxicated state. it was a blast!
so they took off and i figured the band was gone. so jess and i played black jack and were chatting everyone up. jess took off for a second and i heard her chatting someone else up. i turned around to see who she was talking to and it was paul! he sat down next to me and we did intros. it was so awesome! he was really nice. as he was leaving i told him i was a huge fan and asked if he wouldn't mind taking a picture with me. he really was very gracious. after they left i totally flipped out and jess giggled. she totally hooked that shit up!!! i was soooooo happy! see the pic of us under oh my good god this is serious ;)
we went to bed around 6:30. which was hideous cause we had to get up 4 hours later to get ready. jess was heading back to seattle and i was driving on to l.a.
driving to l.a. was hard cause i totally missed jess. and, i got pulled over. seriously. and yes, it was for speeding. AGAIN! the cop asked me why i was speeding and the only thing i could think of to say was "i've got to get to l.a.". he told me he clocked me at 19 over (yes, the magic 89 mph). i told him i didn't think that was right and needless to say the cop was not all that happy with me. what can i say, i was hungover, mucho tired and just wanted to get out of the car. plus it happened two miles to the cali border. i was almost home free! jess and i decided this is a good luck omen since we had such a blast after we got the ticket last time.
on to l.a.!!!! :)
we headed up to the room and got ready. we grabbed a bite to eat at mr. luckys. this is where we met the jackass who asked us if we were prostitutes. lovely! and he seriously wouldn't let it go. he didn't believe us.
we ditched him and grabbed a drink at the bar and then decided we would try playng black jack. neither of us gamble so we were totally green. we had the best little black jack dealer ever - his name was drew. he made us a lot of money! then we had crappy dealers after that and i ended up down about $150. so we headed back up to the room around 4:30 and went to sleep.
we woke up the next day and had lunch around 2ish. we had the best seats in the house for people viewing. all of the sudden, daniel walked by and i told jessica her boyfriend was coming up behind her. then about 20 minutes later paul walked by. i couldn't talk for a bit because i was too excited.
then we went shopping at nords and got our makeup done at mac. it was a lot of fun. a girl who worked there was going to the show and the l.a. show. the girl who was doing my makeup loved them, too. it was so awesome and we had so much fun.
jess and i headed back and finished getting ready. lolita was coming up from tucson to go to the show with us. we had dinner with her, her sister victoria and her friend adrianna at the pink taco ;)
we then were on to the show and it was fantastic! they played the lighthouse from the new album for the first time and it was really amazing!
after the show we met with harley, the sound guy, for drinks. we gabbed and drank for a while. then daniel came up to talk with harley and harley introduced us to him. he was really nice and he chatted with us for a while. then a few of the other sound boys came over and we all hung our for a little bit longer. it was a lot of fun and the guys were hilarious. one of them was named bob and he was really enjoying messing with me in my intoxicated state. it was a blast!
so they took off and i figured the band was gone. so jess and i played black jack and were chatting everyone up. jess took off for a second and i heard her chatting someone else up. i turned around to see who she was talking to and it was paul! he sat down next to me and we did intros. it was so awesome! he was really nice. as he was leaving i told him i was a huge fan and asked if he wouldn't mind taking a picture with me. he really was very gracious. after they left i totally flipped out and jess giggled. she totally hooked that shit up!!! i was soooooo happy! see the pic of us under oh my good god this is serious ;)
we went to bed around 6:30. which was hideous cause we had to get up 4 hours later to get ready. jess was heading back to seattle and i was driving on to l.a.
driving to l.a. was hard cause i totally missed jess. and, i got pulled over. seriously. and yes, it was for speeding. AGAIN! the cop asked me why i was speeding and the only thing i could think of to say was "i've got to get to l.a.". he told me he clocked me at 19 over (yes, the magic 89 mph). i told him i didn't think that was right and needless to say the cop was not all that happy with me. what can i say, i was hungover, mucho tired and just wanted to get out of the car. plus it happened two miles to the cali border. i was almost home free! jess and i decided this is a good luck omen since we had such a blast after we got the ticket last time.
on to l.a.!!!! :)
reno to vegas
the drive from reno to vegas was by far the most boring visually. but the most fun for us. there is some really hilarious stuff going on highway 89 in nevada. we decided it's the highway for ho's to go go. i don't think i can recall just how many brothels we drove by. favorite names included the shady lady, playmate ranch, cottontail brothel. i love how completely guileless they are about it.
there was a town (um, i guess that's what you could call it) called shurz and as we were leaving this is what we saw:
a literal shoe tree! to understand why this was so funny to us i can provide some background. my friend jared turned me on to kelly and she likes to sing about shoes. please see the video below - jessica and i would watch it when we woke up and right before we went to bed:
oh my god, shoes!
jess and i realized we hadn't taken many pics of us so i decided i would take one of us in the car. i decided to completely block jess's view and the following pic was the result:
i slightly scared the crap out of her as i was completely blocking her view of the road. i think it's funny :)
other fun notes - we saw signs for bull crossing, burro crossing and get this - lobster crossing. i'm not kidding. in the middle of the freaking desert.
we also had stopping issues that day. jess would declare no more stops and then 20 minutes later say she needed to stop. we shopped at wallgreens for an hour because that was absolutely necessary. i think it maybe should have taken us 5-6 hours to get there and it took us 8-9 hours. but when we finally pulled in to the hard rock hotel parking lot we knew that the rock stars were coming out to play!!! ;)
there was a town (um, i guess that's what you could call it) called shurz and as we were leaving this is what we saw:
a literal shoe tree! to understand why this was so funny to us i can provide some background. my friend jared turned me on to kelly and she likes to sing about shoes. please see the video below - jessica and i would watch it when we woke up and right before we went to bed:
oh my god, shoes!
jess and i realized we hadn't taken many pics of us so i decided i would take one of us in the car. i decided to completely block jess's view and the following pic was the result:
i slightly scared the crap out of her as i was completely blocking her view of the road. i think it's funny :)
other fun notes - we saw signs for bull crossing, burro crossing and get this - lobster crossing. i'm not kidding. in the middle of the freaking desert.
we also had stopping issues that day. jess would declare no more stops and then 20 minutes later say she needed to stop. we shopped at wallgreens for an hour because that was absolutely necessary. i think it maybe should have taken us 5-6 hours to get there and it took us 8-9 hours. but when we finally pulled in to the hard rock hotel parking lot we knew that the rock stars were coming out to play!!! ;)
oregon through cali to reno
so we were at ihop getting our breakfast/lunch on and i was waiting to use the smelly bathroom as one of the stalls was broken. jess busts in and within 2 seconds yells "fuck this! absolutely not!" while pulling me out of the bathroom. i think i was in food coma or i wouldn't have turned right back around myself!
we passed the 45th parallel for the 2nd time as well! the drive from eugene to reno was beyond gorgeous. words can't even really describe as you'll see from the pics below.
one of our stops was in sunny valley, or. jess needed a potty break so we pulled over and the place was so random. there was a really cool bridge thingy like in beetlejuice and the sign above it said death creek. i'm not kidding. we saw this cute little punk boy walking around and we wanted to get out to take pics (i used my holga - i'll post those pics later). we were talking with him and as i was off shooting jess asked him what it was like there. was it weird? he replied "yeah - deliverance weird". that was our queue to move on.
we passed by mount shasta (snow capped montain above) and the area was just so gorgeous! there was an awesome dragon sculpture around there, too:
courtesy of the furious spinner - we were to slow on the draw to take the pic!
we stopped in a little town called mccloud that was just adorable. it was kind of like a totally cute mountain resort that had been invaded by beverly hills socialites. so that was a little annoying, but it was so cute. i took this pic there, it made me laugh:
we then made it to a small town called susanville for dinner. jess and i thought it was a bit chilly. i checked the weather and it was 32 degrees! i was wearing my flip flops, too. clearly, i was having issues thinking i was still in arizona! we had dinner at a place called mazatlan cafe and it was pretty decent. not too long after that we rolled in to reno!
we passed the 45th parallel for the 2nd time as well! the drive from eugene to reno was beyond gorgeous. words can't even really describe as you'll see from the pics below.
one of our stops was in sunny valley, or. jess needed a potty break so we pulled over and the place was so random. there was a really cool bridge thingy like in beetlejuice and the sign above it said death creek. i'm not kidding. we saw this cute little punk boy walking around and we wanted to get out to take pics (i used my holga - i'll post those pics later). we were talking with him and as i was off shooting jess asked him what it was like there. was it weird? he replied "yeah - deliverance weird". that was our queue to move on.
we passed by mount shasta (snow capped montain above) and the area was just so gorgeous! there was an awesome dragon sculpture around there, too:
courtesy of the furious spinner - we were to slow on the draw to take the pic!
we stopped in a little town called mccloud that was just adorable. it was kind of like a totally cute mountain resort that had been invaded by beverly hills socialites. so that was a little annoying, but it was so cute. i took this pic there, it made me laugh:
we then made it to a small town called susanville for dinner. jess and i thought it was a bit chilly. i checked the weather and it was 32 degrees! i was wearing my flip flops, too. clearly, i was having issues thinking i was still in arizona! we had dinner at a place called mazatlan cafe and it was pretty decent. not too long after that we rolled in to reno!
portland
so around portland-ish jess and i decided we needed to be hired by the travel channel to do a road warrior show. we completely amused ourselves so we wondered why everyone else wouldn't be as equally entertained. we'll see what happens next week! ;)
so the drive down to portland was gorgeous. we arrived a couple hours before the show and drove around the city a bit. we so loved it! i really want to go back and hang out for a while. the place is adorable!
we grabbed dinner at sushi-land (i so love conveyer belt sushi places!!) and met a boy named dan. he was funny and within 2 seconds of meeting us told us he was gay. he said he was a filmmaker and that he knew interpol and had interviewed them for a doc he was working on. he wasn't going to the show but we hung out and enjoyed his company for dinner.
we then headed to the show. we didn't have tickets because we wanted to try to get gen admission on the floor. a portland trailblazer game had just gotten out at the some complex and somehow we were able to score free parking! then, we walked up the back way to the venue and a door was open. jessica, being the confident miss thing she is just walked right in. i had internal panic and paused. she turned around and yelled and me so i followed. hence, the nickname puppy was born for me. i just followed jessica in like a little puppy dog ;) we so got away with it, too!
and i don't feel all that bad about it because after the set the guys were taking a long time to come out. about 6 minutes later paul and sam came out and said that one of the guys was fucked up and that they were sorry but they couldn't so the encore. it was a little disappointing, clearly.
so we left and drove a couple hours south to eugene, or so our drive wouldn't be so hideous the following day. on to reno!
so the drive down to portland was gorgeous. we arrived a couple hours before the show and drove around the city a bit. we so loved it! i really want to go back and hang out for a while. the place is adorable!
we grabbed dinner at sushi-land (i so love conveyer belt sushi places!!) and met a boy named dan. he was funny and within 2 seconds of meeting us told us he was gay. he said he was a filmmaker and that he knew interpol and had interviewed them for a doc he was working on. he wasn't going to the show but we hung out and enjoyed his company for dinner.
we then headed to the show. we didn't have tickets because we wanted to try to get gen admission on the floor. a portland trailblazer game had just gotten out at the some complex and somehow we were able to score free parking! then, we walked up the back way to the venue and a door was open. jessica, being the confident miss thing she is just walked right in. i had internal panic and paused. she turned around and yelled and me so i followed. hence, the nickname puppy was born for me. i just followed jessica in like a little puppy dog ;) we so got away with it, too!
and i don't feel all that bad about it because after the set the guys were taking a long time to come out. about 6 minutes later paul and sam came out and said that one of the guys was fucked up and that they were sorry but they couldn't so the encore. it was a little disappointing, clearly.
so we left and drove a couple hours south to eugene, or so our drive wouldn't be so hideous the following day. on to reno!
catch up - seattle, portland, vegas and l.a.
kids -
i have been running around like a crazy girl for the past week and a half and now i am finally able to take a few minutes to get caught up.
jessica and i had such an amazing and fun trip. it went so fast and it was so great. i'll post blogs for each stop so i don't have 1 monster blog for it all.
also, jess will be guest writing about her experience as well. i thought that would be fun!
first post - seattle. we got to pass where twin peaks and northern exposure were filmed. it really is so beautiful up there. jess lives in issaquah which is about 45 minutes outside of seattle proper.
we enjoyed being lazy and hanging out. we had to go to staples to fax some stuff (there was a really nasty storm and jess's fax was broken) and we were greeted by a riley rooster who needed to make everyone well aware it was 2:45 pm. so he was running around the parking lot cock a doodle dooing away. it was so completely random and funny. at first we couldn't see him and then he came around the corner and just started tearing it up. it was awesome!
due to the storm we figured it was better to be safe than sorry so we didn't hit the interpol show that night. they close down bridges if the winds get too high. which was fine. we had dinner with jessica's mom - wendy and sister - talia. it was so great to catch up with all of them.
jess and i got up the next day with excitement for portland. on our way down the chocolate craze began. we stopped at a co-op and pretty much bought them out of any chocolate they had. we bought so much "travel food" that it was ludicrous. in fact, i still have 2/3rds of what we bought here with me in l.a.
next stop portland!
i have been running around like a crazy girl for the past week and a half and now i am finally able to take a few minutes to get caught up.
jessica and i had such an amazing and fun trip. it went so fast and it was so great. i'll post blogs for each stop so i don't have 1 monster blog for it all.
also, jess will be guest writing about her experience as well. i thought that would be fun!
first post - seattle. we got to pass where twin peaks and northern exposure were filmed. it really is so beautiful up there. jess lives in issaquah which is about 45 minutes outside of seattle proper.
we enjoyed being lazy and hanging out. we had to go to staples to fax some stuff (there was a really nasty storm and jess's fax was broken) and we were greeted by a riley rooster who needed to make everyone well aware it was 2:45 pm. so he was running around the parking lot cock a doodle dooing away. it was so completely random and funny. at first we couldn't see him and then he came around the corner and just started tearing it up. it was awesome!
due to the storm we figured it was better to be safe than sorry so we didn't hit the interpol show that night. they close down bridges if the winds get too high. which was fine. we had dinner with jessica's mom - wendy and sister - talia. it was so great to catch up with all of them.
jess and i got up the next day with excitement for portland. on our way down the chocolate craze began. we stopped at a co-op and pretty much bought them out of any chocolate they had. we bought so much "travel food" that it was ludicrous. in fact, i still have 2/3rds of what we bought here with me in l.a.
next stop portland!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
oh my good god this is serious!
look who i hung out with! my boyfriend!!!
omg there is mucho bueno dish. including jess and i meeting daniel as well. i can die a happy woman! paul played blackjack with us for 15-20 minutes. so unfreakingly believably nice. i so heart him.
more to come in the morning. if i'm not still running around like a chicken with my head cut off. tonight was the best night EVER!
plus look how cute jess and i are:
MWAH!
tiff and jess
omg there is mucho bueno dish. including jess and i meeting daniel as well. i can die a happy woman! paul played blackjack with us for 15-20 minutes. so unfreakingly believably nice. i so heart him.
more to come in the morning. if i'm not still running around like a chicken with my head cut off. tonight was the best night EVER!
plus look how cute jess and i are:
MWAH!
tiff and jess
Monday, October 22, 2007
more sightings
k so i finally saw my boyfriend and i couldn't talk for about 15 minutes after. he was so cute.
plus we saw daniel again. he looked like the male version of nichole richie. which isn't all that bad. he was carrying a patent leather man satchel. a-dor-able! in a black suit with a pashy scarf with tassels and everything. and of course, huge sunglasses and white tennies/keds.
we love him.
smoochies,
tiff and jess
way more to come - we're too busy being hot and playing blackjack. now i understand why people love vegas!!!
plus we saw daniel again. he looked like the male version of nichole richie. which isn't all that bad. he was carrying a patent leather man satchel. a-dor-able! in a black suit with a pashy scarf with tassels and everything. and of course, huge sunglasses and white tennies/keds.
we love him.
smoochies,
tiff and jess
way more to come - we're too busy being hot and playing blackjack. now i understand why people love vegas!!!
prostitution
is what we were asked was our profession. and we looked so hot, it's no wonder.
we were so hot the boys didn't believe us.
then his stupid friend asked us if we had pot.
whores. (them, not us)
love tiff and jess (jess is vegas winner - i got us complimentary breakfast!)
we're smelly like cigarettes. guess why? ;)
we were so hot the boys didn't believe us.
then his stupid friend asked us if we had pot.
whores. (them, not us)
love tiff and jess (jess is vegas winner - i got us complimentary breakfast!)
we're smelly like cigarettes. guess why? ;)
fucker!
i am $120 down and no further interpol sightings. perhaps tomorrow (i mean) tonight.
totally drunk. time for beds.
MWAH!
puppy and snoo
totally drunk. time for beds.
MWAH!
puppy and snoo
oh my god!
we just checked in to the hard rock and passed daniel, the interpol guitarist, on our way up to the room.
much more to come kids! we had quite the uproarious drive today. and yesterday. and the day before, too.
we rock,
love tiff and jess
ps, please don't judge us by the size of our candy drawer! it's WAY bigger than yours!
much more to come kids! we had quite the uproarious drive today. and yesterday. and the day before, too.
we rock,
love tiff and jess
ps, please don't judge us by the size of our candy drawer! it's WAY bigger than yours!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
slc punk, my own private idaho and the home of starbucks!
so slc ended up being fun. i got to catch up with a lot of peeps that i haven't seen for a long time.
aaron and i went up to park city and it was a blast! we got to do the alpine coaster. it's this thing where you get pulled up to the top of the mountain in a cart and then you go roaring down the mountain really fast. aaron made fun of me because i was screaming all the way down - it was so much fun! :) and park city is so adorable. attached are some pics:
park city mountain resort
going up the coaster with aaron up ahead:
a view from the top back down :)
i did also get to finally see interpol on monday in slc. the venue sucked and the sound wasn't absolutely fabu but it was a lot of fun, anyway. i was so excited to see my boyfriend that a bomb could have gone off in the building and i wouldn't have cared/noticed i'm sure.
i headed up to idaho on tuesday and suffered another fairly horrific/god awful boring drive to boise. there were so many mav's (mormon assault vehicles) on the road. they are generally driven by a mother or father who is spending 75% of their time yelling at 4-6 children in the back seat, not bothering to pay attention to the road. beyond annoying.
i finally got to boise and was able to catch up with old friends kristen and josh. later on i picked the lovely jessica up from the airport and we went for some fine dining at the mcdonalds that also doubled as a chevron. 5 star eats! one of the windows was busted and we figured someone got mad and threw their big mac back at an unruly drive thru attendant.
jessica and i got ready and then headed back in to town to see interpol again. it was such an amazing show! the sound was brilliant and the set was mixed up so it was so fabu! and jessica, being the friendly little friend maker that she is started chatting it up with the owner of the club and also the sound guy for the band. she is determined to have me meet the band and i have no issues with that ;)
after the show we stopped back by the car and met the coolest people in the parking garage. yes, i am being serious! i swear, i'm freaking 20 again. the other week i was playing drinking games til 2 in the morning and eating chicken tenders with sriacha sauce for every meal. i so love not having any responsibilities right now! that is, of course, other than being the best ever fabu interpol groupie!
anyway, the kids we met rocked and the guy was in a band and he gave us his cd. they referred us to a dive bar and unfortunately it was dead. as was the majority of boise (granted, it was a tuesday night). we stopped at a place called the red room and it was so cute. the music was beyond hilarious... "sipping gin and juice... laid back...", "jump around... jump around". we got bored and left and headed back to kristen's.
we got up early this morning and headed out to seattle. we got pulled over (i'll give you 1 guess as to what for) ;), then we got starbucks, narrowly escaped a barrage of flying suicidal onions fleeing from the back of a truck and stopped for wine tasting. we are sooooo looking forward to seeing our boyfriends (jessica decided daniel is her boyfriend) tomorrow night. plus, there's some serious shopping to be done. this is the home of nordies after all.
MWAH!
tiff
aaron and i went up to park city and it was a blast! we got to do the alpine coaster. it's this thing where you get pulled up to the top of the mountain in a cart and then you go roaring down the mountain really fast. aaron made fun of me because i was screaming all the way down - it was so much fun! :) and park city is so adorable. attached are some pics:
park city mountain resort
going up the coaster with aaron up ahead:
a view from the top back down :)
i did also get to finally see interpol on monday in slc. the venue sucked and the sound wasn't absolutely fabu but it was a lot of fun, anyway. i was so excited to see my boyfriend that a bomb could have gone off in the building and i wouldn't have cared/noticed i'm sure.
i headed up to idaho on tuesday and suffered another fairly horrific/god awful boring drive to boise. there were so many mav's (mormon assault vehicles) on the road. they are generally driven by a mother or father who is spending 75% of their time yelling at 4-6 children in the back seat, not bothering to pay attention to the road. beyond annoying.
i finally got to boise and was able to catch up with old friends kristen and josh. later on i picked the lovely jessica up from the airport and we went for some fine dining at the mcdonalds that also doubled as a chevron. 5 star eats! one of the windows was busted and we figured someone got mad and threw their big mac back at an unruly drive thru attendant.
jessica and i got ready and then headed back in to town to see interpol again. it was such an amazing show! the sound was brilliant and the set was mixed up so it was so fabu! and jessica, being the friendly little friend maker that she is started chatting it up with the owner of the club and also the sound guy for the band. she is determined to have me meet the band and i have no issues with that ;)
after the show we stopped back by the car and met the coolest people in the parking garage. yes, i am being serious! i swear, i'm freaking 20 again. the other week i was playing drinking games til 2 in the morning and eating chicken tenders with sriacha sauce for every meal. i so love not having any responsibilities right now! that is, of course, other than being the best ever fabu interpol groupie!
anyway, the kids we met rocked and the guy was in a band and he gave us his cd. they referred us to a dive bar and unfortunately it was dead. as was the majority of boise (granted, it was a tuesday night). we stopped at a place called the red room and it was so cute. the music was beyond hilarious... "sipping gin and juice... laid back...", "jump around... jump around". we got bored and left and headed back to kristen's.
we got up early this morning and headed out to seattle. we got pulled over (i'll give you 1 guess as to what for) ;), then we got starbucks, narrowly escaped a barrage of flying suicidal onions fleeing from the back of a truck and stopped for wine tasting. we are sooooo looking forward to seeing our boyfriends (jessica decided daniel is her boyfriend) tomorrow night. plus, there's some serious shopping to be done. this is the home of nordies after all.
MWAH!
tiff
Friday, October 12, 2007
crazy day
lovies -
ok so i drove to vegas from phoenix yesterday and i got to see a bunch of joshua trees, lake mead and the hoover dam. which was pretty groovy. i checked in to the monte carlo in vegas and i now know why it was so cheap - there is so much construction going on down there around the hotel! i was a little beat so i didn't get around to much and i had to wake up early this morning... fyi, don't bother with diablo's at monte carlo - it looks cool but it sucks!
i am officially back in utard - home to the mo's (no they don't have horns), family home evening and being sponsored or becoming a member of a club so you can get yourself properly sloshed. oi vey! good thing this is just a abbreviaterd sojourn ;)
which leads to the crazy day. so i start driving from vegas to the salt slums (estimated drive time 5 hours - actual 7 1/2 hours) and of course i start out all exasperated because there were a ton of really annoying slow people blocking the freeway. i have a tendency to have a bit of a heavy foot and not so much patience when it comes to driving long distances slowly.
it's a bit funny how fate/life likes to play little tricks on me and make me slow down (quite literally). for example, when i hurt my foot in may i physically had to slow myself down. and like today - i'll admit i was driving fast-ish (90mph) and in the middle of nowhere (literally, i'm not kidding - look up kanosh, ut on mapquest - that was the closest "town") when my rear passenger tire blew. it was fairly terrifying. the person behind me totally freaked (as did i) but i was able to make it to the shoulder ok. by some random stroke of luck i actually had cell service (even though throughout the majority of the drive i didn't). i then had the most marvelous conversation with hertz: "hi, my tire blew out and i tried but i don't know how to change a tire. could you send help?" response: "where are you?" my response: "um, i don't know - in the middle of utah somewhere on I-15 going north? do you need me to be more specific?"
i think he may have laughed. i remembered a ranch exit but i couldn't remember how far away it was. i told the guy on the phone i would start walking to find a mile marker. just as i said that the nicest boy stopped and pulled over. my knight in a jeep. this kind of thing would only happen in utah! anyway - he fixed the tire and i was back on my way. but oh so slowly. i had 169 miles to salt lake and i was told to just bring the car back to the airport and that i shouldn't drive faster than 50 mph. FOR THE LOVE! GOOD FREAKING NIGHT :( can i just tell you how painful the drive was? of course, all of the people i had been cursing out for going too slow/passing earlier in the drive were just zooming past me all la dee da like. i got really bored - which lead to tiredness - which lead to me rolling down the windows and singing britney spears and madonna very loudly to the cows and horses along the way (i think they liked it). seriously, central utah is a complete wasteland of mega nothingness. i then started freaking out thinking i was hearing or smelling something else wrong with the car. all alone with my thoughts. thoughts provoked by frighteningly mindless britney lyrics. i'll leave it at that.
song of the day: hung up by madonna. "time goes by sooooooooooo slowly". it didn't help passing speed limit signs that said 75 mph speed limit every 5 seconds or the miles left signs that appeared every few miles. 139 miles to slc. 135 miles to slc. you are never going to get to slc because your anxious ass was trying to get there too fast. by the way, it's still 133 miles to slc. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
so i finally did get to slc and we ate at la poo poo (la puente - the best mexican food ever!) so i'm feeling much better.
bueno moments of the day: la puente and i got the eyebrows waxed and they look GOOD! they were uncouthly vulgar (to say the very least!)
FABU NEWS:
i am so excited - i am officially registered for the travel channel academy in nyc 11/1-11/4. they teach digital filmmaking and editing and what they look for stylistically. i have to create a piece while there so i'll post it here when it's done. i'm sure it's going to rule! ;) then, while i am traveling, i can send in segments and if they like them they will pay me for it. keep your fingers crossed that i can just do that forever moving forward!
also - i have planned an antarctica cruise for the end of the year. the baby penguins will be hatching - it should be awesome! here is a link if you want to check it out: http://www.gapadventures.com/tour/XFSSS
anyone up for europe in nov/beg of dec?
one last thing COUNTDOWN! - only 4 days til i see my boyfriend in the first of 5 shows (for those of you who thought the lead singer of interpol was really my boyfriend - he's not. he's just my pretend boyfriend. but lolita and jessica are going to see if we can do something about that ;) )
nighty! MWAH!
tiff
ok so i drove to vegas from phoenix yesterday and i got to see a bunch of joshua trees, lake mead and the hoover dam. which was pretty groovy. i checked in to the monte carlo in vegas and i now know why it was so cheap - there is so much construction going on down there around the hotel! i was a little beat so i didn't get around to much and i had to wake up early this morning... fyi, don't bother with diablo's at monte carlo - it looks cool but it sucks!
i am officially back in utard - home to the mo's (no they don't have horns), family home evening and being sponsored or becoming a member of a club so you can get yourself properly sloshed. oi vey! good thing this is just a abbreviaterd sojourn ;)
which leads to the crazy day. so i start driving from vegas to the salt slums (estimated drive time 5 hours - actual 7 1/2 hours) and of course i start out all exasperated because there were a ton of really annoying slow people blocking the freeway. i have a tendency to have a bit of a heavy foot and not so much patience when it comes to driving long distances slowly.
it's a bit funny how fate/life likes to play little tricks on me and make me slow down (quite literally). for example, when i hurt my foot in may i physically had to slow myself down. and like today - i'll admit i was driving fast-ish (90mph) and in the middle of nowhere (literally, i'm not kidding - look up kanosh, ut on mapquest - that was the closest "town") when my rear passenger tire blew. it was fairly terrifying. the person behind me totally freaked (as did i) but i was able to make it to the shoulder ok. by some random stroke of luck i actually had cell service (even though throughout the majority of the drive i didn't). i then had the most marvelous conversation with hertz: "hi, my tire blew out and i tried but i don't know how to change a tire. could you send help?" response: "where are you?" my response: "um, i don't know - in the middle of utah somewhere on I-15 going north? do you need me to be more specific?"
i think he may have laughed. i remembered a ranch exit but i couldn't remember how far away it was. i told the guy on the phone i would start walking to find a mile marker. just as i said that the nicest boy stopped and pulled over. my knight in a jeep. this kind of thing would only happen in utah! anyway - he fixed the tire and i was back on my way. but oh so slowly. i had 169 miles to salt lake and i was told to just bring the car back to the airport and that i shouldn't drive faster than 50 mph. FOR THE LOVE! GOOD FREAKING NIGHT :( can i just tell you how painful the drive was? of course, all of the people i had been cursing out for going too slow/passing earlier in the drive were just zooming past me all la dee da like. i got really bored - which lead to tiredness - which lead to me rolling down the windows and singing britney spears and madonna very loudly to the cows and horses along the way (i think they liked it). seriously, central utah is a complete wasteland of mega nothingness. i then started freaking out thinking i was hearing or smelling something else wrong with the car. all alone with my thoughts. thoughts provoked by frighteningly mindless britney lyrics. i'll leave it at that.
song of the day: hung up by madonna. "time goes by sooooooooooo slowly". it didn't help passing speed limit signs that said 75 mph speed limit every 5 seconds or the miles left signs that appeared every few miles. 139 miles to slc. 135 miles to slc. you are never going to get to slc because your anxious ass was trying to get there too fast. by the way, it's still 133 miles to slc. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
so i finally did get to slc and we ate at la poo poo (la puente - the best mexican food ever!) so i'm feeling much better.
bueno moments of the day: la puente and i got the eyebrows waxed and they look GOOD! they were uncouthly vulgar (to say the very least!)
FABU NEWS:
i am so excited - i am officially registered for the travel channel academy in nyc 11/1-11/4. they teach digital filmmaking and editing and what they look for stylistically. i have to create a piece while there so i'll post it here when it's done. i'm sure it's going to rule! ;) then, while i am traveling, i can send in segments and if they like them they will pay me for it. keep your fingers crossed that i can just do that forever moving forward!
also - i have planned an antarctica cruise for the end of the year. the baby penguins will be hatching - it should be awesome! here is a link if you want to check it out: http://www.gapadventures.com/tour/XFSSS
anyone up for europe in nov/beg of dec?
one last thing COUNTDOWN! - only 4 days til i see my boyfriend in the first of 5 shows (for those of you who thought the lead singer of interpol was really my boyfriend - he's not. he's just my pretend boyfriend. but lolita and jessica are going to see if we can do something about that ;) )
nighty! MWAH!
tiff
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
birthday frivolity
jared and claudia:
beautiful cloud:
don and heather:
joe and tiff:
yogi joe:
drunk ass:
don is the best/coolest acupuncturist ever, btw! (i forgot to mention that below) ;)
beautiful cloud:
don and heather:
joe and tiff:
yogi joe:
drunk ass:
don is the best/coolest acupuncturist ever, btw! (i forgot to mention that below) ;)
challenge activities
quantum leap 2 - standing up on top
ql2 with jeanie
chris - the fabu challenge dude
climbing up for out on a limb
me getting ready to fall off :)
ql2 with jeanie
chris - the fabu challenge dude
climbing up for out on a limb
me getting ready to fall off :)
ok so maybe i should provide a little more background on the video below. it was an activity at miraval called swing and a prayer and i like to call it scream and a prayer (or for the love of god are you serious?). it was by far the scariest challenge activity for me (clearly). there are no physical aspects to it. you get hoisted up about 35 feet and then you let go of the rope when you are ready. i did it one other time prior to the video taped one and i so hated it. so of course, i had to try it again! ;)
so i guess i'll take the time to bring everyone up to date on my miraval adventure. spending a month there was the best thing i could have possibly done. i am so happy and loved every minute of it. i got to do all kinds of cool challenge activities (i'll be posting photos of those soon). quantum leap was climbing up a 25 foot telephone pole and then getting yourself on top of it and balancing yourself on a piece of wood about the size of a dinner plate. then there is quantum leap 2 - climbing up a 35 foot telephone pole and balancing yourself on a 3 foot by 1 foot platform and then helping another person get up on it with you. i already mentioned swing and a prayer and the last one was out on a limb. that you climb up another 35 foot pole and then walk across a log to the other side and then half way back. you get to jump off all of these things when your done and then get lowered to the ground. they were all completely amazing and fun. thank goodness for chris, the challenge dude. he made all the experiences brilliant. he knows when and exactly what buttons to push if you start to pansy out. he rules!
and then of course there was the fabu yoga. i got to push myself a bit and learned (rather tried and busted my ass on) some new poses (warrior 3 is my new fave). all of the yogis were fabu teachers and i had such a great time doing yoga almost every day. i so loved restorative yoga with mary grace and dream yoga with joe. lazy yoga rules! oh and womanly yoga with natasha ruled, too!
and then of course there were the spa treatments which were all divine. i got the ever fabu jared many times as well as peter and david for massages. the lovely miss lolita did the most amazing reiki treatments on me. and my fave new treatments were the seaweed detox wrap and the aqua latte bath. highlights were getting all the gossip and hearing funny stories from the kids while laughing my keester off. they all totally rule and i miss them mucho!
i also tried the climbing wall and got to climb on top of it with john (he's fabu as well!) and then we went out to windy point on mt. lemmon one of the days and i got to climb up a 60 foot rock. when it came to rappelling i was a big baby and john had to rappel down with me. such a sweet little dude, i bashed the crap out of him!
i did have a ton of epiphanies and became aware of many personal truths and all that but i'm not going to bore anyone with those details at this point :)
we are going to be planning a return visit in june for anyone who is interested. i think we'll be getting a really big crowd to go so it should be a lot of fun!
i stayed an extra week in tucson and it was a blast. i got to go to dinner and lunch at ra quite a few times (an amazing sushi restaurant that rules!). bunny and i went shopping down 4th street and i got the coolest black cowboy boots with white stars on them. we had a hilarious drinking game night (someone lost their cookies on the couch - gross!). i went to the sonoran desert museum and that was awesome. for my b-day we went to poca cosa and i got a little too wasted on their fabu cosmos. so much so that i locked my purse (with keys inside) in the trunk of my rental car. we then went to the gay bar and the goth bar and it was a lot of fun. i continued to drink and get even more drunk. i remember trying to recite plant names that jared (mega botany nerd boy) kept saying but it was a little pathetic.
i am now in phoenix at my cousins house and i'll be leaving for vegas tomorrow and the salt lake after that.
so that's that. it may have sounded a little boring but i'll space it out from now on and try to make it a little more sassy and fun.
hope everyone is well. love and miss you, MWAH!
tiff n sniff
so i guess i'll take the time to bring everyone up to date on my miraval adventure. spending a month there was the best thing i could have possibly done. i am so happy and loved every minute of it. i got to do all kinds of cool challenge activities (i'll be posting photos of those soon). quantum leap was climbing up a 25 foot telephone pole and then getting yourself on top of it and balancing yourself on a piece of wood about the size of a dinner plate. then there is quantum leap 2 - climbing up a 35 foot telephone pole and balancing yourself on a 3 foot by 1 foot platform and then helping another person get up on it with you. i already mentioned swing and a prayer and the last one was out on a limb. that you climb up another 35 foot pole and then walk across a log to the other side and then half way back. you get to jump off all of these things when your done and then get lowered to the ground. they were all completely amazing and fun. thank goodness for chris, the challenge dude. he made all the experiences brilliant. he knows when and exactly what buttons to push if you start to pansy out. he rules!
and then of course there was the fabu yoga. i got to push myself a bit and learned (rather tried and busted my ass on) some new poses (warrior 3 is my new fave). all of the yogis were fabu teachers and i had such a great time doing yoga almost every day. i so loved restorative yoga with mary grace and dream yoga with joe. lazy yoga rules! oh and womanly yoga with natasha ruled, too!
and then of course there were the spa treatments which were all divine. i got the ever fabu jared many times as well as peter and david for massages. the lovely miss lolita did the most amazing reiki treatments on me. and my fave new treatments were the seaweed detox wrap and the aqua latte bath. highlights were getting all the gossip and hearing funny stories from the kids while laughing my keester off. they all totally rule and i miss them mucho!
i also tried the climbing wall and got to climb on top of it with john (he's fabu as well!) and then we went out to windy point on mt. lemmon one of the days and i got to climb up a 60 foot rock. when it came to rappelling i was a big baby and john had to rappel down with me. such a sweet little dude, i bashed the crap out of him!
i did have a ton of epiphanies and became aware of many personal truths and all that but i'm not going to bore anyone with those details at this point :)
we are going to be planning a return visit in june for anyone who is interested. i think we'll be getting a really big crowd to go so it should be a lot of fun!
i stayed an extra week in tucson and it was a blast. i got to go to dinner and lunch at ra quite a few times (an amazing sushi restaurant that rules!). bunny and i went shopping down 4th street and i got the coolest black cowboy boots with white stars on them. we had a hilarious drinking game night (someone lost their cookies on the couch - gross!). i went to the sonoran desert museum and that was awesome. for my b-day we went to poca cosa and i got a little too wasted on their fabu cosmos. so much so that i locked my purse (with keys inside) in the trunk of my rental car. we then went to the gay bar and the goth bar and it was a lot of fun. i continued to drink and get even more drunk. i remember trying to recite plant names that jared (mega botany nerd boy) kept saying but it was a little pathetic.
i am now in phoenix at my cousins house and i'll be leaving for vegas tomorrow and the salt lake after that.
so that's that. it may have sounded a little boring but i'll space it out from now on and try to make it a little more sassy and fun.
hope everyone is well. love and miss you, MWAH!
tiff n sniff
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