Fashion Slow Lane!

Bloody Mary's and The Beach  I have been living in La Jolla for 2.7 years. It has been an interesting journey.  When I first moved here I was worried that I would not fit in such an affluent and small town.   I have had some ups and downs but overall it has been divine! Some of the not so great things;  In the past few months I have had a PTA mom tell me that she was sorry I had to work in Los Angeles and that I could not be there for my child and basically that I should just drop my kid off at her mansion because she had a private nanny and tutor.  How could I not trust her?  After all, she was rich and probably beautiful? The thing is that I am also amazing, rich (in my own way) and awesome and I don't take crap from people like her.  I just blocked her number.  (:  It is an easy way to get rid of La Jolla PTA moms that are sure God put them on the earth just to bake the perfect cookies and tell the working moms they feel sorry for th...

The public school La Jolla Elementary is across the street from a private school.   The parents share the street for picking up and dropping off.    For the past several months I have been working in down town Los Angeles Tuesday-Thursday as the Design Director for a fashion company. On the first day of school I stayed in town so I could drop off my 5th grade daughter.  By the time we arrived, it was 8:05 and classes started at 8:15 am.  I could not find a parking space as I drove up and down the street a few times and back.   There was a few open spots at in a 3 minute loading zone near the school.  I parked my car, put on my hazards and we jumped out.   My plan was to walk Mia to her class and then come right back, it would take about 5 minutes. There was a middle aged woman in a dress and sunglasses standing near the loading zone which is on the public street.  She said, "You can't park here."  I said, "I am not parking.  I am ...

La Jolla Sunset 2015 When I first started looking at apartments in San Diego in 2013  I was excited about the move from rainy Seattle to San Diego.   I looked at over 20 apartments and applied to like 10 of them.  All of the applications were turned down. I felt hopeless.  No one wanted us.  No one wanted to rent to a family with terrible credit, two small dogs and a kid.  It did not matter than I had a copy of my husbands new salary as proof of income and that it was well above the national average.  Our credit sucked. I was almost in tears when I realized I had been in San Diego for a week and a half and had still not found a place to live.  My kid was 3 states away with my parents, my dogs were at some random dog hotel in Seattle, my husband had already been gone a month working in downtown San Diego fullime while living out of a seedy hotel in Mira Mesa.   I was paying $1800 a month a rental in downtown Seattle.   I had ...

WindandSea Beach, La Jolla, CA  July 1, 2013 Photo by Tara Sauvage using Iphone.