When It Rains

- Melody

shirt: Target, sweater: ?, pants: Target, shoes: stolen from my sister, necklace: Rue21, umbrella: Target

I gotta say, I didn’t know how I’d feel about having short hair but I love it. Like l-o-v-e it. No more rat nest when I wake up! Though it’s taking me a while to figure out what to do with it. No more blogger top knot or normal pony tail. I can’t wait to see what it looks like a couple of months from now. If I can make myself get a trim every once in a while. (Which I never do.)

Since coming back from vacation I feel like everything just kind of whooshed back into reality and left me in the middle of a hurricane saying, “What!?” I have to sing on recital next week, work on a conducting midterm, practice with my accompanist and somehow start weeding through my research for a history paper due at the end of the semester. After yesterday it all kind of mellowed out since I got some other things out of the way. But sheesh! Now I understand why vacations during school are always better if left to the summer. But you better believe I wouldn’t have given up that beach week for nothin’. Still mourning the loss…

Grattis på födelsedagen!

- Melody

No, your computer didn’t malfunction. That’s ‘Happy Birthday!’ in Swedish. Why Swedish? Well, I just finished reading Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Is it sad that it took me almost a full chapter to realize it was set in Sweden and not some weird America? And the happy birthday? Well yesterday was sweet Jason’s 27th birthday! A post is coming up about his day later this week. So while I’m trying to get my head back on straight after our incredible beach vacay, how about the coolest thrifted blouse ever?

blouse: thrifted, jeans: Target via Goodwill (brand new-$5!!), boots: thrifted

Oh yeah, and I got all my hair chopped off! I think I lost 5 pounds when I did. It looked like someone ate my hair then threw it up all over the floor. That’s how much hair there was. I can turn my head without it getting yanked or stuck under my armpit! I can brush through it in less than 10 minutes! I can curl it! I have HEALTHY BANGS THAT I DIDN’T CUT MYSELF! Thank you, sweet sweet hair savior, Kelso/Michael.

Yes, we had an amazing time on our vacay thank you for asking! Believe me, there will be some picture heavy posts coming up once I melt back into reality this week. We hit the motherload on thrifting down there in ye olde gator state. They have 1/2 off Mondays! GET IT TOGETHER, TEXAS.

In other thrifting news, did you guys know that Tyler is getting a Plato’s Closet!? I almost had a panic attack when I saw that. EEEEEP!

PS. How humongo does my ring look up there? The waitress at dinner last night said, “Is that your wedding ring!? Awwwright!” 🙂

PPS. If you try to comment but get some kind of error let me know asap! My mom and I were having trouble commenting but as far as I can tell it’s back to normal now. I’m trying to get this weird error fixed so if you can’t comment you can email me or (surprise!) like me on Facebook and comment there. 🙂

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?

Charlotte Taylor Creates

- Melody

Hey all! If you know my mom at all you know how crazy talented she is: drawing, baking, cooking…

If you know her you’d also know that she launched her small biz Crumbs and Crayons a few years ago after discovering her knack for illustrating. Through her journey she had a lot of questions none of us, her family, could answer. Business questions, copyright questions, legal questions, branding questions…

Enter Holly Conger. The greatest thing to happen to my mother since my father. Holly is a pretty big time illustrator herself having her drawings being sold to the likes of IKEA, WalMart, different magazines, etc. Holly, however, decided to finally take a maternity leave after constantly working since she had her children. She separated herself from her business and the social media world. When she came back, she offered a limited number of spots to those looking to bust into the illustrating game. Here, Holly would teach and guide each person in their own business and eventually promote them. And my momma got one of those spots.

For the last several weeks, my mom has learned how to brand herself, how to build a website, and how to get LinkedIn. Holly has helped my mom grow in places we couldn’t help her grow.

So, I invite you to visit my mom’s new site! Goodbye Crumbs and Crayons hello Charlotte Taylor Creates! Here you’ll find her portfolio, new illustrations, her blog, and her ever so famous Free Recipe Friday. Jason and I helped her put it together while she paid me in colored jeans. Hip hip hooray!