Experiencing…

Hello From Florida!

- Melody

We made it! Saturday night we finally made it in a little after dark and walked into our condo to the smell of sunscreen and beach. It. Was. Amazing. Our balcony looks out over the beach and we are literally 10 steps to it. The listing of our condo said there was wi-fi, but when mom emailed the guy asking where it was, he said they just steal it from an unprotected wi-fi next door. Uh, what? When we got here, there was no unprotected wi-fi so he said to go to the Subway across the street? What kind of crazy…!? So now, some weird listing for wi-fi came up and I jumped on it. The cell service here is whack too so none of us have really been able to call, Facebook, or send emails. Not that we’ve needed too. 🙂 I mean, look at that view!

Anywho, just thought I’d do a little post since I abruptly jumped off the face of the earth there for a while. See you guys back on Monday. Maybe. 🙂

Happy Spring Break!

Eggs Aws Ted

- Melody

I. Am. So. Tired. I think my body is culminating all the nights this semester that I’ve stayed up wahayyy past my bedtime. Now, it’s nearly 11pm, but I know I should have been asleep at 7! So please forgive the extreme silence/break on the blog this past week and a half. I’m doing good to get dressed every morning. Last night I thought today was going to be Friday (no class this Friday!) so I didn’t pack a lunch, get my books together, or figure out what to wear. But, thanks to Carino’s and their secret text messages a bunch of us ate lunch there together to ‘buy one and get one’ lunch FREE.

Hello $5 spicy chicken pasta…

After my last, extremely easy midterm I headed into Henderson, but only after not following my map and taking the really long way around into town, to get our car aligned. Hallelujah. I can let go of the wheel for a millisecond and not go flying off the road. By the way, thanks rural areas for having no shoulders on your roads. You’ve really saved us a lot of money in car mechanics.

Jason told me when I went there to firmly deny anything else they’d try to sell me. Gullible me I didn’t think they’d try to sell me anything else because I was only there for just an alignment. Three or four other people came in for just one thing and he ended up selling a couple of them new tires. NEW TIRES?! This guy is good. This is how he got me… Remember when I got a flat tire on my way to school and bent the rim because of said country roads? Well we bought a new tire and rim for that, but apparently it being so out of line it eroded that new tire, too. So what did ol’ mustache man come to tell me in that black and white checkered room? “Well, you’re going to need at LEAST one new tire, but you really should get two. I can’t align them until you do.”

Thanks, mustache face. I’ll call my husband and see what we can do. I nearly fell out when Jason said to go ahead and get the tire. We are driving 10+ hours this weekend after all. So I got the new tire. And ye old cobalt blue Kia Spectra drives like a dream now. I can now safely put on my makeup every morning in the car without fearing my life drive to school!

Right now, Jason is still at work taking down a chalkboard and replacing it with one of those fancy new Smartboards. Poor guy. He’s had kind of a hard week. People keep bringing him their home computers wanting him to fix them. Computers aren’t necessarily his passion so they’re the last thing he wants to be doing when he gets home. But at least he’s getting a little money out of it! Hooray Florida money!

How’s your week going? Hope you get to do/got to do something neat on spring break!

Four More Days

- Melody


shirt: F21, skirt: Target, necklace: ??, watch:??, bracelet: F21, boots: GoJane

Four more days until this. And this. And this. Unfortunately, I’m not there yet and am stuck on the couch watching the cats hunt down roaches and listening to Jason sleeping. At least I’m not up studying my eyeballs out like I was Monday night. Yikes. Oh, and I’m finally getting my hair cut. Hooray! Friday morning at 9am couldn’t get here soon enough!

Any book recommendations for our trip? My mom bought me The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo which I can’t wait to read! My sister has the Hunger Games, before you suggest that, and it’s all OVER my “to read” list. I’d love your suggestions!

Doing anything fun over spring break?

Awesome Things

- Melody

I “made up” a new hairstyle. I’ll try to get pics tomorrow.
Getting loads of compliments on my “made up” hairstyle. I really have a lot of hair.
Our Masterworks concert was Saturday night. John Rutter’s Gloria never ceases to make me cry.
Mexican food with my family and the in-laws after the concert. Lots of conversation and hot sauce with butter. Yum.
Someone is finally coming to look at one of my prom dresses for sale next week! Yay!
I’M GOING TO FLORIDA IN A WEEK.
Hearing all of my sister’s stories about her week in NYC. I want to go back!
That sister buying me a present that I will receive tomorrow. Hooray!
Did I mention I’m going to Florida in a week?

Finally starting to make a hair appointment! Me making a hair appointment usually goes about like this:
Hair grows out way too long.
Mel gets anxious and waits forever to call and make appointment.
Mel finally calls to make appointment. Hair stylist isn’t in.
Hair stylist calls Mel back at a number that doesn’t exist because Mel doesn’t know her own home phone number.
Hair stylist is friends with Mel on Facebook. Hair stylist messages Mel and gives a callback number.
Mel calls callback number. Leaves message without another callback number.
Mel leaves Facebook message with actual home number this time.
Mel eventually gets her haircut.

And they all lived happily ever after with freshly cut hair.

Saturday’s Stylings

- Melody

tweed blazer: thrifted, scarf: gift, tights: f21, boots: f21, dress: target

Wore this to my second day of class. This semester’s schedule is so much lighter than last semester. Sleeping in every day of the week? Win. Only one class to write a paper in? Win. Florida this spring break? Double win. 🙂

Happy Weekend!

Spring Break

- Melody

I had an incredible start to my spring break. 🙂 Well, sort of.

About Thursday, my back had started to hurt again. (I threw it out really bad last semester and was out of school and work for several days.) I woke up that morning and remember thinking, “Ow.” It was a muscle right on my spine on the right side. It was really tender and I didn’t think much of it. Thought I just slept on it wrong and it would go away in a couple of days. Well, it didn’t. It just got worse. At Jason’s cousin’s wedding Saturday night I couldn’t get comfortable during the ceremony because my back was stiff and sore. Sunday afternoon, after church, I went out to the car to go pick up Jason. I sat down in the car, shut the door, turned on the car, and turned on my iPod. As soon as I sat down I knew something was bad. I told myself, “If you can just reach the seatbelt, you’ll be okay from there.” Needless to say, I couldn’t even reach the seatbelt. My back seized up like nothing I have ever felt. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t scream. It was all I could do to find the lever to lower the seat. I slammed the seat down so I could lay on my back. I was still in the driveway and called my mom. She came out there, all I could get out was, “It hurts,” and I started to cry. She ran back in and got my dad. He had to carry me with my legs dangling, into the house. I laid there, my back seizing for the rest of the day.

Today, we had our Engagement Session with Angela Kay Duncan Photography scheduled. Jason and I both thought I wouldn’t be able to do it. Somehow, I was able to make it through the entire session and felt great the whole way through. My back is still stiff, but I feel so much better than yesterday. I am SO thankful for all the prayers. Thank you all so much!

Happy Spring Break!

Melody 🙂