Swirls of love all over

fuck you

2012-02-02T20:57:00.000-08:00

if anyone ever goes on this again for some random reason...FUCK everything i wrote!!!!!!

Attempting to Draw This.

2009-02-20T06:35:00.001-08:00

Sadly, my battery pack for my camera has run away... So I'll try to find another camera once the results come in.. ...editors note: I'm am definitely not a professional

-Mindy

Yes yes yes, I know

2009-02-19T12:10:00.000-08:00

that.......I don't blog anymore, at least not for 5 months, which is basically the same thing. I'm not apologizing and definitely not giving any excuses for why i haven't been 'blogging'. I guess the main reason is that I've lost quite a bit of interest, moved on with my life to 'bigger and greater things' (so i guess you should ask why I'm starting up again) hummm, oh maybe because one day i went around checking other people's blogs, saw my blog on a link, and right under it said "colorful caravan, five months ago".. blah blah blah. Anyway, since the last time I posted, all the girls moved on, my brother,wife, and their kid moved in, and i moved down to an bitsy little trailer. (which if you ever go on Jules' blog she describes it as rotten haha i guess It's true, probably been around since the flood). 'Graduated' to being a kitchen deacon (which i must admit I'm pretty darn bad at)... Moving on.

Hopefully will be done with all my 'book-work' by the middle of year, which means I'll only have to do academics..... People always ask me if I'm going to move soon (most of them really want me to) and most people (out-side of the home) don't like my home too much, but It's my very own, and I'm pretty darn content.

All that to say, most of the things that's been happening since last time i visited this little pathetic excuse for a blog.. eee! -Mindy

Colorful Caravan

2008-09-04T17:53:00.001-07:00

exploring the new mall next to our abode, it was a terrible, boring place. And what do we do when we're bored? take pictures of course!! and that's how the women's world revolves.

Happy Birthday to Ben!!!

2008-08-06T17:03:00.000-07:00

Today is Ben's birthday, He's a totally awesome guy, and I've had the privilege of speaking totally random things to him for 4 years! Have a great day, and 17th year! Praying for you tons..Lots of love......... -Mindy

Can't Have a Day of Peace

2008-08-05T20:34:00.000-07:00

My recent promise of telling you that i would post again has been a bit of a trial for me, i have come to the realization that I'm quite dull, and thus i don't have much to say... but i guess I'll start small considering this is all new to me after a good few months of being free from the blogging weirdos...

i think I'm going to change my template, it has gotten rather old and I'm bored of seeing it, too much white, even though i greatly appreciate the person who spent long gruesome hours making it for me (you know who you are)..........

anyways, I've recently started to paint, also started using the easel and paper my Dad got me for Christmas about 4 years ago, scarcely used it once or twice since. I'm not the greatest at it yet, actually I'm quite the opposite, but I'm working on it, my Mom is also working on trying to provision a discount on a painting class, so that will be peachy, minus that I'll have to raise funds for it on my free day, and i just like my sleep so much.. ptl.... here's a pic of a horrible failure..eeee

Original Plan
(starting with something easy) my attempt at failure (sad part about it, is that i was using one of those kids watercolor trays)so i didn't have much to work with, oh and everyone please comment on my photography skills!

kks, see ya -Mindy

No Apologies Made to Fools.

2008-08-02T22:15:00.000-07:00

Here i am, not apologising to any one of my devoted fans... i know you're out there somewhere..
well from now on, i think I'm gonna be cool and start posting again.. i have to keep up with the blogging world right,? or else i would be the only one who was left behind for the rest of my life... and that just wouldn't do. so here is a small informing post, to say i love you, and that I'll start writing non-sense once more, hurra! love and more... -Mindy

(here is a small pic enclosed for you, of me)

Pray for Melly

2008-04-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

listen up people who never visit this blog, Mel (the one with tons of pictures of her on here) is super sick, with some strange tummy thingy, she's hasn't been able to keep anything down besides yucko apples, so, please prayer that she gets over it super soon! thank you tonsss.... i love you....
praying for you Mel!

and there is more...

2008-04-15T19:15:00.000-07:00

another free day has past, me and Mel went to the pool, poor woman didn't want to get wet, but i soaked her anyway in our "water fight" in the one foot pool, with streams of water coming out that could literally kill a clueless kid going under it. it was peachy. one day i will start posting about something besides free day, till then, be content and happy with the Lord gives you..... -Mindy

Sushi fun and Chinese dinner.

2008-03-31T12:01:00.000-07:00

sushi night was lots of fun, cooks were April, Dustin, and I, peachy as peachy can be.
New hair again
Here's alcoholic Melly when we went over to there house for a Chinese night, 30 pesos each
(wise advice: if you have limited money, don't spend it on food)
Chinese dress, and my cutsie nephew Evan looking like a dirty boy.
Me and April pretending to be happy :D
lovely lady
he wants to kill you, stay far far away!
the motherliness i have deep down inside somewhere

me experimenting with making inside out sushi (or whatever its called)
looks gross but it tasted alright, three cheers..

Ending story: (Editors note: if you are sensitive to unpleasant stories, do not read on)

this morning at 11:30 (free day) i was dreaming, a very odd dream to be in fact, but in this dream, i really REALLY needed to go pee, and usually when you try in dreams, you can't, as much as you try, so there i am in my dream going pee, when all of a sudden I'm shook out of my dream with an unpleasant wet feeling, i scream, jump out of bed, and see my nice gray pajama pants half peed on. disgusting i know, but rather hilarious at the same time, well i laughed anyway, moral of the story is, never drink coke before you go to bed, and do trust your dreams, cause they will come true. -Mindy

Missing my MaryLou

2008-03-26T13:25:00.000-07:00

My coolest most beautiful friend ever Marylou has left to the CTC last night, and i didn't even get to say bye, which makes me sad all over, but the good thing is shes only going to be staying for a month, but shortly after is leaving us again, tears are shed.. (hehe) I love you so much Mar, have fun, and don't work yourself to hard! your most ardent friend.....-Minders

Easter Blessings...

2008-03-24T12:24:00.001-07:00

i know I'm a day late, and saying happy Easter wouldn't make any difference because it was yesterday...but i do hope you had a peachy time eating boiled eggs with food coloring randomly strewn around....i know i did, it was splendid and peaceful.... Love and blessings...

-Mind

Prayer vigil

2008-03-22T18:27:00.000-07:00

there's so much to prayer for, but it feels like theres so little time in your day, and before you know it, your in your cozy little bed praying for the night, and then you remember that you need to do a half an hour more of this praying stuff....and by the time you think that, you're already half asleep snoring. (well maybe in your case, i'd like to believe i don't snore). its so difficult for me, my spirit is just so lazy and lethargic, jesus help me! so all you faithful prayer vigil-ers, can you drop a tinsy prayer for me to start getting my act together? that would be peachy, and if you need any prayer yourself, just drop a line, and i'll try pray for you during my prayer vigil that I'm regularly going to start! thanks for your prayers tambien!

-Minders

Freedays with Mel

2008-03-19T10:41:00.001-07:00

beautiful woman
if you look closely at the names, you'll see that these people don't know how to spell or write
trying to balance

Next door neighbors car we just HAD to get a shot with!

seeing Mel has become my weekly ritual, its rather fun and inspiring. listening to Declan always makes things more enjoyable together also, this free day, like every free day, we wanted to go to Starbucks, this week i was being greedy and didn't want to pay for us, so instead we went out in the blistering sun to go shop to shop, at first it didn't go so well, so we just kinda walked around, finally we got one CD to cover for our drinks, so the rest of the day we talked, drank frapps, and enjoyed ourselves immensely by eating takis and watching chick flicks, it was grand... Love you Mel, be good for Jesus!

Home Alone.

2008-03-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

For three days I'm the only one in our room.
only one word to describe this is.....

Peaceful.

Three days is all i need to start missing you guys again, heheh......love you girls tons!!.. have fun singing your little hearts out, and bring me back some munchies!..................................................

-Mindy

Beautiful Maria's Birthday.

2008-03-12T15:24:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Maria, love you tons!

Atonement

2008-03-11T20:55:00.000-07:00

thought you couldn't cry in a movie? watch this. Saddest and yet the greatest movie ever.

I miss my sister!!

2008-03-08T18:37:00.000-08:00

April i love you so much and miss you tons, your the best sister anyone ever could ask for!! and even though i can't fit in your jeans, were still tight.. claro que si? i love you, visit me soooon!

2008-03-07T12:39:00.001-08:00

Imagine this:
speeding cars driving down a large ominous four lane highway, and in the midst of this chaotic situation, two little girls running for there lives. One is quite sure of what she's doing, making quick dashes in and out of lanes, the other girl, sadly, is screaming on the top of her lungs, while clutching the others girl hand to direct her. the scared little girl, who can't cross streets for the life of her, sadly again, is me. (yes the one with the wrinkled neck.).

This is where we were, March 3rd 2008. free-day. it was Ian's birthday, well we were celebrating it anyway, actually i think its today, happy birthday Ian!
now that that's over, they had invited us to go play paint ball with them and afterwards get a bite (more like 200 bites, for me anyway) to eat, at a dainty little Japanese restaurant that they provisioned, so i decided to invite my lovely sister Melanie to come with me, in which she was TOO overjoyed, ahem. leaving in the afternoon, we arrived at the paint ball place at 5:00, sadly since Melly and I are quite broke, (sorda) we decided not to play, since we thought it would only be an hour for them to be done, and we were to scared to play anyway, Hence this is where the situation comes upon us of running across whistling streets, ....or people? we'll never know, but on to the rest... the whole reason we had to do such dangerous acts is because dear Melly is just to clean to use porter potties, so instead of just being a new bottle, she had to risk the life of a poor innocent relative that just wanted to live. ahem again. after we got back, they still weren't done yet, so we occupied ourselves by dancing and looking at this cute little boy racing on go karts, it was sweet...... after they were done we went to the restaurant with everyone, it was so enjoyable i could cry, all the sushi you could ever dream of right in front of you, yep thats my heaven.
Melly calls me a pig, but its not my fault, i enjoy eating OKAY?! haha, we can't all be slim and beautiful..hehe..... but anyways, by that time it was freazing cold, and guess what they decide to get for some celebrating....?.......... yep, you guessed it.. ice-cream!!.. but i just couldn't resist. chattering in between bites, i painstakingly ate the banana split, ya it was that good...thats where our day ended, thanks Melly for going with me, i love you sooooo much!!!.....sorry for stealing your idea for this post, oh well.. hehe.. be good, and remember you can't stay mad at me, because....we are sistahs!

2008-02-09T19:08:00.000-08:00

Hello, to all of you that still go on my dying blog, (if any at all)
allot has happened since i last "posted", for instance going to Hawaii, everyone probably knows already since i was "so excited" and had to tell all. so heres a little outline about that lovely trip.

Day one. "The Trip"

after long and strenuous hours of finding out what i should bring/wear etc etc, i was done with my four day job of packing!! hurray! The morning of the 12th came around i was ready to go out the lovely rusted front door, took a couple minutes to get our luggage in a tiny 4 door Mazda, but finally we did, ptl. the ride to the Airport was everything besides eventful, ladda ladda say goodbye to the driver, get into the tinsy airport, (sorry for all these unnecessary details ).
well we waited at the airport for an hour and a half, sitting around and reading some word, finally the plane boards all the happy customers get onto their tinsky plane, rather uncomfortable, and highly unorganized, no one had appointed seats, they just sat wherever, i picked a comfy spot in the middle with three seats, lazily through the whole plane ride i slept, with my feet propped up on my mom, being covered with her coat.. (no, I'm not ALWAYS this spoiled hehe) sadly they didn't serve anything for free, so we were starving by the time we got off...We arrive in Tijuana at, actually i don't remember the time but thats not important anyways.. we're getting our bags etc, then we have to cross this border by foot, with this huge line of people trying to do the same thing, so that took an hour or so of walking and of annoying questions from my mom asking everything she could possibly think of to a scared out of their mind stranger ahem. across the border there is a little McDonalds on the other side of the street, and thats where my Uncle was suppose to pick us up, my mom told him to pick us up at 3:00 because she didn't know how long it would take to cross the border, and she rather have us wait for him than him wait for us, so we get their at Mcdonalds there wait for 2 hours, occupying myself with reading books and playing minesweeper on my handy dandy laptop... finally he arrives and we drive 2 hours back to his place, ptl!...he was super sweet and took us out to this really nice sushi restaurant, and gave me and my mom 50 $ to spend in Hawaii, we then went to the movie store to pick something out, sadly nothing really was to appealing to us,
so he decided to get Pans labyrinth, and this movie about Queen Esther called A night with the king, we tried to watch the first one but his t.v. kept on screwing up, so we decided to stick the other one on and it worked fine, as my mom says she was praying against the first one because it was horrible and demonic, i guess I'll never know? after the movie was finished i was sooo tired and ready to collapse, and i was quite shocked when i saw that it said 10:00 ..finally we retired to our beds, and waited for the new morning to come upon us where we will land in Hawaii.. hahaha........(P.S. i think I'm going to randomly skip around on my trip, theres no way i can remember the whole two weeks, and even if i could it would be to boring to read, something like "i ate ten chocolate chip cookies, on the 10th day and watched 3:10 to Yuma" yeah something like that).......mucho amor!

Yeah, I'm pretty much a photographer now...

2007-12-18T19:18:00.001-08:00

Oh happy day...

2007-11-21T13:02:00.001-08:00

me and my mom..

freaky sisters!

stuff n fluff

2007-11-16T20:24:00.000-08:00

So I've been looking at other peoples blogs recently, and almost every blog has some post with a sorry "sorry i haven't been blogging" or " i know I'm so unfaithful with my blog" etc.. well now it's my turn...

I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T POSTED!!!... it's really not my fault, wait that's a total lie of Satan, but that's not the point!!...ahem... now that that's done i will go on.

my sisters here!!! yay...!!... she came a couple days before my birthday and we "celebrated" together by going to a Chinese restaurant and sipping hot star-bucks coffee... this is the 2nd yr we've done this for my birthday, gets better every time..heh...anyway everyone was really sweet to me and got me a bunch of swell stuff.. like a'bath"robe, towel, body wash, pink scrubby, perfume.. etc.. (are they trying to tell me something?? haha) .. i also got breakfast in bed for the first time... in a very long time.... it was so sweet and i was touched like a little fluffy bunny...
other happenings.. everyone went to the states this weekend for singing and Christmas fund-raising, so the house is pretty empty, and since April (of Mike) went with the team to the states I'm officially Bowens mommy for the week, witch basically means taking him for parent time and sleeping with him... its great until you wake up in the middle of the night with crying, whiny, almost falling off the bed children, but i guess I'll just have to learn to get over it.. heh....

that was my little.. very small..silly update... i'll post some pics of me and Apes soon... till then

going photo crazzy

2007-10-07T21:02:00.002-07:00

dressing up as "bussiness women"..(cough cough)

the perty stream,

i love starbucks!
the little cove we stopped by while walking to starbucks...

Don't ask me what they were doing.....
CAAREEEEPY........

Something different

2007-10-07T17:44:00.000-07:00

tonight is free night. I love free night.
Yes, sadly that i what i look forward to every weekend, but who doesn't?
skipping back a week, i want to to tell you about our peachy time we had for free night/day last week. So it's 7:45 our alloted time to go out to this super groovy party for Sara's birthday (I love you Sara!!) so just like the story of our lives, we' r running late. (editors note, we are always late, doesn't mean we still can't change ptl) the scheduled people for dishes were still putting on make-up and getting ready etc, so right before were suppose to leave we all pitch in on dishes, with dishes and fifteen minutes of trying to round everyone up to the car we get out the gate at around 8:30, ahem, 9:00. so ptl, were out, on the way we pick up some people etc and so forth not taking so long, then like 10 minutes before we get to the house Martin has to pee his brains out saying he can't hold it, so after 5 stops finally a little sub-way lets him to "relieve" himself... scary. (hehe) we get there around 9:45 10:00 but ptl, so were there starting to dance, when we have a game where the there are 4 girls and 4 guys, the four girls get blind folded while the guys kneel or sit or whatever they were doing cause i couldn't see, then they give the girls a banana while spinning her, when she stops she doesn't know where she is and has to try to find the guys mouth and stick the banana in b4 the other girls, well sadly i was really dizzy so i dropped it, and then trying to pick it up with all the dirt and grime ,( poor Santi, sorry!), while stuffing it in his mouth, nose, ears, etc. (just a little exaggerated) we still don't know who won though, fun none the less. anyways, to sum up my story I'll just say i had a really great time being a total Dorcas!! after the party was over i spent the night at Melanies house, i wanted to watch a movie for some reason at like 2:00 in the morning so she put on a beautiful life or something like that, it was in Italian i can't remember the exact name. anyway it was really sweet, melly fell asleep on me, tsk tsk heh.. the next day we took a fifteen minute walk to star-bucks assuring ourselves that the walking would burn off all the "calories" haha... on the way we stopped at this cute little forest place where i wanted to take pictures cause i thought it was pretty (i was taking pictures of almost everything cause i was celebrating having my camera back hurra!) anyways, we walked back and went to this natural park right across the street from her house, it had a little stream in it, so perrty, besides the fact that it had like 5000 mosquitos swarming all over me, ahem, but it was worth it.. i think, so yeah, anyway i'll post some pics of the party and day etc right up there....................................................................................... P.s. i love you people!

finally..

2007-09-28T19:08:00.001-07:00

Personal witnessing is great, isn't it? you go out, meet a bunch of swell people, get them saved, do your thing, etc.. well that's exactly what we were trying to do. ahem.
So around 5:15 Hopie and i started getting ready, all excited and the like to go out witnessing at an universal forum of cultures at Fundidora, The forum (as it is commonly referred to), is a global event which takes place every 4 years, in a different city each time, to reunite citizens from a varied range of cultures, languages, religions etc etc, as they say "This massive event will gather an approximate 1.5 million visitors to Monterrey, and is mostly free of charge." Perfect place to get some hardcore personal witnessing.. So we get out the get out the gate at around 6:00/6:30,
exceptionally late, but ptl no?..while were driving we get some nice pray vigil, praise time etc, so were at the gate of Fundidora at around 7:00 or so, finding out that it closes at hmmm 8:00, but we're there anyway so we figure hey A good hour of some quality witnessing is better than nothing, so we drive through, anticipating to get out of an old sweaty mini van, when some old decrepit lady walks up and asks us for our ticket and 50 pesos, ok so luckily 50 pesos isn't that much, but then again.. hmm no one has money, so we ask around explaining our work and what were trying to do, saying we have no money etc and so forth.. no one bought it. so after asking around 10 people at seven different gates, we decide to go, thinking, maybe we can go to the macro or somewhere else etc.. then about 10 minutes later, the whole sky around us is pouring with love... ahem.. or should i say rain.. so there goes our witnessing night, we decide to go home, taking around another hour , hour and a half, we got home at 9:00 sweaty and sick,(did i mention we didn't get out of the car the whole 2 and a half hours?)but the moral of my story is......... .......... bring money with you.. and... pray and ask the lord before you go out, cause if we did, we would have saved alot of time, gas, money, and more time.
ok so its 9:30, i will now get off and start making my "Famous" banana bread.. pray that it comes out good and doesn't taste like baking soda. the end.
i love you guys!

saying goodbye to all my fine feathered friends...for now.

2007-08-22T16:33:00.000-07:00

I'm writing here to say, that.......
i believe I'm the worst blogger in blogger "history"
so i wont be writing anything of the sort till i have something interesting to say,
or maybe a CAMERA! ..........
but I'm still expecting my template Mr.!!! (you know who thou art!)
ok well one day when i'm good and ready, i will post on this deserted blog!
this is not the last you will see dun don dun Mindy Oehler dun don dun don..........

To be continued.

rambles and the like.

2007-08-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

I have a thought, just one thought.

Let's just say your chatting with someone, and when your done you usually say, "love you" right? do you really mean it? well this was actually Hopie's thought, but really when you think about it it's just routine, maybe it's just me, so me and Hopie have devised a plan to find true love!!! dun don dun don, haha.. you know in the movies how some silly character is like "i wonder how it's like to be in love", and you think "how darn corny", but then when you think twice you DO wonder what its like, what is it like to be in love?.. so when me or Hopie ever fall in love were gonna tell all the "special" details.. haha.. its quite a plan RIGHT?!.. ok thats just my thought, or plan.. whatever you want to call it,

P.S if i say i love you on chat, i'll really try to mean it, honest! because i do, i think.

P.S.S. this blog won't be all on love.

On Leos, and love.

2007-08-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

I have devised a plan, instead of making about a gazillion "happy birthday" posts, i will cram them into one itty bitty one, so here it goes.

:my family.
August. i want to say happy birthday to my three "relations" on this splendid month, David, Kai, and Kira...
David is the greatest brother someone could ever ask for, and I'm pretty sure the greatest father too. he's hilarious, outgoing, sweet, nice, all that mushy stuff.. we've had some pretty "special" times together, and times when we didn't get along at all and I'd blow up in his face,
for instance when he use to throw my "precious" cat in the air like a football to my sister,
I'd cry my little eyes out then run and tell my mom, (i was ten WHAT do you expect?!)
then of course he'd get in trouble, then hate me for the rest of the week. (i don't know if that last sentence is true, just putting it in for effect) but besides all those casualties, we'd usually get along the best, so i just want to say i love you a lot and HAPPY 20TH. have fun in Chile and being Mr. JT board man..heh..........here's a pic of him and my adorable nephew Evan..

To Kai and Kira,
OK so i don't have a big long mushy post about them,
but here it goes anyway, Kai and Kira are my adorable niece and nephew,
i haven't really seen them grow up, but wishing i could, i love you guys !!, have a happy birthday!!!

my beautiful sister Karen, with kids.

moving on.

:Friends, Happy Birthday to......
Heidi, Kisha, Marky, Ben, Premi , and laura,
I love all you guys, i hope you have great birthdays!!!,

i especially love Heidi, and Kisha, they've been my greatest friends through everything,
i just want to say that to you guys, thanks for being my friend, and helping me through my little everyday annoyances ... mucho amor, -Mindy

Heidi and Anki looking perrty, and there fellow boy just..

... kisha blowing out an unlit candle.. hehe

Love lifts us up where we belong...

2007-08-05T18:49:00.000-07:00

Today is the first free-day since I've had this blog, it's quite a reason to celebrate yes sirree..
well in a few short but at the same time very long hours, i will be going to my good friend Melanie's house, it will be quite a party... oh yes!! apparently her parents (who were suppose to pick me up)
got a little delayed helping other poor family members in need, quite honorable I'd say, but at the same time quite bothersome, so that's why I'm waiting for those precious hours to go bye at my house.. (next subject)

one question.

WHAT in the world are you suppose to say in blogs??
now that I've said that you're probably wondering why i made a blog in the first place.
truly answering: no clue! i guess for my recreational fun.. but then again not really,
I have made a blog to just be cool like all you other popular bloggers .. yes that's what I'm really after POPULARITY.. dun don dun.. OK no never mind.. that's not it at all... lets just stay with the first answer , no clue..
new ways, i made this poem today, it was all rather corny, but then again rather fun, i don't know why i told you that, and no, I'm not gonna post the poem, because all you harsh critics will beat me out of my job, and also its all rather embarrassing.. so enough of this silliness..
i love you all.. good night, sweet dreams of apple crumble pie.

My first "excuse" post.

2007-08-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

so yeah, i have decided to make a blog crazy huh? No, not for your sake, not for anyone reading this sakes. Yes, sadly it's for my own recreational enjoyment, while at the same time making a complete fool of myself, so that's where I've started.... i have no idea what I'm gonna write on this, and most likely wont keep up with it, but if your my "REAL" friend you'll read it (heh heh) maybe even just for the sake for making fun of it..who knows? yes so as i have said, its just

for my fun... SO it will probably very silly, but that's not the point, the point is why are you wasting your time reading this? do tell, i love you all, and remember get your word-time or be in big trouble boy!!