crazy trip

Hello and good morning blog world. So it's been an interesting week, and it concludes with tomorrow morning me flying out to Kiev, Ukraine.

Work is sending me on a trip to meet with one of our outsourced developers there to speed up a project. wow... fun, crazy.. i booked a flight on wed, i am not even packed yet (hmm.. what is the style in Kiev these days). I'm working on getting a laptop setup now.. so i can access my work computer easily. As long as that works well, i'm sure the trip will be fairly smooth.

Gone for a week, will try & blog from halfway across the world! ta ta

the dance

well my first burlesque show was a success! with the exception of just two minor almost freak outs on stage.. our dance went exactly as practiced :) i think the whole show went very well, and it raised over $4k for breast cancer. The girls were super fun, and i think it would be cool to get something going like that out here... for a cause of course.


i've pieced together some pics from out show.... i tried to put it together as if you were watching the dance... now imagine "Staying Alive" playing......




























...that's all folks!

bedazzling

top is bedazzled
      fishnets are folded
stillettos are packed
Tommorow i wake
      early in the morn

flight to catch
Indianapolis i'll be
Saturday night
      big dance show
no stage fright they'll be



(non haiku)

google rules

and microsoft....blows..

anyway.. back to my blog.. I am so excited with what i found out today. actually i am a tad bit embarrassed i was not aware of this before.

so i'm sitting at work, and thinking back to my dinner last night.. My friend stopped by to visit w/ my goddaugher Maeve.. and we were going to do Korean BBQ. I've tried a place with the parents already, which was pretty good. But i felt i should explore more. There is an overwhelming number of KBBQ here.. how do u pick one. I tried yelp on a friend recommendation when my parents were in town, but.. i am pretty lazy at times (or busy with work).. so i waited around and hoped she might lookup a place. After all she is the hotel'ie . And of course, she had. But that left me wondering today.. i want to try more places around here.. but how do i keep track.. now i've tried 2, and i already have forgotten the name of the place i tried with my parents.

So i start thinking to myself, of posting a big LA map on my wall at home, then printing out little pics of the places i've tried and sticking them on it. But i was already trying to get out of that idea. As i haven't really even started with my bedroom setup, i still need to do shelves, hang a mirror. I didn't think i needed another project for the apt. Then i have this great idea.. google should do myMaps... and i can save my little posts it's all over and leave notes.. I love google maps....Wait it's too good.. they must have done it already... so i glance at google maps.. and didn't notice it.. and start daydreaming again.. maybe i'll look at the google map api.. i love mapmyrun.. that integrates.. oh but it would be a lot of work... so i go back to google maps & map something..... then low & behold.. save to my maps link .... DUH ... of course google came up with this already.

So i am excited. I've added my map to the blog .. and i will update with hot spots, restaurants i've tried, want to try etc.... I will have to work out a color coding/icon scheme.. but my pre-resolution for 2009 ( i'm starting early this year.. i think i skipped 2008 resolutions) is to try new places & populate my map.

touring the city of angels

Art Deco style.....
A few weeks ago, due to the research of my friends Kara & Tim we tried one of the Conservancy group of LA's tours of downtown. They have a few: historic core, art deco, theaters... I pushed for Art deco.. as i felt i should learn more about the style due to my new apt.

The following are some pics, and some tips to update u to art deco style.


first we descended deep into the bowels of LA (yes Virginia there is a subway in LA)


















At Pershing square out tour begins... notice the chevrons, tower, indented windows.......inside...
















Artwork would represent details of the buildings function, i forget what this building was for, something to do with california.

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..notice the light bulb...

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art deco buildings have a limestone base and upper portion consisting of terracota tiles.. sometimes dyed.

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bye for now... oh fair city

exploring

..where are the TJ's in your neighborhood.. in your neighborhood.. in your nei... bo... hoood.. oh..

enough of that. skipping my late night kickboxing workout today, i instead opted to head home & find my local Trader Joes. The nearest to Koreatown being that on 3rd and La Brea. Sweet, i'll just take the La Brea exit from the 10 on the way home.. and scope out what's going on near me. Sadly though i've walked about a bit, and taken the metro, explored downtown, I have not yet ventured about in Mr. T to see what there is to see.

Well my explorations today yeilded results: La Brea & 8th.. a Shabu shabu place. I am very excited to check that place out, hope it keeps up to my Ebizo skewers expectations. And what is next door do u ask? A Sake bar.... tottemo benri des yo!

I found TJ's and it met expectations. Though i doubt i will take my direct from work route here again, as it took me about an hour. I think, at most, it only takes 45 minutes for me to get home. and i can't blame it on the 405 because traffic was scary, as in non existant, you only see on weekends morning prior to 8am.

Skipping kickboxing was not in vain because when i made it home i had plenty of time to walk to the local Big 5 and radio shack. I now have 6 HDTV channels and 2 mouth gaurds (i'm stocking up because it takes me so long to get to the store for them).. though that reminds me.. i better start boiling some water so i don't get laughed at in sparring tomorrow w/ my unformed mouthgaurd ;)