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Mandi

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About Me

Beauty is common. It's something you're born with or you pay for. What counts is what you make of yourself. What counts is a great outlook and a great personality.
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. :)
We don't need more money, we don't need greater success or fame, we don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness. - dalai lama
Happiness is a choice. There will always be hurt and pain, however, we chose how we react to that.
you know that feeling where everything feels right, where you dont have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, where you feel safe and know you are doing the best you can - there is a word for that feeling - it's called love.
Not lost when lost, when alone or otherwise distant. Not known when framed, when misled or otherwise taken for ranted. I'm more for the experience than the 3 x 5, though a perfect picture is a good destination. If you want to talk, speak so I can see it. Let me be myself and you might get to know me. When I try at self-expression, listen. Don't run if I run. Don't doubt if I doubt, it's my way of believing. To hurt is not to heal. God's fine but small things are better. I'd rather take a first snow, last kiss, next turn, third try. There's beauty in suffering but there's more beauty in noticing someone's suffering and stopping to do something about it. I want more than I can have because satisfaction is complacency.
--Thanks to Greg R. for writing this about me. :)
After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and sharing a life and you learn that love doesn't mean possession and company doesn't mean security and loneliness is universal
And you learn that kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't promises and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open with the dignity of the man, not the grief of a child
And you learn to build your hope on today as the future has a way of falling apart in mid-flight because tomorrow's ground can be too uncertain for plans, yet each step taken in a new direction creates a path toward the promise of a brighter dawn
And you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much, so you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers
And you learn that love, true love, always has joys and sorrows, seems ever present, yet is never quite the same becoming more than love and less than love, so difficult to define
And you learn that through it all you really can endure, that you really are strong, that you do have value, and you learn and your grow. With every good bye you learn.
- Joy Whitman
Be careful before you turn your back to temptation...it may never come your way again.
Happiness is not something you get...but something you do.
If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?
Most people ask for advice when they know the answer, but want a different one.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned in life: it goes on. :)
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My Interests


I'd like to meet:

Jesse Metcalfe or Josh Duhamel (he's a dakota boy) :)
Other than that.... possibly anyone or -- more likely not - we'll see

Music:

My favorite song....Anna Begins by the Counting Crows...why? Because it's me. As Adam D. says: "It's about denial -- how far you'll go to deny that something is really happening because it's too complicated, too terrifying, too difficult. It's about all the things you go through trying to, sort of squash your feelings, to sort of shut it down, and how much you can hurt other people and yourself by doing that. The people in the song are just continuously telling themselves they don't feel what they do feel, until the end when it's too late, and then they realize what they were really, really not ready for was, you know, never being able to see each other again."

Aside from that... I like a lot of hip hop...some techno...some rock...I am pretty open to all music. :)

Movies:

Some favorites are: What the Bleep (both), The Thomas Crown Affair, Legends of the Fall, Saw, Wicker Park, Eight Below, Serendipity, John Tucker Must Die, The Notebook, The Secret (good overall message)....

Television:

Sex and the City, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, the Bachelor (he's hot!)

Books:

I love to read!! Some of my favorites are: The Da Vinci Code, Blink, The Tipping Point, The Kite Runner, Eat, Pray, Love, Fast Food Nation...and I also like a wide range of other books... I like crime type books and have been reading a lot of non-fiction lately. If you know of any others let me know - I am always up for a new book.

Heroes:

I wouldnt say I have a hero per se. I admire many different people for many different reasons. I think its important to have people in your life that compliment your life ...

My Blog

A Schedule to Keep....

I don't know what the "rule" is on copyrighted stuff...but this is a GREAT story I felt I have to share with everyone.  It is written by Frederick Waterman in the book "Row 22 Seats A&B" and ...
Posted by Mandi on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:11:00 PST