wow it's been way to long since i've updated. i guess things have been to up in the air to feel motivated to report on their happenings. but i want to get back in the swing of things because alot of fun stuff is coming up this summer.
so, well since my last post i am no longer in the restaurant industry. actually, the entire month of may, save for two really awesome paid makeup artistry gigs, i was not in an industry. i had some money saved up from work (i still do), and i used a month to just decompress and come back to me. cause after 4 years of school and stressing over life, and then one year of waitressing and trying to make something happen, aka essentially 5 years of what felt to me like workaholicism... i had My Month. My month to travel home, to travel with my boyfriend kevin, to hike, to read, to set my room up more, to run and play guitar and to evaluate why i'm here and why i do things and where up and down are. in may, i would run in the morning, then go and take a seat at my favorite coffee shop, bricks and scones, and job hunt. that's how i found my recent paying gigs, a music video, and an assistant for an art department crew. i also found some awesome non-paying gigs that i helped out on for the connections, and i've made such a wide new circle of connections and friends! after finally getting my fill of healthy downtime, on my terms, i WANT to work. motivation is back on track :) and i needed a month of decompressing after 6 months in the worst fitting job of my life to figure it out.
so since Noe, i've traveled home for my birthday and seen my friends and family (that was awesome!!! seeing my family is always wonderful, everyone seems like they're doing well). i've worked with Funny or Die productions, with Cirque de Soleil (more on that gig in a future post!), and i'm currently applying to work for cosmetic counters here in LA for steady work and a relationship with a good makeup line. fingers crossed and prayers that the main HR's of nordstroms and macy's approve my application so i can invterview!!!
kevin and i have been working things out well and having good long talks over hookah, and fun times watching arrested development and hiking and traveling. it's been good. saturday we went to laguna beach to visit my friend tayler at her graduation party, to visit my friend david who's been in OC since graduation, and kevin's grandmother graciously opened her home to us as a place to stay. laguna is awesome! on sunday morning we took a long walk along the beach, which was actually a mountain climb-like excursion looking at anemones and shells and crabs and rock pools. kevin brought his guitar and played while i soaked in what sun what coming through the june gloom overhead (gloomy or not i still got some sun!).
the weekend before we took a roadtrip up to santa cruz along route one to attend a blues festival. SO beautiful!!! we saw elephant seals (a must see along route one), and the coastline, and it was amazing to see. i took tons of pictures sticking my head out the backseat window to get a better view. we were going to hike in big sur but the trail was closed. then we visited kev's friend paul pham from college, and then his friend paul wilson from santa barbara and his fiance mari opened their home to us for a place to stay in palo alto, where we played bocce ball and a trivia game called 'loaded questions'. the blues festival was amazing, definitely renewed my love for the blues and guitar music i grew up with. sometimes it takes a crush on a cute guy to spike your interest in something :).
and that's a nutshell update. next week kev and i are traveling one last time to Yosemite National park to celebrate our anniversary, so stay tuned! and in late June i'm attending the International Makeup Artist Tradeshow. so exciting!!!!!!
peace & love, sarah-laine
