Things (Mostly Exciting Ones!)

You won't believe what I did last night! It was fun, exciting, brilliant and possible even dangerous (had I messed up)! It was something I've never done before! It was awesome, cool, amazing! It was fun!!! It was...it was...it was... ready? Cutting my dad's hair! I even got to use an electric hair cutting thingy!!! That made noise!!!!!! And I acted professional!!! (I barely even smiled...well, I didn't for part of the time at least...) It was fun and exciting and new!!!

New subject! My dad got a truck driving job again! He's probably the best truck driver ever. He has driven over a million miles without even a single ticket! (Alright, he did get one ticket but that was for forgetting to put money in at the library, so that is besides the point... hmm, what was the point?) He's even gotten rewards for his safe driving!!! And, this is the best part, he likes it!

Thinking...thinking...

I'm doing well in Spanish...I think!!! A few days ago I read an entire story aloud with only a couple mispronunciations! (It was a story I'd practiced all week but still...)

And I just found the word for swordsman!!! Why is that interesting? I don't know, I just though it was! Floretista! It sounds pretty cool but I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right so... Decide for yourselves!

Well, that's it for now! Until later!

Mandy

P.S. Looking this over, I really liked explanation points...

Please Pray

I'm asking that you all pray for one of my friends. Her name is Brittany. The Lord knows the reason, just please lift her up.

Thank you SO much.

Mandy

Learning Spanish

This year I'm learning Spanish! Despite the fact I can't pronounce even english words properly, I love it! It is fun and exciting! Of course, I want to share my extensive new knowledge (about twenty Spanish words!) with my siblings. Sadly, they take this thing way too seriously. My two youngest siblings must have decided that I needed to get these words pounded into my head for they immediately started parading around the house chanting, 'Usted trabajar! Usted trabajar! Usted! Usted! Usted trabajar!'. What does this mean? I'll tell you in a moment.

How this all came about was, we were cleaning the house after our mom and dad went to town and I started telling them of my new Spanish knowledge. First, I started with greetings, of course, such as: Buenos dias, buenas tardes, and buenas noches! Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! Now, I knew a sentence that went perfectly with the work they were supposed to be doing so I told them, 'Usted trabajar.' I'll tell you right now, it was a bad idea. I don't think they heard me when I said that it meant, 'you work!'

Oh well. So, we listen to them chanting, 'Usted trabajar,' for awhile, we'll live.

Anyway, I love Spanish! Who wouldn't? Learning anew language is awesome!

Sadly, that is all I have to say for now. So, adios!

Mandy

A Poem

Jesus, I love you,
And no one can know,
Just how far,
That love goes.

How could I live?
Without you today?
Life is too hard,
To find my own way!

Death is now nothing!
You’ve conquered the grave!
With you as my guide,
I find I am brave!

Without you I’m nothing!
A simple small speck!
But with you I’m something!
No longer a wreck!

Sin cannot cage me!
I am set free!
Thank you, dear Father!
Now your servant I’ll be!

I love you, Jesus! So very, very much!

Very Random Randomness

My sister, whom I mention a lot, likes to say, “I put it somewhere so I can find it. The only problem is, I can’t remember where that is.” Now, you all know that when someone loses something that is yours, that you need it can be annoying. Why am I bringing this up? Well, I had a blog post and she lost it. According to her, she just put it somewhere that now has been forgotten. I don’t believe her. It was most certainly lost, misplaced, mislaid, invisible, cast away, missing, hidden, obscured, gone astray, nowhere to be found, strayed, lacking, wandered off, forfeited, vanished, wandering, minus, without, gone out of one's possession, absent, gone!!!!

Okay, big breaths. So, now you know my huge dilemma, impasse, quandary, mire, crisis, plight, quagmire, pickle! What am I supposed to write about now? It was a nice, short fantasy story that dealt with ‘dying of lack of malnutrition’. Oh well, it may never be seen again.

New subject! Poems. I told you I’d get back to that (in the story ‘Hats’.) You all know that I love writing. I write quite a bit (to put it lightly. No, seriously. This is putting it REALLY lightly.) Poems are wonderful, great, grand, terrific; cool…I could go on and on. They can talk about almost anything. I love writing them, reading them and talking about them. We all know that poems are wonderful.

Moving on again. I know, I’m being random (even more than usual) but I just can’t keep my mind on anything (sigh).

Book update! That’s a great subject!

I am almost finished with the third book (which is really the fourth because the prequel is number zero)!!!!! I have started (and got fifty pages or so) into the fourth book! Mom is working on editing the first book (not the prequel, the first one because you have to publish the first one first and then go back or something. Don’t ask me, I’m confused too!) Thank you, Mom, it means SO much!

I’m hoping for before Christmas (to get it sent out, I mean) but we’re busy, so I don’t know. The Lord is teaching me patience and I am accepting it slowly. God’s timing is perfect. But I can still hope.

I love planning out new books. It’s so fun. Quests and swordfights and sea chases and trying to see what God is telling me to show the readers through this one. I’m not sure yet but He’ll show me.

Well, that is all I can think of for now. I wish you all a wonderful night (I really do!)

Mandy