Ruminations on Los Angeles
7Jul2003 Filed under: HomelyThings I love about being here:
1. Living a 5 minute bike ride from the beach
2. All the free outdoor music
3. Lots of excellent inspiring friends
4. Cheap hair removal
5. Multiple farmer’s markets all over the place
Things about Seattle I look forward to returning to someday:
1. The sound of rain on the roof
2. Walking
3. The seasonal cycles of hibernation/overstimulation
4. Being hugged between the Olympics and the Cascades, Puget Sound and Lake Washington
5. The smell of leaves becoming earth
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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matt
July 8th, 2003 at 4:23 am
cheap hair removal? oooh, the eyebrow thing.
for a minute, i’m like, “how hairy could ariel be???”
*b.
July 8th, 2003 at 8:14 am
I just became aware of your #3 on the Seattle list this past week. I’ve been doing it for years (sitting in front of my computer all winter, then forgetting what computers are during the summer), but it just dawned on me that it was habitual. Gotta love Seattle oddities.
Ariel
July 8th, 2003 at 8:15 am
Matt, it’s not just the khite that’s cheap — leg waxing is dirt cheap, too!
tlc
July 8th, 2003 at 10:13 am
Waxing is cheap IF you know where to go. And, as is ever true, home is where the heart is.
Dave
July 8th, 2003 at 11:17 am
Re: home is where the heart is
Doesn’t that mean home is wherever you are? That’s what I always took it to mean, anyway.
tlc
July 8th, 2003 at 1:20 pm
A double entendre, I’d say!
paisley
July 8th, 2003 at 1:36 pm
so LA is forever spring/summer and Seattle is forever fall/winter .. cozy thought
yara
July 8th, 2003 at 10:59 pm
things i am looking forward to about LA:
1. seeing the sun
2. running in Griffith Park
3. fresh strawberries, for months on end
4. avocados! avocados! avocados!
5. living 20 minutes from the beach
things i will not miss about seattle:
1. SAD and the resulting cookies-by-the-truckload diet
2. wet socks
3. only having shade-loving plants
4. expensive hair removal
5. fleece jacket and sturdy boots as only fashion option