Fashion Slow Lane!

My answer is:   You don't .  Right now I leave for work on Monday night I don't come back for four days.  The oldest pug has separation anxiety and barks all night, so we had to take care of that.  The vet put him on xanax.  My child is old enough now to make her own lunch and we share a car pool with the lady down the hall to get her to camp and back each day of the summer.   Her dad picks her up and the other two kids who live down the hall and makes sure she gets to bed on time. The laundry backs up.  The pugs pee on the floor and no one notices for several days.  The towels get left at camp so now we have no towels in the house.  I spent 4 hours in the basement today doing laundry because I was gone all week working in Los Angeles and I live in San Diego.  Crazy, yes I know.  Work/life balance? What is that?  This is my life and its not balanced at all but I like it.  I created it. You don't alw...

FAST Lane. For the past two years I have been living in a quiet, affluent beach side community called La Jolla near San Diego. Most of my design clients hail from New York City, Los Angeles or  overseas.  All my work was done from my home office/studio with two pugs.   It was life in the fashion slow lane. Not much interaction with people except on Skype or when I went to LA for meetings or maybe the odd Vegas trade show. Fast forward to today, I am commuting from La Jolla on weekends to work in Downtown Los Angeles aka. DTLA during the week.  I am actually coach surfing, staying with friends and family all over Los Angeles.  My commutes are crazy, LA traffic is super crazy.   I have put miles and miles on my car but I love my job!   I am getting to know new parts of Los Angeles that I have never explored before like Korea Town, Los Feliz, Silverlake, etc. I am lucky that I am relatively healthy because I am commuting to LA, wearing 4 inch h...