Grills, Rain and Broken Chains
My best friend Kai drove to LA from Phoenix, AZ to spend the weekend in LA. I don’t think anyone knows how much I miss Kai when she’s not in LA! Like, a bitch misses her hoe!
Our weekend started Friday night. Kai picked me up with Nehemiah, Ashley and Josie. Friday night ended up just being one of those unplanned / random nights. We ended up driving to Little Tokyo to go to our friends birthday party at The Lekker Lounge, somehow we all managed to get in even though 3 out of the 5 of us weren’t 21. It was a fun party, at the end of the night it only came down to spending time with my friends no matter what we did. The party wasn’t even the best part! We randomly ended up eating pizza (Josie, Kai and I actually shared a slice of pizza) outside Ashley’s apartment with some of her friends. Coincidentally one of the guys was this beautiful red head I had a huge crush on during high school! Ugh he seriously looks like an angel sent from heaven. I really regret not taking a photo of him that night so that you guys could get wet with me! Kai and I ended our night by going for a walk around Koreatown at 4 in the morning and talking about relationships and self happiness.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned this year has been to make the choices I think will only help me be happy. As selfish as this may sound the only thing that matters to me is being happy with myself and with my life. I think all of you should do whatever it takes to be happy with yourself regardless of what people have to say about you. People will always talk whether you’re doing good or bad, but let them talk. Their opinions shouldn’t matter to you, they’re not the ones paying your bills!
Kai and I had so many plans for Saturday but half of them went down the drain when we woke up at 2 in the afternoon. We were so tired from our night before we just couldn’t help but sleep in. We had breakfast at Syrup at 3 in the afternoon and then drove to Melrose to go visit out friend Victoria at Vapes of Wrath where she works. I love spending so much time with Kai and Vic together specially because all I do is bully Kai with Vic. We then walked to Wasteland were Vic and I found the cutest heels that would fit perfectly with her Halloween costume! Honestly girls have so many options when it comes to shoes, I hate it!
We then drove back to Kai’s apartment because of course Kai wanted to wear a new outfit for the night. Kai is such a girl sometimes she’s doesn’t even notice it (no shade no shade). Anyway, we drove to Koreatown to go say “Hi”i to our friend Hiue who was at the Korean Festival. We then picked up Ashley and drove to a party in the valley to meet up with our friend Zoey.
I can honestly say I haven’t had that much fun in such a long time! *sigh* I love my friends so much! Our night ended with Kai having scrapped elbows, two broken gold chains and missing grills. We didn’t get to our room until 6 in the morning, to be honest I don’t even remember falling asleep.
Sunday we actually did a good job at waking up “early”, we woke up at noon! Our plan was to do my John and Yoko shoot with Hiue but that didn’t really work out. Sunday was the gloomiest day out of the weekend, not just because of the weather but because it was Kai’s last day in LA! We didn’t really do anything exciting except walk around LA, visit Ashley at Virgo where she works (the cutest boutique in DTLA, not even lying) and had lunch at LA Cafe.
This weekend really made me realize a lot about friendships. We’re always going to have friends who will make choices we don’t like or we won’t agree with but all we can really do is just be there for them throughout the whole ride. We can’t really give them shit for making certain decisions, these are decisions that will help them grow as a person and hopefully they’ll learn from their mistakes. We can’t just be there for our friends during their good times, being friends means being there when they’re at their lowest and not giving up on trying to cheer them up. So many of you see a “friend” as somone you can go out and get drunk with but that’s not really a friend. A friend is someone you feel comfortable talking about your problems and crying in front of them. A friend is someone who should always try to bring the best out of you and help you become a better person. If you don’t want that kind of friends then be my guest and surround yourself with fake people!
I probably won’t be able to see Kai for another month or two but I’m already excited to drive around town with her while we talk about alien conspiracies, heartbreak and dildos.
I love you Kai Kai!