Mandy

mandy0x — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:14:08 GMT

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mandy0x — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:13:21 GMT

[mood| Confused ]

wtf?

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mandy0x — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:01:39 GMT

[mood| Bouncy ]

why is it that when a guy goes to great lengths to get our attention (following us, begging us to go out with them, staring at us) in a movie, it's "awww"-inducing romantic, but when a guy does that in real life, it's considered stalker-ish? case in point- "The Notebook". i watched it on v-day 'cause it's fun to cry at sappy movies when you're alone. 30 minutes in, i was like, "i'm going to cry at the end no matter how this ends because it's so romantic" (dancing in the middle of the street at nighttime while there's no cars, lying in the street watching the traffic lights change, writing to her every day for a year). i think if a script writer wants to make you cry, having the movie take place in the 1940's during WWII is a prerequisite. but the end was so textbook and saccharine. not one tear. woe.

mandy0x — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:18:06 GMT

[mood| Cold ]

audrey is really getting on my nerves lately. we were walking out of wawa last night and audrey got in the car and sat in the seat that was closest to me. now, i was in such a tremendous amount of pain that i was crying; it was excruciating for me to even walk. so i said to audrey "please don't make me walk over to the other side", and that kid actually said "well, i'm making you" and had this bitchy little smirk on her face. i wanted to slap her so badly when she said that because while walking to the other side of the car i straightened my posture and pinched a nerve or something in my back. my back is still killing me.

woah! charlie killed creepy ethan! the flashback with charlie trying to sell a copy machine to a bunch of execs while in withdrawl from heroine was..interesting. especially the part where he threw up in the copy machine. and they played the driveshaft [charlie's band] song again! why is claire still pregnant? she even says she was due a month ago.
i was really looking forward to going to bed early and getting on a somewhat normal schedule. then a commercial comes on saying that jimmy kimmel will be doing a Lost-centric show tonight. these are the times that i wish i had tivo.

it's nice to be able to see the grass again.

you know what i hate? i hate when i lose my train of thought. you spend the rest of the day trying to remember what it is you're supposed to do. and then when you finally figure it out, it's usually something trivial and completely unworthy of all the painstaking thought you put into figuring it out. but damn, do you feel accomplished.

it's nice to be able to see the grass again.

mandy0x — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 20:49:04 GMT

[mood| Tired ]

somebody's going to die next week!

Lost: Season 1 is due out in late summer! fuck yeah!

i've been such a bitch to everybody lately. sorry.

i watched garden state and half of napoleon dynamite. garden state was cute..pretty predictable though. from the previews i expected it to be better. i just did not get napoleon dynamite..i turned it off and deleted it halfway through. it just sucked. that's an hour of my life i'll never get back.

bowling for soup is on a "G-Rated Disney CD"? damn, what happened?

mandy0x — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:18:56 GMT

[mood| Listless ]

my sound wasn't working on my computer and i still have no idea why. it just..stopped working. i tried every troubleshooting program i could find on the damn thing and everything checked out ok. and then for no reason (at least no reason apparent to me) it started working again.

i got my charlie edition of tv guide! :does an ashlee simpson hoe-down:

i made fun of linds for getting dictionary.com's Word Of The Day, but i decided to try it out and found that it's a word geek's (read: me) dream. i mean, bete noir? my new favorite word. (sorry, splendiferous)

i don't think i wanna be a neurologist anymore. i know this sounds so pathetic, but i want to pursue something that will make my relatives think more of me than just the "sick girl" whose sister is going to be a geneticist. i don't want to be lindsay by any stretch of the imagination, but i'm tired of people asking me if i'm going to go to harvard or get a scholarship like my sister. on the same hand, i want for people ask me about something other than my doctors apointments and hospital stays. i just want to be treated like a normal person. that's why i don't tell people i'm sick unless they ask, because the second they find out something is wrong with you, they treat you differently. i think i wanna pursue something in criminal justice, like criminology. the problem with that is, i'd always feel like i'm not measuring up to my dad's standards. hell, i can't even watch CSI with him because he figures out that it was the pool boy who killed the heiress halfway through the episode. i think criminal justice would be really fun to do, though.

queer as folk= my new addiction

mandy0x — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:20:07 GMT

my throat is on fire. i hate having to whisper. my dad thinks it's funny.

my pretty skirt came. i love it, except for the fact that it's completely see-through.

hal sparks + purple hair = Hot.

me: "they're [giant now and laters] those little things under the checkout counter."
dad: "i don't pay attention to what you get. i just make fun of you."

mandy0x — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:26:14 GMT

:shrieks: they're showing "Ed" in syndication! "ten bucks if you go over to those ladies and do the snake dance." love that show.

Lost was awesome..mercutio didn't bite it. but Walt has some Carrie shit goin on (read: telekinesis); that was cool. that recurring black/white theme came up again with the penguin. clair came back alive, although she looked like she had just come out of a barroom brawl. we have to wait two more damn weeks for a new episode. but it's a Charlie episode, so i'll wait (watching Charlie try to resist the temptation to read Claire's diary was adorable).

mandy0x — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:48:16 GMT

boone and shannon did the FREAKNASTY on Lost! totally saw that coming, but it was still creepy. i'd love to know why sawyer was being detained. and i wanna know what's down in that damn hatch! i'm glad they told us why charlie hasn't had any withdraw symptoms after two weeks without a score. that'll be a good subplot when jack runs out of asprin. speaking of scores, boone was trippin' on LSD or some shit. seeing shannon mutilated beyond recognition by what i think was a gargantuate bat was a little much. turns out it was a figment of boone's hallucinogenic-altered imagination. (that better not be the major cast death they've been teasing us with). next week looks good too..i think mercutio is going to be killed by a polar bear. i can't wait till this show comes out on DVD so i don't have to tape all the episodes..

the greatest song ever written.

mandy0x — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:02:52 GMT

my physical therapist asked me what field i want to go in...i thought about it, and i realized i have considered virtually every field of work and i don't have my mind set on anything. lindsay's had her mind made up since freshman year of high school. her life is set up past college. i, on the other hand, will probably end up being one of those losers who's undecided for the first three years of college and then ends up choosing some completely useless major like philosophy.

i was wearing one my dad's shirts that has the police department's logo on it at PT. the woman sitting next to me asked me if "i [was] on the police force"..matt and i found that rather humorous. i think she's an EMT just by listening to how she described her job.

mandy0x — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 01:05:41 GMT

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY
1. mandy
2. amanda
3. african spider or somethin

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD
1. abercrombiejm17
2. sugarplum2625
3. gcgirl2511

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my eyes
2. my sense of humor
3. my disposition

THREE THINGS YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my work ethic
2. my body
3. my mood swings

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
1. russia
2. finland
3. ireland

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU
1. the st. bernard that lives behind jenna
2. locke
3. sharks

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
1. shower
2. food
3. treadmill

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. tank top
2. hoodie
3. socks

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT
1. mr. brightside
2. the world is black
3. american idiot

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. get into a bikini
2. write a letter
3. get highlights

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given)
1. support
2. humor
3. acceptance

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE. (Don't say which is which)
1. i've never been kissed
2. i love scary movies
3. i don't know what i want to do with my life

THREE *PHYSICAL* THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU
1. eyes
2. height
3. hair

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO
1. trust someone completely
2. curl my hair
3. let things go

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES
1. watching movies
2. writing
3. shop

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW
1. sleep
2. eat
3. take a shower

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING
1. coroner (kidding.)
2. cop
3. dermatologist

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION
1. new zealand
2. france
3. greece

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
1. go sky diving
2. learn to surf
3. get married

THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR *[ELSE]...
1. i don't really give a damn
2.
3.

mandy0x — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:24:29 GMT

i am going insane..it's been a month since i've seen a new episode of Lost. even worse, there's websites everywhere that are dedicated exclusively to telling you what's going to happen in the new episodes. so tempting...

mandy0x — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:34:43 GMT

Harvard
You're the best -- you know it, as does everyone
else (except for US News and World Report every
few years). You might not be hip, you might not
be pretty, but you're smart as a whip and you
never need to do another impressive thing in
your life.

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You're Lieutenant Jim Dangle. You wear your short
shorts because you believe they give you an
edge to fighting crime. You get along with
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Jonesy because you like his Mario Van Peeble
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Dangle is my favorite. I love that he's so flamboyantly gay.

Wouldn't it be funny if i actually got into harvard? Keep dreaming, mandy...

Apparently if you don't put anything in the search box at the top right and leave it on "Username", it just takes you to a random journal. Some of them are in weird languages; it's crazy.

mandy0x — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:29:53 GMT

i want a digital camera.

i want to be back in school.

i want to go to cotillion.

i want to have less free time.

i want to have a consistent routine.

i want to feel normal again.

mandy0x — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:21:21 GMT

my mom is awesome. she loves the matrix. she flipped out when she saw the trilogy in suncoast..she had no idea there were two other movies. she really wanted to buy them too.

i got a new computer with a flat screen monitor for xmas (from which i am typing this entry), among other things. i love it. except for the fact that the hard drive is from our old computer, which is windows 98. there's all this old shit on it, like the palace. i love it regardless. i need to name it. larry, leopold, charlie..i kinda like leopold.

apparently it's not a coincidence that John Locke from Lost shares the name of a british philosopher. it's funny that lindsay couldn't understand why i thought locke was creepy when she watched the first episodes. now that she's seen 8 of them, she thinks he's creepy. wait til she sees Ethan..

mandy0x — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:30:14 GMT

my shoulder hurts. no idea why.

it does not feel like christmas. partially because we only got our tree up yesterday, thanks to a certain lazy (read: spoiled) 8-year old who refuses to clean anything without first being promised a fucking shopping spree.

my shopping still isn't done.

mandy0x — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:06:20 GMT

movies to see/buy:

the english patient
office space
a life less ordinary
down with love
big fish
velvet goldmine
28 days later
a christmas story
godfather II and III
casablanca
wizard of oz
nightmare before christmas
who framed roger rabbit?
little shop of horrors
donnie darko
kill bill
28 days
an insomniac's nightmare
supersize me
gone with the wind
it's a wonderful life
a night at the roxbury
team america
cannibal! the musical
house on haunted hill

cd's to buy:

radiohead
trainspotting soundtrack
gc
my chemical romance
HIM
punk goes acoustic
warped tour '04
*modest mouse
*the killers

*cd's to get on x-mas. [we have this little tradition where we go to tower on easter and x-mas to get cd's..i have no idea what corelation or significance it bears to the aforementioned holidays, but whatever]

mandy0x — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:08:22 GMT

we got our tree. for the 4th or 5th year in a row, it's retarded looking. there's always branches missing, or it's lopsided. my dad's one of these people who picks the retarded tree because nobody else will give it a home. he told me he had a charlie brown tree every year before he met my mom. i've always thought it would be funny to take a family picture in the living room in front of some haggard looking twig thing and send it out as christmas cards. i've also always wanted a white christmas tree. they're so pretty...my mom had one growing up.

i finally got my trainspotting dvd! i watched it and it was great and everything (i was surprised to see ewan mcgregor's cock make an appearance), but since it takes place in scotland, i could only understand about 8% of what they were saying. i'll have to look at the script online. it wasn't as hard to decipher as the book..i read about 30 pages at thanksgiving from lindsay's book. instead of real words, it's written the way the scottish dialect sounds, and there's all this slang..there's actually a glossary in the back.
an excerpt:
"The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling. Ah wis jist sitting thair, focusing oan the telly, trying no tae notice the cunt. He wis bringing me doon. Ah tried tae keep ma attention oan the Jean-Claude Van Damme video.
As happens in such movies, they started oaf wi an obligatory dramatic opening. Then the next phase ay the picture involved building up the tension through introducing the dastardly villain and sticking the weak plot thegither. Any minute now though, auld Jean-Claude's ready tae git doon tae some serious swedgin"

and when there's dialogue, there's no quotation marks, it's just this (-) in front of the sentence. and there isn't another one at the end of the dialogue indicating when it ends. and it doesn't tell you who's talking either. you're near the end of the dialogue when you finally figure who's talking, so you have to read the whole paragraph all over again.

I'M SO FUCKING HUNGRY

mandy0x — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:13:31 GMT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! charlie DIED!!! the whole reason i watched that show (lost)..damn. he was hung from a tree by that creepy ethan guy. not only that, but we have to wait until fucking JANUARY for new episodes. i curse the ground you walk on, j.j. abrams. at least i can watch the first two episodes in a row, which air next week in place of new episodes.

and now, i give you charlie's death in all it's graphically detailed glory:

charlie hangs

charlie still hangs

jack gives charlie cpr

kate can't watch cause she knows charlie ain't comin back but jack insists on continuing cpr

kate, still crying..

a wideshot after jack finally stops

charlie, obviously dead

jack won't accept the fact that charlie has died and begins hitting him in the chest

charlie gasps for air

yay!!

so i lied...charlie didn't die. but if he had i would have sworn off of tv for 10 years. i get too emotionally attached to these shows.

mandy0x — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:59:45 GMT


ice hockey is love
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damn straight.

somebody else got ewan. i put in answers that i thought would get me ewan, but hell, ice hockey'll suffice. of course then i realized that it just picks something from your interests, which killed the anticipation of getting some cool object of "love" that by chance, you actually liked. i'm a slow learner sometimes. and i'm running on two days without sleep. apologies.

tomorrow: three-phase bone scan, blood tests

this bone scan better show what's wrong with my back, ankles, and knees. i really want to get back in school and start dancing again. i want to qualify for worlds so bad. it kills me every day that a judge said that i was north america's best chance at a world championship, and then i go and hurt my foot the same year. there's a huge part of me that feels as though it wasn't my choice to stop dancing, whereas lindsay decided on her own to quit..i don't think she misses it. i miss it every day. i'm envious of all the girls i knew from denogla that are still dancing. every dance competition we go to is depressing for me, but on the same hand, i love being around that atmosphere. it's the only environment that i truly feel comfortable in.

i'm really beginning to think i'm an insomniac. i went to bed at a regular time last night (11:30) and got up at 6:30 this morning. it's 3 am now and my eyes are bloodshot but i'm not tired at all. i read up on insomnia and apparently if this becomes a regular habit, which it already has, i'm more prone to mental illness.
that is the last thing i need right now.

mandy0x — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:35:15 GMT

i was this close [ ] to buying "Trainspotting". damn you, tower records.

mandy0x — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 04:56:07 GMT

i have modified my haircolor 3 times in the past two days. i plan to do so again at least one more time before christmas.

you are supposed to wait about 3 months in between each dye job.

first i tried to go light brown/dark blonde; it didn't work.
actually, i shouldn't say that. i didn't follow the directions.
then i bought dye remover, which didn't take any dye out, but left my roots blonde.
then today i dyed it dark brown. (it still doesn't look normal). and i got dye on one of my wardrobe drawers. my mom doesn't know that part.

i think i'm a serial hair-dyer.

mandy0x — Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:57:37 GMT

wednesday-thursday---

we drove up to the poconos.. my grandparents live in this big house in the mountains and the elevation gave me an ear infection. our van died so we had to take two cars..it was me, audrey, and linds on the way up and my parents in the other car. i swear this place where they live is like a fucking farm. we had to stop twice to let two turkeys and two deers (respectively) cross the road. we saw half a dozen deer and i saw a fuckin bear, who i later learnd is named jotle (pronounced yodel)
my cousins were there..god i was ready to stick a pencil in my ear 5 minutes after we got there. we tried to see how many x-mas songs we could remember by singing them..no one in my family can sing, and probably 1 or 2 of them were intoxicated.
thanksgiving is always interesting for my family.
we got back at 12 am-ish on thursday. the drive back was fun..it was just me and lindsay. it was snowing and we blasted the warped tour compilation (highly suggested) and talked about college. i'm still holding out for JobCorp..(kidding)

friday---

audrey danced in an 8-hand at oireachtas, so we got up at 5 am (only 5 hours after we got back from the poconos), and went to philly. they didn't place but i don't think she really cared. i have to admit, when me and linds were at DeNogla, our team dances were alot better.
after we got back i slept for 2 hrs and went to the doctor at 2 for my ear infection.

saturday---

lindsay, tori, and i saw finding neverland (amazing). me and tori were crying at the end. lindsay, oddly enough , didn't like it, even though johnny depp was it. i had to have cried at least 4 times. then again, i'm a spineless sap, so..
around 7 my dad and i sat on the floor and ate tostitos while listening to the phantoms play hershey and break the all-time AHL record for longest win streak on the computer.
i think my parents are worried about me. they're definitely making a conscious effort to get me out of the house.

sunday---

audrey had her 4-hand, but me and lindsay were too tired to go. called my dad around 1 to find out how audrey's 4-hand went. they didn't place again (big surprise), but my teacher from DeNogla's 7 yr-old daughter was recalled so linds drove me over to the marriott so i could watch her dance. not sure how she did, but she looked awesome. sat with everybody from DeNogla while the Staeples kept bothering us..i was about to smack kailtin, she said right in front of me while i was doing audrey's make-up that she (audrey) looked hideous. i was like, how dare you fucking talk about my sister like that. that family pisses me off so much. my dad doesn't like em either, but my mom thinks the sun rises and sets on them..
i told my mom i wanna start dancing again. my dad said i could once i got back in school. can't wait.

so this week didn't suck monkey ass. maybe just snake ass or racoon ass.

and now, a conversation between my dad and i concerning which arena the phantoms were playing in on friday. (neither of us like the first union center)

"why are we in the center?" (me)
"cause it sucks" (dad)

mandy0x — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:15:13 GMT

the guy that installed our carpet thought i was 18. i really can't remember the last time someone correctly guessed my age.
bailey, our mutant killer dog, bit the guy and made him bleed, so we bought him a muzzle online and looked into behavioral modification classes. aparrently if he doesn't change we're getting rid of him. i actually hope we don't get rid of him for monty's sake, cause when we got rid of spooner, monty didn't handle that very well.

i lºve custom HTTP 404 pages. they're really entertaining.

mandy0x — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:09:36 GMT

i am officially starting a diet. i need to lose 30-40 lbs by next summer..i'm drinking so much water and what sucks is that i absolutely despise water. so yeah..i just want my boobs to shrink, that's all. i'll be happy if i can fit into my old shirts and jeans.

on a happier note, i bought this ultra-sexy dolce and gabbana coat for 40 bucks on ebay. i cannot wait til it gets here! yay!