YAKINIKU GRILLING, COOKBOOK SHOOT, SAND DOGS

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: JULY 30–AUGUST 5, 2018! (YAKINIKU GRILLING, COOKBOOK SHOOT, SAND DOGS)

A week revolving around food—cooking and grilling at home and shooting the first recipes for a recent cookbook collaboration project. Enjoy!

I inherited Frida over the weekend before and brought her to work with me on Monday.

Running the trail slash roads around the Getty Center. It’s my new favorite because I can be at work early for good parking, and also see deer sometimes…plus play Pokemon Go as I run. A hero’s move.

No meetings day, ultra casual.

Home to Zach whipping up one of his favorites—fajitas.

Getting Zach to start Killing Eve while we eat chicken fajitas on the couch.

Glenn shot!

Tuesday, towel shot baby.

One of those days where I was exhausted and accidentally took the shuttle to the wrong parking lot and then had to get back on the bus to the right lot but was alone in my journey.

Japanese grill night

The oil was splashing on me, sometimes you need a splash guard.

I wear these pants too much

Grilled cheese and tomato soup, the ideal lunch combo if you have to eat at the cafe.

Zach is out of town so I’m on chore duty now

Friday night to myself, I whipped up some hot wings…for one.

Had a good Tweedy cuddle

And woke up with him by my side

Happy Saturday!

Shooting some test recipes for the amwa cookbook! So excited to work on this project.

Professional

Caught cooking my spam

Heaven

In progress…

Made it home! I stopped at the Korean market on the way home. Kiki is back after two weeks away from work and I wanted to welcome her home with some grill.

Had some relax time with Degrassi Season 1 (yessss) and my puzzle that won’t ever end

Grilling with Tristan, Justin, Kiki and Ders into the evening on Saturday.

Sunday morning, we decided to go back to the dog beach this time with Peanut too!

I saw some improvement in Tweedy’s skin and since we came here the weekend before I thought maybe it had to do with the salt water when I forced him to swim…so…let’s try again.

We started with some beach lounging

Then I took both Tweedy and Sufi into the water. I think Sufi truly thrives at the beach.

I don’t know if it is the time of year or the heat wave we’ve been in, but the water actually feels GREAT. I never like getting in the ocean, especially because it’s so cloudy and dark and scary…but also because it’s so cold normally. BUT I went in the water for like an hour, it was the best.

Drying off all together

*HAD BLAST* *SAND NOSE*

Post-bath rat Sufi emerges

Had leftovers from the night before so GRILL NIGHT ROUND 3

Peanut party

This mirror found its way onto the sidewalk. It’s a good mirror. Makes for an atmospheric passage whenever I walk the dogs past it. Hello mirror. Goodnight mirror.

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Ready for some invasive, random questions? (Inspired by the nostalgia of Livejournal surveys, I borrowed this survey from giambinorules on Livejournal originally posted April 2008). This one is long, but it’s more survey-like than the previous questions I’ve posted. Copy/paste and play:

PRESENT

Is your hair up?:

Is your phone right beside you?:

Do you have a bf/ gf?:

Do you wish you were somewhere else?:

Do you have plans for tonight?:

Are you wearing makeup?:

Are you wearing chapstick?:

Are you cold?:

Are you tired?:

Are you excited?:

Are you watching tv?:

Are you wearing pajamas?

Who’s the last person you IMed?:

Who’s the last person that you called?:

PAST

Ever stuck gum under a desk?:

Ever spit at someone?

Ever kick something living?:

Ever had your nails done?:

Ever thrown up because you cried so hard?

LAST WEEK

Had any plans last week?:

Who did you see most last week?:

Was last week interesting?:

TODAY

Have you cussed?:

Have you yelled at someone?

Have you gotten mad at someone?

Have you cried?

Have you called more than 3 people?:

Have you IMed more than 3 people?:

Have you eaten anything gross?

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PRESENT

Is your hair up?: Yes

Is your phone right beside you?: Not directly, I’m in bed and the phone is on the side table…at arm’s reach.

Do you have a bf/ gf?: Yah

Do you wish you were somewhere else?: Yeah, who doesn’t!

Do you have plans for tonight?: My plans tonight were chores, packing, finishing some freelance work and writing this so *exciting.* Tried to get to bed before 10 so I could wake up at 5:30…we’ll see how that goes.

Are you wearing makeup?: No

Are you wearing chapstick?: No

Are you cold?: No…Los Angeles is in the middle of another heat wave.

Are you tired?: A lil’

Are you excited?: Sure

Are you watching tv?: Watching some YouTube in the background

Are you wearing pajamas? Yah

Who’s the last person you IMed?: IMing…who misses AIM. I wish I could have an away message for my Internet presence sometimes. But…I guess the last text I sent was to Lauren, I’ll see her tomorrow in San Francisco.

Who’s the last person that you called?: My mom

PAST

Ever stuck gum under a desk?: Yeah, I’m not proud

Ever spit at someone? No

Ever kick something living?: Accidentally

Ever had your nails done?: Never

Ever thrown up because you cried so hard? Nope…that sounds hard

LAST WEEK

Had any plans last week?: Dog beach, grilling sessions…well you saw it all in the post above!

Who did you see most last week?: Tristan, Zach, Kiki, in that order.

Was last week interesting?: Happy to have Kiki back in town!

TODAY

Have you cussed?: Yeah

Have you yelled at someone? No

Have you gotten mad at someone? Annoyed, but not mad.

Have you cried? Weirdly, no

Have you called more than 3 people?: No, I hate talking on the phone.

Have you IMed more than 3 people?: I gchatted with two…so…no! I’m a loser.

Have you eaten anything gross? I had hot cheetos for dinner I am ashamed.

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Thanks for reading! Much love friends.