Happy Saturday

I'm waiting for my parents to arrive in LA right now at Susans house. Around me our suit cases and garbage bags filled with my stuff from the intern house. I have not unpacked anything and have had no idea where anything has been all week. I just washed a load of clothes and have been only wearing whatever was in the basket. I have no idea where all this stuff came from, I swear I only brought 2 suitcases with me....whoops.

Here I am one week after the internship has ended, still in LA.

Really, I did not think I was still going to be here when I visited St Louis in March. I had my whole summer planned and all intentions to come back, but then the AT&T commercial launched and I started to LOVE TOMS.

Everything just fell into place from there.

Susan's movie got green lit and she needed a house sitter for the summer = Me.

A short term job developed in the customer service department/online store and the rest is history.

I am one of 4 interns that decided to stay in LA. I'm anxious to get settled into my new style of life and see what it's like to not live and work with 14 other people. I keep joking that the Real World is over and we are the spin off show from the original cast.

The last two weeks have just been unreal and a ton of fun...
*I went to Las Vegas for a random weekend get away to see Dave Mathews and Jason Mraz (most random two days/weekend of my life)
*Came back for our last three days of work
*Celebrated the end of our last day at a Karokee bar on Wilshire (so not my typical scene, but was one of our best nights out)
*Went back to Disneyland last thursday (a gift from TOMS)
*Packed up all of my stuff and said goodbye to my roommates
*Emilee came to town! She was my first LA guest, so i tried to pack in her 5 days with as much as I could think of. A highlight was going to a Jay Leno taping, even if I am a loyal Dave/Conan Fan. She for sure got the full Cali experience by being here for the 5.0 Earthquake on Sunday night.
*Worked for three days
* Had my hard drive crash. Good news is MAC is fixing it for free, Bad news is everything will be gone. Pictures, Itunes, etc = GONE. I went and had a beer right after that news to help cope with the lost/news.
*Developed a huge crush on Kris Allen. Why did i not know about this guy?? I would have been watching American Idol a lot sooner
*and now my parents are on there way to spend a week together driving up the coast from LA to San Fran, where i will go to my first Cardinals game of the season at the Giants stadium Friday night (marking another life goal off of the list)

After I get back from that trip my summer LA life offcialy starts. I'm looking into trying to take a class (cooking? art? surfing?), anything that will help to maybe meet some new people.

this city has never felt so big

cheers to the summer!