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Manda — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:30:25 +0000

Wonderfully eventful day ^ ^.
Turns out Joe planned us a trip to ADVENTURE AQUARIUM on the outskirts of Philadelphia X3. It’s to celebrate our 5 years… even though it’s not till like Wednesday it’s rare we both have a day off together. I love aquariums so much!! Must have something to do with my mysterious obsession with fish D: And I had to paint my nails blue for the occasion apparently cause I’m his “little fish” XD <3 *lame* but... made me feel special.
The weather was horrible and we got lost on the was but turned out for all the better. Getting there later we missed all the stupid school field trips and had enough time to tour the entire aquarium by 5 o'clock... which was when our next destination opened up!
We went to this restaurant called Buddakan, like a modern Japanese/Asian restaurant. I’ve… never been to a restaurant like this before o.o It’s a 5 star horribly expensive restaurant with world renowned chefs and kiss ass service. Could imagine my surprise and how out of place I felt XD. The greatest food I’ve ever had T-T. And OMG wonderful (expensive) sake! Way to my heart is definitely through my stomach. They had a dessert bento box!! so cute! so tasty <3! Wonderful day... a couple of hundred dollars later... I don't want to think about food a while XD.
I'm feeling... a little more resolved with our situation after this. I see how things are changing... and I think getting better. I'm still afraid to jump to conclusions though. Afraid to just relax. But it felt good... to feel like old Joemanda again, like we were years ago. I really want to hold on to this as long as possible... I hope it doesn't end.

At the end of the day I got a call from Kim saying she had "news" for me about work? Couldn't get in touch with her though... maybe something good in my future soon? Lets wish happy thoughs for me ^ ^

Now on to pictures!!

Aquarium

Pictures from Adventure aquarium during Joe and I's 5 year anniversary.

15 Photos

Wtf fish

Manda — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:31:49 +0000

Urgh… I have had the worst day in a long time today. Besides things at work being all screwed up because of renovations I was suppose to get my imported betta’s that I’ve been waiting weeks for finally overnight shipped to me. I woke up at effen 7 am on 4 hours of sleep to be ready for their arrival…. time passed by and before I knew it I had to go to work at 3 without any sign of my fish. Thankfully Joe was going to be home to wait for them… time passed some more till it was like 6 pm and I knew something had to be wrong. I called up the shipping company to find out my package never even made it on a truck. The drive just never picked it up to be delivered. They agreed to keep their facilities open so Joe could just go pick it up…. but once they finally found it the bags had leaked everywhere and both fish were dead T-T. I cannot explain how pissed off I was… I seriously almost left work simply because I was so pissed and full of frustration. Now I have to sort a whole bunch of crap out between the carrier, transhipper and breeder. I truly couldn’t wait to get that fish too… he was so pretty, it’s such a waste.

There is some what good news. The female platinum halfmoon I ordered was left out of that shipment. They just forgot to pack her XD. Soooo she was shipped out tonight via express mail (not crappy DHL) and should arrive just fine. Linda said she only gets like 1 or 2 cases of bag leakage a year, meaning its likely DHL just completely mishandled the package resulting in the death of my other two fish. I’m trying to remain confident that she’ll be ok in US postal express shipping. I REALLY REALLY hope she’ll arrive safe. I would feel at least a little less discouraged about what happened.
I now have to sort out with the original seller what to do about this whole situation. I’m hoping he’ll replace the fish with a similar one from the same spawn, I was really looking forward to my panda fish T-T. If not I’m sure I’ll just get refunded… and have to pick out new fish -.-

urgh…

I also have to re-setup my breeding tank. Kyo got a bad case of fin rot out of no where o.o! Chi was completely fine. So it’ll be some time before he’s back to his healthy self and able to breed and care for babies ^^. Patience truly is the #1 requirement in betta breeding…. I should pick easier hobbies XD.

New accomplishments

Manda — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:25:06 +0000

Happy to FINALLY announce my damn blog is now hosted on wordpress WITH a custom template made by myself ^^! It was a LOT of work… and hopefully I won’t have to make another for quite some time. I’m fairly happy with the current theme though. I wanted something simple but dynamic. I was originally going to go with an “underwater” theme with fishies….but it looked too plain and fairly ordinary… still cute though ^^.

I think maybe I’ll finish it up and throw it on DS? Would just be a waste to scrap it T-T.

Ummmmm also I’ve started breeding my betta fish XD. After many months of preparation and planning I’ve finally gotten my breeding tank set up ^^. Right now I have Kyo (so named for is crazy ice blue eyes and randomly blue spotted body) and Chii (so named…cause she’s cute XD) as a match… and I’m hoping for some babies by the end of the week. Unfortunately all I can do is keep up the proper breeding conditions for the two of them and hope they hit off D:. If not I’ll have to try another pair T-T. I have my halfmoons being shipped over all the way from Thailand tomorrow ^^! So if all else fails I’ll get started on them within the next two weeks. Straight out, I want baby fish ^^. And once I have them everyone will be getting a special little fishie present as I’ll have about 400 of them XDDD.

Please pray for my successful fish breeding T-T…. and if anyone wants a free fish let me know XD. I’m sure I’ve gone fish crazy by now .

As far as other accomplishments go, DS is finally back online again! Took a week with the flu for me to find enough time to effen finish coding up enough of it to link everything back up. It’s not quite 100% though D: Still I’ve been working reeeeeeaaallly hard on it! Definitely most proud of the media section ^^. It’s like a mini jrock youtube XD.
I am a little peeved lately though. Effen Josh of Hikaru Hoshi has been stealing a lot of my content ideas… like parts of my media section that I’ve worked so hard on D:< annnnnd using the same music player I have on my myspace XD. It’s been going on for a while now though. The small amount of php/mysql coding he’s been able to implement originally came from the tutorials off of DS (when we did have the tutorials up XD) so some of his sections look almost exactly like what our old layout for graphics was. I try to be nice but it just makes me angry once I put something up someone else is trying to copy the same thing. And not one bit of credit to DS on his site for all the support and inspiration both I and the site have shown him, tsk tsk. It’s a good thing though I suppose, makes me work really hard to accomplish things that I know other people just don’t have the ability to do.. like my beloved media section. I call he’ll be stealing the rating java script next, just watch.
Ah well. I should have at least entered his contest thingy and won myself a free domain XD. Though from my understanding that thing was poorly judged so I probably would have ended up in last place some how XD.
Reminds me… I want to start a contest on DS soon… I was thinking a t-shrit design contest maybe… or just another layout contest. People always enter those ^^. I need to brain storm with the crew

It’s late now, hooray for me, I’m off to bed now.

Pet Shop Fun

Manda — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:56:29 +0000

Well… Should be known by now that I have a part time job at Petco ^^. Working in a pet store is really not work at all XD. Needless to say every once an a while the animals do cute things ^^. And with the help of my iphone I’ve captured a couple, so I thought I’d share XD. (NOTE: iphone camera isn’t the best sooo things are a little blurry T-T).

Croutching Tiger, Hidden Shrimp

Fat sleeping Robo Ham XD

Pile of Hams.

Ham!

Manda — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:04:04 +0000

Wow, been a long time since I posted anything o_O! I should… go back and look at wtf I posted last time… but I’m really that lazy right now.
So no my lack of posting hasn’t been for laziness issues. Mainly I’ve just been overly busy. Quite a change XD.
I don’t remember… if I mentioned I work part time at Petco now… but I do XDD. Only like 4 days a week but it still gets exhausting. I’m quite enjoying my job though. All those years of owning one of every animal in existence finally pays off. I basically take care of animals all day… and answer lots of questions. Down side is I’ve picked out like 2938752985 animals I’d like to bring home now XD. I got a new HAM! He’s soooooo cute and thankfully doesn’t bite like my other ham. ATTACK HAMMY! I named him cotton ball… cause that’s what he looks like :3! I also got another betta fish XD. I was so heart broken when my mother killed Gabriel ToT I actually didn’t want a new fishie for a while… but another girl at work found showed me a white crown tail with a hint of moon glow… so I had to get him XD. No other new little friends to report on… and hopefully there won’t be any more any time soon ( if I can help it ).
Besides all that theres been school… but I only have class once a week now! Kind of like it that way, 4 days of work, 1 day of school, 2 days to myself (*cough*internetalldaylong*cough*). I think it’s a fair enough balance.

Ummm… I think I might actually re-do this site… like I don’t have enough projects going on now XD. I think I’d like to upgrade to wordpress though. Just has so much more then cutenews.. and right now I have that stupid division zero error thingy or something going on that I’m really just not motivated enough to fix XD. Not to mention I could use a new layout. My current band obsessions are Alice Nine and SUG… which one will win the battle as Manda’s new layout theme?! Who knows, who cares, depends what kind of pretty pictures I find…. I’m thinking most likely alice nine… in a style to match my new myspace layout. I’ll get to it eventually.
Annnnd Kai and I have been putting a lot of thought into the future of DS. We have a good plan for the next layout design and I’m working on getting the template done for phpbb3 version of the forums so I can start on it. Still so much left to do… but it’ll all pay off ^^.

I… have nothing else left to talk about now… and I’m really tired XD. End.