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Melissa W.

Out of the ashes Phoenix rises.

About Me

I'm currently under reconstruction. Please excuse the mess. :)

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My Interests

3 cool and wacky kids + 2 smelly turtles = one neat life. I'm in the process of rediscovering myself.

I'd like to meet:

Everybody. Especially you. Yeah, You!

Movies:

The Green Mile, Mary Poppins, Bed Knobs and Broomsticks, Goonies, The Fifth Element, The Star Wars Saga, The Indiana Jones Saga, Forest Gump, Never Ending Story, Shawshank Redemption, Dark Crystal, Tron, All the Charlie Brown Movies, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World ("Mama, Your baby boy is coming to save you. That's why you had me, mama, so I could save you!"), Pete's Dragon, Pink Panther, Signs, The Village, Mars Attacks, Independence Day, The Matrix Trilogy, War of The Worlds, Karate Kid

Television:

The Muppet Show, Star Trek (All of them- especially The Next Generation.), Dr. Who, Looney Tunes, Disney Cartoons, Lost, Monk, Psyche, All the CSI's, My Redneck Wedding, Shocking Videos, Headline News, Everybody Loves Raymond, Reba, The Mr. Men Show, Charlie and Lola, Sponge Bob Square Pants, Carol Burnette, Keeping Up Appearances, Mr. Bean,Dexter

Books:

"Under The Bleachers", by Seymour Butts; "In The Bathroom", by I.P. Freely; "Going On A Diet", by I.M. Hungary; "By The Pond", by M.R. Ducks

Heroes:

Lucille Ball, Carol Burnette, Emily Dickenson, M.C. Escher, Mom. (my mom, not yours, though i'm sure yours is great too.")

My Blog

i could

I could type out all my feelings here.  Empty out my heart and mind for everyone to see like a shrimp being cleaned on the railing of a weathered, splintered old boardwalk.  I could.  B...
Posted by Melissa W. on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:34:00 PST

memorial cars- what?

What on earth is going on with the, "In memorial" stickers people are plastering all over their vehicles?  Surely you know of which I speak.  People have stickers made of the dates of their ...
Posted by Melissa W. on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:56:00 PST

babys third word is:

Bye bye!  so now she could say , "Hey, momma.  Bye bye!"  Wow.  a whole conversation.  :D  Not to mention she can sing the first 3 words of, "Black Dog" by led zepelin.&n...
Posted by Melissa W. on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:29:00 PST

First loose tooth? No Way!!!!!!

Oh my goodness!  Jackson has his first loose tooth!  I can't beleive it!  Wow!  I've actually been nervous about this day.  Do I pull it?  Do I wait for it to get looser?...
Posted by Melissa W. on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:53:00 PST

today the baby said....

Ma Ma 2 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ha ha.  Yeah.   so now she could technically say, "hey, momma."  if she really felt like it.  She started waving on thursday of last week.  S...
Posted by Melissa W. on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:13:00 PST

Why Do My Eyes Smell Funny, Olivia?

A couple of days ago I put on mascara.  That's a rare thing for me.  Any way I kept noticing a strong perfume smell.  Then I realized it was coming from my face.  Odd.  Then I...
Posted by Melissa W. on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:25:00 PST

Sounding Brass

1 Corinthians 13  (nkjv)The Greatest Gift 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have th...
Posted by Melissa W. on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:47:00 PST

Mocking Bird- A Poem

Do you hear the mocking bird?Montambanco.Charlatan.  Get up on your bench.Let us hear the hokum.Flit, mountebank.  Pied Butcher bird approaches.(Rough translation:  Truth always wins ou...
Posted by Melissa W. on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:43:00 PST

baby update

The baby is saying her first word.  It's, "Hey!"  She gets all excited and tells you hey over and over.  She's gotta be in the right mood though.  What an interesting first word!&n...
Posted by Melissa W. on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:34:00 PST

More on men/women- a sermon summary

I heard a great Father's day Sermon this year.  It was a wonderful summary of what God wants husbands/fathers to be like.  It sounded like the perfect husband/father to me.  The preache...
Posted by Melissa W. on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:04:00 PST