Heads/Tails

Piece of candy for anyone who can find the chinchilla!

I Booked My First Paying Gig!!!

FINALLY!!! It's my turn!!! I booked a print commercial job for Sycuan Casino in San Diego. I will be playing the role of a waitress, which is a stretch, I know. God knows I'm a pro at that by now! They will be paying me $350/day and will need me for 2 days, they will be reimbursing me for mileage to get down to SD, and they will provide room and board for one night per work day. Woot woot!!! Finally something that pays more than $80! Haha! I will be heading down there Weds night and should be back in LA by Thurs evening, and then will be heading down there again for my second day on Sept. 7th.

God knows I needed this! It'll definitely help with the tight earnings I barely get from my restaurant job and hopefully I'll be getting more gigs! Yay! I'm starting to become a "real" actress!

Modern Day Lysistrata!!!

Oh, for the love of ... REALLY?!?!

I was buying Ramen noodles for dinner because I have no money, due to people in Burbank not tipping properly. At the risk of offending a certain racial group, I was standing in line behind a group of very ghetto people. They started calling me Ramen and noodles and laughing. I wasn't sure if they were calling me that because of my purchase or because of my ethnicity. Either way, I really wanted to kick them.

Ironically, the grocery store clerk said after they left, "Some people are just where they're from!". The clerk is of the same ethnic group.

Moral of the story: He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.

For Jeremy

I just had a realization that I should probably start documenting my gourmet dining experiences better. The photos that I have for this place is minimal and I'm wishing I had more visual aides. I didn't take any pictures of the cocktails we drank nor did I get any images of the fantastic food we consumed. I think was too distracted and hungry to make a quality documentation of the experience. Whoops! Anyhoo...

This entry is specifically for my dear friend, Jeremy, whom I've successfully managed to see at least once a year. Last year I went up to San Jose to see him, this year he came down here. He had a business meeting down here which was the initial reason why he was in LA. He had a victory - something to do with a script, which I would feel he'd rather tell the details, but while down here he made a stop to see me. Yay!

Our agenda this past Monday was:
1. Day at the beach
2. Dinner at Campanile

For those who are foodies, Campanile is a restaurant owned by Mark Peel and is housed in a building that was specifically built for Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was never able to use the building because he lost it in a divorce to his second wife, but the architecture and remodel is gorgeous! You can find out more info on the restaurant's website. You can also see a photo of the building in it's original form. The restaurant sits in what used to be the courtyard of the original building and a skylight has been built over it, presumably to preserve it. So on the website you can see what I didn't capture with my camera, which will be pretty much every thing but the skylight ceiling.

Jeremy hates having his picture taken, but he's in the lower right corner of this photo!

This is one of their VIP rooms.

Dinner was fabulous!
Appetizer: Clams and muscles with sorpressata, tomato confit, grilled bread, and aioli
Entrees: Jeremy had Pan-Roasted Hanger Steak with roasted red onion, mustard mashed potato, horseradish crème fraîche. I had Ricotta & Summer Squash Ravioli. It came with brown butter, pine nuts, currants, sage, parmesan cheese. The sweetness of the currents was a surprising compliment to the saltiness of the ricotta.
Dessert: Jeremy ordered a Peach Tarte Tatin (I think this is what we ordered. It's no longer on the menu online so I couldn't confirm) and I ordered the flourless Chocolate cake. Heaven!

All in all, it was a wonderful day! The only weird thing that happened was that I drank a really strong cocktail at dinner. It was definitely stronger than I thought because I went to bed at 2am feeling absolutely fine! Then woke up at 7am with a pounding headache and was drunk as a skunk! I, personally am not interested in replicating that experience, but if you'd like to try it, here's the drink:

Violet Beauregarde
polish vodka, triple sec, fresh lemon juice, muddled fresh blueberries, served up in a sugar-rimmed cocktail glass

It's a very tasty cocktail, but dangerous!!!