Thanksgiving Update

Well first of all I have to say that I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving and I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Secondly, I will be updating you all on how my semester is going, what's going on with Creative Ellusions, plus a few other updates!

First of all I would like to let you all know that for the last 6-8 months I have been helping out with helping my gma take care of her brother who died Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 8:32a. I say prayer for him and my family as we grieve the loss but cherish everything he taught us. I love and miss you already Uncle Lenoard. May you rest in peace!

Of course you all know that I have been going to college since August so sometimes my homework has my attention so its been kinda hard to fit in a quick update or by time I get to it I run out of energy! But I have been doing really well in all my classes! I am doing fairly well in POLSC 151 which I am somewhat surprised by my grade but I am doing the best I can. HUMAN 250 has been a tough class so far because the professor has no structure what-so-ever! Upon talking to others in the class they feel the same, don't get me wrong the professor does have some cool ways of making some classes really fun, but when he does lectures he has no structure. Of course, CIS 130 I am passing with a high A...big surprise because that's my specialty! But the class that has surprised me the most is MATH 121...I have the highest score in the class!! And to think I thought math was my weakest subject.


Well on the other event I have been doing some major planning for Creative Ellusions. Just a little bit of background on Creative Ellusions: It's a business that I started doing plans for the instant I graduated from High school. I have complete ownership in the business though I have not gotten a license yet for it. Right now I am working a little freelance under it. Most the work that I have been doing is all going to be copyrighted by both Creative Ellusions and myself! I have gotten a draft contract all written up, I have a database all set up and I do have small clientele that does include family. I do not earn nothing from it yet but I am in the workings to make that possible. Since I am majoring in Web & Graphic Design the primary service will be those two but I do have many other services available! (Website coming soon)


As for "The Official Site of Mandi Davis" this is now going to be known as "Mandi's Notebook" indefinitely! It dawned on me just moments ago. A couple days ago it was inspired by my mother who was telling a relative "She's always had a notebook and pen with her every where she goes." So because this blog contains what a notebook I'd carry around would it fits my personal site really well. Not only will it contain blogs but it will also contain some of my writings, personal work I do on the side outside Creative Ellusions, and miscellaneous things! I am working on getting the website together even though I have no designs thought of. So until now, this will be my website and I will have a re-launching later!! Depending on my research and plans, I may be moving this back to WordPress. When that happens I will keep you all updated.


Thanks for checking up on us!

Many Projects, Busy Life

To: All My Viewers
From: Mandi Davis
Date: 10-30-2010
Subject: Many Projects, Busy Life

Dear Viewers:
I would like to take out a little time out of my busy day to tell you that I am still alive. I have just been majorily busy with helping the family out, going to school, and working on getting a format together for the new page design. I have been trying to get it started so that I could get back to updating you guys but I figured it'd be better to at least make sure that all my viewers know the progress of how things have been.

So far I am doing very good in college. Classes have been keeping me busy, seems like I am always caught up and then I get behind again. But I guess that goes with the part of being a full-time college. I am doing fairly good in all my classes...political science I have been busy with trying to grasp the ideas that are being taught to me which so far I am getting better at it; humanities, the professor is hard to follow along with so I think I am just winging this class with the knowledge that I have from high school (which thankfully to my drama club is a good amount); introduction to computers, this one is an easy class that I am passing with flying colors; lastly, math is probably one of the classes I am doing surprisingly well in.

Another thing that has been keeping me away is that I have been busy getting ideas to transform this blog into a website to show potential clients and I am even trying to get ideas together to get my business site going. But so far I am having a busy time finding resources and getting my programs together to help me out with this process. It's been hard, fun, and amusing and soon I hope to be able to show you more of what I am talking about.

Changes are going to be coming soon and I can't wait. But I thank you all with your support!

Sincerely,
Mandi Davis

Chaotic Ideas in Organization

So I have been brainstorming many ideas for some more ways to make this an interesting blog. I am also working on a way to get these into pages as well. Sounds like on top of going to college (and yes making a little blog series out of it is going to be on of those many ideas). In case most of you haven't noticed that I not only do book reviews but I also just blog about anything in general as well!! I am slowly working on ways to get this site running better because this is a mini project that I am hoping to make a portfolio for a future class!!

Some of the many interesting ideas I have for the site are:

1. Better reviews!! I am going to be redesigning the way I am going to be reviewing books, albums, artist, sites, etc. I am even thinking about changing around what all is included in the review which means there may be some added content to most and many reviews. The rating system may even go through a small change, this though I have not completely figured out.
2. Follow Friday In the mist of the Twitter Follow Friday (yes I have a twitter and I try to partake in Twitter Follow Friday when I am able to get on the account) but I have started to work on getting new followers for my blog. I started this week and I am going to continue next week. So keep an eye every Friday for a list of my Blog & Twitter [coming soon] Follow Friday recommendations!!
3. College Blog Series As most of you know I am going back to being a full-time student at Monroe County Community College! Well since this is part of starting a new chapter in life I am going to start making a habit of making a habit of blogging about my day at college every day that I have classes (which are Monday and Wednesday's) for a whole semester. That's right I am going to blog about my Chaotic College Life series. Yeah I am a dork, so sue me! (Not really just joking, I'm a smartass if you haven't realized)
4. Song of the Day Music is a great part of my life that there are some days that I start listening to music as soon as I wake up. This has inspired me to start trying to make it a habit of making a daily posting of a song that has touched me that day! How will I pick which song will be the song of the day? It'll either be picked at random, how many times it was listened to, how its impacted my day, or just by how I have the song rated in my iTunes. Now there are countless number of songs out there but I am pretty much selecting them from the 4,000+ songs that I have in my iTunes, however; I will take suggestions!
5. Random Updates I have from time to been known to post something about my day as well and this is not gonna change. It may have a different approach but these are going to continue! I enjoy being able to share my walk in life with people that I will not change that! I am not guaranteeing that I will give juicy details and if I don't feel like going into detail I sure hope you understand that there may be a reasoning behind it.

All in all this blog is my way of showing my work of to the world. Not only in profession but in life. This is more a personal blog then just a set blog but I do incorporate everything in my life into this!

Still Alive, Just Busy with Brainstorming

Just a quick update to let you know that I am still hear, I have just been busy with getting back to school [full-time], work [part-time], helping family out, having a relationship, and trying to get back into work for Primerica on top of all this. Summer has always been a busy season but it seems that since I have graduated High School life itself has gotten a lot busier, chaotic, and active! I have done a lot of growing up and I have to say that I am proud with all the lessons that I have learned in my life so far. I have done many things wrong in the past but the things that have been going on lately has made life the more meaningful!! I am glad to have wonderful people in my life and those people know who they are!!

I just wanted to let you all know that things keep going great with Andrew and I am glad that I have him in my life!! I have recently found out that anything that has happened in my day I cannot wait to share with him. Not only that but each night I get to talk to him on the phone makes it special. I haven't seen him in two weeks so I have been busy trying to get it to were I can see him before I get really busy. On top of this blog I got a social life but soon things are gonna keep getting updated.

I am working in a system were I keep this updated more but for now this is all I needed to let you all know at the time!!!

Twitter Testimonial and Follow Friday

So I have been getting back into tweeting a lot and I have been meeting a lot of nice and friendly people via twitter!! When I first signed up for twitter I was using it lightly because I was [of course] new to the whole ordeal but it hasn't been until here recently I have been using it as a neat little tool that I can get things off my chest and get feedback on most of my tweets. Well here I have been updating you on things because I'm so comfortable. I have broken out of my twitter shell that you guys know what I'm doing, thinking, listening to, reading, news, etc, etc. I now also participate in the Follow Friday's that I make it a goal to blog my recommendations of Follow Fridays so that everyone knows how active I am on twitter.

My Follow Friday recommendations will be a mixture of my followers mentioning me in any form of #hashtag for Follow Friday plus I will be adding their recommendations to my list permitting how there profile looks. Not only that but grading on the level of how often they tweet! Once I am gathering my list I will be tweeting a short list of names that will be on my list so that way people can tell that I haven't forgotten about Follow Friday. Most times I am hoping to have this list up and posted the same day but this week has been a real busy week and I was extremely busy with an important business issue and had to postpone the blog until now!

This is my Follow Friday list for Friday, January 22, 2010:
@Ronz_HiDef
@takeoutcreative
@krupali
@Beauty212
@pritharaysircar
@sarahlatta
@RomitBasu
@khadijapatel
@dcklaus
@jackalopekid
@seanshannon
@saxplaya07
@BritToT
@lele647
@jhillstephens
@alana_babes
@ashmeer
@BillZucker
@RMA_Cuch
@yellowperilist
@lowryagency
@wiretapper
@Lenswithlove
@rockon365
@txconsrv09
@PirateWench
@SquareJaws
@MickL520
@_ItGirlPinks
@blessonemc
@MJ2exclusive
@dablondeboss
@IamMottz
@ask57
@bacieabbracci
@1800MyFavors
@mommamiaria
@PHILIPGRANGER
@smorkopolis
@sojourner9
@Jennyablue
@chaimonia
@Sam1220
@John1720
@SunnyRainer
@mlomb
@MomOnTheVerge
@symplycarma
@jaycbee
@WeeklyWorship
@NickDevious
@Cdsmith88
@BelleKarper
@MZPH0T0GENIC

Follow Friday: Jan 08 2010

Well hello there folks! It is time for the weekly Follow Friday list and here is my list with the links to there pages!!
@saxplaya07
@BillZucker
@BritToT
@KeithBorgnet
@Sam1220
@CupCakeLeese
@mistygirlph
@FilmLadd
@leexixs
@seanshannon
@JasonAltenburg
@heavywhisper
@markdavidson
@chaimonia

There's my list for Follow Friday on Twitter. If I come across anymore before the day ends then I'll update it and let you all know via Twitter!! Thanks!!

Twitter: My Revolution

Most of everyone has heard of Twitter by now but many still don't have a Twitter account. I don't mind who does or doesn't have a Twitter because its their reason they don't but most of the many users who do find that they love it because they find more people who like stuff they do. I use it to update people on what I am doing throughout the day as well as to create more friendships and find others around me who would like to hang. I even use it to keep in touch with friends who I have known for a while. Most views of my blog know that my username on Twitter is @MandiDavis and I even have a RSS feed on here. Well I have recently gotten a new cellphone provider in which my tweets can be sent to me via text. Well I have gone through my list of people who follow me and my list of people I follow and have complied a list of people who I have their tweets sent to my phone. Here is the list [Note: the list is in no particular order!!]:
@Ethan2Rock
@frodofried
@verwon
@saxplaya07
@takeoutcreative
@themorningx
@radiojen
@ninjen
@mlfoley
@wbwillie
@tweepl
@BudGallant
@saraxlindsay
@seanshannon
@JasonAltenburg
@jackalopekid
@wxyzdetroit
@azuzephre
@twilighters
@AmberLyssaMarie

My list is based of friends who I tweet with on a daily basis, those who send updates (i.e. New stations, bands, etc), or even just people who I really want to keep in touch. I had to keep the list to a bare minimum so that my phone won't blow up. I just want to say to all my Twitter friends, if it gets outta hand I'll just swith it to Direct Messages. But I am hoping it don't come down to that.
If you are a memeber of Twitter and don't know how to do that, then follow me and send me a reply or direct message and I'll be glad to help. [Note: If I get many request I'll possibly make a blog about it]. Tell than, lets get Twittering!!

Follow Friday: The Weekly HUGE Holiday for Tweeps

As the word about Twitter is getting bigger, so are most peoples follower's list. Follow Friday (#followfriday) has brought a lot of people together and also has made a lot of people start finding others who tweet (an update on Twitter) about things they like. Twitter isn't just a site that allows people to keep others updated, to me its a site were people can find and socialize with others. Just today Oprah joined the Twitter nation and last night Ashton Kutcher was crowned King of Twitter. So how do you Follow Friday. Well first if you haven't joined, you must [in order to partake in Follow Friday] then once you join start searching for friends or celebrities you know and then every Friday you type in #followfriday then @ with the person's username in your status update. Once your list gets bigger so does your list for Follow Friday's.  For now I am out. I'll have more on Twitter soon!!
~Mandi Davis

Seesmic Desktop

Seesmic Desktop
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Free
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Seesmic Desktop so far has been the only program I have used (other than the Power Twitter extension for FireFox) for twitter and I enjoy it! It is a very easy-to-use program that users can figure out without beating up the computer. It lets you update your tweets without even going to the website. I enjoy using the program and I am sure others would too!

Valentine's Day

As most of you know Valentine's Day is only a day away. Most don't like, most love it, and some people don't know what to do about it. I am one of those people who love it AND don't know what to do about it. One reason I love it is because its one Holiday (and I will explain why its a Holiday for me) that I won't forget but will always cheerish. But first I want to share with you the first Valentine's that will probably mentally scar me for life. Your probably wondering why it'll mentally scar me? Well it all has to do with my ex-fiance Zachary Hess.

Zachary Hess was my first love, oh how I remember him. I meet him through an ex-boyfriend and when I first meet him I thought he was so hot (yes to say that now hurts me) and that there was something about him that attracted me to him. I didn't think that I'd have a chance to be his girlfriend but one never knew. The first time I saw him I thought would be my last time that I saw him so I just decided to be friends. About a year or so later he friend requested me on MySpace and about a couple months later he asked me out. We hooked up on Dec 14 2007 and then was engaged about two weeks later (don't say anything yet because it gets better and you'll realize why I call him ex-douchebag #1). My family never like him because he seemed etchy but since I was young, dumb, and in love I figured him and I would be together because no one (and I mean NO ONE) loved me like he did (bo...I better stop ruining it huh?). Well about two months later (Valentine's Day) was a day I could never remember. Him and I had a very stressful day because his grandma was in the hospital and it was my parents 19 year anniversary. I had work (6:30am-4:00pm) and then school (5:00pm-7pm), where he was going to be at the hospital with his grandma and meet me back at his house after I got out of school. We spent the evening together were I do not remember what we did because the memories with him are mentally abusive. The whole relationship I had with him was different but he mentally abused me...took me for granted and used me. I do know that the greatest memory I had that Valentine's day was were my mom had a Valentine's card for me at the door of my house and that I went to go see my grandma. That's the only great memory I had. I never spent the day with both of my parents for their anniversary and its something I try to always do.

February 14, 1989 is a day that I can say that I will never forget. Why? Well it's the day that my parents got married! Yes they got married on Valentine's Day. Which is why its a holiday for me. So you can only imagine that this Saturday, Feb 14th is my parents 20th anniversary. My mom was around 4 or 5 months pregnant with me, so I sorta can say that I was there with my parents when they got married. I am very proud of my parents and I am happy for them. Someday I hope that I can find a guy that makes me as happy as my dad makes my mom.

On a lighter note I just want to say that before I moved out my mom and I would always argue so sometimes it would make it hard to even be in the same room with my mom for more than 3-6 hours at a time. After moving back home my mom and I haven't had ONE huge argument since then. I am really close with my mom and I have to say that that is the bestest gift and memory that I can tell my mom this Valentine's Day. My dad on the other hand, him and I have really been tight since I can remember.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone and Happy 20th Anniversary Mom & Dad!! I'm so proud of the both of you!!

blip.fm: Where You are the DJ

BLIP.fm
http://blip.fm
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This site is the best site for people to be a DJ for there OWN radio station. DJs get to blip while there listeners get to listen and give them props for certain songs. I think that it is the greatest tool/site for people to recommend certain songs to people in where if the person doesn't like the song, they don't have to download* it. I personally use this site and I think its awesome because I can use the site with my Twitter, FriendFeed, and Autoscrobbler. Join now by going to blip.fm!!

The Twitter Revolution...My Story

Twitter: is defined by Wikipedia as a social communicating and micro-blogging services that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based post of up to 140 characters in length.

I first heard of Twitter back around 2007 and didn't think much of it. Of course I started using it all the time because it didn't hurt to let people know what I was doing. Why not? People should be truthful and people should share and thats exactly what I like about Twitter is because people aren't afraid to be themselves there and I am one of those people are open and don't mind sharing things.

But what about other people? Well it seems that now Twitter has become very popular among people and business. For me its nice to follow different people and find out what they like about certain things, who they like, and even anything about what type of music they listen to and much much more! It seems now that Twitter is getting more and more popular.

But what's my scoop, why do I use Twitter? Well I use it to let people know what I am doing, what I'm listening to, send them updates about my site, or anything that I feel like twittering.  I have been a member on there November 21, 2007 and if you would like to follow me on there then add me: @MandilDavis.

Well if you'd like to know my official review on Twitter you can find it here.

Twitter

Twitter
http://twitter.com
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Twitter is by far a great site were members can post updates, ask each other questions and socialize with others.  It has a way were users can personalize there designs and just have fun. Users also have fun with hashtags, Follow Friday, voting and much more.

Life Getting Back on Track

Well a lot has happened that has made me realize that I just need to forget about the guys in my past and try to focus on my future. So for the last couple of days I have been working on things I was working on when I was not seeing anyone. I am finally back on things that I was on before I was with Zac or Scott and I feel absolutely happy that I feel my life getting back on track. I now want to make sure that I look positive and not think negative.

As you all know I am a Geek so I have gone back to getting back on all my sites (i.e. my own website, The WOW Campaign, Twitter, etc etc). So I just want to say that all of you who like to keep an eye on me or are proud of me you can follow me on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc.

Here are all or most of the sites that you can find me at:
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
FriendFeed
Pandora
My Blog
My Reviews
The WOW Campaign
Flickr
del.ici.ous
StephenieMeyerFan.com
If I think of anymore I guess I'll update ya when I get the chance.

Confused & Lonely; Live.Laugh.Love

Well I couldn't fall asleep right away last night and I didn't feel like powering up my laptop so I wrote this on my cell and sent it to my e-mail:

I'm confused and lonely. There are times I just wish that I knew what would happen in a couple weeks from now. But I don't! I also wish that life didn't have to be hard, confusing, lonely, or anything its not right now. The one guy that truly makes things feel better for me right now is four states away and I feel completely lost, scared, and alone 95% of the time; in which its don't not getting better. I just also can't believe that the guy I thought I loved was a phony and didn't truly love me the way I loved him. When things between him and were done I felt like I had died, my parents didn't know what to do because I worse then I was years ago. I'm not asking for sympathy right now because I played along with the game that Zac played but not 100% of it. Then when I felt healed I went to the next guy who tried to fix me but failed and made the whole bigger again, and he's not stopping by saying I cheated. I just wish that I could feel the way I did about two years ago and that I didn't throw my life away. I don't want to say that I didn't learn from my mistake because I certainly did! I just want to try to make my life better but its hard when I'm living from pay check to pay check and not getting any where in life. If only I didn't make that mistake...where would I be now? Close to making something outta my life or further than that?! All I can say is that I'm not perfect and I don't expect no one to think I am or saying that anyone is perfect because it'd be pretty shallow for anyone to say that I or you or anyone else that matter. I did learn from my mistakes; however, I don't expect anyone to go out and make the same mistake because some people handle things differently and I've been told that I handled it well because I'm strong. So I live strong, laugh often, and love much!

Right now all I can say that I look upon this mistake and just laugh. I know that my past isn't much better than the present or for the future. No one can really control what they did/do in their life because if it was possible then I'm sure everyone would be perfect; therefore, the world would be total choas. I have to say that I have been able to live my life regulary because of Philippians 4:8 (NIV) which says "Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such thing." That was the first Bible verse that I have been able to keep in my head...all because of my youth pastor challenged me and knew that with what I have gone through that'd be the one that I'd think of everytime. I have to just say that I know I haven't been faithful the last two years but Jesus/God knows that I have repent and that I have made several mistakes and have forgive me because has John 14:6 (NIV) says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."

All I am saying is that before you judge me or want to spread rumors around about things I've done in the past just remember or ask yourself do I have the time to waste to make sure that I'm not reopening something that has been closed in her life. Cause once you do say something that has been told to be let go, you'll get a fight that you WON'T WIN!

IT'S HERE!!! Plus More

Well, the Twilight movie is finally out and I have heard a lot of news that its a good movie and has heard of the many predictions of how much it'll make. Well I also said in my last blog that I might not get to see it. Well come to find out my good friend Kristi is taking me to see it and is also paying for my ticket as an earlier Christmas present. Thanks Kristi, I've been waiting for a long time to see it. So her and I made plans to see it Friday (November 28th) but since I have to work that day we decided to see it Thursday (November 27th) but now we might be seeing it Saturday (tomorrow or in actuality later today) so I am hoping that I can see it later today. I can't wait I'm so excited.

On other news, I have updated MandiDavis.com and hope that all of you who haven't checked it out will because its all designed by me! That's right, I'm a web designer and that's what I am hoping to get a degree for. But I have made major changes. Its all been designed on Adobe DreamWeaver CS3, that's such a wonderful program and since I was introduced to it in my Senior year I loved it.

But the main reason for this post is to simply vent. My friend Baber called me to ask me a question for Scott (my ex-fiance) and it pissed me off. She said that he wanted his RF adapter. OMG, WELL I CAN TELL THAT I WANT MY OTHER GAMES THAT HE LET WALK OUT OF HIS HOUSE AFTER I TOLD HIM THAT THE DO NOT LEAVE HIS HOUSE. I have some what, actually NO INTENTIONS OF RETURNING IT TO HIM UNTIL I GET MY DAMN FUCKING GAMES!!!! Then I was talking to my sister Becky and told her, if he really wanted it then we didn't he calll me himself. She merely reminded me whether I was still ready to talk to him and I told her, no not really. So she had a point there. But she did agree that me not returning it till I got my games was a good idea. So yeah, I've made up my mind and I'm sticking to it. I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO CHASE AFTER MY GAMES BECAUSE HE LET THEM LEAVE HIS HOUSE, HE SHOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THOSE BECAUSE I LEFT HIM IN CHARGE OF THEM. With that I am beginning to wonder if I can really trust "boyfriends" or "fiances" unless I truly know them. Both of my ex-fiances have really fucked me over or fucked me up. It just pisses me off and if they think they are getting off LUCKY, THEY MUST THINK I'M STUPID BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I'M REALLY PISSED OFF JUST THINKING ABOUT IT AGAIN.

But yeah I'm done venting but not being pissed off.
Have a good weekend ya'll.

TWO DAYS!!!! & A Few Announcements

Well, its getting closer and closer to the world premier of Twilight: The Movie and I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am to see it. The night that it comes out in the United States is November 21, 2008 and I'm hoping to see it when its in theaters so that I don't have a longer wait to see it. But other than being excited for the movie to come out I am also excited to tell ya'll that I just finished reading Breaking Dawn a couple nights ago. I know that I had posted it as a status that I was done but I'm just so excited that I had to do a short review on it at http://mandidavis.com/reviews.html and I hope that ya'll check it out. Other than that I have a couple announcements.

ANNOUNCEMENT ONE:
MandiDavis.com has just launched Creative Explosions business website. That's right I am hosting my own business site. I do hope that you check it out.

ANNOUNCEMENT TWO:
With recently reading the Twilight Saga (Twilight, Book One; New Moon, Book Two; Eclipse, Book Three; and Breaking Dawn, Book Four) it has opened a new reading them into my reading interests. I am now into reading and I have found at least two new series of Vampire novels. One is The Vampire Diaries written by L.J. Smith (The Awakening, Vol I; The Struggle, Vol II; The Fury, Vol III; and Dark Reunion, Vol IV) as well as House of Night Series written by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast (Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted). I hope that if you have taken an interest in the Twilight Saga that you at least get interested into the listed books.

ANNOUNCEMENT THREE:
Taylor Swift's new ablum Fearless is a great album. It was realeased about a week ago and so far I love the album. So far all I know is that the number one single from it is "Love Story" and I absolutely love that song that I have it as my ringtone. If you like Taylor Swift and loved/liked her first album (self-titled Taylor Swift) you'll love Fearless.

Well that's all for now.
~*Mandi Lynn*~

Sorry I've Been Gone So Long

Well it looks like it has been a while since I've written in here. The last 4-6 months have been busy and eventful and will be blogged about here soon! Just wanted to let you all know that I am doing fine giving the circumstances and events that have been taking affect. I really don't want to ruin much so I am just going to leave you all in suspense for a few days. But I do want to let you know that their could also be HUGE changes coming up within the next 2 months or so!! Check back regularly because I'll be trying to blog more often now. Don't forget you can check me out on Twitter!!

Update for you all!

Hello Friends,
A lot has gone on since I last updated you so I will try and think of all what has happened and give you all one big update for now.

I went back to school for another semester in which the Winter 2008 semester start January 15 for me in which I was enrolled in two classes in which one was four credit hours and the other one was three credit hours.  Math 150 (4 Credit Hours{CH}) was getting hard for me so I withdrew from that class so that it would not ruin my GPA which currently at the moment is a 3.0 and it is better than my 2.6 GPA for High School.  English 152 (3 CH) is the class that I am still in until May 1st and that is going great.  I have only written 4 papers for it in which 3 I am turning in for my Final Portfolio.  In the English classes that I have taken and only have to take I have only had Final Portfolios and no exams.  So I am currently done with any and all papers until my next semester; which I hope is Fall 2008.

I hope that I have said this already but I am not quite sure I have said this already but Zac, my fiance, asked me to marry him about five to seven days after Christmas.  I did say yes and the date is set for sometime in July of 2010.  We are hoping that I am done with school then, if not I believe that I should be halfway done with my degree.

Also I moved out of my parents on April 1st.  Zac and I went to her on that day after I got out of school to explain to her how the apartment situation was going.  Zac and I were trying to talk to her like civilized adults.  Well, she did not want to have a civilized conversation and just went off on Zac.  I did not take that well and I started to cry.  I snapped back at her when she started to tell Zac she is not moving out and she is not quitting her $10/hr job just so she can live with you.  And she dropped out of her math class so she could spend more time with you.  She was just blaming so much on Zac that I blew up on her and told me to watch me walk the fuck out of the door.  That is exactly what I did was walk out the door.  I was devistated for hours.

But anywho, we are now in the apartment in Toledo Ohio and I am absolutely loving it here.  I am starting to get comfortable to go out and adventure on my own but before I get myself lost I at least want one of the guys to be with me when I do try and find my way around Toledo.  Toledo is such a big city that a girl like me just cannot adventure out on her own, especially at night.

Well, I think that I have updated for you guys well enough.  Actually I did miss something, I lost 40 pounds since I quit my job at McDonald's in July 2007.  I am even on my way of losing more since I have stopped eating three big meals a day and I only eat one big meal a day and snack lightly during the time between my last big meal and my next big meal.  Some days I am lucky to get a real nice snack in between meals.

Well, I guess that is it for now.
Later,
Mandabear

My Love for Him & R.I.P Uncle Galen

There is a bible verse that I held on to for a while because I wasn't wanting to rush into love and I still don't.  It talks about how love is patient, kind, does not boast and how trusting it is.  Well, I believe that bible verse because love was just that for me.  With praying to the Lord for me to being patient with love and him finding someone who loves me for me and for someone who doesn't wish to change me, I am thankful that today I can say he has blessed me.

Most people say that I am too young to know love, but really most don't know me.  I can possibly be more mature than anyone one who is just starting to get out there in the world.  Love hits a lot of people and most start in the younger years less than the age of 18.  I have heard of plenty of couples falling in love when their in High School and end up getting married and being married for 10+ years.

I don't really care about how people think I should feel towards my boyfriend because they cannot control the feelings that I have for him.  They cannot even tell me things about him that they have heard because whether some or true or not, I still love Zac because he is sweet to me and every time I think about him, hear his voice or even spend time with him, I fall more in love with him.

I know that I have had not the greatest of a past but guess what, no one in the world is fucking perfect.  Everyone has had something go on in the past that they wish they could just forget.  But at sometimes it is very hard to forget about what happen.  I know that I could never forgive myself for ever thinking I could end my own life.  But shit happens.

Baby, all I gots to say is that I want you to be there for me when I feel like I am going to fall on my knees.  I want you to pick me up when I can't pick myself up.  You mean the world to me and I am sure that I mean the world to you.  I don't care what my family thinks of you, you are my world and nothing but my world.  I am sorry but I am sure that I have said that a lot but I feel that if I was to lose you, I would lose a reason to be happy.
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R.I.P Galen W. Davis May 20, 1959-March 27, 2003: I miss you Uncle Galen

Uncle Galen,

I know that God will deliver this letter to you.  I just want to say that today was really hard.  I sort of got excited to be going to grandmas for Christmas because I was going to see you.  But then I remembered that you were not here with us and I almost cried.  I wish that I could see you again because I really want you to meet Zac.  Yes he's my boyfriend and I think that he is the one.  He keeps me on my toes and I keep him on his toes.  He's a very nice guy, I am sure that you'd like him if you got the chance to meet him.

Corey pissed me off today.  He wasn't there and I was also looking forward to seeing him.  I haven't seen him in a year so right now that added some disappointment because I wanted to tell him all about Zac and plus I wanted to see Davey, Chance, and Victoria.  Those are all Corey's kids and they are so adorable.  Well, Davey isn't, but Corey is working on adopting him.

Grandma had Cilia and Dad go through the stuff from the hutch that you like.  Someone asked who was getting the hutch and grandma said that it was gonna go to you.  That's when I had to look at the picture grandma has of you in the dining room.  I really miss you.  When are you going to be painting me a picture?  I want a pretty one.  I want pretty raindrops and lighting bolts.

I just wanted to say that I love you.  And I MISS YOU TERRIBLY.

Love,
Mandi