Best Friends Visit!

Of course Casey and Dillinger pick the first day of school to come visit! It was hard juggling new classes, a new job and seeing them but being busy and happy is so, so worth it.

I had so much fun on our adventures...including going to the lake! I love Sand Hollow. We took the little boats out to the island and Dillinger, ever the prankster, says he thinks it would be fun to ride in MY boat...I KNEW WE WERE GONNA TIP OVER. I had to go to class smelling like the lake and with wet hair...pouf be damned. I never laughed so hard. I wish I had pictures but camera + water = me the klutz dropping it in so I decided to forgo photos.

We also went to the park and the golf course during the middle of the night. Saint George is a lot different than SLC...very limited on what there is to do hahaha. But we are the weirdos who have a blast doing nothing together. We kept freaking out thinking the cops were going to drive by (can't be on city property after dark ladies and gents!) and then laughed so hard when we got away with it.

Casey and Dillinger finally got to try UV CAKE TOOOOO!! It's our obsession...vodka that tastes like a cupcake?! YES PLEASE!!  And we hit up JITB too...a frienship tradition (for those of you who dont know...its the ever classy jack in the box LOL)

I love us.

Love Always,
Manda

Firsts Day (New Job AND School)

I absolutely love my new job!

I am the newest registration clerk at Dixie State College. My bosses Mace, Julie and Jane are so sweet and funny. You might remember my friend Matty from earlier posts...Mace is his mom, and she helped me get the job there! My history as an Ambassador didn't hurt either since I had some practice in the school computer system called Banner.

All the ladies at my work are so kind. It is one of the best atmospheres to be in, a place where everyone genuinely cares about each other and goes out of their way to do nice things for each other. Every day this week they bought us lunch...including CATERED HONOLULU GRILL!! If I haven't told you before...thats my very favorite thing in the whole world :)

There are so many sweet people, like Kelsey, Erin, and Candace, the other work study girls that are my age. Then there is Laralee, Shannon, and Janet, who I adore. Janet is the cutest thing! Every day since I have worked with her she tells me how much I brighten up the office and that she loves my laugh and my stories. She makes me so happy when she tells me what a pleasure it is to work with me. I work with Candace alot too, and we have so much fun laughing our heads off while we file. We even found a student with a hilarious name the other day....here's how our conversation went:
Candace: How would you like it if your last name was Treat?
Me: Only if my first name was Tasty!

Now she calls me Tasty and I call her Candy. We joke that we are going to run away to Vegas and become strippers together.

One of the best things about my job is that I get to work with JERHETT, one of my best friends from way back in 7th grade. We were inseperable! We had a group of friends that was amazing, I miss our fab five days back at Cedar Middle School. It is so fun to reminisce about our stories and jokes from back then.

I love it there :) I'm a very happy girl!
As for my semester, my classes went really well. I only am in two physical "classes" since I don't count Newspaper and one is online. And I have had Dr. Comeford before, so this semester wasn't too scary. Dr. Barry seems nice but strict! I love to write so "Advanced College Writing" won't be too bad. :)
Love Always,
Manda

Glee 3D Event!!

Me and my best gal pal APRIL are the biggest Gleeks of all time!

This 3D Concert movie was the highlight of my summer, and it was a blast going and singing along with all of our favorite numbers from the show. Just one sign that we don't belong on the series is the fact that the people behind us got up and moved to a different part of the theater since we were having too much fun...LOL!

Here is us in our 3D glasses making the glee sign!

April is such a sweet girl. My mom told me for almost a year that there is this girl at her work that reminds her so much of me, and that we are interested in so many common things. I finally got to meet her last semester when we had our Shakespeare class together. And the rest is history! Now we always have so much fun shopping, doing lunch or dinner and seeing movies together. I'm so glad to have her for a friend!
Love Always,
Manda

I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts...

On this lovely evening, four friends visited a scary town called Silver Reef.

This is an abandoned town, full of spirits. I made to sure to ask Chris the story behind it so we would know what happened. Here's what he said:

"I don't know. People died there? It's haunted tho."

In the words of a genius, there you have it people. The amazing backstory of Silver Reef.

Not only is this town far away, it is also not scary. Until two of our friends disappeared. Me, Zach and Chris were walking the plank (or just an old board we found...can you tell we were bored?! hahaha) and pretending to be pirates.

All of a sudden we turn around and realize Dave and Tyson are gone. I am famous for my humor, but I am not kidding you when I tell you that I really was horrified.

I was screaming. Chris was near tears. Zach ran all the way back to the car.

Me: Chris I seriously don't know what happened. Someone keeps THROWING ROCKS AT ME!!!

Chris: I am sooo scared right now I wanna go home (my favorite line of the night hahaha)

Of course they were pranking on us. Of course I'm still pissed. Hahahaha I can't take a good joke unless i'm the one pulling it.

Love Always,
Manda

Mario Kicks Ass

One of my favorite things to do that I sadly don't do enough is play Mario Kart with Kyle, Carie and Trent!

I used to be a MK champ back in the day on the N64. But sadly these days my performance is somewhat lackluster. I only won once out of all the times we play!

Carie and Kyle are sooo good, they were making me mad!! HAHAHA I nicknamed Carie "Yosuck" instead of Yoshi and Kyle "Whorio" instead of Wario.

You guys make me smile :) hahaha

Love Always
Manda