What's not to love???

t has been an amazing past 48 hours or so. I love life. Yeah.

For those of you who never get out of bed and know nothing of what's going on in the world around you, the FREAKING St. Louis CARDINALS won the FREAKING WORLD SERIESSSS!!!! Seriously, honestly, I can't believe it. I mean, the 2nd half of our regular season- we SUCKED. we barely made it to the post-season... We weren't supposed to make it past the Division Series... we did. we weren't supposed to make it past the Championship Series.... we did. We DEFINITELY WEREN'T supposed to win the World Series- WE FREAKING DID! BUT, during the post-season, we had all our guys! We had SO many injured guys during the 2nd half of our season and we got everybody healthy, and we KICK ASS!!!! ...the end.

On another note, I GOT MY CAR BACK TODAY!!!!!!!!! A couple weeks before Christmas last year, my car messed up. My dad told me he would have it fixed after Christmas- but he didn't tell me HOW LONG after Christmas. he didn't tell me it would be 10 MONTHS after Christmas! But holy cow! i've been driving that crappy little Civic (i can't stress LITTLE enough- it's tiiiiiny!) for almost a year, and i finally have MY car back! My absolutely b-e-a-utiful Accord. it's shiny and the leather looks like new and it's fully loaded (love it!) and it's BIGGER and it RUNS like a freaking dream. it's like driving a freaking Mercedes after driving that crappy Civic. So I'm happy. I've got such a great dad. He fixed that mostly by himself, Scott helped as much as he could, but my daddy really did most of it. he bought the parts, fixed it- spent like a week on it... saved us about $2000. yeah, he's amazing.

I walked into a serious time warp today... I'm helping with musical direction of the Clyde H.S. Musical... today was my first day to have to go help (yes, on a Saturday). Before I walked in there I was thinking "this isn't going to be weird, it'll be just fine" well, i had to go in the side door (the door the cast/crew/students use) and when i opened the first door, as i was walking down a small set of stairs, it was WEIRD!!! it was like a freaking time warp! i felt like i should be getting up on the stage to do some acting myself. I can't believe it's been 5 years since i've been on that stage. gaaaaaah i miss it!!!!! FIVE YEARS. that makes me feel old. it was 2001, i was the lead role in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS. that ACTUALLY wasn't the last time i was on it, now that i think about it.... OAP (One Act Play) was after that. gosh, that's the ONLY thing about high school that i even remotely miss. high school sucked, though.

and i've got a great husband and a great son.... i've got a great life.
it's just been a good past couple days.

mostly baseball, but other interesting things as well!

Do you watch baseball? No? How 'bout you? Still no? YOU?? AH, YES, you do! Well, I watch baseball, yes I do. And how about my freaking CARDINALS, baby!!!! Hell yes, we're going to the World Series. that's what i'm talking about! now, whether we WIN The World Series (which i see as highly unlikely, the Tigers kicked our pansy little butts earlier in the season during interleague play...) is up for grabs, but i a, just damn satisfied that we will be playing in the World Series... that's 2 out of the past 3 years.... Now if we can JUST do better than when we got swept by the freaking Red Sox!!!! ....pathetic...

So, we're all used to crap bulletins and junk mail - "If you don't post this in 10 minutes, you will be haunted in your sleep tonight" and annoying shit like that.... well, i got a crap mail AS A TEXT MESSAGE ON MY PHONE!!!! yeah i was rather unhappy about that. people are taking that annoying crap too far! my freaking CELL PHONE. AND, what made me even MORE mad, is that it was from a girl whom i haven't talked to in probably about a year. we used to talk all the time, went to high school together, our sons are the same age, but i haven't talked to her in like a YEAR, and does she ever call to say hi? NO. does she send texts to say hi? NO. but she sure as hell doesn't mind sending me a crap text message about some curse or some crap like that. it's just plain irritating- and RUDE! wasting my money to send text messages. they're not free, you know! ugh!

no more rattlesnake encounters, and that keeps me happy. even though i know the bastard is living under my house.... i look by the back door like crazy before i enter or exit my house. now i'm a paranoid loser. oh well, better than a snake bitten loser i suppse!

yay for cold weather. just..... yay.

i'm about to have a whole freaking lot on my plate.... way more than i had planned on having to deal with - especially during the world series.... there's the usual stuff, like garage sale-ing on saturdays and church on sundays, those aren't a big deal. but then there's church choir/praise team every wednesday from 7:30 till 9:30!!! i hate that it ends so late! i'm not home to put my son to bed, i'm not home to have dinner with my family (it's usually about 7:30 or 8) and i miss my FAVORITE TV show (LOST).... but i can deal, because i enjoy singing... but NOW, i've been asked to help with musical direction of a high school musical.... more specifically, the Clyde High School musical... wow, i used to star in those babies back in the day, now i'll be doing musical direction. so my job is to teach the kids their parts (like singing wise) and work with them on it... BY THE WAY, it's a musical i've never seen or even heard of, so i don't know the music, so i've got to learn the WHOLE play in like a week... and that will take up EVERY night.... Monday, Tuesday, (NOT WEDNESDAY cuz i'm at church), and Thursday.... *sigh* this is an awfully hefty workload for melanie.... now i'm hoping the scheduling of the World Series will be different than musical rehearsals.... we can all hope!

i'm going to head off and figure out something to eat... then i'll probably get link and me dressed and head to my mother-in-law's house.... i missed Grey's Anatomy last night because of the baseball game, so i'll have to go to ABC.com to watch it- but my comp at home is so slow i'll have to do it on my mother-in-law's cable internet... apparently you can just go to ABC.com and watch a show you missed. that's effing GENIOUS!!! LOVE IT!

hope you are all doing marvelously! Love to all of you, dear ones!

family, rattles, Barney, and the like.

Hello all. The past few days have been absolutely lovely. My sister is in town from Austin and we have been hanging out with her a bunch. Yesterday we hung out and carved pumpkins because we thought Lincoln would enjoy it, but he cared nothing about it (he kept saying "pumpkin guts! ewwwwww!") so Mitsi and I carved them for ourself while Lincoln took a nap. Mitsi made a kitty and I made a very nice happy face, however, once I was through I noticed a large 'scar' on one side of his face. This reminded me of Aaron Neville and his face tattoo. I names my Jack-O-Lantern Aaron Neville. My siblings and I proceeded to sing Aaron Neville songs throughout the day yesterday and today. That was fun. And we like to do the Horatio Sanz impersonation of Aaron Neville... if any of you watch Saturday Night Live, you might appreciate "I ned some CO-COA BUT-TER!" most of you are probably confused. it is ok. it is hilarious to me.

My brother SAVED A MAN'S LIFE the other day!!! In case you don't know, my brother is an X-Ray Tech in training at Hendrick. He is almost through with Radiography school there and when he has completed that he will go on to some other school in San Marcos to become a Radiation Technician (he will give Radiation Therapy to cancer patients and the like). Well, the other day, there was a man in critical condition whom Matt needed to do an X-Ray on, so my brother goes to the ICU and the guy is coding... a nurse is giving him CPR (y'know, where they press on yoru chest to get your heart to beat... COMPRESSIONS!) so the girl is getting tired, and my brother, being the gentleman that he is, offers to take over for her. Meanwhile, a cardiologist, the dying man's general physician, an anesthesiologist, and several other nurses are in the room... So the man's heart COMPLETELY stops beating, he flatlined.... he was DEAD. my brother kept pressing on his chest.... a couple min utes later, his heart started beating again. My brother freaking saved that man's life. How amazing is that!!!???

So tonight included one of the scariest events of my entire life.... Scott, Lincoln, and I got home from dinner with my family... No big deal, the usualy getting home process. Scott gets out of the car, unlocks the back door- no rush, taking his time- goes back to the car to get some tools, goes back to the house to put the tools inside, goes BACK outside to get Lincoln... meanwhile, I have gathered our things and begun to make my way into the house... Scott grabs Lincoln. I walk in the house, Scott puts Lincoln down and Lincoln steps in the house, then Scott is standing on our back step... I heard something, and it seemed like it took an eternity to register, though I'm sure it wa sonly about half a second... It was a RATTLESNAKE!!!! So of course I yelled that to Scott, he jumped in the house, and looks outside to see that a big rattlesnake is about 1.5 FEET away from our back step, definitely in striking range. Scott walked back and forth past that thing 3 times. I walked past him. Lincoln was right there by him. We were all a max of 1 1/2 FEET away from a poisonous RATTLESNAKE who had made him bed comfortably behind our grill. I yell at Scott to go get the gun, but he didn't have the right kind of gun here, so I have to call my aunt and uncle (who live next door) to come kill this thing that is RIGHT BY OUR BACK DOOR. Meanwhile, Scott is standing right in the doorway and of course Lincoln wants to see what Daddy's looking at. I'm shaking, I'm SO scared.... So I take Lincoln and put him in front of the TV, by the time my cousin comes over with a shotgun, the snake is long gone... and even creepier, he slithered under our house! how scary is that, the whole time we were nonchalanlty entering our house AS USUAL, that guy was less than 2 feet away from us, could've struck any one of us at any time... This is another major reason I don't like living here! It makes me want to move even more.

Lastly, (I know this is long but this is my last story so bear with me), we put Lincoln down to sleep, he DIDN'T ask for his passy!!! (which is a horrible habit I HATE, but he only asks for it when he's going to sleep and we haven't had energy to try and let him scream himself to sleep to wean him off of it) So we put him in bed and I cam eback here to get on the computer, and Lincoln is singing to himself, "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family. With a great big hug and kiss from me to you! Won't you say you love me too?" in tune, i might add... and he repeated the song about 5 times. SO CUTE! ...what a great boy i have...

AH! THE CARDINALS HAVE WON 2 IN A ROW!!! Tonight's game was a SHUTOUT. We won 5-0! It was awesome!

Sorry this was a frickin novel. I better get ready for bed since I hardly got any sleep last night (woke up early as hell for garage sale-ing) and tomorrow we've got to get up and get to church! Love to all of you my wonderful friends :)

poison control, fortune cookies, things i'm annoyed with, and other fun things.

ahhh what a week it has been. this week has been MUCH less stressful, thank you. but alas, it seems like life is always a WEE bit stressful, no matter where you are or what you are doing. i suppose that is just life, just a test from God to see how we deal with our earthly lives.... ok, no more of this seriousness talky talky. let's get down to business.

first, we will start with a very interesting day that was saturday... scott and i woke up a few minutes before 6am, left our house about 6:15am, and spent about 3 1/2 hours garage sale-ing... i know you're jealous, try to hold it in... then we went out to my parents' house to get our boy and to watch a baseball game. it's official. we are never allowed to watch another St. Louis baseball game at my parents' house. they lose EVERY time we go out there to watch a game. after baseball and pizza, my dad tells scott that he gets to help my dad haul hay. you can imagine scott's excitement. and then I get brought in to all the fun of this... yes, i had to help with hauling hay... i did the girlie job though... scott and my dad walked around this huge field filled with hay bales as i drove the truck, pulling the trailer, so they could load the hay up on the trailer. yes, it was a fun time. fast forward about 3 or 4 hours and we're home... lincoln is watching a new Blues Clues video we got at a garage sale and Scott and I are watching-- Dateline or something in the other room. I look into the room Lincoln's in and see him holding my deodorant. so, first reaction "LINCOLN, NO! put that back!" and defiantly as he's ever been, he opened the lid, and took himself a nice big bite of it. yeah, so disgusting... and i'm thinking "crap. what do i do now?" of course the back of the deodorant says IN CASE OF INGESTION, SEE A DOCTOR OR CALL POISON CONTROL IMMEDIATELY. fun for me. so i call poison control... "How much does the child weigh?" "uh, about 35 pounds..." "Did he eat a mouthful or less?" "yeah, it was a little less than a complete mouthful" "Well, he may vomit a few times, but just give him a full glass of water or juice and he should be fine" I must admit that was my first ever call to poison control... no vomiting on Lincoln's part, so it was all good. but what a fun experience THAT was.

Today we went to lunch with my parents at Harvest Moon. All you can eat Chinese food? hell yes! so... it comes time to open the fortune cookies and Lincoln's says "Others will be impressed with you generosity" HAHAHAH, he's a freaking 2-yr-old, he has absolutely NO generosity whatsoever... Mine was "You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course" and my dad was kind enough to add "IN BED!!!" ...ah, my dad.... it's nice to know that even when we're halfway to 110, we can be immature. then scott's was the best. i could barely even read it out loud i was laughing so damn hard. "Flowers would brighten the day of your close friend". hahaha.

uhhh i'm so annoyed with people who complain about their lives being so horrible, or their parents being SO horrible, when their parents do EVERYTHING for them and don't expect anything in return... people who talk crap about or bash their parents when their parents are constantly giving them money, paying for their cars, gas, insurance, food, clothes, entertainment... get up off your ass and do something for yourself if you're going to complain about how horrible your parents are.... if they're so horrible, stop relying on them for everything. freaking spoiled brats. ok, i feel better now.

i hope all of you are having a lovely weekend and have a great week next week! we're supposed to be getting some rain, so, prayers for that! and i'm excited because the end of next week is bringing some cold weather! get excited!!!!

WE ARE THE national league central CHAMPIONS, MY FRIIIIEND!

yeah so for those of you who thought the Astros were gonna pull through and overpower my wonderful St. Louis Cardinals to win the National League Central... eat it. ha, yes. how beautiful is victory! ...i don't know how long we'll last in the playoffs... but we made it, biatch. and that's what counts. yay for the Cards. oh yay.

on another note... our family has been going to BPBC for about 2 years now, and as of yesterday we're finally members... hahaha, i'd say it's about dang time.

my son is a terrible two. seriously, terrible. constant tantrums, crying spells, fits, whatever you call them, they're almost constant. ...cries about EVERYTHING.... "Hey, Lincoln, will you go get that book for Mommy?" "NOOOOOOO GET THE BOOK NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" yeah. fun stuff. i like it when he's sleeping. he's cute.... and he's quiet. he just turned 2.... now how long does this phase last???

I want the cold weather to come back. I'm ready, ok? Bring me rain and snow and ice and COLD! Bring me long sleeves and sweaters and scarves and shoes that tie.... Jeans and sweat pants, warm slippers, using ALL the covers in bed, a fire in the living room and heaters going in every other room... my warm snuggly robe after a hot shower (I MISS HOT SHOWERS! i can't stand them to be hot when it's hot outside!!!) Deer hunting and Thanksgiving and Christmas... New Years (well, maybe not New Years because that mean selling FIREWORKS and i never look forward to that!) then Rebekah's wedding and my 3rd anniversary, my 23rd birthday... so many things to love about Winter. Oh Winter, how I love thee. Return to me, baby. (wow that was a little creepy). I'm ready for it all, from the presents and bows to decorating the tree, holiday food, seeing tons of family.... yeah. SO READY! and snow, i want snow this year... my son hasn't seen good snow since he was about 3 months old, and of course he doesn't remember that. I want him to be able to play in it- hell- I want to play in it!!!!