Friday Night!

Cassidy is very 'up' on the fashion scene. She took her friend Rachel to the GenArt Fashion Week launch party, and then to the show. Perks of living so close to L.A.: tres chic affaires.

(Style lent by Mary Kate Olsen)

Burned

I call my mother, per usual, and discuss the last day-or-so's events. She tells me Cassidy's uniform skirt has cigarette burns in it.

Do I call Cassidy, and warn her of what is waiting at home-- a steaming mother left to stew in anger for a day? Or do I give loyalty to my mother, who has every right to be upset over the situation.

Discovered

Cassidy is actively pursuing a modeling career. She has gotten a great response from agencies, but while she finishes high school, she swirls fat-free frozen yogurt at my old job. While working, a man comes in, compliments her eyes, which are spectacular, then leaves his card. It turns out he is a high-fashion photographer.


Only in Orange County.

Answers.

Each of the girls in the picture below are 17. Parents were 'supervising' this party.
(Second in from the left is my sister, Cassidy.)

Guessing Game

Guess how old these Orange County girls are.

Racially

Cassidy, about an Asian coworker: "He was telling me how he didn't fit in- racially- in the Midwest. But he was talking like if he were a black guy... in Laguna. "

Introducing

Cassidy is my 17-year-old sister. She's stuck with our parents in Laguna, trudging through her senior year at Mater Dei High School (which you may know if you follow high school sports). She took my old job at Golden Spoon frozen yogurt, coaches volleyball, and models, or tries to; you want to know her. She parties in groups with Hayden Panettiere, Miley Cyrus, and more actors from Noggin. She slips backstage concerts, traipses through movie sets, and lives "the O.C." life I so desperately ran from.