Dinosaur

Last week I got a dinosaur shaped sandwhich cutter. It is possibly the best thing I've ever bought. Ever. It makes lunch a little more fun, if I do say so myself.




Anyways, I've started bringing my lunch to school. Pb&j dinosaur sandwhich, apples, and cheerios every day. Well, I have to make my lunch in the mornings before I leave, and I've been proud of myself because I haven't forgot it yet! And well, that ended today. I forgot it, but I wasn't exactly upset about it. I could go one day without lunch, but obviously my mom didn't think so.

I'm in third block and the substitue is taking roll when an office helped walks in with a sack lunch. "I bet that's mine." I whisper to Rachel and Cho.

"Really?" Rachel asked while laughing. We eye the bag while the teacher reads the name on the post it note.

"Is there a Melissa Mc-" I cut him off.

"That's me!" I call out to him. I go up there to claim my lunch, and to my surprise it's heavier than I expected. She packed a water bottle, fiber bar, and some gum!

"Why is my mom so awesome?" I say as I sit back in my seat. "She brought me gum too!" Rachel and Cho just laugh at me, but deep down I know that they are jealous.

Goodness

Boy has it been awhile. Well, I'm getting back into the swing of things! Hello new blog (:

Lately life has been a bit hectic. Tennis season has started, and it feels like I've been waiting forever for it to get here. I was so pumped about tennis, and apparetnly so were a bunch of other girls. People would come up to me and ask me about tennis. Like, what we would do for conditioning and all that jazz. Me being me, I made it seem like no big deal, because really.. I didn't think it was. Last year I didn't remember it being too hard. I mean, I made it out alive AND on the team, so why couldn't they?

Well the first day of conditioning comes around..

"Okay girls, we are going to be running a lot this year. So, do you stretches and after that meet me back here. " Coach Wiggins said with a smile.

I paniced, running? A lot of running? Are you kidding me? Maybe she is just making it seem more than it really was.. Ha.

We go to meet her, and what do you know, she wasn't kidding. "Alright," she grins, "Elida will lead the group through the normal path. You will be running for 20 mins. Straight." I died a little inside. "Go!" she yelled at us playfully.

So, off we went. Running. It was madness, and I wasn't sure how long I was going to last. You see, I don't run. Well, I do.. but not for long amounts of time. I'm more like a sprinter. Short and fast, that's how I roll, er, run. Anyways, we are running and some of the girls are falling back, including me. My breaths are coming shorter and I die a little every time I get closer to the stairs, but I press on. We finally get done and I feel like crap.

Yeah, tennis conditioning isn't that hard.

What's the point

Sorry I haven't posted in a really long time. Life has been happening, and I totally forgot about my little blog here D: I'm sorry to all of the, what, two people who read this? Haha.

Anyways, I guess I'll catch you up with me.

Tennis season is coming up, and I can't wait. I'm so excited to start practicing. As a matter of fact, Billy and I went to the courts Saturday. I totally whooped his butt, but he says otherwise. Silly boy. Well, school is going good. I guess. Nothing spectacular, but not bad either.
I have a project in World History this week, and I can't wait to do it. We have to make a brochure about an artist from the Renaissance, and it has to persuade people to want to see that particular artist over all the others on our fake tour to the Louvre. Can't wait.

Evil Genius

More about snow..

Since we didn't get out of school for snow all that much, we depended on iced over roads or it being 'too cold'.

Ever since I was little I always had this plan. Why didn't all the kids around Nashvile go out in the middle of a freezing night and pour just one single cup in to the middle of the street? Every elementary, middle schooler, and highschooler would get one cup of water. That would be a lot of water all over Nashville on a freezing night. That means a lot of frozen water on the roads of Nashville. How awesome is that?

I made up this plan when I was only in kindergarten, and my dad calls me an evil genius for it.

"It's so cold." my dad said while getting into the car my freshman year of highschool.

"I know." I said sadly. My evil plan playing in my head, why didn't we do it?

He started up the car and we pulled out, "Should've snowed." he said playfully.

"Yeah." I reply. There is a long silence, basically the whole way to school. Until finally I tell him of my evil plan.

"Daddy?" I ask.

"Yeah?" he turns to look at me for a second.

"Well, ever since I was little I always had this.. plan." I said meekly at first. He was going to think his daughter was crazy.

"And?" he looked at me again.

"Well, you know all those nights where it's freezing, and all we would've needed to get out of school was water on the roads so it could freeze over?" I paused fir his reaction.

"Yeah..?"

"Well, when I was in kindergarten I always asked myself why didn't all the kids in Nashville go outside late at night and pour water on the roads. Just a cup or two. We could basically control when we wanted to get out of school." I smiled a little.

"...That's perfect!" he exclaimed.

Then we went on planning for the next frozen night. We would strike at midnight :3

False hope

SNOW DAYS!

Here in Nashville, Tennessee snow days are a big deal. We don't get it much, and it really sucks. Especially when you have weather people getting you all excited about the 'snow' that's supposed to come later that week. Yeah, it's total crap. They do this to get all the hopes up of all the little kids in this area. But, there is one county that hardly ever gets out of school. Davidson county. My county. Buggar, I know.
Again and again all the hype for a snow day would rise, and then we'd be crushed on that fateful day when we woke up and had no snow! Of course we would all ask why and get the same answer every time. "Nashville is in a basin" blah blah blah. Well, I'm pretty sure that these weather people know this too, so why don't they spare Davidson county. Don't even give up hope. Let alone false hope! Why can't they be straight up?

"Hey everyone! You might want to stock up because there's a snow storm heading your way... Well everywhere but Davidson county. Yall suck."

At least this way I'm not getting excited for no reason. Hmph.

2010

Happy New Years yall!



First post of the year, and I'm kinda excited.
Well, I hope everyone had fun bringing in the new year, I know I.. didn't, but that's beside the point.

I really don't have anything to talk about, just wanted to have a post on
1.1.2010 .

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.

Thanks dude!

Do you like music?
Pandora.com

You're welcome.

We go way back

Today at church I was feeling kind of nervous. It was my first Sunday at this new church, and I was thinking that I wouldn't know anyone there. At first I was really nervous, but then I noticed a face. He looked familiar.


It was Spencer, a friend from 8th grade.


He came over and we talked a little bit. The youth pastor then started to try and intoriduce me to him, "Spencer, I see you've met the new girl."


"New? Oh, I've known her for awhile!"


The pastor looked back at me, "Whhattt!? You already know people!"


I laughed, and then class started.





After class, a man in his 20s walked in. He was showing off his new tattoo.


"Whoa! Josh, that's so cool!" I looked over at him.


Josh, I know a Josh that looks kind of like him. Then he looks over at me, and gives me a weird look. Josh?

"I think I know him." I whisper to Spencer.

"Josh? How?" he looks at Josh then back to me.

"He played ball with my brother, and graduated with my sister." I look at Josh again.

He is looking at me, and the smiles. "Melissa!"

I smile back, it is him! "Hey! Josh!"

The pastor looks at me wide eyed, "You know him too?!"

I smile, "Yup." Josh answers for me. He walks over to where I'm standing and gives me a hug.

"How?" the pastor asks.

"I've known him since I was about five." I state simply.

"I graduated with her sister." And was a cheerleader, I added in my head.



I love knowing people when I'm at a new place. It makes me feel special when I'm known haha.