I'm glad it rained yesterday because I was feeling jipped from Friday. I had my car parked in my spot at the apartment and when I went to my car on Sunday, half the car was spotless clean (from the rain) and the other half was dirty (I don't have any awning, etc... the building covers half my car). On Sunday night, the building next door to me ran their sprinklers or something so when I got to my car Monday morning, a quarter of my car was wet, so that left me with only a quarter of my car completely spotless clean :). I need to clean out my car anyway. My mom was gonna get me a new TV last weekend when we went to Costco but she said I needed to clean out my car first so we can fit the TV in there. Yes, I am a spoiled brat.

I'm not looking for a new car because I love mine but Dante saw this last week on recycler.com - a 2001 Mercedes-Benz CLK 55 AMG on sale for $15,000... It's silver (the best color ever!), it has a clean title, 30,000 miles, excellent condition, fully loaded, etc... AMGs are amazing and this car brand new would go for more than $60,000. He decided to call the guy about it yesterday to ask him why he was selling it so cheap and the guy told him it was sold already but it was so cheap because he just inherited $290 million and he needed to give this car away. My lease on my Audi is up next year and I woulda done whatever I had to to get this car if Dante had told me about it earlier. (If all else fails... Mommy!! :)) No one in our family ever buys used cars though but my Audi wasn't new when I got it - I just took over my sister's lease because she leased a BMW X5. She was paying both payments and the Audi was just sitting in the garage. I hate leases because you're paying all that money for a car you'll have to give back in a couple years and you're limited on what you can do with it (mileage wise, etc). I would love to keep my current car after this lease though, if I can afford to. At the very least, I coulda bought that CLK from the guy and sold it for twice what I paid and I could use the profit to pay off the Audi and everyone woulda been happy! :) Oh well.

This is a prime example of how the rich get richer. One of my clients has been directing a couple of episodes of a sitcom this season. The star of the sitcom has been sick for 7-8 days and the DGA stipulates a per diem of $3,500 a day... that means my client gets $28,000 PLUS the $25,000 directing fees. Must be nice.