Slutty Blog

So Halloween is on Wednesday but as usual, the Saturday before the big day there are plenty of drunken costume events to attend. My friend Angelica had a party where every lady attending had to come dressed as Amy Winehouse. Since I love Halloween and dressing up, I was happy to meet the challenge and pull together my best Amy Winehouse attire complete with bee hive wig, pounds of liquid eye liner and powdered sugar smudged nose.

So Saturday comes and before we went to Angelica's party, we have to make a stop at another Halloween party where one of Tony's bands was playing. I don't know why I didn't put two and two together before since the band we had to go see is a metal band, but when we got there I realized I was in the epicenter of a metal rock trash party. Everyone seemed to have the same costume theme.... Slut. I was a lone Amy Winehouse in a giant sea of slutty nurses, slutty fairies, slutty police and slutty angels. You name it, the girls added slut to the end. I mean, not that I'm trying to be old or prudish because when I was in college, sure I had my share of revealing costumes, but never ones where my whole ass was hanging out and barely covered by a pair of fishnets. And never did I wear a transparent shirt with stickers covering up my nipples.

Ahhh it was a classy event. Anyhoo, so I'm sitting on a couch with Tony (who is dressed as Amy Winehouse's husband but all scratched and beat up), and Jen (who is dressed like Lily Allen) and every two seconds some goth dude with chains and creepers or some drunk girl in one of the formentioned costumes above would come up to me and ask "ummmm like who are you supposed to be anyway?" Have these people seriously never heard of Amy Winehouse? I mean I'm wearing a bee hive wig and have the illusion of coke all over my face for God sakes!


I realized I needed to leave this party fast before the keg ran out of PBR and an angry mob of white trash swept through the party kickin' ass. We eventually went to Angelica's and everyone there definitely appreciated my costume. After that I came home, spent a good 30 minutes stripping of layers of eyeliner. Halfway through the deconstructing process, I realized that I totally looked like a drag queen. Thankfully, Tony snapped this picture below to capture this look.

Corporation Blues

TGIF pretty much says it all. This has been an incredibly difficult week as my company decided to implement a huge layoff that ended up hitting my department, which no one saw coming. I lost a friend and co-worker that started the same time as me and was essentially my "pledge brother." If that wasn't anguish enough, I have spent the whole rest of the week scared of loosing my job in the next round of layoffs. I keep getting reaffirmed that our department won't be "affected" (which is how the head honchos describe being laid off.. like it's some sort of grotesque disease) but that's what they said originally too. As my friend Andy puts it... I have a current case of the "corporation blues." I guess we all get them, I mean Elizabeth Shue did get a case of the babysitting blues.. I suppose.. corporate blues exist too. So in order to turn this frown upside down, I have been trying to take pleasure in the little things in life. The following things are helping to get me out of my funk (sort of)

-Dark Chocolate M&Ms.. damn are they delightful
-Watching 5 episodes of Weeds at a time.... I guess watching Mary Louise Parker's character Nancy go through her own dramatic issues of trying to balance running a suburban pot business, being a mom to two kids and a wife to a DEA agent makes me realize my life isn't so bad.
-Reading my TMZ gossip and laughing at Brittany dig a deeper hole in her giant ditch of a life
-Making Sheppards Pie
-Driving my car.. it's new, it's plaid, it's amazing, and it's all mine

I'm headed to the bay this weekend to visit my Aussie relatives who are visiting my folks. I haven't seen them in years and they always have cheery and bright dispositions so I'm sure I'll come back refreshed and happy.

Hipsters Always Ruin the Fun

Last night I went to see Justice at The Fonda. I was really excited to see them play because they were AMAZING at Coachella, however last night was definitely not like Coachella. The main differentiator was the abundance of hipsters that were present (at Coachella I don't remember seeing crazy hipsters when Justice played the dance tent, although they weren't that popular then and I was probably too busy dancing to notice anyone). So, I understand why hipsters exist, what I don't understand is why the do the following annoying things:

- Wear dirty mismatching clothes from the early 90' with a pair colorful Nike's and not wash their hair for 2 weeks and assume it's hip.
-Constantly bump into people and not apologize...when you become a hipster do you loose depth perception?
-Document every single second of a show with a digital camera even if blinds the people around them.
-Get into ridiculous fights with gay men.

So to note on that last point. We are all laughing, dancing, having a great time when all of a sudden this aggro hipster dude starts screaming at a group of uber fashionable gay men and starts up a fight for no apparent reason. There was pushing, there was shoving and it totally ruined the light hearted " I just want to dance my ass off" mood. Tony and Josh being the good guys they are,  jumped into break it up to try and end the scuffle quickly so we could all get back to enjoying the show, but of course that only opened up a can hipster worms and led to Muhammad Ali's drunken girlfriend stumbling through an explanation repeatedly about how her boyfriend was a "crazy Palestinian" and how "he'd fuck them up." After the fashionable gay men got kicked out, and the crazy hipster Palestinian dude returned to his drunk girlfriend to make out, the mood was sort of spoiled and we all called it a night. Next time I go to see Justice, I will tell them not to invite their annoying hipster friends.

Did the Great Pumpkin Pass Me By?

Fall is my absolute favorite season. I love everything about fall, the crisp smokey smell in the air, the crunching sound of dried leaves, the cool overcast weather that is warm enough to allow you to be outside if you want, but still cold enough to motivate you stay inside and snuggle by a fire. Not to mention the best clothing in the world are fall clothes.. cute boots, jackets, sweaters, knit dresses  etc. All of these things help to get me in the mindset for Halloween and Thanksgiving. All of these traits of Autumn are magical, unless you live in Los Angeles where there is no such thing as Fall!!

This past weekend everyone was complaining about the rain and cloudy weather. However, I took full advantage of this weekend and stayed in sweats all day, turned on a fire with our seventiesesk switch-on fire place, baked yummy treats, knitted the scarf I've been working on for Tony for over 2 years and curled up with my cat and watched movies. It was the best weekend I've had in a long time. Having seen LA affected by Fall-like weather for 2 days, I got excited and assumed that this great weather would continue until I turned on the TV today and saw the damn weather report that says the rest of the week is going to by sunny and in the high 70s! Ewww Gross!

So in order to try and keep up the ritual of welcoming the best season ever, I am going to celebrate Fall in my own little controlled environment by doing the following things:

-Continue to wear Fall type clothes but modified to SoCal (i.e. scarves with short sleeve shirts, boots with skirts but no tights :(, light jackets and light sweaters.. maybe I can trick the universe into being colder?
-Buy the best seasonal Fall products stores have to offer, the wondrously amazing Trader Joe's Pumpkin Butter and Pumpkin Ale and tiny drops of heaven otherwise known as Candy Corns
-Cook up Fall by making homemade apple cider, soups and stews served with hearty crusty bread, and dishes made with hearty squash
-Burn pumpkin and spice candles to create the illusion of Autumn smells

If anyone else feels the way I do, please feel free to celebrate your own personal Fall with any of the above ideas. In the meantime, I am going to do an "overcast rain dance" and keep my fingers crossed that the clouds come rolling in.

Been a While......

Well, It's been a long time since I've written a blog and I have probably lost all 5 of my readers! I have been traveling for the past month which has caused my lack of blogging, but I am going to try and blog more frequently. So to get everyone up to speed, this is what's been going on.

- Celebrated Tony and my one year wedding anniversary in Portland and Seattle. I LOVED Portland, it was beautiful, hip, affordable and fun. No sales tax = happy Marta. I got some anniversary ink on my ankle as a nice souvenir. Seattle was cool but much cleaner and slower paced than I would have imagined. I guess I expected a grungy, dirty, flannel Singles(esk) early 90's Seattle. Seattle was still cool, but Portland took the cake.



-Went to NYC for work and got to attend my very first Yankee game which was also the night dreamy all star A-Rod hit 2 home runs in the same inning. I'm not a huge baseball gal but I think I would be if I lived in NY. There is just something magical about Yankee Stadium. Ventured out to the Lower East Side (all thanks to Josh and Jen) and went to Max Fish which was very fun and I got a glimpse into what East Coast Hipsters are like.


-Went to SF for my best friend from 7th grades wedding which was great. Also celebrated my dad's 60th Birthday with a bunch of local yocals who honored him with music, poems and lots of wine.


-Randomly inherited a pair of tickets to the Emmy's this Sunday and got to walk the red carpet and gawk at celebrities with my college buddy Jewls.



-Currently in exciting Dulles Virginia to go to the current yet soon to be former headquarters. Am staying at a hotel with hundreds of middle age portly business men who all look like they are named Bob. I tried to order a bowl of Chicken Soup from room service only to get 3 calls back to re-confirm that I ordered Chicken Soup.. Yes people I just want a fucking bowl of Chicken Soup!

LOVE IS....

Yesterday I went home from work sick and was bedridden all day. After 2 episodes of Sex and the City, 1 episode of Rock of Love, Practical Magic (yes, I watched and it and still love it) and half of Walk the Line, I was one more show away from being a zombie. My whole body was aching and I was miserable. Then my knight in shining Fred Perry came home with some delicious wonton soup from pick up stix and the best "get well" gift I have ever received... An Optimus Prime Voice Changing Helmet along with some lemon heads and gummy bears. Can a girl really ask for more than that?

Lake Tahoe

Last weekend Tony and I went to Lake Tahoe to spend time with my family. It was so great to see everyone, especially our two month old baby niece Issabella.









Lake Tahoe was so relaxing. Everytime we go up there I never want to leave. I can't wait to go back.