May
02
2013

Dinner at the Galley in Santa Monica, Trash Can on Fire, How to Stop Wasting My Life

If there’s one thing I can’t resist, it’s a theme restaurant! I was so excited when Jessica introduced us to The Galley, a ship-themed restaurant that looks like Christmas threw up inside of it. Apparently this place opened in 1934 and is one of Santa Monica’s oldest restaurants. Pretty cool!

Susie, me and Kevin

This was our table. Amazing.

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Apr
28
2013

Tess’s Going Away Dinner Party at Dosa!

Last year Tess and her man moved to New York and celebrated with a going away dinner at Dosa in San Francisco. Mmmm Indian food! Oh and these pictures are exactly one year and one day old, which is my new world record for late blogging.

Me, Kevin, Tess, Nate, Hairy, Twinkie and Jen

This bread was huuuuuuge! I wanted to take it home and use it as a pillow.

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Jan
30
2013

Santa Monica Pier

David and Emily were in town for The Makeup Show LA when I realized that I had no idea what David looked like without an OCC work shirt because we only ever see each other at makeup shows. We decided to fix that with a day of fun and sun at the Santa Monica Pier!

Standing on the street corner with Yume and Lauren while David and Emily drove around lost for 100 hours. A very enthusiastic lady approached Lauren and kept asking for her phone number.

Yay you made it, David! And you look thrilled.

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Nov
28
2012

Far Bar Clown Table, Ash Costello’s Birthday Party at Angels and Kings

After photoshootin’ for Amelia’s new A is for Arsenic jewelry collection (which I totally hijacked by getting everyone to wear Sugarpill so I could steal the photos), everyone met up at the super cute Far Bar in Little Tokyo for dinner and drinks.

Amelia, Mynxii and Ulorin at the clown table

My twinsie Amelia Dinmore! I don’t think we look alike at all, but I get mistaken for her almost daily so I will just TAKE THE COMPLIMENT AND RUN!! :-D Amelia Dinmore and Amelia Arsenic get mistaken for each other constantly too, but Amelia Arsenic and I rarely ever get mistaken for each other, which is funny since we should technically look alike if we both look like Dinmore, right? Hmmmm, very important questions!

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Nov
19
2012

Medieval Times, Mac ‘n’ Cheese Love, Defective Geeks Party, In-N-Out Loner Table

The holidays have always been our busiest time of year – no shock there – but things got straight up insane this year! In addition to the madness we usually anticipate (Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas), we also had a few surprises thrown into the mix. One, IMATS getting switched to January instead of June, giving us 6 less months than usual to prepare our booth and launch our new products. Two, finally caving and moving to LA after strongly resisting the idea for many years. I love living in Oakland, but the weekly drives to meetings and events were eating up our lives, and I really miss my cats when we’re away from home. We decided it would make more sense to have another office in LA. Then we realized that it needed to happen immediately, since IMATS is coming up again, and yeah, transporting a whole booth from Berkeley to LA in the middle of the night is never fun! We plan to keep our warehouse in Berkeley, which Brett and Trista will manage, so I’ll still be up here a lot. Bay Area, you’ll never be rid of me!

We’re supposed to move out on December 1, but we haven’t found a new place yet since we pretty much just decided this 8 seconds ago. I should probably be packing or researching how to not be homeless, but instead I’m going to blog about a less stressful time… Medieval Times!!

Cool kids me and Val

Lumi (right before she moved to China… BOO!), Amelia, and Kevin. I am so grateful to have friends with equally bad taste in restaurants and entertainment!

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Oct
13
2012

Westpack and Downtown Disney Adventures with Pursebuzz, Federal Bar

Last February, Elessa, Kevin and I pretended to be grownups and drove to Anaheim for Westpack, a super nerdy trade show showcasing “the best supplies and innovations in packaging.” We watched live demos of how packaging components are created and filled – it was pretty cool! I felt like we were on an episode of How It’s Made, but 1,000x better because we got to pose next to all the big machines and ask stupid questions like “Does this come in pink?” Elessa and I were the only girls there, so everyone was really nice to us and gave us free candy.

Look at this thingie! It does things.

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Aug
10
2012

Halloween is a great excuse to wear matching leotards

It was Halloween night and we didn’t have any plans, so Trista suggested we put on some tacky matching leotards after work and go have a few drinks at the Uptown.

Trista and me! Wearing hair accessories by Elessa Jade and Cutie Dynamite.

Dude, Trista. Stop being such a tall Asian, you’re making the rest of us feel bad!

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