Lenay's Diary

mtv canada and spring break

2011-04-02T19:56:00.000-07:00

haller. im in toronto. well im actually in a small town to the right of toronto. unless u turn the map upside down then its left of toronto. jasons playing guitar. i decided to start blogging again. me and him are VEry bad at correlating schedules apparently because the other week i went to canada (where he's from) and he went to nashville. because we each thought the other was booking our ticket for that week to the other place. woops. i went to mtv canada the other week -- it was so fun! im fascinated by things that are the same, but different. like contrasting mtv in the states and canada. the mtv building in nyc is in the middle of time square, and each floor has floor to ceiling windows. mtv in toronto (in picture) was a historic but remodeled building, but one huge room remained un-remodeled, and had these red king chairs side by side against all the walls wrapping around the huge room. it was cool. i guess its where important government people would come from other countries and all meet in the room in the chairs facing each other. i guess the rolling stones rented out the entire mtv building once, built a ginormous pool table in that red king chair room, and left it there cuz it was too big to fit thru the doors. so theres a giant pool table in there too. i was there on mtv canada's 5th anniversary. then i watched the mtv live show 'mtv live' and met the 4 hosts. 2 of them were cast to host the show originally, then the other 2 got signed on almost by accident throughout the years. sheena- control room girl- is a character/host on the show now ever since she slipped and fell on silly string live on the show. and paul - 'man on the street' on the show now used to be an intern for the show but they said everytime they put the camera on him he looked like he was in pain and it was so funny that now he does all the celeb interviews cuz he's so awkward its hilarious. here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8qSeOks7k

so ya thats wat i learned at mtv canada. good people. few more days in canada for me this week and then back to nyc! last week on 10 on top it was a special spring break themed show and everyone knew i was so frikin thrilled cuz i could wear shorts and a tank top lol cuz in winter even tho the green screen turns the set into a chill bedroom scene for me to be in, i still have to wear tights or more layers to match the outside weather mood. so i CANT wait til summer. so i can take my clothes off. lol just kidding you get it tho -- guna go watch a movie meow.

graaaccciiaasssss

2010-10-14T18:20:00.000-07:00

I'm back... twitter's 140 characters leave much to the imagination and I like telling people too much so here we go lol- life's updates since the last time i blogged... uhh wow looking back that was when i lived in LA -- a LOT has happened since then!!! I moved to Nashville Tennessee, but fly to NYC 3-5 days a week to host '10 on Top' on MTV -- its on saturdays at 11:30 am est. its good stuffff!!!! super fun. everyone who works there is awesome, and its right in times square. they gave me an office too which i kinda turned into my home away from home bedroom. in the sense that i have so many clothes in there and posters. and italy round lights hung from the ceiling. also. i recently found out its 'times square' and not 'time square'. watever. sometimes i make sugar cookies and bring them around mtv. but i keep meeting new people and needing more so nobodies left out. last time i needed to make 4 batches n i was still short cuz i give them to people in the elevator and street on the way in too.

anyways it felt like christmas in NYC yesterday cuz it was crisp out, today it's rainy and i just got done filming '10 on top' so im sitting in my hotel room trying to figure out what to be for halloween. wow that DJ hero2 commercial where the girl gives another girl her freckles is really trippy & amazing. going to go edit a video now fo funz. i got jason 'NHL slapshot' for wii, for canadian thanksgiving the other day and he played for like 3 days straight & now his arms hurt! murphy dug up one of our plants in tennessee and paisley purrs when i hold her up to our tv so she can bat at the moving pictures on the screen, and she has no front claws, i think thats it for now

xo

twitter has stolen me

2009-08-06T22:59:00.001-07:00

twitter has now taken over my life, so if you wanna get my most current blogs (in the form of twitters) follow me!! www.twitter.com/lenay13

...but if you want to read my blogs from my life read away it's all here!

...and even older blogs are here: http://lenay-tv.xanga.com/

...and really really old blogs (aka when I wrote in diaries and paper journals... are somewhere in my closet so you probably can't read those)

lenay

sitting on a couch it feels good

2009-03-22T11:25:00.000-07:00

im sick. on a couch. hmmmm guna have ice cream for breakfast. got this as an email present today from some girl CLICK HERE haha or this CLICK HERE hmmm i do NOT have a child fyi and if i did its name wouldnt be earl it would be like fluffy or something

was on a spanish dating show & went on a 'celeb star tour'

2009-03-21T10:36:00.000-07:00

hosted a show the other week just for a day about a new red bull mxt truck they decked out so it doubles as a dj stand with 2 xboxes and 4 big screens and huge sounds system its cool and i got to drive it and give it a car wash and asked the mexican guy in spanish at the car wash if he thought he could fit his whole family in the truck and he said yes and i said dont think so cuz theres a dj stand in it HAHAHAHAHA and be stupid on camera so it was the funnest day ever, and the camera guy mavro from the shoot called me a few days later and asked if i wanted to be on an mtv show pilot with corey bohan (red bull bmx athlete) and his friends), so i called corey and he said i could bring some friends too if i wanted so i brought my 2 roomates lauren s. and tina- we went with the bmx'ers on one of those hollywood star tours all around in a van convertible haha it was fun cuz whenever they saw a random person, like a random girl on her bike riding past us they'd be like omg miley cyrus!! look its miley!! agh!! and the girl would be like wtf and they did that for random ppl like omg its matt damon!! when we drove past ppl's houses there were paparazzi waiting outside nearby their cars a lot of time it was interesting!! and at tom cruse's house there was a random girl sleeping on his curb. then we stopped by the DC clothing company store and they let us in even though it just closed cuz a lot of the guys were sponsored by DC and there was a big poster of corey on their wall haha so we all got to pick out free stuff!! i got a sundress and a cute jacket yay! they gave our tour guide girl a hat too. then we ate at california pizza kitchen for the second time that day and all the guys got salads and the girls got pizza and stuff... that sounds opposite. then they showed us some bike tricks in lauren's living room. then i went to bed and woke up and did a spanish dating show the next day called '12 corazones' (12 hearts) (& told them i had a boyfriend tho so i wouldnt really be matched with anyone) -- where there were 8 girls and 4 guys and we discussed boy and girl personality differences and answered questions like 'what would you do if you liked too many boys at one time' i said i only like 1 boy at a time but my great grandma bunny on the other hand had multiple boyfriends at once that didnt know about each other cuz they lived in different states. and i had my pink guitar so i would sing my stupid answers sometimes and they were short a girl on the show so i got to invite lauren d. she didnt understand anything going on and just kinda sat there and smiled haha but it was awesome. see mom look im using my spanish major. thought for sure no one would ever see the show anyway cuz pretty sure it just aires on spanish channels and in mexico lol. then i get a call from my friend pat who hosts a show on fuel tv and is like... my girlfriend (speaks spanish) and i, are watching you on tv right now. nice spanish songs.' thanks patrick.

and now today im in bed all day kinda sick and worn down cuz i was like go go go go go the whole week and my body was starting to shut down. went to a concert last night cuz i promised tina i'd go but i was just like blah and no fun cuz i was exhausted. plus ive moved 3 times since ive gotten to cali and i might move AGAIN! cuz the girls im living with are moving so im going with them, probably just down the road though :p

i was an extra in 'the fray' music video

2009-03-18T00:17:00.000-07:00

i was an extra in the fray music video a few nights ago, started at 5pm and ended at 6am, i got too tired and cold and left around 1am but it soooo interesting, ill blog about it another time cuz i signed a disclosure that said i cant talk about it til its released, not that they would read my blog but just incase haha, but made friends on set and got invited to a party which turns out to be a bday party for emile hirsch...(click his name)... at this brian grazer's house...click here... he's one of the biggest producers in the world and the house was worth 20 million dollars!!! look at the list on that site of all the flipping movies he's produced geez. the guest house was as big as my house, the view was incredible, they have a home theatre room, and they are moving into a different house soon and ben affleck/jennifer garner are moving in. i apologize that i just name dropped a million times but i thought all that was pretty cool! my friend lauren also informed me that andrew keagan was there too but i dont know who that is but it sounds cool haha. sorry again for the name drop. here's another one... im a new host client to marki costello and a girl erin from the show 'the city' is a host client to her too so i met her the other day haha k im done!

went to marki's hosting bootcamp this weekend, a 2 day thing where u learn hosting stuff from marki, aspiring hosts fly in from all over the US, one girl from australia, andrew cook (brother of david cook from american idol), some guy with a THICK italian accent it was funny, a couple that hosts together all the time, other people, costs a lot of money usually but i got it free cuz im her client wee! i learned a lot and now im tired i go sleep now. ps ate sushi with lauren d the other night yumi in my tumi and now i have 2 close friends lauren (lauren S. is the one i live with and my friend from MN that lives here too ... lauren d.) so we all get confused.

im going to eat cheerios probably

2009-03-14T00:10:00.000-07:00

... today i went to a kickoff party at red bull hq (for a snowboard event happening this weekend that i'm not attending) and on the way out my friend brooks said hey the plants on the way out are edible, so i ate a flower and then turns out he was lying. then the other day josh and i played a trick on jason- josh told me that last week jason wrote josh's name on a dollar bill in tennessee and then spent it. so i called jason the other day and told him that i bought a treat at a gas station here in cali and a dollar bill in my change had josh's name on it-- he's been freaking out since then like oh my gosh what are the chances seriously there are 600 million ppl in the US and it got from me to you this is so crazy blah blah blah so then me and josh called him on 3 way today and broke the news to him haha, drove to san diego for a job interview and got it- promotional modeling for a rock and roll style clothing brand called dirtbag clothing, i'll model their clothes and then 10 min after i left they called and said they want me to host shows for them too cuz they sponsor a lot of bands so whenever bands like hinder (random example they used) roll through i would get backstage and do interviews and stuff yay and they started warning me that tommy lee from band Mötley Crüe licks people's face when he meets them so to watch out. now i have to research band knowledge beyond just taylor swift haha. stopped in at my aunt and uncles house for dinner while i was in san diego, my little cousin emma who's nine gave me a lot of girl scout cookies which i ate a lot on the way home traded 2 cookies for water at mcdonalds. she also texts and calls and emails me many times a day, but i do enjoy it, she's quite entertaining and tells me about her crush she has that held her hand once. i got my car brakes fixed but they still sound like im running over a batch of kittens when i brake so i should fix that again.

i got kicked off the reality show :) yay!!!!!!

2009-03-13T02:49:00.000-07:00

ok so i was guna be on that reality show in hermosa beach. there were going to be 7 girls total, i was sharing the master bedroom with my friend cassandra (she works as a producer for my manager marki and --as a side note-- we are working on show ideas together to plug to networks she is cool we work out and brainstorm and get overly excited). we were not paying rent in the house, food was paid for, it was a 4 million dollar house on the beach, ......but the producers never quite got their stuff together. there was blue tape on the walls marking where the cameras should eventually be (they were slow at getting started and didnt have cameras in yet), the house had mattresses to sleep on but not furniture yet, the idea was for it to be a truman show documentary about living in LA, every room of the house (minus the bathrooms) would be live 24/7 online, and sometimes cameras would follow us to auditions or whatever gigs we had going on already in life-- just documenting how we lived our separate lives. they were also going to make episodes for TV as well. i had funny plans with the 24/7 cams when they were up i was guna make faces at them a lot or my friends could call if they were watching me and i'd wave at them. one girl in the house had magnets in her blanket to release the positive ions in her body or something.
then the show took a quite different turn when the producers gathered us girls in the kitchen with cameras and lights ready and said to wait around cuz a special guest was coming over. turns out the special guest is a stripper dressed as a cop- i realized this decided to go for a jog. another girl decided to nap. nobody really cared about this special guest being there. fact is i have nothing against strippers- its just not the image i want on camera. 15 minutes after the producers left the house that night we all got text messages saying to move out by 5pm the next day because they want girls that will do what they want. fine by me. i later asked them what our special guest had anything to do with 'making it in LA' (the title of the show), they said they had changed their mind and had decided nobody wants to watch us going to auditions but would rather watch girls get drunk and naked....... sooooo i moved in with lauren (from paris hilton bff show) and tina (makeup artist), they both left the show too. so now i live in north hollywood and its awesome though i love it-- been here for 2 days hha-- close to everything--

my lesson for this week... (see look mom im using my teaching degree) to anybody reading this -- dont lose your morals no matter how deep in you are you can always get out and things will get better. i gave up my lease in santa monica and to move into that big house. that big house had free rent and free food--kinda tempting to do watever you can to keep that deal going cuz dang its a sweet deal, especially here when its expensive to live in cali and there was potential to make A LOT of flipping money in that house once it was online or on TV-- and i definitely have school loans to pay off-- DOESNT MATTER! id rather go broke and move to iowa then ruin my career and life on a trashy reality show

i'm a new client to the best hosting agent in LA!!!!

2009-02-25T21:25:00.000-08:00

my friend london had a bday party a week or so ago, the bday directions were to wear blue or pink, and write her a poem to recite to her at her party and we would be eating h'orderves -- i wore blue and wrote a poem about how she hooked me up with a date so i could attend her high-school prom on top of the ids tower in minneapolis during highschool cuz she went to a rich private school and i thought proms were fun haha, at that prom i met liz (who was also attending that prom from another school) and randomly asked if she wanted to be my college roomate the following year when we realized we were going to the same college she thought i was kidding at first and now we bffs still-- then after prom i asked liz if i could go on a date with her cute prom date she said go for it he's weird so i did and she was right he was weird... (sorry andy!!)... anyway at londons party one of her friends is the personal assistant on the ellen degeneres show and said that whenever fan mail comes in she gets to sort it and keep all the starbucks cards cuz elen doesnt like starbucks, but the girl doesnt like starbucks either really so i offered to have them. then i thought of this scheme to go on all the elen degeneres fansites online and start rumors about how much she effing loves starbucks and then hopefully watch the cards spill in... but i haven't followed up with that girl since the party and i probably wont just cuz id feel bad.

oh AND big news im so happy!!!!! i got picked up as a client by Marki Costello!!! one of the best hosting agents in LA!! she represents all the big hosts, ones on E, the WB, the guy who hosts Animal Planet i think, yay!!! (but minus ryan seacrest) and her grandpa was lou costello (from the 1950's comedy show 'Abbott and Costello') here's her site... click here... can you find me?! wee! i was pretty happy about it cuz i heard from my hosting friend paul that she was the best but good luck getting her so i called and her assistant was like no you cant even meet with her so i gave her my website anyway which i guess she looked at cuz she called me back the next day and was like..... we usually don't do this but love your reel and marki wants to meet with you. so i met with her yesterday and she picked me up as a client yay!!! and when she found out i can edit too for a side job im helping edit other hosts' and actors' reels for the company. and today when i went back to edit the assistant was telling people on the phone that 'no sorry marki is not looking to represent anyone right now' -- im so lucky!!! meow

p.s.

2009-02-22T19:51:00.000-08:00

its funny/interesting watching people come in and out of the apartment here auditioning to have my room... its really like an audition cuz all the roomates bombard corner them in a room with 21 questions and we ask them if they have any talents to entertain us with haha, even though im the one moving out i ask just as many questions just cuz ppl are so interesting. and i take notes sometimes. we get some really interesting ppl... one guy here now has a huge feather dangling from his left ear. i told him that when he left we were going to talk about his feather. he is all about positive energy which he says we have yay and he feels he connects with his girlfriend from past lives and he is a fire dancer. another girl came in the other day dragging behind her a 4 year old kid on a leash we are like ummm no. me and roomie kim say that even after we find someone we should keep the ad up and just keep having people come in and tryout pretending theres a room for rent cuz its just fun meeting them.

got to las vegas at 5am...

2009-02-22T19:17:00.001-08:00

i read twilight book number 2 (new moon?) in a week i think, cant remember the last time i read but i loooved it. i really want to meet the cast now haha since im in LA-
i finished my book by thursday so i was bored in my room thursday night at 11pm, wasn't bored for long at 11:14pm our neighbors told us they were going to vegas with 3 of their girlfriends just for the night so my roomie marcie (who is actually from las vegas) and i chugged red bulls and got to vegas at 5am, hung out around the vegas strip til 8am when we went back to marcie's house to surprise her mom. 6 hours later we hopped back in our car and drove back to LA haha but within that 6 hours i took a nap, watched 20 min. of stepbrothers, and was shown around the side of vegas that a lot of ppl dont see because marcie actually grew up there. it was my cultural vegas experience and it was awesome. i saw her highschool, got vegas frozen yogurt, went to a gas station like a vegas resident, met her family including 17 yr old brother who mixes cereals, 23 year old brother who paints in the garage and sets up art tables to sell around the vegas strip, her mom works nights at a hospital, her older sister strips in NY (didnt meet her), her dog #1 looks like a raison and is so old with bows in its hair, dog #2 looks like a giant polar bear seriously gigantic and i took 30 pictures of it probably and it hates cameras so it was terrified of me and her mom said maybe cuz some ppl (and dogs?) think that everytime your picture is taken it steals your soul, so i stole that a lot, during dark we went to the 'edge of town' where the road ends to the west with a great view of vegas. a fence with a 'road closed' sign marked the west edge of vegas, took picture of it, dessert beyond it, creepy car parked on top of sand mound suddenly flickered lights like it was waiting for someone apparantly thinking we were it so was showing us their hidden location... just incase it was a bad exchange we were getting caught in the middle of we left so we wouldn't get murdered incase they felt we knew too much about their secret hideout or maybe it was just highschool kids kissing

saw spider on window on the way home, thought it fell on my lap, screamed, marcie screamed, slowed down, got honked at, pulled over, was just piece of paper that fell, spider still on window, ate the spider. just kidding threw it out window. got home to santa monica, realized i left my laptop and all things important at marcie's house. driving back 4 hrs there, 4 hrs back tomorrow with roomie kim starting at 6am to go grab it. crap.

i totally fit the minnesota stereotype!! when i feel like it

2009-02-16T22:29:00.001-08:00

hi! i went and surprised jason in nashville last week that was fun :) i told him my phone died but really i was flying to see him, one night we went to a movie about this florida city girl moving to minnesota, they stereotyped it so bad, like MN was nothing but a tundra of snow in the movie, snow and old ladies wearing cat shirts scrapbooking, with really bad minnesota accents making tapioca all the time, i guess they actually filmed the movie in canada and pretended it was minnesota. anyway we were walking out the movie talking about how stereotypical it was and then laughed really hard cuz we realized we were both in our comfs like sweatpants ha like we just walked off the movie set-- after nashville i went to san diego for a few days to visit my aunt/uncle/cousins and my mom flew out from MN to visit them too so we all hung out, my 9 yr old cousin hannah has a horse so we went and pet it, it literally smiles when you feed it, ugly smile, shows its teeth all funny, then we got yogurt it was self serve i had a lot, we went to michaels craft store and me and hannah hid in the fake plants and tried scaring shoppers but nobody walked by close enough, then i relived 4th grade prank phone calls later, we called random numbers in the phone book or *67 on my friends and told them their credit card expired, that they won flatscreen TVs, sold girlscout cookies, or that we found their jaguar wandering loose around the streets of maine eating ppl

i can't remember the last time i read a book, but i liked the movie twilight so much i got the second book of that series so i was reading twilight 2 (aka new moon or something) and hannah was like im bored so i gave her my phone and told her to text my friends. so she texted all these random people in my phone and when i looked at my phone later it was so funny what she wrote like 'hi this is emma i'm NINE' and lauren wrote back like, 'hi emma this is lauren i'm TWENTY TWO' haha i duno i thought the capitalizing was funneh-- and then b4 she left she wrote to a lot of them like "bye jamie I'll never talk to you again srry- from emma" and was telling them about the boy in class ben she has a crush on and took pictures of his picture with my phone to send them for a better visual ---

then i drove back to LA with my mom and told my landlord i was moving out to hermosa haha and pet his cat while he got papers for me to sign and then started mumbling something about how his cat likes everyone else but him i didnt know if he was kidding or not seemed like a touchy subject

i hit a deer here, i didnt even know they had those

2009-02-06T19:26:00.000-08:00

ps i went to pepperdine (university) yesterday to see a presentation that my friend paul put on-- 3 speakers (one girl worked for jakks toys (makes all hannah montana toys), one guy founded 'hopeless records' (band 'seven fold' is on it), and the other guy talked of a guy who turns garbage into worm poop and sells it). they told their stories and then i had lunch with them all afterwards and it was super interesting- the hopeless records guy (louis) turned legally blind about the same time he started the label, he gives a lot of the profit to charities-- we ate sandwiches-- and then yogurt mmmm-- and omg pepperdine is the PRETTIEST campus ive ever seen (i guess its rated 2nd prettiest in the world- 1st being somewhere in europe-- and its in the mountains of malibu, i started wishing i had gone to school there until i figured out that kids graduate and have 150,000 $ in school loans... hmmm nevamind. i took the long way home through the mountains and it was raining and i was scared of mudslides listening to taylor swift and then i saw a deer to my left and wondered where it went until i hit it and then i was like oh there it is

I'M GOING TO BE ON A SHOW!!!! and i like jogging

2009-02-06T18:26:00.000-08:00

i'm going to be on a show! it'll start out on the internet and the producers are hoping it'll get picked up by mtv, nbc, spike tv or something eventually-- i went to the show audition last week and made it (maybe cuz i showed them i could talk with my mouth closed and told them i skinned chickens once in south america), so today i met with 9 other girls who made it (we met at top of huntley hotel in santa monica with the coolest view everrrr of mountains and the beach and LA), we are all moving into a big mansion on hermosa beach (havent told my new roomates im moving out yet ha i just got here like 11 days ago?), i think the show will be called 'making it in LA' or something--all us girls chosen have really different things going on in our lives and so each of our lives is like a different story line of the show! it just documents us as we do what we do what we already do! (some go to beauty school, one girl is famous in Estonia as a TVhost (really random country in Europe!), one girl is playboy model of 2008, one girl was on that Paris Hilton TV show where she looks for a BFF, one little girl wrestled in highschool and beat all the boys, and I didn't hear from every single one what their story was but the common thread is that we in LA doing whatever! So the producers will leave cameras around the house that we can just pick up and bring wherever which is MY FAVORITE THING EVER i'll be like sweet pancake party 2am wheres that dang camera, or hey random road trip to the gas station? anyway so funny cuz all us girls are bonding like crazy and the producers over there i heard them like... so much for having drama in the house they get along too good ha!!

ive loved living in this apartment though the 11 days it lasted cuz its super fun and interesting, my 3 roomates we are all so different but we get along so great!!- i love listening to veronica's stories (not real name haha i dont feel like saying the real one) cuz she can talk forever and about how she has a massive crush on this married exotic 23 year old guy who is married to a 40 year old girl. the roomate living in the livingroom is 19 and likes 37 year olds and the other roomate from hawaii is an import model and walks around in her underwear only when we have our guy friends over otherwise she locks herself in her room or goes on snowboarding trips to far away places. our 3 guy neighbors (2 are pool managers at bev. hills hotel, and one says that its the worst day of his life everyday cuz he hates his marketing job) (we brought rice pudding cup and cookie to the other day) we are getting to all be fast buds kinda like the show friends we take turns cooking each other meals and we were going to get walky talkies for each of our apartment-- and once i jogged home and high school girls were wrapping up a garage sale and gave me a free toaster and mini lava lamp night light. love santa monica, and the streets of the neighborhoods here are lined with big trees that almost touch overhead (thats one of my favorite life things) so its like jogging through mystical tree tunnels of awesomeness.

lauren needs a break

2009-02-03T23:45:00.000-08:00

2 of my roomates and i went across our open air hallway (love it) to our neighbors to meet them, we brought tidings of one rice pudding jello cup and a cookie. 3 guys and a girl were there, they looked confused, just drank a red bull its 12 am hmmm bad idea? no red bull is never a bad idea. i love taylor swift. i dont care if she's younger than me i think she writes the best songs ever and she's awesome!! i have a taylor swift shirt, and a rascal flats one... im going to go write a song now on my pink guitar. my big guitar couldnt fit in my car on the way to cali but i fit my pink one. we dont have a vacuum yet... that needs to happen cuz im looking suspiciously at my floor. i love colors, i think people all decorate their houses the same these days... different shades of browns... a little bit of colorful accents are super. i live 5 minutes away from lauren- so cool that we've been good friends since high school in MN and now we live next to each other in cali!! i drug her out every week night last, she has an 8am-5pm job so this week she's like i can't do it!!!! she needs a break haha so we're like ok its chill week. next week on the other hand... our landlord (lives next to us- awkward?!) has a cat named bailey that always smashes itself against the window its so cute i smile when i walk past it and think of ways to kidnap it which obviously id never do but eventually i will get a cat like this: cat (click here)

its kinda cute but kinda ugly i like it so much, what should i name it when i get it?!?! seriously i need ideas. and this video (click here) is so funny me and lauren were laughing at this for over an hour ok cat moment done. I just searched facebook to see if there was anyone named fluffy and there kinda is so i think everyone should facebook fluffy (dont tell them i sent you) (it's the first person that comes up) sorry if this entire blog is really confusing and hard to follow.

Fluffy (click here)

i'm going to be on a spanish dating show just kidding

2009-02-03T00:36:00.001-08:00

im in LA!!!! i've jogged to the beach everyday since i got here!! except today i jogged left instead. and i went horseback riding on saturday. i think one of my room-mates is drinking my orange juice? ill draw a line on it and if it goes below my line again ill be mad haha!! watched the red carpet walk of the movie premiere 'he's just not that into you' today- saw drew barrymore how however u spell it, jennifer aniston, ben afflick, and scarlott johanson- that was kinda fun to watch haha took pictures, felt like a tourist, it was great. my friend marco was here for a few days this week (races indy) so me and lauren (friend from MN, lives in LA too, applying for law school) hung out with him and his friends, he kept telling his friends that i was leanne rimes and so they kept asking for my picture and telling me they liked my music- this other girl i was with (new friend kate) looks like the girl from 'the girl next door' girl Elisha-- we agreed to play along so we were Elisha and Leanne for a few nights of the week ha! marco also said that we missed new years in vegas cuz travis base jumped out of his top hotel window room at the palms with kid rock-- uhhh

i've been auditioning for some shows out here -- a few really cool ones -one was to host a show where i interview paparazzi, and another show where they'd follow me around like a reality show, those auditions were cool-- this other one i went to was not so cool-- an hour away, messy messy office in a strip mall type thing, and when i tried to give my resume to the producer (i have my resume, reel, and headshots on a customized zip drive) he thought i was giving him a virus so he wouldn't take it!! i asked what movies they had worked on lately and he said "Mexican Gangster 2" ... then he paused to check out 3 girls walking by. sorry not interested and glad i didnt waste my zip drive on you anyway. but hey it was an experience!! and a waste of gas.

oh ya stopped by the x games in aspen on the way to cali with my dad! (my dad drove with me- actually he literally drove the whole way ha!! while i played my pink guitar and we wrote some songs then he got sick of my pink guitar and told me to put it away and i was like DAAAD. buck was there watching x games (camera guy from red bull flugtag roadies show this summer), and so was my friend Trev (sings for thousand foot krutch- they had a show there for opening night) . its funny running into people you know at really random places. the day after we left x games, levi lavallee (red bull snow-mobile athlete) did a double back flip (first time in history!!) and almost stuck it but fell off oh well, thats why buck was there cuz buck had been filming/ documenting levi's training up til aspen.

i auditioned for spanish tv shows too cuz i can and i got a call today to be on a spanish dating show i was like no i have a boyfriend i dont need to find another ha! they were like.. please? we'll make sure you're eliminated right away if you don't want to be on it, .... um still no but good to know its rigged!

2009-02-03T00:36:00.000-08:00

i've jogged to the beach everyday since i got here!! except today i jogged left instead. i think one of my room-mates is drinking my orange juice?

im going to move to nashville after i move to LA

2009-01-15T15:17:00.000-08:00

hmmm where to begin- i've been in nashville for 2 weeks --its 40 degrees below zero windchill in minnesota right now which is why next week when i get back from nashville i am driving to california and living there- not forever, just for a while cuz i've always dreamed of it! perfect world i pay off my school loans, get sweet jobs, and buy a pt cruiser convertible and jam a burned cd i will call 'my long awaited cruiser mix' with all my favorite songs on it, while cruising down by the beach with the top down with lauren my friend from minnesota who lives out in LA already. not so perfect world i run out of money and live in a palm tree. i already have a room i rented lined up for when i get there - living with 3 other girls in an apartment- one girl rented out the living room which makes rent really affordable for us especially for cali! (its so spendy there) living rooms are over-rated anyway. since im not there for the month of january i rented out my room for the month to a boy named christian who is sleeping on a white couch in my room that i found on craigslist (the only piece of furniture i've had delivered to my room so far).

at my friend allie's house right now- this is how i met her -- i was on facebook one day (year ago?) and got a message from a girl named allie that was like ... " hi jason its allie i met you on a cruise lets be friends on facebook " i was like sorry this is lenay not jason you have the wrong facebook but ill be your friend anyway haha-- and then i realized that it really was jasons facebook because he forgot to sign out and i thought i was on mine but i was not and i was like woops and wrote her back and said woops and the next time i was in nashville my friend aaron was like hey im at starbucks with a girl allie who says she knows you from facebook -- so i went and met them at starbucks ha! year passes by, i call her and was like hey allie i like writing songs on the guitar do you like singing? she said yes. do you speak spanish? she said yes. ok if i drive to nashville wanna sing songs with me in spanish and make a cd? sure. so i drove to nashville but we decided to screw the spanish and just sing english--so i guess u could say we are starting a band and its actually turning out really good! i even brought my friend/photographer/myspace designer/sara with me from minnesota to help get things started-- we are recording 4 songs for a demo- we've been working with a producer all week and have been filming a lot of it- im leaving tomorrow but since we are not quite done with recording he has a studio in LA too so allie can keep finishing her parts in nashville here and then when he heads out to LA next i'll be out there by then and ill finish my parts there, its just a fun kinda side project ive wanted to do for a while- we'll see if anything ever comes out of it- but either way its just fun to say we did it!

giraffe update

2009-01-03T08:13:00.000-08:00

oh and that large giraffe statue i got my parents i accidently left at the hotel when i flew out!! but i actually ended going back to canada a few weeks later so i grabbed it-- k giraffe update now its happy in my parents living room

jenny lives in a garage and we slept in it once

2009-01-03T07:55:00.000-08:00

me, liz, and jenny, have matching little star tattoos on our left feet. (we all went to university of minnesota duluth) its just funny cuz when we used to have pancakes at jenny's in duluth we had drawn out our life dream of all living on the same culdasac when we grew up, and be neighbors, with a tunnel from each of our houses going underground and leading in the middle of the culdasac to a secret underground hang-out room that we wouldnt tell anybody about! our culdasac had a lot of stars decorating it, liz had a pool, jenny had horses, and i had four-wheelers, so we could all share each others toys. and a fountain in the middle of the culdasac with a reverse mirror bottom so we could see through it in our secret room below but nobody could see down! it was all drawn on a piece of notebook paper and we made copies for us 3-- jenny really wanted two weeping willows so i drew those in for her too, we called our neighborhood 'suenos' which means dreams in spanish, and we wanted to name our street that and get our own street sign!!

but now we all graduated-- jenny moved to be a math teacher/gymnastics couch to middle of no where minnesota, liz is moving to chicago today to pursue chemical engineering, i am moving somewhere far far away in a few weeks but dont feel like saying right now (still in the u.s.), the other week, liz and i decided to go visit jenny in the middle of nowhere so we drove 3 hours and met her at her house- which is actually someones attempt at building a garage but decided to fix it up into a house instead- cuz its a box haha, jenny lives in a very pretty box, its really nice though, with a kitchen and bathroom, bedrooms and stuff but the shape on the outside is so funny, its right on a lake, and we slept over, made pancakes, watched 3 movies (one being stardust and i swear i saw that falling star girl in the mn airport the other day haha i shoulda kept her and got special powers) then we decided to go frolic on the frozen lake with her little white dog-- it was sooo fun!! we were sliding around this random ice-house and some guys truck out there and me and liz kept jumping on the cracks as hard as we could

dont read this blog mom and dad

2008-12-06T21:25:00.000-08:00

this is random but i bought my parents their christmas gift yesterday its a rather large wooden statue of a girrafe (i just texted my mom "dont read my blog it talks about your xmas present") but its perfect cuz its from africa or something (they were missionaries in the congo for 3 years and my sister and i were born there and i had malaria i am ok now) so i had to carry this large wooden giraffe (comes up to my belly button) around toronto last night for a bit and ill have to fly with it back home tomorrow as a carry on

also when i studied abroad in south america-- the family i stayed with in peru had kids my age and one (renato) is working abroad in minnesota for a year to learn english and he gets there tomorrow and he is bringing inka cola mmm so good (pop that tastes like bubble gum and its yellow they only have it in peru and i think colorado maybe?) so thats cool and im driving a silver car this week but i keep trying to get in other silver cars first thinking its the right one which brings us back to that time in middle school when i went grocery shopping with my childhood bff leah and her fam and they had a van so i walk out of the grocery store and into the van and buckle up and look up to find the family who's van i just walked into all like who are you? whoops wrong family :)

berry the homeless guy is picky when it comes to sweaters

2008-12-06T20:11:00.000-08:00

yesterday i parked in down-town toronto and was gunna check out muchmusic (canada mtv) just to see what it was like) and on the way there i stopped to use the bathroom at this smoothie store-- a girl working there named jacquie (from south africa) was like here i'll show you around toronto! i was like sweet! so i told her id go to muchmusic and then come back after she got off work-- went to muchmusic and it was cool and on my way back i heard 'lenay!' i was like who do i know in toronto and it was chrissy and angie helping out with revolve tour and we are just friends on facebook and never met in person ha! so that was super random so then us and jacquie from the smoothie shop drove around toronto and laid in huge clothes bin at a huge thrift store and then we were like lets each buy a 4.99$ sweatshirt and give them to homeless guys cuz its effing cold outside! then the thrift store was obviously closing cuz they shut off all the lights and we were like we can not see and my 4.99 sweater rung up as 7.99 cuz supposedly mine had a hood?! so mad just kidding kinda- first homeless man we see looks like a walking sleeping bag (he was walking in a sleeping bag), jacquie was like.. don? and he was like ... jacquie?! and then they hugged! it was so random!! turns out jacquie used to work at starbucks and hand out the extra sandwiches at the end of the night to homeless people including him and so he took a sweatshirt, his story: flew to toronto years ago to go to his sister's funeral (she committed suicide cuz her boyfriend beat her) and then just decided to stay and be homeless. next homeless guy Berry didnt want my sweatshirt (even with the hood!) cuz he didnt like green he only wanted angies. gave mine to a homeless guy named buck-- who suspiciously looks like an older buck the camera guy-- and one homeless guy named guy didnt want one -- then me and jacquie went out around town to skateboarding/art parties and then had a slumber party at my hotel and woke up for the free breakfast in the morning just as they were putting it away at 10am and we were like WAIT!!!! and they gave us bagels and there was a kid little hockey league or something staying there cuz a bunch of 10 yr olds and their parents were eating looking at us and i was like hi im lenay and this is jacquie and they said hi and then i asked them a few questions but they stopped answering them so we just laughed and ate our bagels and then went upstairs and jumped on the beds holding any loose appliance we found around the hotel room and took a lot of facebook pictures :)

i do bad things don't judge me

2008-12-03T17:36:00.000-08:00

k after europe i went to washington, stayed with a red bull sbm girl and her roommates till jason got there and went on the revolve tour with him for the weekend then we went to hawaii with 9 people from tour for a week for fun which was warm and wonderful and a lot of rainbows and then went to portland the next weekend for revolve tour again, and then i went home to MN for a week and now i'm in canada for a week and going back to MN this sunday where i will be for the holidays yay i get to be home for more than 5 days!! and my sister who lives in florida is coming back for christmas too which is thooper. i am not a horrible person but i did 2 bad things.... that i am thinking about right now.... we drove to canada first of all and at a toll near chicago it wanted exact change and all i had was foreign currency from europe so i just kept throwing in euros or pounds or whatever until it registered some as u.s. coins and let me through... thats bad thing number one... bad thing number two happened this summer i just cant remember if i blogged about it or not, i was in LA eating ice-cream with london (from MN but moved to LA and brandon and robb (red bull LA friends) and we got our icecream but then i decided i didnt like mine so i ''accidently dropped it'' on the ground so when they replaced it i just got a new flavor... ill update you if i do anything else bad.

im sitting in an airport come sit by me

2008-11-11T13:23:00.000-08:00

some old man (airport layover in germany) just came up to me very bluntly and kindly and made small talk about what i spilled on my arm (i was rubbing of my I'm FROM USA i had written on my arm from the concert night before cuz i dont want ppl to think im doing that normally) and then he said that im more than welcome to come to washington with him-- didnt want to tell him i was actually heading there too luckily i havent seen him yet again and the guy i sat next to on the plane today i wasnt planning on talking to but then we got food and i was curious as to whether he was guna eat his cake so i made small talk until he gave me his cake haha

i found this blog on my computer and i dont know if i ever posted it!! so here it is... kinda random, from a few months ago!:::::: "this always happens to me! whenever I use the handicap stall in the bathroom I come out and there's someone in a wheelchair waiting and its super awkward like they are like why are you in my stall and I'm like I'm just greedy and wanted a lot of space agh!!! anyway. ok funny story i went to a restaurant last night and after food everyone was just kinda standing around in circles of friends, chatting on the patio and my friend nick was like hey lenay that's cute it almost looks like you're back to back with the random man standing behind you in his own circle of friends. so then my circle dared me to kinda lean on his back and see if he noticed, so i leaned to rest my weight on him haha and his circle shifted away from us. so then we shifted over too and i kept leaning and about 5 minutes later he turned around and was like hey you are leaning on me and i was like oh really? sorry my back was probably just being lazy and i didnt realize it! then i got embarrassed and blamed nick for daring me, and then i told them to go watch a video of me and my friend liz rolling around target on my site www.lenay.tv and then they told me they all worked at target and then i was like uhhh"

mcfly concert and end of europe!!

2008-11-10T23:59:00.000-08:00

ok i was literally 5 minutes away from ireland on my bus and still didnt know where i was gunna stay and got a phone call from a red bull ireland person that was like, someone is waiting for you at the bus stop and has a place for you to stay!!! i was like yay!!!!! stayed with james (red bull SBM -a person who represents red bull for their university) and his college 3 room-mates. so they hung out with me and showed me around ireland it was soo awesome! (they live in Galway) i cooked the boys thank you pancakes this morning and james slapped neil in the face with one cuz he wasnt awake yet. seems to be a trend. stay with an SBM, they burn me a CD, i cook them pancakes. do something weird with pancakes. (i bought blank cd's and have someone from each country burn me a cd) and my 19 yr old sbm buds were at first like,,,, no WAY u are 23. i was like what?!?! geez thats not old! is that old?! dont answer that. i still get carded for being under 16 at mall of america

one of my favorite bands mcfly had a show in Dublin so I went there on my last night before I went back to the states which is today--so saw mcfly today!!! AMAZING!!!! i had bought 2 tickets for this show like a month ago haha and an ireland sbm brendan went with me we got there at 3pm, (doors opened at 7) since we were in the first 1000 to get there we got 'pit wristbands' (first come first serve) and we worked our way up to front row!! the first two bands played.... one called avenue with 5 boys, one of which was acting so arrogant it was so funny i shoulda taken a picture, like wiggling his leg and winking like i said it was funny, then mcfly came on and the guitar player had the coolest shimmery guitars with matching lights for where the dots on the frets are, if i ever get fancy i want a guitar like that,

while waiting in the concert line for 4 hours all the girls in the line were sharing their sandwiches they packed (or their moms packed) with me! so cute. and it was weird being on the reverse side of a concert waiting in a line with fans, sorry if that sounds weird or something im just not used to it! - it was fun! girls next to me said ireland loves obama (they were 14) and them and their friends have his picture all over their school folders! made friends with a lot of 14 year olds, especially cuz brendan (who i gave my extra concert ticket to -- galway SBM) looks like tom from mcfly so he was having a big meet and greet in the line and girls kept screaming it was funny he was like "omg i got mobbed" he told his x g/f on the phone later haha--

brendan dropped me off at the airport after and thats where i am now- its like midnight and my flight is at 6 am im just guna sleep here. pulled a 'can you make it' move when 4 guys traveling from france one bought me an espresso and i gave him a red bull in exchange. took a nap on starbucks couches with a lota people on the same couch just kidding i had my own couch but never fully asleep. got a mcfly shirt. here the kids have 'bebo' in stead of myspace and stuff, so girls at the show were like find me on bebo!! im like i dont have bebo but you're accent is interesting keep talking

blog confession... and my day is suckeee but i still like it

2008-11-09T19:06:00.000-08:00

i have a confession, i keep two journals-- first i write an un-censored one on my computer and then when i copy it to my online blog i take out some stuff-- i take out some boring details, maybe a few too personal things, gross things, stories about people that they would not want shared, whatever i just censor it ok so you and your mom and whoever in the entire world can read it and not be offended or something! i got a random email from a girl today who was like i'm moving to canada cuz obama is president-- i researched on my own for the first time just to tell her why he's better than mccain ha. that probably wont make the online journal for a few reasons... well ok maybe it will now. oh ya and the waitress in austria on my bday said she is fascinated by americans and found me on myspace so now we friends

wow most frustrating travel day ever!! ok first the bus miss. then i get to london and a london red bull sbm was gunna pick me and up and show me around and then drop me off at the airport to fly to ireland, but cuz i was late and i couldnt recognize him and couldnt call him we didnt meet up and i was not about to walk around london with my suitcase and sleeping bag so i went to sit down at an internet cafe that i thought was free and the lady yelled at me to pay and then after i asked for a spoon so i could eat the cold soup out of a can that i bought at the grocery store yesterday and she was like you cant eat that here and i was like you suck (not out loud) and went and ate my can soup next to 5 kids my age who couldnt speak english and i spilled on my white sweater and we all just kinda looked at each other haha and then i was like well i have 3 hrs before my flight i could just go sit at the airport for 3 hours and wait, so i asked someone where the airport was and they were like- u gotta take an hour and a half bus or train there.... what?!! so i got on a train and the best part of my day was sitting next to this nice lady from south africa who was flying to algeria to teach africans how to use a computer program (she had to fly all the way to the UK from s.africa to catch a flight back down to algeria cuz there were no direct flights!) i told her i was born in africa and we talked about obama and she showed me a picture of her cute 2 yr old grandson and i took our picture and im going to email it to her so we can remember each other. and the girl i was gunna stay with in ireland -- found out yesterday her friend just died so she had to go to a funeral so im not quite sure where im staying when i get there but ill figure it out. i'm waiting to board my plane now -- which i'm SO glad i didnt miss omg can u imagine? ugh my day woulda been even more wow. oh and the little things that i have to laugh about now is the bread i grabbed at the grocery store to go with my soup i realize now is 'weight watchers' bread which is not bread its air and it cant support my soup.

always sign out of your youtube! so boys dont look at your messages

2008-11-09T12:56:00.000-08:00

my bus left at 8:30 this morning and I got there at 8:32 and was running after the bus like a special person, my pants kinda slipping down and getting soaked through a puddle and banging on the drivers window as he hardly noticed me and pulled away anyway. so a different driver let me bribe him with 10 quid (slang for pound) to get on his bus without paying the full price again.

last night was seriously so fun i made a crappy digital camera video of it, me jesus azaria and alice in the kitchen (sam skyping cara in his room (my old roomie from MN haha im such a match maker!) reminder i'm still in great britain), i've been telling them all week that i'll make them pancakes so i did last night and i bought mix and we were all hanging in the kitchen, we basically laughed for 2 hours straight cuz i was trying so hard to get them to rise and wondering why they wouldnt, not knowing that pancakes here are like crepes i guess and are flat and thin, so after filling the kitchen with smoke and burning them all we cut out 2 eye-holes in them and became pancake monsters invading sams private skype party. i walk in a different time to see sam checking my youtube messages? i musta used his computer and not logged out- i dont care really its just random-- i still havent signed out and im on my way to london so if any of you write me on youtube and get a response that includes the word 'cheers' or some random great british slang in there its not me

everyone thinks lauren is hot

2008-11-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

they steal internet from their neighbors so sometimes when their neighbors get on the internet ours gets real slow haha. put ur hands up in circle and wiggle ur head, what am i? pea on a fork. azaria likes tunnels. thats what sam said. i cleaned their house for 3 hours today as a thank you, typical college house was dirty 10 minutes later haha-- i saw where sam went to boarding school and i saw the castle where they filmed some of harry potter. sam's mom called me out for holding my fork bad and taught me etiquette -- stopped by alex's house (from a different red bull team) i took pics in his bathroom cuz the light switch is like a rope and the toilet has 2 flush buttons- one for poop one for pee and the water is opposite where the hot and cold should be. i was fascinated and i come out and they were like why were camera flashes coming from the bathroom?-- i showed the guys my friends on facebook and they think my friend lauren is hot so we took a pic of sam and alex with an empty seat in the middle for lauren and their arms around invisible lauren.

great britain has cat ladies too

2008-11-06T21:34:00.000-08:00

im reading the can you make it journal jesus' and sam's team (they were on team 'disciples') -- they slept in the staircase of a hotel and jesus slept with a metal spoon incase peasants tried stealing his hairband. jesus also got his hair cut for 2 red bull on the trip, and they slept on 3rd floor outside shoe store in airport one night. one blog they couldnt find the question mark so they just replaced it with the number nine9 And haha one of their quotes is ".. on arrival we sat down, set up camp (in train station) and started playing a bit of Jazzy FIVES (a hand game they play)... redely this itlatian/swiss todger, who had the appearance of sideshow bob decided to play a game of his own, he called 'STARING". >> end quotation. then i read on and it sounds like jesus said 'hello' to him and then security maced somebody. ill have to ask about that later! ok i asked. turns out creepy starer was trying to cross border without passport so he was maced.

today went to uni with them and then with the girls to a pet shop to look at kittens, the ppl at the pet shop were so hard core one lady was outside with a cat sweater and a cat umbrella cuz it was raining on her smoke break. then i was like do you have a bathroom, and she was like, yes as long as you dont mind boo and his crew staring at your bum. i was like wtf it turns out boo is the cat who lives in the bathroom and his 'crew' are his 2 cat girlfriends who lay with him next to the toilet in a blanket ha! going to pet shop. such a simple thing but in Wales. culture!!!! i was fascinated taking pictures like a tourist like woh a pet shop but in wales! the cat ladies were like whatever makes you happy. cat lady but in wales!! hey we have you guys in the states! didnt say that out loud... and they drive on the opposite side of the road here incase no one knows that, and the steering wheel is on the opposite side

jesus and the hampster

2008-11-05T12:23:00.000-08:00

im staying in a house with 3 girls (azaria, alice, hannah) and a guy (sam), and their friend who looks like jesus (his names tony) is always over -- we all webcamed with my parents today it was really funny and then jesus is like ok im going downstairs to kill the hamster and he left haha. we all went to the club tonight and.... ps jesus just brought the hamster up.... and me and the girls hannah and alice (dance room upstairs) were the only ones downstairs totally having a dance party with ourselves it was so fun!!! ok bye and now jesus says to the hamster with hands out... come to jesus... and on the way home at a stoplight he got out of the taxi and was like if i beat you back its free and just started sprinting and i wore high heels for the first time and i tripped down the stairs once in the club. and when we were walking to another place i couldnt keep up with the girls in their heels cuz i suk at it so we lost them and i ended up at greasy fast food place with sam and jesus and a lot of girl rugby players

i had nesquick cereal this morning which is real good and i wanna cook them all pancakes and azaria's mom jackie came over and i told her i'd make her pancakes too... i love listening to youtube music videos now, and i have my light up mini eiffel tower next to my bed... its so cool living with ppl who live in other cultures and not doing tourist things. im going to college classes with them tomorrow haha and i like saying the word 'walk' in english accent... im trying to learn

la la la

2008-11-04T11:31:00.000-08:00

after can you make it event i stayed by myself in paris for a day to finish editing some episodes and just to lay and do nothing cuz the last few weeks have been CRAZY!!! and im about to trek around europe by myself for 2 more weeks just for fun cuz im here so i need a day off haha i left my hotel room only once --i walk into a restaurant... guy says bonjour, i say hi, i could say bonjour back i guess but that would be about it. the second they know i cant talk french some waiter guy starts talking in french, i was like i know what ur talking about cuz ur pointing at my boots and laughing with your friend. then i sit by myself across from 3 ppl at a table and the lady facing me didnt have anyone across from her so we kept making awkward eye contact the whole time haha and then i stopped in this antique shop and i bought a necklace with an old pocket-watch on it that doesnt work but its awesome i think its so cool it was kinda spendy and its always 1:00

next day i took a 9 hour bus-ride to great britain. my new herbalgrowing friend named ruth i met on the bus to the UK (and we took the ferry across the english channel and were bff's for 9 hours) smelled pretty bad and she brought it up and i felt bad so i said it wasnt that bad. BY THE WAY: when all the red bull teams met in paris i was like who's from the great britain cuz i wanna go there and can i stay with you? so when i got to Cardiff Central I met up with my new friends and stayed in their house, ill tell you more later gota go

using red bull cans as currency

2008-11-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

after i went around europe a week before the event to get b-roll and to make the first video in the series-- the actual event started on friday october 24..

SUMMARY OF EVENT: 150 teams of college students from all around europe tried to make their way to paris using only red bull cans as currency!

MY JOB (i effing love red bull): is to follow different teams that i run into and document their travels-- camera guy buck and i had a driver follow us cuz we had camera gear to haul around, and we had to edit at night so sometimes we would follow a team until 2 am and be sleeping in a train station and then pack up and be like see you guys later cuz we gotta get a hotel room and edit!! they understood though and its so fun traveling with them,

and after meeting teams and hearing a lot of their crazy stories i have to share some of my favorites:... one team said they were allowed to sleep in a hotel free but couldnt mess the beds so they slept around the bed on the floor! one guy traded red bull for a brand-new snowboard. one team wore chicken suits the ENTIRE time. one team got a gondola ride in venice a a carriage ride somewhere for red bull. one guy went skydiving with red bull, one team wore flipflops the whole time even though it snowed once, the girls team from hawaii went out partying in every country and found guys (between ages of 21-30) to take them out for steak dinners and to stay at his house or buy them a hotel for red bull haha they worked the girl angle. 3 teams met up one night and slept under a bridge and a homeless man came and gave them pizza! one team brought sleds (zitpher-bobs) the whole way and went down anything they could with them. some teams sold red bull and rented a car, a few even got plane tickets for red bull. one team made it from hungary to paris the first night of the race and then back-tracked to hit all the checkpoints and earn points!
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talking behind my back, right in front of me

2008-11-03T12:08:00.000-08:00

i walk into a restaurant... bonjour they say. i say hi, i could say bonjour back i guess but thats about it. the second they know i cant talk french some waiter guy starts talking in french to his friend cuz he knew i couldnt understand him, i was like i know what ur talking about cuz ur pointing at my boots and laughing. then i sit by myself across from 3 ppl at a table and the lady facing me didnt have anyone across from her so we kept making awkward eye contact the whole time haha, ok can you make it europe show is done and was amazing and i met people from all over and yay! i'm going to stay in europe an extra week and a half and travel the UK and ireland, and while i'm here go to a mcfly concert in ireland which is one of my favorite bands but is not popular in the states but is here www.myspace.com/mcfly

i'll be uploading the episodes from europe on my youtube account soon! www.youtube.com/lenayiskindofcool

skype party with my favorite people ever

2008-11-02T12:44:00.000-08:00

went to see eiffel tower with pierre (a guy in charge of red bull show) and his from Come (kooom) haha, and they are like close ur eyes (it was night) and they led me and then said open and when i did it was the coolest up close view of the tower lit up blue it was awesome! and then we went to the top and when i got in the taxi on the way home me and the taxi driver could not speak the same language so we just laughed the whole time it was so funny like we seriously just said single words like red bull and espresso and he said single words i couldnt understand and then we just laughed cuz we couldnt understand each other and then i took a picture of him and showed the picture to my loved ones on skype later (like look this was my taxi driver)-- jason, my parents, lauren, and liz were all at my house and on skype (webcam) it was awesome! they said the taxi driver looked like he wanted to kill something, i just dont think he's photogenic. also on skype i saw my cat patches licking her butt on the background and my dad on the floor petting her, and lauren smiling the whole time. funny story: pierre and michi (ppl in charge of red bull event here) gave all the can you make it teams cell phones and got them back when they all left and this morning all their alarms went off at 6am so pierre was trying to dig through 150 phones trying to shut one up haha.

bring pancakes to austria revolution needed

2008-10-26T12:36:00.000-07:00

at a checkpoint with teams and red bull wings team austria girls (drive the rb trucks like i used to do) in Gratz, we swapped 3 red bull each for a buffet at a restaurant nearby, and it was breakfast buffet with pancakes i was so happy and a austria red bull girl was like what are these? i was like pancakes! aren't these common here? she said she has only seen them one other time!!

theres a team of guys from austria who are carrying around 'zitpher bobs' (austrian sleds). one guy on the team named bernie m.c.'s red bull events in austria like i have done in the states-- its funny cuz him and his friends always break out in random popular american tunes with anything that reminds them of the tune. like... they see falling leaves starting singing billy talent "fallin leaves fallin leaves falling leaves on the ground" or someones like put your hands in your pocket, they sang... "cuz ive got one and in my pocket and the other one nah nah nah nah nah..." but only a quick one liner from each song its funny! american influence ha. saw girls at random austria restaurant/bar singing bday song in english (german is their main language) and i was told that its almost always sung in english here. they swear in english too

my birthday in austria!!

2008-10-25T12:30:00.000-07:00

yesterday almost ran out of gas today! we had less than 10 km left on our tank, rolled into the gas station at 2am, none of our 5 credit cards worked and the guy next to us who didnt speak english put it on his card and we gave him cash, we kept telling him we worked for red bull and he kept thinking we were offering it to him he's like no thanks

its my bday today!! got a flare on a piece of cake in vienna austria for my bday buffet, seriously it was like a serious scary firework in my cake it was crazy-- i got a cardboard bday hat in german like looks like its from burger king haha i wore it all day and i will save it forever. ill add it to my collection of bday gear (like my bday light up pin from 5 years ago) that i still carry with me in my purse incase i want free dessert at a restaurant ill whip it out and make it my birthday

eiffel tower is sparkly blue at night!

2008-10-20T11:59:00.000-07:00

i keep trying to collect a full red bull from each country but i keep drinking them after i buy them ugh i drank italy's and i poured switzerland's on a cow. i programmed the gps system girl's voice in the car to have an british accent, she keeps saying "stay on this road for a long time" in her accent its funny. went through the coolest mountains in switzerland today!! a lady at breakfast was like, u going to switzerland? go to interlaken and my mom texted me and said the same thing so it must be good and it was, i really like getting there more actually, the houses and small towns in the mountains were amazing. for some reason i thought people here wore bonnets.

got near paris today-- the guy at the hotel check-in is from bolivia and knows russian and said when he went to study in russia and started talking russian in the airport they were like who is this latino man speaking russian he must be a spy and they kicked him out of the country. the hotel elevator had room for one person at a time it was like riding in a coffin, stepped in dog poop once yesterday. once today. yesterday i cleaned out the crevices of the bottom of my shoes with the hotel cup ring. gross. wow i just looked out my hotel window, its night and the eifel tower is lit up bright blue and started sparkling with white lights all over it!!! and i had no idea it was so close to me!!! i was like omg thats the eiffel tower outside my window!!! ok seriously one of the coolest things ive ever seen in my life, the 3 coolest things i've seen i think are

1. the sparkling eiffel tower at night right now out my window
2. climbing to the top of the sand dunes in peru with my peru friends in the middle of the night, and seeing in all directions the oasis's and towns lit up in the dessert valleys
3. the first moments of falling from an airplane
4. beach in california at night with my family, algae plankton lighting up the sand and water (invisible algae that lit up if you touched it) so the water and sand light up where you touch it. footprints lit up. waves glowed. so effing cool.

this is amazing seriously i'm so lucky to see the eiffel tower right now! when buck was time lapsing the tower today i decided to jog between video shoots in my canada walmart boots and jeans and everything. i jogged around the eiffel tower twice! thats when the dog poop happened.

we have a list of SBMs (college kids who rep red bull for their campus-- i did this for 2 years) from every country here, been trying to call them as we get to their city to meet them or have them show us around- and i called the one in paris, he cant speak english so handed it to his girlfriend or something, im like uh hi, i work for red bull in the u.s. and wanna meet your friend. she was like we are busy, i felt like saying im not hitting on your boyfriend

dream car

2008-10-19T11:34:00.000-07:00

after austria we went to italy and I'm having fun talking spanish to italians cuz the languages are similar so we kinda understand each other. found a castle and went to venice and the water streets were so effing cool and we payed for a gondola ride so we could get footage of me explaining 'red bull can you make it' from the boat and the gondola driver let me paddle. random: me and liz met ppl in machu picchu that knew harry potter and got the police called on them cuz they prank called his house asking how 'potions' class was. i just walk over to get internet code from sleeping buck and his key is chilling in his hotel door. s-m-r-t. oh and then the gondola guy (he had to walk with me to get money from a bank to pay him) was like, come with me in my motorboat to my house not far from here, but just me and you, not Book (that's how he pronounced bucks name, like the u sound from you) i was like only if you have kittens haha just kidding but i know if that was my friend lauren she would say that.

and yesterday in trento we were going the wrong way on a one way and a nice young policeman came and tried to tell us in italian that you can't drive on this sidewalk full of people and he gave us a map and was so nice and i reversed (without stalling)

for years me and liz have talked about our dream cars: look at the pics.... hers... and mine.... except she wants hers green and i want mine a light blue and she just got hers last week and 5 hours after she got it she got rear-ended by a drunk driver and got her car towed!! she gets it back in a week ... cant wait to call shotgun when i get back wee!!

cake for lunch and dinner in austria

2008-10-18T11:04:00.000-07:00

when i woke this morning i opened the curtain to let the bright sun in to hit my unadjusted eyes then jumped back in bed startled like someone else did it or something i was like why did that scare me i did it? while jogging this morning (austria jog so cool and pretty!!) i saw a market thing and wanna get my mom a christmas ornament cuz she only likes ones from europe haha but sorry mom i dont run with my bank card. couldnt figure out the shower today for the life of me so i stuck my head in the sink. (i call front desk-- how do you turn on shower? push the button. i swear there is no button i looked everywhere and forever) got rental car and its shift by the way. only drove stick 3 times before: once in highschool for spring break in mexico when me jenny and katie rented a jeep and i have video of us killing it the whole time, and with nascar (also killing it a lot but didnt make the video ha) and t. pastrana's rally car (did pretty good), and now (doing real bad). buck had the camera out and i stalled EVERYwhere like in the middle of intersections and it was so bad people were honking at me all the time! and then we went to this austrian restaurant that had a salad bar thing with desserts next to it so i decided to try a little sliver of each of the 8 desserts and then when i went to pay the bill said 8 desserts for 4 euros each cuz i guess they weren't part of the buffet so i spent like 30 bucks on desserts so i ate those for dinner too. we going to innsbruck

roadies rip-off

2008-10-17T21:47:00.000-07:00

and ha this is random, found out today that (they have flugtags in austria) a girl who works for red bull here, and is my age, did a 'red bull flugtag on the road' show' totally copying 'Red Bull Flugtag Roadies' show I did this summer but hers is in german- its so funny to me its like mcdonalds in the u.s. versus canada haha !! i have no idea what she's saying in it even but i guess she saw me at hq when i was there today and someone told me about her later... so i had to google stalk her show here i found it: make your own comparisons! here is hers and mine

hosting a Red Bull show in Europe!!

2008-10-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

18 hours in airports today to get to europe!! didnt sleep cuz i was so excited and cuz kids kept kicking my chair and on my first flight i sat between 2 men and the one to my right (cuz i was tired) kept being like, just put the arm rest up between us and nestle yourself on my shoulder. im like no thanks. he's like just do it please. ew no.

landed in germany, took a little hopper plane to austria and went straight to red bull world HQ in Fuschl!!! it's so cool it looks like 2 mini volcanoes in the middle of a lake plus it's surrounded by austrian mountains it's so COOL!! I'll add my own pics later but here are some I found on google to show you... here's one... and this one... and here's the city of Fuschl, and here's a cat

i've been keeping my eye out for the red bull founder Dietrich Matashitz cuz he has a glass office at the top of the red bull volcano and shows up randomly, so far no luck boo!

so then camera guy Buck and I met up with Michi and Pierre (producers of the show and event 'Red Bull Can You Make It" that I'm here to host) and we ate lunch and talked about the show details- i had these meat filled puffy bread balls and sour kraut and now i know what jet lag is-- it's midnight here, and it's 3 pm in minnesota!

and oh i listened to german radio and learned some german phrases and took pictures of german signs and watched german people behaving german i love it!!! and i watched german tv.

this week buck's and my job is to take our rental car and start driving around europe to get some b-roll---weeee!! tomorrow i think is italy!!-- and some time this week i might stop and say hi to my relatives who live somewhere around here haha! they dont know me really i'll have to explain how i'm related... which ill have to figure out too...

this is my new blog, check out my old one too!!!

2008-10-09T18:51:00.000-07:00

by the way i've been blogging for a long time i just recently switched to blogger, go read my other blog i had for years (xanga) at www.xanga.com/lenay_tv !!!!!