Sleep.

Just a quick note before I decide to go to sleep:

Life is amazing. While it may not be going exactly like I would want it to, it is still amazing. I am glad to have such great friends, amazing derby sisters and an awesome family.

The.End.

He needs me///

Punch-Drunk-Love is on tv... I love that movie so much. Maybe its just because of the colors and music... <3 This is all.

One of my favorite lines from a movie:
B: I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.
L: I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.

Me and the crew used to do her///

I love how when I hear the song "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe, I always think of the episode from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' where "The Gang Dances their Asses Off"... That is the main reason why I listen to this song... To remember that part where Mac challenges Dennis to a 'dance off'

And I'm leaning on a broken fence between Past and Present tense///

Every day when I wake up, I do a usual routine: I feed the cats (Beasley has my wake up time at about 7am everyday), make some coffee for me and Paul, check on my plants in the garden, finish cleaning from last night and then I head to the computer and begin with my job hunt (and the occasional facebook stalking of my friends). Beasley and Poppy keep me entertained for the most part. Usually, Poppy spends most of the day sleeping on the couch while Beasley constantly jumps on to my desk then to the window ledge to look outside and "talks" to me the way a cat only knows how. Sometimes Poppy joins in which sucks cause there are lots of papers on my desk. I listen to music (either my itunes, Pandora or my mp3 player) and I like to sing from time to time. Today, Poppy did something I have never seen: when I would sing a song (I am currently in love with the new Muse album The Resistance, especially the song "United States of Eurasia" mostly because Matthew Bellamy has the voice of an angel), she would come to me and sit while I sing to her. Her ears would perk up when a high note is hit. I know I am not the best singer in the world, I only sing when no one is home or in my car (Paul likes it when I do that). Poppy is usually acts like a diva at home but I think it is so awesome that she responds to my singing like that.

I have the best cats in the world.

Friday, I'm in love!!!

From Paul...

Another reason why I love him so much.




Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:21:44 -0700
From: xxxxxxxxx@sbcglobal.net
Subject: OK
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com

Amanda,

I wanted to figure out if the plans would work before I told you what we were gonna do.

On Friday we will leave Sacramento to go to San Francisco. We will arrive to check in at our hotel at 3pm and once there will pick up our VIP tickets to see Tutankhamen at the de Young. After seeing the exhibit and exploring the de Young, we can then go to either the Legion of Honor or the California Academy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park. We will then head back to our hotel to relax for a bit before heading out to a nice dinner.

Saturday is more open-ended, with you having the option of whatever you want to do in SF. From MOMA, to the Asian Art Museum, to the Contemporary Jewish Museum, to Fisherman's Wharf, or a nice drive along the coast.

Hopefully this sounds like a fun weekend, but if you would rather stay home watching movies with the cats, we can do that.Let me know.....Love ya!

Don't get me wrong because I'm happy to be anything but still///

Song of the Day: Oh My> Mellowdrone


Why I love wikipedia....


I looked up one thing and then like 10 minutes later, I was linked to something completely off topic:

-Lost Highway (Was listening to a song from this movies soundtrack)
-David Lynch (Made that movie)
-Film Noir (The style of that movie)
-Jack Nance
-Richard Pryor
-Balthazar Getty (All were in that movie)
-Lord of the Flies (He was in that movie)
-William Golding (Wrote that book)
-Delphi (setting of another book Golding wrote)
-Greece (where Delphi is located)
-Larissa (ancient city in Greece)
-Peripheries of Greece (the 'Provence' Larissa is located)
-Hippocrates
-Larissa
-Pelasgus (all gods/ goddess/ figures in Greece)
-Sparta (city in Greece)
-Leonidas (ruled Sparta)
-Xerxes (killed Leonidas during a war/ fight)
-Agamemnon (Brother of Menelaus)
-Menelaus (ruler of Sparta/ Helen of Troys husband/ Agamemnon's brother)
-Castor & Pollux (the Gemini constellation/ brothers of Helen)
-St. Elmo's fire (weather phenomenon)
-Paris (abducted Helen)
-Priam (Paris' father)
-Aeneas (escaped the burning city of Troy with Helen)
-Troy film
-Achilles (warrior)
-Achilles Heel (the term used for weakness/ way he died)
-Thetis (goddess/ mother of Achilles)
-Julie Christie (played her in the Troy movie)
-Warren Beatty (were an item for years)
-Shirley MacLaine (his sister)
-Coco Chanel (was in a movie about her life)
-Coco avant Chanel (french movie about Coco)
-Audrey Tautou (was in the french movie about Coco)
-Amelie (her first big movie)
-Montmartre (where the movie takes place)
-Mathieu Kassovitz (was her love interest in Amelie)
-Jamel Debbouze (was also in that movie)
-Melissa Theuriau (married him in real life)
-Rufus (the guy who played Amelie's dad)
-Sophie Neveu (the character she played in the DaVinci Code)
-Alfred Molina (was also in the DaVinci Code)
-Deja Entendu (album by Brand New, 1st song off album was inspired by Tautou)
-Eclipse (Twilight book, inspired by a song off that album by Brand New)
-Benoit Poelvoorde (guy who is dating Audrey currently)
-Quentin Tarantino (got Benoit on the Cannes jury)
-Inglorious Basterds (his latest movie)
-Mexploitation (a movie style)
-Eli Roth (horror movie maker)
-Til Schweiger (in Inglorious Basterds)

We went to target to get some things and noticed lightning before we went in. 20 minutes later we come out to pouring rain and continuous lightning in the sky. I love it!

I want a girl with extensions in her hair... Bamboo earrings, at least two pair///

Song of the Day: LL Cool J> Around the Way Girl


Oh my goodness. LL Cool J is the romantic poet of my generation. God bless him for such songs as 'Big Ole Butt' with such memorable lines like:

Laid her on the table and place my order
And gave her a tip much bigger than a quarter

I needed a laugh like that all day. Especially since it is finals week!

Mother fountain or live or not at all///

Song of the Day: Massive Attack> Black Milk

Things I am looking forward to:

Summer and Fall classes. Here is what is on my plate for the next 2 semesters...

Summer 2009:

MATH 120 - Intermediate Algebra @ Sacramento City College. MTuWTh 615 to 845pm. 6/15/08 to 8/7/09. 5 units.
This course reviews and extends the concepts of elementary algebra, with problem solving skills emphasized throughout. Topics that are reviewed and extended include: linear and quadratic equations, factoring polynomials, rational expressions, exponents, radicals, equations of lines, and systems of equations. New topics include: graphs and their translations and reflections, functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, graphs of quadratic and polynomial functions, nonlinear systems of equations, polynomial, rational and absolute value inequalities, and an introduction to conic sections.


Fall 2009:

ART 300 - Elementary Drawing and Composition @ American River College (Natomas). MW 6 to 820pm. 8/22/09 to 12/17/09. 3 units.
This course is a studio class in drawing and composition. Lectures and discussions stress the fundamental discipline related to the visualization of concrete or abstract concepts. Practice in drawing and development of content will be emphasized.

HIST 311 - History of the United States @ Sacramento City College (Downtown). TuTh 530 to 840pm. 8/22/09 to 10/16/09. 3 units.
This course covers the development of American Institutions and society from Reconstruction to the present and partially fulfills American Institutions requirements. The course emphasizes the role played by political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual forces on the culture and development of multiple ethnic groups in a comparative format.

MATH 300 - Introduction to Mathematical Ideas @ American River College (Natomas). TuTh 6 to 9pm. 10/17/09 to 12/11/09. 3 units.
This course focuses on elements of mathematical systems. It is designed to make fundamental concepts and processes more meaningful to the general student. Its content may include systems, logic, geometry, combinatorics, probability, statistics, sets, matrices, and number theory. Not recommended for students entering elementary school teaching or business administration majors.

Hopefully, all I will need are a few more classes and then I can work on transferring to a bigger school. Paul took me to UC Davis on Saturday to check out the campus (I was pretty familiar with it, I dated a guy who lived in Davis and we would head to the campus from time to time). I really liked it there and their Art History program looks really good. Not to mention that Wayne Thiebaud is an honorary professor there. And I also have his calender in my kitchen too (yes, I am a dork... I love having calenders of artist in the house. Paul has one of Wassily Kandinsky in the bedroom... Speaking of Kandinsky, he died on my birthday in 1944. Odd). Thiebaud is one of my favorite modern artist (Picasso is my idol) and a local Sacramento native.

I don't know if I could afford $20,000 a year on school tho. Even if it is only for 2 more years while I get my Bachelors degree. Sac State is much cheaper tho. I don't know if I really want to stay in Sacramento tho. I love it here, my family is here, Paul and I have a life here. Who knows anymore. I want to live up to my promise I made to Grandma before she died. I told her that I want to work in a museum. Its the one passion and goal I have in my life. I don't care how long it will take me. I am going to be a curator. I am sick of hearing that I cant do it or that it will be to hard to accomplish. I know I have to kick ass in school and make my dream a reality. I owe it to myself... I know Grandma would be proud of me either way.

Kiss me where your eye won't meet me... Meet me where your eye won't flick me///

Song of the day: Franz Ferdinand> No You Girls

Things I love...

Franz Ferdinand. I thank Paul for downloading their new album. It is so catchy and sexy. Goal for next year: Make a pilgrimage to see Coachella in 2010. I would love to go this year (I would pick day one because of Franz and We Are Scientist) and I know I can probably stay with my Aunt and Uncle who live outside of Indio. Ugh. One day. First, a trip to Europe (South of France) then more concert/ festivals.

Anyways, listening to Franz got me to remembering seeing them in concert with Death Cab for Cutie back in 2006 (before I met Paul) and how much fun I had going to a concert alone.

Oh oh then suddenly you know... You're never going home///

Song of the day: Franz Ferdinand> Ulysses


Things I am glad for:

Being able to grow up. It makes me feel good to be able to sell all the old things that remind me of the past. I am glad that I am over those points of my life. I am older, wiser and smarter then I once was.

Speaking of, I used to do this photo comparison a long time ago in my old blog... I am gonna bring it back. I once was cute but I seem to have peaked at age 22... Maybe this is all part of growing older. Ugh.

Amanda: Believe it or not, it was once me.


March '04 - Age: 20
Location: A then boyfriends house playing with his web cam... Stupid boys who play guitar and who are in a band.


March '05 - Age: 21
Location: Parents bedroom looking into a mirror... Stupid post engagement break-up with stupid wanna-be thug rapper types.


March ' 06 - Age: 22
Location: My old car, JellyBean, parked near a park by my old job in Orangevale... Stupid cameras that take awesome pictures.


March '07 - Age: 23
Location: The old apartment in Sacramento... Stupid earrings that I loved so much and now I can't seem to find for the life of me.


March '08 - Age: 24
Location: Downtown Sacramento @ the Old City cemetery... Stupid dreams of being a big shot photographer.


March '09 - Age: 25
Location: The new house in Sacramento... Stupid happiness of being completely on my own (with Paul).



Oh well.

Are you coming? Are you going? Are you leaving? Are you staying?///

Song of the day: MIA> Jimmy




The irony... And I only say that because I went there with Paul this morning for a white mocha... It's been too long.



We visited the Blue Light Gallery in Roseville (mainly because its part of my Arth 300 final project for the semester) and saw The Art of Dr. Seuss exhibit. I have seen his work in San Francisco a few years ago with Paul. It was nice to see these wonderful pieces of work again. I love the "Star Belly Friends" but I also loved the "SawFish" sculpture.

Hail to the...

A new home...

A new president.


How exciting today is already shaping out to be!

Score!

Dear Slumdog Millionaire,


Congrats on winning all 4 of the Golden Globe nominations (especially the Best Picture one). No one else deserved it more.


-Amanda

A stairway to heaven...

Texas is awesome... Those Longhorns band members played 2 Led Zepplin songs: one was Stairway To Heaven.



I love the BCS.

Things I love: #2871

Things I love:

I don't think I have said this before, but Ben Affleck as Keith Olbermann on SNL is classic. Another reason why I love Olbermann.

Happy Birthday!

Things I love:

The celebs who have the same birthday as myself.

via Dlisted:

Morris Day (51)
Taylor Swift (19)
Nellie McKay (24)
Amy Lee (27)
Tom DeLonge (33)
Debbie Matenopoulos (34)
Christie Clark (35)
Jamie Foxx (41)
Steve Buscemi (51)
Wendie Malick (58)
Ted Nugent (60)
Christopher Plummer (79)
Dick Van Dyke (83)

12/13 = awesomeness!

Things I love: #1249...

Things that make me happy:

-I got a 98% on my Art History midterm. To be honest, I didn't study at all except for the fact that I rewrote all my notes (which in 3 weeks, I had about 20 pages of notes) during the weekend. All I need to do is keep up the good work and also get started on my final paper and I should be in the clear from then on.

-Vacation time is coming up sooner then it feels like. Soon, I will be in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving for 3 days... Then on to Christmas vacation for about 2 weeks and then today, my boss told me that he is going to take some time off in January so he can go to Washington DC to see Obama's Inauguration on January 20th. 3 more days of no working (score)

-My 25th birthday is coming up soon... 1 month from Thursday. I will be at my "quarter life" (assuming I live to be 100). I think I want to get a tattoo as a gift to myself. My goals for the end of the year are to save $2000 in my savings account (which I am about $150 away from that) and to open up a Roth IRA for my retirement.

-Paul and I are talking about going on a trip next winter, around Christmas time 2009. We are debating on either Marseilles, France or Vienna, Austria. I am looking at spending about $1200 to $1600 just on the plane ticket alone. The good thing is that Paul has an Aunt & Uncle who live in France & Austria which will take care of the lodging expenses. All I need now is a passport! My goal is to save about $3000 for this trip... I think I can do it.

Open your eyes and look at the day... You'll see things in a different way///

Song of the day: Fleetwood Mac> Don't Stop


Things I love:
-Mark Sanchez... On CNN. He said something so funny today while I was watching his show during lunch. I wish I had remembered what he said, but none the less, his love for myspace, twitter and facebook kills me.
-Free taco day at Taco Bell!!! I am so there today after work
-A patient just told me that I was very pleasant and that I was a good person... Which made me feel good about myself. I just wish that other certain people could acknowledge that fact too. It might make me a better person mentally


Anywho, I gave my presentation yesterday with my group (Travis & Ivory). I think we did kick ass! I just hope we got a good grade from Prof. Cantrell. I am glad that project is over. Now we have a "Civic Action Speech" as the next project. Only 2 more speeches to go.

Tonight is Art History class. I think we have a test/ quiz. But I know I will do good. I usually do. I have been rewriting my notes so I can study & also because when I write in that class, it is sloppy because I am usually rushing to get all the info down.

'Cause I never had too much money & I never been quite satisfied///

Song of the day: Willie Nelson> He Was a Friend of Mine

Random things that I love:

-dlisted.com: I love Michael K's way with words. He is my favorite blogger... Besides myself (ha).
-Rick Sanchez of CNN: His love of MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter as forms of commuincation to get 'younger people' to participate... My favorite quote of his "Let's go to the Twitter board..."