Random thoughts

It doesn't really matter when you live in LA. We have no seasons. We have warm and a little cooler. Wait, I lied...we have "the rainy season" that lasts a couple of weeks (some years).

But that being said, the months that are defined as "summer" are coming to a close and that is sad. Not being a teacher, it's not like I get summer vacation, but I always feel a bit more relaxed in those months for some reason.

It has been an amazing summer. Time for some highlights.

JUNE--
**10 year high school class reunion in Muncie-was good to see old friends and catch up. And now I have a scar on my finger I can't explain but it's a good "memory."


**went to the Griffin alone and met Cooper mid-month...spent the rest of the weekends with him pretty much


**Ours at the Glass House in Pomona...first show since the album came out and it was fabulous


JULY--
**Great shows...Live at the Greek, Coldplay at the Forum, Feist at Hollywood Bowl, Carolina Liar at the Troub, The Ruse at Viper Room and scb at hotel cafe (KT and I after Live)


**Taylor Univ. Girls Weekend 2008 in Dallas, TX. My 5 girls and I met up in Texas this year at Jess' house...we came from LA, Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, Eden Prairie (MN), and Youngstown (OH). Spent hours upon hours talking and catching up, a few hours shopping, and then talked some more. :) Still waiting for my copy of the group photo but this will do for now.


AUGUST--
**The Underwear Affair benefiting City Of Hope to cure cancers below the waist! A 5K walk that was oh so much fun in our ridiculous outfits. Can't wait for next year!



**Radiohead at Hollywood Bowl...oh my word, amazing show. One more to cross off my list of must-sees in my lifetime. But that's not to say I won't see them again because I most certainly will!

**Lots of relaxing fun weekends with Cooper and my friends


Work is good. Life is good. Summer is good.

Current Location: work desk
Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Nada Surf

My sabbatical is over. :) I'm happily moving on to happiness. Redundant? yes. Who cares.

I'm giddy and loving life and I must share that with my lovely livejournal. I can't believe how fast 2008 is going and I guess that means I'm getting older. I remember my parents saying that time just goes faster as you age and I know they're smart people.

August should hold some fun activities...fewer shows, more downtime, some traveling, exercising.

Current Mood: chipper

I'm not Catholic. And let's be honest, I'm not really going to be a nun. But I am definitely on a self-imposed dating sabbatical.

Starting....now!

Current Location: rite-aid parking lot
Current Mood: complacent
Current Music: nada surf

So you grew up in a town where everybody's all the same
Like a city full of zombies going by the same name
Saying eat this, wear that, think you know just where it's at
When everybody's just alike
Now tell me how you deal with that

If everyone was just alike I don't think I could deal with that.
I don't want to be the one who does everything like I'm told to....


I heart Butch Walker.

As if you didn't know that...

Life is good. Life is confusing. I have a boot on my foot until March 12th. The doc thinks I might need physical therapy after it's all said and done, but I guess that's ok. I don't want to fall apart at 28. So whatever I need to do, I'll do.

My birthday was amazing. Had such a great weekend. My mom got here Wed, the 13th. That night Steve played an acoustic show at Genghis Cohen. Afterwards mom was tired so I dropped her at home and went up to the Roxy to meet up with Rada (at 11:30 and with the boot on my foot). Because that's how I do things. :) Ran into George which was interesting as he'd been MIA. But that was fine. Good to see him. On Valentine's Day Mom, KT, and I went to see Abbie's new movie "Definitely, Maybe" and our friend Tom was sitting right in front of us randomly at the theater. Hilarious. LA is tiny. SCB played on my actual bday down at Gypsy Lounge. A bunch of my friends came and of course all the SCB people. Darren and his wife Chelsie brought me cupcakes and sang to me which was cute. Katie C. made her famous cupcakes too. So we had a lot of treats. Steve's gf hooked up a hotel room for us in Anaheim so we stayed down there and went to Disney/CA adventure all day Saturday. I was in a wheelchair which was definitely NOT ideal. People kept stopping right in front of us and I'd have to put out my hands to avoid running them over. :) Saturday night was our karaoke bday party up in LA which was life-changing. Dan came and I hadn't seen him since October and he threw down! My friends aren't so much the shy type (go figure) so everyone was really into it. A-ha "Take on Me" Journey "Don't Stop Believing" Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"...just a lot of classics. :) Sunday was church and Hugo's and dinner with the Breslin fam at Home. All in all, a great great way to turn 28.

This month has been non-stop and March is going to be more of the same pretty much. Bad Religion plays HOB on Tues. Live will be rolling through here next Friday and Sunday. Adam K. is doing a solo show at the Troub on the 11th, Nada Surf plays the 19th, Steve plays acoustic at hotel cafe on the 26th. Busy busy. Fun!

Tonight I'm headed down to orange county for what seems like the gazillionth time recently (mainly because I just went last night). But it'll be fun. Looking forward to some time with friends and new music.

Current Location: work per usual
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Butch Walker- My Way

Boys frustrate me. Why, you ask? Well because they can't say what they really mean. I honestly don't need to be coddled. I have a mother for that. This has happened to me a few times in the last few months. I meet someone, we hit it off, we go out, we talk about how neither of us is looking to be in a relationship....and honestly I MEAN THAT. For the first time in my adult life I'm dating multiple people and enjoying that. In college people didn't do that. Taylor was a school of relationships. And relationships are fine...but at this stage of my life with work/friends/music I just don't want the responsibility of someone else's demands. Maybe that sounds calloused. I don't mean it that way. Anyone that knows me (as you all do who read this) knows I'm not unemotional. But at the same time I'm trying to be realistic. Now, if the right person came along I might be singing a different tune. I might throw down my independence (ok, let's not be too extreme) and say "yes, let's do this thing!" But these situations I've found myself in are not that right person. They are fun and great and meet my requirements for a partner in crime (not actual crime obviously). But that doesn't mean I'm a girly girl about the situations. In the first case, it was strictly a matter of getting to know each other. He freaked out. Two dates. Freak out. Said he didn't think that he had the time to get to know me. Ok. I respect that...I don't understand it, but I respect it. I thought it was sad only because I love getting to know new people whether through dating or just in life and to limit yourself by saying you don't have the time is sad. I didn't take it personally because after two dates and at his insistence I knew it was his thing, not mine. (As an interesting update we are now going on dates again after a 2 month break...guess he has time now and I have the red flag in the back of my mind :)).

This just happened to me again. Two times hanging out. And finisimo. He needs to take a break from some things. Uh-huh. I think I share too much of myself. But I've always been really open. I describe it this way. My sister Katie is really good at guarding herself..some would say too good. She says "ok, what is your name? what do you do? where are you from?" then she knows that person for 2 years and says, "Ok, I trust you." Me on the other hand has a dialogue that goes like this..."Hi, I trust you...oh, and my name is Molly."

To top off the fabulous week of being dumped from a non-relationship (again) I got my broken tooth fixed Friday and couldn't feel my face for hours. Once I got the feeling back I realized that the temporary fix is way too big and I need to go back and have them cut it down or I can't chew without pain. Then Saturday night I sprained my ankle. Worse than I've ever sprained it before. It is massive. I have a cankle.

All that being said, I really am not in a foul mood. Just been a couple really frustrating days. I am still in love with 2008 and its possibilities. I've been pushing myself to experience new things, to keep my options open, and to let life happen. This is my bday month and I'm excited about it. Just need a healthy ankle and I'm good to go! :)

Current Location: sitting with my foot elevated
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: snow patrol

I'm in San Fran for the first time but I don't think it counts since I'm only at the airport. Katie and I drove up to the Bay Area from LA on Saturday morning. We were going to try to leave Friday but as both of us were going on 4 hours sleep for 2 nights in a row we decided Saturday might be better for all involved....

Once we realized it was WAY too expensive to go see family this year considering flights were $600 and I had 4 days of vacation we improvised and went up to see Cathy and her hubby and parents in the Berkeley area. so much fun! No agenda for 4 days, a massage for all the girls at a spa, dinner in town a couple nights, shopping on UC Berkeley's campus....it was great!

KT is staying until Saturday and driving back to LA with Cathy and all the dogs. I have to go to work today :(. But there are only a few days of work and then another long weekend. Ready for 2008!! Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas!

Current Location: SFO airport
Current Mood: rejuvenated
Current Music: Il Fornaio coffee shop's easy listening

It is hard to believe that another year is almost gone. It's been a tumultuous year to say the least. Lots of upheaval, change, progression...all I can say is that I've learned a lot and that's all I can really ask for, right?

My favorite things of the year are:

1. moving into my own apartment
2. job improvements...promotion, more responsibilities
3. new friends!!! JJ, Joshua, Steve, Devon (and old friends too..Katie, Anne, Rada, KT, etc.)
4. travel--Chicago twice, Indiana twice, Minnesota twice
5. new music connections--Ours, scb, everything is energy (JJ)
6. cutting out toxic relationships (which shall remain unnamed to protect the not so innocent)
7. the endless possibilities that I've discovered

As always, as I look back it is interesting to see the path that I've taken. I've been pensive a lot lately but I guess that's a "this time of year" type thing that people do. I realize that if I'd cut out aforementioned "toxic" relationship earlier like I wanted to I wouldn't have met some amazing friends I met through Mr. Toxic. So in that way, I truly believe that all things happen in perfect timing even if it makes no sense while you're going through it. Tracing it back you can see how even the misjudged steps lead to a place you were supposed to be in. I love that.

We've got a lot of new mottos for the new year. For my sister it is "Kate in '08!" Katie Campbell has adopted that as well, I believe. I am a big fan of "Great in '08" as well as "Date in '08!" Looking forward to looking back on another year.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: music in my head

My boys were on this week's episode of "The Hills", that terrible MTV show about snotty girls from The OC who work fake jobs in LA and have fake superficial relationships. But sadly, a lot of people watch the show, so this is GREAT exposure for The Ruse. Thank the lord for TIVO at work because I could fast forward everything that didn't include the guys in it. The first scene where they're mentioned this chick Audrina is at lunch with a co-worker at her fake job at Epic Records and says "I'm going to see this band tonight at the Viper Room. They're called The Ruse." Her friend replies, "The Ruse?" "Yeah, they're like an alternative rock band or something. I have heard they're really good." YES! Two name mentions in a minute and a half. :)

The best part is that they showed about 2 minutes of their show at the viper room and a portion of their song 'Swallow You' being performed. The boys looked good! The producers told the guys that they needed to interact with the "characters" to help with the storyline, so that's exactly what they did. Unfortunately they made Mark look like kind of a schmuck but anyone that knows him knows he's not as desperate as he appeared. Ha. All in all, I was very happy to hear their name, see their faces on tv, and hear 3 songs of theirs used in one episode! Way to go, guys!

Here's me with the one and only Jim Bilus at their show in Santa Barbara this summer.


Mark and J at our bday party....

And Mark at the party up close and personal :)

Current Location: work per usual
Current Mood: ecstatic

Here is my kitchen...



This is supposed to be the breakfast nook, but I don't really want a table and I already had a desk...so it's my "office". :)



Living room view from the front hallway with the big windows that face the courtyard. I'm on the 5th floor FYI.



View of the living room from the office.



A very fuzzy picture of my bedroom. :) There are two doorways that lead into this room so it was really tough to actually get a shot that shows the size of it. It's not as small as it looks in this picture. :)



This is the vanity that is off the living room/bedroom and that leads into the bathroom. I love it!



Bathroom!



And there you have it...enjoy. :) They are filming The Unit again in my building. I want to take some pictures of the outside one of these days but that will have to wait until I have a real camera so I can get the whole thing.

Current Location: worky...soon off to lunch though!
Current Mood: content
Current Music: rock kills kid

I'm sprawled on my bed in my not-so-new now apartment after a long day of work. My boss walked in tonight around 6:45 and came through my office (it's in his house so he kind of has to cut through there :)) and says "Molly, you're working too late and too hard!". So at least he recognizes it. That is nice. I missed 2 days last week because of my sickness so it's been make-up time.

The last post was about how moving sucks. It definitely does. But I love love love my new place. I lucked out. Arthur loves it too. He is such a good boy here. No more crate during the day. He's out in the living room/kitchen while I'm at work and he's been perfect! :).

They film in my building all the time. So far they've filmed "Journeyman" and "The unit" and they're filming something tomorrow too. My lobby is set up for what appears to be a political press conference. Interesting. The highlight was during the unit when I met Scott Foley (HOT!) and he told me Arthur was adorable. Serious score.

The next post will have pics of my place...gotta resize them first! Off to feed the animal and meet my sis for a chat.

Current Location: # 526
Current Mood: content
Current Music: Jem