A bottle of whiskey for my little friends

Hello my lovely readers! I've been having problems motivating myself to update you all because I'm so tiredddd. On Thursday I had my first drunk night in California! Finally, god. This month is definitely the longest I've gone without drinking since I hopped on the four-year party bus that is the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (hollerrrr), and its been a little lame. Fucking Northridge, you have a college of 30,000 students who are probably thirsty as hell. Take a hint and open a couple cheap bars. Dumbasses. Well, I guess at least now I can say for certain that I'm not an alcoholic, haha. Anyway, Thursday night my little Korean friends had a party at their apartment it was a fucking riot, mostly because I can outdrink most, if not all, of them, and plastered Korean kids are funny as hell. I'm just proud we killed the bottle of whiskey I brought; I was afraid I was going to have to drink it all by myself. Its not like me to have leftovers.

Drunk Koreans. Priceless. Love them.

So mostly why I'm tired is because after that late, late night I got up and took the two hour public transit ride down to LA where I met up with my friend Melvin who wanted to take me to Downtown LA. Melvin is a LA native and he knows his fucking way around, and somehow also knew exactly what I have been looking for since I got here: shopping. Cheap, cheap shopping. The Fashion District = HEAVEN.

 

 

Its huge and dirt cheap and overwhelming and I want to live there. Melvin said it was dead compared to how many people were normally shopping there, but it was pretty crowded so I can't even imagine what its like on a normal day. Everything that is sold there is bought at wholesale price and then the vendors just sell it to you at ridiculously low costs. I got a really nice 8-piece MAC makeup brush set for $20 (which almost definitely is a knock-off, but they're a lot nicer than the brushes I had before and I feel really fancy using them because they look real), a $4 MAC eyeshadow and a sweet Misfits shirt for $7. SCORE.

 

I will for sure be going there again, but Melvin wanted to show me a lot more, so we headed to Chinatown next. We didn't spend much time there, but I think I got the gist of it, and a lot of the shops were closed because it was getting into the evening. My favorite part was finding and purchasing a Shin Chan toenail clipper. Yes, a toenail clipper. I just about died when I saw it. (Shin Chan is a ridiculous cartoon-adaptation of a manga that Brian and I were constantly watching this summer. Its raunchy and hilarious and one of my favorite shows ever. Watch it!)

 

After Chinatown we headed to Little Tokyo for a bit, which I adored. Its so freaking cute!  Melvin treated me to coffee, mango and red bean mochi, which is ice cream coated in a gummy rice paste for anyone who's never had it. So delicious. Just writing about it makes me want some, haha.
 

 

We looked at a lot of little shops, and I decided to make it my mission to find the perfect Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) to bring home with me. After seeing probably about a million and not being totally taken with one, I found this little treasure in the last shop we visited:

I just couldn't help myself. I mean, the little guy looks completely psycho. Like: you WILL be lucky today...hehehe...yesssss...(insert creepy head twist and insane chattering). He makes me feel like this:

 

 I love him.

Anyway, I had such an amazing time yesterday and still feel completely overwhelmed by all of it. In the best way possible, of course. Oh LA. You so crazy.

On a final note, Happy October! (Thirty days until LA Halloween OHMYGOD. I will blog about my insane excitement for Halloween later.) My first month here has really flown by. Thank you all for keeping up with my adventure! I miss all of you, and I will update you soon! <3