Miley Cyrus' VMAs Performance

It's no secret that Miley Cyrus went wild at the VMAs.  Everybody knows.  Everybody cares...  but should anybody really?

People have come down on her really hard for something so silly and insignificant.  What do they care about so much?

Sunday (Funday?)

So here it is. The end of this "week of wonder" as I called it on a whim. I hope you've enjoyed, or maybe thought about what makes your life special,  or at the very least found something else to distract you on the internet.

Quote of the Week

"In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be."

-Josh Radnor 

Salsa'd Saturday

"White or Brown Rice? Black or pinto beans? And for your meat?.... Yes, ma'am carnitas is pork & barbacoa is the beef. Sounds good!....and for you?"

×100.

Sounds like maybe another Chipotle post, right? Well, kinda, yeah. Ever since I started,  I've worked every Saturday--and this one is no different! However sometimes the managers can reallllly get under my skin. Today's post'll talk about some of the things they do that annoy me--and then I'll flip it and say why that's good. Yeah, it's gonna be challenging.

Freedom Fridays!

Wheeeee!!

It's pretty terrible basing an entire day's highlights off of the fact that you don't have to work so long, meaning ya don't make as much money, but that's what I'm doing.

10 Reasons Thursdays ROCK!

Why 10? It aliterates with Thursday, and...I wanted to  challenge myself. Honestly when I first started, I couldn't think of any. Zip. So, we'll see how lame these are. Here goes!!

Worshiping Wednesdays

Generally,  I love Wednesdays. I wouldn't say I worship them, as the title suggests, or wait with baited breath for them to come around, but Wednesdays are a good day. And this one? This Wednesday is the day where, if I were to be attending school, I would be meeting up with my AWESOME roommates and counselling new freshmen in Music Theory Bootcamp. But I'm not. To tell you the truth...

This is hard.

Thrifty Tuesdays: Adventures in the Great... Goodwill

I don't go thrifting on Mondays,  Wednesdays or Fridays. I don't go on Thursdays, or even on the weekend. No, blahggers, I only go on Tuesdays. only. Ever. And only at Goodwill.

Want a little MESSY with that MONDAY?

It's a Monday. Soooo I bet you can guess what I did after I got home from work! Well, after I ate food cuz I was hungry, and made some noodles by mom's orders, and changed out of my oily clothes...THEN I...well, you know!

You don't? Oh blahggers...you have SO much to learn.

Quote of the Week

"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."

-Hugh Mackay 

Week of Wonder

Fall semester is fast approaching but I'm not going to be heading back to Mankato.  I'm not particularly happy with this turn of events and as such, starting tomorrow, I've decided to write a blah a day about what makes each day special & what I have to look forward to this fall.

To read the full back story on why i'm taking the semester off, click here.

And hey- if you guys are going through a hard time like me, I challenge you to do the same. Look on the bright side of life!

Mandolin Smith
The Mad Musician

Quote of the Week

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

-Dr. Seuss 

Quote of the Week

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."

- Taylor Swift