Blogathon 2006 is Officially over. Im tired, as I stayed up the entire 24 hours, even though the power went out 0.0 . Oh well, what can you do. Thanks to everyone who came and checkout out our blog. It will remain online as long as it is desired by the other swayers. Thanks!
Now off to bed!
Have you ever noticed that? Not too much blogworthy really happens over the summer. I mean sure, once in a while you’ll do somthing with your friends thats interesting, but most of the time, its just you hanging out doing nothing. At least thats how its been for me.
My Trip to Ovid
It seems like I have the best luck with trips out of town. Anyways yesterday my mother, stepfather, sister, grandmother, and I went to Ovid to get her camper because she got a job in Cooperstown, NY and she wants to stay in her camper.
On the way we stopped in Watkins Glen and went to Mr. Chicken, the best rotisserie chicken resturaunt in the Finger Lakes Region. It was so good, my sister had chicken nuggets and I had the chicken dinner. It got quite crowded as we were eating, (its almost like people folloiw us! 
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We then went straight to Ovid and when we got to the campground it was empty. So my sister suggested scaring the campground owner into thinking the camper was stolen, but I don’t think it would work. So we ripped the camper apart and hooked it up to the truck and the back of the truck sagged so low due to the weight of the camper. So before we left, my grandma was moving a couple things and my mom came to the car and said
“You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, making your grandma move everything herself!”
And while my mom was saying this my grandma was making faces and sticking her tongue out imitating her. So I’m watching my grandma and trying to keep a straight face while my momis yelling at me. It was so weird, I mean how often does someone actually say “You ought to be ashamed of yourself?!”
So we finally made it home, and I kinda hung out and debated on the future of this site, originally I was going to put it on hiatas (and I actually did, and it stayed up a whole 12 hours before I decided against it!). So thats about it.
The best is yet to come. Remember “my trip to hellimean Cooperstown?” Today my mom and stepdad are going up. Lets see how they enjoy it!
Wow, things have been amazingly boring lately. With that being said, an example of my day is
Wake Up
Eat lunch
Go back to sleep
Sit and do nothing (until 6 am)
Go to bed.
I’m still waiting for Subway to call back, I’m beginning to wonder whats taking so long. Oh well. Other than the boredom, my computer is dying. 
It’s taking abour 10 minutes to load and then after its been one for a few hours it starts acting weird, so I restart it, but it freezes on the Windows Screen. I still have to check if its still under warranty (I really hope it is).
On another note, next Saturday (July 19th), Blogathon 2006 is taking place. What happens is people from all over the world register their blog and take donations (which go to a charity of their choice) so long as they write a blog entry every half hour for 24 hours straight. I will be participating with SwayBlog. We’re blogging for WaterAid. Check out our blog at
http://www.swayblog.mindlesstrio.com and donate a bit of money. Its for a great cause, and 24 hours of sleepless Swayers should be interesting.
Yesterday was such a fun day. I had a job interview at subway, so my grandmother took me to that. For once we got there early! So i sat there and waited for the woman interviewing me to get done with her job. So when the interview finally started, I had sat there for over a half an hour, (not bad, but nerve racking). She asked me the basics like “What do you feel you can bring to subway” and the like. So when it was finally over, my grandma took me to her house to get my sister so we could leave for Cooperstown.
The trip started ok, the occasional bad driver, but you can’t avoid them. We stopped and had dinner at Cracker Barrel, then left. Of course the main bridge had to be out so we had to take a detour that ended up being an hour out of the way. By the time we made it to Cooperstown it was around 6:30. We looked at some campgrounds and one was hideous. The neighbors were scary, they had a “petting zoo” and a putt-putt course made from old trashcans.
We then decided to go see the hospital where my grandma would be working. She was telling us a little bit about it, and how it looked like the hospital in our home town. She then started telling us about the new heart clinic when she drove into a pothole and blew up the tire. Of course, when this happens its during a downpour and there is thunder and lightning.
A volunteer firefighter comes and changes the tire for my grandma, and by the time hes done, the AAA towtruck is there. We drive to his shop because he said the tire wasn’t good enough to get us the 3 hour highway ride back to Elmira. So in the shop we look at the tire and there is a golf ball sized hole in the tire and it was beyond repair. The repairman ripped apart an old car to get the tire off and in the process we were there for over two hours.
Then things started to get creepy. The repairman started flirting with my grandma. He told her how he was a urologist, an ambulance driver, a painter, and everything under the sun. He then told her how he moved up here from Houston, Texas, and vowed to stay in New York after his wife left him in the 1990’s. Then my grandma was giving me her password to her cell phone and it was her birthyear. The repairman said, “Oh, its 1970.” (I hope not, my mom was born in 1969…) When it was all fixed we were going to get a drink and he followed us down the road. My grandma the whole way home kept asking if he was following us.
We then went to a Best Western to check the rates as my grandmother has yet to find a place to stay. We got in there and there were these annoying little brats running around. She walked up to the desk and waited for the man who appeared to be watching the children to talk to her. He didn’t. He, as she later found out, was made of wax. The fact that he was missing fingers should have tipped her off.
After that happened we went to get ice cream, and my sister found someones wallet and they spent a good half hour trying to find a phone number to call the guy. We finally left and got home and it was after 1. Mom said she left the door unlocked for us… and guess what… it wasn’t unlocked. Its pitch black out, dead silent, and we’re locked out. My grandma called into the house (as no one was answering the door) and mom came and unlocked the door. I went into my room and went to bed.
Now today, Im sick and feel like garbage. “Thanks alot Cooperstown!”
As you know, I am currently in the process of moving everything from my old server to my new one. In the process I am going crazy, theres so much to move and so much to change. Anyways, heres my list of stuff to move/fix
Another Friday
Just Because
SwayBlog
Mindless Trio
Vigilante
MT Music
MT Guilds
Mindless Blogs
The Forum
Music @ The Hangout
The Hangout Resurrected
Plug It Up
The SwayForum Stuff
Just posting to let everyone know I’m still alive. Not much has really been going on, blogworthy anyways.
I went to the orthodontist yesterday and they were running behind (as usual), so my mom goes up and asked how long it would be, because my sister had a doctor appointment around 4. (My appointment was scheduled for 2pm, we got in at 3). So the secretary goes up and the moronic dental assistants start complaining, and im sitting right there (mom ran out to the car). Then when they finally call me back, the start telling me stuff like “You mom doesn’t like me working on you” and “how can you stand to be around her.” I mean come on, I was tired and kinda mad at her for yelling at me, but its common sense not to talk about someones mother when they’re right there.
So after the orthodontist appointment, I came home and my mom took my sister to the doctor, and asked if I could watch the dog. I said sure. The dog was laying down in the living room by his cage and i layed down on the couch. The next thing I knew, it was 5pm and my sister and mom was home, and they took the dog out. I went to my bedroom and slept until about 6.
So, thats about all thats really happened.
Oh yeah, I’m also working on some new projects.
The first of which being a blogging platform, im a good portion into it now.
The second being The Hangout Resurrected. I got a good chunk of the layout and message board s done. It should be cool once its done.
The Blog & Site
Hello everyone, I’m back after nearly three weeks of coding, and many sleepless nights I have finished my hand-coded blog as well as wrote up a new layout. After being on wordpress for a couple months, then suddenly deciding to switch to a new blog system is a pain, but I did it. 43 blog entries, 72 comments, and about 40 pages of content (all of which had to be handcoded). Although it was a lot of work, I did enjoy doing it, and I would reccomend that anyone trying to attempt this should try Codegrrl.com’s tutorial on Build A blog, its a great way to learn PHP and you end up with an awesome blog!
EDIT: back to wordpress. I missed it too much.
Now Back to Life
The last couple weeks have been kinda boring, not much has really been going on, its summer and everyone is either away or busy. My sleeping schedule is now completely and utterly screwed up!
Sleep: 6am - 6pm
Wake: 6pm - 6am
Its horrible and my mom isn’t too happy about it either. Oh well, I have the whole rest of the summer to get back on track.
The Dog!
A couple days ago was my sister’s birthday and mom my sister would joke with my mom saying “So and so is going to get me a dog.” And mom would reply to that with “Yeah, and then you and the dog will be living outside.” So as my sisters birthday got closer, mom had no idea what to get her. So the day of her party my sisters friends came over and they were acting like loonatics. The friends that came included (I’ll give name, my name for them, and a description of their personality)
Kate - Blue - Hyperactive twin of Liz. Petrified of me.
Liz - Pink - Hyperactive twin of Kate. Also petrified of me.
All(ie?)y - (No Nickname) - AAAAHHHH!!!!! She drove me nuts!
Tracy - (No nickname) - Just there, didn’t say too much.
Devin - (No Nickname) - Also kinda there, made fun of my sisters toes (strange I know!)
Kaylinn - The Indian Girl - Loud, and kinda rude.
Now all these girls along with my sister were in our tiny house from 5 until 8 and it was raining so it was nuts! They then went to my grandma’s house and spent the night there. (She was extremely brave for doing that).
So a few nights later, my mom still hadn’t gotten my sisters present. I saw her looking in the newspaper for dogs in the “For Sale” section, and she couldn’t find one. She was trying to be all secretive too, but she kinda gave it away when she asked what a maltipoo was. She looked all over and she couldn’t find any dogs that would stay relativly small (as our house is small enough with five people in it.
So yesterday we went to Holly’s Hounds (a pet store in the mall) and out in the hallway of the mall they had little puppies in a pen, my sister immediatly ran over to the pen and saw a little black and white puppy (kinda looks like it has cow spots). Anyways, my mom called my grandma who came up and inquired about the dog and we found out it was a purebred male Chinese Crested Powderpuff. We then ended up buying it, so now we have a dog at our house. Ill upload some pics into the gallery later.