I love livin' in Los Angeles!!!!!!!!

I'm from Portland, Oregon.  I grew up there.  You'd think I'd be okay with the rain.  It's absolutely beautiful there.  Green.  

I went to college at Oregon State University.  Corvallis, Oregon.  Beautiful.  Cow town. Literally, if the wind was in a certain direction...ug!!  My favorite escape from college studies was a bike ride down the highway into the lush countryside toward the ocean.  Beautiful. Unless the wind was blowin'... 

I spent two years after college in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  I recommend all Americans get out of "dodge" and stay out of the states for a year or more.  It really gives one a broader perspective on our world.  My favorite newspaper was the Herald Tribune.  My favorite food was patates with mayonaise.  I LOVED Amsterdam. The old world feel, the coblestone streets.  I didn't have a car for two years!!  I rode my bike everyday and the Metro.  It was awesome.  

During my two years in A'dam, I traveled to awesome places like Sofia, Bulgaria, and a mountain village in Albania where a group of dutch young people and myself helped  the locals rebuild their school.  It was during the summer, and besides all the wonderful times of helping people and discovering the world, I discovered how much I loved the warm weather.  We're talking 90 degree heaven!  I couldn't get enough of it!  I remember waking up at 6 am in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Red dawns.  The sunrise was just incredible.  We were staying at an old olympic dormatory.  I would get up and go running (jogging) (trotting) and I was just in heaven.  I loved being warm.

I moved back to Oregon after Amsterdam.  After those trips to Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece...  What a wonderful time that was.  

I spent two years in Oregon, finding myself.  Life after Europe.  Is there such a thing?  I ended up moving down to Los Angeles.  I had experience working as a crew member on commercials and I decided to move to LA and find more work.  I lived in LA for 8.5 years.  Then a crazy thing happened.  I moved back to Portland.  WHY??????!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved it here.  Why did I move back to cow town?  To P'town, as they call it up in Seattle.  To Stumptown, as they called it 100 years ago, because they cut down all the trees to make room for the growing city.  

It's rainy most of the time.  It's grey with clouds.  Aw shucks, okay, I'll admit it.  It's BEAUTIFUL when it's sunny and lovely.  And they have great beer, and fabulous restaurants, and...oh, the skiiing is great too.  And mom and dad are there.  And my brother and my sister.

But the sunshine...I love the sunshine.  The WARM wind, the WARM sunshine bathing my body in WARMTH.  It was 87 degrees today.  Granted, a little warm for March.  It will be in the 70's this next week.  I like it best at 85 degrees.  

I moved to LA last November.  I'm back in the land of Sunshine and Action and Energy and Happenings, and Oppportunity, and a ton of awesome restaurants and when you have money, there is so much to do and see and play and.........

I'm back in Los Angeles and I am so happy.