 Okay, everyone, it's Benisi, your community outreach specialist, and I am with Amanda again, your community engagement specialist, and I'm going to be bringing you five things that you don't know about her. Okay, so, Amanda, say hey to our followers again. Hello, everyone. How have you guys been doing today? Hope that you had a happy new year. Happy new year, 2019. I have no clue when this video is going to be uploaded, so we had this conversation. How long is it too long for you to continue to say happy new year? A question on everyone's mind. Like I feel like today is January 3rd. I feel like I should stop saying happy new year. I just want to... Yeah, we're done. Comment below. How do you feel about that? If it's like, I don't know, January 12th, are we still saying, is it two weeks? Is it a month? Like I feel like January 3rd, I'm over it already. We're in the new year. I think of it a week. It's... I'll give you a week. But we're well underway already. Like I just... A week gives you time to see everyone. Let us know. Let us know. I love the debate. Strongly about that. But, okay. Side notes. Okay. Five things that you didn't know about Amanda. My phone line. What's number one? Sorry. Notes once again. I wrote them down because I like to be prepared. Exactly. So, number one is that I really like to travel. Ooh, where have you been? Love traveling. Perfect. Most recently, domestically, I went to St. Augustine. It's a really cool town. Okay. We've got a lot of history. But my big trip in 2018 was I went to Europe by myself. Ooh, that's really exciting. Yep. I've always wanted to go and I didn't want to wait for anyone to go with me. Did you have like an eat, pray, love moment? I didn't. I just wanted to go on a trip. I've never read that book between the movies. I haven't either. But I didn't... I did a lot of eating, that's for sure. Okay. Okay. But I went to Denmark, Sweden. So Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden, and Iceland. Which was awesome. Which was awesome. I highly recommend all three. If you're looking to go abroad, it was pretty cheap too. Do you have any plans for 2019? 2019? Any big plans? 2019, I want to go to... I want to go back to Europe. That was the first time I've been to Europe. I've been to South America and stuff like that. I did my study abroad in Brazil. Okay. I've been to South America. Yeah. Okay. That's really fun. In Rio de Janeiro, which was awesome. Yeah. So I want to go back to... I want to do a couple more trips to Europe. So like London, Paris. That'd be exciting. Dublin, yeah, for sure. I'll come. You're just saying like... Find someone to go with you. Exactly. For sure. What's number two? I have two. Wait. Back to traveling. What's your... What's your favorite place that you've ever gone? Um... Absolutely favorite place. Everybody always asked me that. There's a lot of good ones. Oh, is that basic? I think Iceland's really high up there. Okay. I always wanted to go to Iceland. I finally went there. And it's truly like visiting... Absolutely. ...a different planet. Really? Yeah. Just like the geography and the topography and everything. I want to go. It's crazy. And just like the geothermal springs and stuff like that. It's kind of wild. I want to go. Definitely. I have a story about that. You have a story about that? Yeah. About a tractor. So we can skip ahead. So I've had a lot. So my number two is that I've had a lot of different jobs. Odd jobs. Odd jobs. Very strange jobs. So my first job actually was driving a land clearing tractor. Speak of the devil. Yes. Okay. It's, you know, comedic timing that that drove by. How... What did you do... What were you doing when... So I worked for my parents and they owned like... It's cool. They owned a piece of property and they really wanted it. It was like a junk property. There was a bunch of squatters and stuff like that. There was a bunch of old trailers. Wanted to go and clean it up and everything. Yeah. So they wanted to clean it up. So they decided to save some money and just pay me like a small allowance to get on this giant tractor to clear land. So my job was to squash up all these like old mobile homes and like little houses and stuff. Are you serious? I want to do it. That'd just be fun. Just to go around like smashing stuff. So that's how I learned how to drive manual transmission. Okay. Because that's what the tractor is. Okay. But we found a lot of... Learning different talents. So you always had to like go in and look for stuff like old batteries, old gas tanks and stuff like that before you smashed it. Oh, before you smashed it. Okay. Yeah, you didn't explode anything. The weirdest thing I ever found was a prosthetic leg. No wonder. How do you just... I can't fathom like forgetting or like just leaving my prosthetic leg somewhere like I would need it. Maybe he got a new one. And they're expensive. Maybe they got a new one. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. That's a nice thought. I like that. I like that. Okay. But maybe it just wasn't nice because it had been left there for a while. Yeah. And like a hurricane and things like that. Oh, okay. So... Number three. What do we have? Well, wait. I've had more odd jobs than that. Oh, okay. So in college I worked on a drag racing team. So like race cars. That's really cool. That reminds me of that Disney Channel movie about the girl who was like one of the first drag... What's it? Drag race? I don't know the name. I remember like the girl who drove. But she was one of the first female racers or something. Yeah. And it was like the two... I didn't get to drive the car. I mean, I drove the car. Oh, that's so really cool. Not in races. I drove the car for other things. But I did a lot of like... My main job was tires. So I monitored tire pressure and things like that. Let me ask you. Do you know how to change a tire? Yes, I do. Okay. I was honestly holding my breath because I thought you might have said no. My friends call me in college and they're like, I have a flat tire. Can you come help me? Yep. I love that. I was everyone's favorite. I love that. Yes. What other kind of odd jobs? I was also a telemarketer for a while in college. Okay. That was horrible. Don't recommend it. It's not for me. But you got to pay the bills. You have to have a certain type of personality in that. To be able to handle that? Yeah. But at least you know. You learned. I did. I learned something about myself. I feel like knowing what you want to do in life is just as important as knowing what you don't want to do in life. Yeah, for sure. And telemarketing is not for you. It's not. So, I did a bunch of retail. I was a DJ. Yeah. Wait. What was your first gig? A basketball game. I did Biggie's basketball games for USF. Back when they were in the Biggie's. Seriously? That's okay, Amanda. Wow. I thought. Good time. Okay. I thought I worked a couple cool places. They're not odd. They're just cool. They're just different. Yeah. Like none have anything to do with the other. No. And then this wasn't so much a job. Well, it was kind of a job. But I was a dancer in the Orange Bowl. That's really cool. Got to dance with Jessica Simpson. Simpson. Hicklashay. 98 degrees. Without you. Yeah. That's Jessica Simpson. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And Shaggy. Can't think of how it goes back in the day. Like it wasn't me. Yes. Okay. But that was really stinking cool. That was back in the day. I'm gonna try to find a YouTube video of it. Oh, it's there. I've seen it. Orange Bowl from year 2000. Yeah. Tell me. Tell me. Tell me. Okay, that's fine. Google. Google. I'd have to think about it. 04? Okay, that's fine. I can work with that. It was a while ago. It was a minute or two ago. That's gonna date myself a lot. No. Oh, it's, you know... Um... Age is nothing but a number. It's better than the alternative. Getting older is great. There you go. Yeah. Age and like a fine wine. There you go. Yes. I have two fur children at home. I love it. Fur babies. And I acquired both last year, so in 2018. One. One I made a conscious decision to get. Yes. One I did not. So the first one I got... Please tell the story. I got a retired racing greyhound. I adopted him from the track. He was 19 months old when he retired. He won his last race. I love that. He's a big sweetheart. I love him so much. But he actually helped me get my second child. What's the name of your second child? Um, Loch Ness Monster. Loch Ness Monster everyone. She is... I just want to go ahead and throw that out there. Loch Ness Monster. I named her because I was walking my dog by a lake by our house and Loch Ness crawled up out of the lake and followed me home. Picture that big boy every point. And like it's just a cat. There's actually a video. It's really cute. It's really cute. There's a video of her just following us home. And my dog is big. He's a greyhound. He's 77 pounds. Yes. He's probably much smaller. It's a little... Nugget. Yeah. So that's how... What the heck was this? Oh, I've done it three times now. I'm sorry. But yeah. So one I made a conscious effort to get. One I did not. Blessings. Blessings. When the universe is like here, I'm going to bless you with another fur babes. She followed us home. I opened my door to walk in and she helped herself. Boom. I love that. That's how you get a cat. That's how you get fur babes. That's how you acquire a cat. What else? Is this number five? This is four. So I've had a lot of weird injuries and weird manners. Wait. Because you guys thought I was clumsy. I just... I got so much clumsiest things happen. So... Let's talk about the Netflix story. Because I know... Yes. I think that that's a little... Is it... It's interesting. It's interesting. Yeah, it is interesting. So... I was watching Netflix one night. You know how you watch... As we all tend to do. Yeah. On your laptop. Exactly. Normal evening. I had it propped up on my legs. So I think her legs are like this. In the bed. She's leaned back. And I'm laying down. And I guess I started to fall asleep. And I had a MacBook Pro. That's metal. And I felt it starting to fall. So I reacted to it falling. Twitched. Which I pulled my knees closer to my face. Which propelled my MacBook into the bridge of my nose. And I broke my nose. So I don't know if you can see it. But there's like a break in my nose. I'm sorry. Because I can see it. So there's like a little... It didn't heal right. So there's a little bump on my nose. I had two black eyes. I had to go to work the next day. Have you been traumatized from Netflix? No. Or like, do you still have a good relationship? Oh yeah. Okay. That's really funny. Do you still watch TV in bed? I put it on my actual TV. Okay. Now I don't put my laptop on. Okay. We've learned. As long as we've learned and we're not making the same mistakes. Learn from my mistakes. Don't do what I did. I also tore a ligament in my ankle playing Wii. So, playing Just Dance 3. No judgment. It's just like... At least it wasn't Wii tennis. Or Wii bowling. That might be more embarrassing. See, it could be worse. Things can always be worse. We have to find the positive. We have to find the positive. You've got to find the positive spin on things. So in that, my number five is a lot of weird things happen to me. Yep. Just naturally. Yes. We've already kind of learned. Then I think they're running the mill. Yes. But there are some things that you guys can't even find out about. They're just absolutely wonky. That just keep happening to me. That I wish you guys could hear. It's very interesting. Yeah. But an example of that that I can share is back in college. I saved my car from a fire. I forgot about this. Yes. I heard this. So I was visiting a friend of mine. Set the scene. Set the imagery for him. Yeah. So I was visiting a friend of mine at his apartment complex when I was in college. And he got an email from the apartment complex that said the visitor lot is closed due to a fire. And he said, isn't that where your car is? And I said, yes. So I took off running out of his apartment, ran all the way down to where the visiting car lot was. And it was basically like a big square lot. One side's closer to the apartments. One side's closer to like a tree line. And the tree line was on fire. And there was like one of those white plastic fences. And it was melting down the fence. And of course that's like where... Like everything in California, what are we doing now? It was here. It was a damper. We have hurricanes, not fires. That's all I mean. And it was melting down the tree line. There's two like huge fire engines there. And there's all these firefighters running around. And I'm just like full on running down to my car. And I had bought and paid for this car. And it's paid for. And you know, when you're in college, you don't need another car for anything. Exactly. No. I go running and one of the firefighters is like, wait, wait, wait. You know, you can't go over there. There's a fire. And I'm like, I need to get my car. My car, it's important. So I go running in there. I will have soon loans for years. I need this car. Yes. I don't need another payment. I'm already paying enough for college. So I run in the fires maybe five feet less than from my car. And it's like a big fire like 15, 20 feet in the air because it's burning up trees. I didn't care. I only cared about my car. And I realized that's why you have car insurance. Very true. At the time, I didn't care. That wasn't crossing your mind. My parents told me that after they're like, just leave it because you have car insurance. No. No. Also, don't do this. Yes, please. Just let your car insurance. We do not condone this once again. Another thing on this channel. Put your car insurance. We do not condone. But I did get in my car, threw it in reverse, probably jumped a curb because there was fire engines blocking the entrance to the lot. But I did save my car. I still own that car. It's a fantastic car. It's still strong and it's still paid off. Like, that's all that matters. So think about it. If you hadn't saved that car. I probably would have gotten another car paid for by my insurance. But... Oh, that is very true. That is very true. Because again, we keep forgetting about insurance. But I wasn't really thinking about that. No. I was thinking about the fact that I just paid this car off and it was about to be... So excited. Like the universe is like, yeah, you paid this car off. You're great. And we're just going to set it a fire. You know what? And then the firefighter was very mad at me. As he should have said. Believe it. I 100%. I don't blame him. So if he's watching, I'm sorry. I probably... I just picture myself like if I was him and you were running towards the car like I just want to step my foot out and like tripped you on the way. And he was actively fighting a fire. Like turning over his shoulder going, are you kidding? Nope. I am not. Is that five? That's... Somehow. Yeah, I love that. I feel like that technically will count as more than five. But... You learned a lot about me and you probably have ever wanted to know. Boom. And a lot quicker than you guys learned about me. So there's that. I didn't even have you hold out for Amanda. So if you haven't already, go ahead and like this video. We love to see the thumbs up. That's the best. If you haven't, also subscribe. Do that. Don't know what you're waiting for. Turn on the post notification. Don't forget to comment below though. If I'm right when it comes to saying happy New Year's I'm like limiting it. Or if it's a month. Like a day or two? Definitely not anymore. Because I think they're all wonky. Every single person in this office is wonky. Two three day max. That's what we're going to cap it at. So we'll see you guys next time. Thanks for tuning in.