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 :)