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.