Cooking and Celebs

Christina, Jason and I = Power 106 Buddies

I've been keeping really busy in LA. With Mother's Day last week I was putting in a lot of hours at Victoria's Secret, this week not so much but that left time for some socializing events!
On Wednesday, I attended a cooking class with some fellow Emmis co-workers. The cooking class was at Homegirl Cafe in downtown LA. They served us some awesome appetizers - jalepeno pesto sauce, mini quesadillas and some fabulous pineapple-mango salsa - yum! We also had a really cool drink, it was lemonade with mint, sugar and spinach. It tasted so good! I actually tasted a lot like a mojito, very refreshing!

After that, we got to go into the kitchen and learn how to make mole. There's like 40 different ingredients that go into making this, it's crazy! We had a lot of fun preparing recipes and the final outcome was delish. Very fun!

Thursday I went to a friend's Bingo/Fundraiser party, where I met my first celeb, so to speak. Patrika Darbo is a good friend of Jason's, and she was there. She's most well-known for playing Nancy Wesley on Days of Our Lives but she's been in a lot of things (check out her profile here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004858/). Super nice lady, with a great sense of humor. We had a lot of fun playing bingo. Also, I told her how much I enjoyed her on DAYS and she was so sweet. When I mentioned I was from St. Louis, she said "So you know Kevin?" Kevin Spirtas, who played Craig Wesley, her on-screen husband, is from St. Louis. I had no idea. Found this out from Patrika. Too funny.

On the far right at the top of the photo you can see that Patrika and I playing Bingo.

It was super fun to play bingo. I probably hadn't played since...well a LONG time! All of the funds went to support Jason's participation in an AIDS Lifecycle Bike Ride, which is awesome.

My irish dance skills are starting to finally get back into shape. I'm still behind in my class but I feel very confident in getting caught up with the rest of the class soon. I'm excited about the prospect of actually competing in a feis. That would be really cool.

This weekend...not sure. Working at Vicki's for a few hours tomorrow, maybe going to a party tomorrow night, and perhaps meeting up with friend Sarah on Sunday.

Having a ball living the Cali life! :)