+Friday, March 31, 2006+
Friday MeMe's

Friday Fandango:
The results of a 2.4 million dollar research study done to determine the "healing power of prayer" were recently published on the internets. Because of decades long research that went into this study, we now know that prayer has "no effect" on heart bypass surgery patients.

Here is the question: If you were on the committee that determines what research projects get funded, what would you choose to spend the 2.4 MILLION dollars on?

  • A. I would have still chosen this project to calculate the "healing power of prayer."
  • B. Finding a cure for AIDS.
  • C. Finding a cure for Cancer.
  • D. Other.. (please note in your comment)

  • [On my own note: I read about this study on Reuters Oddly Enough before I saw it on Fandango, and I was really disturbed by it. The more I think about it, the more heartbroken it makes me. Also, I chose B because, while cancer is devestating and I hope we find a cure for it just as quickly as AIDS, cancer doesn't "spread" from one person to another, and frankly, I believe that cancer has a lot more treatment's available than AIDS, and also, whereas cancer can go into remission or outright dissapear, AIDS is forever right now.]



    Friday Five:
    1. When you were little what was your favorite TV show? Fresh Prince of Bel Air

    2. What was your favorite movie? The Little Mermaid

    3. What is your favorite TV show currently? The L Word

    4. What is the best movie you have seen so far this year? The Corpse Bride (but I havent seen Brokeback Mountain, yet. So keep that in mind.)

    5. If someone was going to make a movie or TV show about your life, who would play you and why? Rosie O'Donnell, because she is an amazing actress who can capture everything from disturbingly happy to extremely caring and comforting to pissed off beyond all reason. I honestly do not think anybody BUT Rosie could play me.

    Top 5 On Friday - Week 65 (Wishlist Edition)
    Top 5 albums you wished you had in your collection (If you want, tell us why you want these albums)
    1. Melissa Etheridge - Yes, I Am.
    2. Journey - Frontiers
    3. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
    4. Steve Perry - Greatest Hits
    5. The Goo Goo Dolls - Live In Buffalo

    Friday Feast:
    Feast Eighty Seven

  • Appetizer: Name 3 things that you think are strange. A better question would be "Name 3 Things You Dislike", because, frankly, nothing is strange anymore

  • Soup: What was the last ceremony you attended? My cousin's wedding in 2002.

  • Salad: What is one lesson you have learned in the past year? Don't pass up a good thing, because in time, you will regret it more than you can imagine.

  • Main Course: Tell us about one of your childhood memories. I can still remember driving along with my mom when I was around five. She told me that it is okay to make mistakes, because everybody does and if you're truly sorry, it's forgivable. But when you make the same mistake over and over again, then it becomes unforgivable.Those have been some of the most important words in my life.

  • Dessert: If you could extend any of the four seasons to be twice as long as normal, which season would you want to lengthen? I really like Spring, but it's also tornado season and I am terrified of tornadoes. So, Fall. (If I am not in Tornado Alley, that is. If I am, then Winter would be the one that I would extend).

    Top 5 Friday:
    What are your Top 5, all time favorite pizza toppings?
    1. A Special Sausage that only Wal-Mart Deli Pizzas have
    2. Tomatoes
    3. Green Peppers
    4. Mushrooms
    5. Onions

    T.G.I.F.
    1. What song can always make you shed a tear or two when you hear it? Melissa Etheridge - Tuesday Morning

    2. What song can always get your feet tappin and your hips sawyin when you hear it?
    3. What movie can always make you cry when you watch it? Armageddon & Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith

    4. What movie can always make you laugh out loud when you watch it? Pirates of the Carribean

    5. What book brought you to tears more than any other that youve read? Nicholas Sparks - A Walk To Remember (Every time I have ever read it. And that's over 18 times)


  • Illustration Friday:
    Theme: Spring


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    +Thursday, March 30, 2006+
    Idiot of The Day

    Let's Meet Our Idiot Of The Day, Shall We? Her name is: Debra Maggart.

    And not only does she make ridiculous assumptions (which we all know what assuming leads to...), but the woman tries to make up facts.

    "In the e-mail with the Vanderbilt student, Maggart said research shows most homosexual couples have numerous emotional dysfunctions and psychological issues that may not be healthy for children."

    Hrmm....and who's putting out these statistics Miss Maggart? Could it be such reputible and unbias sources as "Focus On The Family"? Oh, wait, *depresses her sarcasm button* Now then..

    Let's go to some truly unbias organizations that have America's Children's Best Interest's at heart and have no political agenda, shall we?

    Here are just a few of the institutions that support Same-Sex Parenting/Adoption:
    * American Psychological Association
    * Child Welfare League of America
    * American Psychiatric Association
    * National Association of Social Workers
    * North American Council on Adoptable Children
    * American Academy of Pediatrics

    Click Here For More.

    If there's so much evidence showing that Gay & Lesbian parents will molest their children and are apparently sooo unstable, Miss Maggart, then why in the HELL would the Child Welfare League, National Assocation of Social Works, and North American Council on Adoptable Children be supporting same-sex parenting, hrmm? Why in the world would these orginzations that are built on protecting children and putting them in good homes be supporting something that could be detrimental to them?

    Not to mention, would you dare claim that any organization does more research on mental health than the American Psychiatric Assocation?

    You're a lawyer who managed to get elected because of your narrow minded views. You know nothing about medicine, psychiatry, or homosexuality.

    If you were to do some real research, you'd find that the most likely cantidate to molest a male child is a heterosexual male who is married, widowed, divorced, or living with some kind of partner. (Click Here and Here for sources.)

    So...should we close adoption off to heterosexuals? Or better yet, sterilize every man in the world?

    That's right. Shut up.


    posted by Manda @ 8:57 PM+

    *manda*

    Great list of resource material. The North American Council on Adoptable Children was one I hadn't thought of.

    I'm from East Tennessee, so I sent Rep Maggart this e-mail.

    I also have a post on the recent Donaldson Adoption Institute report. Very encouraging.

    Thanks for your post. Bill  
    A lot of people have challenged her on what she said, but she reacts with self-righteous defensiveness.

    I was relieved to learn that this Debra Maggart isn't running unopposed for re-election. There's a normal-looking, sane-sounding veteran and family guy running against her. His name is Patrick Gardner, and his web site is at
    http://www.patrickgardner.org/

    I think I'm gonna send him a few bucks. I get so tired of reading stories like the one you profiled, and getting angry, but having nothing practical that I can do in response. Maybe if I actually *do* something this time, my blood pressure will go down. And in a small, rural district like that, if a certain number of folks make an effort to help, maybe Rep. Maggart will get a surprise in November when the votes are counted.  
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    +Wednesday, March 29, 2006+
    Alright...a couple of things...

    #1 - I have a new Nephew. My cousin gave birth to Charles Jay Hogg this afternoon via C-Section :) (^_^) Welcome to the world, baby C.J.!

    #2 - I will never watch anything that relate's to World War II again so long as I live. Never. Again. DAMN US HISTORY FROM 1876!! DAMNIT TO THE BLOODY PITS OF MY MIND!!

    #3 - We had an absolutely rad discussion about censorship today in Sociology :) Woot. We got into how everything from banning abortion to the refusal of giving a woman her birth control prescription is censorship and that the question is "Where do you draw the line between too much censorship and not enough?"

    I, personally, think censorship is a really, really bad thing. Now, I understand censoring the KKK from lynching people, but telling the klan that they can't have their monthly meetings to sit and bash people is absurd, that's like saying I shouldn't be able to walk down the street holding hands with someone of the same sex.

    In my opinion, though, the absolute epitome of disgusting censorship at the moment is South Dakota. What in the HELL is wrong with their governor? Or, better yet, Senator Bill Napoli.

    If I were a citizen of South Dakota, I would be denied an abortion if I became pregnant via rape. Why? Because I wasn't a virgin before the rape.

    This son of a bitch thinks that a woman would need to be "brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religous. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying the child could verywell threaten her life."

    ......how ridiculous is that? "Brutally" raped? Rape is brutal, whether you're beaten to hell and back or just held down and made to spread your legs, rape is brutal. It is traumatizing beyond all fathomable concept.

    Religion. I have to have religion to be allowed to choose whether or not I bear the child of a man who took me against my will. What religion? Would a Wiccan Witch be considered religous by Asswipe McDickhead's standards?

    I have to be a virgin. Hrm, let's think about this for a minute. So simply because I've chosen to make love to a man before....or a woman for that matter (depends on how this fuck defines virgin)....if someone takes me against my will, it is my responsibility to bear his child, simply because I've had consensual sex before?

    What if I'm married? Hrmm? What if I'm not a virgin then, but I waited until marriage to give myself to my husband?

    It amazes me just how stupid humanity can be. I mean, holy shit, this one just blew me away.

    All I can say is: If this is going to become the national standard by which a woman must follow to have an abortion, then hot damn, VIVA LA CANADA!!!!

    (Thanks to MediaGirl for keeping me updated.)


    posted by Manda @ 5:13 PM+

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    And, once again, the Blogosphere beats regular news...

    I keep the radio in my bedroom on non-stop. Kind of like my Desktop Weather program is on non-stop. I have a severe fear of storms because of the possibility of tornadoes, sooo....yeah, you get it.

    Anyways.....my favorite station is actually syndicated except for in the mornings, Monday through Friday. We have a guy named Josh Hall who has been doing the "McDonalds Breakfast Bunch" since I was in Junior High. (Maybe longer....I just wasn't listening before 7th grade...but ever since, yeah, so anyways! I'm use to waking up with this guy every day for the last like, bazillion years).

    Anyways this morning, just as I'm waking up, he starts talking about Skyler Bartels little Hotel WalMart experience. (Which, mind you, I knew about this several days ago because I read it in a friend of Skyler's blog that I just happened to wonder into through BlogClicker.)

    *snickers* And I'm just like "HA! Josh! Beat you! For once I knew about something funky and unusual before you! Neeenerrneeeener neeeener." It actually helped to prompt me to get out of bed.

    Rawr. I win. Go Bloggers.

    (P.S. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, see my post from several days ago: Proof That College Students Own..

    And also...DesMoines Register - Spring Break at WalMart.)

    I honestly was pretty impressed...Josh is usually all over the funky and unusual, it's why I have a crush on him. Ha. (^-^)


    posted by Manda @ 7:29 AM+


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    +Monday, March 27, 2006+
    Just when you thought...

    it couldn't get any wierder.

    Alrighty then, so....for those of you who are new to my blog or don't know...

    My former step-father, my little brother Mikey's dad, got stuck with his ex girlfriend's vehicle, a Pontiac Aztec, because he co-signed for it. He couldn't afford the child support and the payments on the Aztec, and BEGGED Mom to take the Aztec for a few months to help him out in exchange for the child support, but he promised to send $50 dollars a month, as well.

    This was in August. We STILL have the Aztec. Mom's been asking him to take it back since she GOT IT. He got back with his ex girlfriend and she got another Aztec!!!!!!! He's now telling Mom that SHE Has to find a way to get it back to him and pay for her plane ticket home (To Arkansas) FROM OHIO where he lives! He's also telling her that he's going to look at how many miles were put on the Aztec and figure out what to pay her in child support from that.

    Mind you, the man makes enough to pay a $2,000 dollar a month HOUSE PAYMENT, and yet the most he has EVER PAID in child support is $400 dollars because Mom is too nice. Under Arkansas State Law, he should be paying OVER 800 dollars in child support, but Mom never went to child support enforcement.

    Well, she's going to now and she's making him take the car back ASAP. (He's suppose to be paying 200 a month now in child support, and he refuses to.)

    Well, guess what....Mike's other son, Jimmy, stole the Aztec awhile back before Mom got it.....and apparently: It was never removed from America's Crime List of Stolen Vehicles after the Sharon County Police department brought it back to Mike (that's the ex-step dad, mind you).

    And tonight, my cousin was driving the Aztec to the hospital 'cause she's in labor, she was pulled over, the car was towed and impounded, and it was marked as stolen.

    Mom now has to pay the impound fees to get it out and has been calling all over trying to get it all straightened out.

    But even though it was a police department error....Mom's screwed and has to pay the fees.

    She doesn't even want this vehicle: WTFUXORZ!!!


    posted by Manda @ 11:08 PM+

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    About Me

    (I'm trying to streamline my blog a little more, so I'm putting my About Me in here to make it look better!)







    Name: Amanda
    Nic-name/Alias: Matdredalia, Manda, Mandy, Katiandra, Koishii, Amane, Ammy
    Age: 18
    Birthday: September 7th, 1987
    Sex: Female/Bisexual/Polyamorous
    Occupation: College Student At Arkansas State University - Mountain Home
    Location: Arkansas, United States

    Interests: Reading, writing, singing, music, webdesign, photography, all types of visual art, anime, manga, Human Rights, GLBT Rights, Womens Rights

    Favorite Music: Journey, Lifehouse, Nirvana, Melissa Etheridge, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morisette, Ani DiFranco, Jewel, Alix Olson, Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, Billie Meyers, lots more.

    Favorite Books: That Takes Ovaries - Edited by Rivka Solomon, A Seperate Peace by John Knowles, The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger, Early Embraces - Edited by Lindsey Elder, Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi, A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks, The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi, The Bastard Series by John Jakes, Smothering by Wendy French, Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Cheryl Peck

    Favorite Movies: Sleepy Hollow, Runaway Bride, My Best Friends Wedding, The Matrix Series, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter 1 & 2, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

    Favorite TV-Shows: The L Word, Everwood, Smallville, Family Guy, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

    Favorite Games: EverQuest, Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 4, Final Fantasy 6, World of WarCraft, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

    Favorite Anime: Naruto, Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, Vision of Escaflowne, Castle in The Sky, Princess Mononoke, Trigun

    Favorite Manga: Chobits, Dramacon, Naruto, Psychic Academy

    Favorite "Toys": Clip board, pens, books, Paint Shop Pro 7, Digital Camera, computer, pencil, sketchpad, paint, paintbrush, clay

    Most Prized Posession: Outside of human beings: My books & my computer. My computer because it's how I communicate with the outside world and because it's where all of my pixel-artwork is.


    posted by Manda @ 10:38 PM+

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    Proof that College Students own.

    First: CLICK HERE!

    Now then......that. takes. balls! Not to mention the fact that the sociological aspect of it tickles me pink.

    Seriously, though. I don't know anybody who hasn't though "What would it be like to just live in *insert a store name here*?" Whether it be the mall, JC Penny's, Wal Mart, whatever. But this guy SERIOUSLY DID IT!

    Wal-Mart: The best alternative to Motel 6 you can find.

    *Giggles*

    Anyways, I'm going to shut up now, but I had to share that, lol.

    Oh, if you want, Click Here to go to Skyler's blog.

    Khehee. Good stuffs.

    ~Manda


    posted by Manda @ 1:44 PM+


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    +Saturday, March 25, 2006+
    *Sigh* When it rains it pours...

    So...the past few days have been, how shall I say this? A fucking nightmare.

    I found out today that Mom was pregnant. She hadn't told any of us because she wasn't sure and she was nervous.

    The reason we (we being Adam, myself, Dan, Gram, and two people I trust very closely, and two of Mom's good friends) now know is because Mom miscarried the baby this morning .

    While I haven't been looking to have another brother or sister, it's still devestating and I still would have loved the child as much as my other siblings: With all my heart and soul.

    Mom already had a name picked out if the baby had been a girl...she was going to name her Emma, after my Great Grandmother.

    Sure, she wasn't looking to get pregnant, and another baby was not something she needed, but that doesn't matter. It still hurts like hell.

    And of course, there are other things happening, but none that are even close to as catastrophic as this. And it's sad because here, I thought, life was reaching it's peak of "give Manda a fucking massive break down" activities, but, of course, I had to be wrong.

    It always gets worse. *sigh*

    Maybe Mom and Dan will actually try to have a baby after this, I dunno. I just love them and wish I could make this all go away...

    *sigh*
    ~Manda


    posted by Manda @ 3:38 AM+


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    +Thursday, March 23, 2006+
    O.O I'm a Net Snob.

    I've decided that I'm a techno snob. While I don't have a whole lot of money for buying gadgets and gizmo's (though I'll be damned if I don't have a cell phone before I turn 20!), I do like the technology I have to be extremely advanced. My computer is for all intents and purposes teh fucking roxors for the money I spent and is 150% what I need. It does everything I need it to, and it does it beautifully.

    Then we have the real reason I believe I'm a snob: I want the best program for whatever the hell I am doing. Period. And I will search and root around the available resources and pick and choose until I get the exact build of what I like.

    For example....I did very little surfing outside of GaiaOnline, Blogger, & Gmail for a very long time. Therefore, Internet Explorer served it's purpose, and it served it well.

    Of course I'd seen buttons over the past year or so talking about "Best Viewed in Firefox", "Switch to Firefox", "No More IE", etc. I just snickered at the little nerdy snobs, because while I'm a nerd.....I wasn't a snob, or so I thought.

    Then I got heavier and heavier into Gaia. Can we say "addict"? Well, I ended up having a mule --- or two. And I ended up getting Firefox for it's awesome Gaia Online toolbars! So....I used Firefox almost exclusively for Gaia......

    But when I got my new PC....I was reinstalling Firefox & my Gaia Toolbars, and I descovered the wonderful world of Firefox extensions. *drooooools*

    Around the same time, my computer became so submerged in spyware that I couldn't even open an IE browser without 30 popups coming up.....ON A BRAND NEW, FRESHLY BUILT COMPUTER!!!!! O.O

    So, reformatting here we go. Yippee.

    I did it, it worked. Voila....and I decided by then that I wanted to use Firefox more and maybe change over permanently....and I noticed something....when I didn't use IE...no spyware. But any time I used IE for more than roughly 10 minutes, or visited more than a page or two, boom, the next time I ran Ad-Aware, it caught spyware.

    *cough* Can we say "I finally understand what security leaks my friends have been talking about"?

    So....then I got more extensions, more, more more! And I decided to surf more...and find more software....and more features.....and now I'm so submerged in my computer, I'm ready to squeel in delight. Firefox quite literally made me love the internet again. For awhile, I would only be online for a few hours a day...and it was all Gaia time. Maybe some EverQuest with Adam, but that was it. Now I actually am visiting pages I never thought to visit, I'm wanting to take a more active part in the world wide web. I'm building a website again. I'm considering publicizing my blog more, OR starting a less personal, more political blog and publicizing it.

    I feel like I'm connected to the world again....

    And the more connected I get, the more software I get, and the more "woot"-like I want that software to be. For example..

    Social Bookmarking is a new craze. One that I actually think is a very awesome concept. But the are more social bookmarking sites than you can shake a stick at, and each one I find is a little cooler than the next. So....what am I doing? Getting several that seemed appealing, and deciding which one I like best and which one has the most toys...

    Then there's my addiction to any new toy Google has busted out with....including their new Page Builder, even though it's pretty simplistic. (It's entertainment, and I have a pretty spiffy idea of what to do with it....what could be wrong with that?)

    (^_^) Yaye for technogeekness. It makes me giddy.

    ~Manda


    posted by Manda @ 5:37 AM+


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    +Saturday, March 18, 2006+
    Next To You

    Here I sit all on my own
    Broken hearted, once again
    I called you up, but you're not home
    Out with your lover, or your friends

    But maybe somehow I'll still find
    A way to be with you tonight..

    I wanna be next to you
    But you're so hard to break through
    I don't know what else I should do
    I wanna be next to you

    I know that it just isn't right
    That I still want you in my life
    I can no longer keep it inside
    I wanna be next to you..

    I wanna be next to you..

    Desperation's in the air
    Making it harder, just to breathe..
    The realization that you don't care
    Make's it harder, to believe..

    I hope you think about me sometimes..
    'Cause you're forever on my mind..

    I wanna be next to you..
    But you're so hard to break through
    I don't know what else I should do
    I wanna be next to you

    I know that it just isn't right
    That I still want you in my life
    I can no longer keep it inside
    I wanna be next to you

    I wanna be next to you
    But you're so hard to break through
    I don't know what else I should do
    I wanna be next to you..

    I know that it just isn't right
    That I still want you in my life....
    I can no longer keep it inside..
    I wanna be next to you...

    Trust and believe..
    I'm the one who will be...there..
    When your skies turn from blue to grey..

    Why can't you see
    Something dies in me..
    Every time that you turn away..

    I wanna be next to you..
    But you're so hard to break through..
    I don't know what else I can do..
    I wanna be next to you..

    I know that it just aint right
    But I still want you in my life
    I can't keep it inside..
    I wanna be next to you..

    I wanna be next to you..

    by Corey Andrews

    Alright so My Coke is pretty awesome, especially for being an offpsring of a soft-drink site It's got a lot of cool things to do and I've been hanging out there a lot lately. Well, it's got a lot to do with music, and one of the things you can do is listen to a selection of 6 songs, each from a different genre, and download them for free. Pretty sweet, no? I'd never bothered with it before, 'cause I figured they were just no-name wannabe's....but I bothered to listen today and this one was on there and it's really, really cool. Not only is it a beautiful song, but I can totally relate . Anyways, yeah, I just figured I'd throw it up here 'cause it's really beautiful and I really like it I also suggest ya'll go download it while it's still up there before they put something new up

    *Yawns* Anyways, Manda's on her way home from San D, and I miss her.

    Oh well, it's only for awhile. *grumbles*

    ~Manda


    posted by Manda @ 3:35 PM+


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    +Thursday, March 16, 2006+
    Why I want to meet Melissa Etheridge

    Out of all the celebrities I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime… I don’t think anybody has impacted me like Melissa. There are a few amazing women that run up behind her, and even a few men, but Melissa is, to me, everything a woman should be: A Godess.

    I’ve listened to her music my entire life. Her first album came out shortly after I was born and my mom, aunts, and uncle were all addicted to her from the onset, which meant I listened to her a lot.

    18 years later, I still listen to her constantly. Her music runs the gammut of my emotions from A to Z. It makes me happy, giddy, pissed off, afraid, lonely….she can do so much with a guitar and a poem. Her words are so personal and they are so very deep.

    And that’s just her music.

    I have a much deeper connection to Melissa for a wide variety of reasons, though.

    Melissa was the first lesbian I ever knew about. As a child, I knew OF lesbians, but never knew there truly were any. Melissa was the first I ever knew about, because my mom made the comment “I don’t care if she is a lesbian, I still love her music!” My mom was homophobic…but that comment helped me to accept my own blossoming sexuality in later years and to come out to my mom. And knowing that there were others out there like Melissa, Ellen DeGeneres, and various others…made me feel like I wasn’t a bad person. Especially since Melissa had written so many songs about love, and being a lesbian, that meant they were about other women…that really helped me so much.

    And then there’s the rest of her:

    Melissa overcame the boundaries placed upon her as a woman, a musician, a lesbian, and even a breast-cancer victim.

    She’s successful beyond words: Not because of her looks. Not because of rich parents. Not because of anything other than the fact that she is a survivor and has determination that burns like a fire.

    She is everything I hope to be, and I thank her for inspiring me to be the best person I can be.

    Yes, I want to be a musician. Yes, I’m 3/4 lesbian. Yes, I am a woman. But despite those connections between she and I, she doesn’t make me want to be a better woman or lesbian…she just makes me want to be a better person.

    She just makes me want to be better, and I hope to the powers that be that someday, just once, I can shake her hand and thank her for all she’s done for me. Maybe, maybe…if I’m lucky, I’ll get the chance to hug her and tell her that she is truly everything I wish to be, and as such, inspires me to soar.



    posted by Manda @ 5:45 PM+


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    +Monday, March 06, 2006+
    I only have one thing to say...

    I love you Amanda Michelle Converse-Rath (^_^)

    "And I'd give up forever to touch you
    'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
    You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
    And I don't wanna go home right now..

    When all I can taste is this moment
    And all I can breathe is your life
    And sooner or later it's over
    I just don't wanna miss you tonight...

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
    When everything's made to be broken..
    I just want you to know who I am..

    And you can't fight the tears that aint coming
    Or the moment of truth in your lies
    When everything feels like the movies
    Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive..

    And I don't want the world to see me
    'Cause I don't think that they'd understand..
    When everything's made to be broken..
    I just want you to know who I am..."

    Okay...more than one thing.

    (^_^)

    Love you.
    ~Manda


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    Grr!

    So...I'm frustrated. My blog looks funky in Firefox and for the life of me I don't know how to fix it. I want to make it all compatible, but I have no idea how to! And I'm becoming a Firefox whore, so what do I do!??!!?!?

    *runs around screaming* ARRRRRRRGH!!

    >.< In other news: I've converted to the ranks of the Firefox-freaks. Rawr. (^_^) I'm Firefoxed and proud!

    Not to say IE is bad...but uh....I don't like it near as much.

    So, viva la Firefox!

    ~Manda

    P.S. If anyone stumbles across this and has any idea how to fix this problem, please let me know :)


    posted by Manda @ 12:13 AM+


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