carving pumpkins

Yea what a fun time of the year. i love carving pumpkins. it is such a fun thing to do to show off your skills.

this year i brought on my pumpkin carving skills. i carved a cat in my pumpkin and it looks so cool. but i think the best part of carving pumpkins is to gut them out. it is squishy and gooey and fun. i love the smell of them too. i had so much fun. my pumpkin is the perfect addition to my Halloween costume. i am going to be the CRAZY CAT LADY. i already kind of fit that description. i have 2 cats that i am obsessed about and i love all cats and other animals.

I gave my kitties a bath today. they were not too happy about that but they needed one really bad. i also got to spend time with my mom dad and sister. it is always nice to be with family. well it is getting late and i should get to bed. for all you who read this. happy pumpkin carving. ~Manda panda

Journal

I love my Journal. I just finished one a few weeks ago and i started a new one. it is like writing your life story from your own perspective. the best part is, you can write about anything you want with out others seeing it unlike a blog. A journal is a place were i can express what i feel at that exact moment and i can not get that moment back. It is fun to read back at what i have written. to see my ups and downs. I recommend that people write in a journal. it is a fun way to get to know your self.

Well i have not written in my blog in a while. nothing is really new with me. I am excited for my concert this week. it is my steel band concert. i am sorry to all my friends who i keep hounding to go to my concert. i just think that it is a cool thing and want to share it with you. I am currently at work watching Ghostbusters. it is a good movie.

umm... i have been studying hard this week for a test in one of my classes. that is where i have been hiding all week. I got to warm-up a 8/9th grade choir yesterday. that was so much fun and the class was very good and responsive to all the things that i did.

Last week i got pinkeye but i am better now hopefully. i got my flu shot this last weekend and i got a clean bill of oral health from my dentist. so that is cool cool. not really. i ran out of things to write about so i think i will end my blog with this. Be bold and be happy.-Manda Panda

the New target

this weekend was so fun and random. on sat i got to go to the new Super Target that is down the street from my house. it is so big. my mom and I spent about an hour in that store and we only got 1/2 way through the store. I was amazed at how different that store is compaired to the one that is about 22 blocks away. the older super target has everything bilingual and the new target did not. i have never been in a target that was not bilingual. it was strange. the new target was so quite and empty and had a lot of suv's parked in the parking lot. ya so i love target but it was just a strange place.

other fun things i did this weekend was spend time with my family. i got to go to the pumpkin patch with my parents, my Nina, My cousin's Isaiah, and Jake my godson. they are so so so cute. i just love them to death. Isaiah broke his finger so he was all wrapped up. He was very picky on what kind of pumpkin he wanted. a nice big orange one, only the majority of the ones we looked at were green. they were green because they had too much moisture this season. but we found him a nice orange one. after the pumpkin patch we stoped at a dairy farm festival. it was so random. you had the farm animals, tractors, and bad country western band. oh you can not forget the farmers trying to sell us city folks bird feed. that was so random but the kids seemed to be enjoying them selves.

well.. that was my weekend.

Home Comming fun!!

"Fight on you Stalwart ram team on to the goal
tear the rebels line asunder, as down them field we thunder
Knights of the green and gold, fight with all your might
fight on you stalwart ram team FIGHT!, FIGHT!, FIGHT!
GO RAMS!"

well i did not write this week. so before i write about home coming i will give some highlights of my week.

This week was such a wonderful weekend. I got to go to 2 concerts, both had my roommate in them. the best concert was the Jazz band concert. they had brought in a German Big band that was amazing. I was also impressed at the skills of some of my friends. it is fun to see them be into what they are playing. I took 2 test this last week. i know i did alright on one and the other i will soon find out. some good news..no trouble with any creepy guys this week. :) always good news. I got to teach a mini-lesion at a Jr. High as well. it was such a blast to be in front of the classroom passing along knowledge. it truly is a nice feeling.

Home coming:

Yea for CSU home coming weekend. I have had a blast this weekend spending time with my college chums here at school. Lets see..On Friday I went to the Bond-fire and the lighting of the A. (for those of you who do not know what the A is, it is a big white A that is painted on a hill that is over the sunny lubick(?sp) football field, that stands for the "Aggies". back in the day before the Rams CSU was known as the Aggie's and the mascot was a bull dog.) Any ways...I got to see Jeanett play in marching band and see the female streaker that ran in through the band and out by were my roommate was standing. it was so funny. and they lit the A and had a kind of lame fireworks show but you know it is fire works. fireworks are so awesome especially when you get to shair it with your friends or family.

me and my friend Kenny


Me and my friend Meghan


my friends Mike and Becki

the marching band

cam the ram the 20th

cam the ram the 21st

the parade was a blast. i got to see my old pal Meghan and her family. that was fun. i also got to sit with my Friends up here. here are some pics of the parade. I guess Cam the ram the 20th was retired and we now have cam the ram the 21st. he has cool horns. i also got to see my friends/roommate march in the parade. that was cool. I also got a lot of free stuff. a mini foam finger, a cool pen and a can cooler thing a ma bob.

my roommate Jeanette sporting my foam finger

The game was so exciting. From the band, my friends that i went with, the cool smoke ring from the cannon and the sweet win over Nevada 28-7. it was a good game. :) also the fact that CU lost again to make their season 0-6 was even better. (just kidding Joy ;) ) I like to tease my sister. it is fun.

well i hope that you all had a nice weekend and that you have a nice day.

~Manda Panda

weekend adventure at WALMART

WOW! I must say that i had an interesting experience at Walmart in Thornton Town center (the old Biggs to those of us that remembers that) this weekend. I had gone on Sunday to Walmart, or Walmark as my grandparents say, with my mom, sister and grandparents. My Grandpa decided to say at the McDonald's that is in the store and people watch while the rest of us shopped.
well, first thing off we lose my grandma in the store for a good 20min. this just reminded me of the times she would take me and my cousins to K-mart or walmart and just leave us in the toy section on accident but that is a different story. back to my story i finally found my grandma sitting with my grandpa at McDonald's while i was getting my mom and sister a drink. at McDonald's i paid for the drinks, but did not receive the cups. as i was trying to ask the lady for my cups another lady behind me started to rant and rave about how they messed up her order. my grandma saw what was going on and asked another cashier about the cups and i received them. this was the first incident of the rudeness i saw at Walmart.

As i tried to find my mom and sister, i noticed that the store was really busy and had a lot of stressed out people. I have always said that the very close isle that are very tall and packed full of products and all the people at Walmart makes me feel claustrophobic. I finally found my sister and mom and we continued to shop. while we were shopping i almost got ran over by shopping carts about 10 times. people were irritated if you stopped to look at something and would talk to you very rudely. You just see patents yelling at their kids and kid fighting back. screaming and crying kids. it was a nightmare.
I felt like ditching my stuff that i was going to buy when i had to stand in that ever long line while people were yelling at their kids and the checkout people and kids throwing tantrums. oh man i left with such a head ache. i know my sister felt the same way. she said that she would not ever shop their again just because at how rude people were. I hate Walmart as well.

that is the end of my Walmart story.
~Manda Panda