Monday May 10, 2010

I took the 3;30 flight back to San Diego and raced to Hillcrest to Ono Sushi for Sigrid’s birthday dinner. They got a babysitter for the night so it was on! It was great to have all of my very best friends together tonight… With our busy schedules and hectic lives (well, not mine so much lol) it’s been a long time since we all hung out. Tyson had a March birthday but the others are all this week so I offered to take them all to dinner. The unemployed one should not be buying dinner but I cannot let someone pay for dinner on their birthday. It’s just wrong.

After dinner we walked over to The Ruby Room where they were having some sort of “art” show. (loose interpretation of the word art.) This used to be called the San Diego Sports Club and was one of the diviest bars in San Diego but it looks like they are trying something new and it looks like quite the hipster place now.

Tyson had his “portrait” done.

Which looks absolutely NOTHING like him at all.

I am always trying out the camera in low light conditions so these girls were happy to model for me. I am a few days away from buying the Canon 7D…. I salivate thinking about shooting HD video with the lens of a SLR.

Rich and I in the photo booth. Moments later our tongues touched and we both almost vomited. Me because he is like my brother, and him because I have a coslopus.

I snuck out early without saying good bye. Sorry guys but I know how that usually goes and I would have been out all night. I really had no excuse except that I knew that I had a long ass day of editing photos ahead of me tomorrow. I love shooting but I can hardly keep up with my habit these days.

(On a side note I lost another bet tonight. Sigrid and Kim and I had eaten in this quirky little place in Hotel Circle called Albie’s Beef Inn. It’s a strange place that hasn’t changed it’s look since about 1920. We were arguing about whether or not it was part of the San Diego Restaurant Week list. I said no way, because generally the places involved with that are more high end. I swore that the reason we went there was because they had some early bird special. Lo and behold, she was right and I now owe her dinner at Albie’s Beef Inn. My memory is failing me and I cannot keep making bets like this.)

Saturday 1.23.10

Tommy and his peeps from LA wanted to eat at On The Border for some god awful reason so we got the troops together and headed to Mission Valley. By the time we were halfway through brunch and had managed to offend everyone in the patio area sitting near us, the gay porn stars had decided to stay another night and were going to run around Hillcrest in Suite703 attire and continue promoting the relaunch. As you can imagine, this turned into utter chaos and debauchery. I will spare you most of the photos… I have the photos of the boys making out  stashed on my computer for my private collection

We hit Fiesta Cantina and met some nice lesbians.

You know I love reflection pictures.

Here we are looking pretty put-together. It was early still.

LA Jenn

Jonathan doing an amazing job at getting us new customers.

Urban Mo’s

There was an episode of Top Chef last season where they had to deconstruct classic dishes… this is deconstructed onion rings. lol (I would link to the episode but I STILL haven’t finished watching last season on dvr and I am afraid to go to their website.)

We then trekked over to Baja Betty’s and I saw the tiniest pair of UGG boots. I think they are so ugly… unless they are this size. Then they are ok.

The boys were sick of Mexican food so we  decided to eat some grub at Ono Sushi. I have eaten there no less than 100 times and know everyone  so I immediately walked in and apologized in advance to the manager Mark for what was about to happen. He bought us a vat of cold sake and we ordered a shitload of delicious sushi. I love that place and the best rolls there are the Triple Fantasy and the Munchi Roll. Dee-LISH!

I ducked out super early and gave Tommy money to entertain the boys for the rest of the night … We need to hire a babysitter.