Meowy Christmas!

Have a jingly belly sort of day errbody!

COME VISIT ME!

Everyone else is doing it. Seriously I've been here a hot second and already have had so many friends come! I love it! I don't even need to make new friends, all yall just end up coming here :)

yay october visitors!


October 7-11
Shay came with Trace, but I dont have a picture so he's represented by Buck Hunter because we played a shit ton of it while he was here. 

October 21-23
My cousin Maddy came to visit me and we had an awesome weekend of eating A TON OF FOOD. seriously I think we had 14 meals in a 72 hour period. it was delicious!

October 31-November 1
Then Jen Jay came with the whole antics crew and made me miss my BIG team - honestly Antics Brooklyn was the best one I've been to yet!

November 3-8
Then HL and JLee came for the New York marathon - so awesome to 1. see them and 2. cheer them on! You guys are incredible!

November 12
My other cousin Dominique or as I like to call her Gwun came in town! We were able to grab some tasty lunch at Saam then Milk Bar after... so tasty. We didnt take a picture together, so she's represented with the apple and bacon kim chi we had. Seriously, best meal ever, thanks Gwun! Also I'd like to point out that I haven't gotten visits from Gwun OR Maddy (they're sisters) the whole time I was in LA but then move to NY and 1.5 months later I get both! Awesome!

November 18-21
And then this weekend happened. The trifecta of visitors. Erika, Tasha, and Hoy all were in town! LA friends overload!

SOOO excited to see my lover Erika or as I like to call her Erila. She was in town for work, but then we were able to spend the weekend together. Just me, Erila, and poopsie. Slumber party central. E introduced me to Henri Bendel where we cleaned out the store of anything that had a bow on it. Girlfriend's got an obsession. We met up with Jami at Otto where Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone were dining, so you know we cool like that.

I was only able to spend Saturday night with Tasha, but hell if we weren't going to milk the crap out of this night. We had two dinners. Because of course we did. Awesome seafood at Pearl Oyster Bar, then Jamaican chicken at Miss Lilys. And in between we almost fell asleep, as you do when you have 2 dinners, but powered through. Also ended up having such a celeb night - saw Kelly Ripa at a restaurant, ended up meeting up with Tasha's friend and Tasha's friend's boy friend who happens to be Jesse Tyler Ferguson (soooo nice), then went with them to Industry where Jesse ran into Andy Cohen.

Kristen was also in town, but I was only able to meet up with her for a drink and there's no pic :( Still awesome to see her! Saatchi represent!

December 7
Felly in the hizhouse! Saatchi reunion (we have a lot of these apparently) in the west village, which was SO fun but would have been more fun if it wasn't pouring rain.

December 11
Dinner with Dana! We didn't take a pic, so that pic of the phone represents her and her ancient cell. Seriously her phone should be in a museum.

December 16-18
Kid's Table Stretch with Winjy in town! We had ambitious plans to walk across the Brooklyn bridge, but ended up just walking to the pier and taking a picture. Close enough.

December 16
JILL BEAN! ugh I miss this girl so much. Haven't seen her in yeaaaars. YEEEARS. she look good! And apparently Jill and Ana know each other from UCLA too.




moral of the story: move to new york and hang out with me

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Spiocy

Makein' a Pizza a Pie a

Pizza a la Michelle

Ana found this class at Pizza a Casa in the LES (http://pizzaacasa.com/Home.html) taught by Mark Bello and two other really nice helpers. Also accompanying us in the student section was another youngish couple, 3 (I'm assuming) retirees form Flo'da, a brother duo, and a pair of middle age Asian ladies aka Ana and I in 25 years.

Ana and I both showed up hungry, which at first seemed like a bad situation because all they to nibble on was yeast and flour, but ended up ok because we left with EIGHT PIZZAS. EIGHT. Like Jon and Kate + 8 EIGHT. Pizza for days.

So basically we did everything from making the dough, to rolling out the crust, to mix and matching our own toppings, to shoving and removing the pizza from the oven. Super fun!

Check out time lapse of pizza making: 

Ana and I ended up making a bunch of weird (but tasty) combinations - brussle sprouts with procuitto and balsamic vinegar, potato and mozzerla white pie, ricotta with lemon and sundried tomato. All were weird ameoba shaped.

Here's Ana werkin her first lump of dough. Girlfriend is stoooooked.

Baller shot caller. This is what 5 hours of a pizza class can do for you. But not really because I ended up dropping it on the floor. #behindthescenesinfo





Graduation photo

 Although champion eaters, Ana and I are in no position to house 8 pizzas on our own so we brought it over to the Mike/Alex Vessels/Sir Rhodes/ITP work space which is in this awesome SILO! Like a round container thing you usually put wheat (wheat?) in. We figured 3-6 boys would be of great help to consume these things.

In case you ever wondered what 8 pizzas in a silo work space looked like. (This is it)



To the Silo!



Things I Miss About Life in LA: Fall Edition



Surprise, surprise, things i miss most about LA are food related. I like food ok. Gosh.

Clockwise, the "Things" are:

1. Slumber parties with Katie and Poe. And Katie's 3D giant TV
2. Grocery stores. You have no idea.
3. Din tai fung juicy pork dumplings and Pheonix Bakery mixed fruit tapioca coconut drink. I crave.
4. Cho Dang! They have soondubu here, but it's not the same. Cho Dang's got the best cucumeber pan chan ever. Ugh lets be honest I miss the whole Torrance lunch circuit. Pho, Asian Food Court, Lisa's Bon Appetit. I work in Soho and there are no lunch options!
5. My Friends. Although you are all slowly, one by one, coming to New York if not to live forever, to visit. Works for me!
6. Tender Greens. Best $10 dinner you can get.
7. The gym inside my old apartment complex. No one ever used it except for me so it was like a private gym. I watched a lot of "Love in the Wild" on the elipitcal in there.
8. Singing in the car.
9. Endless office and first aid supplies, sponsored by Saatchi. I miss those mini bandaids. Oh and the joy you would get when you found a rare 5-star spiral pocket notebook in the stash of 99 cent spirals!

That being said, New York has been awesome so far. So excited to be living in this city. I'm sure come 2 months when I've frozen into a popsicle, my tone might be differnet. Which is also why I'm doing these in editions because I'm pretty sure the Winter edition is going to be things like, "Lack of frosbite", "Temps above 3 degrees", "Dry feet".

The Clocktower: Esquire Apartment

Lovvvvve love love being Lee's date to anything - this time it was for Esquire Magazine's house/apartment party!

It was in this amazing clock-tower inspired space in Dumbo. Seriously the penthouse apt had 5 floors, an elevator, amazing views of Manhattan. AND Sara Barellis performed and it was hosted by Neo (weird pairing much?)

closet the size of my apartment. greeeeeeeeeeat.

View from the third floor down....

and from the bottom floor up!



pent house of the pent house - awesome view of brooklyn  bridge.



"woo hoo i'm in nyc!" - lee champion's smile

Video tour of the space:

Esquire • Men's Style and Fashion

Fffffound in NY: The Moleskin

Ana found a lonely abandoned moleskin in the back of a cab.

So naturally we snooped the crap out of it, cover to cover. Found out it belond to some guy named Nick, who was apparently very excited to own a notebook:

Yesss. Already you know this is going to be good.



Considering I work on 50% of the listed shows, I support this cause.



Oh! A doodle. How lovely. GO. SET. THE WORLD. AFLAME. HOO-RAH!

Buy dad a wii, buy mom... a VACUUM CLEANER?! hello 1963.



And then shit gets real. Admist the to do lists and doodles are 2 page of BREAK UP NOTES. "Did I stop loving you OR DID YOU B ECOME UNLOVEABLE". ugh the pages are probably tear soaked.



I too will start asking myself regularly.



The notebook was like 80% full and had a copy of the guy's passport photo in it too. Luckily he put his email in the front so Ana contacted him and was able to return it. According to Ana he was "kind of cute" but also "23" and "lives in Boston."

But happy ending to this story, boy and moleskin reunited! I wonder what ever happened with his girlfriend...

Holiday Partaaaays

Tis the season for getting drunk with your coworkers. Another reason why it rocks to work at Comedy Central: 2 holiday parties! Although they were back to back which was pretty brutal.

We had an MTV Entertainment party Tuesday night at the Bowery Hotel and Questlove from the Roots dj'ed. Because of course he would.

Digital Integrated Marketing Managers, unite!

Open bar + photo booth=

found a picture of my face all ripped up! what the heyo.

Then Wednesday night we had the bigger more massive Viacom party at the Roseland Ballroom. It was fun, but weird, and most of the CC friends were too tired from the night before.

that last one is supposed to be a "CC" for Comedy Central, but I did my C backwards and Stacy's C got cut off. #fail.

But upside is they had women dressed in Victorian garb attached to tables with prosecco! (...whaaaaaat)

So to recover from dos fiestas our team had a hangover brunch! Just happened to run into a Walgreens photo shoot in the north pole.

And thennn we had a pot luck white elephant party at work today. Pretty fun, people brought some good gifts including:

Sea monkeys

Lotto tickets

Bumble bee slippers

I made it out with a pair of slippers that double duties as a mop. Shaweet!

Happy Holidays from the Kellts!

cutie pie reindeer cookies the girls made, SO CUTE!

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