Settling into this LA life :)

On Wednesday we did everything we set out to and then some! We worked out, stuck to our diet, and decorated - here's the finished paint chip wall:

When Han moved the Sentra, this little flyer was wedged into the door haha subtle..

The day was yet young, so we organized to meet with Chambers to talk over all our agency options. It was SUCH a successful meeting! He approved of our number one agency and helped us figure out a game plan moving forward. He also asked us to be part of a couple really exciting acting opportunities coming up! The first one's that we're going to be part of a workshop of Chambers's monologues and scenes next week!! There's a successful producer from the valley who's interested in creating a theatre festival showcasing young talent - so we're working hard to make sure we impress him, very exciting!

After seeing Chambers we went home for a little while, had a light dinner (even though we could've eaten a small cow between us.. Or one each...), then went to the Universal City Walk to watch a movie! It's SUCH a cool spot: bright lights, yummy smells (painfully yummy), and a beautiful movie theatre! 

We watched That Awkward Moment and it was really good! Miles Teller and Zac Efron are just gorgeous and there were a couple really talented fresh faces in it, which is always encouraging and exciting to see! We were a little disappointed by the prospect of dating any guy in his 20s if that's an accurate look into what massive jerks they are, though! We're confident (well, hopeful) that we'll be the game changers rather than the girls on the "roster".

Yesterday Han had another agency meeting which went really well! It was after two mini panic attacks: 1) went to move the Sentra back because street cleaning on the other side of the street is Thursdays, IT WASN'T THERE!! No no no no no!!! But actually false alarm, it was there! Just further down the street than she remembered, nice...

2) Got to the agency address and IT WASN'T THERE!! No no no no no!!! (Bit of a theme of the morning) Googled the address, wrong address! Gahh! Double checked the email, right address! Phewww! False alarm, it was there! Just tucked in behind another building. The lady was lovely and said some really nice things! It probably won't be the one, though, because we want to capitalize on the sister thing - but it was still worth going and checking it out!

After that, we went to Starbucks to mooch their wifi again and got asked out on a date by a seriously sketchy, redbull-drinking guy named Bear. Eeek! Stranger danger!! We SO didn't know what to do, so we just avoided committing in any way and never called him - is that bad? We decided it was time to leave shortly after that encounter and went to the Samuel French Bookshop on Sunset Blvd to read some plays and acting books for a couple hours.

After that we headed home and tidied the apartment up to make it perfect because Mum and Q were coming over for tea/to see our appartment all set up on their way to dinner with friends. They were super impressed and helped us with the rest of our decorating! We now have framed posters of Marilyn and Audrey watching over us and a couple inspirational wall decals keeping us motivated!

JT came over after they'd left and we had dinner (Salmon and veggies!) together and caught up on everything that's been going on this last week and a half! It was great to see him and we're excited that now we're only 15 minutes away from quite a few friendly faces!

To top the night off, we finished The Avengers - on the TV because Mum and Q had brought over the DVD player!! Yeee! - and it was just wonderfully inspiring and satisfying, so freaking cool!

This morning, we got all ready to workout then CRASH!!! Ahhh!! The light fixture in the wardrobe FELL and SHATTERED EVERYWHERE!! We saw our lives flash before our eyes because we'd JUST been in there! So scary!! 

We called Rita, the manager, and she came up to have a look and help us clean it up - she's such a sweetie, our wonderful, Brazilian apartment mum. Anyway, we made it down to the gym, worked out hard, spent half an hour in the sauna (love it!) and went back up to wait for the Time Warner Cable guy to come save us from the agonies of internetlessness and creepy guys in Starbucks. We had a delish salad for lunch, the TWC man came and set up the internet no worries (SO happy we have internet, YAAAYYY!), we packed up a weekend bag, and now we're on the road to Corona for a weekend at Mum and Q's! Woo!!

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! :)