Welcome back to the LA Diary

The week that was…

Righto cool things that happened this week:

I got an audition for a nurse, I’ve just submitted the tape, it’s for a commercial, I got to play a nurse for a little while, the script was heartwarming too, it’s between the nurse at a school helping a kiddo out.

As you probably know by now, I teach a fair bit of yoges here in LA but yesterday I got to teach at a new studio, a little closer to where we live and it was so much fun and so nice to connect to the local community.

I’m committed to trying all my local yoga studios over the next couple of weeks, I love exploring all the different yoga schools, communities and teachers.

Matt and I have binge watched the TV show Fall Out (its on Amazon Prime), the set and costumes were off the chain. It’s scored a bunch of Emmy noms this week too.

Then we’ve stated the new Lena Dunham show on Netflix Too Much, it feels like a dark comedy, its quirky and witty and we’re really loving it.

In my down time this week I’ve been business cutting audiograms for upcoming podcast eps. Next week we have JMo, Aussie Journalist who’s just bought a book out called Mental as Anyone. He has a really successful pod too.

Speaking of pods, in Australia I’m signed to iheart radio and I did an event around mindfulness for them a little while ago, but I wanted to share the artwork for the event here. Sometimes I just do the thing and forget about it, but this was a fun one so here’s a little bit about it.

And finally, this weekend we’re going to Aussie Christmas in LA, you see Christmas time in Australia is always in the Summer so 2 Aussies (Scott Tweedie and Jess Staats) created one big lunch and part for Aussies living in LA to celebrate Christmas in July (and American Summer, just like back home). It’s been going on for 5 years but this is my first time attending. The lovely Alexandra Stone, designer and creator of label Zandra Stone has sent me a lovely Summer dress to wear to the event so I feel very lucky.

Righto, that’s it from me fam, big love,

Lola

p.s here's the recipe i promised! It's from one of my books: The Happy Life

Blueberry muffin smoothie:

Intro: I love making smoothies full stop, but I really love making smoothies that taste like a treat even thought they’re loaded with so many health goodies!

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

1 cups of frozen blueberries

1 cup of cashews

1 tablespoon of maple syrup (or coconut nectar or honey)

½ a fresh vanilla bean, or a pinch of powdered vanilla, or just a ½ a teaspoon of extract

2 cups of almond milk (hazelnut milk works really well too)

Topping:

1 teaspoon of almond meal

1 teaspoon of dried blueberries

Method: Pop everything into the blender, and depending on the season the berries may need a little more sweetening so have a taste before you pour it up, then top with almond meal and dried blueberries

Big Love

Lola x

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