Day 158

I feel weird today. I hate transitioning between places, and I think I expected something to be radically different when
I got back to Philly.

I slept and had hallucinatory dreams and cuddled my eager cats and took a gang of trains and threw up a pretzel wrapped hotdog at 8am at the airport.

I think I need to do something new.

Day 157

Friday December 28

Leaving LA. Here is a drunken picture I took in the airport.

I drank so much and took so many sleeping pills ???????

I am shocked I made it onto my plane???

Being home was weird and anachronistic and skull-numbing. I was able to turn off almost all my political filters and be nice to people. I didn't talk for almost a week. I also did a lot of things that were fun, made my mom really happy, brought back some fun clothes, hung out with my brother and exercised a lot.

Leaving still felt really sad, though.

Day 156

I found a horse camp today on my 6 mile run.

Ugh it's insane to think I probably didn't even burn off one Lawrys steak when I was miserable running SIX miles.

Gross.

Sidenote: thanks Jillian Michaels for the Gospel of Calories In Calories Out.

Day 155

Wow well. It's the day after #LAXmas.

I forced my family to go to an art museum before we went to LAWRYS PRIME RIB???? I got to tweet and make art?????? So that was awesome.

Then, the best part of dinner was maybe the giant potato chips and tiny meatballs they give you in the crazy waiting room.

I have a lot of words to say about the prime rib experience but. Who cares.

Day 154

Christmas Day.

This year I had the least traumatic and best-gifted Christmas ever! (except when people got engaged. But I think I am too old to be freaking out about this??)

I think I literally like giving gifts more than receiving them??????

Also ... Um I fit into (almost) all of my insane vintage clothes from when I was a hip Cali girl when I was 17??? It's the best Xmas present ever?

Aside from union life love texts, which I also received today.

Day 153

Christmas Eve! (or, Monday Dec 24)

I went for the craziest hike on earth today!! I found secret passages into canyons. I literally climbed up a mountain like a beast. I also fell down a mountain???? I guess I understand why people like hiking. ( yes, ms Snizz, go ahead and call me a late adapter to everything ???)

It was sooooo fun!!!!! Dare I say I am having actual fun during #LAXmas????

Day 152

Sundayyyy.....

The dreaded Christmas Around the World Party.

I made it through? Mostly because my neighbor made the glögg was extremely strong and everyone was more wasted than I was.

Day 151

Saturday December 22

It's my half birthday!

Uh so. I asked for steak for dinner like several weeks ago??? Little did I even know what I was going to get.

Day 150

Friday.

First day in WLV.

Oy. Well, at least there are cats here. And a LOT of vegetables.

Day 149

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Buena Park, DTLA, Culver City, east part of west LA, DTLA, Japantown (??), LAX, WLV

Waking up today was an adventure. Here is a picture of $4 I got for a bus ride from Buena Park to Culver City.... and some pics from the 2 hour bus ride.... and some pics from the rest of the day with Ms Snizz and Boyfriend!!!!

Day 148

Los Angeles, Long Beach, Compton, Buena Park.

Today was maybe the best day of my entire life. What pictures can I even post????

Day 147

It's plain day!

I took regional rail all by myself!!!

In the DFW I found Christmas trees of the world. My favorite one, as always, is the tree from Japan.....

Duh Texans and the Reagan library have a lot in common. Blind idiocy.

Day 146

Awwwweeesome day preparing for my trip to Cali and mentally preparing myself to not freak out!

Here is a really awful pic of city hall I took so I can remember how awesome Philadelphia is when I'm in LA.

Day 145

Vegan gluten free brunch day followed by Debtopoly.

The debt collector in the Santa hat is (obviously) my cat sitter.

30 years ago she got worms from her cat. I love occupy people???

Day 144

Saturday December 15

Action Day.

Abysmal turnout, decent press coverage, successful bank action ( once the police came to rescue everyone from the angry branch manager).

Here is my fave pic. Great messaging, Sheryl.

Day 143

It's Friday Friday.

Adorable cat pic duh!

It was my last day with two jobs and action-planning until February! Hellllooo poverty, good bye having to work nights and weekends for this month and next!

Day 142

Thursday November 13.

Oddly enough, I realize most cultural events I go to are burlesque shows. I LOVVVVEEE them. This is one of my fave friends !!!! Soon she'll take her tutu off in an amazing fucking way.... And then be naked.

Day 141

Wednesday December 12

I made my bed!!!! And I love my cat!!! Ms Snizz is always right. I feel a lot better now.

Day 140

Tuesday December 11, 2012

Today is the day I got my fucking shit together. Thanks to one of my amazingly wonderful friends here???? I did my laundry, cried on the street only a little, went grocery shopping, made a broccoli salad, and had a weeping intervention with my magical buddy. I even blogged.

He gave me this little acorn and then Fran and I nuzzled it together.

Day 139

Monday, December 10, 2012

Last day of extremely bleak depression. I drank this delicious beet/kale/apple/celery juice.... If only I hadn't also sobbed on the sidewalk and then drank a bottle of champagne.

I love Christmastime.

Day 138

Sunndaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy.

We went to the Punk Rock flea market today. God dang it was awful. Just hipsters pretending to be anarchists and buying old things.

There's nothing political about nostalgia for your youth. Is there?

Anyway, speaking of worthless nostalgia and the delusional glorification of one's own youth (am I the only one who can admit I was wholly miserable throughout my entire childhood and don't want old shit around that reminds me of it???)

Uh ok anyway.

Boyfriend bought these army men and made them fight. I made them have romantic gay sex ad propose to one another.

Day 137

"Is it Saturday yet?"- nick carter
"yes."- me


Um soooo. I did actually sleep for 12 hours.

I was walking around in Northern Liberties and i saw these nice sparkly Christmas lights.

Day 136

Friday. December. 7.

I've been thinking incessantly about what to get my brother and dad for christmas.

I'd really like this!

What do grown men like??? No idea.

Also did you know cb2 is the new hip Crate & Barrel?? That was news to me.

Day 135

All I want to do is lay in my bed and sleep 12 hours a day and play with cats???? And
Not eat and take 100 prozacs and expend all my energy on exercising and scavenging free healthy food and saving money.

Is something wrong with me?

Do I breathe propane 4 hours a day?

Or is this how normal people who don't love going to meetings feel all the time??

Day 134

I gave a speech and chatted with a city council member today. Yay worker power.

Also sometimes maybe I wonder I'm way off the deep end. When I'm aiding and abetting delivering dirty socks full of coal to banks.

Oyy.

Day 133

What do you guys think this means? Is this lunch special a good deal? Plain slices of cheese or a cheese sandwich?

Day 132

I literally waited all week to get wasted at a holiday party and then watch the Anthony bourdain tour of philly at a bar.

It was awesome! Nothing is better than cheering drunkenly with your city brethren at the bar thats currently on TV and celebrating the fact that tony bourdain finally came to Philly after literally refusing for years?????

DUH. He loved it here.

Day 131

After a rigorous day of trying not to eat, napping, and spending a lot of money on cold medicine and carmex lip medication and tampons..... I am finally doing what I'm in the mood for, watching 30 Rock with my cats.

Day 130

Uhhhh this is what my fucking face looks like. I am so sick and I think I have a UTI because my pee burns, and I have my period early and I have a cough and phlegm, and my eye is
Infected???? And I'm so
Tired even though I've been resting for a week.

What.

My face looms less fat though???? To me, at least.

Day 129

UUUUHHH CRAFT SUCCESS NUMBER 1!!!

Maybe #2 after the love blankets of yesteryear.


Pinterest is pretty useful.

Day 128

Does this blog ever get interesting??? The biggest thing happening in my life is that I'm struggling to lose weight when I have unlimited access to arepas, Popsicles, and hot chocolate. I have also had a horrible cold for over a week and no amount of sleeping will fix it.

This has never happened. What do I do?