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I had a great and busy weekend working on Big Shoes to Fill. It's a short film where I play a girl encouraging her brother to tell our parents that instead of being a lawyer, he wants to be a clown. Here's a picture of my on-screen family. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were all 12-hour filming days. But that doesn't mean I was only there for twelve hours! For example, Sunday I woke up at 7 to work out, get ready, and drive to set, call time was 9 AM, and we wrapped at 9:30. All the crew was still there when I left at 10:30. So, long days. We did have catering and craft services, but of course a lot of it was unhealthy and/or not vegan. But with a mix of catering and my own food, I managed to feed myself and stay pretty healthy. Friday I brought a big jar of roasted brussels sprouts with me and ate those as a snack. For lunch they bought me a salad with tofu from Whole Foods. For dinner (at 10 PM) when I got home I ate something I bought at the Santa Monica Co-Op on...

I had a great day today because I got paid to act . Any day I get paid to act is a great day and that's what I'm pursuing in life - more great days. Yesterday was good, too. In the morning I spent a few hours going through my financial records. When I moved out here I started printing out my online banking statement each month, going through my receipts, and analyzing my spending habits. I fell a few months behind so that's what I spent time catching up on. It was really informative. Besides rent, my biggest expenditure is definitely food - I figured out how much I spent on food per month, how much that equaled out to per day, and then my daily average food cost for the first six months here. By looking into my spending so closely, I think I'm getting a much better idea of how I can cut down on costs and I plan on making the second six months cheaper than the first. If this sounds like a lot of work, it really isn't. It just requires half an hour of work pe...

I booked a job! Yay! I had a great weekend, capped off by the booking today. But let me start at the beginning. Friday night I got home, unpacked, and watched Children of a Lesser God. Stupid title aside, I really liked it. The acting was great and because I studied ASL in college, I had a really great time trying to keep up with the ASL dialogue. Ahh I love sign language, it's so expressive. On Saturday morning, I had to go grocery shopping because I had left myself absolutely nothing to eat in the apartment. So I walked down to Whole Foods and bought a delicious array of produce. There you see almond milk, two plums, a bunch of basil, two yellow onions, yellow split peas, french green lentils, one bunch of kale, one bunch of romaine, two yellow potatoes, one heirloom tomato, brussels sprouts, two golden beets, one red beet, sundried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, a turnip, carrots, and celery. The damage? Less than $30. This is my proof that Whole Foods does not have to be ex...

I made myself an awesome salad for lunch yesterday and ended up having a similar version for both dinner last night and breakfast this morning. There's arugula, spinach, carrot shreds, broccoli, red pepper, sugar snap peas, marinated mushrooms, onions, pineapple salsa, and Rawmesan. I was getting pretty low on Rawmesan, so I decided to make some of my own. Here's what the stuff from the store looks like (Parm! looks similar). The only ingredients are brazil nuts, nutritional yeast, Celtic sea salt, and herbs and spices. Parm! uses walnuts instead of brazil nuts. I had some leftover raw soaked and dehydrated brazil nuts, so I decided to make my own. Homemade Rawmesan Brazil nuts or walnuts Nutritional yeast Braggs or Celtic sea salt Garlic (optional) Italian seasoning I chopped up the nuts roughly with my slap chopper so they wouldn't hurt my coffee grinder, then I put them in the grinder and processed into course grounds. I added a bunch of nooch, a bunch of Italian ...

Breakfast: 1.5 sweet potatoes Lunch: Kale salad and broccoli dijon soup at Sunpower Natural Cafe. Snack: Banana Dinner: 2 sweet potatoes with cinnamon, oats, and currants

Ali got here yesterday! I picked him up at LAX and we came back home and went back to bed for several hours. I can't even say how happy I am to see him. After we woke up we went to Veggie Grill for an early dinner because Ali wanted some vegan mac and cheese. Veggie Grill is an awesome vegan restaurant (they don't ever use the word vegan or vegetarian but they are totally vegan) with a few locations. Mac and cheese isn't on the menu but I called to make sure that they have it - I think they're testing it out or phasing it in. I got the kale salad, and it was really good. Ali liked it, too. And it's beautiful! Ali got the VBurger with mac and cheese. Both were fantastic and after only a few bites Ali declared Veggie Grill the best restaurant he had ever been to. The mac is made with Daiya and it's creamy and delish. The burger is by far the meatiest veggie burger I've ever eaten... to the point where it's creepy. Creepily delicious. I have swo...

I ate a lot of salad this weekend. A LOT. And then last night I got this CRAZY craving for seitan. I had been feeling it for a while but I didn't eat it because it isn't raw. But then, my love for seitan could not wait anymore and I did something I've never done before -- I actually drove to the grocery store just to pick up one item because I absolutely had to have it, right then. And it was really, really good. Yumyumyum. I also had some miso/kim chi soup this weekend, which just meant I heated up some water for a minute in the microwave, then stirred in some miso and kim chi. Very sophisticated. Today I went to Vegan Village Internet Cafe for lunch with a Meetup group full of people I had never met before. I had a great time and stayed so long that by the time I got home it was dinnertime. I just talked to people for a long time about a wide variety of stimulating topics. I love good conversation! I had this kale salad: It was really tasty but I wished it was...