verymandy

State of the Mander Address

Who am I? How would I describe myself?

I guess I'm kinda weird (in a good way), artistic (in my own way) and pretty cool...

I don't try to front or act like I'm someone I'm not. I'm not very sophisticated. I don't know it all. I'm still learning (no matter how old I get). However, at least, I am 100 percent original.

I try to make the best of what I have. I make the best out of what has been given unto me. I make the best out of what I can find/obtain. I make the best out of what I lose. What is meant to be will be. That's basically my attitude.

I'm casual. I'm a casual person in all aspects of the word. I'm easy, I'm casual. Down-to-earth. Of the peeps... however you want to say it. That's a really big aspect of me.

I like to work hard and get immersed in it.

I have a significant other, my hubby Donnie. We've been together since 2002. We got hitched in 2007.

I'm inexplicably happy most of the time despite the shtuff that gets occasionally thrown my way.

I'm willful. I'm smart & stubbornly independent.

I like to organize and arrange things. Lists are my friends.

I have intuitive skills in language, mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, religion & logic.

I’m horrible at spelling, mechanics, physics, engineering, chemistry, electronics and really anything that is visually technical (if that makes sense) rather than intuitive, abstract & intellectually analytical-- though I’m under the delusion (perhaps) that when I put my mind to it I can figure anything out.

Sometimes I procrastinate. Sometimes I just like to veg out.

I get distracted by pointless, long, tedious but somehow all consuming tasks such as writing this bio.

I get lost in my head. Sometimes I can't find my way out. I'm a dreamer, too much so and there is such a thing.

I can be absent-minded. I'm the queen of opening a drawer and leaving it open. I'm notorious for starting a task and forgetting what I'm doing half way through... That is my nature, but I am so aware of this fact that most of the time I actually over-prepare for things. It breaks my heart when I let people down or disappoint them or annoy them or frustrate them. I'm this right-brained, creative, head-in-the-clouds person who is constantly fighting it.

I make lists all of the time and I just go over things in my head a lot. So in the end I can be very anal and very tedious. I would say that in the end I am very reliable and very responsible, because I make such a conscious effort toward that goal.

My interests change, but I'm a pop culture nut. I like to read, watch, listen.. to everything. I'm like Johnny5 from Short Circuit in that I have an insatiable thirst for "input."

I like to make friends and I love people but I NEED my alone time. I go through periods where I must isolate myself in order to regenerate.

I'm a people-pleaser and that can be exhausting after awhile. I love talking and getting to know people, starting conversations and helping people feel good about themselves. I just want everyone to be happy so I try to be all things to everybody sometimes. Even though I'm comfortable around people, it is actually few and far between that I feel comfortable enough to relax and truly, truly be myself around. But I feel like that is how it is for most everybody.

I am patriotic, progressive and idealistic. I believe in civil rights, justice, ethics and moral integrity within the government. I believe society should strive for greatness and the greater good of all.

I believe that God is good & that people are basically good & that there is a purpose to life. And we should all let love rule.

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A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
The internet is a wonderful thing to waste it on.

Friends Only Journal!

"Friends Only" means that only certain, specified members of the livejournal community that I have approved of can read most of the content of my journal. However, I quite often post unlocked entries that anybody can read. I do this so I can screen who is reading my journal.

Why did I add you? I added you as a friend because I was surfing LJ (which is fun to me) and found your journal one day. I don't add people all the time but something about your journal stood out to me. I thought it was interesting and I wanted to be able to find it easily and keep up with it and read your "friends only" posts.

However, if I add you and you don't add me back then I take that as a sign that you don't really want me lurking around so I will usually unfriend you. If your journal has tons of friends that aren't "mutual friends" then I might keep you as a friend because obviously you have a lot of lurkers and don't mind.

That said, I check my friends' page only once or twice a week because I have a busy life so please don't mind if I sometimes get behind or seem oblivious to all the goings-ons of your life. LJ is my hobby. I do it for fun and I can't always spend as much time on fun stuff as I'd like.

I like journals that either I relate to or maybe inspire, amuse and/or challenge me.

Cheers.

Quotes

"Love one another." Jesus

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." Folk Proverb

"It ain’t watcha say, it’s the way ‘atcha say it." Jack Kerouac

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --Aristotle

"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." Gustave Flaubert

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all." Emily Dickinson

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." Louisa May Alcott

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say, 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'" Soren Kierkegaard

"All our young lives we search for someone to love...someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect...who might be searching for us." Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles Du Bos

"Write your dreams in pencil." Jim Delisle

more quotes

Movies

Reality Bites



"I was really gonna be something by the age of 23." Lelaina

"Hello, you've reached the winter of our discontent. " Troy

"My favorite part about graduating now will be dodging my student loan officer for the rest of my life. He will be in cahoots with the Columbia Record and Tape Company guy... been after my ass for years." Vicky

"You got fired? I mean, that just screws up my whole idea of good and evil and God." Sammy

Top 10




reality bites, dazed & confused, william shakespeare's romeo & juliet, harry potter, almost famous, true romance, lord of the rings, rushmore, pretty in pink, strictly ballroom

50 more favorites school of rock, back to the future, walk the line, swingers, down with love, moulan rouge, sixteen candles, the breakfast club, chicago, trainspotting, pulp fiction, the garden state, the matrix, the terminator series, star wars series, the fifth element, beautiful girls, hysterical blindness, ghost world, the goonies , murial's wedding, the royal tennenbaums, sliding doors, donnie darko, girl interrupted, st elmo's fire, white oleander, gattaca, clueless, labyrinth, the emperor’s new groove, boondock saints, good will hunting, little women (1994), goodfellas, titanic, legend, fight club, moonstruck, twilight, the dark knight, groundhog day, the life aquatic with steve zissou, the darjeeling limited, marie antoinette, brokeback mountain, breakfast at tiffany's, the shawshank rendemption, pirates of the caribbean series, spirited away

more movies

Favorite directors
richard linklater detour films
baz luhrmann bazmark
quentin tarantino the quentin tarantino archives
cameron crowe cameroncrowe.com
wes anderson rushmore academy
kevin smith a view askew
hayao miyazaki studio ghibli
sofia coppola sofia mini

Script writer
charlie kaufman

Music

The Beatles are my favorite.

The 13 albums (in order by original release):

please please me, with the beatles, hard day's night, beatles for sale, help!, rubber soul, revolver, sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band, magical mystery tour, the white album, yellow submarine, abbey road, let it be

more music
i was a teenage teeny bopper

Shops & brands

stuff ikea, uncommon goods, urban outfitters, sanrio, funky sofa, newtons, fred flair, modern cat, mary engelbreit, half price books, hastings, target, harajuku lovers, nintendo

clothes amelia'a fashion exchange, polyvore, forever 21, shiroi neko, fafi, mod cloth, charlotte russe, lane bryant, sketchers, gap, levis, converse, guess, diesel, fossil, bebe, betsey johnson, doc martin, candies, bisou bisou, a.n.a., gianni binni, calvin klein intimates, juicy couture

Profile portal

I have profiles, journals and other web nonsense scattered throughout the internet. LJ is and will always be my home base, though. Here are some links to the more underdeveloped embodiments of verymandy. (PS I have deleted some of my accounts.)
43things librarything mavspace

Other stuff

I'm slowly building a song repertoire. I made all my userpics (unless noted) so please credit me and link me if you use one. I started saving my interests past & present. Where did I get my username? Why verymandy? A list of my skillz which I will try to add to as I think of them.

LJ-CUT [lj-cut] ... [/lj-cut] [lj-cut text="Cut off here"]

LJ USER [lj user="exampleusername"]

Dislikes:

41: assumptions, being judged, booty comments (or sexual harassment), bouncing a check, closed minds, cliché rap songs, constipation, cucumbers, cutting off my circulation, death metal, elitism, empty stairwells, fast food bloating, gorillas in captivity, gross cartoons, grumpy old men, straight guys who wear pink, heights, hillary duff, high fructose corn syrup, holidays sometimes, jalapeños, leaving a message, losing your connection, lindsey lohan, mean customers, movie talkers, mrs. garrett, my weight, network firewalls, paris hilton, perfume, politics, pollution, radio commercials, regret, sinus headaches, snobs, stubborn people, traffic, torture in movies, watching sports, white vans