hola everyone. what's up. i've just spent the last hour or more updating my flickr page. it's slow and boring but at least it's done and the best part is now i can erase all of those pics off of my camera cell phone.

i promised mike that i would post today... so hopefully he's happy now. i've been meaning to for some time now. i swear. it's been on my to do list. along with a million other things. i get the list thing from my mother. i wonder how good she is at actually getting the stuff on them done. i'm actually not bad, but certain things seem to stay on the list longer than others. actually they usually end up going from one list to another... and another.

anyway... let's see... what's new. it's saturday and i'm home. i had the day off as i do all saturdays now. it's my only day off. the only day i don't have to babysit or go to ikea. although i have cut down my schedule at ikea. i now only work 3 days a week there. i did it because my uncle got was cast in a play and had rehearsal all day, 5 days a week, so they needed me to babysit basically all day. so that was cool. i made a lot of money and got to work at ikea less. now the play rehearsals are over but i'm still now going back to ikea... the reason for this? Well... I'm glad you asked. I'm actually going to be starting a dog walking/sitting service. I'm really excited about it. The thought of working with dogs and being outside everyday getting exercise is so appealing to me. it's like a dream come true... that is if i can pull it off. my hope is that i'll be able to bring in enough money that I can babysat and dog walk enough to completely quit Ikea. and yeah... ikea pretty much sucks. one of the girls who mike works with (who has always been super nice to me) called me a fat ass behind my back and now he won't even talk to her. and a couple weeks ago some customer started yelling and swearing at me out of no where and called me a bitch. my manager said "i'll handle this amanda, you just go in the back" and as soon as I turned the corner the flood gates just opened. I'm too sensitive for this shit, man.

I spent last Saturday cleaning... How fun. I scrubbed the crap out of the bath tub and all of the tile. It sparkels now :) then I got online and signed onto myspace, which was like the first time in a month. so I saw that my old best friend, kasey, had a myspace account and I wrote to her. and she wrote back! I was so excited! she was like my best friend ever, in the 6th grade, and then we just drifted in high school like so many people do, and then she moved away. I'm so excited that I found her finally. she lives in AZ and has a husband and 3 beautiful kids. so i've been meaning to write her a big long catch-up letter ever since last Saturday... yes, that's one of those things on "the list". I'm hoping to get to it when I'm done with this.

tomorrow is oscar day here in LA, and we are all very excited. amber, is coming over to watch them with mike and I. which reminds me, I have to do the dishes and clean the bathroom before then too. geez, a woman's work is never done. anyway... I'm looking forward to it. I hope brokeback wins some shit. I love that movie. anwyay.... amber and I also got some memberships to the 24hr fitness center. about a month ago. we've only actually worked out with eachother twice but i've gone a bunch by myself. It sucks... that we just can't work out our schedules. I thought I could go in the mornings but now that my babysitting schedule has changed it's kind of hard. but I really like the gym. i'd say, in the mornings, 75% of the people there are over 30 which is nice. I don't like being surrounded by models while I work my fat ass off.

hmmm... some other stuff..... mike and I are going to disney land with our friends, justin and mollye. we're going for 2 days next week. i've never been there before. I hope we have fun. also... I am going to miami again to visit my sister, emily. The beginning of april. my cousins, natalie and hilarie, are going too. it's kind of a thing we want to start where we get together once or twice a year for a weekend or something. we were so close when we were growing up and now we've all moved away and gotten married and are starting families (at least they are). so it's been hard not seeing them. when I went home for christmas it was the first time in 2 years I was seeing them and nat and I came up with the idea. I think we'll have a lot of fun.

I'm going to miss mike while I'm gone, as always. we had a nice valentine's day. I just want to say that I really love him. we've discovered the farmers markets. I like them. Especially the all organic market in Santa monica. we've been trying to get out and do more stuff lately. see what LA has to offer.

the really big news in my life lately has been my new computer. I got an apple ibook G4. and it's awesome. my dad co-signed on a loan for me. which was even better than just loaning me the money himself, like I asked, because this way I'm improving my credit as well. so it's pretty damn cool. I love it. I got a desk and everything. I now pay all of our bills online. it's so great :) my very first computer. no more sharing with mike.

i've also opened a savings account. I have a set amount deposited into it every month when I get paid. and I also deposited my entire tax return into it. so, yay for me. my mom is so proud.

too bad I spent $700 trying to get my car to stop shaking and it didn't work. stupid firestone. urggh! that sucks.

hmmm. I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting. and also stuff I'm thinking of but it's a bit personal... I'm sure mike would prefer that I don't spill it all over the internet.