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meliamelia @ 2008-10-16T19:21:00

2008-10-16T23:27:35Z

puerto rico

♥

meliamelia @ 2008-10-05T01:29:00

2008-10-05T05:33:11Z

i just wanted to hi and that i'm still alive and i don't know why i haven't written anything in over 7 months. in the 7 years i've been on here that has been, by far, the longest i've gone. i'm sorry, i'll do better.

meliamelia @ 2008-03-02T20:29:00

2008-03-03T01:40:55Z

we didn't bring beach towels so we were soooo sandy!

TREE SLOTH!!! do you see it?! its holding a baaaaaby one awwww :)

we stopped at this airplane bar/restraunt on the way back from Manuel Antonio and locked the keys in our car :X

so we sat down, got chocolate cake, and watched the rain clowds come in from this lovely view while waiting for Alamo to come rescue us

and then Mike had to go out the in the rain and help them get the door open haha nice wet shirt!

were cool... we know!

Costa Rica

2008-03-02T18:49:40Z

i had a vacation a couple weeks ago. i was supposed to go to thailand, but on the third day of full flights, we realized that it just wasnt worth it anymore because after a 17 hour flight to Bangkok, 5 hour bus ride to Trat, and 1 hour ferry ride to Ko Chang, we would only have about 48 hours until we would have to turn around and do it again. it was very disappointing, but we immediately started brainstorming for somewhere else to go and not waste any more time in gloomy New York. my criteria for this vacation was-- beaches, sun, exotic plants, and animals that i normally only see in a zoo. and preferably first class. Costa Rica seemed to fit the bill so we got on a flight to San Jose the next morning, bought a Lonely Planet Costa Rica book in the airport, rented a car, and drove until we found a hotel on a beach that we liked.

the roads there were crazy (even though they dont look it in any of my pictures), especially on our first night there because it was dark out, raining, and all jammed up with traffic. driving through the jungle is fun, driving though the jungle in the rain is a little bit scary. of course, mike was the actual driver because i can't drive a stick shift and even if i could, we'd probably be dead right now.

the first night we stayed in Puntaraneas because we were tired and sick of driving in the rain and there was a huge cockroach in our room and i almost had a heart attack. the next morning we woke up to find out that our shower wasn't working, so we took our dirty selves to the car and continued on our way.

i dont remember if we even had a destination in mind on where we were going, but we ended up finding a random place in somewhere called Esterillos that was adorable so we stayed there.

first we planned on staying one night, then we changed it to two, then we changed it to three. it was really a great place

and the rooms were clean and cockroach free :)

AND they had three ADORABLE dogs!!!!! two were puppies and one was a momma

the beach was soo empty, i loved it

on the second day we drove to Manuel Antonio which has even more beautiful beaches, but i didn't have my camera that day. mike did, so if i ever get those pictures from him, i will share

i spent a lot of time lying in hammocks

mike after he got done surfing

pretty sun set on the last night. we also got to watch the lunar eclipse from this beach that night! unfortunately, it was a little bit cloudy but we still got to see a lot of it

meliamelia @ 2008-02-08T23:41:00

2008-02-09T04:45:33Z

i finally got my polaroid land camera working <3 just in time for my vacation next week!

i can't wait until summer when living right by the ocean will seem like the best thing ever

i want a house

2008-01-14T05:48:47Z

so i can paint stripes on the walls and put dimmers on all the lights have a green yard and plant flowers and have a dog

i was in chicago yesterday and i still think its the most pretty city

meliamelia @ 2008-01-01T14:20:00

2008-01-01T19:30:44Z

happy new year! i spent last night in new york city with 5 beautiful people who i never get to see so i loved it. i cant wait to see how fun 2008 will be

meliamelia @ 2007-12-16T22:17:00

2007-12-17T03:23:29Z

last night i went to the nutcracker put on by new york city ballet and it was great. a few weeks ago i put up my christmas tree and it is also great.

im in the christmas mood even though the closest thing i have really been seeing to snow is rain and slush.

i also got to see my lovely friends in chicago a couple of weeks ago and it was the best

meliamelia @ 2007-11-02T20:24:00

2007-11-03T00:34:53Z

more mazatlan pictures!

these are not in any sort of timeline whatsoever. this was in the cab on the way to the aeroporto

i should explain what we (everyone in these pictures pretty much) were doing... kristen and i have a "dance" (if you can even call it that) where we put to fingers together and basically... point? it sounds lame, but its actually AWESOME... hahaha anyway, its normally a car dance, but we decided that we needed to sweept the who country of mexico with it and get EVERYONE to start doing it like its the new cool thing from the US.. we recruited quite a few people into doing it and it was amazing. they kept asking us what it meant, kristen explained that its just something her and i do as amigas, but after a while we realize it looked like we were throwing around some kind of gang sign. a fight broke out and we ran hahahah

ps. the fight wasnt really because of our "gang signs", but its funnier to assume that it was

pps. richard clearly did not understand what our "dance" was at the point in time when this picture was taken. ew :(

meliamelia @ 2007-10-24T19:55:00

2007-10-25T00:32:52Z

i told myself that i would start updating this more often, but i have been slacking big time.

since i wrote last, i have moved out of atlanta and into new york city-- rockaway park to be exact. even though i hate our neighborhood im having a good time and wouldnt have it any other any way right now because i get to hang out with mike pretty much every day is were not working so i always have fun. plus manhattan is just a short subway ride, so all is well.

this morning i got back from a little vacation that i took with the one and only, kristen, to Mazatlan (mexico). richard also flew down and joined us part way into it. we (k and i) were there for 4 nights total, so 5 days and it was fantastic! i feel like i never get to take vacation for that long! the weather cooperated for the most part and we did all kinds of fun things like horeseback riding, banana boat, dancing to mexican jams, ocean kayaking, boogie boarding.. it was sooo soo much fun. i can't wait to do it again sometime! even though we left bruised, burnt, and battered it was absolutely worth it!

at the airport waiting on our flight..

view from our room! my moms friend let us use a timeshare that she has down there, so we ended up with a 2 story place that could sleep 6 people easily. full kitchen and everything.. but it was just us 3 haha

and again..

krizzzzz

the other side of the hotel view

rar

typical :)

dont mind my sickkkk hair. explaining it and why i let it be that nasty will require a whole separate post

then richard joined us

of course i hurt my foot because i am the most accident prone person ever. i held up like a champ though, i think, and didnt whine about it hardly at all

so prettyyyyy

real safe, guys..

sitting in the window of our room. 12th floor

we like food

last night :(

haha i just thought this one was funny because i had no idea that i EVER slept like that, and accpording to kristen, i actually do it a lot

now, going back out of order, are some pictures off of a disposable camera.. i actually like these ones the most

a sea lion! sooo cuteeeeee!!! we saw this during a boat ride that we took to stone island where we went to ride the horses and snorkel (didn't end up getting to snorket though ;[ )

horses <3 they were a little bit sickly looking so i felt kind of bad riding them, but they were so cute anyway

kristens horse and my horse were biting and eachother hahaha

mine pulled over like EVERY time it saw grass to eat hahahaha we make a good pair!

we kayacked over to this island (it's called deer island and its the same out that you could see outside our window in the pictures of the sunset). i guess the island is some sort of bird sanctuary so people aren't really supposed to be over there messing around, but we just went for a second and there were TONS of huge birds everywhere. i didnt realize that was the last picture left on my camera otherwise i would have taken some of the pretty birds

those are just some of the pictures i have, but kristen and rickard both have all of theirs as well, so im sure ill end up posting them too soon :X!

meliamelia @ 2007-09-01T00:25:00

2007-09-01T04:45:24Z

these are just some random pitures. some are from a roll of film that i just got developed mostly from when me and c were in wilmington, nc. others are just random ones from playing with me new camera, and other ones are some that i forgot to post in my last entry from my last vist in muskegon. and then i'm even going to throw in a couple that i took forever ago and just found already uploaded in my photobucket that i never put on here

we look gross

sorry that my butt takes up like half of this picture :(

this is our "station" that we made in mikes apartment to find a place to live in new york city... i had high hopes... i havent even seen the place we got yet, but here is a hint... that little blue puch pin at the very bottom.. thats it :/

these are some of the random pictures. from the georgia aquarium wayyy back in the spring when court and ben were here!

and now these are from the other week in MI..

rooftops are my fav <3

ok thats all i feel like doing. i lose interest fast :(

meliamelia @ 2007-08-27T23:18:00

2007-08-28T03:30:26Z

a couple (i think?) weeks ago, i went back to michigan to play with my dog and go camping! we only went for one night, and didn't get to canoe because we go there too late but it was still fun! i will let the pictures explain...

dexter!!

a little baby toad!

this dog makes dexter look littleeee!

pretty proud that we put the tent up so fast and even did it RIGHT! we pretty much had the whole campground to ourselves... haha there were like 2, maybe 3, other groups there in the whole place

we all ate a lot of cheetos and chips

burried our feet in the dirt....

played all of the games out of the news paper... we are soooo exciting..

built a really good fire, roasted marshmellows, and had the worst night sleep that i have ever had :)

meliamelia @ 2007-08-22T21:39:00

2007-08-23T01:43:56Z

i bought a new camera

too bad i had nothing to take pictures of today and nobody to hang out with, so all i have is a bunch of pictures of myself and random stupid things while i'm trying to learn it.

it was about 110 degrees and sooo humid today, so dont mind me being a tadddd bit messy

now i will be able to take all KINDS of fun pictures in NEW YORK CITY..

where i will be moving..

in about one month!!!

so excite.

pictures from camping, etc soon!

meliamelia @ 2007-07-07T14:23:00

2007-07-07T18:51:23Z

it's been so long since livejournaled! pretty much nothing too exciting has been happening so i don't ever feel like i have anything to post about, but i think i might start doing it more again.. mainly because i'm thinking about buying a new digital camera which always make life 100 times more exiting! i feel like if i don't have pictures to go along with my posts, it's not even worth it and lately i haven't been taking pictures because while i still do love my camera on a sentimental level (it has been through everything and everywhere with me in the past 2 years!), i really want a nicer one. recommendations?

so here is what i've got from the past couple of months. went to a few atlanta braves games, went to chicago, went to michigan, been playing a little bit of scrabble..

these will be out of order because photobucket arranged then that way and after uploading them all, i am too lazy to pick through and arrange them correctly

these first beach ones are from my overnight in Nassau for work. they were taken at approximately 5 in the morning out of my hotel room window. i left the bahamas with at least 25 (not even exaggerating) mysterous bug bites (i think?) on my legs which are just starting to heal two weeks later. i will spare everyone from THOSE pictures. needless to say, i have been wearing jeans since then

when i was in michigan last week, i went to up nort to my parents lake house which is located in the middle of pertty much nowhere. there are a ton of adorable farms on the way and the sky was soo vlue that day and the grass was soo green i thought everything was very picturesque so i had to pull over and take a couple of photos

i know, they're just spalshes...

i want to won this saiboat. and then learn how to sail.

we're dorkssss

brrrrrr!

prontopups!

we made this bon fire to make smores, and we were very proud.

don't ask. i couldn't just NOT post it.

this picture was taken directly after this video:

i am soooo good

Dexter loves the attention

he also loves COOKIES

i obviously like ice cream with sprinkles. i obviously did not like washing my hair that day.

cout just chewing on some bubblegum................

okay, here is where they start going out of order. these baseball game ones were all from a while ago.. back in may sometime.

i love this picture because i was trying to take a picture of the moe's sign (#1 fan), and i didn't realize it until later that a ball was actually flying over that at the exact moment that i snapped the shot so you can see everyone looking it at/trying to catch it. funny

i don't know who these kids are but i also took a video of them. i'm a creep but it's funny

alright, now the rest of the pictures are from a trp that kristen and i took to chicago somewhere between the time of the baseball pictures and the time of the michigan pictures. this is us being extremely tired after both having long days at work, little/no real sleep, driving/flying all day, and walking a TON. this was the very end of the night and we were BEAT.

yayyyy fun mirrors!

the following videos are all of our AMAZING car dancing skills...

and then...

this one is so funny because i just HAPPNED to start the video right as k realized that her car was breaking. sooo funny! we then pulled over on the highway, turned the car off, waited a few seconds, turned it back on, and countinued on our drive. i guess it just got overwelmed from our AWESOMENESS..

meliamelia @ 2007-04-29T18:34:00

2007-04-29T23:12:32Z

pictures from Paris!

we ride in business class because were cool like that. a pretty enjoyable way to spend 9 hours

at least one of us takes advantage of free alcohol

view from our first hotel room which we had for only a few hours until our actual one was cleaned. we just needed somewhere to nap because we were LE TIRED.

the elevator was so tiny! and the flight attendants gave us mike two whole bottles of wine

the first place that we ate at

then we moved to our actual hotel room. this was going out to our balcony

aaaand me on the balcony

off to one side... we had a corner room so the balcony wrapped around.

i found this picture online, but it is of our hotel. out room was the second to stop floor on the corner with the wrap around balcony. the two french doors in front as well as one on each side went to our room!

i am clearly way too classy to be in paris..

another view from the hotel room..

and another.

and another. the metro station was right there and there were always break dancning competitions going on right there

cheeseeeee

apparently smoking is okay if you're in europe

this is the view from the cathedrial that i said was out the side window of our hotel a few pictures up... it took walking up about a hundred thousand stairs to get there but well worth it

exploring, in a blurry fashion

and eating some more. the weather was prefect for sidewalk cafe time

either someone has a shaky hand or i just move around a lot

just a few blocks down from our hotel

lets take a picture looking rught into the sun

riding the metro

fire ze misselz

i actually was having a good time despite my facial expression

i think this was outside the louvre.. i can't remember for sure

weee

hahahaa, tourists

inside the louvre

and him inside the louvre

pretty streets on our walk to the eiffel tower

love this building, whatever it is

aw

this one kind of went with a funny video but i, of course, accidentally delated it :(

i just want everyone to take a second and check out my arm fat.

hahahahahah words cannot describe this baby orangutang

ah the lights...

..were very difficult to take good pitctures with without a tripod

hhhhokay, the end [of the world]

meliamelia @ 2007-04-08T11:48:00

2007-04-08T15:51:42Z

i was so mad when i found out today was easter.

all i wanted was some moe's

WELCOME TO MOE'S... not today :(

meliamelia @ 2007-02-23T18:59:00

2007-02-24T00:01:57Z

so get up freakishly early this morning, fly to la guardia, bus over to jfk airport, waste a few hours there, and just as im walking to check into my hong kong flight, it dawns on me

I LEFT MY PASSPORT IN ATLANTA

who does that?!

i am officially the biggest ditz dummy airhead to ever live. and now i am not on my flight to hong kong like i should be ;(

im an idiot

soon?

le sigh

2007-02-07T23:52:09Z

i want i want i want

soo bad ;[

i have been wanting a dark brown leather bag for a while now, and i had an exact one pictured in my mind that i could never ever find, and this one is almost exactly it. its like i thought of it and then all the sudden they made it.. im actually kind of town between 3 of them, but im pretty sure i like this one the most beause its most like my imaginary one..

i love this one a lot too but not quite as much as the top one. plus this one is a litle bit more expensive

this one is beautiful too, and the cheatest, but just a little small fot my liking.. i tote around a lot of junk!!

banana banana banana

meliamelia @ 2007-01-17T19:24:00

2007-01-18T00:31:44Z

Dear Melissa,

Your service request has been completed and your replacement IPOD 5TH GENERATION is on its way. Please allow two business days for delivery.

Apple

i dont know why i waited soo many months to send that piece in but i am sooo excited to get back a working one!!!

i am also excited that i finally went to the dentist after not having gone in over a year, eventhough they told me i have 2 cavs (cavs=cavities, btw) that i have to get fixed next week

and im excited that i bought an antenna for my tv so i can actually use my new tv

excited that i finally bought a sewing machine today so i can hem all of my jeans, but mainly my favorite pair that depress me when i see them sitting on the floor in my closet because theyre soo long & i worry about someone else making them too short because i dont trust anyone

also excited that i ordered internet for my apartment, so in about a week i will say goodbye to paner bread, except when i am hungry

meliamelia @ 2007-01-11T15:30:00

2007-01-11T21:04:26Z

LOS ANGELES

kristen's foot after walking around all day in flipflops.. hahahaha

we didnt really take any pictures the first day, but this is the second day.. first we went and did the hollywood stuff

hahaha this guy was funny. first he claimed to be bobby brown, then switched to johnny cash when we got to his star. he followed up around for what seemed like forever offering to buy us bugers. "she looks like she like to eat!!! shes not fat or anything... but she likes to eat!!"

here's a short gimpse of him when kristen was trying to take a picture of me and accidentally had the setting on video

hahahaha my attempt at looking tough.

hahahah the most awkward looking picture of me ever.. wasn't quite sure what spidy was trying to do there

aww frank sinatra!

it was supposed to be edward scissor hands.. hahaha

in santa monica

love this one of kristen hehe

hahaha nice face...

celebrated last night with cheesecake and fruit tarts haha

end of the year

2006-12-17T17:14:53Z

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
moved a few times, went to a ton bunch of new places

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i dont think i made any new years resolutions.. if i did, i dont remember it so probably not.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
no

5. What countries did you visit?
england

6. What would you like to have had in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
how about more money.. or something :)

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
oh i dont know, several of them im sure!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i guess getting out of MI, going places.. things like that that i've always wanted to do

9. What was your biggest failure?
nothing

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
i had bronchitis.. other than that nothing. except for my freakish ankle ;[

11. What were the best things you bought?
nothing that exciting really.. furniture? haha

12. Where did most of your money go?
rent

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
haha a lot of things...

14. Compared to this time last year, are you....

i. happier or sadder? happier

ii. thinner or fatter? same

iii. richer or poorer? a little bit richer, but that doesnt say much.. at all.

15. What do you wish you'd done more of?
ballet

16. What do you wish you'd done less of?
wasting money on things that i dont need

17. How will you be spending the holidays?
working on christmas, working on new years

18. Did you fall in love in 2007?
nahhh

19. How many one-night stands?
zerooo

20. What was your favorite TV program?
i hardly watched any tv this year. my favorite is still cosby show, thanks

21. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
nope!

22. What was the best book you read?
ooo i dont know, thats hard to say!! right now i'll go with my sisters keeper, although if you ask me again in about an hour i'd probably say something different

23. What did you want and get?
a lot of things..

24. What did you want and not get?
nothing that was that important i guess because i cant think of anything off the top of my head

25. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
i turned 20 and i spent the morning working, the day at the volkswagen place getting my car repaired, and the night working again... how exciting...

26. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
i'm pretty pleased with how it was

27. What kept you sane?
apparently nothing :]

28. What political issue stirred you the most?
none :X

29. Who did you miss?
everyone!!

30. Who was the best new person you met?
well... i cant pick one!

31. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
i dont really have one... oops

January

got the new job

oh, del rio

February

houston! aww i havent looked at these pictures in a really long time..

March

kristen came to visit me! LOL @ this picture for reasons nobody but us would understand

April

got excited about going back to michigan to see everyone

and EXCITED we were!!

May

beach. enough said hahahaha owww

June

six flags with court!!!

which got rained out, but still had fun!

and chicago <3

July

back to michigan again

and to the lake to see my babyyyy

to east lansing with these three lovlies!

August

"moved" to orlando.. went to the beach

and the beach a couple more times

then i deicded i've had enough of floridan and went to new york..

explored manhattan pretty much every day with josh

September

meet up with kristen in, again..., Chicago!

had more fun on the rain ride home than anyone has ever had on a 6.5 hour train ride (that was only supposed to take 3 hours)

got back to michigan and went canoeing!

of course..

el caminoes

October

back in michigan, got to see brlinda for the first time in forever! (also moved to atlanta somewhere around this time.. i dont believe i have any pictures to show that)

haha

BOWLING!! possibly funniest time ever

disney land!

November

back to new york city!

December

london!

THE END!

meliamelia @ 2006-12-05T20:36:00

2006-12-06T01:36:59Z

hahaha i have the attention span of a 4 year old..

haha i was having a BLAST! kidding.. i really was!

off with his head!!!

THIS is where the REAL Golbe Theatre was!

their signs.. they are so helpful! really...loved it

meliamelia @ 2006-12-04T18:26:00

2006-12-04T23:26:01Z

today i went shopping to buy christmas presents, and i left with zero things for anyone else, but a pair of shoes, a hat, and a new camera (fisheye!!) for myself :X

these are pretty all uninteresting, but i just wanted to waste a whole role of film on the walk from my apartment to CVS to get them developed. i am too overly eagar sometimes

these first few on the roll all got messed up. oops

once again, the new shoes that pretty much carved a hole into my heel just one the walk there but i bought carebear bandaids and they worked magic for the walk back home

meliamelia @ 2006-12-03T19:33:00

2006-12-04T00:33:36Z

sometime last week richard and i took the quickest trip to london ever! i love my job (sometimes) because i can do things like randomally decide to go to london for a day. we left at 5:30pm, arrived at about 7am, and left the next morning at something like 1pm. sounds like a short trip, but we actually saw a ton! we were huge troopers walking ALL over the city ALL day on about 1 hour of not-so-great-great airplane sleep. we took about 800 million pictures. these ones are just mine, and i'll probably make a separate post later with his half if theyre any different than these..

this is us just getting on the airplane.. we were really excited! we were happy that we got to sit together (traveling standby doesn't always work so well for things like that) so we didn't mind that we were in coach. i'll just say it now because i have no later pictures to document it, on the way home we for first class and it was AMAZING. that is definitely the way to travel on long flights.. eating tonsss of yummy food off of real dishes including ice cream sundays definitely suits my needs. i was pretty much in heaven. possibly the best 9 hours of my life... well, maybe not but you get it.

these were our meals on the way there. we are easy to please. these are disgusting looking compared to the way back but we loved it at the time!

p.s. not my wine. well, technically, it was but i gave it to him

first picture after we arrived! waiting for the train to take us from the airport into the city

we noticed that all of the signs there are soo direct, i loved it!

train ride

as soon as we got to the train station, we walked to our hostel, dropped our bags, and began exploring. we pretty much just started wandering and the first thing we found was buckingham palace

a pretty park by buckingham palace. there were still colorful leaves on the trees which i loved to see! we did not expect it to be such a beautiful day but it was soo lovelyyyy

i think this is where we were getting our second (out of about 50) wind for the day. at this time it was probably around 9:00am or so local time, which means that it was only about 4am our time at home!

rawr... this was his photoshoot hahaha

i know a lot of these photos look the same, but i couldnt decide which one i liked best

i'm not even sure what this this was

i have pretty much all of these pictures in both black and white and color. i like the b&w best

of course, the double decker busses!

again, sorry if these seem repiticious(sp?)

cute

i like pigeons! this is off the subject, but the other day i was getting ready to brad a flight and i was doing my preflights and everything walking through the cabin and there was a pigeon in the airplane! it pretty much almost gave me a heat attack and we had to chase it out :D

the sign, it makes so much sence! who knows what YIELD means anyway?! give way is so much better

i dont remember what this bridge is called, but we walked on it to get to the London Eye

the big ferris wheel looking this is the london eye. it was probably my favorite thing there

we went up in it and got an amazing view of london!

this is the girl that we ended up picking out fo richard

house of parliament

geourgous!!

large leaves.. haha

WOZ?!!?!

the globe theater.... except not the real original thing :(

tower bridge!!!! actually forget what i said about the London Eye being my favorite, this was it!! i was really excited to see this and we walked really far even though we were soo tired and our feet hurt sooo bad and i had to pee sooo badly and couldnt find a restroom just to see it! it was beautifullll

haha clearly, i was exhausted!

and my ankle was swollen hahhaha a lot of people know about my ankle problems, but if you dont, my left ankle always swells up REALLY badly and its really gross and annoying. i should really go to a doctor about it sometime. its not nearly as bad in this picture as it has been other times

this was a castle. i dont remember much about it other than it was really cool looking... ;/

weeeee

at this point my camera battery was very close to its death, so i didnt get as many as i would have liked from the rest of the night

aaand our hostel room.

:)

meliamelia @ 2006-12-01T14:58:00

2006-12-01T19:58:18Z

pictures soon (LOTS)!!!