Category: Friend News

  • Meatloaf and Curry

    By Andrea Menzies

    My new Halloween plan is to do the time warp again with plenty of meatloaf and curry. I was going to DC, but troops everywhere made me cancel the tickets. My new favorite activity is going to Maryland where I went to some amazing October dance nights. I was going to go back for Halloween weekend. However, it is murder destruction to my car, and so I am going to take trains and buses to get back to Maryland in mid November when I can get discount tickets.

    Halloween with meatloaf.

    Maryland has the best Halloween parties ever.

    Me with a giant pumpkin Hello Kitty at Maryland dance party nights.

  • Accepted New

    By Andrea Menzies

    I was accepted to a new night school masters in education degree program, and classes start this week. I was at the University of Phoenix, but transferred to a new school this month that costs less money. I took a few refresher courses on medical data entry, and got a job at Kelly Staffing after I passed all drug tests. However the temp work ended earlier this month, and I am back to doing my main focus of an educational master’s degree. I have to verify FAFSA loan papers and registration this week to start classes. It feels good to return to real school work!

  • Dance Fun

    By Andrea Menzies

    Halloween is great for dancing parties for people of all ages. I am dusting off my dance trophies I won from dance school competitions when I was a teenager in anticipation of fun Halloween dancing.

    Dancing helped me escape stress enough to graduate high school on the honors program, and to graduate University. I am happy a dancing part of the year has hit again.

  • Day 1

    By Andrea Menzies

    Day 1 of the ten day challenge.

  • Halloween Mood

    By Andrea Menzies

    Getting in the Halloween mood.

  • Dating Scary

    By Andrea Menzies

    Dating gets scarier every Halloween. I am stuck being single for the second year at Halloween in a row, and it is a bummer. Yet I am still getting into the Halloween spirit.

    *Special note I love this joke because one of the reasons I am single is I will not settle for brain dead abusive guys, and this joke points out many women seem to be doing that in the cartoon artist’s life.

  • Back Up

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am back at work doing teaching as of today. So many book sales and fundraiser events going on near work.

  • Scary Year

    Scary Year

    By Andrea Menzies

    This cartoon is too true in 2025. Plans for Halloween activities in DC areas now have to balance around troops everywhere.

  • Thanks For Wishes

    By Andrea Menzies

    Thank you Internet friends for wishing me a happy birthday. It is bittersweet in that I don’t get to see all the long distance friends I miss so much very often. I am happy to see them wish me a happy birthday, but unhappy that it reminds me I can’t visit them more frequently. It does remind me that I used to be far more socially active, and that I will go to nearby towns to make many new friends soon for events this month. I am a single woman that very much hates having no man to date. Halloween is a great time to meet people at events in towns not in Virginia at all.

    • Note by far my favorite birthday gift was the Garmin 935 fitness watch and fitness band. Oh so inspirational for biking fun.

  • My Birthday

    By Andrea Menzies

    Today is my birthday, and my watch became a cake picture! Thanks in advance for the birthday well wishes!