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

Ok I haven't posted on here much about my new job but I have been there almost 2 months now. It's fun, but some days I get SO frustrated with it! I stressed myself into thinking I needed another job when in reality I had it made. I had enough money to pay my bills, add to my savings, travel, and a little left over to play. The best part was I had an almost completely flexible schedule. I could get on a plane and leave whenever I wanted, stay in other states and countries as long as I wanted and not have to worry about money. Ugh, kicking myself so hard right now. I pretty much had my dream lifestyle. So why would I get another job you ask? Well I ended up getting really sick around Christmas and had to spend Christmas in the hospital. When the bill came I just saw big numbers and instantly freaked out. I had the money to cover it and I would have been just fine but for whatever reason I just panicked and felt like I needed to get a 9-5 regular type of job asap.

I needed another job about as bad as I need to lose my right hand. In getting this new job I took a huge pay cut because I no longer have as much time to do promo gigs and stuff like I used to and those pay more than double what I am making now. Plus I have this locked in schedule that prevents me from traveling whenever I feel like it.  My boss....I don't even know where to start. We aren't going to really go there right now.

So yesterday I go in to work and there is a new girl at the counter. She tells me her name is *Melanie (name changed). I introduce myself and we small talk and then I go to the back and work a bit and then return to the front counter. My boss is there with the new girl and says she hasn't formally introduced us. She introduces the girl to me but says her name is Natalie. At this point I am really confused because her name tag says Natalie and my boss introduced her as Natalie but she had just finished telling me her name was Melanie. Obviously I asked her if Natalie was her middle name or something and she said no. Apparently my boss felt like there were already too many Melanie's working at the salon (we have a Melanie and a Mel) so she just decided to re-name her Natalie. It would make sense if Natalie was the girl's middle name, or even if it was a name she picked but it wasn't any of those things. My boss just took it on  herself to pull some random name out of her butt and call this girl Natalie even though it has nothing to do with her at all. Today when I went in to work they informed me that they have changed her name once again. This poor girl has only been here two days and they have already changed her name twice! At least this time her name has ties to her last name. Poor girl

I have to go back to LA this weekend for the Oscars lounge. I shouldn't be freaking out about it but I am. I feel panicky and want to bail. It was like that with Sundance too but as soon as I got there and started working I was fine. What's wrong with me?

Ugh, this is so frustrating!!!

I don't think any of us turn out to be the person we thought we would be. Maybe sometimes people are closer than others but overall I think what we want and who we think we are changes as we get older. I know I'm not at all the person I thought I would be. I was positive I would be married with 2 kids about now. At one point I was on track to be an actress/mother/ second half of an amazing power couple. Then I switched gears and thought I would be in Italy with a warm happy family living with my husband and making wine for his family label while our kids played in the vineyards (turns out he wanted to abandon his family money, bike through Europe on his own, and become a flute playing hippy instead). Then I thought I would marry into a polynesian family and live on an island supporting my husband as Matai. Then I thought I would be single for life and just travel the world breaking hearts. I would say I'm a lot closer to that than any of my other visions of the future.

I think the biggest thing is that I thought I would know where I was going and what I was doing by now. As if you hit your 20's and you suddenly wake up and your an adult with all the answers.

but that's not how it works is it? I'm still just as lost as I was before. I have no idea what I want to do forever. Quite frankly I don't think there is anything I want to do FOREVER. I want to do lots of things. I still have lots to learn about life, and love, and the world. I'm not saying that being married or having kids is abhorent to me. I wouldn't mind that at all. I just don't want to settle into just one big boring life full of monotony. A family just means I have more people to add to the adventure and more people to take me on their adventures. I would love that! I don't know if that's how things will work out for me because I still haven't hit that magic age where I suddenly learn all the answers but I do know that however things turn out for me I am going to make sure I live it out to the fullest and love every minute of whatever gets thrown at me.

   

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I had another nasty dream last night. It's no wonder I don't sleep! I had to work early this morning and I knew it would be a long day so I took some zzquil (doesn't work btw) and I think that may have contributed to the weirdness I experienced last night.

First dream:

A girl walks into a tanning salon that I work at. She has the world's first pair of plastic shoes. There is a bunch of media there to document her every move in these fabulous shoes. She gets into the tanning bed and is naked except for her shoes which she decides to keep on. In the bed the shoes melt under the hot lamps and seal it shut like a coffin. She fries in there. Of course the whole thing is on the news. I have to scrap bits of plastic and roasted blonde of the acrylics with news cameras over my shoulder filming everything and my boss stands there nagging that I missed a spot.

I woke up annoyed and then confused.

Dream two: Things take a turn for the worst

I dreamed that everyone was looking for this baby that had gone missing. She was 3 months old and they had an amber alert out for her. Everyone was looking really hard for her. Somehow I ended up at the house with her family and her mom kept asking me if I knew where her daughter was and begging me to find her. The son was acting kind of weird. I got this sick feeling in my stomach and I turned and yelled at him. I kept saying "you know where she is!!! Go get her!" He kept saying he didn't but then he finally gave in and just did this defeated look. He walked down the hall and came back carrying the decaying corpse of his baby sister who he had killed and hidden in the wall. I don't know if it was an accident and then he panicked and hid her or if he had intentionally hurt her or what but even in my sleep/dream I couldn't process the information. I was horrified and woke up crying.

I don't know why I dream these sick things about people dying horrible deaths. It scares me and makes me so sad for them and most the time I wake up terrified, crying, or both. I do know one thing for sure, and that is I will never take zzquil again!