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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
6:17 pm	</form> What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net North Central. This is what everyone calls a "Minnesota accent." If you saw "Fargo" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Some Americans may mistake you for a Canadian. Take this quiz now - it's easy! We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different? Same Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different Ya, you betcha I talk like Fargo! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
9:14 pm	Hello, $4,000 raise! Best part is? I'm still hourly. Seeing as I work 20 hours of OT a week, I may just be able to make some mad bank this year. Work is going well. Now if only my gut would stop hurting. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
9:11 pm	New Chapter It is the 22nd year of my life and I'm not the person I want to be. I'm not the person I could be. I've made some huge mistakes in my life, the kind of mistakes where you're not sure how to go about rectifying them. Or even if you should. I've caused a lot of pain with my inabilities to deal with certain emotions and my selfishness masked as self-preservation. I went rollerblading tonight. (How do you stop on those things anyways? I nearly died a thousand times) I rode down to the nearby middle school parking lot and bladed in large circles 10 times around...then 30...then 50, pushing myself as hard as I oculd until my legs could barely push and my arms were flailing trying to get the momentum I needed. I left the parking lot, pushing myself up the hill, feeling my legs burn with every motion. A mustache of perspiration dotted my upper lip in the 80+ degree weather. I wanted to hurt, I wanted to push myself. I need to become a stronger person. I'm about 600 pages into my new book I've been reading. I think some trips to the library may be in order for me. I'd also like to get some books on tape to listen to while at work. I'm afraid my education will go to waste if I don't keep myself sharp. I had 100% quality last month at work....11 more months of that and maybe I'll get a raise. If I can apply myself enough. I think the headphones and books will keep me less distracted and improve my production. Right now I'm much too social (ha, I know...me, social?) I'm going to work hard to improve myself. I won't make the same mistakes again. I won't hurt the people I care most about. I'm going to be honest and take responsibility for my actions. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. - Montaigne (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
12:50 pm	You're invited....to my pity party What a year in the trials and tribulations of Manda B. So yesterday, curious because I hadn’t heard anything about graduation, I logged into the school system. Imagine my surprise when I found that they had NO application for graduation on file for me….Uh, what? I distinctly remember applying and talking to my roommates about it, “Boy, it feels good to apply for graduation! We’re almost DONE!” Suddenly that has all disappeared. I’m SUPPOSED to graduate in a month, but apparently the school doesn’t know that. Shouldn’t someone have noticed I have the full amount of credits needed? That I didn’t register for classes? I called and e-mailed some lady in the Registrar’s office, but apparently she is gone until Friday. Last night, I mean, this morning, I finished my business plan. I worked on it from 3 in the afternoon until 7:30 this morning straight. I’ve never seen so many signs from God that I shouldn’t do his. 1. The company that I planned to manufacture part of my product’s website disappeared, after 53 years of business, 6 of them on the internet, they just disappear the day I’m writing my plan?? 2. My main competitor’s page ALSO disappeared. It wasn’t only me, I asked others to look up the sites and they got the same result I did. “Pages not found” 3. My computer FREAKED out in the middle of working. It took me at least 45 minutes to get it working again and I ended up losing a few pages worth of material and had to rewrite them from scratch. 4. My bibliography, which I was doing on easybib.com ended up giving me a ton of sql errors and not working. 5. FINALLY I finished all the typing and went to print the document. My printer decided to jam and eat every page I sent through it after that. 6. After 30 minutes I get the printer working, I print the first document. Surprise, surprise, I’m out of ink now! 7. I run to Wal-mart and grab some ink. I don’t notice I grabbed color ink until I get all the way home. 8. RETURN to Wal-Mart, the sun is already up, it’s past 6 am. I call in sick to work. 9. Print out the document, finally. The formatting is all off, but I don’t care. 10. Sleep for exactly an hour and a half 11. Run to the copy place to get it bound. They didn’t have covers or backs and just had the cheap plastic binding. Whatever, I just want this DONE. 12. It’s now 10 a.m. I sleep for an hour and 45 minutes then head to school. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the day brings. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
11:06 am	On the new schedule for work they gave me six hours. SIX hours. How am I supposed to live on that?? I need to find another job soon. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
7:55 pm	So since Sunday I've been walking around with a piece of metal stuck through my fingernail, and it's been hurting like none other. I went to health services to get it taken care of this morning. It took an hour and a half to do....I had to take 5 injections into my thumb, and there was like 2cc of fluid just in my itty bitty finger and so it was like three times the normal size and it STILL hurt like a mofo. I screamed when they tried to take it out, it hurt so bad. They're not sure if they got it all out, so I may need surgery where they take my fingernail off and dig out all the metal.... Gross. I also had a test and presentation today. Aced them. and by "aced" I mean, I passed while doing the miminimal amount of work required. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
11:29 pm	Take my Survey, Suckers! So, as some of you know, I'm an entrepreneur student ata state university. Since I'm graduating in May, I figured I should do something entrepreneur-like since who hires entrepreneur-majors anyways? BASICALLY, my business idea is a line of jewelry that looks just like funky, stylish, everyday jewelry but has a tiny compartment to hold your pills and a silent vibrating alarm to remind you when to take your medication. Neat, huh? So I'd really appreciate if you took 3 minutes to take my super-quick, super-fun online survey so I can get some idea about if this venture is worth investing allllll my valuable time, effort and money into. http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22494LM5MP6 I'd really, really, REALLY appreciate it if some of those on my friend's lists can copy and paste this link to the survey into their journals so I can get more results. The survey is only active for the next 10 days and I'm shooting for 200 responses...so far I have...24. Please help me not fail at life, thanks! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 13th, 2005
12:55 pm	I have a feeling it's going to be a bad, bad day. So far, NOTHING has gone right. Somedays you just wish you didn't get out of bed. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
9:11 pm	An entire post dedicated to my hair So, I haven't pic-whored much in the last, oh two years or so. I've had black hair since I was 16 (wow, has it been 6 years already?) but the last couple of years I've been growing the black out. I figured having normal colored hair would make me look more professional and grown up. I kind of feel like I went from raven-haired vixen to soccer mom. Guess this is part of growing up! ( Six pictures too many of the top of my head ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 27th, 2005
11:56 pm	Well, I guess it's about time for an update! It's been awhile. Life has been pretty decent lately. I feel like I've finally gotten my life in order. And that's a good thing! Notice all the exclamation points I'm using! Since when have I been using exclamation points??!! Well, lately I haven't been able to help myself! Months and months ago I did a picture post of my apartment when Adam and I first moved in. As most of you know, Adam and I are no longer together and he moved out in early September. So....if anyone is in need of a roommate, I know this great apartment..! I've been working little by little to make it my own. I really hope to get a job in Eau Claire once I graduate so I can stay here. This apartment feels like home to me now. I decided to do another picture post of the place now that Adam's gone so you can see how it's changed. I don't have pictures of the bedrooms yet, I still need to do a bit more organizing in those. ( Step Inside, Step inside! ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
2:42 pm	Another update from the worst month ever. So after those two car crashes I was involved in the past two weeks I thought it might be a good idea to get my eyes checked. They'd been bothering me lately...lots of discharge, swollen, and I haven't been able to wear contacts in a while. So I go to my exam...and the docotor compliments my pupils ("Wow, what dilated pupils you have! I won't even need to do a dilation to see inside them! ") ...and then he looked in them and pretty much freaked out. Apparently I have ulcers in my eyeball and then little bacterias get in there and eat away my eye and then I go blind! Gross. He made me sign a bunch of stuff saying if I went blind I wouldn't sue him for negligence. He gave me some super-strong antibiotics that I had to get up every hour last night to use and now I have to go in again today for more check ups. Perfect. Just perfect. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 21st, 2004
11:41 am	What a week. Month. Year. Life. I feel like I'm drowning. My head is barely above water. It gives me a sinking feeling. OH man, that was horrible, was it? I feel so messed up inside. And I don't have time to fix it. I have a sea of homework that no progress is being made on-I can't keep up. Or else I'm at work, trying to keep myself out of the red. I haven't been able to eat or sleep for weeks now. Which will go first? My mind or body? Take your bets now! Don't hold this entry against me. Blame it on the hormones please. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 17th, 2004
5:19 pm	An Update! Oh. Just kidding. You preferred Kerry's statements 89% of the time You preferred Bush's statements 11% of the time Voting purely on the issues you should vote Kerry Who would you vote for if you voted on the issues? Find out now! </div> (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
10:51 pm	Breakfast bar Adam went back to New York for the week so I decided to surprise him by remodeling the kitchen while he was gone. I'm insanely proud of this- I wish I had remembered to take a proper before picture though. And hopefully the landlords won't be too upset that I drilled so many holes into their nice walls....When I went to go pick up the materials at the hardware store two of the clerks laughed in my face and told me that it would be impossible for me to install it by myself. Idiots. ( Take a peek under here ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 8th, 2004
11:35 pm	Summer Sweater I finished this sweater tonight. It went super fast and only took up about 1 1/3 skeins of Lion Brand Wool-Ease. The Wool-Ease only cost $2.00 a skien so the whole project cost less than $4 to make! Since I live in good ol' Wisconsin I'm thinking about making some sleeves for it once winter rolls around. (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
9:07 pm	I have to go in for a ultrasound on Monday. An hour before, I have to drink 32 oz of water and then hold it...apparently you need to have a full bladder to have one done. I'm so afriad I'll pee all over the ultrasound technicion... (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 14th, 2004
1:07 pm	So I now have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday. I was lucky. I told them the situation, and they worked it so they can squeeze me in rather soon. Now I just have to get my records from the original doctor who found the abnormalities to fax them to the new doctor. Hopefully this is almost over. It's been weighing on my mind constantly and causing problems. I'm scared though. I don't want it to be cancer (obviously), or anything that requires surgery. I hope it's just the kind of abnormality where they go, "Well, aren't YOU a unique little girl?" and send me on my way. That would definitly make me feel better, albeit, a little bit freakish. Jaclyn is coming up this weekend. I'm excited, though a bit disappointed her new sorta-boyfriend couldn't come along. I was looking forward to meeting him! I also start work at Kohl's on Thursday. It will be nice to get out of the house and do something! Adam and I spent the last few days in Milwaukee. We stayed at the Hyatt, where I felt...really underdressed. There's a mall connected through a walkway to the hotel. So we went to go shopping, and we get to the end of the walkway and they have a metal detecter, an x-ray machine, and the wand. It was just like going through airport security. I've never had to have my bag x-rayed to go into a mall....maybe they were just making sure I had enough money to shop there (which I didn't). When we left, we had to go through another guard who searched our bags and then made us strand with our arms and legs spread so he could wand us. I hate that-my underwire bra always beeps. Then everyone knows I use a pushup bra, heh. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004
2:59 pm	I'm so in demand So I quit my job yesterday. Yes, the one I had only worked at for one day. I felt horrible doing it...but I didn't really enjoy the work and Kohl's offered me a much better position. Eau Claire pays so low though. It's insane. The first job I got offered paid 5.15 an hour-the one I took, and then quit was 6.00 (plus commisions) and Kohl's is $6.75. My last summer job I made $10 an hour. I'm not sure when I start at Kohl's, as they haven't given me a call back yet for training. In the meantime, I've been keeping myself busy. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 1st, 2004
12:30 am	Mosaic Bag This was my first attempt at mosaic knitting. I got the pattern for the front panel from an afghan in Family Circle Knitting, although almost the exact same design is featured on this free sweater pattern: Mosaic Sweater. Are designs copyrighted I wonder? ( Pictures under here! ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 14th, 2004
1:35 am	Home, Sweet Home So Adam and I have finally gotten settled into our new place. I like it. It's a two bedroom apartment in a very quiet apartment complex. It costs $560 TOTAL a month...and that's including cable AND utilities. Oh, and it has a pool which we have been taking advantage of. We're both still unemployed...so if anyone knows someone who is hiring.... ( Our house ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)