We got the call today. Billy said he had gone into work this morning feeling 90 % [sure he was going], I don't know what made it final for him, maybe it was looking around and seeing the same routine, the same job, the same people he was used to seeing for the past four years... maybe he thought he would miss his friends... maybe it was something completely different.
Around two o'clock the phone rang, the caller ID read Target, we knew it was Billy - he simply said; "I'm 100 %".

He was handing in a list of Targets surrounding the Hollywood area to his TRL (Target slang for: team relations leader). He's hoping to transfer - Chuck, Amanda and I used to also work at Target but we all, in our own ways, kinda' burned that bridge. So, unfortunately, we won't be so lucky. But, its official: there's four of us.

These past few weeks Amanda has been busy emailing all of her 'connections' out in Hollywood. And they have been incredibly helpful in letting us know what areas are best to look for apartments in and so on. And up till today, all of the emails have been uplifting. And then Amanda gets one saying; "we might be dreaming about the price".

Needless to say, this email was kind of a bummer. And confusing - considering the apartments we have been looking at online run in our budget [$850 to $1200] and seem to have enough square footage [upwards of 950] to suite four people. So... are the online listings wrong? Are we somehow getting ghetto apartments in North Hollywood? Who knows.

Good news for me: Amanda has a car! Amanda's Dad paid for her brakes to get fixed. So for the first time in two months; Amanda can drive again. But really we hardly ever go places without each-other... so now she'll just drive me around. But really the best part of it is, that her Dad saved us $350... so we owe him big time for that.

Okay - my stomach is freaking out... time to eat.

Labels: Amanda, Billy, By Mike, Hollywood, Target

There has been an addition to our group (Mike wrote about this last night). While we were trying to convince Billy to come with us I was only able to see the advantages this would be for me, but now that it actually might happen, I've been a bit worried; thinking about the possible problems this could cause: Four is a lot of people to share one bathroom, one kitchen, one fridge..... And then of course the obvious.... three guys, one girl..... I'm sure I'll feel left out a lot. I'm beginning to feel this is less about Mike and I moving to california (in a way to start a new life together) and more about Chuck, Mike, and Billy setting off on a mission together to make it in the movie biz and I'm just a tag-along. And what if they hate me? Living with an anal neat-freak could be hard if you're a sloppy boy.

Labels: Billy, By Amanda, Chuck, Mike

On our Pro's and Con's list when we were first discussing packing up and moving west, # two on the con's was: "Billy will still be here."

So, who is Billy - and why would we miss him so? Chuck and I moved to the Ann Arbor/ Ypsi' area in 2001, we both got jobs at Target (where I met my beautiful girlfriend: The Girl) here is where we also became friends with Billy, the kind of individual you meet where you think; what is this (talented, funny, smart-as-hell) person doing here at Target, when they could do so much more in so many other places, especially a place like Hollywood.

Today he told Amanda and I that he is planning on moving with us. I don't know if all our begging, or the coincidence that his lease ends the day we leave for CA, persuaded him to come with. But I hope he comes, it won't be for at least a month after we've left, but he will decide before the 29th of this month. It's coming so soon. Everything is only days away.
"...A chance to turn it all around..."

(anyone know where thats from?)

Labels: Amanda, Ann Arbor, Billy, By Mike, Ypsi