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Okay..so it's been awhile since I updated.....

a long while. I should be shot.

Nah.


Anyway, things are good, great. Still in the process of finding another job, and I need to get one before everybody comes back here from break. However....I don't know if I want to get another job so I believe that's hampering the process a bit. I should clarify.....my parents want me to get another job and keep it during the semester....HOWEVER.....that's two jobs....on top of Organic Chem and Mammalian Physiology. I think they want me to die. 

I'm not very fond of dying at this point.

Keith and I had a rough few days last week.......but everythings been amazing since. Really, really great....

My birthday on Sunday :-) And yess......for all you in the area/willing to come up and see me!....Oldies night. Yes......for my birthday.

How fun is that?

Everybody should be there because let's face it..you're not cool unless you go to the Wayside.


That sounded horribly pathetic. 

Anyway, work tonight, work tomorrow and closing, maybe a movie tonight but who knows, working Friday morning, who knows what Friday night, maybe bowling on Saturday, and Sunday is my birthday. :-)

Exciting, exciting. 

I went shopping yesterday and put too much money on my credit cards.......but I justified it as birthday gifts to me. 

Really, I just needed new clothes and a few other things that I couldn't resist. 

and I had coupons. Good coupons....for stuff I really did need. Well....some.

But Jo and I had fun and she bought me coffee.

I'm going to miss her like hell when she leaves, so I suppose I can chalk up my sporadic/birthday spending spree as time with my sister and pre traumatic stress disorder for her leaving and being nine hours away.....

Maybe.
 
 
Current Music: The Fray
 
 
Manda
You know, maybe it's a cynical way of thinking but really....every time everything starts to look very up.....something has to go wrong.

Seriously. 

So I quit Back in Time because of lack of hours, not enough pay and too long of a driving time. Or should I say....because everybody told me I should. I take that back....Mom told me to wait until I got another job. 

But I'm really......and really sick of working. Well, okay...take that back. If I had a job that paid worth a damn and I had tons of hours and plenty of opportunities to make money.....I would like it. I wouldn't be sick of it. 

But I work at Lonestar.....and I make shit. Actually....not even shit.

So, now I'm back to looking for a job. 

And Keith and I got into a fight. One that I started.........although I don't know how.  I've bene really happy with this and all of a sudden today, it just all blew up. I'm still not sure how.

But that's enough bitching. 

Traverse City Ryan is getting married on Saturday. I'm not ready to see that because I still think of him as the boy that I met at Michigan's Adventure. Isn't a bit sad when you don't think a relationship is a good one, and yet you're going to watch them get married? I think it's a bit ironic to go watch the boy I once thought was just perfect get married.

Anyway.....Saturday. Traverse City.  Wedding. 

I miss mini vacations with Sar every weekend which involved alcohol, the beach and sleeping on a boat. 

And I think I'm going to shut myself in my room tonight with a glass of wine and a couple of movies. 

I'm excited for band camp, even though that's a horribly geeky thing to say, for some more camping even though I don't know when we're going to fit it in, my birthday, the fourth of July now that I don't have to work it and because it might be spent in Manistee where I've never been,  seeing Tra and Jess and Shannon sometime because I completely miss them. 

Holly Jo's open house was great and Keith played there and I just love hearing him play and that alone would have made my day.....except that I got to see my whole family and actually hang out with them which I haven't been able to do in forever. So that was an amazing day.......actually an amazing weekend because we went to a wedding the day before that and I don't normally like weddings......but this one was just....very sincere and great. I had a great time. At a wedding. Which that in itself is amazing.....:-)

I have to start sharing my bathroom again, which kinda sucks, but I'm really excited to meet Nickie who's moving in....sometime soon? Sometime soon as in the next week, I believe. 

and I love Visa because I was talking to her and said that we had to take a trip next summer, because I miss her completely and she just asks where in the world should we meet? And then goes on to say that I would love London, I would love Greece, and she's always wanted to see Egypt. How could you not get a kick out of that?
 
 
Manda
I have to say...things are fabulous..

I really like using the word fabulous.

Except for the fact that I thought I kicked a chem exams ass........and in reality....it was one of my worst scores and I just found out today.

I think I do better when I don't study for the exams. Seriously.

Got a new job at Lonestar...well. Shouldn't say new job, should say I added on another job. Everybody should come see me and let me take them to their table. 

Jo has her senior prom this weekend.....on Saturday. So Keith and I are going down to see her get ready, and then going up to Petoskey til Sunday for his sisters confirmation. 

I feel like I should start studying for exams.......but I can't get the ambition up to do it. I need to write a paper, but I'm waiting for one of those 'i'm feeling productive and like I can actually write' moments so I can sit down and get the whole thing done. 

Taco Boy is amazing and I can't believe I haven't discovered it until my Junior year which makes me extreme amounts of sad. I think it and Dragon Express are two of the best restaurants in Mt. Pleasant.....although you can't forget to add Tim Hortons in there simply because it's open 24 hours a day...with donuts. Mmmmm...

I get to try Los Paliminos on Wednesday with the girls and I'm really excited because I like Mexican food.......although I think I'm more excited to try their margaritas...how sad. :)

Keith told me last night that he thinks I go for events because of the food. Probably true..:-)

We may go to the National Trout Festival on Saturday because they have a carnival (I love carnivals) and so I can say that I went to the National Trout Festival......hehe..

I try new things with him.....and it's a good thing. At least..I enjoy it..

I need a girls night with Sar. Soon. Because I miss her. Alot.

Tra and Jess are coming over to see me :-)  
 
 
Current Mood: chipper
 
 
Manda
I had an amazing weekend.....

not just because it was Easter, not just because I got to see my family for huge long uninterrupted pieces of time, and not just because I got to spend alot of with Keith...

I just did....and I'm really really really really happy about it.


Yay for nice weather because it makes everybody happy and means the end of classes....however..i see people walking in shorts and tank tops when i'm in a sweatshirt and jeans......and it makes me want to laugh because it's just not that warm yet...or..i'm just not that warm yet.

end of the year means that I'll miss everybody desperately........except for Keith because he'll be up here this summer (yay :D) and Shannon because Shan is staying up here at the apartment. Kim is moving out and I'm horribly sad about this. I hate how during the year i never get the time to see people because well....busy and all, but when summer comes they all go home and you miss them horribly because while you may not see them during the year....you still know they're there.....

that was a mouthfull...

Kim's Bar Crawl...May 4th.....be there. Everybody thats amazing will be there....although I have no idea where we're starting, where we'll be, or where we'll end up. Sorry. Hopefully we end up at our apartment..but well....you just never know. 

Going over to Keith's tonight to hang out with Sar and Woody...I  miss Sar and never get to see her anymore because we're both busy...and that makes me really really really sad.......however...girls night before exams because we're just fantastic like that.

But I want to go drink wine and be with my friends and that will cap off this weekend perfectly

I have to meet Keith's whole family....huge...whole family in a few weeks and I'm nervous. 

I made sculptures and vases and I really like them. It's horrible that I don't have any real talent at it, becuase it'd be a really great career. I think I'm just goign to keep doing it because I really enjoy it though.

Oh.....and one more thing....schedule for next semester so I can figure out if anybody's in my classes and if they aren't convince them that they really do need organic chem, or mammalian physiology because that might help me figure out why I actually need them. :)

CHM 342 - Organic Chem 
M T W TH 8:00-8:50
W 2:00-4:50

HEV 365 - Quantity Food Production
M W 9:00-9:50

HEV 363 - Food Safety and Sanitation
T R 1:00-1:50

BIO 392 - Mammalian Physiology
M W F 10:00-10:50
T 6:00-8:50

PED 147 - Intro to Fitness Yoga
M W 11:00-11:50

I'm really excited for Yoga....and that's pretty much the only one...because really...who gets excited for chem, physiology, and food safety and sanitation? C'mon....

Somebody should take yoga with me because it sounds super fun....and even better with somebody else in there. :-)
 
 
Current Mood: bouncy
 
 
Manda
My beverages class was cancelled for the rest of the week......that makes me super amounts of sad. Apparently Luchardt has bronchitis which is not fun and since I like him, I feel bad for him. Well..I'd feel bad for him anyway, probably even if I didn't like him.

I mapped out my schedule for next semester yesterday. I just have to say....next semester is going to be a complete bitch. I'm taking Organic, to say the least, and then adding Mammalian Physiology...which is supposed to be just as bad...on top of that. Let's hear it for no life outside of classes. I plan on working my ass off, but then the Spring Semester will be a breeze....hopefully. I should take a fun class next semester just to relax in.....

Everything is good.

I think I was one of the only people at Central who didn't drink on St. Patricks Day...and that really sucks. But it didn't work out.....and I would've have been drinking just to get drunk which is never a good thing with me. :-)

Hanging out with Tim tonight who I haven't saw for a few weeks.

Seeing Keith after that.

I make crazy money waitressing and I really like it. So that's good, I suppose. I hate wasting gas driving there though.

I really should take a shower.
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
Manda
24 February 2006 @ 11:01 pm
 
 
Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Always - Bon Jovi
 
 
Manda
So I was talking to Tim the other night and he asked how I was doing...really. So I had to think about it.....but seriously....everything is going amazingly.

I have great friends who are there for me no matter what
I have a guy who actually gets me
The best roomates I could ask for
I'm going home tonight to watch my dog, and I get the house to myself for 3 days......which is exciting
My classes are simply amazing...except for chemistry which promises to kick my ass and is the bane of my life...but seriously in my classes....I cook, I drink wine, I make stuff out of clay and I get to blow things up. 
and I bought Rent the other day.....don't laugh :-)
and there's the promise of a girls night with Sar with lots of wine and junk food and movies.......

yay.

Went to a party on Saturday night that had complete Ithaca people there....My favorite people there were Sar, Drew and Ben....well, and Keith because he came with me...and other than that...yeah

Sar's 21st was crazy fun.....and I don't remember most of it thanks to the tequila, but that's the way it's supposed to be right? However...Sar was even worse off than I was and it was fun :-)

Lion King at the Wharton next Thursday, then Spring Break after that. Will consist of trips to Petoskey because I absolutely love that town, and a trip down to see Tim to get pizza...which is according to him the best pizza on earth. We'll see.

This was a whole lot of nothing, but I felt bad for not updating for a month...
 
 
Current Mood: cheerful
 
 
Manda
12 January 2006 @ 11:12 am

killing time.. )

 
 
Manda

So, ok...first week of classes is more than halfway over....being now that I have Friday classes for the first time since freshman year....but that's a different story.

Anyways.....my semester will consist of the following:
Making beer
Tasting wine
Cooking food
Sculpting
Blowing things up
and literally getting my ass kicked by chemistry.

Joy.

Cabin tomorrow night so a big yay for that one, bowling on Saturday, maybe a bit of Wayside action on Sunday night, I haven't decided yet, and down to Lansing on Friday with Jo and Becca and Keith, which by the way, I think I've finally resolved the Keith issue and where that's going, so that's good, I've been applying everwhere I can think of, so I feel productive on that, and I actually did my chem homework a whole week early. That was a huge long run on sentence.

Oh, and I had pizza.

It's been a good night :-)

And it's 11:30 and it's probably a really sad thing that I'm going to bed.....but only probably. Yay for no classes on Monday.

 
 
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Take Me As I Am - RENT
 
 
Manda
06 January 2006 @ 11:07 pm
Your Stipper Song Is

Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard

"Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?"

Break out the baby oil, you rock it old school.
 
 
Manda
03 January 2006 @ 09:53 pm

Because I feel like it......and I stole it from Sar

I confess that in 2005 I...

( x ) stayed single the whole year....well, mostly. The month of January can't possibly count..I consider it as good as single anyways..
( ) got your first kiss
( x ) kissed someone new.....
( ) made-out for the first time
( ) made-out in/on a car
( x ) kissed in the snow
( x ) kissed in the rain
( ) fell in love
( ) fell in love with a fool
( x ) had your heart broken
( x ) broke someone else's heart
( x ) had a stalker
( x ) had a good relationship with someone
( ) questioned your sexual orientation
( ) came out of the closet
( ) gotten pregnant
( ) gotten someone else pregnant
( ) had an abortion
( ) gotten married
( ) had a divorce
( ) had a gay marriage
( ) kissed someone of the same sex
( ) dated someone you'll never forget
( x ) done something you've regretted
( ) lost your true love
( x ) lost faith in love
( ) kissed under mistletoe

WORK/SCHOOL

( ) got a promotion
( ) got a pay raise
( x ) changed jobs
( x ) lost your job
( ) quit your job
( ) dated a co-worker
( ) dated your boss
( ) dated your boss' daughter/son
( x ) got fired from your job
( ) got straight A's
( x ) met one teacher you really like
( x ) met one teacher you really hated
( x ) found the subject you love
( ) failed a class
( x ) cut class
( x ) skipped school
( )got into a fight with a classmate
( x ) did something you were proud of
( x ) discovered a new talent
( ) gave the teachers a reason to teach
( x ) proved yourself an idiot
( x ) embaressed yourself in front of the class
( ) fell in love with a teacher..
( ) got a lead in the school play
( ) made a varsity team
( x ) were involved in something you'll never forget
( ) got sent to the office

OTHER

( x ) painted a picture
( ) wrote a poem
( ) ran a mile
( x ) listened to music you couldn't stand
( x ) double-dipped
( x ) skinny-dipped
( x ) went to a sleepover
( x ) went to camp
( x ) threw a surprise party
( x ) laughed till you cried
( ) laughed till you peed in your pants
( x ) flirted shamelessly
( x ) visited a foreign country
( x ) visted a foreign state
( ) cooked a disastrous meal
( x ) lost something important to you
( x ) got a gift you adore
( x ) realized something new about yourself
( x ) went on a diet
( ) tried to gain weight
( ) dyed your hair
( ) came close to losing your life
( x ) someone close to you died
( x ) went to a party
( x ) drank alcohol
( x ) drank alcohol underage
( ) did (a) drug(s) cigarrets??
( x ) got drunk
( ) got arrested
( x ) read a great book
( x ) saw a great movie
( x ) saw a movie so scary that it made you cry
( x ) saw your favorite band/artist live....twice!
( x ) saw someone famous in person
( x ) did something you want to tell everyone
( x ) Enjoyed this year overall

 
 
Manda

So last night was allright. I had fun with the girls last night. And there wasn't nearly the akwardness that I thought there would be, being how I haven't saw 90% of those girls since high school. But it was fun.  And I'm starting to wonder if writing nearly everybody off from high school was the best idea for me. But yeah...the girls had changed alot...but at the same time..not much.

 

I miss Keith more than I want to....and I can't decide if that's a good or bad thing...

 
 
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
 
 
Manda

So I get a call tonight...from one of my best friends (Sam) in high school, who wants to get the "group" together for a dinner.

The sad part is..I think I may go. Maybe writing off nearly everybody from high school wasn't such a good idea. Then again..maybe it was.

I should try it..the thing is though..what do we talk about??? Two of them have had kids, one just got married, and one is engaged. That leaves me and Sam who are behind. Or is it ahead? That sounds awfully cynical, but yeah. I've just never been a big fan of committing myself early.

So after nearly having a panic attack....I think I may go.

Keith leaves for Korea tomorrow and Tim leaves for Florida on Wednesday....now I just wish I was going somewhere, but due to severe lack of money, I will be in Michigan, most likely centered in Mt. Pleasant, or maybe Ithaca..unless of course I hide in Tims trunk and don't come out til we hit Tennessee.....but that probably isn't the best plan. :-)

May have to make a trip into Portland......

and I think I have a crush on Keith.....which is a bit odd because we went bowling tonight with my sister, her friend and Dad....and I was the only one who found it a bit weird when my sister called him Mr. Kuczynski.....yes...I'm the only one who freaks out at the part about him being my sister's student teacher.....so that does that mean I have problems? or that everybody else does?????

 
 
Manda

I love proving myself wrong..in fact..I love it so much, I do it all time. This may..or may not..involve a certain guy.

Okay, I lied..it does involve him. We went bowling the other night, he met my parents, and I had fun. Then I want to start hitting myself when I leave because I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

So tonight, we're going out to eat, then taking Jo to the casino....family bonding while gambling...now there's a new one. Only for a bit, then we're coming home and watching movies.

Can't decide if I really love being home..I mean..I like it, but alot of the time this week was spent up in Mt. Pleasant, so it's not like I was here at home alot....I basically slept here..for a few nights. But I'll be back up in Mt. Pleasant on probably Monday or Tuesday....and Sar...we need a girls night again..I'm thinking major amounts of wine, or malibu and movies and food. :)

Plans for New Years Eve? I'm open.....

 

Oh, and Merry Christmas Eve :-)

 

 
 
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: the Christmas carols that Mom plays 24/7
 
 
Manda

I love the end of the semester....really, I do.....even with final exams and all that because basically you have a week where you don't have a life or anything resembling a life and then you get to have a complete break for a month. And it's Christmas. I love Christmas.

So, I have a dilema. Do I go to the Cabin with everybody tomorrow night, or do I go home?? Very lost....I'm thinking I'll probably end up at the Cabin, provided I find something to wear to the wedding this weekend today.

Yes...going shopping because I need to think about something other than Nutrition, Religions, Psychology and Food Culture. I love how everybody is done, and I'm just getting into the hard part of my week....Ah well..I only had two days of class a week this semester...I can deal with this. So basically, I'm done tomorrow...thank God.

 
 
Manda

I have no ambition....

 

not that that's a bad thing, but I just thought everybody should know.......I really should be studying instead of getting Applebees with my roomates...hmmmmm :-)

Yes....I spent 3 out of 4 nights at....somewhere. No...we're not dating..does that clear it up? I might like him, but that's up in the air....technically, I didn't really stay the night, just stayed til at least 4...then went home. Beautiful.

I heart my roomies because of random times like tonight...

9:15...and two chapters left to read in Psych of Women...oh boy

Tomorrow, psych exam at 10, Wednesday is Nutrition exam at 7, Thursday is 10 Food Culture exam, 12 World Religion exam...lovely. Thursday night is Cabin night, and Friday is a bachelorette party, Saturday a wedding and Sunday a family Christmas....jeepers.

I need to find a job

 
 
Current Mood: chipper
 
 
Manda
09 December 2005 @ 12:59 pm
You Are an Orange Rose

You represent desire and enthusiasm

Your vibe: Sexy yet familiar

Falling in love with you: happens instantly - it's a fast ride
 
 
Manda

I may have skipped my food culture class when I only have 2 left because I had better things to do....such as getting a mocha at the library...maybe

Quick update because I never find the time to write anymore.

Going to the Brass tonight to see Philo and drink michigan beer. House isn't on tonight, and I'm slightly brokenhearted about that one :-(

We started a ritual last Sunday that includes wine and Grey's Anatomy........

I have to say...my little sister is turning 18 not this Friday, but the next one....that is so scary.

I spent 4 hours with somebody when I promised myself I wouldn't. He told me he wants to date me. We watched a horrible movie called Ghost Ship which has to be one of worst movies I've saw in awhile.....since this summer and He-man.

Shannon and I decided that while we're picky with guys, it has to be a good thing. I just can't find anybody that hugely interests me now, unless they're unavailable for specific reasons and we all know how well that one works out.

Saw Jess on campus, I sincerely miss seeing those girls everyday. and I miss seeing Sar.

Em's bachelorette party is on my sisters birthday..is it too much to be calling it a bachelorette party when the bride herself can't go out and drink?

Band concert on Thursday...this should be interesting with above mentioned guy.

This entry was basically pointless...I'll do better later..promise

 

 
 
Current Mood: cynical
 
 
Manda

This really hasn't been a good week....

 

however....I have nothing to do today as I was using today to get a paper done....however....got to doing it at 12 last night, and didn't stop til 4 this morning. It's done....thank God. Mom and I might go Christmas shopping on Saturday.

 

I need a girls night

 
 
Current Mood: complacent
 
 
Manda
16 November 2005 @ 04:44 pm

My car is back :) so a huge ass yay for that one. With new tires and all, and the best part is it won't break on me anymore :-)

This is a great week. After today, I'm done with work until..next Monday...which mmeeannss....

it's Wednesday..and Wednesday is awesome because?

because Thursday is only one day away and Thursday is the beginning of all the greatness that will be occuring this weekend, until Monday when I go back to work.

let's recap...1. Harry Potter tomorrow, 2. meeting Emily on Friday and 3. Jo's musical, and 4. Saturday is Bon Jovi and 5. Sunday is Jo's musical again. There you go...5 reasons why this weekend has the word greatness around it.

Debating whether I want to go to class tonight. I do....it's an interesting class, but then again....it's snowing. I don't particularly like snow. If it was just cold all winter and snow stayed away, I'd be great with that. Well..take that back, I like the first snow, except when it's wet sticky snow like this, it has to be fluffy and it has to snow on Christmas Eve and stay through New Years Eve. There you go. Oohhh...wait, there also has to be a snow storm that cancels EVERYTHING for at least 3 days. Then it melts. I'm done.

 
 
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: I've Got You Under My Skin