Melanie - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I love technology, but don't know very much about it.
Puppies make me a blubbering fool.

"Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it."--Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

My Interests

Faith. family/friends. getting the giggles. Sweaters. coffee. Shoes I can't afford. The smell of clean laundry. Song lyrics. Love; it wins. BEARDS. Genuine people. Crepes. Hot weather. Portland. Seattle. San Francisco. Victoria, B.C. Tea with honey. Giving hugs and/or high fives. Solitude. Sass. Scarves. This one beach in Hawaii. Natural hair and eye color. Making cds for people. Sarcasm. Montage. Black rimmed glasses. Don Miller books. banjos. self-deprecation. Traveling. Vancouver, B.C. Road trips.

Music:

Baily Stauffer. Broadway Calls. Anberlin. Teenage Bottlerocket. Midlake. City & Colour. Kings of Leon. Jeremy Enigk. Spoon. Mineral. Iron and Wine. Damien Rice. Death Cab for Cutie. William Elliott Whitmore. Ryan Adams. Jeff Buckley. Wilco. Dolorean. David Bazan. Low. Feist. Pete Yorn. dredg. Cursive. Denison Witmer. Copeland. House & Parish. Jimmy Eat World. Maritime. Styrofoam. Mew. The New Amsterdams. Muse. Sigur Ros. The Shins. Radiohead.

Television:

John Adams, In Treatment, Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, Heroes

Books:

Love In The Time of Cholera, Siddhartha, Franny and Zooey, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Blue Like Jazz, Underground Man and lots more.

Heroes:

Individuals who do little things to make people's lives easier/happier/fulfilling/worthwhile/special--those who go the *extra* mile.

Susie and Kodie

My Blog

"Mmwow!"

My top songs as of 10/05/08: "Jesse's Girl" Rick Springfield"Take On Me" A-ha"Hungry Like The Wolf" Duran Duran"Something Is Not Right with Me" Cold War Kids"Welcome to the Occupation" Cold War K...
Posted by Melanie on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:21:00 PST

but, why?

While I was at work today I swung a sleeve of grande hot lids into the air--you don't need to know why, but I did--unknowingly the end of the bag was open and all the lids went flying into the air (in...
Posted by Melanie on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:58:00 PST

Refresher(?)

I feel the need to write a blog. Here I am. I didn't find my Iron and Wine tickets. My dad threw them away with a bunch of other envelopes. It's ok though, the venue was in Eugene and that's far,...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:40:00 PST

"Oh, if I have to, I will"

Last week I received two Iron and Wine tickets in the mail. Fast forward until today......they are MISSING! I KNOW! Ahhh! I've searched the mountains of paper in my dad's room (thinking he might've th...
Posted by Melanie on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:55:00 PST

My headline

From this moment forward, my headline will consist of things customers say at work. My current headline came from a guy who was mad because another partner made me laugh in the middle of his order. Mi...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:10:00 PST

Home

I'm back in Washington. Adam picked me up from the airport Monday night and we spent all of yesterday in Seattle. Do you have those days where the hours go by too fast? Not just fast, but, UNNATU...
Posted by Melanie on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:19:00 PST

The Springs--2

Hello, everyone! It's been a fun couple of days since I wrote the blog about the fountain and the creepy man who comes out of it. Since then, I've been fortunate to see some gorgeous things: Garden of...
Posted by Melanie on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

The Springs--1

Hi everyone. So, I'm sitting at a Starbucks in old downtown--cloudless blue sky above me, the sun warming my skin and the perfect breeze to keep everyone happy. There's a cute park on the co...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:51:00 PST

I think he said it best...

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they p...
Posted by Melanie on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:20:00 PST

Grapevine Fires

I feel sheepish to say the least. When Rza and I saw Death Cab in Eugene a couple weeks ago, we fell in love with the song "Talking Bird," or so we thought. Turns out they played two songs: "Talk...
Posted by Melanie on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:00 PST