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Amanda

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About Me

I'm originally from Northern California, but now am so lucky to be living on the beach in beautiful Southern California in a house that my fiance and I bought this year. I love good food, good wine, music, movies, dancing and I love to travel. I am madly in love with my fiance! I'm super blessed to have the greatest family and group of friends. Currently I'm back in school working on earning my teaching credential and waiting tables at night...fun, fun :)

My Interests

Traveling, movies, music, Giants baseball, baking (my chocolate chip cookies are to die for), cooking, reading, snowboarding, sitting out on the beach, riding my bike out on the beach and tennis

Music:

Augustana, Counting Crows, Keane, Mana, 3EB, Incubus, Dashboard Confessional, Gavin DeGraw, Nada Surf, James Blunt, Our Lady Peace, The Wallflowers, The 3 Heads, My Chemical Romance, Sarah McLachlan, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Damien Rice, Keith Urban, The Killers, U2, G. Love and Special Sauce, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, all 80s New Wave, and just about any rock they call "Classic"--including but not limited to Van Morrison, The Moody Blues, Queen, Bob Seger, CCR, The Eagles, The Beatles, The Stones, etc, etc

Movies:

The Usual Suspects, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Indiana Jones (the whole trilogy), Almodovar movies, Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrman's version), The Big Chill, Casablanca, Amores Perros, The Breakfast Club, Citizen Kane, The Godfather (1 & 2, not 3), Roman Holiday, anything Audrey Hepburn really, and I LOVE scary movies!

Books:

Ernest Hemingway is my all time favorite-- The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, and Over The River and Through the Trees; other favorites--One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Harry Potter series, East of Eden, On the Road, The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende is another favorite), Of Human Bondage, To Kill a Mockingbird