Cankle

This is what my ankle looked like at it's worst...


Attractive, I know.

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Yellow Drops & Lemon Roses

I bought ingredients for lemon drops the other day, and decided they were a nice classy cocktail to have while I got gussied up for AKPsi's Yellow Rose. Plus I finally had something to serve in the martini glasses Andie and Alina gave me for my birthday (but which only got to me recently because the first shipment shattered because Target was dumb enough to put the glasses box inside of a bigger box with no bubble wrap).

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They were nice pre-party drinks for Allison, Adrian, and myself before heading to the AKPsi house, where trays of swanky fruit-filled jello shots were begging to be toasted with.

They bussed us to Avalon, and we had to wait in line for a while, but we got in for free and got wristbands for the VIP area AKPsi rented out for the night. The only thing that sucked was they only played techno music, but it was still enjoyable because I was too drunk to care what music they played as long as I could dance to it.

After lots of dancing, I retired to sit with Adrian, asleep on a couch in the VIP area. A trip to get water at the downstairs bar resulted in a trip of another kind -- and a twisted ankle. It's all swollen, and even drunk I was limping on it. I'm sure the heels didn't help either.

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Two Lips

Last night I went to see He's Just Not That Into You with Justin, Alina, Andie, and Ross. It was actually really good -- not as chick-flick-y as one would have expected.

Adrian didn't want to come see it, but when I got home he had pink tulips waiting for me and said, "These are to show you that I am just that into you."

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[0.8 sec, f4, ISO 400, 58mm, -1.o]

[0.8 sec, f4.5, ISO 400, 73mm, -0.5]

[1/125 sec, f4.5, ISO 400, 105mm, w/flash]

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Going Dutch

For Valentine's weekend, Adrian planned a trip to Solvang, which is this Swedish/Dutch community off 101 and surrounded by vineyards.

[1/400 sec, f9, ISO 200, 72mm]

It was a quaint little Christmas town by night.

[4 sec, f8, ISO 200, 28mm, cropped]

The night of Friday, February 13th we lost our wine tasting virginity.

[1/400 sec, f5, ISO 400, 38mm]

It was a relatively empty wine bar, so we bonded with the bartenders. One girl (Andrea, I believe her name was) actually graduated college, completed med school and her residence, and was lined up for a job. She took a vacation to California to go wine tasting and take a winery internship, during which time her hospital was destroyed in a hurricane, so she stayed! She taught us about the wine and various factors like weather and geography and grape types, etc. They wrote us a 10% coupon on a napkin to a French bistro up the street.

The next morning we walked around town,

[1/125 sec, f9, ISO 400, 28mm]

and got aebelskiver with raspberry jam & ice cream for breakfast, along with Swedish sausage and mustard.

[1/125 sec, f7.1, ISO 400, 28mm, w/flash]

At lunchtime we drove to El Capitan Ranch to go horseback riding; it was beautiful (though very difficult to photograph on horseback).

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[1/250 sec, f11, ISO 200, 28mm]

My horse was a stubborn sweetheart named Mouse. She constantly tested whether or not I'd let her snack on the trail, and she was a chronic tailgater!

[1/400 sec, f3.5, ISO 100, 28mm]

Then we drove back to LA, away from beautiful rural California, back to the land of palm trees...

[1/320 sec, f8, ISO 200, 28mm]

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all wet

Rain, Rain go away...

[0.3 sec, F4.5, ISO 200, 78mm]

You get my seat wet, please don't stay...

[2.5 sec, F13, ISO 200, 78mm]

But if you do, show spring the way~

[8 sec, F8.0, ISO 200, 105mm]

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silence

I don't have much to say.

[1/8 sec, F4.5, ISO 200, 63mm]

So I won't say anything at all.

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