I just finished The Mayor's Marathon in Alaska on June 21st to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. To read my weekly blogs about how much training sucks and yet rocks it hard, click here: Mandi In Progress Page .
To donate, click here:
Mandi's Team In Training Page .
A video about Team In Training. It's an incredible organization that trained me for the marathon!!!
Sheesh...who knows? I'm an upstate New York girl. I'd love to go back because nature "feeds my soul" and LA "sucks it out" but I'd be bored out of my mind. I'm an actress and a baker. I can't decide. I also want to play the drums, be a photographer, write a book and join a rock comedy band.
There's more. I'm flighty. I'm confused and overwhelmed about 12000% of the time. I think too much. I have lists. I do my best to search for truth spiritually but come up disappointing everyone which is a BLAST. I like annoying my family members til they look like they're on the verge of tears. I'm a Libra with a Scorpio moon and a Virgo ascendant. I try hard not to swear but the occasional "drunken truck driver sailor" comes out.
Basically I'm a work in progress spiritually, emotionally and physically. I believe in striving to be the best version of yourself. And if you can get people to smile or laugh along the way then what a gift, right? BA-GAWK!!! *tap dance*******************************************************
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I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent
Are quiet trees and the green listening sod;
Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent;
The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
-Charles Hanson Towne-
"Tune in... Groove on...BUST OUT!" -The Party
"You're all right. At least you acknowledge the fact that you owe people money and you care about it."-Bryan Rockwell, one of my student supervisors/therapists
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I mean, it's literally like someone took America by the East Coast and *shook* it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on." -Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful." - Edgar Allan Poe
"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night."
-Charlie Brown-
"Guess what!? You're not the FIRST person to give birth to the Christ-child!!" -Jo, in response to conceited LA mothers.
"It moisturizes my situation and maintains my sexy." Sean Puffy Combs
Alan Alda once said, "It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am because the world could use a few people like that."
"Questioning God is not questioning God but only questioning "God" - in other words, our understanding of God." - Pete Rollins
"Religion is the temple after Jesus has left it." -Bono
"...Underneath that angry young woman shell, there's a slightly less angry young woman who's just dying to bake me something."
- Wallace on Veronica Mars
"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world"
- C.S. Lewis
"Grow old with me. The best is yet to come."
-Robert Browning-
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
-Philipians 4:8
"God gives us gifts. Not to see what we'll do with them, but to see what they'll make of us." -Gloria Gaither
