Funny & Cute

The Party

So on Friday I had my Halloween/Bday party. I had so much fun and I would like to thank my friends so much for adding to my happiness. The evening had much entertainment to offer the people who attended. There were many of us in our wonderful itchy wigs although the best wig was Jane Jetsons and her sex hair!! Someone had there d*ck in a box. There was an ostrich who keep on poking all the ladies. A racist grandma that had us all laughing even though we shouldn't have been. A pervert uncle who keep on staring at Wednesday and me, Mia. We had a superman who couldn't sit down w/out being chocked by all his muscles. An astronaut in a diaper plus a shady Clark Kent. A women who looked like a man and scared all of the other ladies w/ her butchness. A Seattle ER doc w/ wonderful hair plus a Ms Adams who keep on showing her boobies. Mia Wallace kept on smacking her booty and doing her dance b/c no one knew who she was. And the best of all was a Superman beagle.

Things That Make Me Happy

Going to my new favorite restaurant Cheeseburger in Paradise w/ my friends. They have my favorite drink there too.

Having traditions w/ my family. Every Halloween we make tacos for dinner. My mom made tacos on 10/31/79, the day before I was born and we have pretty much done it every year since!

Eating Greek food at Athena's at Greek town. I should have been Greek, I love there food.

Doing things for other people. I love helping out friends and family! If I can help make someone happy then my job is done.

I love it when you call, text or email someone and they tell you that they were just thinking of you and had planned on calling, texting or email.

I'm new to blogging but I love that I can vent about things that are bothering me or write about some of my favorite memories.

Having such close friends that share the same personalities and hobbies as I do. My friends are really just an extension of my family.

Doing fun activities around the holidays like carving pumpkins, making Easter eggs or ginger bread houses.

Going to the movies!!! I love a great cinematic adventure.

Birthdays!

OK so I am one week away from turning one year older. And with all of the excitement and anticipation of what the party will be like this year, it has made me think back to birthdays in the past. I think that I have had two that have been my favorite.

Favorite birthday party #1: When the big 24 was coming around I had a hard time knowing that I was turning 24 (don't ask why) and my close friends knew it. I was celebrating my birthday at this club/lounge and invited a lot of my friends. We were all up on the little VIP area (if you can even call it that) and about an hour of being there 2 of my close friends walked up to the VIP area and they were carrying a birthday cake and all my friends sang Happy Birthday to me. They also had flowers for me. Even though it wasn't anything big that really made my birthday and made turning 24 a little bit easier.

Favorite birthday party #2: Last years birthday party was a lot of fun. I decided to have all of my closest friends over to my house for some homemade pizza and dessert and then we all headed out to Dave N Busters. I had never been there before and I ended up having such a blast. We all kind of split up once we got there but I was able to make my rounds and hang out w/ everyone. Most of my friends gave me there tickets that they won so I was even able to walk away w/ a huge pink care bear that was about half my size.

I guess it doesn't really matter what I do for my birthdays as long as I am with the people I care about most. So this birthday still has hope of becoming one of my favorites.

Places I have been:

1983 - Disney World w/ my parents and grandparents
1987 - Galena w/the family
1992 - Dallas TX for my sisters wedding
1998 - Disney World w/ two of my girlfriends. First trip w/out parents.
1999 - San Diego, CA visited my brother and sister in law
2000 - Clearwater, FL w/ my brother and sister in law
2001 - Cape Cod & NH visited brother and sister in law and niece
2002 - Clearwater, FL w/ four of my girlfriends. Favorite trip so far.
2003 - Vegas w/ two girlfriends
2003 - Cruise to Key West and Cozumel. Then stayed in Miami for five days.
2005 - Dells
2006 - Myrtle Beach w/ four of my girlfriends
2006 - Dells

I need branch out and go to new places!!

How I Spent My Saturday Night...

Saturday night I went to Bamboo for my friend P's birthday. First off I want to start by saying that I'm so over the whole club thing. I feel old and want to go home about an hour of being out. Well I tried to have positive thoughts this time and it did help b/c my mood was up. My friend T arrived a little bit after us and he had brought a friend, Mike. I thought he was pretty cute and told my girls. P pulled T aside and told him that I thought he was cute and I got the thumbs up from P that he was single. I then kept on going up to my girls saying that I don't have any game anymore and trying to hit on a guy was freaking me out. What if my hair was flat or if I had eye goop in the corner of my eyes. I used to be so good at talking to guys but it has been so long. Well I finally got up the nerve and walked over and joined T, P, and Mikes conversation. Mike and I started our own conversation and about 5 minutes later I was ready to walk away and never talk to the guy again. He was so dopey and not worth my time. I was able to avoid him for most of the night. P then wanted to go downstairs and dance. I love to dance so I wasn't going to say no. T and Mike followed us down. At first we were all having a great time dancing in a circle. All of a sudden Mike (who was to my right) is not there anymore. I start to feel that someone is behind me dancing really close. I kinda stepped closer to T and Mike backed away. Thinking that he got the hint that I didn't want to bump n grind I started to let loose again and get my groove on. Moments later someone puts there hands on my shoulders from behind me and then turned me around so that I am facing strangers and then basically tried to butt f*ck me. Not happy at all I basically just walked away from him and started to dance w/ P. I am so not like a 21 year old who would be like "Oh yeah, give me more" I am so past that stage now. So basically I started the night thinking that this guy might have some potential to thinking of what a loser he was. But I was texting all night w/ the new boy D all night so it wasn't all a wasted night!!

411

The following story took place about 9 or 10 years ago. My friend Karen was over at my house and we had been listening to the radio and heard that there was going to be some sort of contest to win something NSYNC related. Since we were such big fans we wanted to have the phone number to the radio station so that we would be able to call them ASAP when the contest was starting. So Karen suggested that I call 411 to get the phone number. Ok here is where the story starts but I first want to state that I had never called 411 before AND didn't know what the wonderful operators of the 411 company would be asking me AND I don't have the best hearing so now after making my disclaimer I will start the 411 conversation:

Operator: City and State?

Melissa: Melissa, Illinois (I thought they had asked 'What is your name and state')

Operator: Ummm hold on..... Ok I need to transfer you to someone else....

Operator #2: City and State?

Melissa: March 15th 1999 (I thought they had asked 'What is the date')

Operator #2: (giggling) Hold on and let me transfer you to someone else.....

Operator #3: Honey what are you looking for?

(At this point I'm starting to think that I'm doing something wrong in our conversation plus Karen is looking at me like I'm looney.)

Melissa: I need the radio station.

Operator #3: What city is it in?

Melissa: (flustered) I don't know Rockford, Dekalb I don't know.

Karen is laughing so hard at this point that she is turning blue from not breathing. Which makes me start to laugh. Plus Operator #3 is laughing, so I had no choice but to hang up the phone.

Needless to say I never got the phone number to the radio station, we never won the NSYNC stuff and have refused to call 411 since that time!

I Wish

Ok I know that there are many others things that I would want to wish for like, stop world hunger and stop terrorist from attacking our country but I wanted to keep this wish list a little bit on the fun side and only talk about ME :)

I wish for my siblings to move back to IL. Mostly my sister Jenne. She moved away when I was 10 and whenever she visits and leaves me I go into a weeks long depression.

I wish that I had a job going something with photography.

I wish that I would find someone special who I would want to spend the rest of my life with.

I wish that my frequent spats of anxiety would just go away one day.

I wish that I had straight hair for half the days out of the month and curly on the others.

I wish that I didn't have stomach issues and that I could eat any kind of food with out having problems south of the border.

I wish that some old friendships of mine could be repaired.

I wish that I was able to make more decisions on my own with out having to ask others what they think.

I wish that I would follow my heart and not my head.

I wish that I had more time with my grandma B before she got sick and left me.

Lady in Red

September 1996 my brother Chris was getting married to his wife Jenny. She is from Moline IL so the wedding was taking place in her home town. The reception was going to be held at The Abby somewhere in the Quad Cities. I was 16 at the time. Since it was a fall wedding I decided to wear a red dress. At the time I wasn't a huge fan of the color red but the dress looked good on me so I went w/ it. My dad had told me after seeing what I was going to be wearing that he was going to request that the DJ play the song Lady in Red during the reception so that he could dance with me. I loved the idea but figured that my dad would forget and the dance would never take place. So it was the day of the wedding and the reception was in full swing. All of my family was there (which is a lot), a total of five brothers and their better halfs, my sister and her husband, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins and a few nieces and nephews. We were about half way into our dancing frenzy and when I frenzy I mean it. My family are a bunch of dancing machines. I was tired and had stepped off the dance floor and was chit chatting w/ some family members when all of a sudden the DJ stopped the music and started talking. He said that he just had a request from the father of the Groom to dance with his daughter and instantly the song Lady in Red started to play. I felt like crying but held back the tears of happiness. My dad escorted me onto the dance floor and we started to dance. Everyone had left the dance floor and watched us. We were the only ones out there dancing. Just when I couldn't have been any happier my brother Chris (the groom) walked up and asked my dad to cut in. After about 30 seconds another brother stepped up to cut in. All five brothers waited for there turn to dance with me. My dad then took the last turn and the song ended. That was one of the happiest moments I have ever felt. And even too this day I love the color red and wear it to almost every special event I go to just waiting for another Lady in Red moment!

Signs that you are getting old (Thanks Topangabay for your help on this one)

instead of listening to the radio stations morning show that is hip and all they do is talk about sex you find your self flipping on the station known as the mix where they talk about low key events like the DJ's mom giving her results of who should be kicked off of dancing w/ the stars
you take tums
you have to go to the doctor much more often for strange pains that you are feeling in your body
10pm is so your bed time
you start to find that you have more in common w/ someone who is ten years older then you instead of someone who is ten years younger then you
you actually start to pay attention to politics
it's hard to bend over and pick things up off the floor
you talk about high school like it was yesterday but then realize your 10year reunion is coming up in a few months
you've known someone for over 20 years
you pay a mortgage
you buy 'sensible' shoes
you can no longer shop at Abercrombie and Fitch or American Eagle. and you can forget even walking into the store forever 21 b/c the size of the shorts there would only fit on one of your butt cheeks
You buy face cream to help stop the wrinkles
you have wrinkles
you want a car with a lot of airbags and is easy to get into the back seatto hook up a car seat if needed
you cut coupons
you feel awkward when you go to a club and realize you're the oldest onethere
you have ideas of quilts that you want to make and want to start to learn how to crochet
you can't sleep past 8am even on weekends
you have a 401K
you start to daydream of what your kids will look like instead of daydreaming of what meeting justin timberlake would be like
a good evening is staying in with friends and playing games
you now believe you have a biological clock and yes it's ticking
you're an aunt/uncle
you find a grey hair
you can't eat certain foods because you know what it will do to yourstomach
you realize that you spent years trying to not get pregnant and now all youwant is to get pregnant
panties that go up your butt are not cool anymore
aunt flo FINALLY becomes regular
you are no longer embarrassed to buy feminine products or condoms
you only shave your legs in the summer
you live with a boy/girl that's not a roommate
you have to pay for your own vacations and can no longer rely on yourparents to pay
you have to buy your own present for someone getting married/having ababy/etc.
you forget how old you're going to be on your birthday
once you remember how old you are you lie to yourself and friends on your age to make yourself feel better
your parents call you on the wrong day to wish you a happy birthday becuaseeven they can't remember back to when you were born..it was that long ago
your boobs aren't as perky as they once were
you can't go out drinking and make it to work okay the next day
you no longer have the desire to drink until you're drunk
you are in your "late 20s"
you watch the news
holidays are no longer fun for you now but you love to watch the little ones get excited about them
you no longer are ok w/ dating mr. right now you now want to find mr. right
birthday parties are no longer that fun for you

The Forgotten Trip

I always seem to forget about the day trip that I took up to Mall of America. Which is strange b/c I was able to get out of a day of High School, plus it was my first and only time up to MALL OF AMERICA. As a graduation gift from my aunt and uncle they decided to fly me up to MN to go to Mall of America. Since I love to shop I was ecstatic at this idea. So my mom and aunt escorted me up there. It was a 45 min flight and one short bus ride away. As soon as I got on the bus the excitement disappeared slightly. MN (at least the area right outside the airport) was very blah and thoughts of 'Where the HELL am I' ran through my head. But then all of a sudden there it was. What a beauteous sight. It was the mall of all malls and it was right in front of me. There were so many stores and rides even inside. I was in Heaven. But then about fours hours later we were all tired and decided it was time to go back home. I don't think I was an as experienced shopper at the time and couldn't handle that much shopping.