New EA Blog / Show Dog Moms and Dads

The following is a link to my new blog on EA Sports website:

http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/news/NHL_3on3_Arcade_LB_Blog

It's about the new 3-on-3 format for NHL09 My new friend at EA (the new online content manager) hooked me up this week with some free games, and a little free press. I FINALLY got to play NHL09 in the comfort of my own home recently and it's fun as frick! I even got Joe addicted to it. We play some pretty good retarded virtual hockey together. And of course, I won't have to pay to download 3-on-3 Arcade.... duh.

Let's see.. what other news do I have? Yesterday Joe and I took Ichiban to a casting call for Hartz pet products. Ummm.. yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. We came across a listing on Craigslist while I was looking for jobs the other day, and we found this open casting call for dogs and cats. Weird. But we figured since Ichiban is the second cutest dog in the world, and probably the friendliest, that he'd be a natural, plus it would be really funny to go to a dog casting call (?). Ichiban is so Hollywood. Well we went to the studio on Sunset Blvd. and waited for like two hours to be called in so they could "audition" him. It was very weird because they were casting people to be in the ad too, I'm telling you... you could FEEL the desperation of these cliche actor-types in the air, most of which were totally wrong for this type of ad (I mean, do real life pet owners have boob jobs and Sharpie eyebrows?).. Haha! Joe and I had a good laugh over it, and Ichiban killed it at his "audition", he's very photogenic. I gave him a little tip before hand that sleeping with the director was probably a good idea to get the part, instead he just licked the crap out of her face. It was a very unusual but hilarious day, being stage parents.

Oh PS- I kind of fixed my infected computer so I can finally use my internet again. If only it were that easy to fix the infection in my sinuses.

And we thought Spider Crabs were scary....

This is called the Coconut Crab because it can crack open a coconut shell with it's claws. Could you imagine crossing paths with this big fella? Nature is scary.

Bangs, pottery, viruses, and more

I realize it has been a while since I've updated this blog. I haven't been able to use my laptop because I have a virus! Go figure, me and technology have never gotten along, I promise it wasn't all that illegal music and porn I've been downloading, haha! I was able to kind of fix it, but I still can't use my Internet Explorer (boo), so I'm typing this on Joe's laptop right now.

Other than my computer being sick, I have had a nasty sinus infection that has been haunting me since my cold at Christmas. My nose has been bleeding for about a week now! CUTE. I'm OD-ing on Claritin for the time being.

Oh, I got my haircut a few days ago. Our friend Rynne's nephew was in town to do my hair on the video shoot and I talked him into cutting me some bangs and giving me a trim a couple days later (hey, you do what you can when you can't afford haircuts). It took a while to get used to, but you gotta change things up every now and then.

Yesterday, just for fun, Joe and I were feeling artistic so we went to Color Me Mine in Pasadena and painted some food and water bowls for Ichiban. We ended up being in there for like 3 hours working on those damn things! I have a long attention span for creative-type things. It's super dorky but we actually thought it was pretty fun... and kind of relaxing, haha.

Anyway, I can't wait to see all of my family in Vegas the first week of March! I look forward to playing a round of Let-It-Ride and have a few drinks with you all! XOXO

Bowie

Look it's "Bowie", a Bentley and Chloe hybrid! Hahaha! I googled Boston Terrier and Papillon mix and I found this little "Bostillon". Aunt Tam and I think she looks a little like Chloe... hmm maybe Chloe actually has a little Pap in her. No wonder she's so cute!

Red Sparowes Music Video Shoot - Sunday Jan. 18th

On Sunday I had a music video shoot for a band called Red Sparowes. Joe's Aunt Camella is producing the video which is going to be 18 or so minutes long, and spans through three of the band's songs. I guess it will be released on dvd with the band's next album, it's going to be a kind of dreamy, surrealistic video which is what Camella does really well. We shot just my scene on Sunday in Studio City. We got there around 3pm and I didn't get on set until 10:30pm, and we probably didn't begin shooting until 11pm! The hair and make-up was really extreme, I had white spirals painted all over my face, neck, arms, and lower legs and a crazy up-do with spirals of hair all over it. Its took several hours to complete, my butt was hurtin' in that chair for sure. The end result looked really cool though, I've never done anything like it, and I couldn't believe that was actually all MY hair! I could barely move, Joe had to feed me pizza while I sat in the make-up chair and help me go to the bathroom, haha! He was amazingly helpful and sweet the whole time, I couldn't have done it without him there.

The set that they built looked amazing! And they rigged the three walls and "ceiling" so that in the final scene, water would drizzle down them. Shooting was a lot of fun, even though we shot until 4am. It was all really easy and repetitive, and I only suffered one bout of the giggles (Joe's brother was filming with one of the cameras and he kept cracking me up haha). In the very last scene, the object was to create a storm that would mess up the hair and make-up and the set (we couldn't screw it up because this could only be shot once). It was already really cold out, and I had to get "rained" on with cold water and have 3 high-powered fans blown on me... fuuuun. I sucked it up like a true Northerner and the scene went off without a hitch.

We were all so exausted after we wrapped, but it was an experience for sure. Haha not so sure I'm cut out for this show-biz stuff.

Check out www.redsparowes.com to see more about the band (I'll admit, I'm not very familiar either).

Happy Half-iversary!

Yesterday marked Joe and my "Half-iversary", apparently we began dating exactly six months ago (you know I'm bad with dates, thank god my boyfriend is so good with them), plus I've never celebrated such a thing before. Now I insisted it was a "half"-iversary because few things irk me more than when someone says "six month anniversary". This is incorrect because the prefix "ann" means annual, meaning once a year. Get it right people.

We went for a hike with Ichiban (Joe's dog) up the hills around Griffith Park. It's been really, really nice here, around 86 degrees everyday. The 360 view of the city was amazing. I need to be one with nature every now and then (a true Northwest girl), or else I'll go insane. And things like this actually make me kind of like LA (for a couple hours or so, haha). Joe and I have made a 2009 vow to do something like this at least once a week, even if it's just taking the dog to the park to play.

Later we went to this place called Castaway's up in the hills of Burjank for drinks and appies. Yet another unreal view of the city, and we got there just a little after sunset.

Here are a few photos from yesterday:

My Dearest Family and Friends:

Holla! I created this blog so you all could keep up with me and my life down in SoCal. This way I can share pictures and stories of all the adventures that Joe and I have. Check back often!


And I will try to blog about hockey as little as possible, ha!


Love you all, and miss everyone in the N-Dub... especially you Buh Buh (get well soon!)

-LB