I’m Mandy, head nerd and super geek behind this site. I started Mandelion.com out of absolute boredom and irritation with Geocities, Tripod, and all the rest of the crappy pagebuilder sites. It started as just a way to update friends on with my family and to play with HTML. Now many years later, I don’t use the site as a basic “who am I” online to send people in chatrooms to. Granted, I still hand out my domain name to new friends and prospective editors. It’s evolved as a way for me to blog about things going on in the world, news or pop culture worthy, and how I feel about them. After becoming disabled, I decided to add more of my life beyond the TV remote in my entries. This site is a way for me to express my inner and outer geek as well as talk about what’s going on in my world. So there’s everything from personal entries to the regular pop culture and random tv musings that were always there.
Yes, I’m disabled and had to leave my job a few years ago. I have this damn gimp leg, among other health issues, that aren’t going away anytime soon. It’s hard to get moving or do anything like I used to without extreme amounts of pain. I do get by with a little help from my friends, named Vicodin and Soma. I use a cane when the pain gets to be absolutely too much to handle. It sucks but I’ve done the best to accept my situation and make the most of it. I have time to write and more time to spend with my beautiful daughter.
That’s right, it’s a girl! My daughter is my world and she’s been the most amazing thing to ever happen in my life. Her name is Samantha but is lovingly called Chicken by those who know her. I’m not sure there are many moms out there that can say their 10 year old is taller than they are like we can as she’s 5’3″. (Anyone looking to endorse her for future basketball deals – please email ASAP) I’m a single mother and have been since right after she was born. She’s a wonderful gift even though she drives me insane. But she has our three dogs, Porkchop, Tinkerbell, and Sunshine to keep her busy. With an aggressive terrier mix, a mini-schnauzer with anxiety problems, and a blind/deaf dog who teleports, we have our hands full.
I call myself a pop culture princess because junkie tested so poorly with my readers. Yes, I started a focus group via friends on how the wording made them feel. I call myself that because I’m obsessed with pop culture. I live to read what’s the latest going on in the celebrity world. If there’s a viral video, rest assured I’ve seen a copy in my daily hunt. My Friday nights are booked with The Soup and Best Week Ever. I read up on reality tv and other programming, even if I don’t watch the shows. Music, movies, news, books, tv shows, and websites are all part of my must have knowledge. Need to know who was originally cast in 1
984′s Back to the Future as Marty? I totally have you covered on that, Eric Stoltz. Want to know what band was the first to have a website online? Dear friend, it’s the Shamen. It’s a bit much but I’ve always been this way. The more info I can have on something, the better. Trivial Pursuit is like a pop quiz for me to be sure I’ve covered all that I need to know. I’m well aware that this plethora of useless bullshit will never get me fame or fortune but it has gotten me great jobs writing for various pop culture sites. I’ve talked to some pretty cool celebs and made friends with more. Being a superfan of everything pop culture has its advantages and has helped me in ways I never knew it could. My dream was to write and be published; that happened all because of my extreme knowledge of random crap. So if you ever need to know what the order of police officers debuting in Law and Order are, just remember that I’m your girl.
That’s about it. I’ve established I’m a 31 year old nerd with a serious TIVO addiction, no life, a gimp limp, insane dogs, and the best daughter in the world. Want to learn more? Stick around.
