hey everybody! i sincerely apologize for the time it has taken me to post anything... i am home for the summer and working :) i work for AXA advisors, my dad, and i also now nanny for a four month year old who is really cute. um.. im learning a ton working for my dad and AXA, about investments and such. my arm is sore from carrying around the baby ahaha tomcat just visited me last weekend and i miss him already. we had a picnic at salt creek and then i took him to the harbor and we walked around there. it was really fun! and i got some lovely birthday presents haha im not really finding time to go to the beach, which is sad, but its good i've been working. its about time i grew up a little more. i think im going to study abroad either this winter or spring! if the winter, then london. if the spring, then this one for global diplomacy. i would be going to NYC, Geneva, Vienna, Istanbul, the Hague, and Paris!!!! learning all about international relations and negotiations. who knows though... i feel like i have to figure so many things out right now and i just want everything to freeze so i can. but obviously thats completely unrealistic and thats life. im missing the five of us together. erin and candice, i miss you guys a ton. and i think it is absolutely wonderful ericas in ireland. and nicole now has a HUSband. haha i love you all!

- amanda