October 6, 2012

  • Little Lexa mountain girl has a photo shoot

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    I had to go help Lexa at her shoot today. I don't play shoot coordinator for models very much anymore but I just love Alexa's little face too much to tell her no  I had work and a bunch of other stuff I had to finish this morning but I was ready to go on time anyway.

    The mountains are perfect right now for shooting. We went up the canyon and had no problem finding lots of good color. We met this really nice lady with a house right on the river who gave us access to her entire property. We took pictures up in the hills and out back by the river and we even got Roxy to behave long enough to do a few. She's Lexa's furry baby so Lex was freaking out like it was her babies first portrait session  

    I'm getting so excited for halloween! I signed up to work for a few parties out of state so we'll see which one I get. I'm hoping for the playboy party in California or the halloween party in Florida. I still have no idea what I am going to be this year. I pulled a few costumes as options so you guys will have to take a vote to help me decide. What are your plans for halloween this year?

October 5, 2012

  • My dream food day (subscriber request)

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    Ok this is another request (you guys are really obsessed with what I eat). I was asked if I had a dream day where I could eat as much of whatever I want what would I eat?

     

    Well that’s pretty much every day for me….but I’ll write down what sounds good right this second.

     

    Breakfast: Blueberry muffins, eggs, bacon,  strawberries, yogurt, and chips

     

    Lunch: vegetable soup (because I already have some made), chicken strips, fries, cheese pizza, and chips.

     

    Snacks: almonds, pistachios, chips, granola bars, costa vida sweet pork burritos, and chicken nuggets with bbq sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy

     

    Dinner: fettuccini alfredo, breadsticks, chicken, bubba gumps shrimp macaroni

     

    And strawberry mango chillers all day or tiger blood/peach/mango mix chillers

  • Rough day

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    I wasn’t sick the whole time I was in California but I think it’s catching up to me now. I’m starting to get sniffley. My abs and legs are hurting soo much! I’m back to 2 a day workouts L It’s not even bikini season! The good part is I get to eat a ton more :D I had to  run around a ton this morning and I still have a bunch of left over stuff I have to do because everyone always dumps their projects on me plus I have a million of my own. I need a clone. Work was ok. Boss was kind of grumpy today so it wasn’t as fun as usual. He was rushing me the wole time and bossing me around more than usual. Most days I have a lot of attitude for him but this time I just let him be the bossy one. I was almost done for the day and I was rushing because Jenna was at the house and needed me for an emergency. I only had the cars left. I took them to the gas station and filled them up and on the last car I locked my keys AND my bosses keys in there!  I had to call home to ask for the spare but someone had moved it so they had to come pick me up and I went looking for it and after I finally found it and drove the keys back to my boss it was like an hour later  Ugh that sucked. I went back to the house and thought my troubles were over but then my little niece had to go to the ER because she got attacked by a German Shepard. It was so sad because she is just tiny and he bit her all over her legs and stomach. Poor little girl.  I just hugged her and held her. She is ok though. She will have scars and right now it hurts her to move or bump them but she is back to her sweet self. She cried when she had to go home and she ran over and hugged my leg and wouldn’t let go. She kept saying she wanted to stay with me. She told her mom last week that she wanted to go to LA because I was there and now I think she is afraid I am going to leave her again. She usually has a sleepover at my house every weekend so she wanted Jenna to let her sleep over tonight. It was so hard to tell her no. She is coming over tomorrow night though so I told her that. She’s really excited because I got her a new pirate sword to play with. She loves pirates. It’s cute because she always says she is a princess and I am a mermaid. Tomorrow it’s going to be pirate and mermaid. She has never built a fort before so I think I am going to surprise her.

     

    I hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather and not getting sick. Talk to you guys later.

     

    Andi

     

September 3, 2012

  • A girl without a dad

     

    Can't sleep. Throwing away all of dad's stuff that I have kept for so many years. It feels like throwing away all my good memories and any shred of hope I had left for him. I need to do it but my heart is breaking right now. I hate this :(

September 2, 2012

  • My 5 day food diary (subscriber request)

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    I don’t know why some people have an obsession with what I eat or how often or even how much, but I keep getting asked about it. I got a submission from someone asking me to write a food diary. I personally think what I eat or do not eat is the most boring subject in the world but if that’s what you want to hear about then that’s what I’ll write about. A few tips to get the ball rolling.

     

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    For starters here are some of the things I don’t eat or drink …ever

     

    -         Beer, It will give you the ugliest gut

    -         Caffeine (only in drink form. I eat it in chocolate)

    -         Coffee, tea, and energy drinks

    -         Carbonation

    -         Milk (I’m not saying this is good for you, it’s just what I do)

    -         I don’t eat a lot of red meat

    -         Cold butter on my bread or anything else

     

    *I do take pre-natal vitamins to make up for some of the junk I don’t like to eat.

     

                                  DO

     

    -Take a daily vitamin

    - Drink lots of water

    - Drink lots of juice

    - Eat a portioned amount of whatever your craving (even if it is cake) that way you won't binge

    - Eat the things your body craves

    - Add nuts and seeds to your diet

    - Switch your steak, bacon, and hamburger for turkey or chicken (or fish )

     

     

    I would like to tell you to eat healthy and to write out things that would be a good example for others to follow, but that wouldn’t be honest. I was lucky enough to get the skinny genes from my parents so I eat what I want whenever I want and I don’t put any limits on it. I’m a junk food junkie that loves french fries and potato chips. I half debated making things up to sound healthier because I don’t want anyone following my lead. I will be up front about my naughty habits though. Just please don’t pick them up ok?

     

    Day 1

     

    6 am Wake up. It’s way too early to eat a huge meal.

    Handful of almonds, ¼ cup scrambled egg, 5 animal crackers, and a glass of juice

     

    11am 2 cups worth of potato chips (original flavor), string cheese dipped in ranch dressing, and a ½ cup of strawberry banana yogurt. More orange juice

     

    2pm peanut butter and jelly, more orange juice, 1 cups worth of potato chips

     

    9pm 3 cups fried potato with onion and shredded beef, pina colada juice, a handful of candied popcorn

     

    2 am  mini bags of Doritos, a water bottle full of water, 1 smores pop tart, 1 chocolate chip granola bar, 1 peanut butter granola bar.

     

     

    Day 2 (promo day) I'm horrible about eating when I work

     

    6am orange juice, granola bar covered in peanut butter

     

    10 am water bottle

     

    noon water bottle

     

    4pm 14 club crackers

     

    7pm water bottle

    9pm wendys French fries, 4 piece chicken nuggets, bbq sauce, water

     

    1am handful of goldfish crackers, orange juice

     

     

    Day 3

     

    9 am 2 glasses of orange juice

     

    10pm water bottle

     

    3pm leftover ceasers pizza 3 slices, v8 cherry pomegranate juice

     

    6:45pm v8 cherry pomegranate juice, and 1 glass v8 mango juice

     

    7 pm menchies ice cream 1 cup. ½ cake batter ½ cookie dough with 3 swirls of taro on top. Sprinkled with reeses pieces and gummy bears

     

    10 pm massive bbq ribs, large corn on the cob grilled buttered and salted, 2 cups garden salad, v8 mango juice, 2 cups garlic potatos

     

    4am strawberry poptarts (2)

     

     

    Day 4

     

    7 am v8 mango juice

     

    10am hash browns and cut up cocktail weenies (3cups), lemonade kool-ade

     

    8pm betos mixed breakfast burrito (massive) has bacon, ham, potatos, eggs, and cheese. Covered in green sauce (salsa verde?)

     

    4:58 am finish off the rest of the betos burrito, orange juice

     

     

    Day 5

     

    2pm Costa vida burrito (salad, pico de gallo, hot sauce, sweet pork, cheese, and rice), pina colada juice (3 glasses)

     

    10 pm 2 mini bags of cool ranch Doritos 1 mini bag of cheetos, 1 mini bag of nacho Doritos, and sliced cheese dipped in ranch dressing, with a can of green beans.

     

    And there you have it. 5 days worth of my odd eating habits. I never noticed how much juice I drink! I don’t recommend eating like me. I’m sure it’s not healthy at all. But the list of things I cut out of my diet might help you out (if you don’t cut out the milk). I forget to eat a lot of times, which isn’t good. I also eat a lot of small meals during the day instead of fewer large ones. I tend to eat whatever I feel like. Sometimes that is just straight junk food (like this week) and other times I crave certain fruits or vegetables and a lot of times I crave dairy. I figure that’s my body’s way of telling me what it wants so that’s what I eat. If I want to eat a whole tub of ice cream I do. If I want to eat 3 salads for breakfast I do. It’s just whatever sounds good at the time and I eat til I am satisfied. Please, please, please look into healthy eating options and do not use this as an eating guide!

     

August 28, 2012

  • UFC After Hours

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    Well last night sucked. I'm never staying in any of the palace chains again. Lesson learned. I need to switch hotels asap! Today was pretty good. I met with a few new models and one of them knows where I can get my custom long board done so I'm pretty stoked about that  I met with a lot of new brands and businesses today and things went well so yay for me lol I met up with Jeff from Tuff n uff (they do fight stuff) and we had a pretty good time. I felt bad because we were supposed to go to dinner but the meeting before that they ended up getting food so I wasnt really hungry. We walked around for a while and watched part of the treasure island show since I have never seen it before. Then on the way back we took a detour and went to the UFC offices and long story short we ended up getting a private after hours tour! It was pretty awesome  We went in the gym where the guys train and I got to take pictures inside the ring and I got a UFC water bottle straight from their fridge. I got a picture in front of Dana White's car. I lucked out tonight.

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August 27, 2012

  • Freaking bed bugs!!! And I think something died in here

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    Made it to Vegas! I was so worried I wasn't going to get on this flight and I ended up getting first class  Gotta love unexpected upgrades. We were out pretty late last night getting in to all kinds of mischeif so I slept pretty much the entire (short) flight here. I should have picked a hotel before I got here like I usually do but I figured I would just decide when I got there. I was tired and didn't really care where I stayed when I first landed so I just picked this stupid cheap hotel and went with it. OMG what a bad idea!!!! When I got there I had to carry....well drag my luggage up two flights of stairs because they didn't have an elevator. Then they had the water off so I couldn't use the toilet, sink, or shower. The beds are just sheets with no blankets on them and they had little black dots all over them. I got bit by something while I was asleep and I'm pretty sure there are bed bugs in here. Ugh this place sucks! So besides this hell hole of a place Vegas isn't too bad. I spent some time by the pool and then hit the strip for a while and did some shopping at Runway Fashion Mall. I really hope tomorrow is better

August 26, 2012

  • To make a goat faint open an umbrella

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    The note taped to the front door

    Well I'm back in LA. My hotel is awesome! I love it. I'm coming back here again for Emmys. I had to start right in with interviews so I didn't have time to check in. Summer got here and then our first model was there so we had to start. We didn't finish before Jordyn and her boyfriend Rick got there. Interviews were great and we got a lot of new models that are smart and thankfully they all passed the insane test. It's sad that we even need to have one of those but after that Sundance disaster we can't be too careful. When all the interviews were over I was just sitting there talking with Jordyn and Summer and saying how I come up with these stupid ideas when I'm tired and people actually do them so it causes a bunch of trouble. Jordyn asked for an example and since we had just been talking about tbl (because I have to meet with their people tomorrow) I threw out a random dumb idea that I would come up with and people would do. That was a dumb idea in itself lol Right after I said it everyone was silent for a while and then all of a sudden they were like "YEAH, we should" (do unmentionable thing) and I was like oh crap. I have only been here a few hours and look what I started. I'm always up for an adventure so I went with it. I don't mind doing crazy things as long as they aren't mean spirited, malicious, destructive, or anything like that. If people are going to get their feelings hurt I'm out. I really should make a new rule that if it's illegal I should rule it out but depending on what rules I am breaking that doesn't always factor in on the "should I do this or not" scale.

     

    So we hatch this crazy plan that sounds so dumb you would think it would only happen in a movie. I'm not going to tell you what the plan was because 1. I don't know if I should admit we considered it and 2. I don't want anyone else following in my naughty little footsteps! Our plan required some research so I went to my go-to source Google. It's so amazing what you can find on there if you know how to manipulate the site right. So anyway, we do a little research and check out the location of the mischeif site. We narrowed it down to where we thought we would need to be for this thing to take place. Jordyn had to look at a house right in the area so it worked out even better. Me and Summer split up for a few hours because I had a meeting with my boss to get done and she had some stuff she had to do.

    Later that night we met up to execute our plan. We drove over to the guys house and did a quick survey of the area so we would know what we were working with. We spent the first little bit trying to find a decent hiding spot and waving around peanut butter granola bars (long story). The blinds and windows were open in the entire house so that made it even harder. The set up for getting to the front door is not ideal at all since there was a car in the way and bushes that can trip you and the porch steps going down a narrow path plus a big open window that you have to walk right past... it was like fort knox! While we were scouting around for hiding places we got a parking ticket  I guess that's Karma for us sneaking around.

    It was dark and getting more and more sketchy by the minute. First we noticed bums while we were hiding. They would run out of the shadows, start digging through people's garbage cans and then dart bck into the shadows again. It was creeping us out. They were like garbage zombies! We knew we had to finish what we started and get out of there quick. So we wrote out our clues for our scavenger hunt and planned where they were going to go. Then we had to sneak back one last time. We took turns watching each other's back (because if someone happened to walk into the living room they would have totally seen and heard us out there) while we set up the clues. We had to avoid the car alarm and hop around on rocks to tape a clue to the rearview. The whole time we were trying not to touch the car at all because we didn't want to set it off. I almost fell off a rock onto the car. It was a close one! Then the other two notes had to go closer to the house. We took the present and snuck past the giant window and crawled down this stupid noisy gravel path. I wouldn't be surprised if they saw or heard us while we were on that part. Then we stuck the present in the tree right outside one guy's window! I just kept having flashes of him opening the window with me standing there, bottle in hand outside his window. The whole time my heart was pounding and I kept thinking that I really need to shut up when I get ideas. Even though this wasn't the original idea and was far less mischeiveous it was still pretty bad.

    I finished hiding the tree stuff and had to take the last clue to the front door. The idea was to tape it to the door, knock/ring the door bell and run. The car was waayyy down the street so I figured we would never make it without being spotted but at that point I had to pee and I was creeped out by the bums and I didn't care. I just wanted to finish it and get out of there. So we tape the note, knock on the door and take off down the street. Part way to the car we run into a man hiding in the shadows. He was obviously very intoxicated. We stopped immediately because we didn't want to get any closer to him. We weren't sure what to do because he was between us and the car. We weren't sure if we should go back because we had just doorbell ditched so we might run into the guys if we went back to the house. He started coming toward us and we just instantly turned and started walking back the way we came. He followed us up the street and I was desperate to ditch him. The creepers had just become the creeped on! Since we were back at the house and it still looked like nothing had changed I made a desperate decision to be safe. With the cars in the driveway, windows all open, and lights on it was obvious people were home. I figured if we walked up and sat on the porch close enough to the house we wouldn't be seen through the window by the people who lived there but the drunk guy would see us sitting on the porch and assume we lived there and he would leave.

    So we sit on the porch, crossing our fingers the whole time that the guys don't have a delayed reaction and decide to see who was at the door. The drunk by walks past the house and after he gets a little ways away we take off running back to her car. Our feet are filthy because when you are sneaking shoes are too loud, I got a massive bruise on my leg, and she has a bruised rib cage but we finished what we started and survived the drunk guy so I feel semi accomplished even if the main goal was kind of a dumb one lol

    We stopped to celebrate with midnight cupcakes from sprinkles. All in all I would say it was a fun night but I'm definitely not going on that street again!

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    My bruise

    Sorry but the rest of the pics are going into the vault for a while

     

August 6, 2012

  • Last day with the hot guy

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    I had the car so I was going to get up early and give bt a ride to work so he wouldn't have to get a cab. He had to be to work an hour before I did. We ended up sleeping in and there wasn't time for both of us to shower so he told me to stay and sleep in for a little bit longer and he got a cab. So my being there was pretty much no help to him at all this weekend. He showered then I got in and he left in the cab. When I got out my work shirt was laid out on the bed. He had gotten up early and done laundry and he went and found me breakfast instead of just feeding me his vegan food. Cutest guy ever!

     

    I was tired again but today was just so much better. It’s weird to say but I’m actually sad it’s over. I didn’t really get to say much to bt when I left because he stayed late again to clean everything up himself and I had to run off to my photo shoot. He leaves town early tomorrow so I won’t see him. He said bye and even though we shouldn’t probably hug or anything when we are in our branded shirts/working he did give me a little hug before I left. I’m gonna miss that laugh

     

    The shoot at the studio was ok today. I got just as little sleep as I have been getting all weekend but I feel better about it today. Ber was working on her pictures when I got there. I don’t know how well I am going to like them. She looked good but I don’t think I like the new studio as well as some of the sets we have used in the past. I should have some behind the scenes or preview pics up soon. I’m off to bed to get some much needed rest

     

    Sweet dreams everyone,

     

    Andi

August 4, 2012

  • I'm not a morning person

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    I got in so late last night! I felt like I laid down and closed my eyes and then it was time to get back up again. I realized first thing this morning that I had to get all my stuff for my shoot so I was running around the house trying to find everything and stuff it into a bag. Plus I decided I’m going to stay with bt tonight since it’s way more convenient (and fun).

    I made it to work but I wasn’t as early as I would have liked to be. I was tired and had no make up on and my hair was pulled back. I had that fresh out of the shower look instead of the big fluffy hair and perfectly applied make up look that I wanted. Bt was there and you wouldn’t even know he was tired. He has so much energy! And I think he’s a morning person? He was all cheerful and I was being kind of weird and spacing out :P The day felt like it went on forever long again but I think it’s because I was distracted. At least if I have to spend a lot of time at an event that’s kind of slow I got to spend it with a really hot guy. People listen to our little speech and at the end the always want to feel our shirts (long story). This old man asked if he could feel my shirt and was just reaching for my chest when I threw bt in his path. The old guy felt him up instead of me  That started a game where I would try and get people to feel his shirt and he would try to get people to feel mine. He is a sneaky trickster so he was winning by quite a bit. It made the day go by a lot faster though and it was fun so I don't mind that I lost.

    The van had a bunch of fumes coming out into our space so it was making me sick and it was really hot so I thought I was going to faint. It was not one of my best days. Bt let me go a little early this time so I wouldn’t be late to my shoot and he put everything away by himself. I thought that was pretty sweet of him. I got lost on the way to the shoot because it was at the new studio and there is construction and then when I got there I was just a hot sweaty mess. It took a lot to get through the photos so I honestly hope they turned out ok. It was late when I finally left there but bt was still up. He was sitting there in the room in his basketball shorts and t-shirt watching movies. Aww it was so adorable.

    That’s all I am going to write about my time with him here