Back to Reality..!

We made it back!! Yay! 

We spent Thursday night and Friday catching up on shows, eating at strange times, and organizing everything we need to do in the busy week ahead. 

On Saturday we headed back to LA! Wooo!! A friend we met on our first night ever of background work, Mike, invited us to dinner at the Tam O'Shanter with some other friends. It was SUCH a cute place! The oldest restaurant in LA and completely authentic Scottish/UK food - after a few Yorkshire puddings we were in heaven. The conversation was great, many, many laughs, and before we knew it two hours had gone by! 

We snapped a pic, said goodbye, and then went back to Lucy's via Ralph's. We learned on the way in that there's been some sort of plastic bag boycott in LA - wtf?! So we just got the essentials: cereal, milk, paper towels, bathroom multipurpose cleaner, toilet cleaner, gloves, and air freshener. Yes, you guessed it, it was time to clean the bathroom... Anyway, we refused to pay for plastic bags, so we juggled all our cleaning supplies and breakfast food and hoped no one looked too hard at what we were carrying - we either looked like clean freaks or absolute slobs. We made it back and cleaned the bathroom! It was pretty disgusting (and, for the record, was nowhere near that disgusting when Luce left for our holiday) but it felt great to have it all sparkly and clean!

After that, we went over to JT's to hang out and watch Friends with him and Noelle (his friend from high school that we met, she was lovely!) into the wee hours. We ended up crashing there and in the morning JT cooked up a storm for brekkie! 

We went to Mosaic on Sunday morning and it was so great to be back, it's been so long! And Hank (our favourite pastor) was back!! Yay! Feeling all inspired, we headed back to the apartment to clean it up becauuuuse... A girl was looking at it that afternoon to potentially take over Lucy's lease!! She ended up LOVING the apartment and is keen to move in asap! YAY!!! So now we're on to apartment hunting ourselves and cannot wait to get set up in our own place!!!

A few hours later, we went to this industry mixer at CBS studios we'd been invited to by another friend from background, Nick, called the Greenhouse Project. It was fun! There was a really successful voice actor there who spoke for quite a while and shared some pearls of wisdom with us all. We mingled as best we could, but the jet lag was still on the incapacitating side, so we didn't stay super late. It was a pretty low key night anyway (presumably) because the Golden Globes were on! We got home and watched the GG's - loved Tina and Amy! - and went to bed.

Yesterday mum came to LA to do some apartment scouting with us!! We got a really good sense of a few different areas and found one place we like a lot. We also found quiiite a few scary, slightly derro places, so we maaayy have a little more trouble finding a place than we'd first anticipated. We're staying optimistic, though, and hoping to do some more looking around today or tomorrow! Last night we finally had a super quiet night in, had a yummy dinner, watched movies, and swooned over El Bachelorrr, Juan Pablo. We both got a solid 12 hours sleep and are feeling like we've finally gotten over the jet lag! The rest of the day we'll be running errands, doing some paperworky things, and getting ready for a photo shoot tomorrow with our photographer friend, Yosh! And tonight we're going over to JT's to cook dinner and watch some more Friends!