MissMeliss | July 30, 2010
This post is really just a collection of random thoughts. When my lcd monitor is tilted in just the right way, I can catch my reflection in it, and right now, that reflection includes braids. If I leave my hair loose when I go to bed, I wake up with horrible tangles – my mother [...]
MissMeliss | July 29, 2010
I woke up Sunday feeling crampy and groggy and tired – really, really tired. I knew I needed to get Fuzzy out the door to the airport, and that happened on time, but then, all I could do was go back to sleep. In fact, I’d started feeling bad the night before, and even begged [...]
MissMeliss | July 22, 2010
This posted yesterday in the ALL THINGS GIRL blog. I wanted to share it here, as well * * * I’m not a particularly athletic person, and my family tends to be largely anti-sports, with small exceptions for the artsy kinds of sports like figure skating, and the quick ones, like horse racing. Our holiday [...]
MissMeliss | July 20, 2010
Cherries were on sale at the grocery store last week, and I’ve been enjoying the bag that I bought. They’re at the point where they’re perfectly ripe, so I rinsed a bowl full (not a large bowl) and brought it up to the Word Lounge, while trying to work today. Unfortunately, a fitful sleep last [...]
MissMeliss | July 16, 2010
Presented at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff, 31 January 2010. * * * Ten years ago, I hadn’t done a lot improv. I mean, I’d done some in school, and had done some street theatre as an adult, but if you’d asked me about my future, spending several years in a professional improvisational [...]
MissMeliss | July 16, 2010
Last night I dreamed that I was trying to write a program that would calculate mortgage insurance rates, except I was trying to write it in MUSH code, which was weird. Why such a dream? Because I received a call from a mortgage recruiter offering me a large chunk of cash to return to loan [...]
MissMeliss | July 16, 2010
After his morning outside, Max the Monster Pup spent most of his day sacked out in his crate, as tired as a pregnant woman who had been skipping her prenatal vitamins. Tonight, however, he’s being a little loopy. Specifically: He came out of his crate, grabbed a water bottle, went to the door, where Fuzzy [...]
MissMeliss | July 14, 2010
I’ve had a couple days now of serious migraine pain and shoulder that I slept on wrong and just cannot release. The migraines are helped by meds, but I don’t always recognize the signs, and take the pills early enough. I wish I did, because when used correctly, my little red Midrin caplets are more [...]
MissMeliss | July 12, 2010
I’ve been listening to a lot of John Boutte’ lately, partly because I just like his music, but also because his vocals have this really warm, earthy quality that wraps around my brain and makes me smile, even when I’m feeling kind of bitchy and anti-social. While he does write and perform a lot of [...]
MissMeliss | July 10, 2010
1007.09-Rhett5c Originally uploaded by MissMelysse. This is Rhett, our current foster from Shelter2Rescue. He’s a three-year-old red heeler (Australian Cattle Dog). He’s sweet and silly, loves to play, lives for belly rubs, and is just generally a great dog. He even loves kids! Rhett is house trained and crate trained, and doesn’t have a mean [...]
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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