Maybe I should stop...

I've been getting nothing but hate mail from readers which, at times, gets me very discouraged. It has been a hard year so far, I don't know where God is pointing me with my life. Liz and Alex have started dating, my brother has a girlfriend, Connie and Eugine are always so busy at Whit's End that I don't see them often, and Mr. Whitaker is always talking to one of the Parker kids when I need him. Trent seems pretty sure that he wants to go into missions. Rodney is graduating (yea...I know, right?!?!?) and I'm...well...Mandy. Ít's like the whole town is moving on without me. I've grown up, we all have. I'm not spending enough time with my friends anymore...and if hate mail is all I get from this blog then why do I have it? What do I do now?

The Older I Get...The More Single I Feel!

So something big happened this week! David has a girlfriend!! I couldn't believe it! I was so sure David had lost all interest in dating. My big brother is "back in the game" as he puts it. So here I sit, writing this blog, watching my dear brother David go on a date. Mandy wonders where her someone is, or if he is even out there. She wonders if she will ever have that feeling of love, that tingle of importance...

I'm going all 3rd person again! Ugh!

Well, I have actually had that feeling before. It was a long time ago. I walk into the highschool's lab and on my desk is a large, red, paper maché heart. It's getting to the point where I can't look at Trent without thinking of that day and the way I felt. I wonder where we would be toda, as friends, if it had never happened. Even when I found out Max made the heart for me, it still didn't change the way I felt about...

I was so sure this valentine mess was over! But, somehow, I feel like it will be one of those circumstances that we never forget. You know...one of those moments that will somehow change my life...or already has changed it. I think without that heart, Trent and I wouldn't be the close, good friends we are today. Because of it, I get the feeling that we will be friends for a very long time, maybe even forever.

...how did I get on this subject?!?!?
Um, David! Right! David is going to the bowlarama for his date and I am tempted to go spy on him, just to get back at him for all these years. ;)

~Mandy

Don't forget to look at the new poll question.

Snow Day!

This morning I awoke to 4 inches of soft white snow on the ground outside. Campbell County schools are closed today. So I have been out walking around in the snow with Liz, Trent, and Alex. hehe! I remember when we were little. We used to build snow forts. One year we even built a fort to protect us from the Bones of Rath (that name gets on my nerves! If you are going to name a club, at least spell it right, Rodney)! I love building things out of snow!! I am going back outisde now. Liz and I are going sledding!!

If you want to see pictures of Odyssey in the snow, just go to my facebook page.

-Mandy

Trent Chat

Hello and Happy New Year!

This is cool. Trent has his own blog. Check it out at http://trentchat.blogspot.com/.

-Mandy

Big News!!!!

Ok, this weekend and next I am taking...Drivers Ed! Of course, drivers ed isn't the best thing to be proud of, but Liz, Trent and I are taking it together. Unfortunately, Rodney is in the class also and makes fun of all the training videos. Well, I have been driving around and have yet to harm the car in any way, so fingers are crossed I pass the drivers test in a few weeks! Wish me luck. ;D

Oh yea, I have posted Chapter 3 of my book on "My Life in 3rd Person." Read it and give me feedback soon!

~Mandy S