The Month That Was.

I write to you today from my new desk. As I sit here an write, I realize that my loft is nearly unrecognizable from when I first moved in. My windows now have full roller blinds that cover the length of the window, I now have full privacy where before I had none.

2 of my walls are now painted. One wall is a cobalt blue and the other is a orange-red. My goal is to paint only in primary colors, so far my goal seems to be in tact.

Unfortunately, the orange-red wall will need to be re-painted, the walls is still streaky as all hell, the work looks half assed. The great irony is that I spent 3 afternoons and a full gallon of paint trying to paint that wall and it still comes out looking like hell. Ugh.

Finally, Closet World came in today and installed the full dresser and desk into my closet. I now have a desk on which I can work, but most importantly, I have a place to watch the remainder of Season 3 of Mad Men. I was worried the day would never come...


It was the 4th of July Holiday this past weekend. I had a friend come into town so I decided to take most of the week off (that was how I was able to get shades and closet installed). I took my guest on a mini tour of LA, we hit Olvera Street, Griffith Observatory, but the highlight of the week had to be a downtown Art Deco walking tour. This was a tour given through the LA Conservatory, I believe there are 5 tours of downtown LA (the historic core, broadway theaters, the art deco tour just to name a few off the top of my head). The tour was lead by a retired Art History Professor at CSUN (not to demean her PHD, but CSUN, really? *scuff*). She was surprisingly informative and lucid. Hands down, the best part of the tour was when we arrived at the Eastern Columbia Building (my favorite building in downtown), she mentioned that she liked how some of the buildings have been converted (and therefore, the Art Deco designs had been saved from destruction). The Eastern Columbia Building just so happens to be a converted building as well, famously, it was the first major successful office to loft conversion in downtown. She mentioned the beauty of the building and symmetry of the portico designs and then spoke this gem (paraphrased) "The exterior is what counts, as long as the exterior shell is kept intact, and maybe, the lobby, then the Art Deco core is preserved. These loft conversions all gut the interior making them all look the same." Friends and family, you just heard it here first! All lofts look the same! I live in a cookie cutter loft per a CSUN PHD.  

I love America. I love Abraham Lincoln. The 4th of July holiday is my favorite Holiday of the year by a light year. I had a somewhat large group of close friends over for a roof top BBQ. I cooked some carne, pork, and my patented spicy salmon. The last couple of years I've celebrated the 4th in various spots around LA, 2 years ago I thought I saw an amazing firework show, I was on the Santa Monica pier (SM doesn't have a firework show) however, from the pier you could see 4 shows going off simultaneously (the Palisades, Malibu, Mar Vista and Venice). The roof of my building trumps Santa Monica by miles. From my roof it appeared as if the entire East Side of Los Angeles was exploding in fireworks. There must have been 20 visible firework shows going off all at once, truly, an amazing sight.    

Sadly, the pictures don't do the beauty of the fire work shows justice.