Ah choo!

I've been sick. To the point that it put a big damper on the weekend and I stayed home from work today. I'm not good at being sick, seriously I'm not. Just ask my friends. Today I have my voice back and I'm not sneezing as much as I could be. Ryan recommended a miracle nose spray that has made my life better. I took nitequil to fall asleep--wow does that stuff knock you out! I needed the sleep though.

The day has come...almost. I am starting concurrent courses next week. This will enable me to be done with classes in August. 10 months for a MAED is not so bad eh? I fully acknowledge it is going to be hell. I can do this, I just may need you to remind me for the next few months.

In other news San Diego was good...seeing Ellie was really good! Geez I miss her. Ellie--you seem happy. THAT ROCKS! The trip was busy, we had dinner at some cool places. I was able to walk on the beach and see everything the city has to offer...at night. Really ready to get home though, I was starting to get sick. Being homesick for anywhere other than Ohio is still a strange feeling.

Well I'm going to go watch Obama talk until I become so annoyed I must change the station...I give it 5 minutes.

Tour De Fat

I just woke up from a much needed nap, and now I'm avoiding awkward conversations by writing this blog. Sounds good to me.

Friday afternoon I volunteered at another Romney event. He seems like a nice guy-I'm  not thrilled with his staffers. Which he is related to (don't get me started on that). I think politics is a great hobby, but I really do feel I am doing the right thing by not making it a career. Still a cool time though. 

Friday I went to Jackson's with the girls. Then we danced the night away-it was a great time! After we headed to Cowboy Lounge--which is a mix of rap and country. We may have been trying to line dance. I won't confirm or deny.

Cathy, Ellie, Me, Carly, Sam, Catherine, and Jill

Today Kat and I went to Tour De Fat. Its an excuse for people to dress like idiots and drink beer. Oh Denver. We went close to finish time, but we were able to see the grand finale-which was in true Denver fashion. While at the park we ran into Aaron, Chris and Topher.What a small world :) 

The Stage

 

Aaron and Chris AKA Mario Brothers

This weekend has been busier than I expected. A lot of fun though-and good food. Tomorrow I am considering going to the 9/11 remembrance concert. It's right outside and The Beach Boys are giving a free concert. It is a remember and smile type thing.

If you hadn't seen me in bangs before this blog, now you have :)

fall is in the air

HAPPY SEPTEMBER...6 days late.
I love that since it turned September the weather is different. It's cool, and I can proudly say I am in sweat pants! YAY!

The first weekend of September was really nice. Spent time with some cool people. All was good except for the Boys II Men concert. That was a bad idea, no doubt about it.

Oh I do have news! I am starting my Masters Degree on October 4th. I will be getting my MA in Education with an emphasis in Public Policy.  I know, way off anything I have ever planned. Please note the emphasis part. I wont be teaching per-say. I will be learning how to influence the government to change education. Best of both worlds, since most of my work experience is in Education AND Politics. I'm fortunate that I work at a school and I am able to get my MA for just the cost of books.

Friday I am going to be volunteering at another Mitt Romney event. I'm excited to get to meet him again, at this point we are bff  :)

What do you want?

I turned in my application to grad school. Should know the status in a couple of weeks...so more on that later.

It was a good weekend. Friday night me Sam, Karisa and Hilary went to Elitch Gardens. It's a really small amusement park in Denver. It was their beer night, but there was no one there. So we got to ride the rides like 5 times in a row and walked on to everything. Good thing because I don't think I would have liked it otherwise. It's no Cedar Point (Yes Sam I went there AGAIN) Just A LOT smaller. Very cute though, and right in Downtown. AND it has fantastic views of the city.

Saturday me and Lyndsay went to Arvada to be in their parade for Ken Buck. Well Lyndsay locked her keys in her trunk so we had to wait for forever for AAA to get there. Then we went to a Jefferson County Republicans baseball game. Our team (the Ken Buck team) won the first game, but lost the second :( sad, but a lot of fun. That night I went out to dinner with Sally, Mere and Kyle. We went to the Mexican place downtown--yyumm.

So Since I have been in Denver I have interned on the Scott Mcinnis Campaign. I'm working with the Scott Gessler Campaign and volunteering on the Ken Buck Campaign. I was called a political junkie. Oh my gosh--when did that happen?! AND a Republican Junkie none the less. Go figure.

Other than that things are good. My mom will be here Tuesday morning. We are getting plates and a License for me that day. Wednesday I have to work, but that night I we are going to head to Aspen. Spend the night there and hang out there on Thursday. Aspen is far enough away from the highway so it should be good. It's so sad about that fire though. I was just there a few months ago with Sally. The small town we went though and everything is probably gone :(

It's just a nice fit here. I love the city. I would love to go abroad and travel, but I could very well end up back here. AND I think that's a good thing. For now though very excited for my mom to be here in 2 days!!!

World Tour

Tom called me on Thursday to tell me he was moving to Connecticut...on Sunday. Lame.

So me and him went out Thursday. We started in "Mexico" aka a mexican restraunt with really strong margaritas. Then we ran--in the rain mind you to the Brown Palace. A fancy hotel, and had a drink at the bar. Then it was off to "Ireland" aka and Irish Pub. We met up with Lyndsay and Chris. By this point I was pretty drunk. Another Tom joined us and we ended up at our last stop "England" aka a British Pub. It was a bitter sweet night. Lots of fun--but sad that Tom is now in Connecticut. I wish you the best of luck Tom and I hope it's a good move for you!



In other news I'm officially on another campaign! Brenden, Lyndsay and I are all going to be working with Scott Gessler. He is running for Secretary of State. It's an awesome opportunity. It's a much smaller staff than Scott had so we will have a lot more responsibility..aka no more letters to the editor or other filler work. I'm really excited. I start Tuesday, but we are all getting together tonight to brainstorm and everything. Yay!

Let's talk, shall we?

A friend told me I was back at square one, I wanted to shake him. I am nowhere near there. No, the campaign didn't work out BUT to say these past six months never happened is naive. I have campaign experience, and the connections I made are priceless. I can not imagine Denver without the people I met through the campaign. So no I am not back at square one.

I decided which campaign I want to get involved with. I have emailed them about an internship position. If I get it that would take me through to November. From there I have some plans, but I will keep them to myself right now.

AND I refuse to support Dan Maes...I do not care that he is our Republican candidate for governor. I will not vote for a man with no Political Experience. No No No.

This entry is really political. All my non-poli sci friends are bored.

There is some other stuff going on, but I'm not going to get into it. Mostly because I do not know how it ends yet...Maybe it already over, but maybe not.

Primary fail.

"Everything happens for a reason"
"When God closes a door he opens a window"
"Good things fall apart so better things can fall together"

Scott McInnis lost last night-to freaking Don Maes.
I'm disappointed with CO.
Don has NO political experience. Contrary to popular belief that is NOT a good thing.

Congratulations John Hickenlooper-you are our next Governor.

I understand that there are going to be better things. I now have 6 months of campaign experience on my resume. That can't hurt. I'm going to take tonight and figure out where I want to go from here in regards to Politics.

Caucus Day!

No I don't know what that means either. Something Colorado does for reasons unknown to me.

I have a job interview on Friday. It's full time. $15 an hour and benefits. I just have to figure out a way to fit that in AND do my internship. It's going to be busy, but I like it that way. Honestly though I can not turn down a job that pays that much. I can not give up this internship either, so I am just going to have to make it work.

Have you ever over analyzed something simple because you wanted it to mean something more than it does? Or maybe it does mean that, but you over analyzed everything so now you can't be sure? I have. I blame it on the fact that I am a Libra.

Ryan Rocks

Ryan is officially a Firemedic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHH! I am beyond excited and proud of my big brother. Way to go Ryan-you're going to do great. I love watching you grow into a really great man.

This has been a good few days for me. For starters I'm beyond excited for my brother. I enjoy my internship. Last night after work me Lyndsay and Josh met up with Tory and went out for drinks. It is the funnest night I have had in a really long time. I'm going to post the Facebook conversation the followed the evening, because that explains the craziness of the night better than I can.

-Mandy: Uh so guys we should tip him more. Why? Well we had the manager take apart our booth to find my cell phone...that was in the window. Oh geez. Great times!
-Tory "Let me get a flash light so we can see what we're working with here":) Classic.
-Joshua that's what she said
-Tory haha
-Mandy That's my line.
-Joshua I had to fish your phone out of the window. I get usage rights :)
-Mandy It was your fault in the first place! Remember we blamed the guy in the white shirt. Want me to call the manager and confirm this? I could--I do have his number you know....ha
-Tory I feel sorry for Josh!
-Mandy I can't for the life of me imagine why?

So yea good times. Today I went to a Fundraiser. It was the first one I have been too, I def enjoyed it and I liked hearing him speak. I completely support him and am going to work REALLY hard to get him elected. The whole parking downtown and finding where this place was at was tricky. I finely found some place like 5 blocks away, but it worked out.



Things are coming together with jobs but it's still really complicated. I'll fill ya all in when I know more :)

The Cavs play Detroit this evening so GO CAVS!

Happy March!

Hi all.

This past weekend was kinda relaxing. I hung out with Mere and Sally for a bit on Saturday, but other than that not a whole lot. Dan tried to get me to go to Coyote Ugly with him Saturday but I had already been drinking so I couldn't drive downtown. Maybe this weekend?

So I started my internship and so far it's going good. I get to deal with constituent mail/email-which I didn't realize I missed. People are just crazy-so it's funny. There are 4 interns, all around my age which is nice. I just all around like it. So yay for that.

I drove out to the outlet mall yesterday after interning. The speed limit was 75-freaking sweet. We definitely didn't have that in Ohio. AND I am proud to admit that I am becoming used to the highway system here! About time eh? Anyways the outlet mall was cool, I got some dress pants since now I have to dress up a few days a week. Probably soon to be even more than that.

It's official though-Boys are better in Denver. I have a lot of reasons why to back that up, but I will save that for another time.

one track mind like me

I feel as though my security has been breached. I am slowly gaining more and more Denver friends on facebook, thus they get access to this. See I'm good with Ohio people looking at this because for the most part I'm not talking about you. Denver people on the other hand...well they are part of my daily life. Which isn't bad, it's just they actually know who I'm talking about. Like today I tried to "edit" a blog so it would be alright for one person to see...yea no editing could help that. I had to delete it. (Yes it HAD to be deleted for reasons I am not getting into on this blog) So I tried to make it private but to do that I have to type in the email of every person that wants to read this, that is a pain for you and me. Not to mention that is not why I started this.
((that paragraph is the result of me over thinking WAY too much))

Moving on...

I got a political internship. Now I just need a job. It's going to be interesting to go from no job to two jobs. But this could lead to really big things. It's been an interesting week...too much is happening and I find myself just concentrating on the other thing. Damn my one track mind.

Tonight me Michelle, Becka and Elisa went out for dinner. It was nice. I was the only one not tipsy from the wine but you'll have that. AND the Lakers lost so all in all a good night.