I made another movie!
This one is cut together from all the stuff I shot over the weekend at the LA Wedding. There's a BBQ, a wedding, and a heck of a lot of chinese food. And now you guys can see what my friends look like (Human).
Enjoy and let me know what you think.
-N
Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LA. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
A wedding...someone elses
A bunch of us were tapped to help set up the wedding reception area before the wedding proper happened, so we got a buch of stuff to set up and then 6 or 8 of us all showed up to put everything in it's place. Luckily, all the linnens and tables were taken care of. We got all of that stuff taken care of and then went down to Palos Verdes, big hilly beach area in the south of LA, to watch The Chef and P get married. It was a nice, simple ceremony, and the Chef had sewed her own wedding dress, the dresses of all of her bridesmaids, and 200 pillows for everyone to sit on. Crazy.
The wedding was really nice, and we even got to meet the newest member of our group. D and T had a BABY. Well, mostly T, but D helped! She's just a couple of weeks old, very tiny and cute, and spent most of the wedding and reception alseep.
In the grand tradition of Chinese Weddings in the past, there was entierly too much food, served over a rediculous number of courses. There were also a lot of speaches and cute little additions, like a slide show with pictures of the bride and groom as kids. Adorable. Everyone had a lot of cake, tons of photos and videos were taken, and enjoyment was had by all. We went home and got to sleep by around midnight...
Only to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to drop off the rental and get to the airport for a 6:40 flight. Yuck.
We're home right now, and Jess is catching up on her sleep. I'm not sleepy, but we're definitely taking the rest of the day off. It was a very tiring weekend. Mostly, for me, just being social. I'm normally an introvert, and while I like getting out and doing things, I relax by playing games, resting, and being cuddly and sweet with Jess, none of which are things I can do very much when I'm around people all day long. Jess got worn down too, what with all the wedding stuff, getting dressed up, and seeing everyone again. So, we'll take the rest of the day off, thank you, and enjoy our Kitties, who are excited to have us home. You gotta have a little bit of selfish rest-time, otherwise it's not a proper weekend.
-N
The wedding was really nice, and we even got to meet the newest member of our group. D and T had a BABY. Well, mostly T, but D helped! She's just a couple of weeks old, very tiny and cute, and spent most of the wedding and reception alseep.
In the grand tradition of Chinese Weddings in the past, there was entierly too much food, served over a rediculous number of courses. There were also a lot of speaches and cute little additions, like a slide show with pictures of the bride and groom as kids. Adorable. Everyone had a lot of cake, tons of photos and videos were taken, and enjoyment was had by all. We went home and got to sleep by around midnight...
Only to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to drop off the rental and get to the airport for a 6:40 flight. Yuck.
We're home right now, and Jess is catching up on her sleep. I'm not sleepy, but we're definitely taking the rest of the day off. It was a very tiring weekend. Mostly, for me, just being social. I'm normally an introvert, and while I like getting out and doing things, I relax by playing games, resting, and being cuddly and sweet with Jess, none of which are things I can do very much when I'm around people all day long. Jess got worn down too, what with all the wedding stuff, getting dressed up, and seeing everyone again. So, we'll take the rest of the day off, thank you, and enjoy our Kitties, who are excited to have us home. You gotta have a little bit of selfish rest-time, otherwise it's not a proper weekend.
-N
Good grief, what a weekend
So we went out to LA this weekend for The Chef's wedding. That was a busy weekend, let me tell you. We worked on friday then came home to say bye to the kitties and get our stuff. We went out the airport, flew to LA, and drove right out to hang out with the Hockey chicks. Jess got her championship hat (her team won the last season, but she missed the last game :( and got to see a lot of her old friends. Everyone is doing well, even if the league is going through changes. It always is, the faithful just continue to play hockey.
After that, we went to K.A.T.E.'s house, where K, A, T, and E live. It's a proper bachelor pad, which is to say big TV, messy kitchen, and always stuff happening there. We got there at the same time as everyone else coming back from a night of partying. I'm not entirely sad I missed it. Too much alcohol. Anyway, we crashed at KATE's house for the night, (3 AM, Texas time) and then went to a farmer's market in the morning. I had a 'Pluot'. A cross between, I believe, a plum and an apricot. GOOD FRUIT. Keep an eye out for that one.
I got a bunch of other stuff for breakfast too. Most of which which was strange and foreign, but delicious. After that we went back and Jess was *really* nice to me. Instead of making me go out and do stuff, she let me stay at KATE's and be lazy for a while. Then we had a little impromptu grill session in the backyard and called it a day.
Sunday was CRZY, though. We got up and went to Dim Sum: chinese food, all of it served A La Carte. It's good stuff, especially if you're adventurous. If you're *really* adventurous, though, it's less good (pig intestines, chicken feet, straight-up blood.) I stayed with the parts of the animal I recognized and had a pretty good meal.
After that we hung out with Jason and Megan for a while, which was nice to see, but then...then the wedding started to happen...
After that, we went to K.A.T.E.'s house, where K, A, T, and E live. It's a proper bachelor pad, which is to say big TV, messy kitchen, and always stuff happening there. We got there at the same time as everyone else coming back from a night of partying. I'm not entirely sad I missed it. Too much alcohol. Anyway, we crashed at KATE's house for the night, (3 AM, Texas time) and then went to a farmer's market in the morning. I had a 'Pluot'. A cross between, I believe, a plum and an apricot. GOOD FRUIT. Keep an eye out for that one.
I got a bunch of other stuff for breakfast too. Most of which which was strange and foreign, but delicious. After that we went back and Jess was *really* nice to me. Instead of making me go out and do stuff, she let me stay at KATE's and be lazy for a while. Then we had a little impromptu grill session in the backyard and called it a day.
Sunday was CRZY, though. We got up and went to Dim Sum: chinese food, all of it served A La Carte. It's good stuff, especially if you're adventurous. If you're *really* adventurous, though, it's less good (pig intestines, chicken feet, straight-up blood.) I stayed with the parts of the animal I recognized and had a pretty good meal.
After that we hung out with Jason and Megan for a while, which was nice to see, but then...then the wedding started to happen...
Thursday, June 12, 2008
We're on our way!
So we're spending this weekend back home in LA, attending a wedding ('The Chef', for those of you from my old blog). It should be good fun, even if we have to set up all the stuff for the reception before heading down to the wedding. And I say this because I've been put in charge of the wine table. FUN TIMES!
We got some house-sitters, *professional ones* to come out to our place a couple of times over the weekend to check on the Kittens and play with them and do the feeding and the scooping and the like. They're a very nice, retired, European couple from Yugoslavia that have been doing this for several years. They come over yesterday to pick up the house key and meet the kittens and, evidently, talk our ears off. They're really nice, though, and it's good to have dry run considering we're going out to Florida over the 4th of July weekend and then a couple of weeks later this year when we...what was it? Oh yeah, get married.
Speaking of which, Jess has been looking into flying us from florida down to our 'Presumptive Honeymoon Nominee' of...wait for it...Costa Rica! It turns out the flight is pretty inexpensive, and there seems to be a lot of interesting things to do. Excitement!
-N
We got some house-sitters, *professional ones* to come out to our place a couple of times over the weekend to check on the Kittens and play with them and do the feeding and the scooping and the like. They're a very nice, retired, European couple from Yugoslavia that have been doing this for several years. They come over yesterday to pick up the house key and meet the kittens and, evidently, talk our ears off. They're really nice, though, and it's good to have dry run considering we're going out to Florida over the 4th of July weekend and then a couple of weeks later this year when we...what was it? Oh yeah, get married.
Speaking of which, Jess has been looking into flying us from florida down to our 'Presumptive Honeymoon Nominee' of...wait for it...Costa Rica! It turns out the flight is pretty inexpensive, and there seems to be a lot of interesting things to do. Excitement!
-N
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