It Is Beginning to Feel Real

I have been buying stuff...for school. School, school. College school.

Yup. You heard it. Melissa is no officially in this crazy pre-college phase.

It is making me kind of loopy. Everywhere I go, I think,
"Can I use this there?"
"Oh, this would be great!"
"I bet this is the height of fashion in...Iowa?!"

Last week, I bought this awesome messenger bag/laptop case. Yup, pretty sweet. My beautiful HP (still nameless, can you believe it?) is going to accompany me to class in that paisley print messenger bag. I like. 'Specially when my sister said I didn't have to pay her back for it. I like it even more.

Today, I bought all my bedding. That's right. All of it. Wal-Mart was having a clearance on twin xl bedding, and it was a deal too wonderful to pass up. Pink sheets. Gray quilt. Pink velour husband. (Amusing...) All I need is an extra set of sheets and I am all set in that department.

I love this shopping stuff. I love finding amazing deals and feeling like a frugal woman. Actually, I am going to be honest. I just love this whole college process in general. ;)

Your Call

This is what the almanac thinks about me. What do you think?

If Your Birthday Is March 23--
A good executive and meticulous about detail, you are a born leader in business and in your social life. You are considerate of others, and family. You will have a happy married life with many children.

Haha, I love the many children bit!!

Head in the Sand

Don't you ever want to be an ostrich?

When things get hot and hard, wouldn't it be nice just to stick your head into the sand?

I want to be an ostrich today.

Sweet Nights of Summer...

I have been nudged by several people to update my blog.

So, alas! Here I am!

To be perfectly honest, I am quite at a loss for what to post about. Currently my life is one huge blur of work, babysitting, and church.

Here is what I have learned recently:

-I really don't know much. I would like to think that I am so intelligent, but wow...am I wrong!

-I am an ENFP and I am extremely type A. If you disagree, please take this up with Jerry.

-I am extremely sensitive, but even more so, I am very much afraid of hurting someone else.

-I am extremely sick of mediocre Christianity.

-The friends I thought I would keep forever are going away but the friends I thought were gone forever are coming back.

-The doctrine that I once held to so tightly may actually be doctrine that I blindly accepted.

-I cannot put God in a box.

-I have an evil side.

-I want henna. ;)

Oh, and as for the title of this post, summer nights are just wonderful, are they not? The stars are enchanting, the breeze is refreshing. I can feel God's touch all around me. I pray that you are enjoying this time of year as well.

Blessings,
Melissa

Rejoice!

My notes have been so depressing as of late.So I deleted the depressing ones. :)

All I can say is that God is soooo good! His grace is sufficient for me. His mercy is everlasting. His truth endures to all generations.

How blessed I am to be a child of the King of Kings!

I am currently reading through "My Upmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. Yesterday's reading was super good.

"His cross is the door by which every member of the human race can enter into the life of God; by His ressurection He has the right to give eternal life to anyone, and by His ascension our Lord entered heaven, keeping the door open for humanity."

Praise God for not desiring that anyone be lost but that all come to repentance! What unspeakable love!!

Ah! The memories!

From "A Psalm of Life"

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still acheiving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Love Always,
Melissa

I have been thinking...

I know.

Thinking is a very scary thing for me to do.

But I have been.

And I have deduced the following:

I am so extremely selfish.

All I care about is me. My needs now, what I want now. I so infrequently ask how people are doing. I want attention, but I hardly ever give it to anyone else. I want people to pray for my needs, but I hardly ever intercede on the behalf of the people I love. And this is so terrible!!

After all my Savior did for me, I must offer something in return though ministering to the saints.

To all of you whom I have dumped on without a thought, to those of you who I said I will pray for you and never did, for those of you who felt like I really wasn't listening, please accept my sincerest and most heartfelt apology.

So, tell me. How can I pray for you? How can I lift you up?

Blessings,
Melissa

Three hours!

Three hours until the wedding.

Blessings to the bride and groom. Love you both!

Thursday Thirteen #1

Thirteen Things Mellie loves about weddings edition #1 13. The little mints that they have at the reception. 12. Wearing fancy earrings. 11. Watching the little flower girls drop their petals all the way down the asile. 10. The trumpets. 9. The flowers. 8. The adorable ring bearers. 7. Seeing people I have not seen in years. 6. The bridesmaids walking down the asile with the groomsmen. 5. The look in the groom's when watching the bride appear at the entrance to the sanctuary. 4. Watching the bride walk down the asile on the arm of her daddy. 3. The teary exchange of vows. 2. The first kiss. 1. Knowing I am one day closer to my prince.

A Lesson Well Learned

We went to Wal-Mart today. On December 22. We must have idiot writtien across our foreheads.