By Andrea Menzies
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Category: Podcast
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Best of Halloween
By Andrea Menzies
I got a new CD from Amazon for the Halloween party at my mom’s house.
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50 Years Rocky
By Andrea Menzies
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Picture Show being played on Halloween. Fun fact, when I lived in New Orleans I was both Columbia and Magenta in two different productions of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Loyola University New Orleans and the Prytania theater near campus. They wanted me to do more shows, but I was a university student with oceans of homework so I lacked the free time for that activity. I will always love how many fun friends I met doing a fun and campy Halloween show with many school friends. Fortunately there are a few places near my mom’s house in Virginia showing the Rocky Horror, and so I can still go there a bit. My review is it is a great show at any venue.
Columbia, Frankfurter, and Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 
The NPR article on the 50th anniversary. -
Double Pumpkin
By Andrea Menzies
My daughter and I painted Halloween pumpkins this week. I was teaching at schools doing pumpkin crafts, and it reminded me it was time to do our own. My pumpkin has the pointy eyes on the right. We like to use paint and markers as it takes longer to spoil.
Left Alexandria’s pumpkin, right my pumpkin. 
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast 