Just Melanie

Sunday Stealing: The Sassiest Questions

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing! Link up here if you want to play along today! The first five questions are stolen from blogger Emily Rosenbaum at Wheels on a Bus. She explains she grabbed it from Lola's blog, and since... Read more →

Saturday 9: Sorry

Hey Beliebers and non-Beliebers ! Link up here if you want to play along with this fun Q & A! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Saturday 9: Sorry (2015) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here. 1) This song is a plea for... Read more →

January '16 Wrap-Up

Black-and-white portrait of the man I love, Robert Allen Odette So, I haven't blogged as much this infant year as I had planned, because I became even sicker than I had been all throughout the latter half-plus of 2015. That... Read more →

Sunday Stealing: The 2015 Year-End Meme

Stealing today? Link up here to join the rest of us! *~*~*~*~~ The 2015 Year End Meme From the archives! * What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? In October, when we went up to Missouri... Read more →

Saturday 9: Kentucky Rain

Link up here if you want to play along with this awesome meme, too! Saturday 9: Kentucky Rain (1970) Next Thursday, the 8th would be Elvis' 80th birthday, so we're celebrating The King. Here is this week's song. 1. In... Read more →

Sunday Stealing: The New Year Meme

Link up here if you're fabulous, darling! The New Year's Eve Meme From the archives (and I'm going to spare you folks all the funny pictures today. I'm keepin' it real)! In 2014, I gained: all-new respect for my brain... Read more →

Music Monday: I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

"I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" by The White Stripes So this is a new meme for me. It's (and you may have already figured this out, oh, brilliant you) "Music Monday," and it's hosted by this... Read more →

An Open Letter Of Thanks To #Campbells

Dear Campbells, I tweeted you on Twitter recently about my experience at a local Publix grocery store about a month ago: I had purchased some Campbell's soups, and when I got home to open one of them (because broccoli cheese... Read more →

Six Word Saturday

So I haven't done this one in ages, but since I've been largely absent from the blogosphere this summer, I'm making up for it by doing all the memes I can think to join at the moment. My SIX WORDS... Read more →

Moving Day

I'm moving this blahg, y'all. Seriously! I've been here on Typepad for about 5½ years now, and I've grown disenchanted with all the glitches and stuff. So, I'm heading over here to Wordpress. I have NO idea what I'm doing.... Read more →

VLOG: Kids Get Kindles

As I told you a few days ago, I ordered Kindle Fire HDs for each of the kids, along with cases, chargers, a stylus 6-pack, and... I think that's it? They were supposed to come Friday by 8 PM, so... Read more →

Random Schtuff Taking Up Space In My Brain Right Now

It's 0404 on a Tuesday morning, and I can't sleep - partly because I'm coming off a 5-day migraine in which I slept a TON, and partly because, well, I never sleep at night anyway. And I've got a lot... Read more →

A HUGE Pain In The Ass

I'm sick, y'all. Very, very sick. Let's just say I'm glad now that I have those Depend Silhouettes, because they're coming in very handy at the moment. To further elaborate, I have to have a flex sig on Tuesday morning... Read more →

Saturday 9: Our House

Link up here if you're playing along today! 1. When was the last time you moved? Where to? From Guam to here in Va Beach, VA, coming up on nine years ago now. Crazy! 2. If they were making a... Read more →

Friday Fragments

Link up here if your thoughts are all over the place and you think Mrs. 4444 and pals have just gotta read 'em anyway! ☼ I've been grateful to have a pretty low-key week both at home with the kids... Read more →

What's That Say About Me?

Ironically, considering the show Phineas and Ferb (yes, it's my latest obsession), I wish I could play this for mi padre. Unfortunately, the real situation is more like this: So. Maybe I'll tell you a story. In a minute. Or... Read more →

Friday Fragments

Link up with Mrs. 4444 if you're playing along today. ☼ I really only have one fragment this week: I'm still sick. It's going on three full weeks of this illness, of which I'm sure you don't want the gory... Read more →

Aloha Friday

I'm not really well and feeling up to it, but I couldn't miss the last Aloha of 2011, so my question for you this week is: When it comes to yourself, and you need to go to the doctor, are... Read more →

A Brief Stroll Down Memory Lane

Hey, remember when Jack was about 3½ and I made these freakin' cute sweaters? I did a dumb thing: instead of keeping them for MY children, I sold them on eBay for way less than they were worth. I could... Read more →

Oh, Yeah, So Like, We Went To Great Wolf Lodge Again, And Stuff...

Omgosh, y'all. I have been so sick this week, I have literally begged, crying and cringing, for Rob to shoot me. The jackhole refuses, God bless his soul, so here I sit, in agony, crapping my brains out, cursing the... Read more →