Pintrest oh Pintrest

Hello there wonderful people! I have a confession to make....I am addicted to Pintrest. I go on it almost every day.  My True blood board has basically exploded.  The same with my clothing and humor board.  I am really sorry to all of my followers for clogging up the home page....I know some are getting sick of looking at True Blood quotes or stuff about cat names (even though a lot of people re-pinned that one)! :) I have become addicted to the humor stuff and have been re-pinning it like crazy! I guess after a long day at work its relaxing coming home and viewing these and getting a good laugh.  I even had the sudden urge to go on Pintrest the other day at work! I had to tell myself, "Melissa, this is not right, you shouldn't be doing this; plus your work computer is really crappy so its not going to even load".  I have a huge load of crafts and DIY stuff I want to do...if I ever get to it! I'm not sure what I would have done before Pintrest, but I have an addiction with it and need help.   I have not created a wedding board...but I have pinned wedding dresses and dresses that are supposed to be bridesmaid dresses. And then I started a board about tattoos title, "If I ever get one" Everyone is simple and cute, but not ready for the pain that comes with.  We will see if I ever follow through on some of those. 

Summer Kind of Wonderful...

Well hello there....It's been too long or I have just been super duper busy! Well its summer again.  The time of year where you relax by the pool and get a tan, dive into you summer reading list or just chill.  But unfortunately, I do not live near a beach so that's not going to be happening.  I have had a crazy wild and stressful end to my senior year of college and one more left (is it over yet?) I am living in a new residence hall and taking a break.  No more student orgs for me! And I'm okay with that.  I have an awesome internship this summer and will be a great experience! I can't wait to start! My summer reading list is not long but I will finally have time to read for fun!  Summer time means one more thing...the return of True Blood! I can't wait until season 6 premieres and I get to see this sexy man!

For those of you who do not know who this you must live under a rock! 

But I should tell you anyway...Alexander Skarsgard....swoon.

I will also be working out this summer and getting in shape. I am doing this for myself and no one else. 

Using my exercise ball like a boss...

This is how I will look the first time I use it...

But this will be me after a few days....

Welll..... hopefully not I will just switch to the treadmill.

And maybe I will find love...

That's like Jenna Marbles saying she's gonna do jogging...I'm not gonna find love just like she's not gonna go jogging! 

Well that's all folks! Maybe I should also catch up on Pretty Little Liars this summer.......

oh and one more thing....

Don't forget to show your true colors....

2nd Semester. Senior Year.

Despite the title, I am not graduating this spring. That would basically be impossible so I have one year left and this semester.  Sometimes it feels like I am never going to be done with college.  I would love to be out in the workforce right now and have a real job that pays good, but that is also hard to find. At this point applying for internships is my biggest concern.  I have a few in mind and have applied for one already! Just waiting to here back makes me nervous because I need this to graduate and I need something for this summer.  I love to stay busy and I need to experience.  I shouldn't worry to much, but that is something I do I guess. This semester is going to be a challenge, but a good challenge.  I enjoy all my classes so far which is a good thing! Definitely a much better semester than last, but in some ways not so much.  Something is missing and that certain thing that is missing went away today, but it will be back next fall, so I was promised and that promise better be kept, cause I will miss it dearly, but life goes on.  I know I said often that Peyton Sawyer from One Tree Hill is right, people always leave....but...sometimes they come back and he is coming back.  Normally I wouldn't vent in a blog post, but this I just need to get off my chest and to stop thinking about it. i need to concentrate on other things, but there are ways to get a hold of said thing when needed.  One a lighter note, I need to stop buying music off of itunes....or else it will make me go broke.  Its just so easy to hit the buy button and have it charged to your debit/credit card. Another thing I decided was to eat healthier and it will help I already feel better because of it. Now I just need to stop drinking soda or limit it to once a week.  Or twice, not sure yet.  I have been really into 'Believe' by The Bravery. Such a good song! I can't stop listening to it! It gives me something to believe in (the lyrics to the chorus).  And this song does give me something to believe in and they are graduating from college, knowing that he is coming back and getting an internship for this summer.  Those are the things I need to focus on and hopefully it will be a successful semester/summer.

My Summer Reading List

I knew sooner or later I needed to create one of these and no better time to do it then now!
So currently the books that I have read this summer are....
1.  Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
2.  Pulling Princes by Tyne O'Connel
3.  Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
4.  Ruthless by Sara Shepard
5.  The Carrie Diaries by Candance Bushnell
6.  Summer in the City, A Carrie Diaries book by Candance Bushnell
7.  Seventeen's Ultimate Guide to Style


Books Yet to Read:
1.  Kiss in the Dark by Lauren Henderson
2.  What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
3.  Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
4.  Club Dead
5.  Dead to the World
6.  Dead as a Doornail
7.  Definitely Dead
8.  All Together Dead
9.  From Dead to Worse
10. Dead and Gone
11. Dead in the Family
12.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
13.  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
14.  Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
15.  Forever Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
16.  Sisterhood Everlasting: A Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Book
17.  Stealing Princes by Tyne O'Connel
18.  Dueling Princes
19.  Stealing Prices
20.  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
21.  The Hunger Games by Suzane Collins
22.  Catching Fire
23.  Mockingay
24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
25. The Help by Kathryn Stockett


Most of these are a series.  The Sookie books are based off oh HBO's hit series True Blood.  I have been watching the show and now I am eager to read the books! The Sisterhood series is another series that I have not read yet, but want to.  I have read the first one, way back in the 9th grade.  The Princes series I started to read a long time ago, but never finished...so now I can! They are an easy read and that is why I am reading them.  I started the The Hunger Games while I was in Colorado.  I had to put the book on hold so I could read these, so I am once again in the middle of it!

My Bucket List (Revised)

So I decided to update this list....Here it goes.....

1. Go to London, England

2. Go to Hamburg, Germany and see if there are still family history there

3. Graduate from College

4. Attend a concert

5. Attend a Paul McCartney concert

6. Travel around the US

7.  See our nation's capital

8.  Fall in love

9.  Get an intership for the summer

10.  Win over $2.00 on a lottery ticket

11. Buy a lottery ticket

12. Get straight A's in a semester of college

13.  Have 3 or 4 kids naming them Norah, Natalie, Nathan, and/or Noah

14.  Visit the rock and roll hall of fame

15.  Sing karaoke

16. Read over 5,000 books in my lifetime

17. Write a Novel

18. Become the CEO of a company

19. Go see Strawberry Fields in New York

20. Walk across Abbey Road

21.  Fly in an airplane

22. Swim with Dolphins

23. Learn how to ride a bike

24. Grow my hair out and donate it

25.  Get married

26.  Graduate from UW-Platteville

27.  Learn how to do the smokey eye thing

28.  Kiss in the snow

29.  Hold hands with someone in the falling snow

28. Meet someone from England

29. Become friends with people that are from another country

30.  Watch a meteor shower

31.  Have a real Christmas tree

32.  Learn how to make jewelry

33. Host a Lia Sophia party

34. Sell Lia Sophia jewelry

35.  See the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

36.  Visit a tropical place

37. Go backpacking through Europe

38. Go to a Brewers game

39.  Go to a Wisconsin Men's basketball game

40.  Go to a Wisconsin Men's hockey game

41. Learn how to play piano

42. Learn how to play violin

43. Meet someone famous

44. Go on a date

45. Get a smart phone

46. Buy a house

47. Buy a car

48. Give a 20 minute presentation

49. Go to state for Forensics

50. Cut my hair like Alice Cullen's

51. Buy a welsh corgi

52. Learn how to play guitar

53. Ride on a train

54. Watch all of Alfred Hitchcock's films

55. Make a 4 course meal from scratch

56. Take a cooking class

57. Take a cake decorating class

58.  Sell my jewelry

59.  Attend a ball or gala

60.  Win a contest

61.  Dance with a guy

62.  Sew a quilt

63.  Go to a club without getting carded

64.  Get my master's degree

65.  Volunteer at a library

66.  Volunteer at an animal shelter

67.  Stay at the Plaza hotel

68.  Go to Liverpool, England

69.  Go to the San Deigo zoo

70.  Cook a homemade meal

71.  Have a small wedding with close family and friends

72.  Eat at a fancy restaurant

73.  Lose weight

74.  Learn how to knit/crochet 

75.  Hold hands with a boyfriend in Central Park

76.  Kiss in the moonlight

77.  Visit the Eiffel Tower

78.  Go Grocery shopping on my own

79.  Open my own business

80.  Walk the street of New York

81.  Make snow angels every time there is a fresh layer of snow

82.  Make a snow fort in the snow as an adult

83.  Have a One Tree Hill marathon with friends

84.  Go on a road trip

85.  Landscape a backyard patio

86.  Go one week without watching TV

87.  Have a coloring party with friends

88.  See a musical  

89.  See a show on Broadway

90.  Meet Sophia Bush

Whatever.

June seemed to drag on forever, for me at least.  And as July 2012 comes into the world in about 45 minutes, I can't help but wonder what the rest of the summer will bring for me.  I really hope that I win that Kindle Fire that my local library is giving away.  I have been reading non-stop which is good because it will help me get through those dry textbooks next year because I am beginning to read faster.  But sometimes it ins't enough.  I need to find something else to do this summer! And yes, I have a job.  I sell Lia Sophia jewelry.  I want to get more people to host parties, but most of them just ignore it or make up some lame excuse.  I guess I will have to try harder.  But the thing is, I want summer to end.  I want it to be September, because frankly is so freaking hot out that I don't even want to go outside half of the time.  I just want to be back in Platteville, doing my thing, being on my own with the exception of my kick-ass roommate next year, (and yes I am really excited about it).  I will be a senior.....a senior in college! Where the fuck did the time go! That is my biggest question.  I am starting to freak out a bit because of it.  To be honest, I don't want it to end. I love college so much more then high school....high school was a pain in the ass.  In college, I guess I found myself...I know it sounds supper corny, but its true.  I have made some of my best friends in college so far and I fear the day that I leave everything, the residence halls, the classrooms, and being able to to just walk down the hall or up the stairs in order to see my friends.  I will not graduate in May, so it will be easier, I guess.  I am just worried about going into the workforce and not being able to find a job.  Plus I haven't met the "one" yet...or maybe I have and I just haven't realized it yet...but it always seems to come down to that. As June 2012 comes to a close, I can't help but wonder what July and August will bring...hopefully rain because we need it desperately

Spring!!!!

I am really happy that spring is almost here! Bring it on! I am so excited to be wearing capris, flip-flops and nto having to wear a bulky jacket to class. : )  It is gonna be great! Spring break is next week and I have so much planned! I am getting my hair cut on Monday! So excited...I need a change.  AND I am now selling Lia Sophia jewelry!!! I am supper excited about that because it will help during school and stuff.  Now I just need to a have a party....anyone want to host one? Please say yes! I am also having lunch with my wonderful cousin Jodi, and going shopping with my mom on Friday the 23rd.  And sometime in there I have to do homework.....hopefully.  I love Platteville, believe me, I do, but it will be nice to get away for a week and relax with no classes.  Oh and I have even better news! I am now the Communications Coordinator Elect of RHA!!!!!!!!! Basically for the rest of the semester, I am job shadowing the current CC and then I will have to position next year!!!! I am really excited to get involved and go to all of the conference I am supposed to.  This will be a great networking opportunity and a great thing to use on a resume that will help me get a job in the future.  The position is paid, but that doesn't really matter to me because this way I will be more involved on campus! I love being involved.  With school full time, selling Lia Sophia and being the CC, I will have a busy schedule, but that's okay, I love being busy.  Its what keeps me going.  And I won't have time to worry about boys either, and that's okay too because I probably won't have time for them anyway.  So that's it folks because I have a meeting I need to go to! ttfn