Crazy Week

Last week was crazy busy, and I've been busy the last few weeks as well, so I haven't done anything interesting enough to post or had time to post it if it happened.

Things are back to normal, and nothing interesting has happened recently... So I'll try to write something interesting, but I can't promise anything.

The Jason Wu clothes I wrote about in the last post turned out to be an epic fail. The materials felt really crappy and most of it didn't fit well. One dress is almost a keeper -- it doesn't fit perfectly but it's so cute. I still haven't decided whether or not to keep it.

Image from Target

Since the last post, the husband and I took our first trip together to hang out with our friends in San Francisco -- it was our first trip to hang out together with our friends since we moved from SF. It was a lot of fun, and it made us realize that it's hard to recreate that sort of group of friends in LA. We have a lot of history with the people in SF -- Manu's known one of the guys since he was 4, one of the girls since middle school, and another guy (the girl's fiance) for 7 or 8 years. I've known these people since Manu and I started dating, and there's another girl who I've known for 4ish years. It's hard to expect that kind of history when we first move to LA. I think it'll take a few years for us to get to the same point with our friends in LA.

And of course, while in SF we ate a lot of tasty food -- Burmese food, Indian pizza, Chinese food, Israeli food... hard to go wrong with that. I'm looking forward to Vietnamese food during my next trip up there.

Jason Wu for Target

I tried to be cool, I really did. I showed up at Target about 20 minutes before they opened, was about number 50 in line, and I had my list of items I wanted to try on from the Jason Wu collection. And then they let us all in and all the tall people ran over me and reached over my head so I couldn't get any of the items I wanted.

I grabbed a few things in my size, none of which I really liked or that fit me well. I did manage to grab a purse from my list. However, I realized, I probably would never carry the purse and decided I didn't want it. Rather than hanging on to it to use as a bargaining chip to get the dress I wanted, I gave it to a random girl who offered me a bunch of random stuff in my size -- none of which I actually wanted. So that was a waste. Clearly I'm not a good negotiator, but at least I learned what to do next time -- grab everything I can and hunt down people I can trade with.

Not that I'm going to go to the store next time. I might just sit on my computer at midnight and constantly hit refresh until the items I want pop up online. Showing up in person = totally not worth it. I could have slept in, and not woken up at 7 am to drive 15 minutes to Target. Or I have to send my sister -- it looks like the clothing collection was much less popular at Atlanta Targets.

I did refresh the Target website several times today, and one of the dresses I really wanted came back in stock. I'm eagerly waiting for it to show up but I'm expecting the sizing to be weird. I'm almost hoping it doesn't look good so I can return it and spend my money on something else, but I have to give it a shot.

Pictures of the filming

As promised...

Celebrity Sighting!

I know, I've had a dry spell when it comes to celebrity sightings. Luckily, my coworkers were nice enough to let me know that "New Girl" was being filmed right outside our building. I took a quick break from work to go watch. I saw Zooey Deschanel and Dermot Mulroney! May I just say that he looks much better with some gray in his hair. And Zooey is sooo pretty, even in real life. I didn't try to zoom in and get a good picture of her for fear of being kicked out and not allowed to watch the filming. But I did see her eating lunch and eating an apple (she looked great eating an apple... I only wish I looked as cool and un-awkward as she does).

It was also really exciting seeing the filming. The set medic came over to offer us some sunscreen and he chatted with us for a few minutes. I could see the set people driving cars around to set up the scene (it was a scene where Zooey's car breaks down).

While I don't actually have a picture of the celebrities I saw (my coworker was brave enough to ask to take a picture with Zooey), but I hope to soon post some pictures of the filming.

I am so cool... (part 2)

... and I'd like to think this outfit fools people into thinking I am.

The husband told me I can try to dress cool, but I usually end up doing something spastic (hence the blog title) or something silly or something ridiculous. None of the above happened when I was wearing the outfit. I didn't fall down, I didn't spill food on my white shirt (yay!), and I didn't break anything. I think that counts as a success.

Unless you count the fact that I had to tuck my shirt into my tights to keep them from coming untucked every time I move. But we'll pretend I didn't share that information.

And here's an upclose picture of the fun textures I tried to play around with -- subtle houndstooth wool and stripey/netty tights. I kept everything else plain white and black to compensate since the shorts and tights combo was outside my comfort zone.