Mandy knows best

Adventure post So my friend started planning for her birthday in January. She said she wanted a girls weekend where we got all dressed up and went out and partied all weekend. Then COVID hit and we weren't sure what would happen but we just kept waiting to see. We even waited until the day of to plan anything... So my other friend went to work running errands and getting everything ready for the trip. We got liquor, we got snacks, we got breakfast foods knowing we would be too hung over to do much in the morning. Then we got to the Airbnb and there was no kitchen... So no where to put our drinks or our breakfast foods. Not what we were planning so it just got weird. Oh also forgot to mention the birthday girl's apartment floor flooded the week before... So she had to tear the floor out with her dad and buy new floor and that was where her head was when we got to the small hotel room that was supposed to be a big nice condo... So instead of getting dressed to impress for dinn...

TV show So I have seen Community twice because I made my husband watch it. And all this time, I didn't know that they made a sixth season! See, it was produced and released on a different network that I hadn't even heard of... But I checked Netflix and sure enough it's on there. So I jumped right on it. And it's definitely lacking... Troy isn't in it at all and Shirley is barely in it. Which leads to a lot of relevant racial stereotypes. Ben Chang keeps bringing up how convenient it is that the people of color are the ones who left... him and Abed are probably next... But they also add Paget Brewster to this season and I love her. She seems very serious... They add Keith David for diversity and as the new old school IT guy. There are so many weird characters in this show I can't even name them all; Starburns, Leonard, Garrett, The Dean, Magnitude, and creepy Todd... This in one of those shows like Gilmore Girls where the odd characters make it so easy to be ...

Season 1 Anybody else watching this? This better come back for a second season. It hasn't been announced yet... The concept for this show is so fun. Take this kind of nerdy girl (who doesn't listen to music) and give her the opportunity to hear the thoughts of the people around her in song. Eventually these songs become known as heart songs! I love that! But naturally reading people's minds isn't as cool as it sounds. Remember Bruce Almighty? It gets distracting and what if the thoughts are about you? That would make things way awkward. The actors are pretty good too. I've never seen Jane Levy before but she killed it. Then you have Skylar Astin from Pitch Perfect and Alex Newell from Glee, the Queen of Stars Hollow Lauren Graham, Peter Gallagher from everything, and Mary Steenburgen from The Proposal. All of them sing and dance and act super real. This show was everything I love about TV. There is emotion, friendship, love triangles, family drama and work drama...

This season was different from the first episode. We see Buffy lonely and friendless which is not common for Buffy. Which makes sense because she did kill her boyfriend last season... But after a couple episodes things find their normal but the hits just kept coming. Another new slayer, a couple new watchers, new demons. There was always something going on behind the scenes. I don't think there was 1 episode where someone wasn't lying to the group. And the vampires were not the villains this season. There were barely any vampires! There were witches and human corruption and other bad things but the vamps were at a minimum. The mayor of Sunnydale is a real creep... But I still cried when Doyle (from Gilmore Girls) named Buffy the Protector at the prom. I was like finally Buffy getting some real life recognition. I think it made her happier to continue this life. I might be writing these quicker because I think Veronica is bailing on watching these with me so I can work on my...

TV show (spoilers) Oh my gosh I love this show so much. I finished my other show before I started this season so I was a little worried that I would be more focused on the sadness of missing the other show but nope Buffy sucked me right in. Sarah Michelle Gellar is the ultimate 90s girl and Angel is so hot still. Spike and Dru were very fun additions to the show. Well ok Drusilla would drive me nuts if I had to deal with her for long but I do get her character. I really liked the relationship between Angel, Spike and Drusilla... Also Seth Green is the best relationship for Willow! I love them. I mean score one for Xander and Cordelia but Oz and Willow are the best couple of the season. Oh and John Ritter is on this season playing kind of the perfect character for him... No offense. Also cameos from the very attractive albeit very young Wentworth Miller and on the same swim team Shane West! That's right! As if I haven't been lusting after him enough they had to put him on B...

TV show This is another rewatch for me but I don't think I saw the last season... This show was perfect timing for me as it was about a freshman in college and his fraternity and I had just finished high school. Now I knew I wasn't going to rush a sorority or anything but it was fun to picture and imagine. Plus it got me into Plain White Ts. The theme song is Our Time Now and it's still one of my favorite songs. This is one of those shows where there are a few "will they won't they relationships" and love triangles. These actors haven't been in much since but Dale was in a movie once, Ashleigh was in 22 Jump Street, Cappie was in Once Upon a Time for a couple episodes, Casey was in an episode of Gray's Anatomy, Evan starred in the TV show Limitless, Rebecca was in a few episodes of Revenge, but I haven't seen Rusty or Cal in anything else. Oh Beaver was in a movie with Kellan Lutz and Frannie was in 911 dating a hot firefighter. There were a lot ...

TV show Natasha Lyonne stars in this twisty show about death. Charlie Barnett is also considered to be the second star but he doesn't really show up until episode 3 so he's definitely lesser. Also Amy Poehler is an executive producer which somewhat makes sense as it has a ton of humor but most of it is pretty dark... The nice thing about this show is that the episodes are pretty short, about 30 minutes, so they don't drag. And there are only 8 episodes so I ended up watching the whole thing in one night. On a night when I had work until 7 that night and still went to work the next morning. This is a short series. Also would not recommend watching drunk or high because it seems hard to follow sober. There is a lot going on, it's like that movie Vantage Point where they show different things so you try to look for clues in each scene. Ok it's not like that because it's not the same thing happening over and over again, but it's just trying to catch hints...

TV show I know what you're thinking, another witch show for Mandy. But honestly I started watching this show for Shane West. It was actually a slow start for me because Shane had long hair and I wasn't feeling it, and the show kind of moved slow. See it's one of those shows where a lot of things are happening in "secret" so there were a few different story lines to follow. And the first season had a big finish but it took a lot of patience to get to that end. The other 2 seasons went a lot faster. There was more action going on episodically. This show seems actually realistic, not saying there were witches in Salem but if there were they were definitely not the ones being caught. That's one cool thing about this show. There is a part where they find a witch and accuse her but as they do, they tortured her until she named other witches. She finally named someone but that person was definitely not a witch but they killed the one immediately and they put th...

Hobbies? I've had my air fryer for many months. And I first got it with a menu in mind and it was delicious! But then I never touched it again. So when I moved back in with my parents and since I'm stuck at home for 7 days in a row, twice a month I figured it was a good time to hone my skills. So I made air fryer donuts... Basically I took Pillsbury biscuits and fried them and then put cinnamon sugar on them. They were delicious but kind of heavy. Like Next time I'll probably cut them in half to make them thinner. But I'm practicing so I can try different ways and recipes. Later that week I made fried zucchini. I cut zucchini into "fries" and dipped them in egg yolk and then in a mixture of parmesan, bread crumbs, and a seasoning that I can't remember off the top of my head (maybe oregano?) Anyway then I fried it for 7 minutes on each side but when I put them in the basket a lot of the breading came off so it wasn't the consistency that I like...