Who's late on their blog again? I am, I am! This week was a nice calm week. Work went surprisingly not too frantic upon Meghan's return. I went through all of the companies past patterns and organized them by garment type fighting the other intern's lack of understanding of organization the entire time. I also got to style a photoshoot this week which is always lots of fun and low stress. Paul always takes these opportunities to take creepy stalker, paparazzi like pictures of me. He is compiling a whole file of them by now and they all consist of me making pissed off faces, closed eyes, mouth open, or looking high. I told him I was NOT photogenic! He loves to make strange comments asking me if I want to sell books "Don't I?" and "Won't it be fun to tell our kids we met through a camera". He's funny and Vanessa ( the model and fellow intern) and I laugh as we try to keep him on task in our shoots. I have spent Meghan's return preparing items for Meghan's new Fabulous Home Line! I spent lots of time revamping these skull candles to look super chic, and after petal and jeweled eyes, studded heads, earrings, giant feathered head dresses with hanging gems they could no longer be safe to be sold as candles and have been named Lola Cocoa Cabana, shes a dead show girl! With each completed step I kept thinking, "Ok, she's awesome, she's done!" and then Meghan would say "She looks awesome, now lets take it to the next level!" and I was off on another stage of add-ons! It was a HUGE on going process the whole week! Thursday night I went to the Art Walk. The Art Walk is held once a month in downtown LA just about 5 or so blocks from my loft. All kinds of local artist of different sorts come together and fill all these empty spaces in a 2 or 3 block area. My girlfriend from church, Ashley, had asked if I would like to go with her and since I had missed it last month I really wanted to go and see what it was all about! She got of work late so we knew we were only gonna get like an hour in since it was supposed to end at 9. She arrived and we drove down the the walk to find some parking...big surprise...NONE! So after lots of looking and realizing we would have 15 minutes tops to see the Art Walk we headed back to my loft were there was $5 parking next door. This is cheap mind you, real cheap. I will be so baffled when I get back to Oklahoma and can park where ever I want and not pay for it! We headed down to the walk and realized after a bit that artist don't follow the rules of time. Time doesn't exit in their world. I we walked in and out of spaces observing all the different forms of art I admired the way the whole thing simply flowed from street to building never noticing were one began and another started. It all just felt so open and free. People everywhere were dressed wonderfully and my eyes were feed well! Walking through allies we would stumble across random little bands in the streets playing their music to small forming crowds and free spirit dancers. It was at this moment with a small 80s funky looking group of guys about my age singin and dancin their hearts out that I realized that I was in love. I was in love with LA. What a wonderful time and experience I am being so fortunate to have! At work the Resort Collection at work has to be ready in about 2 weeks and when some of the garments for it arrived on Friday around noon we needed to get some first specs on them so that they could be fitted and sent back to China for any necessary changes. I started to get some specs taken and then we head out to lunch. When we got back to the office from lunch everyone was quick to work on the computers finishing designs and shipping orders and I got back to work on my specing. About an hour into our work suddenly all the lights and computers shut off! One of our assistant designers breaks into a song of curse words and the announcement that she hadn't saved all of her work! Everyone waited a few minutes for the typical power outage to go away and everyone to get back to work. After about ten minutes our accountant went to find out what was going on and he came back and told in his quite Turkish accent that the power is out on our whole block and would be back on in an hour of two. What! That's crazy! The only time I have ever been in power outage that last more than a few seconds are when crazy ice storms swoop through Oklahoma and the power is out for days, other than that its always a quick on and off. With the office at a complete stand still since everyone had been working on the computers in burst Meghan, whom had been at a meeting all morning. She says in her quirky voice "Hey guys! The powers out!" We all laughed a little at the obvious observation. She called to one of the designers that she had picked up some children's books that reminded her of Cali (the designer). Eames and some of my other co-workers began to make jokes about Cali reading to us and us just having nap time since the office was dark. "Can we all just sit in a circle and have story time?" "Yeah, and with out legs crossed!" After lots of laughs and kindergarten suggestions, it was agreed. It was story time in our office! Cali set in one of the desk chairs as the entire office including Meghan sat in a circle around her. She began to read Hop On Pop. Eames was quick to cue the soft classical music for story time. We all had the giggles as she began to read and we all realized what was happening. Here we are a group ranging in age from 20-32 sitting in the middle of a dark office having story time! As Cali continued to read we started to make jokes about the cover quote "Seuss' easiest reader", which makes you feel like a big tard because its so easy to trip over the words...which she did and then got pissed and demanded we go around the circle reading. Then the game was to read in different accents going around the circle. Erica read first but only in a sweet teacher voice, then I read "RED, NED, NED'S HAIR IS RED!" in my Alabama Southern bell accent. It was just about the funnest thing EVER! Once the book was done we all chanted "Again, Again!!" common in the kindergarten days. We all kept laughing and slowly moved pointlessly back to our desk and all began conversations with one another. Paul found this of course the perfect opportunity to come and stalk me with the camera. He snapped away getting his usual blurred, angry shots of me before we settled into a conversation ourselves. After realizing that we were just wasting payroll we all decided to head out 2 hours early! I grabbed a Meghan sample dress (the first one for myself since my first week of work) and headed home! One Saturday we had a giant craft fair we had been planning to attend for about a month now. It was only a few blocks away from us at the Cal Mart and would be the first weekend we had stayed in LA since our first weekend out here! We went to the craft fair early in the morning as soon as it started and had planned to go bead and component (for jewelry) shopping after that. The craft fair was HUGE! I had never been to one so big...nor so expensive. With darling bracelets at $30 dollars, amazing sweaters at $75, and yarn made beards for $40, I was having a hard time saying yes to anything. Then, I ran across something I just had to have. A man's stand where he took old books and cut and rebound the edges and adding paper making them into amazing journals/sketch books. They were the neatest thing! As the journal went on, so did the story book pages, with a few placed here and there. I knew I had to get one for my little sister Alissa as her souvenir, and I couldn't resist I had to have one too! But all and all I came out pretty cheap for that craft fair spending $23 on Alissa and mine's journals. After that we headed out to the bead shops and realized real quick that we much prefer to buy at wholesale prices like we get to at work with our companies credit card. I managed a few fair buys and grabbed up some beads for the upcoming years sewing projects for school. Later that night my friend from church, Andrew, asked if I would want to watch a movie with him and I was so down for some movie time! We decided that we would do the theater since we both really wanted to see UP. It was gonna be playing in Santa Monica so we headed out a little early so we could get tickets and watch the street performers. Before the movie started Andrew ran into a book store to grab a book that he had been wanting. We then ran to a organic soap store that I had fell in love with in Pasadena. I ran around the store looking for the soap. One of the girls that worked there came up to me and I rambled out the type on soap that was looking for and they pointed it right out and told me that I was also going to get a free body buffer with it! Yay, I was so excited! The guy went off to bag the soap with me and the girl helped me pick my new scent of body buffer. I was so excited jabbering with the girl about this soap and how much I loved it that I didn't realize the guy had rang me up for the big bar and I just payed $20 for a huge-A hunk of soap. Great Leslie! The movie was adorable and it was really fun to see one in 3D! Went to church on Sunday and was asked to give a talk in sacrament in 2 weeks....my last Sunday there. I excitingly excepted, as for some strange reason I had been hoping to do so since week one in my new ward. Well that's it for week 6 and crazy enough I only have 3 more weeks out here! Its flyin by!!
Xs and Os
~Leslie
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