05.16.07

Thanks for Being Born

Posted in Life, Celebrities, Lo at 2:25 pm by lo

In a rare and surprising moment, I have completely fallen in love with the city of Los Angeles. Not that I don’t like it here, but you would never catch me in an I ‘heart’ T-shirt about my home base…that is until Sunday.

A bit of back story (since this is my first blog post): I moved to LA three years ago with Eric, my boyfriend who is quintessential dream-chaser. At any given moment he is trying to accomplish becoming a famous musician/recording engineer/star tennis player/fighter pilot or all of the above. I’m a writer, and am typically content wherever I am so long as there is alcohol, food and friends. So here we’ve been since then and I’ve been pretty ambivalent about the City of Angels.

But that was all about to change.

Eric is assisting on an album for a new production company. He’s been in the studio 12-16 hours each day for the last week or so. This is tragic because while we live together we are literally “passing in the night,” and actually speaking for approximately four minutes each day at 3 a.m. because that’s about as long as I can manage to open my eyes and make coherent sentences.

Sunday was Eric’s birthday but he booked time at the studio since it was such a big album. We had decided that morning that I’d take dinner to the studio and we’d sneak in some together time while he worked. Once I got the text that it was time to come, I picked up Chipotle and headed over.

The second I rounded the corner, I saw a horde of paparazzi outside with their cameras, causing my heart to start pounding. You see, the new production company is being run by none other than, Matthew McConaughey the (second) love of my life. And current #1 in my Top 5 (followed by Matthew Fox, Matt Lauer…don’t ask, Will Smith and Josh Harnett)

Remember in seventh grade when you have your first crush and every time they walk by you, you turn bright red? Those girls would have looked mature compared to me, that’s how much I was freaking out. While I only saw him for a brief shining moment as he went to get beer from the refrigerator…it was all I needed.

To be quite honest about it, it’s made my week. He is just as attractive in person…but sweatier. He was only wearing shorts and a T-shirt. (Though since then Eric says he hasn’t worn a shirt since he’s been at the studio, which would have likely given me a heart attack.)

So thank you, LA (and Eric) for being born, because where else could you think you were just going to eat a burrito and instead see one of the world’s finest specimen of men.

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