Why is the Lone Ranger called ''Lone'' if he always has his Indian friend Tonto with him?

Hello all. I figured that I'd put my mind to good use and blog today. I've recently came to discover that my mind wanders a lot (I know, BIG SHOCKER right?), but seriously I daydream from time to time, but mostly I ponder. I've come up with many strange questions, whether they are about the true meaning of life, death, or just random questions that I've always hoped to get answered. So today I figured that I'd list my thoughts/questions and I hope to hear what you all have to say to them.

MANDIE'S THOUGHTS/QUESTIONS (I know, creative title)
1. When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
2. Are eyebrows considered facial hair?
3. Can you daydream at night?
4. If laughter is the best medicine, who's the idiot who said he "died laughing"?
5. Can a short person "talk down" to a taller person?
6. When lightning strikes the ocean, why don't all the fish die?
7. If London Bridge is standing, why is there a song about it falling down?
8. What does PU stand for? (as in PU that stinks!)
9. If parents say, "Never take candy from strangers", why do we celebrate Halloween?
10. Why do some people yawn in their sleep?
11. Who was Sadie Hawkins?
12. Are children who act in rated "R" movies allowed to see them?
13. Do people in England eat English Muffins, or are they just called Muffins there?
14. Do all-boys schools have girls bathrooms?
15. Why do people say, "heads up" when you should duck?
16. Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
17. Do bald people get dandruff?
18. Why does Pluto live in a dog house and eat dog food, while Goofy, who's also a dog, lives in a condo and drives a car?
19. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use, the bubbles always end up white?
20. Can you cry underwater?
21. Why are all the planets, that we know of in our solar system, spherical?
22. Why does Winnie the Pooh never get stung by the bees he is always messing with?
23. Why is Donkey Kong called Donkey Kong when he's not a donkey?
24. In libraries, do they put the Bible in the fiction or non-fiction section?
25. If nobody buys a ticket to a movie showing, do they still show it?
26. Do movie producers say, "Lights, camera, action!" when it's dark scene of someone sleeping?
27. Does the mail man deliver his own mail?
28. Where do people in Hell tell people to go when they get ticked off at that person?
29. Why can't donuts be square?
30. Why do doctors leave the room when you change? They're going to see you naked anyway.

I'm sure that I'll have more by the next time I post. I hope I get you all thinking.
Thanks for reading!

Mandie Hansen

Back

I know it's been awhile since I've posted. I blame it on my severe laziness. I really haven't done much until this week. For starters I cleaned my room. I seriously think I heard my carpet say, "Thank you" to me when I was vacuuming. I got so sick of my messy room, and I really wanted to paint it. Purple walls with butterfly and flower border, and wrestling posters. What an odd choice of themes. So not my walls have been stripped clean of the posters, pictures, and most of the border. I've been scrapping it off for like 2 days now, and it's still not completely done. I still have to choose paint, which I'm still undecided on since I always have to consider all the possibilities. I really would like to do stripes with different shades of a color like green, blue, or pink. Who knew that choosing how you want your room to look like would be so difficult. I really just want to decorate my room in a way that I'll like it for awhile, at least until I move out (if that ever happens lolz). Besides the whole room decorating thing, my parents have taken a week off of work and they've been wanting to do all kinds of things. My Mom wants to do something with each of us kids, but I really don't feel like doing anything. So far Nate has gone to the zoo with them. Travis wants to go to some car museum, but seeing that the week is almost over and he has to work, I highly doubt that they will be going. My Mom was bugging me to plan somewhere that I want to go, but I really just want to get my room finished. There really isn't anywhere I want to go, I've been to the only museums we have, I have no money to shop, or the patience to spend a day shopping with my Mom, so I figured that we should go get our nails done. Carolyn has been bugging me to try it, so I figure that it could be fun, and everyone knows how much I love my nails, so this could be enjoyable. Other then listening to my Mom plan trips that I know that we're never going to go on, I've just been hanging around the house with Nate, Travis, and the dogs. Travis has been complaining about getting new tile flooring for our hallway, but ultimately I complained enough to my parents that we needed a new computer more then we needed new flooring, so we ended up getting a new computer yesterday. YES! Now we have a nice computer with a large, flat screen monitor. The computer is so freaking fast! So now that we have a new computer down here, I get the old one. DOUBLE YES! So now I can clear all the other programs off the computer and just have my Sims games on there. So pretty much everything is all good.
Thanks for reading!
Mandie Hansen

I'm still here

I do apologize for not posting in awhile, it has been quite a difficult week. So I guess I'll just mention the good things. I finally got to go see my new dentist. She is great, and the office is sooo comfortable, it feels like I'm right at home. So I got my teeth cleaned and all, but that wasn't what made me happy that day. It wasn't my first time at the dentist, but it was my little brothers first time there. I'm so proud of him. He went in there and talked to the people there, and once he was done, he went into the room I was in and held my hand while my teeth were being cleaned. I have the best little brother ever! More good news, I FINALLY cleaned my room. I KNOW!!!! All of you people who claimed that I'd never get it cleaned or that I'd get lost in there and never be found, IN YOUR FACES!!! hahahaha Well I wish I had more to write about, but the rest is more personal, so I'll leave you with all I have wrote.

Thanks for reading,

Amanda Hansen

Helpful or Harmful, It's What I Need

I do apologize for neglecting my readers, I have yet to post a new blog in many days. I have to admit that I've been enticed by Law and Order Criminal Intent fan fiction. I've also recently found out that you can read most novels online for free! AMAZING!!! All the enjoyment of a good book without the hassle of paper cuts, and trying to obtain the book from your local library or bookstore. I am proud to admit though that I have broke my addiction to the Sims 3. I just haven't felt the need to play. Maybe it's due to the fact that I've been getting 4 hours of sleep at most these past 3 nights, or maybe I'm just starting to grow up.

I figured I'd mention something that was brought up by one of my friends. Yes, I do keep a lot of feelings to myself, and I do put up walls between everyone I know, but it is what I have to do to make it through each day. I don't see any harm in that, if I don't want hurt, I don't get close to people, if I don't want betrayed, I don't trust, if I don't want lied to, I walk away. Simple as that.

Hopefully I'll have something better to write about tomorrow. I'm leaving you with a picture I took on my birthday, I love the stripes and polka-dots!

Thanks for reading.

Amanda Hansen

UGH WHHYYY???

So I've been having the worst time with sleeping over the past 3 days, not a single night where I got more then 3 hours, and even then, I still would wake up after 15 min of sleeping then lay in bed for another 25 min just trying to get back to sleep. My eyes are just killing me, it feels like my brain is trying to push my eyeballs out. And to top it all off, my stomach is killing me, feels like the freaking flu. God I hope I get over this soon.

But besides my complaining and tiredness, I really haven't done anything. All I've really accomplished is laying in bed for hours on end, taking advil every few hours and just sulking in my own issues. Really nothing else besides that, hopefully the next blog will be happier and maybe I'll feel better tomorrow.

Last note, anyone have any ideas on what I should put on my blog. Improvements are always a plus, so any tips would really be appreciated.
Thanks for reading.
Mandie Hansen

Last Blog

Ok since my computer isn't letting me upload my blog onto Blogger, I used Photobucket, which cut off half my blog. SOOO just click the blog and it'll bring you to an enlarged version of it on Photobucket so you can read all of it.
Sorry about that,
Mandie Hansen

Still Typing

Once again, I didn't get around to scanning my blog, even though I did write it out. So I will just type out what I have already wrote out by hand.

Well the past few days all I've done is play my Sims 3 game. AMAZINGLY FUN!!! Other then that I've just been watching Vincent D'Onofrio movies. Since he is AMAZINGLY HOTT! Lolz. Besides that I've done nothing but watch my favorite TV shows, including Burn Notice, CSI NY, In Plain Sight, Law and Order CI, NCIS, Royal Pains, etc. Mostly shows on USA Network if you hadn't noticed.

Hmmm, thoughts? I'm actually considering to write a book, seeing that all I truely enjoy doing besides playing the Sims is reading, and maybe I could make up a story that would be perfect for me and maybe someone else will like it to? Any comments? Email me or leave a comment for me, you know where to find me, myspace, facebook, twitter, cell, whatever you choose, just let me know. All thoughts appreciated!
Thanks for reading.
Mandie Hansen

Epic Fail

I do apologize, once again I didn't get around to writing out my blog by hand, so you'll just have to settle with one typed out again. Alright, so today...... I just hung around my house, dying from the heat just having random thoughts. My dad and brother were nice enough to find a video card that will work on our computer and is supported by my sims 3 game, so my brother is going all the way to the Tiger Direct store (in Napperville) to get it for me. I guess I'll have to buy him a frosty cino to thank him. Hmmm, other news, I'm convinced that my older brother is cursed. When he came in the house after getting home from work today, not only the internet, but the WHOLE COMPUTER locked up, and then the garage door wasn't working and we found out the spring is broken in it. GEEEZZZ he must be cursed, he's just causing everything to break. I just think it's funny that we're all picking on him saying, "DON'T TOUCH THAT!! You might break it!". Other things, ummmm, I guess when my dad gets around to putting are new video card in I'll be playing my new sims game, so I probably won't post on here for awhile, but we'll just have to see. So I'm cutting it short, since I didn't do much and I really am just out of thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
Mandie Hansen
Monday June 15, 11:24pm

I'm Sorry

Ok, it's been a hectic day, and I complete forgot about my blog until a few moments ago when Sirena mentioned something about computer viruses (which somehow reminded me of my blog?). SOOOO I will type my heart out about my day, here and now.

Alright, I got up at like noon (as always), and my first thought was, "hmmm, MY SIMS 3 GAME!!!". So I went to my computer and tried to start the game, and it wouldn't work. AARRRRGGGGG!!!!!! My freaking computer's video card doesn't meet the requirements for the game. SOOOOO I've been browsing online for most of the day trying to find a cheap video card that is supported by the game. After about 4 hours of browsing, and realizing that the cheapest video card I could find was like $90, I went upstairs to my room to listen to my iPod. SWEET BABY JESUS I am soo freaking sick of this game, I JUST WANT TO PLAY IT!!!

As you can tell by my bold print, I am VERY ticked off about this whole issue. Now after all this typing I realized that I forgot to explain why this blog post is typed out, WELL, it's like midnight, and I'm tired and annoyed, and I'm too lazy to write it out, go downstairs and scan the thing, then get yelled at for being up so late. But on a happier note, I finally found the song Blame It On The Alcohol by Jamie Foxx!!! So now I can listen to the song without having to go to youtube and find the right video for it. ANDDD my wonderful mother brought me home my most favorite treat ever!!! A FROSTY CINO!!!!! AMAZING. My parents also promised to look for a new video card so I can play my new game soon. I guess there really is a silver lining in every situation. So I guess I'll leave you with a photo that just makes me laugh. hahaha Mr. Hansas.

Thanks for reading. Mandie Hansen
Sunday/Monday Jun 14/15 midnight

Saturday June 13th 2:03pm

3:25am on Saturday June 13, 2009

Alright, so I had this CRAZY idea to start a blog....why? I've found myself asking what I should do with all this free time now that school is out. Possible solutions:

1) write a novel

2) sleep

3) get a job

4) make a blog

5) play video games

6) watch TV

7) read more novels

8) try to understand how comic books and anime are so fascinating for some people

After analyzing all these possible solutions for hours on end, I've come to the conclusion, I've done everything on that list except make a blog. So blogging it is. Since I have never blogged before, I did what any average teenager will do, no, not find a nerd (since apparently I am one?), I went to the always handy Google Search Engine. I browsed many blogs, finding that many people are disturbed.....that's another story, I've become bored with the standard, fill in the text and maybe add a picture here and there, blog post. I want to try something new. Maybe this is due to the lack of sleep, or the fact that I'm psychotic, I've come up with the plan to write out my blogs. Crazy? NO, GENIUS!!!! I will write these blogs out on note cards (the handiest things to have around, right next to duck tape) or any other type of paper I find handy, then scan them onto my computer to post it. May be time consuming, but heck, I got 3 months of free time to do this. Since I do not have a scanner for my laptop, I will have to use the one that is hooked up to our "family computer". Which is inconveniently located downstairs where my mother is currently sleeping (note the time, 3:36am). So if were so stupid to go down their at this time of the night, or day, whatever you consider it, I would surely be yelled at, or possibly get something thrown at me. So the handwritten blogs will have to wait until after she wakes up in the morning. Seeing that my hands are starting to hurt, and noticing that I'm starting to babble, I will end my very first blog.

Thanks for reading and have a stripe-filled day!
Mandie Hansen