I'm Baaaaaaack LALA

So as you all know, I spent the last 5 weeks in Tokyo, Japan. I had heaps of fun there and made such amazing friends, but because the work was almost nonexistent, it was hard for me to fully enjoy it. I arrived back in LA on Sunday and I am so much happier because of it. I'm staying at my good friends' house so it's so nice to be surrounded by them. Upon arriving at the airport, Lauren Browne (LB) and Louis Carreon (LC) picked me up which was the best pickup ever because I love them both dearly and the ride back to the house consisted of burning each other and laughing. I spent as much time with LB as I could because she is my hero and abandoned me to go to Cabo for a few days with a special friend. However she is coming back in town for a couple days where things will be amazing once again, and I will be staying at her place in New York when I go out there to start fashion week in the end of August. UHHHmazing. I don't know what I would do without this girl and her bbm voicenotes. She basically keeps me sane.

On my second night back we spent the night partying at Teddy's, while although it's not my favorite party of the week, I always have a blast. It was so nice to be with the crew again. I was reunited with Margaux earlier in the day for some catch up time which was amazeballs, and Michael Utsinger can't help but to make me laugh all of the time. There were two DJs that were working the night, however I only liked Kid Capri. He played the crappy hip hop music that everyone says our generation is using to destroy music, however, it enables me and the pack of animals LC brings to destroy the night. The last hour was so much fun and we danced until there was nothing left in us (however, there's always more energy for dancing for me). I had work the next day so I returned to my place of stay while the boys ventured an after party. God damn animals. I missed them. :p

My agency here in LA is LA Models. I have always been with their print board, but I haven't officially gone over to their runway board yet. When I got back from Tokyo, they immediately wanted me to come in and sit down with them. After showing them my walk, they told me that they really love me and will be getting me tons of work while I am in town. This made me really happy because the print board has not been very busy lately, so it will be nice to get some work done. They sent me to a casting for Nordstrom yesterday in which they were casting for the entire season. They told the agency they loved me and booked me for the account. What makes this even MORE fabulous is that LB booked the account too, so it will be never ending fun on this job. I don't know why but I am so happy here in LA. Things just can't get me down and always seem to go my way. I love this city. It's a shame I'll only be in town a few weeks until I have to ship off to New York and get my fashion week season underway.... Til Next time

XOXO

Allison in Wonderland

Traveling Tokyo

At this point, I have been in Tokyo for a little over two and a half weeks. I have made some good friends here and been reunited with others. My days consist of riding in a car all day with the other models from my agency while our drivers take us to our castings. Upon arriving, I had a contract that guaranteed me US$14,000 as long as I book five jobs in the first ten days, and stay within my measurements. Neither of which happened so the contract was cancelled. At this point it became the agency's decision on whether I stay, or return home immediately. Despite having not booked a single job yet, the agency said that the clients do like me here, and that they would like if I stayed, so I did. In the last few days I have booked two jobs, so at least I will get something out of this trip. However, assuming that no more work comes up, I will still leave early. Most girls would be sad to leave such a nice place, but I am looking forward to it. Although life here is easy and fun, I have not been enjoying it as much as I thought. I have been missing LA more than planned. Normally when I travel, I don't get attached to anyone or anything, and I leave without any second thoughts. I find myself wanting to settle down in LA rather than continuing to travel all the time. I have been traveling nonstop for the past year, and it is starting to wear on me. I made a few very good relationships in LA, and now I want to stay there. I still plan on doing the fashion weeks in the fall, but after that, my destination is undecided. I have been thinking a lot here in Tokyo, and I found that I travel so much, not because I love it, but because all my other options seem far worse than the one I am currently embarking on. I can't imagine going to college right now and being surrounded with people my own age because of the maturity aspects; and settling down somewhere hasn't been an option because no one has given me a reason to stay. While I love my alone time, I find it very hard to be alone all of the time. I'm very much looking forward to getting back to the city of angels to figure out if I will be able to set up a home there. If not, then I suppose I will "keep on trucking" until I do find somewhere and someone worth sticking around for. I do like my job and I want to continue modeling and traveling for direct bookings (when a client books me without a casting/go-see), but living on the road all of the time isn't on the top of my to-do list at the moment. I suppose we will have to see how thing play out. I try to assure myself that no matter what happens, things will always work out for the best. "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they go right. You believe lies so that eventually you learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together" -Marilyn Monroe. This quote pretty much sums up everything that can goes wrong with my life and reminds me that everything has to work out for the best. If things aren't at they're best, then it must not be the end. At the end of the day, if you give everything your all, relationships, friendships, work, then whatever happens, you know that it wasn't your fault because you tried your best to make it happen. Despite the wall that I have surrounded myself with, I have decided to take a couple bricks off and if I get hurt, well that is my fault and I will move on.

Until all of my decision making begins, I will be in Tokyo trying my best to work and have a good time with the nightlife =). I am remaining single, not available, and sober, and loving every aspect. Until next time,

XOXO

Allison in Wonderland