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Welcome to the House of Nina

Welcome to SweetSpace.org, also known as The House of Nina. Sweet Spade is a personal blog site owned by a little French girl named Nina Shannon and happily hosted by Slash Penguin. Nina hopes that you enjoy your stay and will comment someplace because she would love to know what you think.

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Also Known as Miss Nina

Nina Shannon is a 15 year old French girl who was born on May 12th, 1994. She is currently in high school and will be starting her second year in September. Her favorites colors are pinks and purples and her favorite number is 11. She loves shopping and annoying her younger brother just for kicks.

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7 Too Many

I’ve been looking around at a few sites, trying to find a new wordpress theme that I like. It sounds easy but its really not. I’ve looked at all sorts of designs but none of them just “scream out to me”. I’m looking for a theme that as soon as I see it, I’ll know its the one I want. I haven’t even come across one theme that’s even really caught my attention though. :( It’s kind of upseting and a bit frustrating too. What’s super frustrating about all this is that I’m running out of sites to look at! I’ll try adn keep looking though. If you know anywhere or anyone who offers free and cute wordpress themes, comment please! I could really use the help! :yes:

In recent days, I’ve also become really addictive to Tumblr. I sign on at least once a day if not more! When i sign on I’m online for a few hours at a time! I follow a lot of people; like 44. Only 21 people follow me though. :[ I hope I get more followers!

Mostly I reblog things posted by other people. Sometimes I post up my own things though. Sometimes. I like doing a little bix of everything! Funny thing is that I even convinced one of my friends to join Tumblr. Only a few days after I joined and was talking to my friends about it, and then one of my friends joined! Now she loves it almost as much as I do! :3

If you’re lost on the whole Tumblr thing, I’ll fill you in! Tumblr is kind of like Twitter. The only difference between them is Twitter is for links and words. You can’t post images, music, videos, etc on Twitter like you can on Tumblr. Tumblr is like the Twitter for everything twitter can’t have! you know, images and stuff! :yes: I love it! If you like twitter, I really say you should give Tumblr a try! :3

Speaking of Twitter, I read something there this afternoon. it was a quote and I thought it was really inspiring. Actually, believe it or not, its because of this quote that I got the inspiration to write a blog! :D The quote was this,

Today is the youngest you will ever be.

It was said by @theburiedlife. I can’t really explain it, but the quote was just so inspiring. I really wanted to share it with you. ♥

And for comments, I still have 7 to reply too! I haven’t really replied to any. I’m super sorries! Forgive me for not replying right away. I haven’t really been only much. :[ With summer vacation and all I’m hanging out at the mall, spending time with friends, and just over all hanging out! i love not having to worry about icky school! I’m so glad for the break! :D its enjoyable!

The worst thing happened the other day though. My site went down! My host’s host, suspended me for a chumped up charge. AJ (my host) got it fixed though and my site was back up within 48 hours. :yes: I was so glad to know my site was back up! I know I don’t blog all the time or anything, but it makes me feel good to know that my site is still up and active. So I just had to send a shout out to AJ for getting my website back up so quickly! Thankies AJ! :D

I’ll be replying to comments super soon! So be expecting me!! :squeel:

01. Do you know anyone or anyplace that offers cute wordpress themes?
02. Do you have a Tumblr?
03. have you considered getting a Tumblr?
04. What do you think of that quote?
05. Are you mads at me for not replying to your comment? -sniffles-
06. Did you notice my site was down?
07. If so, did you miss me?






Its Getting Old

Wow! It feels like it’s been forever since I last wrote a blog! For anyone who follows me on twitter, you know I’ve been struggling to figure out what to blog about. Nothing too interesting has happened really so I haven’t really had anything of great interest to blog about. No one wants to read a boring blog, right? Exactly!

I did finally figure out what to blog about though. I need your help! I’m kind of getting sick of this site theme I have up. I was wondering if you guys were too? Should i change it? If so, what kind of style should I go with? I mean, should i stick with something cute and simple like this or should I go with something dark and classy? I just can’t decide. But maybe I shouldn’t change it at all? Yeah, I’m really stuck here. I want to change it…I think, but I have no idea what I should change it too! I’m just at a total loss. :( Anyone wanna help me out?

And has anyone noticed I’ve become addicted to tumblr? haha It’s so not my fault! I only follow like 21 people and I don’t get many posts going through my tumblr but I always seem to find like 50 different things to reblog and like a million more to piost up! It’s crazy but I love it! Does anyone have this tumblr obsession problem?

Also, I’m looking to advertise more people! So if you or someone you knows is looking for advertisding, send them over here! I seem to have a pretty active website and too my surprise I get quite a few visitors coming in and out of here. I get about 100+ visitors a month. This month so far I’ve gotten 225 hits! Those are unique visitors! I never expected that! I didn’t know my site was that amazing or interesting or anything.

Seriously, when i built this site I expoected it to be a fluke with the only visitors being me and a few select friends and maybe a random drop through once in a while. But this is way different! 225 visitors! Sorry, I just can’t get over that. That’s a lot!

So sorry for the short blog! I just wanted to get a few points out there and get some help with the new theme! :) Thanks guys!






#FaceBook #Tumblr

I’ve joined the FaceBook and Tumbr bandwagon! :3 I never thought I would but my friend Taylor has been trying to convince me since she got an account to join FaceBook. My other friend Mel has been convincing me to join Tumbr for a long while now. She really enjoys it! They both love the two sites, finally today i gave in and joined. I’m not too active on either site yet but I did just get one of them today! I had a FaceBook account but never used it. I guess I will now though. Give me a chance and i’ll become more and more active! :)

If you have a Tumblr account, follow me or recommend people for me to follow! :) Candy-Spaceman on Tumblr That’s me! :3 So follow!

If you have a FaceBook and want to be friends, I could use some more! I would really like to make some more friends on there too! I think the more friends you have the more active you are! Its no fun to be active someplace if no one is interested! Right? :) So add me or have me add you! Spaceman.Dance on FaceBook That’s me! :3 So follow!

Offline news, my last day of school is June 11th. I can’t wait for summer! I could really use the break! The end of the school year is always the most stressful I think! There are so many tests and things to turn in! So many last minute things to do! Plus year books come out this week! I hope I’ll have enough time to get everyone to sign mine! I love yearbooks! They’re the best! I get one like every year!

I’m not really sure what I’ll be doing this summer, if anything. I haven’t really made any plans. I’ll let you know what I come up with though! :)

Also, I’ve been writing more. I’m almost done writing my 8th novel! It has about 34 chapters right now. I’m aiming for at least 40! :3 I can’t wait to be done! While I was grounded I was able to do a lot of writing! I had so much “free” time! I still have to type up my new chapters though. I haven’t finished doing that yet. It’s a lot of typing to do! That’s the part I’m not too thrilled about doing. :no: Too much typing!

Well, that’s my update! Not too long but not to short and it gets right to the point! :)

I have a lot of questions for you today though! :D

01. Do you have a Tumblr account?
02. If so, will you follow me?
03. Will you recommend people for me to follow?
04. Do you have a FaceBook?
05. If so, will you add me as a friend or have me add you?
06. When is your last day of school?
07. Have you gotten year books yet?
08. Do you have any plans for the summer?






Happy Birthday to Me!

I haven’t posted in a long time! The server was up and down and then I went away for my birthday! I’m finally 16! Did I mention all the tests for finals we had?! It’s been super busy lately! Dad had a big business trip too and we all wanted to go. So it was like a mini vacation and we went away for my birthday too! Plus I got grounded for like two weeks for failing two tests! That was real, real boring! T-T

April 4th to April 11th we went on my dad’s business trip with him. That was fun. We took a plane and saw a few sights while dad was working. It was a week away from school which was so awesome! We didn’t do anything really great to talk about or anything so I won’t go into details or whatever but we had fun. I really enjoyed the vacation! :D It’s not like we did much but it was just nice to get away from school and home life and all that yucky stuff! :P

Finals for me ended May 21st. I’m so glad! They were really hard and so stressful! All the studying and other yuckies! x.x It was killing me! I wasn’t getting any sleep at all!! I slept like all weekend and well into Monday morning. I was actually late for school that Monday! Woops! Zzzz

The on April 30th we got all the final exam tests back and ma and pa grounded me from May 1st to May 15th and couldn’t use the computer! It was really bad! I didn’t like it! I missed twitter and all! For a full two weeks I couldn’t use any electronics at all! All because of two bad marks on tests. :[ It was bad! I don’t think I’ve ever ben so bored before!! You know? There was no TV, no computer, no cell phone, no phone at all! All I could do was eat, sleep, read, or colour! it was so majorly boring!! :pinch:

For my birthday, my sweet 16 :3 , they took me to the beach and we stayed at a hotel. We left for the beach May 14th and we’ll be back home May 16th. :D We’re in a hotel and everything! I’m having a blast! If I’m good, ma and pa said I might even be able to have a real sweet 16 party when school lets out! I’ll be able to invite anyone I want and do anything I want! I’m so planning it all out already! :squeel: So exciting! But I have to be good or they won’t do it!

I can’t believe I’m 16 now!! I feel like I’m all grown up and stuff! You know? Isn’t it great?! :3 My birthday was May 12th – Guess I forgot to say that! :D Now I’m trying to convince my parents to get me a car! I’ve already got my learners and all! ;) If I’m lucky maybe they’ll say yes!~

Now though I’m just helping my friends a bit and catching up on stuffs that’s been going on. :) That’s fun I guess. I also have like 2 million comments to reply too! That may take me a while, you know? Lucky for me though I’m almost done replying to them all. I only have a few left! :) It’ll still take a while but I just have to sit down and get it done!

I really have to let everyone – my affiliates and friends – know that I haven’t forgotten about them! It would be really awful if they thought I forgot about them. :[ That would be terrible of me! So I don’t want anyone to think that! Plus, i don’t want anyone to think I’m dead yet. I’m not! I’m still here – promise! So if you haven’t heard back from me yet, you will be! :D I haven’t forgotten about any of you!

I’m also already working on my next blog! So watch out for that! I should have it done and posted soon. :)

Well, I’m not dead so you’ll be hearing back from me soon! Look out for me! :)






Something to be Proud Of

Hi everyone! You all missed me right? :3 I missed you guys too! Well, i think it’s official, I’ll probably update every ten days or so. This gives me time to actually have things of interest to write about! :yes: No one likes a boring blog. :no: Lots happened though! Ok, no, not a lot. but some stuff happened! Some interesting stuff! I guess I should just shut up and tell you what was so interesting then huh? :yes:

Well, we’re staart with the site stuff! :D I’m proud to say that on my last blog I got 10 comments!! I feel so proud! I actually didn’t think I was that interesting. Take into account though I did go and comment other peoples blogs but I didn’t know if they would comment back or even read my blog seriously at all! so I felt really proud about that! :3 I mean, people actually care! yay!

Also there were some changes around the website! Encase you haven’t noticed, which is fine. :) The changes aren’t big or anything. But never the less! I added a feed button, so you can subscribe to my amazing posts! The feed is with the totally cute FeedBurner! You can view the cute button at the top of the page under the welcome! :D Then I also got a neat FormSpring account! So I added the neat widget to the page as well! That though is in the side bar right under the comment box! So remember to ask me lots of questions! I like that. :squeel:

And did I mention all my new affies and friends?! :D So far we have Sindara, Karla, and Dianne! They’re all really nice! Even though I don’t know all of them really well yet, I hope that during my time with this blog and website and as long as we’re friends of course that we’ll become really close! Like BFFs! :D Ok, so I like to make friends! I can’t help it! :squeel: I’ve met a lot of other people too though! There’s a lot of them! They all seem really nice, which is super great! :yes:

Something a little less fun though, I did ad an affiliates apply page. This is where people can apply to be affies with me! That’s the fun news! The less fun news is rules. :[ They're simple though! In my blog travels I came to learn that many sites that accepted affiliates had rules also. Some of these rules made sense, I found some others did not. So I went with these 5 select and simple rules. So affilaites if you would read them over! From what I've seen so far though, everyone's following them! :D But just so you all know the rules or guildlines, here's a copy!

  • I will not accept Piczo sites. Any other website or free host is fine!
  • You do have to link me on every page. I do the same for you. So it's fair!
  • Remember to comment my blog whenever you can! I'll do the same and if I don't you can come yell at me!
  • You can apply with multiple sites if you want.
  • I do not have link exchanges at this time. Only affiliates.

They're fair right?

I don't like piczo - too many pop-ups. They're everwhere! O.O Then for the linking, I do link you guys on every page. You're my friends and I want everyone to know who you are. Don't you want everyone to know me too? :?

Commenting the blog, this lets me know that you're alive and still care! :D I care about you and your life! And guys, try and make the comments worthy! :yes: I would rather not see "[Sweet Spade] Please moderate: ….” in my email and get all excited like I do only to find the comment is a sentense or two long. My comments are longer then that, put a little effort into it! I’m not asking for a speech, book report, or some 10 paragraph reply! I just want to see a little effort, like it took you more then a minute. Is that too much to ask? :[ I'm just asking you to show me that you care. I give you good length comments. So you could do the same for me too. And this goes for all visitors, affiliates, and...and everyone! Only comment if you have something real to say, aka have more then a 2 sentense comment! Please and thank you! :D

Finally, multiple sites, I don't see the harm in it. Of course, don't apply with all 50 of your websites please! O.O I don't have that much room! 2 or 3 sites is the max, ok? :)

Yes, you read right but I guess you already knew this rule right? lol If you look around a bit you'll see I only have an affiliates box. I'm looking for friends after all, not hits. Hits aren't any fun if you don't have friends. :( So, affiliates and friends only! :D

So see, these rules aren't too hard are they? :D If you have any questions or some disappointment (I hope not! O.O ) then let me know! :D We can work something out, ok? :yes:

Now for the off site stuff! I gues out of school soon!! :D No, not for the year. For Spring Break! :D I'm so excited!! Our vacation starts on April 2nd (no school that day - yay!) but ends April 11th. So come the 12th I'll have to go back to icky school! :( Until then though, I have like 3 major tests this week! One in History (The History oif France)...ew. I don't like history! :no: Then I have a PE exam. I guess you can call that a test too. :( I don't like PE either. Unless we're playing Volley Ball! :D I like that!! :yes: And lastly, I have a test in Language Arts. That's easy but still, it is a test and I don't like tests. :( Yucky. So lots of studying to do - especially for icky history. :P

But the spring break is coming and that means fun! Lots of games and other fun stuff to do! It'll be great! Mum and Pa have been depating over the idea of going on vacation! :D I hope we do! It'll be lots and lots of fun! :D

I guess that's it for now! I'll try and blog again soon! :D You know...I'm actually in class right now on my cell. :um: Yea, I was just gonna see if I could start a blog but i kind of already had one saved! :squeel: Yippy!

...You know something...? I never realized I used so many smilies. O.O Sorry for the major smilie usage! lol

PS. I know there are a few comments I have yet to return. I haven't forgotten! :) I'll reply this after noon during lunch or when I get home from school!

[EDIT]

My friend posted this on twitter. I wasn’t sure why. I just kinda liked it.

ι ℓσσк тσ тнє ѕтαяѕ αиd ωσиdєя нσω α мαи ℓιкє уσυ cσυℓd ωαит мє. вυт тнєи ι ѕєє уσυ αяєи’т α мαи αиd тσ уσυ ι αм σиℓу α gιяℓ. уσυ dσи’т ℓσνє мє αт αℓℓ. уσυ σиℓу ωαит мє.

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OMG! Can you Believe it?!

I was on one of me favorite social networks today, GaiaOnline, and doing a bit of shopping in the marketplace. While shopping I came across the most gaia ridiculous thing ever!! You’ll never, in a million years, guess on what it was! You haven’t guessed yet? Ok, I’ll tell you. :yes:

Someone was trying to sell an item for 2,000,000,000 gold! O.O I don’t make sense? Well I guess I wouldn’t. So I’ll explain why this is totally crazy and being irrational. :yes: See, this exact same item can be bought at the Gaia store for only 1,250 gold. -_- So see, why would anyone in the right mind buy an item for 2,000,000,000 gold if they can buy it for just over 1,000? The fact is, not even an idiot is that…idiotic! :um:

I just couldn’t believe how funny this was! :pinch: Why would someone even bother to sell it for that much? It’ll never sell! You know though, the truth is, people do ridiculous things like this all the time! :yes: They try and sell things for outrageous prices knowing that they’ll never sell. The funny thing is, the items never do sell and the seller just doesn’t seem to get why! What’s up with that? People can’t really be that stupid! ….Can they? :?

Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter, does it? I just wanted to share. Maybe you got a good laugh out of it! :)

But! I do have something really funny for you if you’re a fan of Harry Potter and have seen the new Alice in Wonderland movie. If so, keep reading. If you’re not familiar with either of these then you can either, keep reading, or just skip it. :)

So, my friend posted a tweet the other day relating to these two subjects. I found this tweet quite amusing.

snape as a caterpillar = rofl

Confused? I was too out first. So I asked her about it on IM later that evening. I shall explain!

The actor of Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series was actually the voice actor for the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland. I didn’t know this! So, what’s so funny about this? My friend said when she was first told this, she thought it was funny because a clear image formed in her mind. What image?

She pictured Severus Snape’s head on a caterpillar body. :pinch:

Instantly I was lost in fits of giggles! I had to admit that it was very, very funny! Ridiculously funny! I still giggle every time I think about it. So much so that I just had to share it with you guys!!

Also, I went to a party today! Ok, I admit, it wasn’t really a party. It was actually just a small movie celebration thing. Just about everyone knows that the New Moon movie came out March 20th at midnight. I just had to go and buy it! I got this special edition one or something with all the neat bonus features and deleted scenes! It’s even got the coolest interviews and everything!! :3 OMG! It’s so great! I just absolutely love it!

Yes, I do me New Moon as in part of the Twilight series. I’m like a major fan! Ok, so a lot of the characters seriously suck! But! Jacob is the cutest thing in town! ♥ I’m just like, in love!! ♥ I can’t help myself! Plus, I’m a major drop for romance! Romance anything really! :yes:

So I went right out at 11:30p, Friday night to buy it! Then I stayed up half the night watching it and all the special features, interviews, and deleted scenes. After that I watched Twilight. ♥ I just had to see it again! Though Jacob wasn’t in the first movie of the series much – somewhat upsetting. :( But I liked the movie anyways! I watched all the awesome features there too!! :D So that made for a majorly great night!

Guess that’s all I have to blog about right now. :( I know, me sad about it too. I wish I had more to say but really nothings happened. Schools been super lame! Family has been…normal for the most part I guess too. Everything interesting or of any interest at all, I wrote about. T-T But! I’ll blog again soon! So stay tuned! :D






Abra Kadabra: Open!

I, Nina, am finally ready to declare Sweet Spade officially open! All the pages are up and ready for your viewing! I hope you like everything! Remember to comment! I really like them! Enjoy your stay!






Tacky Plugin

So I found this plugin the otherday, I thought it was great! Exactly what I was looking for, I couldn’t believe it!! You have no idea how happy I was! I had been searching for such a great plugin and this was just a miracle!! …or so I thought…

I spent over 24 hours stuggling to get it activated. After hours and hours of endless stuggling I finally asked a friend if I could borrow her email address to activate the plugin. I thought it would all be worth it. They say you have to work for the greater things in live, right? Boy was I wrong.

Upon finally getting the plugin activated I started to set it up. It seemed easy enough and I thought I was in heaven!! The plugin was great!! Better then anything I could have ever expected!!

This happiness did not last long though sadly. :( As I soon put the coding into my sidebar. Well, upon looking at my site’s sadebar I came across the once amazing plugin gone bad… I saw this,

tacky

“Powered by Max Banner Ads”

I could understand they would want credit, but I have linked them neatly on my credits page. I looked at the coding, had a friend do it too hoping to find some way to remove the horribly tacky link. Everything on my site is perfect, neat, and origanized. That horrible THING just ruined my site. I’m ashamed to have even considered such a horrible thing.

After all the hours and trouble I spent with this stupid plugin I find this tacky link. I just wanted to speak on my disappointment and displeasure. I have never disliked anything so much in my life. I would never recommend this plugin, nor will I ever use it again. The tacky plugin has been removed from my site and all of my friends have decided not to use it either.

I couldn’t believe they would put that ugly and tacky link there! I understand it’s freeware but come on, it’s tacky, ugly, and just makes everything look awful!! It was really, really upsetting to find that there and after all the work and time I put into setting up this plugin. It was so upsetting and disappointing! I thought I was really getting something good for once, I guess I was wrong…

If anyone wants to know, the plugin is called Max Banner Ads. I don’t recommend using it unless you like the tacky ad right there. You can not move it or remove it sadly. :(






Day 1

Did you all miss me? I missed you all too! I was gone a long time but I’m back now. I think for good this time too! Isn’t is great?! I’m real happy to have my site back. *huggles* I missed it a lot. Blogging on LiveJournal just wasn’t the same. I would start a blog but never finished. I guess after getting my own amazing domain like this I got too spoiled. *giggle* But now I have it back so I can blog a whole bunch more again!! Oh! I’m so excited!!

Right now Jennifer and I are working to finish the site. It shouldn’t take long. Of course the main problem right now if getting the ad code working. We had this problem last time though didn’t we? Well, we’re working super hard to get it fixed cause at the moment, I don’t have any ads on my site and I’m supposed to have two!! So that’s no good. We gotta fix that super fast! We’re working on it though. So we’ll have it fixed in no time at all!

On another note though – I got my site back!! I know, said it before but I can’t help it!! I missed it soooooooo much!!! *huggles site* And I missed blogging, not that much has happened really. Bleh! But things are better now cause my site loves me. *giggle*

And! And I’m updating all my web pages! Some of the pages here aren’t so accurate anymore and that makes me sad. So I’m re-reading them and giving them an update! Isn’t that great!? I hope the site’ll be done super quickly! I’m really excited to finish it after so long!!






Set-Up

This may take a short bit of time but I am working real hard to get the site up. It should be up real soon as I’m real excited to get it up! Check back soon!!








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