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For those of you who don’t know, my birthday was this past Sunday. Yes, turned 26 and it was a great celebration - brunch at Shades in Ocean Beach and then hanging with friends at Sunset Cliffs. Remnants from the day are some hilarious photos taken while at Sunset Cliffs. Enjoy!

P.S. Notice the 2nd pic - The boys making fun of Jason’s and mine engagement pics. LMAO! So funny!

My good friend, Jennifer Van Grove (@jbruin) is a local San Diego Social Media Consultant, blogger, socialite, SD Tweetup planner, etc. etc. and just added another fabulous task to her to-do list - Jenn2.0! Jenn2.0 is a web series that follows Jenn, a web savvy twenty-something living in Southern California, around and takes us through her compelling and fabulous life of working and living in social media.

Jenn was kind enough to invite me to observe the auditions today. So I stopped by on my way out of work and checked out what this crazy girl was (yet again) up to. Apparently they had been auditioning people all day to fill 4 roles for the upcoming web series. Jenn has been working hard with NAS Productions, Rob Lewis, and Darren Elwood who have come up with a darling script based around Jenn’s life as a social media consultant and her yearning and struggle to find “…balance between her online personas and her ever-present reality.”

It was really fun to meet the casting crew, production team, writers, and photographers today at the auditions and I can tell this pilot is going to be totally bitchin’! Apparently they based one of the girl characters LOOSELY around my personality…umm Jenn should I be nervous or excited at this point?

So keep your eyes/ears peeled for Jenn2.0 and I’ll definitely be doing a follow up blog once the series is introduced.

Thanks again to Jenn and her team for inviting me over for auditions (I couldn’t believe the response they got for these parts!) and I CANNOT wait to see what comes of this. LOVES IT BITCHES <3

To read more from Jenn visit her awesomesauce blog jennifervangrove.com

*photo of Jenn is by fabulous photographer Wm. Marc Salsberry

The family trip this year fell nothing short of my expectations - warm weather & water, sunshine, explorations and booze! As my Mom kept saying (who loves wine): “No more cerveza! Where can I get a good bottle of wine around here?” Playa del Carmen, Mexico is a beautiful little tourist town about 40 miles south of Cancun and just a 20 minute ferry ride away from Cozumel. Even though it was more expensive then the Mexico towns I am used to, it was a clean and beautiful paradise anyone or family can enjoy.

Some great things we did while visiting included snorkeling in Cozumel, visiting the Mayan Ruins in Chichen Itza, day tripping to Cancun (Mexico public transportation FTW!), and laying at the beach drinking mojitos (pretty sure that ice was never filtered water - eek) and chomping down on endless pico de gallo. So is that why I got sick on this trip?!

Enjoy the pics and be jealous of the tan.