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Mellie

"Where there is love, there is life." Mahatma Gandhi

About Me

Well..for starters...I am engaged to a wonderful man. I love him heart and soul. I'm currently employed at a local Credit Union. I am the oldest of two children in my family(I have a younger sister, Becky). I am also a very country girl that is absolutely hating the fact that I live in a bigger city at the moment. Too many people. I am of German, French, Irish, English, Mohawk, Cherokee, Tuscarora indian heritage. I am a mut basically. I am an American Civil War reenactor and living historian and have been for going on 9 years now. I have two degrees, an Associates in Liberal Arts and a Bachelors in History.

My Interests

HISTORY, sewing, shopping of course, lol, reading, writing and so on.

I'd like to meet:

I would love to be able to go back in time to meet Robert E. Lee. I would also love to meet some of todays Native American actors(Graham Greene, Wes Studi).

Music:

Celtic Women, Ronan Tynan and the Irish Tenors, Linkin Park, Iced Earth, Patsy Cline, all kinds of stuff, basically from celtic folk songs to country to rock...most everything but rap

Movies:

Last of the Mohicans, Gettysburg, Moulin Rouge, Gone With the Wind, anything starring Olivia de Havilland, Timeline, Cold Mountain, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee


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Television:

Golden Girls, Family Guy, Two and a Half Men, King of the Hill, Lost


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Books:

Gone With the Wind, most any Nora Roberts book, books on Civil War history

Heroes:

My Grandpa, Norm Baker. But I have too many heroes to really name right off.

My Blog

We’re moving!

Well, it's really happening! My life-long dream!!! Dan and I are moving to Gettysburg, Pa. I was offered a job in Hanover, Pa with Belco Community Credit Union(www.Belco.org). We finally found an ...
Posted by Mellie on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:59:00 PST

Back from Vacation

So I don't remember the last time I actually posted a blog.  Thought it might be about time.Danny and I just got home yesterday from a great vacation.  We went to Delaware and stayed with ou...
Posted by Mellie on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:46:00 PST

Genealogy---help!

So tonight I actually sat down and talked to Dan’s mom. The amount of history they know about their family is incredible! I wish more and mroe that my grandparents(on my fathers side) were sti...
Posted by Mellie on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:56:00 PST

My opinion...I’m ANGRY!

Ok.  So...something has made me seriously quite angry.  Being this is one of the only places where I can truly voice my opinion, here goes.I guess I never gave much thought to papparazzi and...
Posted by Mellie on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:59:00 PST

Busy....busy...busy!

Ugh...the working world. It stinks just as much as I like it. I don't mind working, in fact I enjoy working. but I will have worked 6 days by the end of the week and will only have Sunday off in th...
Posted by Mellie on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:53:00 PST

Extremely Important

Ok, totally new subject for my blog. I actually want to talk about something that matters for a change. The subject of this one is very serious and is something that is very important to me. To beg...
Posted by Mellie on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:25:00 PST

update

I don't remember the last time I wrote, so not sure what I need to update on. I think I will start with Civil War!So back in October, Dan, his sister Anne, our friends Alex, Nolan and myself all trav...
Posted by Mellie on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:30:00 PST

New Job

What an interesting start to a week!  This is my first week at my new job!  Today was only my second day and I am only training, but loving it so far!  I've met some great people and ha...
Posted by Mellie on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:09:00 PST

its been a while

Wow, has it been a while! Well not real long. Anyways...things are going good now! I have a job that I start Monday...which is really kind of scary...and I got all of the paperwork in the mail yest...
Posted by Mellie on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST

Busy day

Ok, so talk about a lot of stressing and worrying I shouldn't have had to go through! I got the job at the credit union! They called me today and asked if I was interested! It doesn't get any bette...
Posted by Mellie on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:52:00 PST