MY BEST FRIEND IS GETTING MARRIED!!!!

So, clearly I am excited and many of you know but KELLY ANN SHANLEY is getting married!

Adam Best sure did propose on Friday evening, and she said YES! I can not begin to tell you how happy I am for the two of them. It's the strangest feeling when your closest friend gets engaged... I remember back to getting ready for dances and dates, holidays with our families, vacations, girls nights, trips to visit each other and now that this dream of her's has come true makes me feel so happy. So...shout out to you Kelly Ann Shanley :) I love your life so much! Let the planning beginning. I got your teeth whitening appointment scheduled ;)

Happy Halloween to everyone as it is 10/31/10. Halloween is one of those holidays that I have never really gotten excited about. This year I was in charge of organization an office decorating competition in the two unions.  We in CAIC let our students decide on the theme and they chose Snow White in the Seven Dwarfs. They asked me to dress as Snow White to which I agreed..then it occurred to me on Wednesday that I did not own a snow white dress. So, being the smart sorority girl that I am I went to Walmart to get some supplies. I was disappointed to find that Walmart no longer sells fabric and since I was in a crunch I had to get creative (scary I know) so I grabbed a twin flat sheet and some elastic and went home to get creative. I also took some white felt and went home to make the magic happen. Here was the result:

Here is me with "Prince Charming" (the student body president)

Snow White & Dopey (Keith, one of the Involvement Specialists)

Now, clearly I could not wear a bedsheet downtown last night (though I might have fit in) so instead I went with simple, comfortable and cheap: Derek Jeter

The ladies at Blue Post :)

 I also got to experience for the first time the Rocky Horror Picture Show (interactive). I must say I was amazed to see that many students in their...underpants? And so many of them knew the words and when to shout things. I was amazed. It was... an experience. Speaking of movies I did get to go see the Sound of Music Sing-A-Long. I learned many things seeing one of my favorite childhood films on the big screen:
1. The right words to most of the songs
2. The butler is who calls the Nazi's to come get the Vontrap family when they try to flee the country (who knew?)
3. It's obvious why I related so well to the movie as a child. For example, when Captain Vontrap sings to the children Edelweiss all I could think is that could easily have been me and my father, only the guitar would be invisible and the song would be "Born to Run".
4. The song Maria could easily be a song my friends would sing about me and lastly...
5. I hope to one day have children that perform at the galas I will throw in my house :)


Other than that...life is good. We submitted our first spring show offer on Friday. No, I won't say who it is and yes I would appreciate you crossing your fingers :) 

Next up: ECU vs. Navy game with the newly engaged couple, my second family and Casie Stone + Thanksgiving with the Wilmington crew. Should be good :) 

SHOUTOUTS:
- Happy late birthday to Shannon
- Happy Halloween birthday to my dear friend/future DGSC husband Casie
-to Lori Corley for a fantastic afternoon in Myrtle Beach today
-Congrats to my friends Leslie and Jake for moving into their new home 
-Congrats to Petey for being elected PKT president he will ROCK that chapter :)
-My students for having the greatest Halloween costumes and texting me pictures of them
-My grandma who turns 81 this week. Lets all have some red wine mixed with Diet Coke for her :)
-oh yea, my best friend Kelly Ann Shanley and her FIANCE Adam best who are getting MARRIED!


I think that's everything :)


XOXO


Stefanie Jo

Hits & Wishes of October

Ok, I realize it has been almost a month since I last blogged. I know saying October has been crazy is a lame excuse but I promise you that in fact October has been in fact pretty crazy.... however in true student affairs/virginia beach leadership workshop fashion I will share with you the "best of" in the form of Hits (things that have been great) and Wishes (things I wish would've or wouldn't have happened). Here it goes:

Hits:
-Adrienne making me take snacks and her Miley Cyrus cup to the ER at 3am when she pulled a ligmaent in her arm/shoulder
-Pretzel Combos at the local Target always a must with the girls = $2.68 of BLISS
-NACA South Conference with my amazing students in Chattenooga

The ACE group at the NACA Banquet

-ACE winning outstanding late night program for Festapalooza
-JMU and LU also getting some sweet awards at NACA including my boy Drew Midgette :)

Drew Boo and I at the NACA banquet :)

-ACEr's getting to meet Melissa our new middle agent
-More people taking the ACE spring show survey in the first 6 hours than took it last year (current count is 2300 students voting) - no I will not reveal who is winning
-A great housing collaboration program: Concert and Cupcakes = successful hall program in almost all areas on campus :)
-A VERY successfull Midnight Madness & Fan Jam



 -Good fall weather
-Signing up to run a 5K for my favorite girls on campus ADPis
-Learning to "Dougie" at Level 5 courtousy of a random guy and Clifton :)
-Discovering Modern Family and catching up on season 1
-Jimmy O moving in for 5 days
-Jimmy O loving Wilmington so much

 -57 successful PIT crew "graduates" - our pilot new member program has come to an end courtesy of Mr. Tyler Jones - the ever so hardworking ACE VP who worked so hard to create an amazing program for these new members who are so excited
-Discovering the lunch at Chris' Cosmic Kitchen is equally as good as the breakfast (happy late birthday shoutout to Jenn Smist)
-Todd Shanley Successfully moving to Sicily, Italy - miss you buddy hope you are enjoying the homeland the way I did.
-Being "type casted" as Snow White for our office Halloween festivities - if only my prince charming wasn't a cut out on the wall
-pumpkin candles
-Being introduced to (Thanks Sarah) The Clothes Mentor (the "adult" version of Plato's Closet)
-ADPis at LU still using the same pass down move from 2005 in their lip sync :)
-The Sound of  Music re-releasing in the movie theater next week as a SING-A-LONG!!!!!!!

Wish
-Adrienne tearing ligaments in her arm and having to go to the ER at 3am
-When A and I got to McDonalds at 4:59 am after time in the ER they would've been serving chicken nuggets still so as not to dissappoint her heavily medicated self :)
-My ACErs didn't create the term "NACin'" (like Mackin') and then live it at NACA South
-My students wouldn't have pranked me at midnight the last night at NACA
-We hadn't woken up an innocent hotel patron while my students were pranking me
-Students wouldn't write in the free response section of the spring show (concert) survey:
a.) artists previously listed in the survey
b.) Stefanie Mancuso
-Sprinklers wouldn't go on 20 minutes prior to our Fan Jam event forcing ACE to towel dry 3 large inflatables, tables/chairs and repackage 80 boxes of Dunkin Donuts
-I was better at driving the ACE golf cart and didn't risk lives when I did
-I wasn't dreading taking the NC drivers test so much
-Petey boo was a little more shy when it came to performing on stage ;)


Ok... I think that's what I have for now... shoutouts?

-My girl Hunter Bedard getting a sweet job in Boston: Congrats!
-Keith and Lucy get married in ONE MONTH and potentially ALL CHI 08 can go? AMAZING!
-Good luck to my grad Sami heading up a big time fundraiser this weekend ... you will rock!
-ACE rocking a great month of programming in October - so proud
-Happy Birthday next week to Shannon Mariner and Casie Stone
-My Yankees making a come back in this series...come on boys we got this :)