I can't believe summer is already halfway over! Things have been so busy around here I haven't had time to go wake boarding or travel or anything. I am going to make up for lost time though. I have a wake event and 2 wake boarding clinics next week and I leave for another Playboy party in California soon. Oh and my birthday is coming up I'm still hanging out with bad boy (that whole story will be revealed to you shortly. It's on private for now) and I still talk to the waiter, but I got rid of the car guy. Turns out he's engaged. GROSS! I don't get why guys pretend to be committed then try to date other girls. That's really stupid. I have a new (to me) car. I'm trying not to hate it but I loved Sky so much and the stupid new one has been nothing but trouble from day one. If it's not one thing it's another. First I had to change my spark plugs and wires, then get new injectors, then a new radiator, then a new oil filter and air filter and change the oil, then add more oil because the oil leaks. Not to mention buying the stupid thing and paying for emissions, inspection, and registration. Now my tires are going flat left and right and one is blowing up. My windshield has a full length crack, my muffler and exhaust have holes in them...ugh I hate this car so much and I have only had it a month. I miss Sky that little car was good to me.

Besides hating my car I have been working new jobs because I got laid off at the shop. My boss has no business sense at all. I started doing car detailing on the side just for extra cash. It's been interesting, but hey at least I learned a new skill right? Luckily for me bad boy is there too and he hates vacuuming and upholstery which I love so it works out.

I have been having weird run-ins with birds lately. My brother found one that got knocked out of it's nest when a cat attacked and killed the mother and it's siblings so we took him home and tried to save him. Then not too long after that I was driving down the street and a tiny bird ran out in front of me. Thankfully I missed him but I parked to get him out of the road and discovered 5 more baby birds. It was all I could do to herd them out of the busy street. Then 2 fell down a storm drain I called the city and had to wait to get them. They couldn't find one baby and the other one drowned but the good news is we got them out and relocated them to a better place. Hopefully I don't run across anymore baby birds for the rest of the summer.

I have more updates but never have time to write them so you'll see stuff popping up later. Hope you're all having a fun summer

xoxo
Andi

I hope we make enough to keep xanga because I have been here forever, but in case we don't I have reluctantly made a wordpress page where I will be posting. I am slowly moving my blog over there. You can find my new page here

http://livinguntamed.wordpress.com/

because I was a different person then

I’m just so stressed and annoyed lately. I feel like I am trying to make progress but I’m just spinning my wheels. As scary as it is I decided to cut out all the poison and negativity in my life. Toxic relationships, parasitic relationships and situations, medial things that I hate and that don’t better me in any way…. Stuff like that.

First I got rid of the stupid salon and I already feel a million times better. No more feeling like I have to choose between ethics or keeping my job and no more stupid rules. I got rid of a few other side projects I had going that just drained my time, energy and resources and the people involved never once showed any sign of loyalty or appreciation. Lost some “friends”.

I also cut off my safety nets. I love Untamed more than anything. It’s what I have done for years but I was so stuck in it I was forgetting how to do anything else. I think it makes me lazier and less creative to just always do what I’m good at…always doing what’s safe. So I cut that way WAY down for now. It was terrifying but Steve Jobs was right. You have to stay hungry, and stay foolish. I learn and grow more when I am being challenged. So to dump the restlessness I dumped everything I know. I got new hobbies, started working on new physical challenges in stunt class, got a new job I know nothing about, in an industry I know nothing about…

It’s hard but I like it. I don’t want things to be too easy. I like that I go to work and I don’t automatically do things second nature. I learn something new every single day and I have to work really hard. My body is exhausted and my brain is exhausted but I am happy J

I’m so annoyed at work that I can hardly stand being there anymore. They watch us on camera all the time like creepers and they nag us about the stupidest things and then they take all our money for naughty notes…ugh it’s so frustrating but I have been really trying to make it work. I’m not a quitter. Today may have been the last straw though! While I was gone for Playboy my boss jacked up all the prices at the salon. No warnings or anything, so I get back and everything is changed. When a customer asked me if we raised the price I said yes, because we had. As soon as she walked away my boss called. He had been listening on the audio and watching on camera. He told me to get the paper under the computer so I would know what to say to people. Naturally I looked under the monitor of the computer in front of me and he goes, “no the computer to your left. Do you see it under the monitor?” I picked it up and he says “yeah that one”. Ok I know they watch us and listen to us on cam all the time but it feels super creepy when you know they are doing it right then. So anyway, I read the paper and everything on it is a bold faced lie. It was a load of crap and he knew it so I said I wouldn’t tell customers that because I’m not going to lie to them. He wanted us to not saying anything about the price change but if customers brought it up we were supposed to tell them no we did not raise our prices….like they are too stupid to notice or something. Then if they are regulars and know they exact price (most are) or can read the signage with the old price that is right in front of their face, THEN we can admit the price went up but still have to lie as to why. One I don’t like lying to people and two I’m not going to lie about something so obviously wrong because I’m the one getting chewed out not him.

Then to top it off we think they have video cameras in the room. We tried to find them but as soon as we started looking guess who suddenly got fired? Technically I’m not fired. They just moved me to a sub list but they’ll never call so I’m not really sure what their reasoning is on that? Maybe so that I couldn’t draw unemployment if I wanted to? Idk I don’t really care. I’m already set up somewhere else. I move on quick

I really try hard not to put a bunch of political things in here and generally don't mention much by way of current events. I try to stick to what I know, which is my life. I can't shut up on this one though. I don't know why I am so bothered about this particular situation but I am. I love my country and I do feel bad for the people that died but I wish everyone would stop screaming for blood. Something about this whole situation just seems so off to me but I don't know what it is yet. Yeah I think those two totally set up bombs and everything but there are so many incongruencies..

That's not the point though. What really bothers me are the things people are saying about these boys and their family. Right or wrong I don't think people should say things like "Blow up the body" or "get the rest of the family here for a family photo" (under a photo of Tamerlan's body). I am sick of hearing people say all the awful things they wish would happen to Dzhokhar. That explosion in Texas leveled a factory and hurt/killed more people. Why don't we spend more time figuring out how we can help them and less time wishing ill on someone else. I just wish everyone would shut up about it and let the authorities/court do their jobs.

I almost didn’t get to go! I had a bit of a rough start because I missed my hair and make-up appointment, lost my paperwork, didn’t have a mask (mandatory to get in), and had to wear a generic outfit that I already had because I didn’t have time to sew mine. I designed the cutest outfit! It’s ok though. Mine turned out to be more original than I thought and people loved it so I’ll really surprise them when I show up next year without an outfit to top it. Anyway, after I finally hit a party store for my mask and did my own hair and make-up I was as ready as I was going to be. I got dropped off at the check in and immediately got hit with the nerves. The girls are SOOO pretty! They all were standing there in various forms of lingerie looking perfect and plastic and I rolled up cute but looking very “girl next door”.  They had that signature blonde hair at full volume and there were plump lips and fake breasts everywhere. As the only non-augmented girl I started to feel like maybe they had asked me there on accident. I know I’m cute but it still shakes you up a little bit when you come face to face with multiple playmates. So I just started talking to people. When I get nervous I start networking and making moves. I immediately made friends with this super gorgeous native American mix girl selling bikinis to people as they went in. She had really great stuff so we talked for a while and she gave me great tips about what to expect when I got there.

I made it to the shuttle (had to throw away my curling iron though ) and sat next to a girl that looked like real life playmate Barbie. Her name was Michelle. She was so nice. When she found out I came alone she offered to show me around. On the way there I felt like a little kid going to Disneyland or something. I was so excited and nervous at the same time. Then we pulled up to the mansion and all my butterflies just went away. This is so cheesy to say but it felt like a fairytale to me. The mansion and the grounds were all decked out. Crystal must have had a hand in the decorating plans because everything was breathtaking. There were crystals and chandeliers in the trees, candles and sparkles everywhere. I have been once before but it was nothing compared to this. We took a bunch of pictures and I’m sure I spent a good hour and a half just eating. A lot of people were at the bar so there wasn’t a line for food. I may be small but I love to eat so I tried a little bit of everything.  They sure do know their food! After that I went inside to listen to Crystal (Hef’s new wife) because she was spinning for a bit. Made some more friends and took a bunch of pictures with Michelle. There were a few other Utah people so I made friends with them.

I spent a bunch more time with the monkeys and other animals and then played in the grotto, and hung out in the game room. I found a secret room so me and I few guys, the painted cheetah girls,  and a beauty queen went and hung out in there.

OH, and the security was mainly made up of Polynesians. I was having the best time just talking with them about the islands and testing how much of the language I remember. We have some of the same friends (no surprise, it’s a small island) and we love the same foods. They want to get me to try palolo but I don’t know if I can stomach that quite yet. I know I was only there for the night but I left with new friends that already feel like a little family. I’m invited back for the rest of the events this year and I am so excited to go back! I really can hardly wait for the next one. Most girls dream of fairytales with prince charming on a white horse but I guess my fairytale is a day on the beach and a party at the playboy mansion at night.

Ps- I met a very mysterious hottie who is pretty intriguing. I don’t know his name because I thought it would be more fun if we didn’t tell each other. He’s smart. He asked how he would find me again if I didn’t tell him my name or info and I said if he really wanted to see me again he would figure it out. I didn’t think he would find me again. I really thought he would be this fun mysterious stranger that I met and then never talked to again but he found me.  He’s a pretty crafty dude lol

for whatever reason xanga won't let me upload pictures tonight. It keeps giving me the 503 error message so you'll have to go to my facebook to see day 1 party pics. I didn't post any from the private party. What happens at the private party stays at the party

facebook.com/itsandijames

I get sooo annoyed at work some days! Lately the tanning salon has been taking up all my time and it pisses me off because it takes me away from Untamed and doing what I love and it’s a huge pay cut L I never should have got this stupid job. I’m not a quitter though. I said I would be there so I will….even if it sucks. For the record it’s not the work or the customers at all. I love the actual job and the people are cool. I just can’t stand the micromanaging, low pay, tying up my schedule (costing me more money), and the horrible management policies there. The management is my ultimate annoyance with that place.

Anyway, sorry about the rant. Had to get that out of my system. In more positive news, I got booked for the Masquerade party at the Playboy Mansion I haven’t been to the mansion in so long! I’m really excited. I don’t know what my costume will be yet but I want it to be good. I’ll post pictures on my other blog and maybe some on here depending on how bad they are

I hurt my hip/knee/leg in stunt class L It’s so bad that I have been limping around for a week now. At first we thought I just pulled a muscle or that I was sore from the bruising (I got a really nasty one on the back of my thigh) but it won’t bear weight and it has been quite a while. My hip starting popping really loud so we finally booked an appointment with a chiropractor. I have never been to one so we’ll see how it goes. Hope he knows he will have his work cut out for him. My body is wrecked from all the travel and stunting and work out stuff I have been doing the past few years.

That’s really all that’s happened lately. Kinda boring. I have to go shopping again soon so I’m sure I’ll have outfit hauls soon to show. I am going to try and get on chat but I don’t know if I will be able to. Talk to you guys later.

Andi

I worked my other job so I had to take the latest flight to LA and didn’t get there til11pm. By the time we got our luggage, got the rental car, and got to the hotel it was 1 am and I had to be up for the lounge at 7am.

The lounge was at a private estate this time instead of at the usual spot. When we got there I realized we were right across the street from the witch house so I took a bunch of pictures like a total tourist The house we were at belongs to Donna Spangler and her husband. She is really nice and her husband was kind enough to give us a long private tour and show us all the memorabilia. The house has such an eclectic interior that we could have stayed for days learning things.

There was a gorgeous new guy that I spent a lot of time working with. The other models were trying really hard to set me up with him but I’m not really interested in anything like that. They got the physical part exactly right. Little bit Brad Pitt, little bit James Dean…. Ah, he was definitely a great looking guy (and yes I know you read this lol It was fun hanging out too). A lot of models from the previous lounges were back and I was really happy to see them. I think I found an exciting new travel buddy with a new model/ actress who is just too adorable.

The celebrities came as usual and I forgot names and said dumb things as usual. I got to play sponsor for a little while and run multiple booths. It is a tough job! Dre brought in his new girls and they are absolutely gorgeous. They haven’t even started filming their show yet and I am already a huge fan. I found out they’ll be in Utah so I begged Dre to let me be a water girl or something. He says no but we’ll see if I can negotiate my way in lol They were by far my favorite guests. I was only there a short time so I didn’t get to see all my friends but Maxim’s cover girl Dom came to dinner with us and I got to spend a lot of time with Jordan and met a new guy named Seth who is an architect. I decided Dom’s boyfriend reminds me of  Paul Walker and she looks like a Swiss model so they just make a gorgeous couple all together. We locked the keys in the car at 2 in the morning and had to be up at 4:30 in the morning to catch our flight. Then after all that we missed 3 flights anyway and I didn’t even get on a plane until 2pm.  I won’t lie I wasn’t feeling LA this time around so I got out of there asap. I’ll be back again in a few weeks for the MTV Awards. Hopefully I’ll have a little more time at that one and can visit some of my friends.

Oh and to the members/fans that I ran into at the airport, it was great meeting you and I’ll talk to you guys soon. You know where to find me

I'll add pictures when I get them

I have been so bad about updating my blog! Sorry about that guys. Oh and I do miss hanging out with you. The past few times I have jumped on chat it has been so short I just get time to do a few shout outs and then have to run. Blame the new 9-5  I'm working on trying to find a balance in my schedule so we'll see how it turns out.

So I had to go to Las Vegas the first week of Jan. to work for the CES convention. I had a lot of fun handing out cloud balloons to people and I got to dress up like an angel. It's fun being an angel in the middle of sin city  After that I didn't want to go home because I only had a few days before I had to be back to Vegas again for AVN/ AEE and a bunch of parties. Utah was blizzard status and I had a rough week and just wanted to get away so I hopped on the first open flight and ended up in Baltimore. I had a really good time hiding out for a few days and felt much better by the time I got back to Vegas. I met a bunch of new girls while I was in Vegas and went to some fun parties for Adam and Eve, Wicked, and Girls gone wild. I won't get into that too much here but you can obviously read about that on my other blog that follows the adult side of my life (andisbedroomdiary.xanga.com)

After Vegas I came straight back to Utah for Sundance. We didn't get the cabin this year so I was making the 4 hour commute to Park City every day  Not fun! All the girls were booked out way early this year and even my back up girls and crew got booked for paid gigs. It was great for the team but sucky for the celeb lounge because we had absolutely no models or reserves to call in to work it. I pulled in all kinds of random people to get it covered but we had a fun group. Kevin (Sorbo) came in and since he see's me at all the lounges he knows me now. I'm not going to lie when guests ask for me by name I still blush a little because they remembered me. He caught me during my brief stint as a photographer (I was just subbing for one of the photogs that was going to come in late). He started laughing and said "hey I thought you were a model!" but when I told him he was witnessing my debut as a celebrity photographer he gave me quite a few candid and.... unique poses lol

Andy Frasco and his band came back. One of the guys was dressed as superman. I forget his real name so I just call him superman. He was pretty obsessed with my fluffy boot covers so I let him wear them over his skinny jeans. He was so excited he ran around the lounge with his cape flying, furry legs and all. It was pretty ridiculous. The guys from foo fighters came so I spent a lot of time with them. I forget the girlfriends name..Daryl Hannah maybe? She was in splash forever ago, anyway, I spent a lot of time with her too.

I personally think the lounge was not as exciting as the after parties. We got invited to a former child actor's private party but it was a thong party and you had to come in a thong...uh no thanks. I guess he thinks being naked in freezing cold blizzard weather is a good idea. I don't know what it is with rappers but man they love their asians! lol The girls got invited to every after party that was concert related. We worked a private party for the douche actor I hooked up with years and years ago. Ugh, he's so annoying! Can't stand him. That night felt really long and after the party was over everyone wanted to hang out so it also involved a lot of whisky. Andi buzzed and loose on the streets is a dangerous combination for sure! We won't get into my whisky induced antics right now either....

I didn't want to work Sundance this year (because of the anxiety problem I have been dealing with) so I skipped out on a lot of things but the girls convinced me to go out 5 out of the 7-8 nights and I did hit 3 of the movies (not bad btw) so I wasn't TOO much of a hermit. I didn't really have any celebrities that I wanted to see except for one so I didn't go with the younger girls to main street after work on most of the nights. One night though, they talked me into going onto main because our friends band was playing and there and we needed to stop by a few lounges to network with old friends and visit Ber. She was working at this place that had all vegetarian food (gross) so we went in and ordered. J likes veggie chili and Lenisa eats vegetarian so she was ok but Sev got a burger and said he thought  he was going to puke  I didn't taste it but it smelled like cow food. I asked the girl if she had anything fried and she looked at me like I kick puppies or something. The closest thing I could find to real food was chips so I ordered that but they were not chips!

After the food disaster we were walking down main and I looked to my right and there was the actor I was hoping to see sitting right next to the window I was standing at! I just ducked without even thinking about it lol I'm seriously such a spaz sometimes. So I moved away from the window because we had been standing there but I didn't want to look like some creep standing right out the window since it wasn't intentional. J, Lenisa, and Sev were all looking at me like I was crazy for moving up the street so fast so I told them actor was in there and those nerds all walk back and stand there and stare at him through the window like he's a puppy in a pet store!!! I'm like, "guys quit being weird, get away from the window!" Then they say it's rude not to say hi so they are trying to push me in front of the window (by this time him and all of the people at his table have seen us causing a ruckus right outside). I wouldn't because how weird is that?! I'm not just going to stand there and wave like a creeper out the window. So I said no and we had get going to see our friends band play. My friends kept making me feel guilty and saying I was being rude so I finally went back and said hi but wow, how awkward. J admitted afterward that maybe it was a little more awkward than she had thought it would be. I was pretty distracted by his friends chest hair (you really just had to be there to get that one) and J was in love with his voice and outfit. She added him to her style list for her Sundance style review. Then we were already in and we had made friends with some guys while we were waiting in line to get in and aftor actor and entourage left we saw the line guys at the bar so we stayed and hung out for a bit. Sev was PISSED that we ditched him with Lenisa. She got over it fast but oh man!!! When we went and found him later he was like F*** you guys. I couldn't stop laughing because he was totally right. We suck. We are total jerks. It was an awful time to laugh but that's usually how it goes.  He got pretty drunk so I drove that night. He says I really suck. He's never been so terrified in his life. Hey, I warned him....

Well that's my recap from the last couple of weeks. Pics to follow..hopefully. Since then I just worked a ton at my new job, went to Brazil, visited in Arizona for a weekend, had a few parties with my sisters and now I'm getting ready for Oscars. I get to work with some insanely hot guys this weekend so I'm pretty stoked about it  I'll let you guys know how it goes. Kisses,

Andi