los angeles...

ive been ogling the opening ceremony web store since it opened in hopes of someday finding my "dream piece" that i would 100% have to throw down on. finally i told myself, "kali, just freaking go down to the store and pick something up, you deserve it." yesterday was that day. through the winding freeways and thick smog i found myself at 451 north la cienega.



this charming 10,000 square foot building was once the studio of charlie chaplin and had so many interesting rooms/nooks/hallways i was mad with excitement! seeing the location alone was worth the trip. i wish i had the funds to buy out the entire alexander wang room - or maybe just the faux fur chair in the corner that was legitimately calling my name?


i walked away with a pair of sunnies ive been lusting after. the hinged black, rectangle, straight-out-of-a-comic book creations by slow and steady wins the race:


i continued by making my journey to josh's house. we ate pure luck, scoops and saw a dog with a mohawk. we chatted about life, business and websites. he is such a good friend.


the end.

palm springs!

this past sunday (which was also fathers day) theron had a graduation party in palm springs. considering the circumstances i had a blast. i had to post some of the photos taken there so you could experience some of the mayhem first hand. at one point everyone wanted to hop in the cuzzi but 1/2 of us brought our swimming attire. lorrisa thankfully had her suitcase and provided that necessities to make it happen, thanks lorris.






(jeff totally wore lo's shorts. a 6'4" man wearing a size 4 - really?!)



as always, more photos can be found on my flickr.

want want want

ever since gilt & hautelook started ferociously advertising i started browsing these genius sites. what with places like marshalls or even buffalo exchange existing as open doors to waltz in, why not create a high end discount website? these two nailed it with their daily sales of high end designers such as: marc by marc, zac posen, thakoon, calvin klein, WeSC, michael kors, hunter (scored some awesome snow boots for $64! - cha chinggg) and the list continues to grow!

today's drool worthy item (which i cannot purchase):



so, like, if youre a special someone and need to buy me a certain something it can be found here. ;)

seriously?

so i generally try to avoid negative blogs at all costs... but this particular incident deserves recognition in my memory bank (aka blog, fyi i have a terrible memory everyone).

i celebrated fathers day with the fams, i have three, so its typically a fairly busy day. i had made plans of time traveling to palm springs for theron's graduation party that evening. i needed to go home, get ready and be down the mountain by 6. this may sound easy to some, but 15-20 minute drives add up when you're doing multiple things in one day. anyway, to make a long story short i pulled into the front of my house (which ive worked SO hard to get into) and there is a huge note taped to the door. i knew off of the bat that this wasn't a good thing. my mind raced with the possibilities of what it could say... but when i did read it the actual content of the note was something that DEFINITELY did not cross my mind.

"NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE"

wait what?

"this is a notice that this property will be sold on 7/2/09 at a public auction due to defaulting of said properties mortgage for 90+ days"

yes, this is correct. my home, the one i worked my ass off to rent, move our entire life into and make our own has all become a lost cause. another victim of the current housing crisis, EARTH TO PEOPLE - DONT GET INTO SOMETHING YOU CANNOT AFFORD!!! the owners of this house rented it to me, knowing they were negligent on their payments. better yet, they were already in default, MAJOR crime.

alas, i spent 20 minutes getting ready for this party, on the brink of a meltdown. for the second time in my entire life i experienced a migraine. i didnt medicate myself with anything (aside from a few swigs of k1). i just sat there in complete disbelief while sierra drove into the desert. ho-hum.

favorite dress.

i had the day off today, life has been busy! i dont really know right from left at the moment, im just goin with it! mac has been a great experience so far. i really love doing something that i have so much interest in.

on a side note: i thought i should really start documenting outfits i put an effort into so i can recycle ideas when im feeling lazy. today i wore a denim dress & thrifted boots. i havent had the opportunity to wear this dress yet and ive been hanging on to it for a few months. today when i talked to kim she informed me that it was "HOT AS HELL!" outside of the woods - so i threw it on and snapped these in my front yard.





i love the oversized cargo pockets and giant keyhole back. also, i am now sure of the fact that my neighbors think i am nuts.

today/tonights activities consisted of:
-car wash/vacuum (its total therapy sitting in that self wash cave)
-sundance ranch to see my pops and his new horse
-tokyo sushi with kim
-target
-empire bowl
-hustler strip club, wait, what?!

keep 'em comin!

when i checked out my flickr contacts for the day, lo and behold, what did my blue eyes see?? neil favila photo dumped all over the place and what a good dump indeed. some of these photos are so beautiful they bring tears to my eyes. i know thats cheezy as hell but i cant even express how lucky i am to have a friend as talented as neil. when photographers are willing to step out of their "comfort zone" and shoot something as overwhelmingly beautiful as hawaii with a look and feel that is 100% their own, that says a lot. if you havent already, you need to check out his flashy new site: www.nnnfff.net or his flickr which i raped and pillaged for these photos:







(check the bruised and battered stems from moving)
















(note to self: no more day drinking)






i promise i will only post one more set of photos from this trip. 100% film all from cameras that were $10 or less, haha. i really miss rob more than anything and life is so difficult to live without seeing his sweet face every morning. IM SOOOO LONELY, ugh.

im in heavy water...

your love is enormous
it's lifting me up
i'd rather be sleeping.

in the past two months ive learned so much about myself and the relationship rob and i share. life is quite spectacular if you sit back and enjoy it. it was bittersweet leaving hawaii, knowing it would be the last time i would see the island for some time. i was emotionally and physically drained by the end of the trip. i literally hopped on that plane feeling like nothing but an empty shell. sidenote: i am still waiting for some film to be developed and digital photos from neil, but i have a few more photos i can share:




neil and i had talked concepts of shooting in hawaii. nothing really solidified - i mean we were living on island time. by nothing short of a miracle we took off at 4:30am on monday and shot some nonsense: