One Year Down

A little over a year ago, at a little bar called Skinny’s nestled in the heart of North Hollywood, Pup and I met and fell in love. Cue the violins! Cue rose petals magically floating from the sky!

HA! If only it were that easy. That’s not exactly how the story goes, but I’ll stick with it so I don’t sound sad and desperate

considering I put in ALL the work to get that puppy. But in celebration of that momentous day and the beginning of our relationship, I started this blog to chronicle our adventures as Pup and Ninja Kitty. So we’ll begin here…

On August 22, 2009, Pup and Ninja Kitty were officially together for 365 days. A year isn't really that long but it honestly feels like we've been with each other for at least 5--funny how that works. Anyways, we'd been looking forward to our anniversary for a while and the time finally came for us to celebrate.

Overall, we had a pretty low key day since we're both pretty low key by nature. We started the day going to get me a new fancy schmancy 50mm Nikon fixed lens from Calumet (http://www.calumetphoto.com/). I had been super excited to get this lens for a whole week and I couldn't wait another minute to get it on my camera.

So after Calumet we zoomed out of Hollywood to get some grub from Home (http://www.homelosfeliz.com/). We lucked out with a romantic booth away from any other tables and I finally got to test out my new lens. And may I present the beauty of a fixed 50mm:

Brunch was fabulous as it usually is at Home. I got the crab cakes benedict and Pupster got the steak and eggs.

and we both got Clean Plate awards...

I decided to take advantage of the romantic location to give Pup his final gift...

Tickets to The Dead Weather concert!!

Pup was so surprised and excited especially since The Dead Weather is his band of the moment and Jack White is the man love of his life. The tickets were a great finale to the other two I gave Pup throughout the week.

After getting stuffed with good food, we went back to Pup's house to hang out for a few hours and we discovered a fun new game: Wii Resort!

Pup really getting into the game

Pupster's Mii in action

Pup worked up a nice little sweat before we headed over to Father's Office (www.fathersoffice.com) to have dinner with Mere Bear and Penguin. I don't have any pictures from there but the food was to die for!

And then to top the day off, we went to the Kings of Leon concert, whom we’ve been waiting to see since February. The concert was at the Forum located in the gem of a city called Inglewood. Mere Bear and Penguin had floor seats which Pup and I opted not to get since short little me wouldn't be able to see over the mosh pit. We ended up with fantastic seats with a great view of the stage.

The band rocked the dinky little Forum and, despite some crazy drunk women, the concert was a success! Definitely the perfect way to end a year together...