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Very Happy! and Rockin out!

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

I’m a very happy girl today..I don’t think I could’ve thought to ask for a better day. The only bad thing to happen today was my alarm clock’s batteries dieing right before I needed to get up! Thank goodness for being paranoid about over sleeping or I just might have! Today I finished that pesky Freshman Orientation class I had left over from last semester. That now leaves me with just Business Law left from last semester and of course the remaining classes I have this semester. Getting really excited for graduation! Not sure if I am more excited about graduating or just getting to see my parents, that definately has to be a toss up. But everything today was great! It all went much better than a normal day at school usually goes! Can I just say I love the Genius feature in iTunes? I told it to make me a play list from “Walk This Way” from Aerosmith and so far its been a pretty awesome playlist! Ok, back on track! I am having a really big fear that I don’t think I’ve ever had before and not sure why I’m having it now. I really really really want to get my hair colored and trimmed. Well its much cheaper to do this by going to Cosmetology at the school and letting them do it. Problem? Problem is that I’m scared to death to let them touch my hair…and I have no frickin clue what color I want to color it! I know I don’t want just highlights…but past that no clue! In case you wanted to know I have really dark almost black hair..with a slight hidden red tint. Yep, so its about to be summer and I want something different. It also has been almost a year since the last time my hair had anything done to it. Well that is if you don’t count the haircut the surgeon gave me back in October, which I’m still trying to grow back to a normal length. I started my application for the new school today, now all thats left is to bite the bullet and shell the 30 or so bucks to turn it in. It could take a while for them to accept me! I’m really nervous about next semester since its all going to be from home no going to school…I have a sneaking suspicion I’m going to go a bit stir crazy! Ah, but that should just motivate me to find a route out around the house Leah and I can walk together, one where I feel comfortable that we aren’t going to be kidnapped or run over! I really wanted to blog and started and realized I don’t have much to talk about hehehehe.
I’m really excited for Vegas, I really hope its awesome! Oh, there is a big lottery tonight…payments were 312 Million and Cash was 200 million..wonder if I won? If I did I will go insane and waste all that money by being locked up in a looney bin! Speaking of Looney bins, I’m really ready to finish watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” I have heard its not described. That makes me sad..but I’m going to read the book so maybe that will fill in some missing spots. We are watching in my 1960s class right now, realized I forgot to say that 🙂 Elizabeth Taylor died this week, that was sad…I just watched Cleopatra not long before she passed on, and its long, not historically correct, but its not a bad movie. I give it 2 thumbs up. I probably would’ve enjoyed it more if I wasn’t tired when I got about half way through the movie! Speaking of Vegas, here ya go:
Viva Las Vegas Baby
Watched Pretty Woman tonight, as always when she leaves and he doesn’t go after her immediately I cry like a baby..I’m such a sap…I even cry when she says good bye to Kit…but I love the movie and it has to be my favorite of all time!
Pretty Woman walking down the street…
Love Julia Roberts here is where she goes shopping!
Stores aren’t nice to people, they are nice to credit cards

What’s your dream?
And one more for good measure:
The Pretty Woman Movie Trailer
Yep, thats my Pretty Woman kick…catch me later and I may be posting clips of the Wedding Singer! lol…
Well I’m tired and its getting late so enjoy and happy reading!

XOXO,
Amanda Ellen and Leah

Ding! Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead!

Monday, March 14th, 2011

This one could be a doozey, so pull up your favorite chair or couch and have a sit. While you are at it, grab yourself a drink and something to munch since Steve informed me that the blog has no food or drinks. HAHAHAHA
Well, the title is a bit expressive of how I feel. Just take dead out and turn it into gone and that is a good summary. I will start by saying I’m not admitting to anything here or saying I did anything, I’m just stating what has happened. So, the handler of Sausage Dog has made it up in her mind there is no possible way Guide Dog’s could have known about her dog being so fat or having health problems unless I told them. Resulting from her thinking that she no longer talks to me. This explains the title. I’m kind of happy about this, because she wasn’t exactly the greatest friend for me. She was full of constant drama, whining, bitching, and an all together bring you down kind of person. So, I feel lots better now that she is gone.
Here is a clip of the song:
Ding!Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead!

To keep with this Wizard of OZ theme, Here is how I feel about the situation and
maybe I should have a heart?
I’ve been really busy with school that I haven’t had much time to think about much, other than school. Calculus and Statistics are kicking my butt though. Well Calculus more than Statistics though. I’m really liking my 1960s literature class and Marketing is a bit redundant in some parts.Still trying to finish some of those classes left from last semester. I only have 2 left to finish now. I did finish my Wellness/Fitness class by completeing 3 miles in the allotted 1 hour time limit given to everyone. I was told that no matter what I finished I would still get full credit, that just fueled me to finish in time even more. Leah didn’t like it much, but I was pumped after I finished and very proud of myself. So, I got an A for that class. I also ended up with a B in biology after everything was done. Business Law likes a quiz, a final, and a research paper. My freshman orientation class is just waiting on the teacher to tell me what is left to finish. I still can’t believe that I’m graduating this May and its only the first step in a long journey lol.
Here is another song that reminds me of Calculus and Statistics:
Calculus and Statistics, YUCK!
In my spare time, which there seems to be little of, I’ve been watching American Idol. I know I crossed over to the dark side, but Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson’s chemistry really makes it interesting for me. I’ve picked my favorite guy who auditioned in Austin. I love him while everyone I know hates him. Maybe you guys might like him.
Casey Abrams audition in Austin
He has that very bluesy/jazzy sound. Which deep down and in a place I’m not too scared to admit I have…I love this kind of music. I’m a sucker for something different I guess.
Here is one of my favorites of his. In this video, he is doing his solo performance in Hollywood during Hollywood week or as the judges called it “Hell Week” He is keeping the pretense of being different and plays an upright bass.
Casey’s solo during Hollywood week
This one has to be my most favorite performance of his to date:
Not sure who originally does this song, but I love it
Sorry for the onslaught of links, but another few are coming 🙂 This has to be one of my least favorite performances of his, even though I really like the song.
I Put a Spell on You
This is the most recent performance I could find, and he still gives me goosebumps with his voice.
Most recent performance and I just love it!
So this week is spring break, but not for me I’m spending it doing homework. Well Tuesday I’m going shopping with a couple of friends of mine, that ought to be fun 🙂 Everyone needs a break from time to time right?
Gosh, May 5th I’ll be done at this college and moving on to another one to finish my bachelors degree. But this summer I get to go to Vegas. That trip has me a bit nervous. I’m flying there by myself and may get there before Taylor and his friend get there. We are going to Vegas to be there for Taylor’s best friends wedding. Taylor has been knighted best man. I am making sure someone gets me pictures since Taylor is supposed to wear a suit and this boy is the last person I would have ever thought to be seen in a suit. I think its going to be lots of fun if I can relax and not worry about the minor details. Thats alot of my problems, I over think stuff and over analyze it to death. Life would be so much better if I could just learn to turn my brain off and relax. So that is my goal for the Vegas trip, to relax.
I’m trying to talk my mom into taking me home after graduation, well back to their house, to have a graduation party. I’m sure they won’t want to do it, but I really want a graduation party. You may ask why would I want a graduation party now?
Well the answer is simple, I didn’t have a graduation party after my high school graduation. My party consisted of TV,my hospital cup full of ice water, my parents couch, and good strong pain meds. My high school graduation was 3 days after I had surgery the first time, the time they installed all this hardware. so, yeah I was just glad to make it through graduation without getting violently ill.
So, to make up for that I want to party this time, for this graduation. Its a bit much to ask for, but I really want it! To be able to celebrate my accomplishment with old friends and my family will be so awesome!
Well, hmm, I would also like to thank Steve for giving my blog back after he hijacked it.
Here is a little Public Service Announcement just for Steve:
Stop using the word”Tweeps” and “Tweople” those words just make you sound like a dork.
HAHAHA
No really, it is just that most people find them really annoying…and my PSA sucked….I guess I need some more marketing classes.

****Pay no attention to those people behind the curtain****
Well, everyone else has gone to bed so I guess its my turn.
I promise, I’ll try to update more often and make time for this little place I call my internet home 🙂

Night everyone and sweet dreams!
XOXO
Amanda Ellen and Leah

This Is A Test, And A Hostage Situation

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

My name is Steve, and starting now, I am holding this blog hostage. Don’t worry, I’m not violent. the last thing I want to do is hurt anybody. Ok so that’s a bit of a lie. I’d actually like to hurt lots of people, but what’s important is that I’m not going to. that is to say that I’m not going to so long as you all cooperate and let me do this the easy way.

Hmmm. I’ve never taken something hostage before, so I’m trying to remember what comes next. Do I fire warning shots into the air? I don’t have a gun, so that could be a problem. Let’s see if this works.

BANG! POP! BOOM!

Well, do you feel warned?

I feel like I’m messing up this entire thing. It strikes me that perhaps I shouldn’t be threatening you all with ammo letter word sound thingies until *after* I’ve demanded stuff, so yeah, let’s do that.

What I want is simple. I have no long list. I don’t want cigarettes or pizza or beer or lottery tickets or whatever other stuff most of us hostage taking types ask for. I only want one thing, and it’s not even a self serving one. What I want is to better the world through banishment of something truly horrible. What I want, and I know this may be tough for some of you, is for everyone in the world to renounce the use of the word tweeps. Jimminy Christmas in July, I hate that word! It makes you all sound like such fools, and in the case of some of the guilty I know that fools you are not.

And if it’s not too much to ask, can we also knock off tweeple and all other variations? Yes, I think we can. Don’t make me word shoot you again, because I will! Do you hear me? Well, do you? Why is nobody answering me!? Why!? Oh wait, it’s because you’re reading from far away. If you’re not far away then you’re in here, and I haven’t seen you around. But…um…what was I saying again? Oh yeah. I have a keyboard and I know how to use it!

BANGBANGPOWPOWPOWBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!

See? I mean business here! Stop with the tweep thing and nobody gets hurt. Really, that’s all I ask.

Wait, I do ask for one more thing. Please FeedBurner, post this to Amanda’s Twitter without incident. I’d like that very much. I’d like it almost as much as I’d like for Twitter to be tweep free.

I hope we don’t have to have this talk again. This hostage thing gets old pretty fast, plus I’m getting hungry and I can’t find any food in this blog. Perhaps I should have demanded some when I started, or maybe I should just go and hostage take a recipe site.