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September 09, 2006

Things I love about living in Santa Monica/Los Angeles:
- living 6 blocks from the beach.
- Never having to use my car because I can walk to Whole Foods, a favourite cafe, the post, shopping, the beach, the bank
- having California near the top of those pull down address menus
- Not needing air conditioning
- The weather (72F most days with cool nights)
- Luke Wilson
- access to anything and everything
- a little fancy
- free premieres and screenings
- Anthropologie
- Mari & Jerome
- Patricia & Wayne
- My hairdresser, Jessica T @ Frederric Fekkai who makes my nappy hair somehow work
- Diversity
- Disneyland
- a little glamour
- Easy flight access
- living two turns and one road and twenty minutes on a good day from the airport
- Cafe Dana on Montana @ 13th
- Elixir on Melrose
- Spanish Latte's from Urth
- Maki from Ole Henriksen
- Driving up the coast to Malibu or Santa Barbara
- Colours everywhere
- Driving San Vicente in Santa Monica from 7th until 26th
- Montana Ave {especially Shabby Chic's first store and their sales}
- Palm Trees
- access to healthy eating {important to a gluten-free girl}
- Squirrels that terrorise me in my flat
- Saying that I live in LA

Things I do not love about Santa Monica/Los Angeles:
- the people
- constant horn honking
- cell phone drivers
- selfish, superficial souls who always have an agenda
- the barista at Starbucks and every othe place being a frustrated actor
- traffic
- smog/air quality (Air quality is measured on a scale of 0-100, 0 being the worst. Los Angeles is a 0)
- weird black film on everything in my flat from the air
- relationships always being businessy
- crazy high rent even in a rent controlled flat
- cost of living
- cost of doing anything
- everyone "on" and trying to "be"
- Noise. So. Much. Noise.
- Living right over a back alley and hearing people go through the rubbish 24/7
- The stupid girl voice.
- Small dogs everywhere
- Neighbours all over you (I live in one of the most dense 15 blocks in the US)
- Street parking {I am SO looking forward to having parking!}
- Valet parking
- Brentwood Whole Foods; always crazy, insane because of terribly self-absorbed "Brentwood" people
- "glue gun" fancy
- having to either keep secret about who you know or what you do or having to be all about it
- insincerity
- not being able to rely on anything or anyone
- the beach
- Hollywood
- the fact that a size 2 is huge and pale is sickly
- squirrels that terrorise me in my flat
- saying I live in LA