First Friday - Westchester

Today is our second "First Friday" spent in LA.  We decided to keep it a little more low-key; checking out the local Westchester First Friday and hoping to try some new yummy food truck goodies. When we got there (right about the beginning) many of the trucks were still setting up and after perusing our options, we ended up going to the immensely popular Grilled Cheese Truck (I've read about people waiting in line for an hour and a half for this stuff and I believe it b/c it's always got the longest line!).  

I got the Gruyere on French Bread  with Arugula (I ordered Basil, but they were out) with a cup of Homemade Tomato Soup and Andre got the Special Melt of the Day (Muenster with Pastrami, Dijon Mustard, and Grilled Onions).  

We also got a S'more Melt for dessert (Marshmallow cream, Nutella, and crumbled graham crackers on sweet brioche bread).  

While Westchester is definitely not as happening as Venice, we still had a good time, waited in a much shorter line, saw a greasy weiner and left in time to stop by Costco and get the latest coupons along with some nom noms for our empty cupboards!

ps I love how you can tell the difference between the pictures I took with my favorite "toycam" app and the ones Andre took with the boring old default phone cam

NEW PHONE

I've finally joined the rest of the 21st century and got a smart phone!  I decided to go droid, though I thought long and hard about getting an iPhone and didn't know how I'd like what I got, I love it.  Granted I'm coming from a flip phone with a cracked camera that couldn't save the crappy pictures it could take to the micro SD that didn't work..... but yeah.  So far my favorite apps/games are the fx camera (which includes toycam, poloroid, fisheye, symmetricam, and Warhol settings), alchemy, angry birds, google maps, and this app that converts mp3s to ringtones, but I'm currently taking suggestions.

andrea's hardest day of "work"...

What's the most awful thing that you can imagine you'd have to do at work? No doubt it is no where near as miserable as what Andrea had to do the other day - spend the day at the Warner Bros. Studio hanging out with marketing and advertising people from companies like PlayStation, Mattel, Disney and Universal Music, and wrapping up with a studio tour!

Among the torturous things she was put through, she had to check out some of the vehicles they store on the lot from movies like the Matrix, Austin Powers, Harry Potter, and Batman Begins/ The Dark Knight

All of that was bad enough since she doesn't really like movies, but when you think about how much she HATES television you realize how horrible it was for her to have to go to the Friends set, and the (drum roll please) THE SET OF CHUCK!

Since taking pictures of working sets were outlawed, the only pictures of the Chuck memorabilia she was able to get was an image of a nerd hearder (like one of the Geek Squad's Geekmobiles) and a poster with a 'fro-ed out Chuck, which looks crazy if you've ever seen the show.

Poor Andrea!

Since she was going to be having such a bad day I didn't want to have fun and make her feel like she missed out, so I just adventured around the Burbank-North Hollywood area and went to a taping of Conan.

Sorry, since Andrea had the camera to document anything WB was going to do to her in case we had to take them to court for abuse I have no proof of any of this, except for this stuff that doesn't necessarily mean that I was on the show or that they belong to me (if you look REALLY hard in the video clip of when Conan comes out at about 1:05 or so, you can see me! I'm on the right side of the right most aisle above a light wearing a black hoodie and my black and white stripped shirt that I'm wearing in the Halloweenie post, third from the curtain in the first row in the balcony section [whew, try saying that 3 times fast]).

Clearly we are not enjoying our time here and cry ourselves to sleep every night.

:'(