* Pretty Little Endeavors

Dear Labor Day Weekend, HELLO! Nice to see you! Can't wait to drink way too many high calorie beers and maybe get some golfing in! Dear IPA, I've been thinking about how wonderful you'd taste all day long!  Dear Waitressing, Sometimes I hate you so much. Okay, most of the time. However, today I worked the morning shift.. at one point I had 5 different tables sit down at the same time on top of my other tables.. normally that's stressful, but almost every table I waited on today was nice and understanding.  Dear People who think they know my business, I don't dig when I get asked about my dating life because of what you've heard through the grapevine. I don't even know what my dating status is, I'm pretty sure you don't. Dear Local sports radio, Thank you for talking about me on air a few nights ago. I tuned in during a conversation about how women should look and next thing I hear is "Mandy Ship looks like that! Mandy Ship from t...

I'm a pinaholic. That's no secret. Lately I've noticed a a lot of superhero items. I had to have one.  I searched and searched, but couldn't find one that was girly enough for me.  I don't like wearing t-shirts. It has to be a v-neck. All I kept finding were t-shirts... Finally I found the perfect one for me! Shirt from: Jack of All Trades For more Superman superhero shirts, visit Jack of All Trades I wore it with some shorts and my red hi-tops.  I can't tell you how many compliments I received.  It's such a sassy shirt.  Who is you favorite superhero? 

The absolute only reason I tuned in to watch the VMAs was because I needed to see NSYNC on my tv. I was the biggest NSYNC fan when I was little. They were the first concert I ever attended. My room was all NSYNC & I had a few NSYNC themed birthday parties. Obsessed is an understatement. However, before I was able to see the only thing I wanted to see..  I had to watch things no one should of ever had to watch.. First off, there are 3 female stars that I can not stand. I'll be honest, I didn't mind watching Katy Perry after Gaga & Miley. Lady Gaga. I couldn't even watch her performance, I never can. I always cringe. Then when I saw Miley.. I wish I would of turned off the tv. I considered not waiting around to watch NSYNC. Honestly, what the hell was that?  My only thought was, DESPERATE. Did you ever have that friend back in high school that would do anything just to impress guys? I felt like this performa...

I proudly had my first beer of the weekend at 3pm. That may not seem bad, however I was ready for a beer at 10am. This week has been absolute hell. In the past 5 nights, I've probably slept a total of 10 hours. I was worried I'd have bags under my eyes for the first time is 21 years, but apparently I don't need bags to look exhausted. Last night at work I had someone ask me if I was sick because I looked exhausted and clearly lost weight. Fabulous.  I hate college. But, now everything is out of my hands. I'm either going to get into the OTA program or settle for a bachelors in human services. Then once I get one of the degrees I'll go on to get my masters. Do any of you have or know of someone with a human service degree? I've been looking into it, but would love any input you have.  I have been a complete stressed out hot mess. I haven't even had time to go out with my dude friend. We made so many plans and I had to cancel, every single time. Finall...

Since my brain is completely worn out, I'm just going to ramble.  -I'm completely overwhelmed with everything going on in my life. -Friday is the day that I can turn my application in for my program. I don't even want to turn it in. About half of the people applying have developed some stress related disease. We all sit around and talk about how many times we randomly breakdown over all of it.  -I may go crazy if I read one more article on Lupus. I should of kept track, I'm sure I'm at at least 100. -I need to get some of these proofs from a few weeks ago up on my blog. Want a sneak peak? Here... -I take my last final at 6 and then I can spend the rest of my evening at my dude friend's house watching movies.  -Not sure how this guy even puts up with me constantly stressing over school and never having time to hang out. I guess that's the perks of older guys who already have a degree & career.  -I have to leave my ...

Wow, what a weekend! I never was able to recap the past weekend. I however received our proofs from last Saturday so I'll have to share those pictures with you this week! Friday I was suppose to go out with the guy I went to Kid Rock with and his friends, but I had so much homework so I was lame and stayed home. Saturday I went to Kid Rock for the second time. I went with my parents and my sister. My sister and I ended up walking around and saw these guys with Badass beer beads and wanted to know where they got them. The guy ended up being some boxer or whatever so they ended up getting us beads and too many beers. By the time Kid Rock came on, I had a full huge beer and gave it away to my parents. Which was a great choice on my part. This shirt, I made to be a fitted cutoff. It was a huge baggy t-shirt that I got for pretty much free.  This is the boxer dude whose people bought all of our drinks. Free drinks, whatever. They had liquor pops there...

I just want to say thank you to all of you who commented and reached out to me after my last post. It was a hard post to write. It wasn't something I felt comfortable mentioning for months and months. I'm glad I finally decided to suck it up and share. I want all of you to know that I'm okay. This was something I've been dealing with for a while. I've had some really bad days, but I'm having much better days.  Sunday night, I went on a date. It was a really great night. However, my ex found out and wasn't happy. After months of him not being willing to talk about our issues and figure everything out, he had a lot to say. I was more annoyed than anything. I walked away from the relationship because I couldn't allow myself to keep trying so hard and being mistreated and to constantly have everything turned around so I looked like the bad person. I didn't just wake up one day and just out of the blue walked away. It was at least 6 months tha...

I promised I'd be honest and explain what is going on in my life. I thought this post would take a few days to actually post. However, tonight I'm just going to say what needs to be said and not spend any time editing it. I realized that if any of you follow me on Twitter you're going to eventually understand what's going on. My relationship of 3 years has come to an end. It's been a long time coming. It's been an issue I wanted to mention, but because I respected that person I decided to hold off until it was completely done. It's hard to walk away from someone you spent so much time with. It's hard to realize that the what ifs were simply unrealistic. I sat around the past three months willing to talk about things, willing to admit my wrongs and willing to put it all behind us. However, I wasn't willing to accept all the bullshit I went through without a sincere apology. I am not at fault for why things didn't work out. I gave it my all, I di...

As a "lifestyle blogger" I should be sharing important things going on in my life. I've been great about sharing struggles. Sometimes I don't go into details. It's hard because sometimes I just need someone there for me and if I have a hard time talking about it on my blog, I have a hard time talking about it in real life. I can be a very open person and then at times I can completely shut out everyone. I have been so lucky to have a handful of people I've met through blogging that have contacted me and actually cared about things I've been going through. At times I have a hard time admitting things to these people, but when I do I feel amazing about myself. I've decided that I will be opening up a little on my blog in the very near future about some of these things. I need to take some time to make sure I can explain it in the most mature way possible. I'd love to call people out, explain things that would make everyone understand my emotion...

I do plan on giving you all a recap on my party bus, Tigers game night. It was a good night until the end. I won't get into what happened at the end, because I don't know what people in my every day life reads my blog. And if any of my co-workers or bosses happen to read my blog, I don't want it to be an issue that's being rehashed. However, I can discuss my feelings about the situation because this is my blog and I've made these feelings very clear.  After the game and after the party bus I was going to quit my job. Many situations have caused me to have this built up frustration and it's taken a lot to not walk out many of times. I'm not a quitter. If I'm ever going to give up on a job, a dream or any situation it takes a lot. I will spend days, week or months thinking about the pros and cons.  I would have to say that my biggest flaw is that I hold things in. I'd rather not get into it or call anyone out, so I hold it in. Many times, it eats m...