Los Angeles, CA

I landed in LA at around 4.30pm PST today. It's a beautiful day in LA at 73 degrees.

I wasn't sure if the plane was going to be able to take off with the vast amount of fake boobs on board but we got to our 30,000 ft eventually.

It's funny how sometimes it's so easy to determine where that flight might be heading to just by the people in the departure lounge. The seats outside gate 74 at Newark were full of fake tanned, Juicy tracksuit and Ugg Boot wearing bottle blondes in need of a good meal and a good hairdresser. I'm not being bitchy, well maybe i am but it's true regardless. I'm not saying that everyone in LA looks like a washed up Barbie doll but there were plenty on my flight.

Along with the usual abundance of uber hot gay male models. Those i'm not complaining about. My only complaint is that i didn't have any sitting next to me so i couldn't perve over their perfectly honed bodies and pretend to fall asleep and rest my shoulder on their perfectly pressed Abercrombie t-shirts that smell like baby powder and model sweat. I had a lovely Asian couple instead who fed me sweeties.

I had planned on hanging with friends tonight but i'm tired. So i'm making the most of my hotel room by raiding the mini bar and drinking $8 bottles of Evian. I'm so rock n roll.

I went around the corner to my favorite LA Sushi place on Beverly Blvd called Hirozen but i was too early and it wasn't open. So instead of waiting, my impatience got the better of me and i tried somewhere else. A decision i know by tomorrow morning i will come to regret more than i do now. I won't even put a link to this Sushi Cafe place as it was that dire. $30 for grey looking sushi. Grey salmon, grey yellowtail, grey tune...Brrrr. Stupidly I had a couple of pieces because i was so hungry but i am already regretting my decision.

I'm at a couple of clients tomorrow, clients i like so hopefully it will be a good day. Flying to San Jose in the evening.

Miles Travelled: 2454 

Currently Listening to: Cat Power - The Greatest

Currently Watching: Law & Order Re-runs. 

Cleveland Airport, Cleveland, OH

Small layover in Cleveland from Milwaukee. I'm en route to my flight back to NY. Man walking towards me in my sight range.

Over middle-aged, over weight, over smiley man in pilot uniform, aviator shades and leather bomber jacket.  

As we pass each other, man quickly leans in and breaths 

"What's happening sugar"?

I'm bemused. Obviously. I look around me. Nobody else in ear shot. I look back at him.  He's walking backwards and with a finger pointed right at me he says

"Yes you little darlin'"

Yes he said that and he winked. I couldn't see his eyes behind the shades but there was the squishing of the left cheek and the furrow of the brow. Definitely a wink.

I keep walking. Away.

Currently Reading: Lolita by Nabakov. I'm still reading this. Still struggling with subject matter but won't give up and shall continue to struggle because it's so beautifully written. Damn that Nabakov.

Currently Listening to: Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

Miles Travelled: 456

Milwaukee, WI

A quick business trip to Milwaukee this time. I got in at 10pm (via Cleveland) and i'll hopefully be gone by lunchtime tomorrow. Not that i don't like Milwaukee, i love it and not just because it's the home of my good friend BB but because i think it's a great welcoming city in general and i've had some fun times here...mainly due to BB.
Unfortunately because i am only here for a short while i won't get in any BB time but i'm hoping the meeting goes well tomorrow and i'll have to come back soon.

On a previous visit to Milwaukee BB and i propped up the bar of The Ambassador Hotel and remembering that i enjoyed both the decor and the drinks i booked myself a room.
I am SO glad i did. It's a lovely at deco hotel, very professional staff, great sized comfy rooms with Aveda bathroom products and free Wifi.
I am a woman of small pleasures and for me just that fact that room service was still open past 10pm put a huge smile on my face. Flying early evening is always a pain because it's difficult to eat something at a reasonable hour. I stopped in Cleveland and i expected to go to bed hungry because the food in the airport is terrible. It's either Pizza hut express or hard over baked bagels, i prefer hunger pains to bad food cramps.

So within 30 minutes of checking in, here i sit in a bright airy room, propped up by fluffy pillows on a very comfortable not overly large bed with a scrumptious flat bread pizza of roast chicken, artichokes, caramelized onions and cheese about to be washed down with a cold San Pellegrino and fresh lemon. Just switched on the TV and guess what's just about to start...Lethal Weapon 3!! Woo hoo!! I'm a simple gal indeed.