Cam

yesterday I went shopping with my mom. We got cheese and olive pizza and soft serve twist ice cream (my favorite!!!). I found a green shirt that I had been looking for; I also got a cool camera case and some rechargable batteries... the only problem is that I can't find the battery recharger.

I finally got a photobucket account! Photobucket is so helpful! My brother almost killed my camera today! Three times in about 20 minutes! He squirted his water gun at it... He can be really slow.

Well, my camera survived, and I took a bunch of pictures of flowers. Flowers are so pretty and easy to snap! I think I'll post my favorites on here tomorrow.

here's a sweet video of my bunny, jeff!

photography

I took all these this morning with my new camera. I guess they're pretty good for me... I'm normally a pretty bad photographer and my photos turn out blurry... Flowers are the easieist subject, even though videos of my bunny were funny! I should post a few if I can figure out how to.
Well I'm going outside to look for some four-leaf clovers. Then I'm going to bartar my mom into letting me have ice cream.

batterries

no wonder my camera wasn't turning on! The batteries were in backwards! I'm totally hopeless with batteries!!! Well I'm going to shoot some videos now...

P.S. my big sister left this morning to fly to Minnesota; she's visiting her friends for almost 3 weeks over there. Just please pray for her, that she'll have a safe trip (and safe stay!)!

first photos

Woohoo! I finally figured out how to upload a photograph when the connection's slow... W-A-I-T.





Well here's a picture that I took of my baby snapper, Tilda, aka Terrie. (When there's more than one girl in the family, the pets usually have more than one name)...Hey, it's the ultimate standard of adventure in our home! Thumb-sucking and watching movies...


Where do you think I learned how to talk on the phone?

computer

aaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggh!!!!!!!! How long does it take to upload a simple little photo on blogger? About half an hour! I need a new computer! With wireless internet so I can borrow the neighbor's connection instead of putting of with this hopeless thing!!!

That's right, my next electronic goal is a laptop of my own!

oranda

This is the kind of fish I want to get sometime this summer. I don't know what I'd call her though.

digital camera

I bought a digital camera the day b4 yesterday! I love it, it's really sensational! It's a sony cybershot... it was $128, I guess that's a pretty good price for it. Besides pictures, of course, it takes videos with audio... I'll try to post them, but the pictures and photos I recently uploaded to my computer seem to have vaporized!!!

turtle

I got a baby snapping turtle. She doesn't bite. Her name is Tilda. I'm afraid I might only be able to keep her for a week.



Well I had a great time yesterday. I had a friend over for a sleepover yesterday. We played scrabble and ZT, ate tacos, walked a mile, played frisbee, and a bunch of other stuff.

randomly green

keep rude children off fun rides

tribute to bella

My goldfish died today. Her name was Isabella. I had her for almost two years. She was a good fish, the cause of her death: a horrid filter. It sucked her up and shredded her poor little fins. She was an orange fantail. We flushed her down the toilet several hours ago. I will be aquiring an oranda goldfish sometime in the near future to replace her.

My friend Korah stayed the night, and she's still here. We're having an awesome time, more on that later. Oh by the way I now have a pet snapping turtle, of all things!!!

Well I have to go, toodaloo.

hambre

Tengo hambre muy mucha! quiero a como ahora mismo! Mi estomago dolores!

Necesito alquien a cuidar mi conejo cuando soy asente en vacacion, fechas el cinco de Julio a el once de Julio.

Soy enfandado y triste porque nosotros no puedo vamanos a la pueblo en Sabado. Es todos porque de algunos malo muchachos!!!

Mi hermana es malo tambien! UUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Boredom

I live in the kingdom of boredom. Where do you live?

con

A brief conversation between me and my sister, held just minutes ago, starting with me.

"I'm going to be so bored this summer!"

"Well at least you didn't vomit..."

"What?! Did you?"

"Yeah."

"Why? Did you eat too much?"

"No, I had too much gum."

"Oh."

"Want some?"

"No thank you!"

Okay I'm a freak... (didn't you know that all along?)

Excursion

Our family is planning on going on an excursion beginning on Friday, July 13. We started out thinking we'd be renting a house at the Virginia Beach for 3 days, but now we are planning on going camping the whole time and getting a 7-day pass to Busch Gardens. I was really looking forward to going to both of those places, but now it seems we are just going to Busch Gardens and probably not the beach. I hope we have fun! But our family has never had a perfect vacation, and probably never will. Come to think of it, I've never had a perfect week, or even a perfect day. Not even a completely perfect hour! I guess nothing's perfect. Even just the sleeping situation. Even if I have an ait mattress, it will most likely pop. I'm a very light sleeper, and if my dad doesn't snore real loudly (we all have to share a tent), his sleep machine thing will buzz all through the night. Oh well, things could be worse. If my mom saw this, she'd probably yell at me and tell me to be optimistic and be glad we're even going on a vacation, no matter how imperfect it may be. So I guess I should.

Busch Gardens is a really neat place. It's a theme park. I went to the one in Miami when I was 5. I've heard it's nicer since Florida tends to attract more tourists and they get more buisness, but I don't remember it much. Supposedly the Williamsport location has a waterpark, amusement park, and shows. Most of the amusement rides are roller coasters. I don't mind that cuz I love roller coasters! I hope they have bumper cars and bumper boats too. I remember the Miami one had alligators and lions and things like that, but I'm pretty sure the Williamsport one doesn't have those; it has horses and birds instead. I guess it will be better than crumby old alligators if I get to ride the horses, even if it is just a pony ride. Imagine trying to ride an alligator! I don't even want to think about it...

How do you like my new profile image? I thought it was kind of funny; maybe I should actually get a picture of myself sometime soon though!

I'm almost done with eighth grade, finally! tomorrow's the last day, and there's just one assignment left to do, my science final.

Well that's all for now.

random mandyme

I finished reading one of the two books I bought.
Today I petted a cool live turtle.
I just folded collectively 4 loads of laundry.
My BMI is 18.
I finally have $500, but not for long.
I have only one final left in school.
I currently own 22 skirts and 33 shirts.
My favorite mountain is El Morado. You'll have to guess why!

Anillo de fuego

how cute

Aren't they funny? I know it's a fabric or something, but they caught my eye and whatever! I do love frogs, especially cute ones!

Quiggles

Here is a cute little sparkly guy that belongs to mi amiga Korah. I've nicknamed him Quiggles! Isn't he so adorable?!

koko

Here's a picture of Koko the gorilla playing with her pet kitten, which she called Lipstick, of all names!!! Well, she also called her pet bluejay "Tongue"! Koko was a really cool gorilla; she learned a lot of sign language and lived in a trailer and was even being taught how to read and use a computer and draw scribbly pictures. She also had several pets, including her cats. There was a really funny story behind how she got her first cat. She signed to her trainer, Penny Patterson, that she wanted a cat for Christmas. So Penny got her a toy cat. Koko didn't seem to like the cat at all and she threw it around and tried tearing it apart. She was depressed and sulky for a few days, and then she told Penny that she wanted a real cat! She ended up getting a kitten that she called Smokey, but it got hit by a car, so she got Lipstick, the kitten in the photo.

cute animals

como dulce!

Hey this one reminds me of the movie Wild. lol!!!

BMA & ABC

Hey I was over at the ABC (Adventist book center) earlier. It's at the BMA campus, the local adventist academy. I was hanging out with my friend Korah; she goes to BMA and works there in the summer so she had just gotten out of work and was there. She helped me pick out two books to buy; one is entitled Mandy the Outsider, and the other is entitled The Music Box. I haven't started reading either of them quite yet but I think they'll be interesting! :D They were a really good deal too just $5 apiece. And they were virtually free because I had been given a $15 gift certificate for the place a while back. I had $5 left so I bought us a little treat cuz it was warm out, 2 mint chocolate chip ice cream bars for Korah, and two strawberry popsicles for myself, and one for my little sister Lanaya, who we were toting around.

Then Korah and I eventually headed to the dorm where we saw her friend Cynthia, who was cleaning up and stuff. I'd met her before, and she's really nice. It actually happened to be her birthday! So we were hanging out with her for a while, and had a lot of fun. We were walking around hiding from each other in the cupboards, etc. Lanaya did some really funny things and said some really funny things! At first she thought Cynthia was Korah's sister, then she thought she was her cousin! Then Lanaya forgot how old she was, or didn't know in the first place, and tried to hide her embarrassment by acting beserk and saying the most random funny things! I think she got a little too much sugar! Fortunately Cynthia didn't have an almost-four-year-old sister of her own who still baby-talked, so she thought Lanaya was speaking in another language when she said most of the stuff.

BMA is a really cool school. I want to go there starting probably my junior year, maybe even my sophomore, if our family can scrape up enough money.

Tree frogs are so cute!!! (btp)

bunnies

Bunnies are so cute when they eat...

...and when they hop...

...and when they sniff and wiggle their fuzzy little noses...

...and when they dance!

Well maybe not that last one...

jh graduate!!!

I'm almost done with junior high/middle school/eigth grade! Just three more days, and I'll officially be a freshman, only 4 more years of school to go! I already got one graduation card and gift! I'm so excited!!!

All about me!!!

• Lace or Ribbon? Ribbon
• Mountain or Beach? Beach
• Reading or Writing? Reading
• Cookie or Cake? Cake
• Baked or Mashed Potato? Mashed
• Side or Back? Side
• Shrimp or Steak? Neither (I'm a vegetarian) but if there was a vegetarian fake shrimp and vegetarian fake steak, I'd take the steak!
• Scrambled or Fried? Fried
• Orange or Apple? Apple
• Spring or Fall? Spring! Everything's so fresh and new and not too warm and not too cold, and you're almost out of school!
• Roller Skating or Bowling? Bowling; I don't even know how to roller skate!
• DVD or Theater movies? DVD, I haven't been to the theater since I was 4 or so.
• Wood or Glass? Wood
• Blue or Green? I like them both a lot, but blue better
• Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate!
• Quilt or Knit? Quilt, a lot of times knitted things are made of scratchy yarn.
• Early Morning or Late Night? Early mornings! Nights are really gloomy.
• Coffee or Tea? Tea
• Watermelon or Strawberry? Strawberry... rolled in sugar! Watermelon is good ut strawberries are better!
• Lunch or Dinner? Lunch; our family usually has a real nice lunch, but dinner's optional. It's usually something light like bread and water.
• Cold Cereal or Oatmeal? cold cereal
• Song or Dance? Song, I don't know how to dance.
• Carpet or Hardwood Floor? Carpet, it's a lot more comfortable to walk on, plus you don't slip on carpet and hurt yourself.
• Red or Pink? Pink
• Cat or Dog? Dog
• Pretzels or Chips? chips
• Iced Tea or Lemonade? Lemonade
• Non-Fiction or Fiction? Both
• Rose or Daisy? I love most flowers, and I like them both... daisies are bright and bold, and roses are baeutiful and subtle.
• Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset
• Comb or Brush? Brush, I only use a comb when I have to part my hair, and I have a natural part anyway so I don't even use a comb really.
• Pottery or Basket? Basket
• Bracelet or Necklace? Neither; a nice watch is just fine for me!
• Pen or Pencil? Pencil, you can erase it! Pens are unforgiving!
• Couch or Chair? Couch, couches are more comfortable!
• Country or Victorian? Country... I always liked a more easy-going style more than prim and proper
• Farm or Ranch? Farm
• Braid or Ponytail? I like them both, but ponytails better, because they're easy to do. Braids are cool because they look nice as long as they aren't messy and/or falling out, and when you do em when they're wet and then let em out when they're dry, they make waves.
• Cash or Check? Cash... much simpler!
• Chocolate Bar or Jelly Bean? Chocolate Bar!!!
• Coke or Pepsi? Neither, I like root beer though.
• Hot Dog or Cheeseburger? ooooooh that's really tough. I can't really choose between the two! I love big franks and I love vegetarian grillers... hey this is too hard of a question!
• Blinds or Curtains? blinds... they're not as pretty as curtains but they're helpful in town when they don't let the neighbors see through your windows.
• Dress or Pants? pants, although I like skirts just as well. I don't even have a dress, just pants and skirts and shirts.
• Sun or Moon? Moon; you can look at it without going blind!
• Adventure or Comedy? Adventure
• Cloud or Star? Star! They make constant patterns. Clauds are so fickle, they're always changing shape and melting away and everything.
• Lake or River? Lake; you can go swimming in a lake, and there's no current
• Half Full or Half Empty? hey theyre the same aren't they? but I always say Half Full
• Truck or Car? Car
• Bath or Shower? Shower
• Clothesline or Clothes Dryer? Clothes Dryer... it's quicker and the clothes and towels always come off clothes lines stiff
• New or Second Hand? New
• Gum or Lifesaver? Lifesaver
• Email or Handwritten? I like hand written, but e-mail is nice
• July or October? July
• Barefoot or Shoes? barefoot

I copied this from my friend's blog, http://aj-declares.blogspot.com/, who copied it from her mom's blog and filled it in for myself. It originated at Peggy's blog over at Home Made Simplicity She just asked us to point others back to her blog.

Well now you know all about me! Well not quite but this was fun anyway!

my mom

3 things you probably didn't know about my mom (and she might not want anyone to know):

1. Her toenails are painted bright pink.


2. She tried dying her hair dark blond, and it turned out chestnut colored (which in my opinion looks better on her anyway).
   
3. She's 41 years old.
   

Aren't I just so mean? :D

verbosity

Hey I found this security thing (I have to type these annoying things about 10x a day). But this one was special. I forget what you call the things, but it goes like this:

best

friends

help

with

life

Is that kinda weird? I found it could stand for a couple different. things. It's kind of a game I play. Instead of getting mad at those security things, I now try to think of sentences that you can make by starting each word with the letters given, in that order. I guess you'd call it verbosity.

here's a really stupid one:

You

Just

Quit

Helping

Cows

Eat

Ice

Cream

lost foxy

I was having a grand time in the creek by our church, just chillin' out in the water and looking for bugs to feed to my friend's brother's baby robins that he found. I ended up finding two black salamanders (I caught one, but the other got away), a huddle of disgusting big crayfish, a dozen leeches (which, gross, I know, I didn't even touch them, the robins gobbled them up quite fast however!), and some worms. Oh by the way, it would probably have been a lot better if my friend's brother hadn't been along. I don't want to be mean or anything but he annoys the dayligts outa me, and sometime punches the daylights outa me and anyone else he wants. Besides the point.

We'd just gone upstream a ways and I was going to go farther, when I got closer and saw something in the water. It was the carcass of some animal!!!!! At first I thought it was a cat. I don't know, but cat, fox, whatever it was, it was soooo scary and gruesome and creepy. I just screamed and screeched, wouldn't you have??!! Dead animals or dead anthing, especially when they're crawling with maggots, really creep me out and give me nightmares!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am scarred for life!

comments

Will SOMEONE comment already? Please?

SUNSET

AAAAHHH!!! It's almost sunset! Time to panic! I still have a million things to do before Sabbath starts!

food

Ugh! I was ready to sit down and have a nice meal that I would really enjoy. After all, hadn't I been waiting all day for it, eating nothing but some cold cereal and a can of spinach so I'd have plenty of room? Hadn't I been promised big franks or grillers and Popsicles on this sticky old day? Didn't she think it might upset my day and my stomach when she and the rest of my siblings came home with tofu dogs that tasted like they were actually made of dogs, and my cheapskate of a brother's $2 choice of dessert - cotton candy?!!! I mean, I don't absolutely despise either of the stuff, but I was expecting and wanting and needing something better. Maybe I should continue to go by the rule "if you don't want to eat what there is, don't eat anything at all." It's only till lunch tomorrow, and by then they might come up with something decent. Goodness knows I need to lose five or ten pounds anyway. So what should I do in this dilemma, starve myself or eat that junk? I think I choose the former.

update: I actually tried choking down a tofu dog, but then I got up for a second to go get a drink. My cheapskate of a brother decided he'd better get up too for some reason or other as well. When I returned to my chair, there was my brother sitting in my chair, munching away at ... MY HOT DOG!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING...IT WASN'T EVEN FUNNY!!! I LOST HALF MY HOT DOG TO THAT CHEAPSKATE AND DIDN'T WANT TO EAT THE OTHER HALF CUZ IT GOT POISONED WITH COOTIES!!! That's what I get for going against my better judgment...

random

Isn't it so cute? I found out albinism only occurs about once in 10,000! I tried looking for an albino panda... there's only 1800 pandas in the world...

I got a haircut just about an hour ago... my hair grew about 3 or 4 inches since my last one. My hair is now several inches past my shoulders, with wavy layers on the side.

speaking of hair, you may want to check out this link, it's funny, if nothing else:

http://home.att.net/~scorh3/Attitude.html

op art

I drew this a couple days ago, for art class. It was kinda fun. I like the colors green and purple; I think they look good together. This isn't exactly my finest piece, but I thought it was kinda neat. I'm working on a picture of flowerzz... you can see more of my art at

http://awesome-artwork.blogspot.com/

Storm

Last night we had a bad storm. It started with some thunder and lightning and then it started raining like crazy. Pretty soon we had many-mph wind blowing, and hail pelting down. At first it was just little chips of ice, then it got quarter-sized, and some of them were golf ball sized. I wasn't about to go out and pick any up though cuz that would've been silly. I didn't take the above picture, but that's what it looked like outside. And this morning, there were leaves scattered all over the yard.