Celebs and Hip Hop Fun

Gordon, Matt & I at Powerhouse

I've never been much of a pro basketball fan. St. Louis doesn't have a pro team, and college basketball was always more interesting and fun because well, there are plenty of college teams around to follow, such as SLU and Mizzou.

I have found myself sucked into the Lakers kool-aid, which I suppose isn't a bad thing, since they are back-to-back champs. My radio station does so much with the Lakers, in fact, the Lakers love our station. That is how I got to meet Ron Artest, pictured below.

Katie & Ron Artest

Ron Artest came to the studios the day after the Lakers big win to appear on our morning show, and of course, promote his song "Champion." He was very nice, of course who wouldn't be after winning a world championship ring? I had a little Laker bear at my desk that the previous sales assistant left behind for me so I had him sign it. Pretty cool!

Last Saturday was Powerhouse, my station's biggest concert event of the year. It was held at the Honda Center in Anaheim (where the Ducks play, which I can't help it, every time I hear or see the Anaheim Ducks I hear Emilio Estevez saying "ducks fly together!" Thank you, Walt Disney).

It was a fantastic show. We had a solid line-up featuring Jason Derulo, B.o.B, Bruno Mars, Trey Songz, Drake, P Diddy, Ne-yo, Snoop Dogg and others. Quite a different show from the rock shows I'm used to! It was great though. All of the artists gave excellent performances, got the crowd into it and then we had some special guests. P Diddy was one, he wasn't originally on the lineup. Oscar de la Hoya, Ron Artest, Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, and Warren G showed up as well. So we had 3 of the Lakers on site for the concert. Sadly, I did not get to meet anyone this time, I didn't have a backstage pass. However, I enjoyed the show immensely. It was super fun.

Snoop Dogg!

Last week also marked semi-annual sale at Vicki's. Needless to say, it was quite an exhausting week! This week I have my first book club meeting. I found a women's book club group on meetup.com that meets in Burbank and they're all young females and the theme is to read chick novels, so it's fun. Thought it would be a great way to keep reading and also meet other people.

That's all for now peeps. Am glad I am enjoying the beautiful Cali weather. I've heard it's nightmarishly hot and humid back in the Lou!

California Musings...

Dodger Stadium

California is starting to feel more like home, which is amazing considering that I've only been here about 2 1/2 months. I love my apartment and the community, the residents are cool and the building is relatively quiet. I have an awesome pool that many times I have to myself, which is awesome. Plus a nice little balcony that conveniently gets awesome sun from about 9am to noon, which is a good time to layout and get some sun on days off.

I'm still trying to get a good solid social base out here, but I've been good about getting myself involved in many things so it's only a matter of time. I have an awesome irish dance class, which is all adults which is awesome, and the church choir is pretty cool as well.

Went to the Dodgers-Cardinals game last night. What a horrible game to go to! The Cards had out the "JV squad." It was rather ugly. But, I went with friends Sarah, Whit and Summer and that was a lot of fun. Got to catch up with everyone which was nice and I still to see my boys play live. They are only in LA for one series so it's awesome that I got to go to one game.

Dodger Stadium is a very cool stadium. It's built into the hills so the views are quite nice. Plus, it's nice to see some of the old time stadiums. Only Dodger Stadium, Wrigley and Fenway have not succumb to "new ballpark" syndrome that has run rampant among most MLB stadiums.

Another weird thing is that the ballpark was super dead at the start of the game. Busch is always full of people by starting pitch, even if it's not 100% full it's usually at least 75%. LA fans tend to come in late and leave early. They're there by the 3rd inning and leave after the 7th. Just something that St. Louis Cardinals fans don't do. Guess that's why we're called the best fans in baseball. We're fans from the first pitch to the last.

We're in the midst of "June Gloom." When I wake up in the morning it's very overcast and often you can't even see the hills or mountains, which is spooky. Then by the afternoon it burns off and the sun comes out. I'll take it over hot, humid rainy days in StL any time, but it's still a little weird. Newsflash: the sun isn't always out in California. *shock*

All in all, things are well! I do miss everyone in St. Louis though. It's weird to feel so disconnected from my St. Louis life. But I guess that's part of living our dreams. We can't be in several places at once.

Oh, I almost forgot! Had a celeb sighting at Dodger Stadium. Jerry O'Connell was at the game, he came in through the gate I was standing by waiting for my friends. :)