Category: Podcast

  • 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!

  • Death Room

    By Andrea Menzies

    The Death Star ballroom joke is making the rounds on the Internet. Behold the fully functional Death Star ballroom! I live near the DC area, and had Halloween tickets in the downtown district I had to refund due to the horrible political melodrama and troops everywhere. It is hard enough to be single, and to rebuild my social life after a bad breakup without riots in the streets.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Travel Away

    By Andrea Menzies

    It is still my vow to never go out in Virginia night life again. I still love music, but Virginia is a nightmare of con artist scum. One night I went out and a guy screamed “hold this” and the guy put a beer in my hand I was not drinking, and a cigarette in my hand I was not smoking, and snapped a photo. Then he threatened to put the photos all over the Internet if I did not pay him as a bribe. I had no money to give him. It happened dozens of times more before I started slapping men. Men have tried to roofie my water one million times. This NEVER happened in Texas or Louisiana! Virginia has garbage for night life! Road trips away from Virginia are all I will pursue for music, fun, or dating. All people in areas not around Virginia know you are the people I want to socialize with and NEVER Virginia people. It is my birthday this week, and it makes me long to go out and be social, but a road trip far away from Virginia is the only option.