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new years... west coast

I went to LA for the weekend.

i did a ton of shopping on melrose two days in a row. i dropped a small fortune... but after the smoke cleared, i had purchased and had taylored... the greatest pair of jeans i've ever seen.

i hung out with my best friends from phoenix. i hadn't seen them since about early september of 2001. it was incredible. i stayed with maryjane and marybeth on thursday night... i stayed with matt, tara and lisa in their hotel on friday night. it was incredible seeing them again

on saturday we shopped on melrose all day... then went back to the hotel, got dressed... by then kito (steve) was in town with his gf, liz. we all left and headed over to the marys' house.

madness followed...

red absynthe was a flowin'.

after that it was a fetish fashion show / NYE party at the dragonfly and then an afterhours (hush hush) party at the velvet margarita...

we all took a ton of photos... but the ones below are all from lisa's camera. i'll post more later...

on sunday, marybeth was very kind and drove me down to the beverly center. i met up with the phoenix people again and we shopped all afternoon at that funky mall. the apple store there is sick.

that evening the phoenix crew left and i left the next morning... or so i thought...

my flight was supposed to leave at 2:40pm from LA. it didn't leave until 6:00pm.

then we had to stop in vegas... and i finally got to atlanta about 2:45am. then i waited in a line for 2 hours. then i waited standby until 8:45am tuesday morning.

bastards. the weather was crazy in LA and ATL. it rained in LA all weekend. but not while we were out on new years.

i just got home about 9:00am this morning and went to the office.

very provocative weekend...

p.s. - casper, maryjane's friend... is so hot, it makes me wanna die.

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