MissMeliss | August 19, 2010
I have a thing for hardware stores. Oh, not the big-box hardware warehouses where the staff, when you can find them, are condescending at best and often veer into the completely useless. The hardware stores I love are the smaller, neighborhood types. Sometimes they’re ACE franchises, sometimes not, but they all have a sort of [...]
MissMeliss | August 19, 2010
On Monday, I had to change my cell phone number. Someone had either accidentally or intentionally submitted it in a request form for one of those online college websites, and like a hydra re-growing two heads for every one that got cut off, every time I told one school that no, I hadn’t asked for [...]
MissMeliss | August 14, 2010
Friday morning, the day after my mother arrived to celebrate my 40th birthday with her, my friend Deb, her daughter (K), and another dear friend of hers (O) – a truly delightful woman – joined my mother and me for breakfast at my place. I’d saved the last of my peaches to make a cobbler, [...]
MissMeliss | August 6, 2010
Despite the fact that I really didn’t want to leave the comfort of bed this morning, the day ended up being a fantastic one, if sort of quietly so. I spent the morning doing musical audio improv with Sage and Kim for Sage’s fantastic QN podcast. While I’d played “Sing It” at ComedySportz, I was [...]
MissMeliss | August 2, 2010
Okay, so Shark Week started yesterday, but I can’t not post one of the promos when it’s media monday. So…here:
MissMeliss | August 1, 2010
I realize that the reason the Discovery Channel runs Shark Week in August is because there’s little original programming to compete against, and because stories about the ocean go well with beach weather, but I prefer the fantasy that Shark Week is an early birthday present for me. For a few months when I was [...]
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 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 | June 18, 2010
We are watching the Tim Burton/Disney Alice movie on DVD tonight, having missed it in theaters earlier this year. We wanted to go, but never quite managed. I can’t decide if I like it or not, but I do like Alan Rickman as the voice of the blue caterpillar. I’ve read Carroll’s originals, of course, [...]
MissMeliss | April 25, 2010
I whined on Twitter this morning that my mouth is still sore from all the dental work, and while I am going to take heavy drugs in a moment before I go to sleep, I’ve been trying not to during the day, because, unlike my favorite fictional physician, one Gregory House, I do NOT function [...]
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