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! :)

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.

Who knew photos could be so stressful?!

Woo! We are getting down to business!! The last few days have been super successful - and somewhat stressful/riddled with pointless anxiety/sleepless - BUT now that the stress is over we're feeling pretty accomplished!

On Wednesday we did a photoshoot with our photographer-friend Yosh (pronounced Josh, I don't know) and it was really so fun! We got some very artsy pics and it was also great to get in some practice for Friday's reshoot of our headshots - we'll get to that later. 

We had the most bang-for-your-buck delicious Chinese sesame chicken for dinner and headed home. We also got our first ever comment and follower on the blog!! YAY! So sweet, Victoria follows us and has her own blog and aspirations to move out to the city of angels - check it out at victoriazway.blogspot.com! 

Thursday was a HUGE day of semi-boring entirely necessary errands. We went apartment hunting, edited our resumes, wrote out our agent letter, and went through the pics from Yosh and found the ones we liked to send to Chambers for his opinion! 

Feeling all sorted, we sat back, Lucy cooked up a storm as per ushe aaand Chambers replied about the pics!

"Make up sucks. Facial expression sucks. Wardrobe and bras suck."

OH S#!@

Noooooo!! Total smack down..

Ugh the night before our reshoot?! We were pretty devastated. We were reshooting the head shots because the first ones weren't up to par and now we'd been told our practice run was a fizzah, yikes!! The only thing that could lift our spirits was this article on buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelrusch/haribo-gummy-bear-reviews-on-amazon-are-the-most-insane-thin

HA so hilarious!! We were in stitches laughing! We scrambled to fix some things for the next day and went to bed for an incredibly restless night's sleep... 

Ahh okay, finally it came time for our head shots! Eeeek! We were crossing our fingers and holding our breathe all morning, but when we got there Anthony, the photographer, totally put us at ease. We shot outside, on the roof and in a street nearby, and it went GREAT! YAY!!! Phewww! We actually ended up having a really fun time! We were thrilled with the pics and preeeetty sure Chambers would like them too! These were the two winners! (Still not retouched)

We ran a couple more errands, and just as we were making a left turn towards the apartment, a police car pulled in front of us and turned its flashing lights on! We didn't think we'd done anything wrong, so we kept driving behind him... then he pulled to the side of the road and, because there was no one else around we guessed that we must've done something wrong so we pulled over too! So terrifying! The police officer got out of his car and we didn't know whether to roll down the window or get out! AH! But then he crossed the street and walked towards an apartment complex hahahaha phew! We felt very stupid but also very relieved! 

So we went home, relaxed, and started watching the first series of Girls - we're completely hooked! 

Today we went to boot camp and got back in the swing of acting for the first time in a few weeks! We met some lovely new people, laughed a lot, AND finally got the okay on our photos/letters/resumes to send out! Wahooo! Now all we need to do is get the pics retouched and we're good to go! 

We went to the Samuel French bookstore after boot camp, then came home and now we're watching (and enjoying) an absolutely dreadful movie. It's been a great couple days and we couldn't be happier or more relieved to've made it through!