*lip*gloss*fantasy*

oh mondays. i don't loathe mondays the way some people do but i don't love them either. after all, at least you can think about the (potentially) awesome weekend you had. and this past weekend was quite eventful. starting off with some dancing friday night.

the highly-anticipated (well...by me at least) PYT fridays went off without much ado. turmed out the "club" was more like a bar with a small dance floor and a big back patio. the music was good but not GREAT. the drinks were pricey. the clientele was so so. all in all, i might return. most of us got there early enough to where we didn't have to pay to get in and we got a free drink ticket. it seems if you get there after about 11pm you have to pay $5 if you RSVP'd and $10 if you didn't. that would not be worth it for sure. and then you wouldn't get a drink ticket either. anyway, i had a really great time regardless of all the hoo ha. i was sufficiently intoxicated and cut a rug with rick for a good amount of time. so i consider the night somewhat successful though this cannot replace bang! that's for sure. i just can't go to bang! cuz i'm too old. BAH!!!!

oh, and i should note that alex's friend pete and his gf, maura are in town visiting from philly and were staying with us from thursday til last night so they were at the bar with us and accompanied us on our weekend adventures.

saturday, alex woke up butt ass early to do this 8 hour training session to be a mentor to an underprivileged kid. he found the company because it's in his building and i guess they have people hook up with a kid and just do things with the kid. fun things. alex would be good at this i think. anyway, he did the training and pete, maura and i met him for lunch. then i took them to melrose where they were on a mission for sneakers. pete is a huge hi-top fan and maura also likes cool kicks. so we did that for a couple hours. then once alex was done we went to scoops for some awesome weirdo ice cream. i love that place. the flavors are bizarre. and it's cheap. and totally mom and pop. a true gem in LA. around 7pm we headed out for oxnard where we would be spending the night at a hotel so we could depart early sunday for the channel islands. it took about an hour to get to the hotel and we put our stuff down and figured out a place to eat. we found an indian place in ventura that sounded good. it was quite delicious. the service sucked a bit but the food was mighty tasty. then we caught a 10pm showing of tropic thunder. ok, i have to say that i did NOT want to see this movie because from the poster it looked dumb. but they all wanted to go so i couldn't just sit alone at the hotel. well it turned out to be a really funny movie. downright RIIIIIIIDICULOUS. i think that's the only way to describe it. robert downey jr. is fucking awesome in the movie and tom cruise is a really surprising and perfect guest star. oh man. his dance scene is priceless. anyway, good movie for what it is. fucking stupid laughs and insane storyline.

after the movie we were heading back to the hotel and i was driving because alex didn't want to. i forgot that his one headlight is out so here i am just minding my own business when in the rearview mirror, what should i see but a goddamn cop flashing his lights. i was just about to enter the freeway so i was a bit confused where to go. i've never been pulled over before!!! but i knew it had to be for the headlight. so i just got out my license and alex's registration and when the cop came over i handed it to him immediately and here is the convo we had:

me: it's the headlight isn't it? i know we have to fix it.
cop: yea but i don't care about the headlight. where you folks going?
me: back to our hotel.
cop: where are you from?
me: LA. but we are out here for the weekend to go to the channel islands.
cop: ha! the channel islands. gonna take the island hopper out there?
me: yep.
cop: you guys been drinking?
me: haha no...
cop: why night? it's like 12:30 at night. what else do kids do at this hour?
me: well we are going to the channel islands.... (as if to say we are lame dorks)
cop: true... (as if to agree)
me: yea and we have to wake up early.
cop: ok well let me just run this real quick and you'll be on your way.

the cop went back to his car with my license and the registration and we sat and waited. when he came back he said "wow. you have an embarrassingly clean record. no tickets. no violations. nothing." and i said "well i've never been pulled over in my life. and now for this headlight and it's not even my car!" and the cop said "well i won't give you a ticket for that headlight. i don't do that sort of thing. we just pull people over as a pre-check type thing. in case you have been drinking or maybe we run your record and you have other violations. but nothing here. have a fun time at the islands!" and i said "thanks. and we'll fix that headlight as soon as we get back." and then we were on our way. i have to say that it was a very pleasant situation all things considering. i mean i had no reason to be worried and it's not my car. if he did give us a ticket for the headlight alex would have to pay for it cuz i've been telling him for weeks to get it fixed. he's just lazy. so yea. my first time getting pulled over. hopefully my last. or at least for a long while....

yesterday we woke up really early to head out to the boat that takes your to the islands. the channel islands are 12 miles off the coast of oxnard. they are considered a national park. i think there are 5 islands. we went to the small one called anacapa. it's like a couple miles around i think. the boat ride was an hour and we mostly slept through it all. we were all really tired. we got to the island around 11am and had 3.5 hrs to spend there before the boat came back to get us. a lot of people snorkeled or kayaked which we should have done. the island is so small we walked around the entire thing in like 2 hrs and then we were a bit bored. not to mention it was hot as balls and there was NO SHADE anywhere. no trees. nothing. and i stupidly didn't wear any sunblock so as you will see in the photos below, i got BURNT! gah so bad. my neck still hurts. gahhhh!!! the sun was fierce. the scenery was really pretty and we took some photos. i wish we had gone to the larger island. would have been more stuff to do. next time...

after we got on the boat and back to the mainland we stopped off at the actual national park building to get alex's national park passport stamped. then we headed back to LA. we showered and then went to roscoe's for dinner. a few others joined us including neil. we went to the hollywood one of course since it was down the street. i still prefer the pico one. i don't care if the hollywood one is the original...neil agreed. after that maura and pete got picked up by their friend who they stayed with last night and tonight. we might all meet up for one last dinner tonight. we shall see.

but that was my glorious weekend. not too crazy but fun and different.