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  • December24th

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    So if you don’t already know, Hotel Del is a huge fancy hotel here in San Diego, CA. It is located in Coronado and is a great spot for dates, so me and my man, aka Erin, headed out there to check out their beach front ice skating rink! So cute and sounded like so much fun, however, I have a confession… Erin & I totally went with the intentions of ice skating, buttttt by the time we validated our parking (At the bar of course) it was already 8:20 and it closed at 9:00, so we decided against it.

    We weren’t paying $25 bucks to skate on a 2 inch rink for 30 minutes. We were both happy with our choice, it was soooo soooo cold out and the ice looked miserable plus the rink was tiny. If you are looking to just ice skate I would not suggest Coronado, DT is probably better. But, if you want to skate for a bit and run around and take cute pictures then it is worth the drive.

    I decided to give you the pros and cons of the Coronado rink.

    Cons: * $25 dollars for 2 hours, no one would skate for 2 hours so…. kinda annoying price wise.

    * Smalllll rink, maybe holds 50 people. You can also almost see the wood coming through the rink, but we did go late at night before they closed, could be better during the day.

    Pros:

    * Would be perfect during the day or at sunset time because it is right on the beach, cuteee pics. Night time was not nearly as cool, I would go at around 5pm, ice skate, take pics during day light, then stick around for dinner and night time pictures around with all the pretty lights.

    * Hotel Del is an amazing venue on its own. We took so many cute pictures! The entire hotel is decorated so cute!

    * Tons of restaurants and bars to make an entire night of it. Overall we had so much fun just walking around, taking Christmas tree pictures and watching people eat it on the ice while we sipped on glasses of champagne. Definitely recommend dinner or drinks at the Hotel Del at this time of year, its so festive and soooo fun… and try ice skating if you’re up for it :)

    Click here for more info on times and costs!

    How prettttty is this! I can’t believe I live in such an amazing city. Us San Diegan’s are really spoiled.

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    hotel del coronado_lit up_at night_christmasSorry the pictures are fuzzy, Erin’s camera died so the I-Phone had to do.

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  • November9th

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    So I was in Vegas yet again this weekend…zzzz, it isn’t even fun talking about it anymore ha ha, Vegas has become my second home. Anyway this weekend was pretty low key but still a total blast! Friday night Heather, Becki and I hit up Lavo, all to be turned away because Heather’s ID was expired. After waiting in my car for them for over an hour, I was a total grump and actually started to drive back home to my friends house to go to sleep. Heather called and changed my mind and said they were going to Bank where she could get in, so I sucked it up and went. Good thing I went because we ended up partying with LMFAO, Far East Movement and the Paradiso Girls! Our friend is a host there so she walked us over to their tables and introduced us to them all.

    I’m not gonna lie, we had no idea who The Far East Movement guys were. We went to this table which was over flowing with Asian guys, who def. loveddd them some white girllllsss. They all had microphones so we were confused who they were, but of course didn’t ask. One of them asked where I was from and when I said San Diego, he said they had a lot of “spins” there. I figured he was a DJ or something. Next thing you know it they pull us on stage and start singing their hit “Girls on the Dance Floor” kewl. I was trampled on by 10 crazed groupies, all pushing me to get to the front, somehow I ended up in the very back but thats cool, stage dancing is not really my thing :)

    Click to read more about LMFAO, Paradiso girls and me crashing a Bachelor party!

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  • November4th

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    My girl Elisabeth is competing for TransWorld SURF’s Miss October, and I would love if you guys could help her out! The voting process is super easy, one click and you’re done. No login, no weird steps. It would mean a lot, so please help her out! :)

    Also, there are a few Elizabeth’s her name is spelled EliSabeth and she is the FIRST model.

    CLICK to VOTE!

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  • October16th

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    I can’t quite seem to get enough of Sin City! Sometimes I think I should move there… I don’t know, that would be pretty wild. I almost moved there 2 years ago to work at the Playboy club, but I figured I might get sick of stuffing 2 bras with 4 socks every night. I also get really home sick anytime I leave San Diego, so yeah… so much for that idea. Anyway back to Vegas I go, this time for the Jamie Foxx concert. Woohoo!foxx_vegas_jamie

    One of my good friends has known Foxx for a while so he concert hops with him on occasion, and invited me along. I was excited for the experience, considering it is one not many get to have! The entire trek to Vegas I had to listen to crazy rap deals being made tho… the entertainment business really is insane! I just put on headphones and tried to watch a movie. It didn’t really work though, because the head phones were made for a 90 lb head so I gave up. Way too big. Anyway, we arrived to Vegas, and immediately hit up the Palms pool for a bit. My friend Brandon works at Jet out there so I ran into him at the pool as well! Love B, he’s the best host! Ladies if you ever need a Jet hookup, Brandon is your guy ;)

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  • October15th

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    Last weekend I went up to LA to visit two of my girl friends Kayla & Arika. We decided to hit up Wonderland, a new LA hot spot. Apparently the entire club is Alice and Wonderland theme, I couldn’t wait to see more considering growing up my ALL time fave movie was Alice and Wonderland. I would wake up on my own at 5am each day and put the movie in all by myself and watch it over and over. Needless to say, I was excited to visit this club to see its “Alice and Wonderland” theme. Some of you old school Hollywood clubbers may recognize this new club as once being Concord, which was hot about five years ago. After that it was a club called Shag.

    Anyway…

    First things first. DO not try going here unless you know someone. For once in my life I had a semi nervous breakdown trying to get in. The guy didn’t care who we were, probably  because there were 908 other floozies trying to get in. When I go out, I never see large groups of super cute girls, but this club’s front was definitely packed with pretty cute groups of girls. Great now what… Some guy in a leather jacket grabbed my hand as if he was going to take me in with him, but I wasn’t about to abandon my brat pack. Turns out he was in some band, oh well, I am not into band guys that much anyway.

    Plus, Arika’s friend had a table for his birthday, so I didn’t need him anyway ;P

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    International Wanna Be Kardashians hahaskjd

    Eventually the guy let us in, we had to wait maybe 3 minutes, not too bad. Once we were inside we found the table and let the fun begin. I really liked the venue, it was roomy but not too big and I really liked that part of the roof was raised, so fresh air came through the club. Nothing is worse than a hot, sweaty night club. The entire club is decorated with playing cards, pink lighting, flowers, cool paintings, just like Alice and Wonderland! I loveeeed it. We popped some Dom, had some Dom popped on us, bounced over to another friends table like good bottle rats do, and danced the night away.arika_Sato_amanda_swulius_wonderland

    The only celebrities we saw were singers Ally & Aj (Her name is Amanda Joy, close to mine!) Alyson-Amanda_Joy

    Overall a fun night and a great venue to check out if you know someone that can get you in!

    1835 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 90028

  • September21st

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    Sooo when my high school friends come into town I always wanna hang, I miss my bros! My friend John was in town so we, orrrr correction I, decided to call a few people and arrange a plan to watch the fight. John normally lives in Las Vegas but was here working for Monster for the weekend so we all planned on going over to his parents house to watch it. Anyway, he discovers he doesn’t get cable lmaoakldsjaskldjasd out there so we change plans to watch it at Howie’s house.

    I stroll up to Howie’s apartment in the heart of La Mesa sigh……………….. and hoped for the best. I can’t hate too bad on La Mesa since I am from there, however I have no desire to ever, ever live there again. So I walk in to Howie’s apartment and immediately almost pass out. It had to have been 99 degrees in there and as usual I am dressed like a grandma in a full on jacket and jeans. I become overwhelmed fast because I see a baby, a baby’s bottle next to a Corona, a fake gun on the table that looks so real I almost have a panic attack…then I continue into the kitchen where they reveal they are baking “special brownies” uh what? First of all ew, second of all, WHY is the oven on!? It’s soooo hot! His friends for sure thought I was an annoying, high maintenance white b*tch, oopsie.

    Long story short, we watch the fight, sipped on some classy Smirnoff, thanks Howie… and then decided, since one guy was literally in basketball shorts, that we would hit up the classiest joint in town, Norma Jeans. I HATE this place, hate, hate, hate. I had been once before and left pissed. It’s a hot, stinky, small dive bar in which all of the staff is 50+ however the girls, or women, all dress like they are 21. Baby tees with big bellys out.

    My mouth was wide open the entire time… Random people dancing, karaoke, cash only bar, just craziness all around. We hear an eminem song come on for karaoke and half way through we realize we have no idea who is singing it? Oh… I am sorry, it was the 55 year old frizzy, grey haired, female bartender, RAPPING, not even flinching to look at the words, knew every line as if she was Eminem and proceeded to rap her little heart out AS she took orders and poured drinks.

    She even had a back up singer, this tiny old lady that resembled a troll singing her back up parts. “I’m back na na na na na na na na” she sang. Wow. We then look over to see a guy barefoot, topless, dripping sweat doing back flips on the dancefloor……. I decided I had absolutely enough of this dump and had to go.

    Please look at this pic!!!! I don’t even know where to begin. The massive chair pile, the glittery music cut outs, the binders, Elvis, him? ahhh and omg when I googled this place to get another picture of the outside, look what came up on Yelp.com asldkjaskdjhd

    “This is one of those places you pass by for years without ever thinking of going in. Outside is decorated with big ugly rocks. Inside ripped up leather-like booths. A well drink was $6.50. Really? Is this a joke. $6.50 for whiskey and coke? Why would I ever pay that much to sit in this dump? Only entertainment was the old toothless bartender singing an eminem song. NO thanks.”

    Couldn’t have said it better, and no wonder she knew the Eminem lyrics, its apparently her specialty LOLALK;dlsa

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  • September14th

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    So this Sunday Meggan & I hit up Moondoggies with some friends to watch some football. I didn’t really pay attention thought because well… the Chargers weren’t playing so I didn’t care. I think I watched a few seconds when that fight broke out in the Giants game… anyway we decided to eat there and I had the BEST chicken salad of my entire life! It was the Santa Fe Chicken salad. It was soooo good. Spicy chicken, avocado, cheese, black beans, my dream salad. I eat NO DRESSING so it was perfect. I was surprised the food was actually good! What wasn’t good was their mimosas. They were 1% champagne and 99% OJ and ice, yes they add ice, what a trick! We spent $40 bucks on orange juice! Either way next time you are at Moondoggies in Pacific Beach you gotta try the chicken salad!

    Here is a pic of us on Sunday…moondoggies pacific beach

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    Chris being UGLY!

  • September10th

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    I have to admit before my friend Jay taught me about the Music Licensing business I had NO clueee what it was all about. After all, I am not a singer or musician and never will be! My friends ask me not to sing when I do… but hey I know a lot of you out there are aspiring song writers, musicians, rappers, DJ’s etc, so I want to help you out!

    Bottom line if you make music, music licensing is something more and more people are getting into today. My friend Jay works with a company called The Real Music Project. They take artists like you, sign them, and sell their songs to I-tunes, MTV and other National Networks or just teach you how to do it yourself!

    Want to learn more? What this is all about? What you need to do to get involved or how to be signed into a company like this?

    Well… my pal Jay is offering a course to musicians that will help them better understand how music licensing works and how they can start up their own music licensing operation. It is pretty helpful if music is your world :)

    Click to see Jay's site!

    Click to Visit The Real Music Project's site!

    or add him on facebook

    http://www.facebook.com/jaybrownnetwork

    On a personal note: Jay is the nicest guy ever, super helpful, wants to see everyone be the best they can be, I am happy I can share him with my friends. This isn’t some random gimmick company, he truly is the best at what he does and is here to help you succeed! I have known him for years and hes helped me so much with what I want to do, I can only imagine what he can do for people in the music world. He gets my approval which is rare :)