My cousin Renee is visiting from Missouri. Its been nice hanging out with her. She's funny and actually talks. I know I talk to much... i can't help it sometimes. I don't know if it's annoying her or not. O well. We went to the LA fashion district. The day after we went to the thrift shops in Ventura and the beach. On Friday i took her to sign up for central casting but we were too late to get in. We went to the mall instead.I think we're going to go hiking one day to the Hollywood sign.. and maybe get shabbu and mochi.. and maybe go to comedy club.. or venice boardwalk.

Last week our tenants told us the refrigerator broke. grr. The condo didn't come with a refrigerator initially.. we just asked if they needed one and they did so we did them a favor and left it. It was a crappy fridge but better than nothing. The handles were coming loose and the water/ice maker didn't work but it kept things cold/frozen. Apparently it started making some weird noise that we did not hear when we went over there... I hate to say it but i sort of think they just made it up because they didn't like the fridge and expected us to just buy them a new one. Well we were all prepared to tell them that we can't buy them a fridge right now and that it was a favor and not our responsibility to replace AND that we initially asked for more if we left the washer and dryer but let them pay the price of us taking them out even though we left them there. But part of us was like maybe we should get a fridge to keep them happy and because it was pretty old but we just bought a fridge for ourselves 1 month ago because our place didn't come with one so it was hard to even imagine buying another fridge since we didn't have ANY money for one. i told tim to call his dad for advice since he's like a business guy and knows what to do in these situations. and its his dad and its good to get objective advice. tims dad ended up telling us to just get a cheap fridge and he would pay for it. that was super unexpected. i mean he gave us some money for the floors but that's really the only other time besides like tims birthday money and our aniiversary money. since then we've told him how much we're struggling before and he hadn't offered so i just thought maybe he wanted us to do things on our own. but he seemed really happy to help and told tim to ask for help when he needs it. And getting the new fridge does make the most sense.. they're happy.. we're happy since its a good investment. I wrote up a document that says that we are buying the fridge as a gift, that the condo did not initially come with a fridge, that the fridge is ours to be used in the condo, and it it breaks it is not our responsibility to buy them another fridge etc etc. they liked the huge more expesive ones.. we didn't want a huge fridge again because its a pain in the ass to move and does so much damage getting it in and out to the walls.. we compromised on a little bit smaller one but nicer than the cheap ones and that came with an ice maker.. it was still more expensive so they ended up paying the difference for a little better fridge. which was cool since it is still ours and if they leave it'll be easier to rent because now it is a condo that comes with a fridge.

After seeing so many rentals last year we now realize how awesome our condo is. Its so clean. no bugs. hardwood floors. huge vaulted ceilings with wood beams in living room and front bedroom. huge front loading washer and dryer. tiled kitchen and bathrooms. tiled shower and partial walls and new toilet in front bathroom. new carpet in bedroom. tiled hallway. resurfaced cabinets with new door handles. new oil rubbed bronze fixtures (well we just spray painted the old stuff - but it looks awesome). new 6 panel doors. regrouted counters. new vanity sink in master bathroom. new wood blinds in bedrooms. new vertical blinds in living room. repainted porch. garage. its in a quiet area. within 5 minutes of most fast food and restuarants, complex is across the street from liquor store and smart and final and other stores, less than 5 minutes to freeway, 10 minutes to metrolink, close to mall, close to schools, etc etc etc. we've had a hard time finding ANYTHING that compares. The closest thing comparable at the time in Simi was a place that had a laundry facility at a complex and they wanted $50 more than what we were asking. That's just crazy.

Projects I'd like to do to the condo when we can afford it: fix garage door (it only works half the time), new kitchen sink and faucet and over the range microwave. That's really all I can think of.

We found a 120 gb hard drive at game stop so we got it. Woot. I missed it.

Finally have health insurance. I have an appointment on Thursday. It feels too far away. I just want to know whats wrong with me now. I guess I've waited around a year so whats a few more days..

I have to clean the house today its a mess. And get groceries grr.

I lost a bunch of weight and was looking so skinny.. i was 125 - 128 for months. then this month I got to 116. now I'm 120. poop. i don't exercise.. ever.. (i want to but treadmill is burried under a massive pile of boxes at the moment.. ) but when i eat right.. i lose weight rapidly. its crazy. its just freaking hard.. fast food is so easy. but this last week I've skipped breakfast and forgot to make my water concoction and i think that's part of the reason.. I've been drinking this cucumber, lemon, lime, mint water and its delicious and i think it helped. and cinnamon and sugar on toast with a side of fruit for breakfast. I think sleeping helped too. I read that insomnia causes weight gain and its true because i gained so much weight in bakersfield and at my moms. but i started getting back into good sleeping habits at this place.. i was going to bed and waking up with tim and thats also when i was losing the most. the combination of all those things made me lose like 1-2 pounds a week. maybe more because we haven't been here that long. i swear i lost 5 pounds in 1 week.. it was nuts. I'm pretty sure stress was a huge culprit. Now if I only added an hour of walking every day.. hmm. I need to organize the garage and set up that treadmill.

I took a star wars quiz and was princess lea and C-3PO.