Mood:  energetic

OK, first sorry for not blogging in so long.  I have just been very busy (I will write about those distractions above). 

Now onto the show, but I guess in this case it is a story. 

Sunday

Again, as a sacrifice to my roommates, I took a shower in the morning.  Then we all get ready and go down to breakfast, without our roomkeys (AHHH!!!).  So we go down to breakfast.  I forget my meal voucher thing and decide to go back up to our room.  But wait, there are no roomkeys.  I panic.  I go to my friends and they have to roomkeys, either.  We go find our chaperone and explain our dilemma to her.  She takes us down to the front desk and the nice lady gives us another roomkey.  ALLELUIA!!!!!!  We get into our room. 

Then we go to the waterpark inside the hotel.  First, Miranda, Kayla, Melissa, Sarah, Kaitlyn, Jenn R., and I go on your average dark body slide.  Then, we all get in line for this really awesome waterslide.  It is like half covered.  First, you get in this little raft thing that has room for 2 people.  This raft thing is sitting on a treadmill-type conveyor belt.  After you get in the raft, the guy at the top waits for the people before you to get to the bottom of the slide and then the treadmill-type thing starts moving, AS FAST AS YOU CAN IMAGINE.  It shoots you up and over this huge hill.  For a single second, you and the raft are in mid-air, weightless, waiting to hit the bottom of the slide.  Then another conveyor belt-treadmill-type thing pulls you up another hill.  The slide becomes covered as you go around a big turn.  Another drop comes, not as steep as the first, but still leaving you momentarilly weightless in the air.  You are pulled up another hill on a treadmill-thing.  Another turn comes, it gets dark and suddenly you are faced with light and another drop comes, the steepest one yet, and you are again weightless.  Another treadmill-thing, the biggest turn yet, water in your face, and you are jolted to a stop.  This waterslide was THE AWE-ALL-EST, GREATEST, STEEPEST, GREATEST (again) WATERSLIDE EVER CREATED.  Then we, (everyone except Sarah and Miranda who are still in line for the zip coaster, see above) grab tubes and go on your traditional, have to have at any waterpark, dark water slide with tubes.  Then we go to the otherside of the waterpark and get in line for one of those toilet-bowl body slides where you go down the slide, spin around this thing that looks like a toilet bowl then fall down the hole in the middle.  This slide rox (so much it gets an X).  Then we check out the wave pool and go get in line for another toilet-bowl type slide, but this one has a tube.  We wait in line for this one for probably a very worthwhile hour.  On this one, we go down a dark tube, take a big turn, big drop (weightless, you almost pee in your swimsuit, type drop), then we come into the big toilet bowl part, go around it twice, go down the hole in the middle, go into another dark tube, experience another weightless drop, then we come out of the tube and the slide is over (why does it have to end? (sob, sob) ).  Then we go into the wave pool and meet Sarah and Miranda.  I go see Megan, who is deeper in the wave pool, come back and see Kayla with some random guy who she picked up, and the rest of my friends are tackling each other.  The guy looks scared of Kayla.  I join in the tackling.  Then we all split up.  Me and a few other people go in the lazy river.  We split up even more.  I go on a few more water slides with Kaitlyn.  We all meet up again and go back up to our rooms. 

Sarah and Jenn R. go shopping with a few other people.  Kaitlyn and I go over to Nicole's room along with our hotel neighbor, Jenn G.  Jenn watches the Pens game while Nicole, Kaitlyn, and I talk about highly random things which I do not currently remember.  Kaitlyn and I decide to throw yogurt covered raisins from my trail mix at Jenn  She gets annoyed and returns the fire.  I get a bruise under my eye, FROM A RAISIN.  Kaitlyn and I do not give up.  She tackles Kaity, takes my trail mix, and DUMPS THE WHOLE BAG OFF OF THE BALCONY.  GRR, JENN G, GRR.  Nicole's room mates walk in and they do not like the noise so we move back to my room.  Jenn continues to tackle Kaitlyn.  It was funny.  She has her slippers.  Jenn picks them up and makes some funny kung-fu-type-noises then goes "YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR MY KUNG FU" to Kaitlyn, while making some funny Kung-Fu movements with her slippers in hand.  Then she goes all "KUNG FU" on Kaitlyn.  Meanwhile Nicole is filming this.  HILARIOUS!!!!!!!  Sarah and Jenn come back up and Sarah convinces like 5 people to let her do their make-up.  They go up to Melissa and Kayla's room.  I briefly visit them.  I return to my room with Afton and Nicole.  Me and Afton throw ice off of my balcony while Nicole is watching the video of Jenn and Kaitlyn.  Some guys down on the sidewalk try to it on Afton and she procedes to yell "STRANGER DANGER!!!! STRANGER DANGER!!!!" while she wears her vampire teeth that she got from the arcade.  IT WAS FUNNY!!  Sarah, Jenn R., and Kaitlyn come back to our room, all looking like clones of Sarah, I shudder at the thought  .  We get ready to go on a dinner cruise on Lake Erie. 

Everyone goes down to the lobby and then we all board the busses.  We eat a fairly good dinner.  Then go out on the deck of the boat.  It is pretty cold and very windy.  Good thing I have my trusty band hoodie.  Eventually, people slowly drifted off of the deck to the warm inside.  After about a half hour the only people who had stayed out on the deck for the whole time were Mike and his girl friend, Sean, Melissa, Kaitlyn, and me.  Eventually Kaitlyn went in because she "got cold".  Wimp (just kidding).  Kaitlyn and Jenn G. occasionally visited Me and Melissa on deck.  Mike and his girlfriend went in after a while.   Sean was outside most of the time but occasionally went in to talk to some of "his friends".  Sean is great, though.  When it was just Melissa, me and him, he did some crazy stuff.  First he started rolling around on the deck.  Then, he........well, he was just Sean.  Then Kyle came out and tied him to a pole on the deck of the boat.  MELISSA GOT A PICTURE.  He looks possesed.  Our band director's wife came out, saw Kyle tying Sean to the pole(who for some reason was completely willing to be tied to a pole), and was like "YOU UNTIE HIM RIGHT NOW!".  Kyle was just like "I am almost done, then I will untie him."  She was nervous.  I personally enjoyed it.  Anyway, Me and Melissa, THE LONE SURVIVORS OF THE LAKE ERIE DINNER CRUISE.  I like that title  .  We went back to kalahari. 

My friends and I had planned a big party for that night, but my friends were so boring they couldn't entertain an easily-amused five-year-old.  So we went around and got pictures.  Then my friends excitement levels took a turn for the worst.  I swear Sarah's makeup seeped into their brains and turned them into temporary Sarah clones.  They were boring, obsessed with their phones and cameras, monotonous, and most of all ANNOYED BY MY HAPPINESS AND HYPERNESS, just like Sarah.  It bothered me so much  .  Eventually the make-up wore off though and they were back to themselves soon.  TOO BAD IT WAS MIDNIGHT.  We then went to sleep. 

Monday

So me, Sarah, Kaitlyn, and Jenn R. started the day the same as the other days (We remembered our keys THIS time.) I got a smoothie for breakfast.  It was yummy.  After we ate, we went down to the lobby.  A bunch of my friends went back to the water park for a few hours.  I went shopping with Miranda and Kayla.  I have to admit it was kind of boring.  So I texted Afton and asked her where she was.  She told me she was on a couch in the lobby.  I went up there, with Miranda and Kayla.  We all talked.  Then Afton and a bunch of other people went downstairs.  I stayed with Miranda and Kayla.  We then went to the stores downstairs.  I did find something in the stores I looked through, a crappy water bottle and a TUBE OF SUGAR.  I use the tube of sugar more than the bottle.  Pathetic, right?  There is a big huge arcade, probably the size of my house near all of the stuff downstairs.  I went to the arcade and found a bunch of people including Afton, Nicole, Shelby, Jenn G, and Sean.  I had way more fun there.  I earnede 36 tickets.  The day before I saw Sean with 2 claw things which were each 25 tickets.  I wanted 2 of those claw things so bad.  I only had enough for 1 though.  I asked people if they had any extra tokens, to play games so I could get more tickets.  If they asked why, I explained my claw dilemma to them.  So when I asked Sean, he said he was broke.  But then he used his tokens to buy me a claw.  It was so nice of him. This left me with one claw thing, and enough tickets to buy another one but I had 11 tickets left.  I couldn't think of what to use those 11 tickets for.  Then Sean comes around and he is like "Anyone have 11 tickets that they aren't gonna use".  So I gave him my tickets.  Sean is great.  Then me and Nicole and Shelby and Sean went over to the indoor playground.  I know you are probably thinking that we are all too old (13 years to be exact) to be going on an indoor playground.  Then me and Nicole got kicked out of the playground for not having sox.  DUMB RULES!!!!!  So me and Nicole left, found Jenn, and then went to the outdoor playground.  It was fun.  We skipped back to the door to get inside and started singing some song.  Then these guys that were hiding near an air conditioner (or something like that) started to try to sing the song we were singing (unsuccessfully, I might add) and then they yelled "ROCK ON DUDES".  We think they were drunk.  We went back inside.  I got ice cream.  It was yummy.  I think the flavor was "FAT ELVIS".  We went back to those random couches where we met Melissa, Kayla, Miranda, and a bunch of other random people from our marching band.  Everyone eventually drifted back to these couches.  We then got our luggage and boarded the busses.  This bus ride was not nearly as fun, everyone was really tired (except me and Melissa, of course).  We watched a video on Mel's iPod and laughed hysterically.  Everyone glared at us.  I am sure they were thinking either "they are ...YAWN...completely crazy" or "WOW" .  We got off the bus.  I went home and slept. 

MANDI OUT. 

Mood:  energetic

Hola mis amigas y otras personas (hi my bffs and other people) (back to english) who for some strange reason actually read my blog. 

(to explain topic, sweekin = sweet + freakin, awe-all (all is better than some)

So about 1 week ago, in a far away land called Ohio (OH-HI-O), our band went to invade the small place called the Cleveland-Sandusky Area (it was never the same, i think).  This invasion was completely awe-all for the invaders, for the invadees probably not so much but I wouldn't know.   

Friday

We, as in the marching band, boarded the buses at 12:30-ish.  And life was no longer the same (just kidding).  The bus ride itself was so sweeking fun, I made my BFF Kaitlyn spaz by holding a fan up to her ear.  It was gr8.  That was the awe-all-est bus ride in the history of bus rides.  Then we went to the Hard Rock Cafe.  They had awe-all food, and very awe-all decorations.  Then we went to see the CLEVELAND SYMPHONY.  They were really good.  My ears were shocked.  That was over at about 10:15, we were all tired.  YAWN!! We got back to Kalahari, our hotel/indoor waterpark/resort/(well awe-allest hotel ever!) at about 12:00 that night.  This place was awe-all.  It along with the waterpark/resort thing it had an arcade.  Every room had a balcony, fireplace, flat-screen-tv, and well other normal hotel stuff.  IT WAS STILL AWE-ALL THOUGH.  I <3-ed this hotel.  After about 2 hours of screaming about how awesome the room was spying over the balcony divider at the guys, getting caught by the guys, getting 3 showers taken, setting up for tomorrow, and getting in bed we all fell asleep.  That was a long night. 

Saturday

I woke up before everyone else in my room (there were 3 other people) at 7 o'clock.  I had decided the previous night to spare the other people and shower in the morning.  So I hopped in the shower (unfortunately, I didn't literally hop ).  I was already dressed by the time the rest of my temporary room-mates got up.  Then our chaperone let us out of our room at 8:00, wke e went down to breakfast like 15 minutes later.  I had 2 doughnuts yummm.  We left to go to CEDAR POINT at like 10:00.  Cedar Point was awesome even for the roller-coaster-phobic person, which I most certainly am.  I went on the (huge ginormous ferris wheel which I can't remember the extremely-cheesy name for), BLUE STREAK (a really wimpy roller coaster), KROIKA (a scrambler/paratrooper cross), (an untilt-ey, tilt-a-whirl), THE SCRAMBLER, MATTERHORN (that ride that they have at just about every park, but have no standard name for that spins really fast and the car tilts sideways), (that other no-name ride that just spins really fast and the person on the outside gets completely SQUISHED), CEDAR CREEK MINE RIDE (a roller-coaster type ride that is more jolty than steep), (the spinny-swing ride), THE SPIDER (it wasn't actually called the spider but it is a spider-like as rides can get), and (some indoor ride that was like a dark version of the Cedar Creek Mine Ride but more big turns and less turns).  Now for the story.

Me and my two slightly roller-coaste-phobic friends get lunch.  I set my Mountain Dew down.  I sit down, knock it over, reach to grab it, knock over my friends Mountain Dew, and she flips out about how her feet and legs are soaked.  While I am cleaning up said Mountain Dew (after earning the nickname Mountain Dew Spiller, my friends aren't very creative) a dumb sea gull flies over and poops on my jacket.  I hated sea gulls to begin with.  My friends now say when a bird flies by "MOUNTAIN DEW SPILLER, DUCK! IT'S A BIRD!  DUCK!".  KIND PEOPLE. 

LONG DAY, ERG! I FREEZE WITH NO SWEATSHIRT!

MACHO NACHOS

I am eating dinner.  I have a taco.  My other bff Afton comes up to me and my bffs.  We see lady eating MACHO NACHOS.  They had lettuce, jalepeno, olive, cheese, meat, salsa, and tomato.  It was heavenly macho.  (when i am not pressed for time i will upload a pix of the MACHO NACHOS).  So now me and Afton's inside joke is MACHONACHO.   Man those were some Macho NACHOS.

We leave CEDAR POINT at 10:00 PM.  We get back at 10:30, film fake earthquake, and go to bed at 12:00ish. 

MANDI OUT (see above for CEDAR POINT!!!!!!!!! PART II.)

Mood:  chillin'

Hey my faithful readers,

sorry I haven't updated you, the small group of people who actually follow the ups and downs of my (somewhat) interesting life. 

A lot has gone on in the past 15 days.  (Too much to fit in this blog, so see above for futher details)

I shall now continue blogging so that you, my faithful (faithful for what reason I cannot even imagine thinking of) blog readers will not go into further Mandi's blog deprevation (also known as MBD, it is a serious medical condition that if contracted should be immediately reported to a doctor, NOT!).  All because I am such a kind person. 

MANDI OUT!!!!!

Mood:  a-ok

Ok, sorry about the delay in blogging.  I've been kinda busy lately. 

So my poor dog Trouble isn't doing so well.  He has a hard time walking and he can't keep down food.  My parents think he had a stroke.  He has had a good life though.  He is 17 after all. 

So for happier news, I WENT SHOPPING YESTERDAY.  I got tank tops and shorts for summer and the up-coming trip to Cedar Point with the marching band.  It was really fun.  I got this one shirt that has a picture of milk and cookies high-fiving and it says teamwork.  I got another one that has Snoopy playing the piano.  It is cool. 

Speaking of Cedar Point, it is in 5 days.  We get to go to the Hard Rock Cafe, then go to the Cleveland Symphony.  Then we will spend a whole day in Cedar Point.  Then the next day we are going to Kalihari Resort and then we are going on a cruise.  Then we spend another day at Kalihari.  Then we go home.  Anyway its gonna be the funnest thing this entire year. 

I have to go. 

MANDI OUT!

Mood:  caffeinated

I DREW A BAT IN PAINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY FUN RED DEMONIC LOOKING BAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I <3 MY BAT!!

mandi out!!

Mood:  chatty

It is finally here.

Today is International/National (idk which) TUBA Day.  So lets honor the greatest largest brass instrument in the ENTIRE WORLD!! Tubas are amazingly ubertastic.  GO TUBAS!!!

I <3 tubas. (see below)

MANDI THE TUBA LOVER OUT!!

Mood:  celebratory

I <3 this week.  This week is fun.  FUN! FUN! FUN!

First, I got to miss 4 classes (History, Literature, Science (Which was the best part), and Spanish), on Tuesday to get my braces off.  Yesterday, we had the jazz band tour and I missed everything but geometry.  Then tomorrow, I will miss every thing but Spanish. 

Geometry: attended 4 times this week;missed: worksheet 

Language Arts: attended 2.5 times this week; missed: book review;

History: attended 2.5 times this week; missed: quiz + hw in class time

Literature: attended 2 times this week; missed: Study Guide Questions + Computer work

Science: attended 2 times this week; missed: BABBLE

Spanish: attended 3 times this week; missed: uncounted quiz + singing in Spanish (OH DARN)

MANDI OUT

Mood:  irritated

Ok, so yesterday I got my retainer. 

I was so happy because I got my braces off.........then it happened.  My retainer started to hurt.  Then I kept pinching my tongue when I put it in.  Now, I have a ginormous sore spot on my tongue where my retainer is pushing up on my tongue.  It is so sore!!!!

Not only does it hurt my tongue but it is moving my teeth so it hurts like the braces.  And when I talk, I slur all of the words together and it sounds like I have a "Freeman" lysp.

RETAINERS ARE UBER(using Mel's definition)CHUMMY. 

MANDI OUT

Mood:  happy

Okay, so today the middle school jazz band went to the elementary schools.  The little kids there scare me.  We played them 5 uberly-awesome songs.  It was fun.  We got out of a whole day of school. 

So we got out at 8:25 and went down to the bandroom.  We finished loading up the bus at 8:50 and off we went to the most depressed elementary school in the whole entire world.  I mean they just sat there with this bored look on their faces.  The bus ride was so fun. 

Then we went to an okay school way out in the middle of nowhere, aka Hickstown, PA.  They weren't completely bored.  At the end, they even asked us for an encore.  How cool is that.  These little 4th grade and lower kids asked us FOR AN ENCORE.  They may live in Hickstown, PA, but not all of them are complete hicks.  And off to McDonald's we went. 

We were so loud on the bus.  Twas unbelieveable.  And then all 20-some band geeks piled into a puny McDonald's.  It was a funny sight.  I got a Big Mac, fries, apple dippers, water and a sundae.  While we were there, this old lady, probably like 85, walked up and she was like "so I guess you are from Marion Center.  I used to teach there once."  And she walked away.  After that "heartfelt, tearjerking conversation".  Just kidding of course.  And then this drummer goes up to this other band chic and he takes her twenty dollar bill.  So she is like reaching for this $20 bill for like five minutes and I go "why don't you just take his food" so she takes his sandwich and fries back to her table.  Then he pretends he wants to trade the $20 for his food.  She walks up and he runs to the bathroom and pretends to flush her $20 down the toilet.  Then he convinces her that he actually flushed it.  And then stupid lends him five more dollars.  Then there was this guy who looked exactly like a hobo, it was freaky.  Then my favorite male band geek is obsessing about how this McDonald's worker "wraps hamburgers like there is no tomorrow."  He then goes up to buy an ice cream cone (something only he would buy) and cinnamon melts.  Well he doesn't have time to eat his ginormous box of cinnamon melts, so he convinces his piano-playing-bff to shove this humungous box of cinnamon melts in her tiny purse.  She smuggled this ginormous box of cinnamon melts onto the bus. 

Then the bus ride to the last school of our tour.  OMFG (oh my fairy godmother, yes anna I used your word).  Devin was shooting spitballs at people.  I had to use my music folder as a shield.  Then my fav. male band geek latches a chain purse on his tongue and my saxophone-bff takes a picture.  Then a bunch of sharp turns and flailing limbs later (I mean ubersharp turns and A LOT of flailing limbs), we finally arrived at the final stop of our tour.  These kids, OMFG.  They screamed so loud.  We did the best at this school.  There was this kid who looked like he was drunk or something.  His eyes were all droopy and he was kind of "out of it".  He was funny.  They kept asking us for encores.  TWAS UBERULOUS.  These kids were so hyper.  It was like they went to McDonald's and downed 5 sweet teas, EACH.  And off we went. 

We got back 5 minutes before the buses to our homes pulled out so we had to scramble off the bus.  The worst part of today was not being able to go on the playground.  I mean who doesn't like playgrounds. 

Well got to go celebrate a job well done. 

MANDI OUT

Mood:  a-ok

MANDI JUST ATE A BUNCH OF CARAMELY CHOCOLATE BECAUSE MANDI DOESN'T HAVE BRACES. 

YAY!

MANDI IS NOW OFF TO GO EAT SOME OTHER FORBIDDEN-WHEN-YOU-HAVE-BRACES ITEM THAT SHE PROBABLY ALREADY ATE IN HER SPARE TIME WITH BRACES. 

MANDI OUT (IN THIRD PERSON)