Posts Tagged ‘Wiltern’

Laundromats in Los Angeles

// July 8th, 2010 // 7 Comments » // I Love LA., LA Done Me Wrong

Shocking to me when I first moved out here to Los Angeles, was the prevalence of apartments without washers and dryers. Sure, a bunch of apartments have a washer and dryer on the premises and there are dozens of laundromats within easy driving range, allegedly. But seriously to not have a washer and dryer in your very own apartment seemed downright third world. And I know about third world, girlfriend. Yes, in Brazil where I lived till I was 15, we didn’t even have laundromats. A washer woman came once a week and washed our laundry, hanging it out in the air on the clothesline to dry. Her name was Dona Maria.
  
Anywho, I compromised my standard of living by moving to Los Angeles since living in a nice apartment in Florida with rolling green lawns, a swimming pool, jacuzzi, tennis courts, washer and dryer (inside our apartment), etc, cost far less than a bare-bones okay apartment in an okay neighborhood in these parts. Of course, I do live in Koreatown where I get to see cute asian guys wherever I go, am now engaged to one of them, live a few blocks from the Wiltern where the hottest bands play, live a block away from the Brass Monkey bar where I just found out Seth MacFarlane tends to hang out. So there’s that. Back to laundromats… we all sort through our whites and colors, measure our soap, fold our underwear and prepare to get on with our lives.

No Taxes, “To Go” Food

// March 16th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // LA Done Me Wrong

Today I made a discovery at the Los Angeles Coffee Bean across from the Wiltern on Wilshire and Western.  The employee in her hat and dark eyeliner asked me “Do you want that for here or to go?”  I was only purchasing a packaged caramel chocolate cookie.  “Does it really matter with this item?”  I asked as clearly there was no need for a “to go” bag.  “Actually yes, since we add tax if you are dining in.”  Hmm. 

 

So there you have it, friends.  Sitting your booty on a chair at Coffee Bean equals added sales tax on your bakery food items and hot beverages, whereas “to go” does not (as long as you are not purchasing any other hot food).  This is if the establishment, like Coffee Bean, chooses this policy and not the “let’s just tax everything!” policy of Starbucks. 

 

Here’s another titillating fact.  California has the highest state sales tax.

An Arm and a Fingernail

// February 9th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // I Love LA.

“When did this happen!!?”  I told Kelsa on the phone as I dillydallied  through CVS Pharmacy near the Wiltern.  “Nailpolish costs $10 a bottle in Los Angeles?  Whaaaa?”  I always bought the $1 Wet’n Wild polish in Florida.  Of course that was several years ago.  This was yesterday when I was in CVS to buy hair color since on a whim I’ve decided to whip some lavish red into my strands, sexy Jessica Rabbit style.

 

After that traumatizing, therapy-inducing CVS visit I headed to the Walgreens on Vermont and 6th Street in Los Angeles.  There I found the most affordable yet quality hair color they carried, Garnier Nutrisse for $5.99 a box which with my long hair I need two boxes. 

 

So I can color all my hair a ravishing red and condition it for close to the price of one teeny-tiny bottle of nailpolish.  Nice.  I don’t need to buy nailpolish anyway.  I still have enough nailpolish bottles to give all my dozens of sisters a mani-pedi along with the pretty Los Angeles Kardashian sisters.

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