2.28.10

Dear Blogger,

Church today!

Then I came home and pretty much made this video with Myles all day via skype. BAH. But it's awesome, and he's awesome for making it for me.

Church again!

That's pretty much it. Then I procrastinated a bunch on doing a project and talked to Julio instead....

Yeah..............................................................school is tomorrow -_-

bLAH Blah, Mandy

P.S. I totally taught all the lil old ladies in choir to do fist bumps with me instead of handshakes...

2.27.10

Dear Blogger,

So I was taking this picture and I was like...hmm...my lips kind of do match Emmy Rossum's.

Hello! Today turned out to be quite interesting. Chris came over today! It was a lot of fun, he came over at like 7:30am and we made a bajillion videos...I shall let you know when they appear d:

Then after that dad drove us to the mountain! And we watched some guys band play and sat around...then I hitched a ride with Mr. Warren and we went to McDonalds...mm...apple dippers.

So I thought Mrs. Warren was going to be there the whole time, but...once again. I was the only girl in the midst of...5 guys. Yay..........^_- Oh well, I don't mind..they forced me into their band though. Which was fun for a bit, however...I suck at it. Like really bad, Julio should be doing it, he's better than me at this impromptu stuff. Overall, that part was pooish...

On a lighter note, God has been blessing me so much! Because even though that part of today wasn't fun, He still gives me all my essentials and loves me all the same. (: That gives me something to smile about...ALWAYS.

Pity parties are for lame people, Mandy

P.S. Did you notice that I'm only delinquent-like when Julio is around? What?!

Me and Chrispy (:

2.26.10

Dear Blogger,

This is the most deceitful picture I have ever uploaded in these chapters of my life...hmm. You might wonder why? Well, I don't care to tell you at the moment. Let's just say I received a text message that made me ): So this picture is the total opposite! Yay for being positive *arm pump* -_-

I woke up with a really bad headache this morning and slummed around until about 10 o' clock. This really set back my school until like...I didn't even finish it today...crap.

Jesus let the snow fall today! But thankfully He stopped it in time to let me go to volleyball! Which was crap as well. Yes! Crap! I don't know if I'm just not being positive...like said picture, or it truly was just a bucket o' poo.

Either way, today wasn't too fun. And I was in pain all day.

Then I skyped with Myles for like 3 hours O_o

I'm tired.

I didn't finish math...

And my weekend just got booked.

Tootles, Mandy

P.S. Is it "not Jesus like" to stop talking to someone because of the emotional mess it makes? I'm not so sure...

P.P.S Changed my font today...heh...rebel.

2.25.10

Dear Blogger,

Last night I had a not-so-agreeable conversation with one of my good friends...why does my life always have some type of drama involved?

I did school ALL morning. Woohoo. I like accomplishing school, it makes me happy. Just doing it is the annoying part.

I went to work! I really do work better alone...I got done like 15 minutes earlier than we would get done together...so I get paid less to work without help...fail.

Then I went out with mom and traveled all over! We rushed the last minute to Alex's work, where I totally kept calling him...not realizing he was AT work...woops. But he let me come in and get an application. He's awesome like that. BUT! It was so close, I got to the mall and the wind took my application out of the car and you bet I ran like mad to chase that thing down.

So I walked through the mall, hoodie on, hood up, just minding my own business. Watching the 18 year olds with babies and fiancees. That's when...the mall cop approached. I stopped, smiled, and said "hello." He grinned at me as well, "hi ma'am..." I glanced at him...really curious of what he was asking me about. "I have to ask you to take down your hood on your sweatshirt." I instantly took it down, I hate being in trouble, "yeah of course." I said with a smile. He replied, "it's just a policy here" handing me a "rules paper". I read it over...you cannot bring animals in. You cannot wear a hoodie with the hood up. You cannot wear your hat sideways.

Mucho El Sleepo, Mandy

P.S. Watch this dud'es youtube He's funny.

2.24.10

Dear Blogger,

Why do I look so bleh? Because I catered for 8 hours today. Marissa, her mom, and I all traveled two hours away with a bunch of teens and moms and scooped food like lunch ladies. Hair nets. Latex gloves. Hand sanitizer.

Way too much mushed up chicken pot pie, coleslaw, pickled pink eggs, rolls, and TastyKake cherry pies...

I feel sick.

Caleb tripped me today. By saying "Trip" and placing his foot out in front of me. Face, meet floor.

A little boy of the age of probably...9 ran his hand down my hip. I feel violated.

I got trashed talked by a 7 year old.

I spent every waking minute since 5:40 this morning with Marissa. And I still love her (:

I was reminded that people are only as cool as your mind portrays them to be.

There's a bunch of random facts for you.......

DYING, Mandy

2.23.10

Dear Blogger,

So I'm really angry that this post is a day late. I did not keep up with my commitment of doing this every stinkin day. This makes me so sad. So this shall be short.

We picked up dad today, as you can see. So I made a sign, and I was imagining some big dramatic Chariots of Fire kind of moment. But instead we held them up as we rode the escalators down to him while he was at baggage claim.

Good ol dad...lil angry already.

Oh and do you want an explanation of why this is late? Well...I didn't want to put this picture up anywhere in case my dad would see it before I showed it to him. Then when I got home I went straight to bed because I had to wake up at 4:30 the next morning....

Frustrated with herself, Mandy

*SIGH*

2.22.10

Dear Blogger,

Why the dark and dismal picture today? I don't know. I didn't take one step out of my home today so I didn't see a need for making myself presentable...that was before I knew we had people coming over.

Corey and his family came over today! His mom wanted to take some of my mom's old homeschoolery books and cut Emily's hair. So me Corey and Brody hung out...kind of awkward, I'm bad at entertaining guys if I'm not that close with them.

I then just sat around all day. It's really bad...I need to work on my research paper...it's due Wednesday. And I haven't even started writing it yet. I think if I just start writing about what I have so far, it'll go on from there...I'm just....not motivated at all.

Dad comes home tomorrow!! He's been gone for 2 months to China!

I had quite the interesting conversation with a certain Brian Jennings Carver...(Alex)...for...*checks phone* 77minutes and 1 second. Ha. Pandas. He's pretty sure the restaurant he works at might hire me! O_O That would make my 2010. That's the ticket. He's probably reading this in the near future...if you are Alex I just have to say...yes. You are a creeper.

I'm really tired...I stayed up till 2am last night working on a fanpage profile picture for AwkwardMandy...AH. I still don't like it.

These chapters seem kind of boring...

Thumb is bleeding, Mandy

P.S. I wrote a song today.

P.P.S. I ate some chocolate jimmies (:

2.21.10

Dear Blogger,

So I really don't like this picture of the day, however I'm not taking a new one because right after this picture I got annoyed and lopped off some of my hair. We won't go into that.

Church was today! I'm usually working in Kids Klub during Sunday AM church, which was fun...and a wee bit awkward...Oh! And I had donuts today (: Mmm..vanilla-frosted-strawberry-jelly-filled...

I then took a 40 minute drive to Courtney's where I hung out with Julia, Ashley and her! We made this AwkwardMandy video. Most awkward one yet in my opinion...I stupidly messed up on the video work at one part though...lame.

We went back to church! There was a missionary who preached about the basics, so I had determined before the sermon that I wasn't really going to pay attention. It's funny how God uses these sermons to get to me. I realized I had been going against something I was sure I wasn't going to do anymore...well maybe not totally sure. I didn't want to fret the small stuff anymore. That's what I was doing, worrying about petty arguments, stressing about confused relationships. Instead I need to be just...glorifying God in everything I do and showing other people the greatest thought that ever crossed God's mind. To save me and you.

Sick from eating four poptarts today, Mandy

P.S. I miss Andy Golden, he needs to get on Skype more often and stop working like a bum. d:

2.20.10

Dear Blogger,

I cannot believe it's the 20th of February already...great scott!

So I pretty much was at church all day babysitting with some other teens for 8 hours. 9am-2:30pm then we took a break and I went to Corey's house...where I sat in his room and watched him lose at modern warfare...d: and then came back from 5:30-7:30 for some more jolly fun.

That was my day.

In short.

Haha...T.J. said today...(whilst talking on a fake phone) "Hello? Oh hi mom. I actually have to make another call. Iight. Iight. *click*" Hahaha I love little kids.

Random Fact of The Day: 6 pieces of pizza + 3 ice cream cone cupcakes + an apple + a bunch of dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets = *gag*

Hittin the hay, Mandy

P.S. I'm about to have a phone conversation I really do NOT want to have.....slfkddsl

P.P.S I think these "P.S's" are becoming a new thing for me.

2.19.10

Dear Blogger,

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Frustratingly, Mandy

2.18.10

Dear Blogger,

So our tin foil went missing yesterday. I was in desperate need when I made a pita bread sandwich and had nothing to store it in but silly plastic wrap. Everyone knows plastic wrap is silly. Tin foil is so much cooler. Alas, the shiny material was no need to be found. This dramatic exposé plagued our family and interrogations were held accordingly, yielding no result.

Needless to say, I found it today. Turns out my mother was the culprit. The one who was interrogating us, turned out to be the mastermind herself. Crazy world we live in these days kids.

I don't have much to say today besides the fact it was stressful! Work was stressful actually...but luckily God gave me some release to show me His masterful work when I fed the outside horses. As I was driving the gator (and TOTALLY keeping my eyes on the road...) God just let me get lost in His array of stars, the trees danced and the moon made the snow glisten. I'm glad for evenings like these.

After work my boss very kindly drove me to KelLee's, full of laughs, I really needed those today. I also found that I'm a Guinea Pig whisperer. In my mind anyway...d:

Kind of worried, Mandy

P.S. WHY IS MY CONSCIENCE SO STRONG.

2.17.10

Dear Blogger,

Today was just one of those days...I'm generally a happy person, and honestly...I'm still happy, I'm still smiling (: Jesus has given me such strength...and that's one of those things I never cease praying for.

It started off with driving around all day, picking up applications for jobs...which is getting immensely frustrating. I really do need a job. I went to violin, which thankfully we didn't play the piece I was supposed to be practicing. (phew) And the traffic was horrible, especially trying to get out of Sal Val...people need to learn how to use their blinkers.

I went to door-to-door after that and (Thank you Jesus!) I was with Brienna. Some people in my youth group...are so hard to deal with. And I love them, I really do, and sometimes I really hate that I'm so quick to snap at them...it's hard. But I just have to remember Jesus did something 93904839402394 times harder than that for us. And that's what keeps me going.

Unfortunately, no one wanted to hear about Jesus. But as long as we keep at it and spreading His word hopefully we'll plant some type of seed.

Irks of Today:

• My little sister can pull on my last wire. She is a blamer, and everything is NEVER her fault. And even if it never was, she makes sure you're aware of that. I love her, very much. But sometimes I want to throw her into a pile of yellow snow. I accidentally deleted everything off of our video camera. I apologized, I couldn't do anything about it. She then continued to scream at me, blame me for ruining our memories, and then ordering me to never use the video camera again. I'm sorry I'm not perfect like you little sister.

• I got a headache from all the stress of today. It's still here reminding me of my impatience.

• A certain somebody wanted me to do a favor for them today that required a lot of emotional battle. I couldn't handle that, after everything I had been through with this person just to take all of that back...the reality of it was overpowering and I couldn't believe he was even asking me to do so...? Either way, I said no. In a nutshell, he told me I was an extremely unkind and uncompassionate person who wasn't close to Jesus. I was aghast at the accusation but it made me question if I am so? I'm sure if I am that wrong with God He would let me know. Is this the persecution Paul talked about? If it's for my benefit, or if it's not, either way I thank you God for it.

• My mom got extremely sick with a migraine again. I hate that she get's sick. I loathe it. I want to do evil things to it. Alas, I cannot. I can just pray it goes away forever. So she drove to church to pick us up, and I drove home in the snow...first time for that.

So...that was my day. I'm sorry if you didn't care to read it...but obviously if you did you do care to hear about my book! Woohoo. ಠ_ಠ <--ha.

Dauntingly, Mandy

P.S. I love the beautiful and most encouraging Molly Madeira

P.P.S. This certain boy makes me want to give up sometimes. But I won't (:

P.P.P.S I don't know how unbelievers do it.

2.16.10

Dear Blogger,

Howdy. I'm...kind of tired right now. I got up, did school (the usual..) and then sat around. Yup, I had nothing to do. I tried entertaining myself with talking to people but that got old...no offence to anyone I conversed with of course.

So I fiddled with the piano for quite a while...and SHOOT...I just remembered I haven't practiced my violin in 2 weeks...and my lesson is tomorrow. -_-

Anyway, I went to work at 3 and rushed around and actually got everything done in 2.5 hours. Woohoo! I made it back home in time to jump in the shower, eat some dinner, and scoot off to bible study!

Bible study was a lot of fun, and Julio came! Wow really that cool dude? Yup. Twas fun. I'm always like 10x more laughy around those people and I don't know why! The world is more humorous with them around I suppose *grin*

Short and sweet, Mandy

P.S. We played ninja today, Emily smacked Phil in the face....*LAUGH*

P.P.S Yes, that is the most awesome, cool, most amazing pen in the world. A lizard and his head...that lights up. Jealous much? Thought so.

2.15.10

Dear Blogger,

You may ask, why is there a shoe on my head?

I shall answer, WHY ISN'T THERE A SHOE ON YOUR HEAD?!?! If there isn't, you should go put one on your head right now. That's where a shoe belongs.

So today I did school. *GASP* But Amanda! Today was Presidents day! Why would you do school on a day commemorating dead leaders?! Because children, I am behind. Yes, yes...I know. Terrible. I needed to finish a math test. Which I didn't do to hot on.

Then I went roller skating! Which was kind of sort of awkward...it was fun...but awkward...and there weren't a lot of people there. All in all my feelings on it were....meh.

So today I found Aramanth - Nightwish sheet music. :D And have been playing it non stop. Also, I'm trying to memorize a classical piece...it's not going very well...I wish I was a better memorizer :/

Oh my word Amanda did you make another AwkwardMandy video!?? Well thanks for asking, yes I did actually. It's the stupidest one yet. Enjoy.

By the way...don't you hate that feeling of like...anxiety when you're waiting for something? It can be thrilling, but it also can be so...frustrating! That's how I feel right now. So what did I do to combat that? I drew! (Why am I talking to myself in this blog?! I don't know!) Yeah...it was fun, I haven't sat down and drawn in a while, therefore I did. And I must say I'm a horrible artist. I'm not kidding, everything is crazy and weird.

Also, I journaled. This can prove to me quite the task, especially considering I have 3 journals and this blog. My life seems to be updated in so many ways, it's a wonder anyone actually reads this!

Random Fact of The Day: I watch the bachelor. Like every season...ALWAYS. And Joshfa watches it too :D That makes me happy. Stay proud Joshfa.

Most impatiently, Mandy

2.14.10

Dear Blogger,

I'm mad at blogger right now.

Livid.

So this might be shorter than I thought it would be.

Besides the fact I'm skyping with Julio...and skyping always distractsss meee...

We took my mom out to Olive Garden today for valentines day! It was quite enjoyable (:

Church was good!

And I'm way to distracted to write this!

In short, God is amazing. And he provides money for me (:

Confused, Mandy

P.S. I got like the biggest compliment of my life today. And some interesting speculation. *raises eyebrow*

2.13.10

Dear Blogger,

I was having a good day today,and I had to photograph it at its best angle before trashing it in the snow. Which is why I'm doing the profile look here...heh.

Howdy! Today was a pretty good day overall (: I don't have a splitting headache this time, just a little one, so write I shall!

KelLee was supposed to come over for piano lessons today, but she bailed to go to NJ! Whoa! Random, yes, I know.

So I waited around for a while and then headed to Drew's. We were supposed to have about 5 girls and 5 guys there to play around in the snow. And this would happen to me. I was the only girl. Which actually, I really don't mind. Guys are usually a lot more fun to hang out with. No drama. And most of the time they don't need to be entertained 24/7. It's chill. We built a bobsled run, fail, and then once Ben arrived we started digging holes to make an intricate tunnels system. Of course this only lasted about an hour and a half of attaching all our tunnels before we gave up and went inside for some warm oatmeal. Mmm. Julio then arrived and we watched a movie called Fido. I honestly will never be able to get this movie out of my mind. It was so.....horribly....awful....yeah. Weirdest zombie movie I have ever seen. Well...only zombie movie I've ever seen...either way, I got a strange impression for zombie movies! "Old people can't be trusted..." <--just a little line of the weirdness... We ended up going back outside and having some crazy snow muffin battles and then tried to do crazy stunts off the trampoline into the snow. So, I'm pretty amazing at doing backflips into the snow....psych....

Alright so before I left I ran inside and me Julio and Dillon grabbed a quick group shot haha.

Julio and I look like we're 5 but hey! Dillon looks like he's old (;

Over all, fun day (:

Creatively, Mandy

P.S. I hung all my pictures from photography camp around my door today...I could spend

forever in a Darkroom...I miss it.

2.12.10

Dear Blogger,

That picture doesn't even look like me! I look Asian! And fat! What is this!?

I'm going to wrap this up in a nutshell because I have a super horrible headache and I want to go to bed.

1. Volleyball! - Stressful, chaotic...kind of fun.

2. Drama! - NEVER FUN

3. Bridget's! - We made an awesome video that I will let you know of...for AwkwardMandy!

4. BONKO! - Quite fun!

5. HOME.

6. BED.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Mandy

PS VIDEO!

2.11.10

Dear Blogger,

I feel like I just wrote in this yesterday!! Oh wait...

Some days I really don't feel like developing my life into this book, but I know if I don't I will look back with such regret, because time is one thing you can't get back.

I went horseback riding in the snow today with KelLee! I really didn't think I was going to get anywhere today because of the snow, but I realized...it's not too bad outside! So I texted KelLee and headed over to her house (after shoveling ourselves out of our driveway...)

We trudged through the snow, Risky (the horse I was riding) started bunny hopping and almost spilling me into the street! We headed for the trails. Alright now let me give you the low down here...I'm riding a full grown horse bareback. My feet are dragging in the snow! It was insane...the snow was crazy high. Risky then started spazzing out and I almost fell off (which would have been quite the relaxing fall, I might add...quite fluffy.) but I held on and then he kicked KelLee's horse! I think someone spiked his water trough.

We came back to the house where we then videoed with Myles until 2:45pm which is when I hopped off to work! Where I sat in the freezing cold for like a half hour. Brr. I was so hungry.

Momentously, Mandy

P.S. Check out Myle's youtube channel, I'm in today's video :D

2.10.10

Dear Blogger,

This is the face of a girl not yet introduced to the horrors of shoveling 3 ft worth of snow. I would show you an after shot, but she is lying dead on the floor.

So while everyone else is out of school....you were expecting me to say I STILL had to do school. Well, you're wrong! My planner didn't have anything scheduled on it :D So I was a bum throughout most of the day until...

.SHOVELING.

It was most definitely ridiculous out there!

I bundled myself up, layer after layer, trying so hard to not sweat while indoors. I grabbed the nearest shovel, and slowly opened the door. It felt like a wave of ice had been splashed up on my face. The torrential winds tore across the naked, white plain of a backyard that faced me. I shrugged up into my jacket, and tried to zipper it all the way up, it wasn't working. I had foolishly let my hair stay outside of hat and it was soon covered in ice. I crossed the Hoth like, frozen, exterior. My cheeks burned from being lashed at by the ever foreboding wind. I shoveled around the cars and sidewalk...only for another avalanche to cave in and cover the area again. Oh do I loathe snow when I have to shovel it...

Anyway! It was terrible.

The rest of the day was spent making a new youtube channel! I finally found something I'm good at HA. And this guy get's all the credit for helping me make the background! Oh wait, this one get's credit to because he made the template (: Boy do I love links!

Let me know what you think of the video and comment :D

Quirkingly, Mandy

P.S. It's kind of funny how easily we let down our guard and let people make us feel inferior or unimportant.

Fact of the Day: I enjoy going on online chat rooms (like Uno on facebook) just to talk to people and say things like "oh shucks" "hee haw" "poo" "fiddlesticks".

2.9.10

Dear Blogger,

Day number 40! How fantasmical!

How are you on this blustery day? Feeling blue? Maybe a little sick of snow? I sure am! After working at the barn today I just had to shovel and shovel...to NO AVAIL. Really, it was falling faster than we could shovel. My brother Jacob got a hernia from shoveling! It's death to us all!

On a less dramatic scale...today was a good day I suppose. Woke up early, had some amazing Jesus time (: Got school done and watched some Bachelor. I then tried to shovel a little bit before tonights snow came...I gave up soooo fast ha! Then it was off to work for me after watching some kid shows for my imagination to grow. (Or die..?)

I helped clean all the stalls, make dinner and bring in the horses and then my boss had to hurry and drive me home! The snow was falling so fast that even though I cleaned her car off 3 times it still looked the same by the time we left! It's like trying to cut grass with scissors..impossible.

I came home and helped mom make waffles with strawberries, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream on top (: Mmmmm....and then I had some white hot chocolate with whip cream. So good. Now let's just pray the power doesn't cut out.

So very cozy, Mandy

P.S. I made a snow angel in the road today...

P.P.S. I really think I'm a texting creeper. I need to stop with the tenacious texting of people I like talking to. I apologize if you have been a victim of this horrid condition.

2.8.10

Dear Blogger,

This is what my phone looks like because I fell while skating. -_- ASLDFJKsdkfjsdkfl. I can't stand to look at it, I just want to be done with this post so I can stop looking at it. Bleh. Ick. Mutated phone.

Alright so today I did almost absolutely nothing. Key word = ALMOST. I did some schooly school and then went up the street with my mom so she wouldn't get kidnapped by the guy who is estimating...yeah I won't explain.

After that unexplanatory thing I came back down and headed to Corey's house where Emily, Mom, and I took care of all his animals! Quite fun actually. Haha their cat Betty is so funny...

Nothing else much happened....I made a video... fail ...with Emily...it was horrible. But it's on facebook, because I'm not afraid to exploit my life.

I vacuumed today.

I think it was the most productive thing I did all day...nO WAIT! I made a little color-coded calendar of what I have to do with my English Research Paper this year. How's THAT for productive???? Yeah...didn't think so...

Bored to tears, Mandy

2.7.10

Blogger,

Why hello! So this chapter was such a FUN chapter to read. Seriously, oh my word...it was fun (:

A LIL INISIDE JOSHING-

• Rif Raf!
• Umbilical cord of Lovveee
• Vitamin J-unie and J-ulio

So tonight was just pretty crazy. As you can see above...

Well today church was canceled! ): So I went roller skating for Junie's birthday! Happy birthday Junie! He's 15 now, pretty cool kid. So, after a fun and jolly time skating we headed to KelLee's house and jammed for a bit, had a nice quiet conversation with KelLee and the guinea pigs (freaky guinea's...) And they always have pie when I'm over there! It's crazy, and the apple pie was gooooood.

We then headed to a superbowl party where Julio, KelLee, Junie and I pretty much played some really bad poker and were extremely tired and hyper...some craziness there. Then...(warning: bunny trail...)wow sorry if I'm so spaced out writing this...I'm in shock...I just found out a friend of mine is getting married O_O Crazy. Anyway!....So we then went downstairs and watched some of the superbowl (mostly commercials..:P ) And pretty much Junie and Julio were attached by an umbilical cord of love all night...and went to the bathroom attached.....it was so funny.

Smoothies were involved! Which made everything amazing.

Either way, it was awesome.

God, thanks for the awesome day (:

Rif raf, Mandy

P.S. I fell on my phone today and the front screen is cracked ): ah.

Me and Chris!! we're so white.

2.6.10

Dear Blogger,

This movie explains my day.

Singing about los pantalones and looking like a dead duck, Mandy

2.5.10

Dear Blogger,

Gearing up for snow! So apparently we're going to get about 15 inches starting now until...tomorrow! Possibly even Sunday as well. So I'm going to start of this chapter with a warning that there may be a chance I won't be able to post anything tomorrow...oh heavens why?! I'm glad you asked, let me explain.

My boss (at the poo job) was going to stay overnight at the barns clubhouse (used to be party central...) so that way she wouldn't have to try to drive to feed the horses in the morning. I suggested me and my friend KelLee stay with her (there are two bedrooms...I don't mind sharing with KelLee :P ) overnight to help her in the morning. However, if the snow continues tomorrow and is still not cleared up, I might be staying there until Sunday! O_O Crazy huh? Therefore, I shall be without internet for the rest of the day, and will be roughin it at the barn :D So I packed a lunch, lots of warm clothes, and after dinner at Brannigan's tonight I'm off to the glorious winter wonderland in the woods.

Back to business, so today was quite fun. I spent almost all morning on math. It seems no matter how hard I apply myself I can't seem to get good grades with my algebra 2. It's horridly frustrating. I did a few other subjects and then remembered, oh no! We're going to the mall and then the Innes today! So i scampered out of my PJ's into some regular clothes and straightened my hair (which is why the picture is facing the way it is...) I drove off the JCPenny's and walked around the mall, observing people, and oh I had the greatest experience!

DETOUR: So, we were out and about around lunch time and mom had told us to eat before we left...but I wasn't hungry then! I bought Subway. But it was all worth the $4.01 (he let me drop the second penny..it was supposed to be $4.02! How kind!) because I gave the man a tract about Jesus after I paid. He just sat there and stared at it with a smile, I knew he didn't know English very well, but his friend leaned over. And soon the line for making subs was stopped because the employee's were so engrossed with this pamphlet! I smiled and asked him to read it for me sometime and he smiled back and continued reading it over with his friend. As I walked away I looked back and he was smiling and waving at me. Either way, I'm staying positive and hoping the best. All I can do is pray for the guy! :RUOTED

Today I went through my facebook inbox. I had over...200 messages in there that I hadn't gone through before. Yeah, I'm really bad about deleting things. So I finally brought myself to it. There were a MILLION messages from my old boyfriend that I was reading through...each one. I didn't think it would effect me, but it did in a way I wasn't expecting. I was suddenly really angry at myself, why did I let myself get so emotionally involved with anything that young? I was naive, and I still am, just a lot more so then. Either way, I am never letting myself and my emotions go so far again. Not until I know that is my husband.

Anyway...so we went to the Innes, but I knew Caleb and Jeremy weren't home that day. So Emily and I walked to the Carvers and hung out with Austin and Asher. We roamed the woods and found random things...all the pictures are up on facebook if you want to see them (;

Now I'm packing, making food, you know... preparations for the weekend!

Today was a good day :D

So far....

Sad that my power cord was just taken away from me for my sister, Mandy

2.4.10

Dear Blogger,

So I waited until RIGHT before I go to bed to take my picture of the day...bad idea...I just kind of let my hair go, and voila. I look like an 80's music video! So i tucked it away fast before the picture...otherwise you'd be staring at a lion.

Enough about me. So today was quite the adventure! I woke up, did everything but math and headed out to our eye appointments! See how tightly knit my glasses are to my facial area? Yup. Adjusted! Plus I got good news! I don't need bifocals...YET. -_-

After being at Lenscrafters for nearly an hour and a half, Emily stealing my wallet and watching me freak out in Giant only to reveal it to me next to the nail polishes, she's a devious one. I saw this kid in Giant texting today, and before I could yell at him for texting while he was working, he put it away...danged whipper snappers.

So I traveled all the way to the pike because we were trying to find a certain pizza restaurant...unfortunately there was a little note on the door that said "Be back at 2pm" I sighed, not only was I not getting pizza...but it was 2:16pm. I suggested filing a missing persons report for the heck of it but instead of worrying over our lost pizzeria man we walked to Ross. I searched high and low for a hamper for my room, to no avail. We didn't have much time so we scooted out of there, and with the pizza man still not back from his travels we high-tailed it to Panera. We enjoyed some delicious meals and then mom and I ran (yes, we actually ran) to Target where I searched for a laundry basket there again. I wandered the halls, and after no luck with the basket I tried for a makeup bag (which I'm in desperate need of...mine is being held together with tape...I got it at a yard sale for 25 cents about 4 years ago...) We ran (yes, ran) back out of target to the car and took off down the road! I drove confidently for once, I could feel the blood of an aggressive driver pumping through my veins. I asked mom if I should tailgate...she said "not yet honey..." I am reassured that there is a day, one sweet day when I will get up on someone else's car, beep the horn, throw my fist........and then apologize profusely of course. Like I said, shenanigans is not my thing! I arrived at the barn before my boss, and 2 minutes late (score!). That's when an amazing surprise walked in! KelLee!! It made me so happy to have someone to talk to during work. We cleaned a bunch of sheds and did stall dances...well, I did stall dances, I finally got KelLee and Josh to join me (: If horses could talk...they would know way too much.

Well, I got home said hi to lil TJ and finished reviewing my whole math chapter + took the quiz. *cross fingers*

Today was a good day (:

My mind has been wandering lately......I really need to focus it more on what's important.

Absent-mindedly, Mandy

P.S. So when I pulled into one of the many parking lots today, I was going a little too fast into a parking spot and (I'm driving a station wagon mind you...it's HUGE) mom shouts "STOP!" right as I stop the car that I thought I hit jerks forward. My life flashed before my eyes. I finally realized that the woman had just slammed her door the same moment I braked...I was only....about an inch from her car...I need to watch my parking.................

2.3.10

Dear Blogger,

This picture is extremely bright just because I straightened my hair = sitting on the floor in front of my mirror/window watching hulu. Want to know something funny? My hair style changes like...23048 times a day. Like all the time, crazy.

So today! Yes, let's proceed with telling the events of today. I did like one subject of school and stopped. I had two more to do and....I never got to them. Nope, saving them for another day, I'm a horrible procrastinator.

I went to violin and had a decent practice, then I drove off with mom to the Innes house! Turns out Caleb was sick so mom was just going in fast. I sat down at the bottom of the steps and Caleb was at the top, and Jeremy was in the hallway and we discussed the horribleness of snow and what's going on with our volleyball team...*sigh*

After that we headed off to Barnes and Noble and I bought the soundtrack to (500) Days of Summer like MY FAVORITE MOVIE EVER. And the soundtrack is amazing. It made my day because I thought I only had $15 on my gift card but turns out! I have $11 after buying it!!! YAY!

Then I walked over to Panera bread and talked to the manager...who completely told me that it was a no. *sigh* So I stopped into the restaurant I had applied at left a note there too! "(my number) Amanda S -I'm homeschooled! (; -" So hopefully they'll call back...

I headed back home to try to do school but just ended up talking to someone on skype *COUGH* ANDY *COUGH* the whole time and folding laundry, what jolly fun!

I had lunch with my mom at Arby's today by the way...I love my mommy (: She's a good one she is. Honestly, I take her for granted way to much, really. I do. Hey, I have a challenge for all you readers of this book out there, and I'll do it too. Do something special for your mom every day, just little somethings or big somethings if you want to do something extra special, try it out...you'll make her day (:

So after church today I realized I pretty much haven't been sticking to my commitments of getting up early and spending my mornings with my Creator. So I'm doing that from now on, with my Creator every morning. Help me stick to it :/ I want to be translucent. I want people to see straight through me, all of my so-called achievements and talents, I want them to all fade away and point to Him.

If only my flesh would let me...

Just a wee big distraught, Mandy

P.S. FAIL OF THE DAY.

2.2.10

Dear Blogger,

So...hi.

Tonight is bachelor night where I catch up on the bachelor (yesterday's episode) on hulu. However, I'm really tired and I think I'm going to skip part 2 and watch that tomorrow d:

Today was less of a bum day. I got up and did a boatload of school, then mom made some grilled cheese pizzas...so good :D

I went to work and got it all done in 2.5 hours. WOOHOO. Well, this means I get paid less...however, I made it to bible study on time! Which was a lot of fun, I really enjoy bible study, I learn a lot and it's good fellowship with teens who actually care about God and following Him (: We're trying to come up with something we can collaborate on and do as a group, like a missionary project...but no one can think of anything. We're praying about it, but your comments could help too (;

So I pretty much had a few fail sayings in bible study tonight...like "sexual revolution! oh wait...i meant..purity rebelution...." and "Serena Gomez!...i mean...Selena?" yeah. it was bad.

It's kind of funny, we let every day pass and we don't think much about it, we look forward to big things like parties and dates but we just let the little moments flash by. I don't want my life to be like that, a lot of times throughout the day I will think "I wish I could remember this moment forever..." but in 5 minutes it's gone. So fast. I need to start writing this stuff down.

Like a vapor, Mandy

2.1.10

Dear Blogger....

So that's what I did today^ along with another song that I'm NOT putting up on here because it turned out worse than this one!

Today was such a bum day. After completely school and stepping in eggs..ew....I went downstairs and watched iCarly and some other Nickelodeon shows! They make me feel like a kid, because I mostly never feel like one anyway, all of its wastefulness gives me a smile so I guess it's not wasted at all (:

I pretty much spent all my time today on youtube...I wanted to make a video all day today, but I really have no one to make one with...kind of sad. I need to go out and buy a bunch of mannequins...I'll have a whole cast!

.....just kidding.....although that would be really funny.

So this chapter is just a big fat....blah.

Oh and by the way...I'm really excited, because I might be possibly be going to Pensecola Christian College for college days!! And guess who I might be going with? Golden boys!!!

I'm excited :D

MKayyyy, BYE (:

Mandy