Sleep + cereal = Amber's Crazy Friday Night

It's clear that I haven't posted anything new in a while. There's really no good excuse for my lack of posts, other than, I just haven't gotten around to it. You know how it is, you're busy with work, or family, or forcing yourself to take the evening to watch that DVD you rented 4 days ago that's been sitting in your bedroom waiting ever-so-patiently for you to watch it. That's what I've been up to.

It's one AM, and I am just now posting for the day. Actually, let me clarify. I got home from work at about 6:30, climbed into bed, watched 2 episodes from the first season of Scrub on DVD (with director's commentary, for something different), fell asleep and just woke up... starving. Now I'm sitting here typing this as I wait for my mom to get home from babysitting my niece. It's not that I'm really so eager to see my mom, although it's always nice to see her - it's that she's bringing milk for my cereal. I know, big plans.

Tomorrow's another busy one. I have to be at work at 8:30 (on a Saturday!!), then we're headed up to our car dealer client in Traverse City. They're a Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, BMW dealer who recently acquired Mazda. We're doing a huge promotion for the Mazda dealership grand opening. It's called 'Be a Star, Win a Car.' Basically, entrants will tell us in 2 minutes or less on video why they should be the new spokesperson, we'll pick the top 5, air them on TV and encourage everyone to go online and vote. Actually, the plan is to put all 5 finalists on the website as well, so I'll make sure and let you know where you can vote when the time comes. As payment, the winner will star in the Grand Traverse Mazda TV ads, and win a one year lease on a new Mazda3. It's pretty cool. So about tomorrow, we are appearing at the dealership during a live radio remote for those who don't have access to a video recorder, so they can stop by and have their auditions recorded.

Other than that, I don't have any huge plans for the weekend, other than attempting to see Batman Begins and/or Cinderella Man. Also, I'm going to Florida next week (leaving Wednesday) so I have a few things to get together for that. Hey, any excuse to buy new clothes, right?

So, there's a little update for ya. Excuse me while I have my 1:18 am bowl of frosted flakes.

(p.s. I just ran spell check on this post and it offered all sorts of suggestions to replace my name... yet it offered Bateman (the last name of 80's sibling child stars from the sitcom Family Ties and the movie Teen Wolf Too), as an alternative for Batman. How did Bateman make it in, and Amber, a relatively common word in the english language, did not? Hmmm.)