How to Deal With Stress in Los Angeles or Canada

Unofficially, I’ve been apartment hunting for several months, perusing craigslist at the end of the workday, looking for something special.

Then along came a sweet little deal in Malibu. $1095 for a single apartment just a walk away to the beach. I work in Malibu, why not live there? It’s what people dream of after all.

Then, ironically, the day I was to visit the apartment, my friends decided my apartment would be the perfect place for a barbecue. Everyone came over, drank, played Wii, and I cooked. It was a lovely day, and it reminded me that the place I’m living isn’t really that bad after all. I missed the appointment to see the Malibu place, but I didn’t feel forlorn about it in the least.

The barbecue day was fine, yet at the same time I realized, if I was almost willing to pay $1100 to live in Malibu, why wouldn’t I pay $1100 to live somewhere else in L.A.?

I began searching around with the new price bracket, and it turns out the options open up quite a bit for a few hundred dollars more per month (coincidentally, I got a $240 raise per month which also helps).

So, back to searching I go, this time I think I’ll look downtown. I always enjoyed living 20 stories up in college, maybe I can do it again. The only tricky thing is, the further in I move, the longer my daily commute. Bah, I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Without further ado, here are four beautiful blogs worth gandering over:

Caveman Diet - It’s primal, it’s hot, it’s a summertime diet craze!
Vitamin information - pretty basic, but helpful
The vitamin shop - if you’re looking to buy, this is the place.
How to relieve stress - my suggestion is the beach, but maybe not right now considering how crowded it is.

+The tool bag who takes 15 minutes to decide what seats he wants in the movie theater with assigned seating. I like the concept of assigned seating, because you can gaurantee yourself a nice spot, but I’ve missed the first five minutes of several movies due to the nitpickiness of the people in fron of me with their seat selectiong. News flash: The screen is 40 feet tall! You can see from wherever you’re sitting! Pick a seat and be done with it

+The tool bag who thinks it’s fun to bring her kids into a starbucks. Kids play. They make noise. They DON’T DRINK COFFEE. Take your kid to a park, tool bag.

+The tool bags who wear crocs. Those shoes are not comfortable, and they’re ugly.

+The tool bags who make out at the taco stand. Really? Does the smell of re-heated double processed beef get you that horny?

+The tool bags who spend all their time at the gym on a cell phone. These tool bags walk around with an air of importance, making business calls at the gym. Is that hip? Does that make you cooler than the stodgy businessmen and hipper than the average joe’s trying to sweat off a few pounds. These tool bags don’t even bother to take the best antioxidant. They don’t care how to relieve stress. And they certainly aren’t trying to develop abs on a high fat diet. They’re toolbags with cell phones at the gym. Case closed.