The Finewhile Diner. . .
I love diners.
Particularly small-town, roadside diners. Diners that still look like they did when they were built in the heyday of highway travel, at a time before interstates were a thing.
Diners are going by the wayside, which makes me sad. Half the ones I’ve been to in the past decade since I moved to L.A. cook frozen food that they bought in bulk and call it “homemade”. (Maybe it says that on the box, but it sure as hell ain’t homemade!) Anyway, bad food, and bad diner food, ...
What Does Brady Look Like?
I was doing one of my last sets of rewrites and I realized… I never described Brady!
*gasp!*
How could this happen?!?! I describe what brand of chapstick Tori wears but I don’t describe her ex???
What is wrong with me?
So I went man-shopping again. (What a burden, amirite?)
I went with Charlie Hunnam.
I know, I know. He’s too cute to be a douche like Brady. But we only know he’s a douche because of what Tori went through. He has to be cute and charming enough to have ...
What does Tori look like?
Tori, Tori, Tori…
I actually have a friend who’s named Tori… she actually gets mentioned a few times in these posts. She’s an impressive lady and has achieved a lot in a pretty short time in her life, which is awesome. She’s beautiful, talented, charismatic and successful? How is that fair??
Anyway, finding a model to live up to the real-life Tori AND who looks like the Tori-in-my-head was…challenging…a struggle… a real bitch-and-a-half.
Tori-in-my-head is ...
You can’t really lose your scholarship over a $30 fee bill… can you?
The Thirty Dollar Fee Bill
This actually happened to one of my best friends in college when we were at LSU. She was in a similar situation to Tori – full scholarship plus living and housing stipends. That semester, she went to the doctor at the LSU Health Center, which led to a fee of a fairly small amount. It may have been more than $30, but it wasn’t more than, let’s say $300. In the grand scheme of things, it was a tiny amount of money. Her parents agreed to pay it.
I remember ...
Tori wears Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm
This is what I used to wear when I waited tables. It made your lips soft all night, but, better yet, it would stain your lips so even if you talked your lipstick off over the course of your shift, your lips would still have color that wasn’t blotchy or feather-y.
I would absolutely recommend it for easy lip color.
(Now in my personal life, I wear lip liner and lipstick, usually in red.)
Burt's Bees Website - Red Dahlia Tinted Lip Balm