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# Single In The City – 2

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#Single#Budget#TightBudget#Can’tBuy100DollarDinners#TiredOfAmy’sMac&Cheese#Need Socialization#NeedToGoOutButWhere…….hashtag….me

Single in the City is a new addition to my blog stories ‘#Single In The City Fabulous Finds’ for everyone out there who is…..

#Single and on a budget #Coupled and on a budget #Wealthy and likes a good deal (was gonna say cheap, but nah!) #Visitors to Los Angeles who are shocked that a glass of wine is the price of a tank of gas #Y’all

 

 janell10

 

My 2nd ‘Single in the City Fabulous Find’ goes to….dah dah dah dah…..

Ocean Prime Beverly Hills – 9595 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 (310) 859-4818

 Why?  Happy Hours – I love Happy Hours.  Budget or no budget a good deal is a good deal. I am not sure about you, but my eyes light up when I see words like ‘caviar’ and ‘truffle’.  So when a ‘Bites’ menu of  beautiful food, prepared exquisitely, with high quality ingredients is available for ‘me-affordable’ prices that range from 7 to 11 dollars….this girl is going to find it in the city!  On top of the happy hour selections, don’t forget to look at the regular menu. The Parmesan Truffle Fries for $10 are the best fries I have ever eaten, thick steak fries cooked to perfection and dripping with flavor.  If you like wine, the Cabernet  Sauvignon has legs…yes actual legs; you don’t feel like you are drinking watered-down Two Buck-Chuck; the Chardonnay is buttery and refreshing.  Also, their handcrafted cocktails are almost too pretty to drink…notice, I said ‘almost.’

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Parmesan Truffle Fries are simply Beyond Delicious!

 

When?  With options for both the ‘Foodie’s and Foodie-Not’s in the crowd, this ‘fancy feeding frenzy’ is available Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 pm.

Where? Hard to imagine, but it’s located in the heart of Beverly Hills.  So if you get tired of shopping on Rodeo Drive you can head west one block and relax in the bar or reserve a place on the patio where Happy Hour treats are served.  And if you just want a cocktail to pump you up for more strenuous shopping, don’t forget to ask for a basket of the Truffle Parmesan Popcorn. Your mouth will thank you!  The best thing about this location is that the bar and the patio sit on a corner, and is constructed in a fashion where – even without the benefits of alcohol – you will feel completely relaxed.  The warm sun and breeze flow through the bar, giving the entire place a great vibe and energy.  I feel like I am on vacation when I am there, far away from the stresses of LA life …..yes, before you go there…EVEN BEFORE I HAVE A COCKTAIL!

Who?  For anyone who likes to eat great food.  For anyone who wants to watch sports on the big-screen TVs in the bar and eat great food.  For anyone who is single and looking to mingle, as the bar is often packed with people who work in the area – a diverse crowd ranging from agents, to business owners, lawyers, to shop clerks, visitors to LA and of course Celebrities….

 Wonderland Wunderlist – Okay, so this makes my ‘wonderland wunderlist’ because, if you read my first blog entry called ‘Surviving Sushi’ you know how much I hate the taste and texture of raw fish.  So even though I might not want a piece of Yellowtail Sashimi, I can meet a sushi lover here and we can still both find something we like to eat because, along with the ‘Bites’ Happy Hour menu, there  is a ‘Sushi’ happy hour menu full of great affordable choices of all things Sushi.  Personally for me, this is a great spot for a first date because I can still have a nice glass of wine, some yummy fish tacos or beef sliders, and  my date can eat all the raw fish he likes.  Plus he won’t have to endure the  ‘squished-up-unhappy-hungry-looking face’ that he would have seen had he dragged me to a Sushi joint – hmmmm, maybe more second dates will be in my future!

Hashtag me………….

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Great Happy Hour Choices!

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Point Judith Calamari!

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Wagyu Beef Sliders!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Handcrafted Cocktails – Black Orchid!

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Parmesan Truffle Popcorn and a Buttery Chardonnay!

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Grilled Fish Tacos! MY FAV!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lost in TEXT-ation

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I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell is cringing in his grave.  I mean, he invented the telephone as a way of increasing our ability to communicate; eventually linking our entire world via this device that we call the ‘phone’.  I guess he never had a premonition that this device might actually lead to the ultimate downfall of communication.  The culprit….the invention of text messaging.

Okay, so text messaging is practical when you want to send a quick message to someone when: you are at work and can’t make a call; in a meeting and need to get someone info quickly; responding to someone you really don’t want to speak to…the list goes on and on as to the usefulness of texting.  However there are downsides to this quick, convenient, UN-personal means of communication:

  1. A Date….So I just met you and I really don’t know you too well…but you, you insist on texting me in lieu of calling me. I do like the little texts like, ‘How’s ur day?’, or ‘Can’t wait to see u 2nite’. But when you are asking me out on a date, it would be really nice to hear your voice on the phone, especially when I am just getting to know you. I want to connect with you, and hear a glint of excitement or nervousness in your voice. The ‘How bout Fri nite, u free’ text isn’t quite the same thing.
  2. Dating ……So we are getting to know each other, been on a date or two, and you, you prefer to have an entire conversation via text messaging. This quickly leads me to…..
  • Think that you have no life if you can spend an hour texting back and forth…
  • Think that you might suck up all my time if I really got to know you because I am busy and don’t want to sit around texting for an hour when all that was said could have been summed up in a five minute call….
  • Inevitably text something that gets misinterpreted as I am growing impatient and in my zest to somehow end this conversation and save some intrigue for our date, my Sagittarian humor gets ‘Lost in TEXTation’ and I unknowingly offend you……and spend the next twenty minutes trying to undo the misunderstood text message..UGH!
  • Think that you might be married or have a girlfriend because it is SUNDAY after all and I am sure talking would be much easier than this time consuming, labor intensive sure to be misconstrued long ass texting session!

3.  Fighting…. You know what I am talking about, we have all done it. Fighting with a friend or a lover via text….Not only is this impersonal but it also:

  •  Gives me written documentation of your anger, which I can show to my friends to let them know how crazy-mean-abusive- and-nasty your mad dumb ass can be….
  • Written documentation that can be forwarded to anyone of my contacts in my phone….
  • Better yet, screen shot and posted on Facebook and Instagram for the world to see…..

4.  Demise of Language as we know it…..Okay, so texting has its own language, one that is composed of shortened words and emoticons, resulting in:

  • The life span of a relationship is now completely documented via text:
    • Babe I ♥ u xo…
    • Babe…ttu tmr :)…
    • Hey… obvi nt on sm page…
    • Wtf !!!! btw I am done….
  • Text language trickling outside the world of its cell phone home when emails, letters, and correspondence of all kinds are often full of btw, u, ttu, tmrw, k, ty and omg……I wonder if kids in elementary school will ever learn to spell correctly?
  • Text language inevitably becomes an actual word…OMG OMG OMG…need I say more? How long before Webster’s Dictionary recognizes it as an actual word?

When Scarlett Johansson was ‘Lost in Translation’ in Hong Kong, if she was also ‘Lost in TEXTation’ at the same time….the movie would have ended completely different. You can write your own ending to that story…possibilities…endless….

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LA ….You CRACK me UP!!

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Anglyne

Gotta love LA!

Los Angeles, you crack me up….I knew I had fallen into Wonderland when the I  landed in LA, but sometimes I just can’t get past the crazy extremes that become the norm here, or the weird stuff that becomes the norm, or the surreal life that becomes…Reality….

Okay…..so here it goes…..25 things that crack me up, or make me feel like I am on crack, or likely… both!

  1. Guys call me dude. Coworkers call me dude. Clearly…..I am not a dude.
  2. Target is ‘swank’tified… in L.A. we pronounce it ‘Tar – Jay’…..Oh la la
  3. Vegan leather…what the fuck is Vegan Leather? Oh right…. Vegan Leather formerly known as pleather; pleather formally known as plastic. Ohhhh Right…..
  4. Stuck up sales people who talk down to you.  I think in order to get hired to work in a store in Beverly Hills you need to have the snotty gene, or take a snotty pill in the morning before you get to work.
  5. Women wearing fur coats in the winter; you know for those bone chilling 57 degree nights!
  6. The signs posted outside a restaurant or vendor window that say “Gluten Free – Soy Free – Dairy Free – Fat Free – Vegan”…………………………. Makes me wonder what the hell I would be eating?
  7. One little stalled car can block traffic for miles – in the city, this will add 30 minutes to your drive; On the freeway, you had better hope you didn’t have too much coffee in the morning or pray you have your cup with you as….. you are likely going to need to pee into it.
  8. Ten year old girls carrying designer hand bags. What does a ten year old girl need with a Chanel bag?
  9. Sweet 16 means getting a Mercedes, BMW or Range Rover and maybe…. a boob or nose job.
  10. Parents need to waitlist their kids for Preschool when they are still in the womb.
  11. Celebrities working out in the gym wearing Sunglasses….so as to remain…… anonymous.
  12. Valet parking at grocery stores!
  13. Half of LA has handicapped parking passes, and 99 percent of them don’t appear to be handicapped.
  14. LA is a city where an old lady wearing too much make up, with white blond hair and wearing age- inappropriate-clothing, driving a pink Corvette with plates that read ‘Angelyne’ becomes famous for all of the above.
  15. Herds of Paparazzi running through the streets cameras swaying, practically running over pedestrians and pushing each other out of the way to get a shot of a celebrity getting into their car.
  16. Followed by…. the herds of Paparazzi running back to their cars that were left on the side of the road, or the middle of the street, doors open and unlocked…..taking off in a frenzied fashion to follow the celebrity victim of the day.
  17. Designer water! People will pay $3.50 for water with Vitamin C in it, instead of just eating an orange and drinking a glass of water.
  18. Rodeo Drive…..where Champagne is freely dispersed when you are trying on clothes or shoes in a high end store….(Actually, I love this one!)
  19. Living in Beverly Hills and dating someone in Santa Monica – it is so hard to get together you might as well be dating someone from northern California, when 6 miles becomes 60 minutes in traffic!
  20. Worse yet…..Living in Beverly Hills and dating someone in the Valley – the commute makes you feel like you are in a long distance relationship. The lines at Southwest and flying to Scottsdale would be quicker than the 405 to the 10 to the……in traffic.
  21. Life Coach…what is that??? In addition to your psychiatrist, therapist, doctor, trainer and hairdresser…..you still need someone to coach you on your life?
  22. Beverly Hills Housewives, who don’t work…..still need a personal assistant.
  23. People selling fruit on the freeway on ramps….potential suicide missions that never seem to deem police involvement.
  24. LA Car chases…..Networks shut down programming so we can watch some idiot drive through the streets of LA obviously out of his mind and/or on drugs, sometimes for hours until they are finally cornered an caught…SERIOUSLY….the INEVITABLE outcome made me miss the last 45 minutes of the ‘Good Wife’!!!
  25. The fact that it only took me 15 minutes to think of twenty five things that crack me up about LA, well….that in and of itself…cracks the hell out of me.
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