Social Butterflies

We've had a jam packed and completely awesome few days! Our social lives are rockin, work's going great, we're auditioning more, and, as always, eating like queens!

-- Han --

Friday was SUCH a great day for me!! Everything worked out perfectly, it couldn't have gone better! I was an extra on a Nickelodeon show in the morning and the best part was, it was a union job!! Which is pretty rare to get if you're non-union and means a couple things 1) I was specifically chosen for it and made it into the shot quite a bit 2) I got paid more than twice as much as a normal background gig! Woo! My call time was 9:30, so very civilized, and they were shooting at Paramount studios in Hollywood. I made it to set with plenty of time to spare and it turned out there were only ten or fifteen extras there at all, which is a pretty small call and made it really fun. The show was filmed like sit-coms and other Disney/Nick shows where they shoot with 4 cameras at the same time instead of using one or two and doing close ups and all sorts of angles, shooting the take over and over. I'd never been on a multi-cam set before and it actually felt quite a lot like doing theatre! It was awesome! It also went much quicker, we were done with each of the two scenes in just a few takes, which meant that it was a really short day on set too - I was wrapped by 1:00!! Of all days to get wrapped early, this was THE BEST because............ Gregory (our agent) had gotten me an audition at 4:00 that day! Woo!! I ran home, chilled out for a bit, freshened up, and went back out for my audition!

The audition was for the same project Luce auditioned for the other day! It was really fun - I checked in, waited a little, then headed in. It was the same deal, tell a short story, only the role I was auditioning for was a clever, confident, knows-what-she-wants kind of girl, so I opted for my leaving Andrew the note on his jacket story instead of something funny or embarrassing. I think it was a hit! Then I had to act out this little scene with the phone, twice, actually, because the director gave me an adjustment from the first time, and that was it! Job done! I drove home feeling very satisfied and extremely lucky  that my day had worked out so perfectly! And it just kept getting better from there!

When I got home we had dinner, then I went downstairs to the gym to work out. After my workout I went for a dip in the pool/spa and met some of our neighbors from across the hall, Brittany and Brian, and their friends Drew and Schwartz (Andrew). They were SO nice and I was stoked to meet people our age, in our building, who seem really fun! We chatted and hung out in the pool till it closed, then they invited us (I'd told them all about Luce already haha) to their place for margaritas and a hilarious game of Cards Against Humanity. 

It was such an unexpectedly great night and we were both so excited to make friends in our building, yay!

-- Luce --

My Friday was a bit more relaxed compared to Han's epic day! For most of the day I worked on a self-tape audition that I'd been asked to send in to the casting director of a short film! I had to film myself performing two monologues from the script and then figure out how to send such big files!! It took a little while but I was really happy with the final product. That audition was also my 5th in the last 2 weeks so I'm feeling pretty stoked to finally be getting some regular auditions!! Yay! Then hanging out with our lovely neighbors was the perfect way to end the day!

On Saturday we took it pretty easy. We went out to the same shopping area we went to last week to buy a 'Paradise Falls' jar, like the one from Up, for us to start putting money in to go towards a future trip to Europe! We got our jar and decided to go to Olive Garden for lunch! We still hadn't used the gift cards we got last Christmas and it seemed like just the right moment! The highlight were these fried olive/cheese/veggie ball things with blue cheese dipping sauce yuuuum! We also decided to go to the Outback Steakhouse across the road to pick up job applications in case we want another job - with the accent we'd be sure to make great tips! But the chick there was so unbelievably rude to us, refusing to even print off a piece of paper because they were too "busy" (there was almost no one there) so we decided maybe that's not where we want to work anyway... 

The best part of the day, though, was that we went to see the new movie Neighbors and we absolutely LOVED it!! Hysterical! We haven't laughed out loud at a movie like that in I don't know how long - maybe ever! The storyline was unexpected and completely satisfying, the jokes were hilarious, and Zac Efron's bod was on fiiire haha a perfect comedy!

Sunday was a packed day too! We woke up early and went over to our friend's boyfriend's place because he does a podcast and he asked to interview us on it! We were a little unsure of what we'd talk about for an hour but it was actually surprisingly easy! He asked us some really great questions, we talked about being twins, our two big relocations, acting, family, LA and who knows what else! We'll post a link to the podcast on the blog when it comes out, hopefully you can tell our voices apart!

In the afternoon went to a pool party that Drew, who we met on Friday night, invited us to. We dressed pretty casually, wore our swimmers, didn't put on much makeup - as you do for a pool party, right? - and left. When we got there, though, we realized that ohmygod this is a pool party in the Hollywood Hills aaaand you do not dress like that... All the girls were in either chic, flowy outfits, or umm pretty much nothing haha. We were glad we didn't look like the trashy ones buuut we would've liked to look a little more like the chic ones! It was a really fun party though and the house - and the view from the house - was spectacular!

We met a bunch of Drew's friends, danced a little, got a free bum bag with inbuilt speakers, and scored an invite to dinner on Wednesday (tomorrow!) night, success!

We finished the night with the most EPIC Game of Thrones double feature ever at Nick, Mike, and Eddie's. SO excited for next week, wow!!

-- Han --

Yesterday was a craaazy long but freakin awesome day for me! I was doing background on the show Wilfred on Venice Beach and my call time was 7:00am!! I woke up at 4:45 and left by 5:30 to give myself plenty of time to get there. When I rocked up everyone was having breakfast from catering, so I grabbed a coffee and sat down at a table with a few spare seats. "Hiii" I said to the only other guy at the table, he looked up, with a mouth full of breakfast burrito, and stared into my soul with the piercing blue eyes of FRODO BAGGINS!!! OHMYGOSH I WAS TALKING TO ELIJAH WOOD!!! Gahh! SO COOL! He swallowed his mouthful and said: "Hi, what's your name?" (Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!! The rest of the conversation played out like this...)

Me "Hannah"

Him "Elijah, nice to meet you"

Me "nice to meet you too!"

Him "is your name palindromic?"

Me "oh yea, that's the way to go"

Him "haha absolutely"

Me "I guess it's even a palindrome within a palindrome"

Him "haha that's right"

(I took my book outta my bag)

Him "what're you reading?"

Me "this side of paradise, F Scott Fitzgerald"

Him "ohh, nice!"

Me "yea I loved Gatsby so I figured I'd give it a go"

Him "yea Gatsby's the only book of his I've read, so good"

Me "ahh yea, amazing! I've just read Gatsby and Tender is the Night - I didn't love Tender is the Night, I mean it was beautifully written but a little slow going" 

Him "how's this one so far?"

Me "I'm only like 20 pages in but so far so good! I'm hoping they just place me somewhere on the beach today and I get to read my book all day haha"

Him "yea, there you go! That'd be great!"

(I laugh, he gets up from the table)

Him "well it was nice meeting you Hannah"

Me "nice meeting you too!"

Him "I'll see you down there"

Me "yea, you bet!"

He was so nice!!! Like, incredibly nice!! Wow! I emailed Grandpa a transcript of the conversation right afterwards so I wouldn't forget it - and so I could share my excitement with someone else who would be equally excited! 

The rest of the day on set was super, super easy and fun! They barely even used the background at all! They just told us to chill out on the beach and wait for instructions - not too shabby! Getting paid to sit on the beach all day! 

I met some really lovely people, had a delicious prawn salad for lunch, got some sun, and ended up getting paid 2 hours overtime - I was there until 6:30!! Pretty great day!

Traffic coming home was a bit of a nightmare, though, and I made it back at 7:50, showered/got ready in record time, and then Luce and I went over to Brian and Brittany's to meet up with them, Drew, and Schwartz for dinner!

-- Luce --

On Monday I had my first Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts rehearsal since the show ended back in February! It was so much fun and some of the scenes were swapped around so I got to learn a new scene with Gerald who is really funny and great to work with! Rehearsal took up a good chunk of my day and when I got home I only had a couple of hours to chill out before Han got home and we all went out to dinner!

-- Han & Luce --

We all piled in Brian and Brittany's car and headed into Hollywood for dinner at Roscoe's! None of them had ever been before and the chicken and waffles were amazing as always and a huge hit with the gang! 

After dinner we went just down the street to Lucky Strike, the bowling alley Mike (as in our GoT watching partner in crime, Mike) works at, and he gave us the total VIP treatment!! Our bowling abilities are shocking as ever but it didn't even matter because it was easily the COOLEST bowling alley we've ever seen!! 

There was a full on lounge and bar in one area, leather seats by the lanes, amazing food and drinks (all on the house thank to Mike! What a legend!!), great music, and fun people! 

We'd bowled a couple balls when Eddie and his brother and sister showed up to join us, so the party just got bigger and better! When Mike was entering their names in he made some, uhh, nicknames up for the rest of us, too funny! Luce was Arya Stark and Han was Cersei, in true GoT style. Brittany's was also GoT: Mother of Dragons (aka Danaerys which we could totally see). A few other standouts were Penis Face, Animal Parts, Bologna, Captain Cocknose, and Jockstrap Sniffer hahah hilarious.

Brian destroyed us all at bowling - the two of us and Eddie started calling ourselves The Gutterballs, we might make Tshirts - and we went upstairs for some karaoke! Eddie did a beautiful rendition of Under the Sea and Drew, Brittany, and Han did a pretty questionable but very fun rendition of Survivor by Destiny's Child.

Charlie's Angels meets Destiny's Child - can you handle it? It was such a fun night!! We all headed home and fell into bed. It was a huge day for Han - awake for 22 hours! - so it was nice to be able to sleep in a bit today!

Today we woke up around 10:00 which was a bit of a luxury! Luce had a later call time for background and Han took the day off after the crazy day yesterday. 

-- Luce --

Today I had a relaxing morning and then went to do background on the show Awkward at 1:00! It was a low pressure shoot and the background was pretty much just walking back and forth in a hallway for 9 hours..! I met some really nice people though and the food was absolutely amazing so all in all it was a great day! 

-- Han -- 

Luce headed off to set and I got down to business! Our place has been getting a little on the out-of-control-side so I just went through it like a tornado of cleaning madness and made it absolutely sparkling clean! Woo!! It took me about 2 and a half hours and felt sooo good when I was done! Before I knew it, it was 6:15 and time for me to head over to JT's for a rockin game night with him, Laynie, and a bunch of his actor friends from Texas! We ate guacamole and trail mix (so good), played Battle of the Sexes and Cards Against Humanity, had an impromptu dance break, and laughed a lot. Great night with lovely new people!

Spring Breakers

On Tuesday we all slept in late then went to the Getty around midday. Such a beautiful spot! 

After wandering the gardens and checking out a couple galleries, we headed to a really cool street, Abbot Kinney, for shopping and a yummy dinner at Gjelina's - thanks Ron and Mandy (Izzy's parents) for shouting dinner, such a treat!

After dinner we went to watch a show that the producer of Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts is also producing! On the way there we had the most hilarious encounter with a couple reeeaally cute guys in another car. We drove past them and all waved, smiled, and beeped at each other - which was cute - and we ended up driving with them behind us for ages! Amidst our giggles, we all egged Luce on to write her phone number on a piece of paper and put it up against the window next time they overtook us. Finally she did it (even though she wrote down Han's number) and when they passed they took a photo of it! Haha too funny! We ended up getting off at different exits BUT then they somehow ended up next to us again! The last time they drove past, one of them (the cutest one) waved his phone and flashed us a smile. We were feeling pretty optimistic about the whole thing buuuut we're still waiting for him to call! Haha it was a fun little flirty experience though, even if we don't hear from them...

When we'd nearly reached the theatre, we picked up Sullivan and headed over to see the Spring Shorts!

The show was super funny and we were excited to be able to support Jake after all the support he gave us!

On Wednesday Luce got up early and went in to finally do her scene with Chambers! It was a total success and it feels great to have it done before going overseas. When she got back, we all got ready to go spend the day in Hollywood! At 11:57, though, Han remembered that we had to move the Sentra for street cleaning at 12:00!!! She raced downstairs and ran over to the car just in the nick of time! The key clicker didn't seem to be working, so she unlocked the door old school and shoved the key in the ignition to get outta there... Nothing. The engine didn't even click over, it was D.E.A.D. To make matters worse, Han had left her phone in the apartment, so she couldn't even call Luce for help! She stopped a guy walking by and asked to borrow his phone - which wasn't even helpful because Luce didn't pick up - AND he said he had jumper cables in his car and offered to help! So, so nice!! After about twenty minutes trying - and four or five other offers of assistance - we had to give in and call AAA. By this time Luce, Sarah, and Izzy had come down, but there was no way that car was starting without a new battery. Anyway, in no time the AAA guy showed up, switched out the battery, and we were on our way! No sign at all of the street cleaning...

We headed to the 101 Coffee Shop for brunch and went absolutely nuts! It was a breakfast feast!! We'll definitely be going back there soon.

We stopped by Sam French to show Sarah the glorious actors' bookshop, then went on to Hollywood Blvd and Jimmy Kimmel!

The show was SO COOL!!! Julia Louis Dreyfus and Michael Pena were SUPER cool and really funny - as was Jimmy Kimmel himself! We also got to see London Grammar perform and we loved their sound. Such a fun experience to share with the girls!

Afterwards we went to Ryan Gosling's restaurant, Tagine, for a decadent Moroccan dinner, SO tasty and the restaurant itself was really cozy and intimate. 

Although we didn't spot Ryan Gosling at the restaurant, we DID have a serendipitous celeb encounter on Thursday! We were on our way to hike to the Hollywood sign and stopped at a cafe to go to the loo. While Izzy was in there, Han was casually looking around and who should she spy but TED from How I Met Your Mother AND Josh Bowman, the heartthrob on Revenge!!! When Izzy opened the door of the bathroom, Han pushed her back in, explained the situation, and after Han peed we worked up the courage to ask for a pic! We decided Josh Radnor (Ted) was the less threatening/more famous of the two, and he graciously agreed to take a photo with us!

The best thing is, you can see Josh Bowman in the background!

Our hike to the sign was short lived because one of the roads was blocked off, but we still managed to get pretty close!

After that we met Mum for a Dim Sum (Yum Cha) lunch, went to Melrose Ave for some more shopping, and opted for a quiet night in making cupcakes instead of clubbing haha no regrets there either!

Friday was our last day together and we packed a lot in! We had brekkie at the Urth Caffe in Beverly Hills then walked around Rodeo Drive!

After seeing the highest end stores around, we opted for some cheaper shopping at the sample sales in Downtown LA! For our last hurrah lunch we took the girls to Bronzed Aussie - amazing as always - then dropped Sarah at the airport in the afternoon.

We had an evening of Izzy + twin time and it was really lovely! We got boba, hung out in the hot tub, and had a super relaxing night.

Saturday really was the last hurrah, so we decided to try our luck again at the Beachwood Cafe where we'd spotted the celebs on Thursday. We didn't see anyone famous BUT the food was great and it seemed a fitting way to end the week! 

We made one last boba run (Izzy's hooked!) then went to the airport to say goodbye :(

When we got home we toootally crashed out! What a huge week!! House of Cards and grilled cheese sandwiches were exactly what we needed - that and an early night!

We woke up yesterday ready to go! We cleaned the apartment and packed for Austria as quickly as we could, then headed out to Mum and Q's! Mum made crunchy chicken casserole for dinner and we watched Frozen together, a great start to our holiday!

We did the last of our packing this morning and headed to a LAX for the third time in four days - except this time we're the ones boarding the plane! 

We're standing in the longest line we've EVER seen for security, but, true to form, we left heaps of time to get through. A quick lunch on the other side and we'll be off to Austria! AHH!! SO unreal! We can't wait for the wedding and many other adventures in store!

Survivors

-- Han and Luce --
Saturday was incredibly surreal and exciting, one of those days that we knew was an important step on the right path. We woke up early and went to Beverly Hills for our haircuts! Leonie was awesome and spent almost 5 hours colouring and highlighting and cutting and trimming and styling our hair!

We felt like regular celebrities, getting all pampered. After that we went and got new headshots taken in Downtown LA - 25 minutes away, thank goodness! There was a heart-attack-inducing mix up with the address where we briefly thought it was two hours away, so we were extra grateful we didn't have to go far! The headshots went really well! The photographer was so sweet, really talented, and gave us a good deal because we were shooting together, nice one!

After that we went to Bronzed Aussie to get some sausage rolls, meat pies, a custard tart and an apple pie! The perfect end to a wonderful day!  

Sunday we had a lazy morning then went to the Grove to see Meme and get Sprinkles Cupcakes! It was poppin! All decked out for Christmas and getting ready to light up the tree that night. We saw a bunch of singers warming up for the celebration that night, including Gavin DeGraw who was absolutely gorgeous! The holiday cheer was infectious and we're getting very excited for Q's birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all right around the corner!!

We drove back to Chapman because Han had a 12 page paper to write (eww) and Luce had to work on her final celebrity performance for Monday! 

-- Luce --
Monday was a complete whirlwind - probably one of the most stressful days of my life haha..! So, on Sunday I was talking to my friend Alicia and neither of us were feeling very excited about our celebrity performances the next day, so we decided (somewhat foolishly) to change our celebrities to Ingrid Michaelson and Sara Bareilles so we could sing a duet together! The main complication was that Alicia was in Washington visiting her family and wasn't going to be back in LA until 11:30pm! So we practiced by ourselves until I picked her up from the airport and then we went back to her place and rehearsed until a little after 2:30 in the morning! We woke up at 5:30 on Monday morning and got ready for the big day ahead. We were practicing at school at about 7:30 when I got an email from my teacher saying that he wanted to talk to Alicia and me about our last-minute change.. Uh oh. So we met with him and he said that he didn't think that there was enough movement in our new choice and he wanted us to change back to our original choices!! Ahh! Alicia couldn't because she didn't have her Britney costume, but when he asked me if I could do Katy Perry I (again, somewhat foolishly) was honest and said that I did have my costume and could do it even though I hadn't practiced it in the last 5 days!! So my teacher decided to make me re-do Katy Perry AND he said Alicia could perform as Sara Bareilles for her celebrity so that meant that I had to do both!!! I was freaking out. I practiced my butt off in the hour before my acting class started but I was still really nervous! To add to the stress, a bunch of the upperclassmen came in to watch my class perform..! Omg. I was 8th on the list to do Katy and by some stroke of luck, after the 6th person's performance all of the upperclassmen had to leave to go to class! So that wasa lot less pressure thank goodness! It got to my performance and I was a little flustered to begin with, but once the music started playing it all came back to me and I remembered all my movements!! Hooray! Katy Perry was done and it was a success! Next was my duet with Alicia and it went quite well too despite how rushed we'd been with getting it prepared :) after that I was in one more performance and that went down without a hitch as well! Phewww I made it through the class! Straight after acting class I hopped in the car and drove over to Chpman to pick Han up so we could go and see mum!! Yayyyyyyyy!!!

-- Han and Luce --
It was SO WONDERFUL to see Mum and the doggies!! Ahh we had a great time catching up, picnicking in the empty house, playing with the pups, and snuggling on the air mattress with mum. Just what we needed after a big day! Mum dropped Han back to Chapman and Luce went home too later that night, excited to get all the furniture delivered on Thursday!

-- Han --
When I got back to Chaptown I went straight to a meeting for my hall announcing, in honour of The Hunger Games: The COPA Games. (More commonly known as Assassin). The people participating all got assigned a target to kill by poking them with a crayon. There are rules and safe zones but they're constantly changing and oh man has this game taken over my life this week!!
I went to kickboxing with Megan in the morning on Tuesday and hatched a plan to kill my target later that day...
I had another theatre major to kill, but on the first day we were allowed 10 minutes of safety before and after class (we were also safe in the cafe, the lounge, classes, our hall, and in groups of 3 COPA people) so I had to bide my time. I went back on the shuttle with him and when the clock clicked over I pounced! He then gave me his target and I knew she was waiting to kill her target, so I raced back to the dorms and got her as well before she knew what hit her! A couple hours later, by third target asked me to stand with him so he'd be safe while he waited for his target to get back from class. I seized the opportunity and got him, making me the only person to kill 3 people and also responsible for almost half of the deaths on day 1. 
By yesterday I had been dubbed the Black Widow, so now I have a HUGE target on my back - nice going. I know who has me, though, so as long as I can avoid him I'll be fine! My target, a dance major named Hannah, was terrified of me though. I couldn't kill her yesterday, but that's not to say it wasn't a total bloodbath! The game's heating up and people are dropping like flies! Spencer got killed right after his dance performance (which I went to, he was incredible!), JT sustained an injury running from his own roommate, Tosh killed Sierra, paranoia is running rampant - it's pretty intense.
But back to my target being scared of me haha so she should have been! I knew she had class at 8:30 this morning, so I woke up early, waited outside in the cold and rain (ohh yea, I'm taking this game pretty seriously) and got her as she left Henley! 
It's been crazy but an amazing bonding experience - I'll update the blog with any major events!
The movers are over at the house unpacking and I can't wait to go over tonight for dinner and see the house with everything in it! It also might be good to get away from the COPA Games for a little while... I only have to survive for a few more hours and I'll be untouchable! Can't wait for a fun weekend this weekend, my last few classes of the semester, and more crazy times with all the COPA people out to get each other!

-- Luce --
Tuesday was an entirely uneventful day for me - pretty much just recovering from the drama and no sleep on Monday!

Wednesday was a pretty normal day as well.. I was just hanging out, when I decided to quick look at my mobile banking app on my phone too see how my bank account was going.. But when I looked, I saw that over 100 dollars was missing from my account! What?! When I looked at where it had been spent in my previous transactions it said it was at Ocean Seafoods in LA which I have never been to in my life!! There was something very "fishy" (haha) going on... But I couldn't call the bank because I had to go to class so I figured it'd be fine if I just called after class.. When I checked my app again after class I discovered that it was absolutely NOT fine! Another $400 had been taken out and whoever it was that took my debit card info had tried to take even more than that!! Ahh! I called the bank straight away and explained to them that I had been the victim of fraud! I couldn't even believe it! More than $500 gone in less than 3 hours! Luckily Bank of America completely reimburses any money lost to credit card fraud and the guy I spoke to on the phone was incredibly helpful. But what a stressful ordeal! I had to cut up my card and I'm now waiting on a new one in the mail - thank goodness I'm seeing Mum and Q this weekend otherwise I would've been completely flat broke with no way to access any of my money! To take my mind off the stress, my roomies and I all went to see a late night showing of About Time and it was such a wonderful movie! It really had the most beautiful message and the acting and story were impeccable. I absolutely loved it!

Thursday was an easy day at school, and then once my school day was over I saw LACC's production of Comedy of Errors and it was great! All of the actors did such an amazing job and it was so fun to see all three of my roommates in a show together! As soon as the show was over, I raced home, packed my stuff for this weekend and then got in the car with Qee and we were off to pick up Han and go home to the new house!!!! Woohoo!