Oh my.

His voice can melt my heart.

Oh, Canada

Today I was registering for a website, and when they asked for gender, there were three options: Male, Female, and Canada. My decision was obvious. MLIA
Mylifeisaverage is awesome.

The other day my mom and I were on our way home. My mom saw a car's license plate and gasped. "Meling, they're south Canadian." she said in awe.
I began to laugh, "South Canadian?" I asked.
"Yeah! Look at that!" she pointed at the car in front of us.
I looked, "...South Carolina?"
"Oh, uhm.. hah.. yeeeah."
"Oh mom.." I shook my head and began to laugh.


What can I say, she's pretty funny.

Ring-deer?

Today my mom and I went shopping. It was so I could get some more of those animal bracelets.
Before we were leaving, she begged me into going into this other store with her. It was filled with furniture, blankets, and just things for around the house. In the middle of the store there was a lot of stuff on sale, Christmas decorations. A lot of ornaments and all that stuff. There was a lot of reindeer in there also, and obviously my mom loves them!
"Meling, look at this!" she said while pointing a fairly big reindeer.
I looked at it for a second, "That's nice." I ran my fingers a long its long antlers. It reminded me of those 'trees' that hold jewelry in Romancing the Stone. "You could hang rings and necklaces on here!" I said in a joking tone.
"Yeah?" she turned to look at me.
"Oh yeah! Of course!" Sarcasm dripping from my words.
"That's why it's called a ring-deer."
I paused and looked at her, "Wait, what?" A ring-deer?
"Mhm!" she said while walking out of the store. Okay then, whatever you say, Mom.

Merry Christmas

Hey, I'm sorry that I haven't posted lately! I guess just been busy? No, not really..


Anyways, I hope everyone has a great Christmas! I know I'm having a pretty great one. My friend, Brady, got me a stuffed Wild Thing. It's probably the best present, ever. His name is Carol, and my cats are terrified of him. It's really funny. I just have to hold it up and they get into an almost fetal position. It's the funniest thing! I love it. All this morning my brother, Bobby, and I have been scaring them. My mom is pretty satisfied with this, and so far has taken Carol away from me many times to scare the cats.

Another funny story about my mom:

The other day we were in the car on the way to the mall for some Christmas shopping. There was a car in front of us that read "NSA (numbers)". She pointed this out, "Look! They go to NSA!" she said confidently.
"What?" I ask while turning my head towards the car.
"Them! Look at the car. It says NSA!"
I examine it and begin to laugh, "Mom, that's their license plate. They're from Iowa." I keep laughing.
Her smile fades, "But.. oh.."

I love her, so much. On another note, my dad is pretty awesome himself. We had to go to the hospital Christmas Eve to see my cousin, Stephanie. She's okay, so don't worry.
Anyways, while we were leaving, my dad and I played "The Floor is Lava"! How awesome is he!? Yeah, this is why he's going to see the Avatar with me and Nikki today.

"Lmao i love your family"
-thedearestnikki

Crazy Girl

"I left you with one promise.

I hear your heart call my name."

- Jonny Craig

This morning my mom kept telling me how cold it was, and that I needed a jacket. I kept saying that I would get one, but this didn't seem to appease her.

"Meling, it's really cold out there." she said again.

How do you even know how cold it is? I thought to myself, but still nodded at her.

"Do you have a jacket?" she asked.

I shrugged a jacket on, "Yeah." I smiled at her.

"Okay..." she paused and gave me a worried look, "Do you need a scarf?

I laughed, "No, I'm okay." I reply.

"No really. You do! It's really cold." she stood up to go get me one.

"Mom." I protested.

"Meling! It's cold! You have one, don't you? The one Aulring got you last year?" she questioned.

"It's somewhere.." I stammered.

She huffed, "You need a scarf." Right then my dad walked up the stairs. "Doesn't she hun!?" she asked him.

"Huh?" he gave me a questioning look.

"A scarf." I stated.

He gave me a weird look, "No. It's not even cold out there." he said while laughing.

My mom's face dropped, and I began to laugh. "Bye Mamma." I said while walking down the stairs with my dad.

Overprotective mothers, gotta' love 'em.

Today was my first day of exams. I had my easiest ones today, English and orchestra. I'm pretty sure I aced them both, but my English teacher took up half the class period just talking to us about what a bad class we were. Y'know, I used to really enjoy my English classes, but not so much this year.

Cool Cats

"Well look at this hot reindeer!"-Ali

Yeah, these are some of the cool kids in orchestra. I'm the reindeer by the way.

We had out Christmas concert the other night, and it was amazing. I loved it so much. These orchestra kids are some of the best people you will ever meet. They never fail to make me smile.

I hate to see this group of guys go. They always made orchestra fun.

Whether it was playing Call of Duty wit the gurad's guns, intense card games, or just making fun The Burton. I'll really miss them, and I don't think orchestra will ever be the same without them.

Of course I'll still have Nancy and Abby, but I doubt that they will randomly bring Rockband to school.

Anyways, our concert went well. We played Charlie Brown Christmas, A Cristmas Concert Suite, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and Sleigh Ride.

Pretty epic. The last two we played with the actual band.

You could hardly hear the violins, so even if I messed up you couldn't hear me. Thank you, band.

So awhile ago I was thinking about awkward situations.
One particular one caught my attention because it has happened to me. Recently, actually.

A couple weekends ago Nikki and I were at the mall, and we saw our friend, Joey. We all hung out for awhile and were having a good time. This had been the first time in a long time since we had seen Joey, and we didn't really know how to say bye. Did we hug? Did we just nod and walk away? Wave?
Yall are probably thinking that this was the awkward part. No.

So, it's time to say bye. We tell him that we had a good time hanging out with him and that we need to do it again. We do the universal hug and that's that. Now this is when it's awkward. We turn to leave BUT Joey is going the same way as us.
"Oh, are yall going this way too?" he asks.
I laugh awkwardly, "Yeah. Imagine that." I reply. Nikki joins me in the awkward laughing.
"Yeeeah." he keeps walking.
What do you do then? I mean we eventually have to do different ways, but we already said our goodbyes. See, awkward.
It's just the whole presence of eachother makes it awkward. I don't know why, but it does.
(After this happened I was watching Natalie from Coummunitychannel and she did a vlog about this. Pretty funny.)


Anyways, most of yall know how I dyed my hair. Pretty awesome.
before

after



Well, anyways, obviously this new hair made me a whole new person. People don't even recognize me at first. I got this line a lot at school, "I didn't even know who you were at first!"
I don't see how this was such a huge difference. I mean, yeah, it's black. I get that, but really? You couldn't even tell that I was Melissa? Just cause of my hair color. During Thanksgiving a lot of people thought that I was just some other guest.

That made Marie and I laugh because obviously people don't notice little things like that. Other examples?
Superman and Clark Kent.
Glasses and no glasses. Worked for him just like my hair.
I'm like a superhero.

Summer Lovin

I miss summer. A lot. Esspecially last summer.
I spent almost every day with Mara either at a pool, outside in my backyard, or at Haywood Elementary. And if I wasn't with Mara, I was with Nikki.
Possibly the greatest times of my life.


There is just something about summer that makes me happy. It feels like everyone is always happier and more relaxed.
It's just lazy days, long nights, and summer love. Isn't it the best?
Summer always seems to be so short. Like I can't fit enough good times into those few months. Time flys when you're having fun I guess. To me, it's the best time of the year.
I miss it, a lot.
It always feels like I meet new people during summer, and I mean a lot of new people. From camps and what not. Making new friends, but those ties and bonds always seem to break apart when school starts, but once summer shows it's lovely head things start to look better again. You start texting that old friend from camp. You message eachother on Myspace and Facebook.
I really do miss it, and I miss them. All of the friends I made at Fuge.

I think Fuge was one of the best parts of summer. A church camp for a whole week. A week of no electronics. Just you, God, and other Christians. Best. Time. Ever.


Anyways, this was a pointless blog about how much I love Summer and all it's wonders.
I can't wait till this upcoming Summer!

Flash ;o

So, I told yall how my school was going to do a flash mob, pretty exciting.
Well, this is the first kind we are going to do.


It's pretty awesome.
We were talking about it on Facebook, and we decided that they can't suspend us for not moving. Genius.

Anyways, hope that we get to this soon.
It'll probably go down after Christmas Break.

Awesome.

My sister is awesome. She was thinking about getting me these hand puppet things. You use paint though, and they're animals! I was pretty excited when she told me this today.
"I won't even need friends anymore!"
"....Really?" she gave me a dumb look and I just smiled.
"I could even make them kiss!" I said while holding my hands up and letting them touch each other.
"Yeahh..." another weird look.

Also, my school is pretty awesome. Why? Flash Mob, that's why. I'm sure I'll have a video of it up once we do it. I have to say, I'm very excited.

Anyways, today in art class we had to use pastels to do our version of one of van Gogh's paintings. I was really excited about this and was looking forward to it. Well, I was working a little slow and making sure that I was doing a good job. The people I sit with in that class usually speed through it and then turn it in.
Well the first girl to turn hers in had to come back, "What did she say?" I asked while looking at her picture. I thought that it looked really good.
"Has to be darker." she pouted.
I looked at my picture and then back at hers, "Oh." I started coloring harder and making sure there wasn't a white spot on that page.
Then Fady went up there, and he is so confident in his art. A little too confident. Not to be mean, but he isn't that good.
Of course, he comes back. "What did she say?" the first girl asked.
"My flowers in the front are too small." he said while picking up the pastels.
I then examined my picture and then made sure to make my flowers pretty big.

This went on for awhile. I was the last one at my table to turn in my work, and when I did she liked it!
"Wow Melissa, this is pretty good." she said while taking it from me.
I smiled, "Thanks!"

I told my sister this story, "I bet that's what van Gogh did too. He just asked his friends what other people thought about their paintings first."
Pretty funny. That's why she's awesome too.

Greeks Geeks

"People who are good at it can go in and out."

Doth what she hath said.

Nothing exceptionally exciting to talk about. Today I wore a pencil skirt to school, and I got a lot of compliments. I think I wore it on the wrong day. It was freezing outside, but then again I don't think that it's going to get any warmer from now on.

Well exams are soon, so yall will be reading about how stressed I am. That's always fun. Reading other people's misfortune makes us feel better, and I don't say it doesn't! I know it makes me feel better about myself and my situation sometimes.

Well, today in English we were talking about Antigone and how the kings back then were okay with the playwriters writing stories about the common people taking over the kingdom. Of course people in the class were a bit confused. What if the common people got ideas from these plays? Wouldn't they try to overthrow him also?

I guess they didn't think so. They thought that seeing the play and feeling the emotions through the characters would be enough for the people. I guess it was, and still is.

We get entertainment from action movies and what not. We feel that rush, as if we were in that movie. We get excited, mad, sad, and sometimes even feel the love in the movie. We still do the same thing.

Good job Greek people!

Im so hip

I love finding little known bands or movies or something along those lines. It's always fun to show your friends something new, and all of them like it.

But one thing that I hate is when people act like they've known about a band before you did. They act like you're behind for not knowing about that certin something sooner. Like I'm behind for just now finding them out? Okay, buddy.

Well, I've notice that most people like that will always know about whatever you're talking about. That new movie? Yeah, I saw previews a long time ago. This cool new singer? Oh yeah, I love her music! Have you read this book? Ages ago! Funny thing is, most of them don't even know what you're tlaking about and will look it up the second they are away from you.

See what I'm talking about? I really dislike it, but sometimes it can be really funny. One day at school we were talking about people like this, and how funny it would be to catch them in the act.
Example;
Walk into a group with a lot of your friends, "Hey, have yall heard about this one new band? Fighting PandaBears." (I'm totally making this up as I go)
Everyone in the group says no, but that one person, "Oh yeah! I love them."
People in group are impressed that he/she knows this little known band.
"Oh yeah? What's your favorite song?"
"Oh, the third one on their CD. I can't think of the name.." Uh huh.. TOO BAD THEY AREN'T REAL!!
"Hm.. yeah, well, uhm... Thing is, that band isn't real." Busted.

I think that would be really funny. I wanna do that sometime.