Another Week Gone

This past week has been just as busy as the last.  I have been up between 6 and 7 am every morning, which isn't too big of a deal I know but I only get a couple of hours a sleep a night so I cherish sleeping in when I can, and in almost every occasion I actually had to be somewhere by 7, awake and ready to be busy.

On Saturday morning my dad and I built a fence for our yard.  It was a nice day out and we were up early to go get the supplies and get them home before it became sunny out.  It rained the night before so it was pretty muddy.  On the up side I took a few cute pictures on my phone of some little mushrooms that had grown out of the old fence before we cut it down.

 

So few of the pictures turned out well because my phone, while great, can't take extremely close up shots.

Another big for me this week, I had to keep going back to the dentist because a filling didn't completely stick so he had to replace it.  Good news: I can finally chew on that side of my mouth again without wanting to cry.

I have been doing a lot of novel reading recently and my latest re-read was The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.  It is one of my favorite books, and extremely well written.  Within the next few days I'm going to add a review of the book and one of the BBC adaptions (featuring the fabulous Toby Stephens!).

A quick look at a part of the fence we built Saturday.  Pretty good job I think. ;)

missmandapanda

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is probably my favorite play in Shakespeare.  I can  never actually pick which one I love more but this one is definitely in the top three.  Last night I watched the 1996 version and absolutely loved it!  It is about a set of twins who are separated and each thinks the other is dead.  The sister, Viola, pretends to be a man to live safely and falls in love with Duke Orsino, the man she is serving.  Orsino however is in love with Olivia who doesn't love him and sends Viola to woo her in his stead, which causes Olivia to fall in love with Viola in her male form.  Eventually her brother Sebastian turns back up on the scene and hilarity ensues.

The cast was a fantastic selection.  Imogen Stubbs played Viola, Helena Bonham Carter played Olivia, Toby Stephens played Duke Orsino, Steven Mackintosh played Sebastian, and the fabulous Ben Kingsley played Feste.

I was excited when I found that Ben Kingsley was playing the Jester, and that Stubbs and Mackintosh were actually convincingly similar enough in looks to play twins.  Typically I see that the brother and sister look nothing alike and the whole point is that she more or less becomes her brother.  The rest of the cast also does a fantastic job with their roles, adding some convincing mischief to the side stories.

I give it an A!

And not just because Toby Stephens is in it ;)

missmandapanda

Another busy week!

I had planned on updating a few times this week, but life (an impromptu over night trip to Austin and Fashion's Night Out runway show) happens.

Tuesday afternoon my friend and I were planning on chilling and watching Limitless together.  Once all our guy friends started showing up it became more of a random hang out that turned into "GET IN THE DAMN CAR WE'RE GOING TO AUSTIN!"  Since I was the only one who didn't get to go home and pack clothes, I borrowed a dress and we left.  We finally got there around 11 pm and went straight to 6th street till Last Call.  After one of the best meals ever, we headed back to the hotel so they could get some sleep (I got about an hour and a half!).  Then on the road asap back home because my friend and I had class that day.

We got to our room, bonus points to one of the guys for getting us the hook up, did a little dance, then headed out.  First drinks of the night in that pic.

That food up there is pancakes with an English muffin covered in eggs, bacon, something else I'm sure, and queso!  DELICIOUS!!!  The view from our room (That's the state capitol building right down the street!)  The guys half awake on the way home.  They were mad we made them get up from sleeping earlier.

We also made a trip with these same guys, and a few more, to Fashion's Night Out in Dallas.  It's an event held in a few select cities in the country.  The Galleria, where it was held, has North America's longest runway at a quarter of a mile long.  Some model friends said they walked around five miles over the course of the night!  More on this night another time! :)

Here's a pic I really love that I took at the restaurant we ate at in Austin:

Not extremely clear but my favorite of the night!

Now I need to get some exam studying done so this is where I must reluctantly end!  Ta-ta for now :)


+missmandapanda

Officially the worst updating ever.

So I said in my last update that I was hoping to post a picture everyday for my last semester of college as a bit of a personal documentation of my last few months before I had to go out in to the real world, and I failed HORRIBLY!

My 5 classes are already consuming all of my time and it's only been a week and a half.  I knew this was coming, it is after all my last semester and it consists of my hardest classes, but I was silently hoping I would be able to at least post every other day.  To make it more difficult, almost all of my professors will not allow laptops into the classroom unless you have special permission, translation: I know you won't pay attention if I let you have a computer so no computers!

Some of our drinks.  We we're waiting for our food.

On Thursday, in between class and a homework group meeting, I went to lunch with my friends to celebrate one of them finally turning 21.  So of course that means we're heading to their favorite place, Fuzzy's Tacos, and all having drinks with tacos.  Couldn't see the taco part coming could you?  Anyway, it was a blast and I was sad to have to go back to school to do work.

I had a Margarita Swirl, and two shredded pork tacos, all of which was delicious!

missmandapanda