Eight to the Teen!

Day 18 – Something you crave a lot.

I put off writing this stupid post because I really don’t like this one. But since I have to do it to move on I’m going with SLEEP!

Everyday I have to be up at the butt-crack of dawn and it is KILLING me. The most horrid part of it all, I’m becoming a morning person!! Don’t get me wrong, I’m still grouchy and I will yell at anybody who tries to talk to me, but I’m awake.

I am also a really old lady now that I’m the big 2-4 and I get ridiculously exhausted at about 8:00. I don’t normally go to bed then but that’s when I start getting grouchy again and a few times have had a nervous breakdown do to the stress of teaching.

All in all I just love sleep!!!

Day 17

Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.

Who likes the number 16 anyway?

Day 16 – Your celebrity crush.

Sadly I don’t have a celebrity crush. Ever since Nick from 98degrees and Ashley from O-Town broke my little teenaged heart by being such weirdos I haven’t been the same. I just can’t put my heart through finding out that my crush is a huge LOSER, or a wife cheater, or whatever else he will become. It’s just not worth it.

So I wont get accused of a total cop-out again I’ll post some pictures of Nick Lachey and Ashley Angel.

(I think this is the same picture that one of my friends cut Jessica’s face out of and put my picture in. Hahahaha Fun times in middle school!)

Half way there! Day 15

Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.

On to Day 14

Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.

I don’t have a TV here at school so it's pretty hard for me to get totally addicted to a show. I do however sometimes like to watch shows on hulu before I go to bed.

I like the show “Make it or Break it” on ABC family. It’s pretty cheesy and the acting isn’t the best but it’s about Olympic Gymnastics which is something I love!

Of course I also like Glee!! Even though my uncle swears I’m Brittany :(

And there is always the classics!

Lucky Number 13

Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?

I honestly don’t have a favorite musician. I listen to a lot of different things depending on the mood I’m in. The other day my friend sent me this video and I fell in LOVE with this guy! He is so freaking funny! Its for sure not my favorite but I’m going to post it anyway…

Correction!

I got a call that went something like this:

Caller: Hey Melissa, whats up?
Me: Nothing much just folding my laundry.
Caller: That’s chill, so I read your blog.
Me: cool!
Caller: I like the little Blog Challenge thing you got going on.
Me: really? I’m kinda getting over it now.
Caller: I do but I’m a little disappointed.
Me: really? Why?
Caller: Because on day 6 you didn’t write your beauty pageant answer!!!

So this is for you my dear friend! My “Beauty Pageant Answer!!”



Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.

Growing up I spent a lot of time at my grandmother’s house. She loved hummingbirds. She had little hummingbird figurines, book, pictures, quilts, anything with a hummingbird on it, all over her house. She even woke up early everyday in order to feed the hummingbird so she would always have them flying around her backyard. I loved to sit in the window and watch the hummingbirds fly from flower to flower as my grandmother would tell me why hummingbirds were so special.

Aerodynamically speaking hummingbirds can’t fly. Their little wings are way too small compared to their body and it’s just impossible. But nobody ever told a hummingbird that they can’t fly; they just flap their tiny wings as hard as they can until they take off. Having a hummingbird would not only remind me of my grandmother and how much I miss her but it would also remind me of the most important lesson she ever taught me, “Nothing is EVER impossible!”

Blog Challenge: Day 12

Day 12 – A photograph of the town you live in.

The town I currently live in is Laie, Hawaii but my heart will always be in California. So I decided to post a picture of both places.

This one is where I am right now. Super small town with not much to do other than the beach, which is no more than a 10 minute walk from anywhere in town.

This is my home town of Vista, California! I love this place so much! I didn’t realize how much until I left. Now every time I fly home for a visit I start to cry as my plane lands. You may have to drive 20 minutes to get to the beach but there is a whole bunch of other stuff to do here and I love it!

Blog Challenge: Day 11

Day 11 – What’s in your makeup bag?

blush
liquid foundation
powder
eye shadow
mascara
lip glass
chapstick
make-up brushes

Blog Challenge: Day 10

Day 10 – A photo of our favorite place to eat.

Ok.. I LOVE food!!! And lots of food!!! So I can't pick just one!!

I just ate a whole bunch of super good food so I can't think of anyplace else right now, but I do have a lot more!!

Blog Challenge: Day 9

A few days late but here it is!!

Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased.

The last thing I bought was M&Ms for a lesson I taught today. I don’t have a picture of the ones I actually bought so this will have to do.

Blog Challenge: Day 8

Day 8 – A song to match your mood.

I am pretty overwhelmed with everything I have to do this week and I can’t really think of a song that matches that. I’m sure all of you know that I love Taylor Swift and this song makes me laugh, which is something I really need right now. It also reminds me of one of my friends back home which is a really good thing too!

Day 7 :)

Day 7 – Your dream wedding.

Oh my goodness! I’m sure you all know how much I LOVE weddings! A lot of girls spend their entire childhood dreaming about their perfect wedding but most people would agree that I’m a little over obsessive!! I would love to write a whole post about it but I don’t know where to start…

It all depends on when the guy asks because based on that date you pick a date to get married, then an appropriate theme based on the season and then everything goes on from there. Not knowing when the guy is going to propose I can’t even begin to plan my wedding. How would you know what colors to use? Or what flowers to choose? Or where to have the reception? I always thought it would be awesome to have an outside reception but you can’t really do that in the winter.... I know I want pink for one of my colors but what shade? You can’t have a bright pink for a winter wedding… Ok, I’m going to stop now so people don’t hate me and stop reading my ridiculous blog.

Anyway, here are a few things that I have in mind to give you an idea of the things I like.

I am for sure getting married here:

I found this dress when I was helping one of my friends look for a dress over a year ago and I LOVE it. It’s probably not “the one” but I do like it a lot!


I love orchids so I would LOVE a bouquet like this:



I love the beach so we are defiantly going to take some awesome beach pictures!



And one thing is for sure!!! There is going to be sparkles everywhere!!!

Day 6

Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.

I know a certain person is going to yell at me because again I’m not following this thing exactly but oh well… I love my little monster of a dog with all my heart and since she is 5,000 miles away I desperately miss her! If I could keep any animal in the world it would be her and all 5lbs of her evilness!

Day 5

Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago.

Day 4

Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.

So…. I’m not liking the “Challenges” this Blog Challenge is making me do. My best friend? It is ridiculously difficult for me to choose just one! Last time I twisted the stupid question to please myself somebody, who will remain nameless, yelled at me, so I guess this time I’ll just do it….

When I hear the phrase “best friends” I can’t help but think back to middle school and think of the other half of “The Melissas”! Melissa and I met in 6th grade and instantly became best friends. I could go on and on telling you all the crazy stories of how we got ourselves into trouble and then how we were able to talk our way out again, but I have to get to writing a lesson plan. However, I can’t resist telling the world of how she threw- up on me!!

(I think we were about 15 when this was taken. We were singing along to some song and she started playing the guitar on my leg. I’m not exactly sure what the song was but if I had to guess I would say 98 degrees.)

I will never forgive her! We were on the bus on the way to the regional cheerleading championships. Melissa looked over at me and said, “I’m not feeling well, I think I might…” and before she could say it, it flew out of her mouth all over me!! I thought I was going to die!! So nasty!! I haven’t been blessed with the opportunity to get back at her yet but someday I will and after all these years she won’t even see it coming! Ha!

Melissa is now a mommy to the 2 most beautiful little girls in the world and we aren’t able to see each other as much as we would like! But whenever we can arrange our schedules its like we haven’t been apart! I love her so much and she will always be the other half of my name!

(Technically these aren’t my favorite pictures of the 2 of us but it’s all I had on my computer)

Blog Challenge: Day 3

Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.

Oh dang!! The perfect first date? Why is this question so hard for me to answer? I’ll blame it on the fact that I’m a girl and first date ideas are the boy’s job. Haha!

Honestly, I think that what makes the perfect date is the perfect company. If the guy is super sweet, gentleman like, funny, smart, etc. it doesn’t really matter what you do, the date is going to be great. But if the guy is weird, boring, creepy or just a plain loser, he can take you to do all your favorite things and it’s still going to suck!

For first dates you should do something fun where you can talk, be a little silly and get to know each other. Nothing is worse than at the end of the date realizing that you know just about nothing about the other person!... Ok, I lied that’s the second worse thing… Awkward moments! Oh boy do I hate feeling awkward!! I know they’re pretty much a given on a first date but that’s why it’s important to me to do something where you can act a little silly, that way when those little moments happen you can just laugh them off.

Blog Challenge: Day 2

Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today.

It doesn’t look very good but this is what I ate right before running out the door to my special education theory and practice class. It was actually pretty good and I’m loving V-8!

Blog Challenge: Day 1

Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.

(Me as Baby Spice/ Britney Spears on friday night)

Ok, I know it’s only the first day but I’m going to change things up a little pit. Somehow I hurt my back pretty bad so other than church I have spent just about all day in bed. Since my day was very uneventful and I don’t want to write about it, I’m going to write about my weekend instead.

On Friday night I was in the BYUH lip-syncing competition! It was pretty awesome! We had a lot of fun and to our surprise we won second place! Here is a video if you want to check it out… (thanks Alicia for recording it)

On Saturday I went wedding dress shopping with one of my friends! If you know me at all you know that this activity involves 4 of my favorite things. Weddings, dresses, shopping and friends! We had so much fun and the dress she got is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! After that I came home and spent the night hanging with my friend Rachel! She is awesome and I always love chilling with her! She gave me a beautiful pedicure, which of course was the perfect way to end a great day!

Today is Sunday and I woke up with my back hurting and my refrigerator broken, which wasn’t a good way to start a day at all. After yelling at and kicking my refrigerator it decided it wanted to start working and then I headed off to church. Church was great of course! Like I said before I spent the rest of the day in bed. Not to excited but I got to talk to a lot of my friends from back home so that’s pretty cool, even though they are having fun without me :( All in all great weekend!

30 day Blog Challenge

Some of my friends are doing this “30 day Blog Challenge”. Each day for 30 days you have to post about something different on whatever the topic is for that day. It seems super cool but I know I’m going to have a very difficult time posting things 30 days in a row. I’m going to try it but I’m not committing myself to the everyday thing. With my student teaching, lesson plans, homework, classes, church, friends and everything else I have going on I just can’t commit to 30 days in a row, sorry. I’ll finish eventually, I promise!

Here is a break down of the 30 days:

Day 1 – A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.
Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today.
Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.
Day 4 – Your favorite photograph of your best friend.
Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago.
Day 6 – A photo of an animal you’d love to keep as a pet.
Day 7 – Your dream wedding.
Day 8 – A song to match your mood.
Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased.
Day 10 – A photo of our favorite place to eat.
Day 11 – What’s in your makeup bag?
Day 12 – A photograph of the town you live in.
Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?
Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.
Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.
Day 16 – Your celebrity crush.
Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.
Day 18 – Something you crave a lot.
Day 19 – Another picture of yourself.
Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name.
Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy.
Day 22 – A letter to someone who has hurt you recently.
Day 23 – 15 facts about you.
Day 24 – A photo of something that means a lot to you.
Day 25 – What’s in your purse?
Day 26 – A photo of somewhere you’ve been to.
Day 27 – A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?
Day 28 – Your favorite movie.
Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.
Day 30 – A photograph of youself today + three good things that have happened in the past 30 days

I have to say it... I Love you!!

You know those weeks where you feel ridiculously stressed and emotionally exhausted? Then you find out something fun is going on and your first thought is “I just need to be alone” but you go for it anyway just because you want to get away? Well that’s exactly what happened! And I’m so glad I went for it! Running away for a few hours didn’t fix anything but I feel one million times better! I think I’ll survive for at least the next few days now! I just had to say I love my friends!!! All of you! Even the ones who are back in California, who I miss more than I ever thought I could miss somebody and had nothing to do with my fantastic night tonight! I just love my friends! Thanks so much guys!!!

(So here is a ridiculous picture of me giving you all a kiss because I’m just awesome like that! And I really do love you!!)