TWO DECADES BABY!!!

We're officially in our 20's!!!! YAAYY! We had the most WONDERFUL birthday!!! SUCH a perfect day! Here's what we got up to..!

We woke up early(ish) and got ready for a beach day! Before we left we started our the day how any birthday should start.. With presents! Thanks SO MUCH G'ma and G'pa, Uncle Matt, and Sue & Sir for the lovely cards and pressies! AND a huge thank you to Sarah for our beautiful flower delivery!! We really were showered with love from the start of the day to the very end, so special!

We left (a liiiittle behind schedule) to pick up Sully and start the day's adventures! 

We pretty much planned the day based on what free stuff you can do/get on your birthday - and we made out really freakin well!

First up was a free brekkie at IHOP! 

The three of us absolutely went to town! We demolished this WHOLE MEAL in 8 minutes flat. Kind of scary. Kind of impressive.

Number two on our list of freebies were ferry tickets to Catalina Island, a beautiful little island off the coast of LA that we'd never been to before! We got to the port no worries and hopped on board!

(Han was pretty proud of her artistic skills on that 2nd pic!)

The hour-long boat ride sped by and before we knew it, we were there!

It was soooo beautiful! Sort of had the feel of a cross between Sydney and the south of France, it was the most glorious getaway from the city that we could've hoped for! 

We started walking around the little beachy town, exploring and window shopping, and we'd only been at it about 15 minutes when we ran into these three hilarious, good-looking, and veeery drunk guys..!

Their "island names" were Ruffles, Thunder, and Ninja hahaha they were super nice and they gave us their Wicky-Wak hats. After heaps of laughs, we went our separate ways (they were headed to breakfast.. At 12:30pm) with the assurance that it's a small island and we were bound to run into each other again later. 

We were planning on rock climbing or zip lining or parasailing but the beach was so stunning and it was such perfect weather that we couldn't resist the idea of a cocktail on the beach! We were laying out and catching up when a waiter from the beachside cafe came over to us..

Waiter: (looks at the funny hats) "ohh I see you got your Wicky Wacked!"

Han: "Yeah, we did!"

*we all laugh*

Han: "Hey do you have a drinks menu?"

Waiter: "Sure, I'll bring it right over!"

.......

Cool! Thank you boys for those hats! In no time (actually that's a lie, it was at least 45 minutes later) we were sipping on daiquiris and mojitos, yum!! Thanks Sully!

A little while later, our friends bumped into us on the beach! We learned Ninja's signature look, heard the stories behind their nicknames, and were given nicknames ourselves!

From left to right: Ice, Pearly Whites (aka Teeth, aka Jaws, aka Chompers. Nice.), and Sugar & Spice (aka Gucci, aka Sporty Spice. ???). Too funny! 

The time flew by and we didn't have too long before we had to catch the ferry back! We said goodbye to the boys (again) and went off to the ice cream parlour to get our free bday ice cream! Rocky road and Dulce de Leche, soo good! 

Next up we went to Luau Larry's to try their signature drink (no luck this time, the hats failed us.. That and the waitress was a girl so of course she asked for ID. Ahh well.) we still had a delicious fish and chips to split before going to the dock to get back on the boat! 

When we got back to the mainland we went straight to Silverlake, near Downtown LA, to a little place we'd scoped out on Sunday called ALCHEMY TATTOO!!!!

WE GOT INKED!!! The tattoo artist, Wyatt, was super nice/patient with us (he was also gorgeous, ohmygoshh) and worked with us to get it exactly right. Even though it's probably a bit of a shock to all our wonderful family reading this (it was certainly a massive shock to Mum! Hehe sorry..!) we've actually been thinking about this tattoo for about 8 months now - since we were apart from each other in college. We decided on a little "&" on our left wrists in a really pretty aqua/turquoise colour and Wyatt took us back to get em done! We were kind of terrified, SO glad Sully was with us for moral support!!! Luce went first and was done in no time!

Han was up next and 5 minutes later we both had tattoos! 

It was painful but really not unbearable - although we wouldn't have wanted anything bigger - and we couldn't be happier with how they turned out!! We're SO in love with em, such a special way to mark the start of a new decade and declare that, no matter what, we'll always be "Hannah & Lucy"/"Lucy & Hannah" 

We'd planned on going out to a lovely Spanish restaurant for dinner but it was so late and we were all so tired by the time we got home that we decided on pizza delivery instead! 

So we finished the first night of this new, exciting decade with pizza, champagne, choccies, and a chick flick - oh and, of course, each other.

Making the Most of Hiatus!

The last few days have been veeery cruisey - not entirely on purpose either! Work's been super slow because of the summer hiatus, so we've been trying to do other productive stuff to make up the difference!

-- Luce --

Sunday night was SO exciting for me because I was filming my part in the webseries I was cast in!! Ah! I got to set and everyone was so lovely and friendly! I watched the filming for the scene before mine and it was absolutely hilarious. I'm so excited to see the whole thing when it's all been filmed and edited and everything! My portion went by pretty quickly and it all went down without a hitch - I loved finally getting in front of the camera and having actual lines! So fun! Once I finished my scene the guys thanked me for being so consistent and talented which was really nice to hear and I went home with a huge smile on my face!! Yay!

-- Han & Luce --

Monday was a not-working day, so we took it kinda easy. We did all the audition submissions we could and Han helped out with some location scouting for her webseries! The highlight of the day was easily our excursion in the evening with Brian and Brittany to get pinkberry frozen yogurt and see 22 Jump Street at the movies. It was HILARIOUS! We definitely recommend it - it had to be almost as good as the original!

On Tuesday Luce was booked on a Disney Channel show and Han got all set up on LA Casting and started applying for babysitting jobs too!

-- Luce --

On Tuesday I was working on a kids show, 'Kirby Buckets', and it was so adorable! It was pretty much an average background day of walking back and forth down a school hallway but the best part was that I was getting paid union rates for it! Score!! It was around a 10 hour day and by the last hour I was sooo ready to head home and crash out which is exactly what I did - for a little while, anyway, before Han and Brit got back with cake mix!

-- Han --

I had a super productive morning, doing countless submissions on a different breakdown website and scouring babysitting sites for jobs in the area to pick up a little extra cash! After all that I went down to the pool to swim some laps, fun! Just as I was finishing up, Brittany happened to come down and we hung out by the pool for a couple hours. We got to talking about her newfound obsession with Cake Boss and decided that we absolutely needed to make a cake ourselves! We walked to Ralph's and picked up a carrot cake box mix and cream cheese frosting, amazing!

-- Han & Luce --

When we were both back at the apartment, we all baked up a storm, watched some Gossip Girl, and made plans to go out for Taco Tuesday later on at Cactus! It was a lovely evening and after a Mexican feast, half a cake, and too many episodes of GG, we went to bed.

Yesterday was yet another day that we weren't booked for background, and we've kiiinda started to run out of inspiration of what to do on our off days - that and we were just a bit tired. So it honestly wasn't the most productive day BUT Han tried on her cheerleading uniform for the webseries! Aaaand it was way too big..! Not to worry, though, there should be plenty of time to get the right size before we shoot - kind of excited to be living out the American cheerleader dream! We grabbed some cheap but delicious Chinese food for dinner (Lucy's shout! What a champ!) then headed home to have a pretty quiet night in.

Today is a super special day because...... It's been a whole YEAR since we started the blog!!! 365 days in writing! WOW!! We hope it's been a fun read and we're so, so glad we kept up with it - we've made so many incredible memories and had such fun adventures this last year, we're so lucky! 

It seemed wonderfully fitting that we both got booked for background today on a couple of our favourite sets! 

-- Han --

Luce had a super early call time so I woke up early too and we had brekky and a cuppa together before she headed out. I had a while till I had to leave at 8:15, so I managed to fit in a work out and even took the Sentra in for a car wash! I made it to set right on time - it's so nice to know exactly where I'm going, 4 days on the same set is about as close to routine as it gets! I was working on The Thundermans again with the same awesome crew and heaps of lovely familiar faces on background too! It was a really nice day with yummy food, good company, and a little overtime!

-- Luce --

Today I was working on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia again and I had an amazing time! It was set in a bar and for one part of the scene they needed two hot girls to enter and then walk past the lead actors and they chose me to be one of them!! Ahh! So cool! So on episode 8 of season 10, expect to see a close up of me on the tv! I also got to meet the director and all of the crew members were giving me and the other girl special treatment - all-in-all I'd say it was a pretty successful day of background! Yay!

-- Han & Luce --
We're both home from work now, eating chia seed pudding, going through the blog from the very start, and compiling an extra special post picking out some of our favourite moments of the year, stay tuned!

Nailed it..

Not too much to report from the last few days: recovering from the amazingness of our Lena Headey encounter, shopping, errands, background work, auditions, and an extremely embarrassing move on set by Han! Eeeek!

The two auditions:

1) Luce: On Tuesday I had an audition for a Samsung commercial and it was really fun!! I got there and found myself surrounded by very tall thin models so that was a bit of a surprise..! But I took it all in stride and I think it went quite well. All I had to do was tell a story that was 30 seconds long to the camera so I told the story of this past New Year's and how adorable Will was when his wish was "to be cool"! Ha, the casting panel seemed to love it and I left with a smile on my face! 

2) Today our photographer friend Yosh held auditions for the pilot episode of his webseries! We both auditioned for the same role and it went really well - we each got a callback on the spot! Woo!! It feels so great to have lines to memorize and a character to explore, even just for an audition, so hopefully one of us gets the role and has a regular little gig going!

The one 'special' moment:

1) Han: I did background work on Wednesday and it was around 10:30 at night and I'd avoided coffee like a champ, so my awareness and ability to deal with unexpected situations were both somewhat compromised. We were outside doing a big 'at the town fair' type scene, and I'd been told to a long cross at the very start of the scene behind all the action. We went through it once, no dramas, then just as I started to go back to my original place they started rolling again!! Ahh! I knew I had to hurry to make it back so I ran in front of EVERYONE to my spot - meanwhile, the director had called ACTION at the start of my little run and I hadn't heard!!! Gahh! Sooo there's a take of me run-shuffling right across camera. Also, I apparently messed up the lead actress because she was laughing at me, so I managed to ruin the take in two ways. And the worst part was, I was totally oblivious! So I couldn't even laugh it off! It's hard to recount the story with a feel for how public it was, but let's just say I was reminded of it constantly for the next 2 hours... Oh. My. God. Such a knob move! Well done me.. Aaaand now it's been immortalized in print hahaha. These were the texts I sent Luce right afterwards pretty much summing up my level of embarrassment...

We're both working tomorrow - Han on something potentially exciting, we'll see! - and then this weekend, who knows? The world (well the city anyway) is our oyster!

We're home!!

The last few days have been completely crazy and wonderful! We're feeling like our hectic period of inbetween-ness is finally coming to an end and we couldn't be happier! 

We spent the whole day Friday packing, sorting through everything in the garage, packing, going to Best Buy to get a fridge, packing, and uhh packing! We also went on another (possibly last) big Walmart trip with Mum and her childhood friend Robin who was visiting for the weekend. We were feeling some serious déjà-vu from both of our set up experiences in our old places, only coupled with insane excitement because everything was starting to feel very real. We got so many adorable, colorful, perfect apartment things and we're feeling like the luckiest girls on earth right now! It was a huge day of organizing but we were feeling more than ready for move-in day the next day!

It's crazy to think that we moved in YESTERDAY!! Ahh the place already feels like home! We got the U-Haul out to Corona fairly early and packed it (quite expertly and surprisingly not very stressfully) full of everything we hadn't already put into the cars. 

Before we knew it we were on the road towards North Hollywood babyy! The two of us left first and drove in convoy, which was actually a surprisingly fun challenge, and got to the apartment first to sign all the paperwork.

We signed on the dotted line, got our keys, and started lugging load after load of stuff up to our place! 

Oh man, it was hard work!! It didn't take terribly long though and then we were onto setting everything up! Luce and Robin worked on the kitchen, Mum and Q assembled the bed, and Han worked on the (ohmygosh) walk-in wardrobe!! Yeee! 

The professionals (Mum, Q, and Robin) left us to our own devices a little later, having already gone above and beyond to help us, and we plowed on through for hours until the end was in sight. Here's the product of all our hard work!!

We microwaved some soup (still don't have gas for the stove) and had a go of our new coffee maker, so cool! Then pushed through the last of the unpacking to get almost EVERYTHING into a place before absolutely falling into bed and crashing out. What a successful day! 

Today was more of a recovery/odds and ends day. We worked on decorating the apartment, set up the printer, organized drawers/bookshelf, vacuumed (love our cute new vacuum, so easy and borderline fun to use!) and had a huge grocery shop at Ralph's! After a whole trolley FULL of groceries, we each took a stab and guessed what the price would come out to aaaand - wish there was a way to better emphasize how incredible this moment was - HAN'S GUESS WAS 20 CENTS OFF THE ACTUAL PRICE!! It was amazing. Wow! Love little moments like those!! Anyway, we headed home (ahh, love the sound of that! HOME!) and kept going with all our bits and pieces, had a three way phone call with Sarah and Izzy, made a wonderful salad for dinner, watched A Knight's Tale (on the laptop because we're still working on getting TV and internet), Luce ran back to her old place to pick up a few things we'd left there, and now we're about to go to bed for the second time in our lovely place! We want to get a good night's sleep too because we're meeting with another agency tomorrow!! So exciting! Life is gooood! :)

Wahooooo!!

Yesterday was AWESOME!! Yeee it ended up being a much more eventful day than we'd expected! We woke up at a reasonable time and, around 11:00, both checked our emails to find that... an agency was interested in interviewing both of us!! AHH! YAAAY! We were SO over-the-top excited, we could hardly contain ourselves!!! AND THEN about an hour later, Han got a call from another agent who wanted to meet with both of us together!! Woooo!!! We were stoked! By 12:30 on the day the envelopes would have been delivered, we already had two interviews lined up!

We decided it was high time we went down to the SAG/AFTRA offices and sorted out our eligibility status. We'd gotten our principle contracts back in November but they still hadn't been processed, so, with our fingers crossed, we made the hour and a half trip back into LA to see what we could do. The offices were really beautiful. We got directed to the 7th floor and waited for someone to see us. A little while later, a man came out, asked us for our paperwork and absolutely nothing else, told us to hold on, and disappeared again. About 15 minutes later he was back! He said "there you go" and gave us a little piece of paper with two account numbers on it and that was that! We couldn't believe it!! Too easy - and now it's truly official!!! SAG eligible babyyy! On the way out Luce got ANOTHER call from an agent!! Yeee! He was a commercial agent and wanted to see her the next day (today!). Feeling so happy and confident and ready to rock some interviews this week, we went for a celebratory boba and headed home! On the drive back we had a long overdue and absolutely wonderful conversation with Tim! It was so great to catch up with him and he made the drive pass much quicker - which was great because we desperately needed to pee the whole way back! 

We spent the night watching The Bachelor and Girls, and emailing in some more submissions to other agencies - hopefully we can keep the ball rolling!

Today Luce had her first interview and Han had grand plans of productivity while she was out..

-- Han --

There were about 30 agencies left to contact by email or online, so I sat down to whip them out when - nooooo! The internet wasn't working!! What?! Apparently Time Warner Cable was having some issues (which means no TV either, waahh), so I went with Q to Starbucks to use their wifi aaaaand they must also be on Time Warner - or just having issues. In a last effort to find an oasis of gloriously high (or even low) speed internet, we drove almost half an hour to another Starbucks AND -- nothing. Womp womp. However! On the plus side, I got an email while we were out and about and another agency is interested in seeing me!! YAAYY! Not for another two weeks, though, so I won't be able to update for a while. Anyway, Q and I drove home and, ironically enough, the internet was working again! I banged out some emails buuut it was short-lived, so I'm currently writing the blog on my phone, praying to the internet gods, and waiting for Luce to get back from her interview!! So freakin excited for her!!!

-- Luce --

Oh my goodness what an amazing day! I drove into LA at 11:30 to make it to my 2:00 meeting with plenty of time to spare! I was sooooooo nervous! And to add to the anxiety, by the end of the car trip I was completely busting for the loo!! So I went inside half an hour early and searched for a toilet.. Luckily, I found one on the 6th floor of the building and a woman was nice enough to give me the bathroom key - phewwww! So by 1:45 I was ready at the Agent's office and at 1:50 I knocked on the door and the interview had begun! It went surprisingly well!! The Agent, Elton, was really friendly and he seemed to genuinely like me a lot! He said that I had a "fresh and exotic look" and even though he had originally called me as a commercial client, he was talking about tv shows that I could be on in no time which was so cool! He had some really interesting tips and recommendations and by the end of the interview I felt like he had gotten a good sense of who I am and vice versa :) and the interview ended with him asking me to let him know my decision soon so I feel like the ball is pretty much in my court which is just such an exciting result from my first meeting!! Yay! I left the office very relieved and drove for an hour and a half back to Corona, got a coffee at Starbucks and flirted with a really cute guy, and then got home! Woo! What a wonderful day. Feeling very blessed :)

We're on our way!

On Wednesday morning we woke up early, got all our stuff together and headed back to LA! aaaand then we turned around because we forgot the laptop and phone chargers, but then we really did head back to LA and went to Sam French and Staples to get everything else we needed to do our mailing!
Man, did we underestimate how long it would take or what?! We were up until 3:30 decorating the envelopes to make them stand out, editing our resumes/cover letters, running back and forth to Staples to print things, and sticking on sooo many labels. Also, on Wednesday night, we got the retouched versions of our headshots to print the next day! Here they are!!

Thursday was another full day of running around to finally get everything ready to send out. We printed the photos in the morning at this place in Van Nuys and the guy was so nice! We were thrilled with how well they turned out and it only took about 20 minutes! We were back at the apartment around 12:30 and taped, drew, wrote, stuck, stamped, and assembled soooo many envelopes! We sat and worked, without stopping except once for food, for 13 hours!! Woah. But we were done!! 

Ahh it felt so good! We got them in the post first thing on Friday morning and were more than ready to have them off our hands. 

YAY! Then it was time to pack up all Lucy's stuff because we were moving out on Saturday! We got a great handle on things and Mum and Q drove out to help us disassemble the furniture and bring more tubs for storage. It was all surprisingly easy and stress-free given our lack of sleep, and once we'd done all we could for the night we went to a Mexican restaurant right next to the apartment. We'd been smelling the most wonderful aromas for months and finally got to try it! It's lucky we didn't go there sooner because we would have had no chance of resisting that delicious food otherwise! Ahh so great and just what we needed after all our hard work!

Yesterday all we had to do was load up the U-Haul and drive it out to Corona! We were all done in no time and it felt amazing to have everything moved and be officially out of Lucy's place. Goodbyeeee K-Town! 

It was great for the semester and to get us on our feet, but we're SO excited to have our own place - now all we need is to find it! We spent a little while chilling in Corona, then we drove back to LA to look at a couple apartment complexes, hang out with some friends, and go see our acting coach's one man show. The first place we looked at we liked a lot buuut it was a little ways out of our price range. That's the only one we'd originally had lined up, but we did a little more scouting on the way and rang a bunch of places. Only one picked up so we decided to go and check it out and - we ABSOLUTELY fell in LOVE with it!! AHH! It was completely above and beyond anything else we'd seen AND it was entirely within our budget! We couldn't contain our excitement and straight away lined up an appointment for this morning to check it out with Mum and Q. 
After that we headed over to see Lucy's girlfriends from LACC, Kiah, Alicia, and Alisa. They're such sweeties and it was so nice for Luce to catch up and for Han to get to know them better. We carpooled with Alicia to see Chambers's show and all really enjoyed it! Well, once we managed to find it! Google maps failed us for the first time and took us to Del Taco, what?! We'd left about half an hour spare just in case and we needed every minute of it! We managed to find the place, park, and get in just in time! The show was really funny and had a few poignant moments thrown in too. After the show we headed over to JT's and went out for a coffee and chai lattes at a really cool little cafe nearby. We watched a movie and crashed on the couch, so excited to meet mum and Q in the morning to look at the apartment again!

Today was Australia Day! Yeee! We met in lovely North Hollywood at 10:30 and had a look through the apartment all together. It was even better today! The place has all the amenities - pool, spa, barbeques, sauna, fitness center, laundry AND the cutest little one bedroom apartment we could have hoped for! Mum and Q gave us a huge stamp of approval - like, we can't quite describe how great of a find this was. The other ones we saw for the same price a couple weeks ago were legitimately frightening. Anyway, it was too great to let someone else snap it up (in fact, there was another guy touring it just after us) so, we signed the lease! We officially have an apartment!! YAAAYYYY!! 

(In the leasing office!)

We picked up meat pies and custard tarts from Bronzed Aussie in honour of Australia Day, headed out to Corona, and are watching the Sean and Catherine's Wedding Bachelor special, so sweet! It's been such a long, busy week, and we are feeling SO accomplished and actually pretty proud of ourselves! We're making it happen baby.

"For the first time in foreeeeverr" - well, in a month!

We finally made it back to DISNEYLAND!!! Ahh it was such a lovely day - the thought of Disney was about the only thing keeping us going the last few days and it exceeded our therapeutic expectations. We did the most random assortment of things but it was perfect! First off we met Thor!

He was pretty aThorable (hehe) and we're pretty sure he was actually an Aussie! We did Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones, Tarzan's treehouse, and then headed towards Downtown Disney to use the rest of our birthday voucher for the Rainforest Cafe! 

On the way we bumped into the Fairy Godmother!! She just popped out of nowhere - we're hoping maybe she'll grant us a wish or two!

We had an Awesome Appetizer plate to share and - feeling slightly guilty after eating so healthily all week, but also extremely satisfied - we headed into California Adventure! We did Tower of Terror and MuppetVision 3D then spent about 20 minutes hanging out in Art of Animation watching the lovely clips from all the movies. We'd thought about staying for one of the nighttime shows but we were wiped aaand it also turns out that on Tuesdays and Wednesdays off-peak in Disneyland most of the live shows/performances stop! Good to know because we are SO lucky to have a few beautiful visitors coming our way over the next couple months and a Disney trip is most definitely going to happen!
Luce grabbed a gingerbread Mickey and we headed home for spaghetti bolognese for dinner and another restful night before we get back down to business tomorrow!

Errands and Exorcisms

The last two days have felt like the most well-needed exhale after holding our breath for ages. Yesterday we had a wonderful sleep-in, cooked brekkie, and didn't leave the apartment until about 2:30! The only thing we had on was helping Yosh (our photographer/filmmaker-friend) out on the set of a horror film he was the camera-guy for. He needed a couple featured extras for the scene, and it took us a while to wrap our heads around it haha. It was a fake documentary about making a fake documentary about an exorcism - think a movie about making paranormal activity. We were acting as the film crew and in the scene, the actress (playing the actress in the horror film) gets possessed by a demon. It was a really fun cast and crew, and it was nice to be a part of a smaller, more intimate group in a production. The two of us wrapped at 9:30pm but we heard today that the filming didn't finish up until 2:00am!! Eeeek! It was a fun night, though, and we were glad to help out - that kind of thing always comes back to ya!

Today was another chill day. We packed all our stuff up, ran a couple more mailing related errands - not entirely successfully - then came out to Corona to see Q! We went via the grocery store and got ingredients to cook up a delicious three course meal for the three of us!
Entre: Shrimp cocktail

Main: Crab-stuffed Salmon with zucchini, squash, and rice (it looked better in real life)

Dessert! Banana split!!

YUM!!! We spent the rest of the night watching Downton and The Bachelor, and cannot wait to have a glorious sleep in our own beds!

** Also, just uploaded a vid of our elephant trek from a couple weeks ago! check it out on the 'Elephants and Good Luck' post! http://hannahandlucyd.blogspot.com/2013/12/elephants-and-good-luck.html **