Beautifying

I'm ashamed to say that I have not had my hair cut in months. And when I say months, I mean more than three and my locks are not looking up to their usual peppiness.  I have been very hesitant about getting my hair done down here, because well, back in Bay Area, my hair was cut by a dear friend of mine.  Now that I don’t have her hair advice/expertise to rely on, I’m finding myself having to take a more active role in what to do with my hair.  Usually I would give my friend a couple of guidelines, and then let her have at it!  However, I decided earlier this week to take the plunge and I made a hair appointment for myself for this weekend.  I researched a bunch on Yelp and decided upon the Ultra Lux Salon & Lounge.  The salon looks fun, got rave reviews on Yelp, is an Aveda salon, and I feel ready for a beauty adventure.  It’s definitely not a conservative place, but I’m in desperate need for a new look, and maybe even an adventurous (yet still professional) one!  I’ll report back on how it turns out next week.

Location is everything

Prior to living in LA, we had lived in a couple different San Francisco neighborhoods. Location was an important factor for us while living in SF, especially since parking was either extremely difficult to find or very expensive.  Even now, I still get shocked when a parking meter charges less than $10/hour, and that’s not even a parking garage!  Who has that kind of change handy anyway?!  When we moved to LA, I found myself having to reacclimate to the new location standards. In SF, its vital to be able to walk to places or have easy access to public transportation. In LA, everyone has a car, parking is usually readily available, and when planning travel time, you need to allocate at least an hour of “wiggle room” in case of traffic.  I’m glad that I don’t have to ride on packed fowl-smelling buses anymore, but that has now been replaced with the dread of either fighting insane traffic or being run off the road by speedster locals.  We move into our new apartment in a couple weeks, and I’m hoping that my location standards will have adjusted to our new latitudinal coordinates by then.

Inspiration

I love music, but I don’t play or sing.  I love art, but I don’t draw, paint, or sculpt.  I love food and I do definitely eat and certainly can make an effort to cook.  I love to read and here’s my attempt at writing for fun.  My job requires a considerable amount of writing, but I thought this would be a fun creative medium to share my life with my husband, D, and our experiences of living life in Los Anegles, or as some refer to it, the Land of Angeles.  It’s my goal to keep each post to 200 words or less with an occasional picture or two.  Why restrict the number of words?  Well, it gives me a goal and it forces me to keep things as sweet and to the point as possible.  Or as Richard Serra, an American sculptor, said, “ . . . you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.”