Melanie

Thank You!

2008-05-08T23:53:35Z

Thank you to those who carried and supported be the last few days. It's meant a lot. I really don't want to talk about it, maybe one day. But I wanted to let you all know I'm feeling better.

Meme

2008-04-29T06:14:37Z

Memed from sidlechick87

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

1. Deepest fear is?

One of my boys getting really sick and me not being able to help them.

2. Favourite thing to do offline is..?
Besides playing with the boys, knitting and beading.

3. Biggest regret?

I would say hurting friends when not meaning too. Other than that, I think all mistakes I've made in my life has gotten me where I am today. So I really don't think I regret doing or not doing something.

4. Last book you read?

haha well the last book I read was Do your ears hang low</b> (for the boys). But last book I read for me was House that Jack Built (the second time reading it.)

5. Fave colour is and why?
Blue- honestly I don't know why I its my favorite. If I had to guess I would say I loved lying and watching the clouds when I was younger, so blue reminds me of the sky.

What NOW!

2008-03-14T22:18:57Z

So my week has be going well...been managing to keep the house descent...well this room could use a good mop and sofa covers need a wash (haven't done in it like a month) maybe I will do them tonight.

Blah anyway my week...the boys have went to bed well, no real arguments, both their report cards were okay, I came third in one challenge and first in another..happy days!

Today I go and try to turn on the tv..odd takes awhile to flick on..I think nothing of it and we watch a movie then I put the boys in their room for "quiet" time and call my mom. So after I'm done I get them out and we go to watch another movie...tv WON'T turn on. The standby button all it does is flash. Nothing happens at all.

Just great! I hope we don't need to get a new TV.

ERRR

2008-02-08T06:21:05Z

Okay sorry to those who think this is cool but I can NOT stand teh! It's the most annoying chat speak EVER. I have voted in many art contest and I thought the icon was great then I say the teh.

I don't get why the is the uncool stupid way to spell the. But teh is the new "proper" way and coolest way to spell it.

melolle @ 2008-01-26T21:37:00

2008-01-27T05:53:53Z

Icons I made for icons50

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Butterfly Fridgies

2008-01-11T22:37:34Z

I made some Frigies...I hope you all like them.

Comment to reply

Heart Pillow

2007-12-29T21:08:34Z

I found this patterin on a scin of baby bubbles yarn. I hope some one can convert it to a KK pattern..

Comment to reply..

Thanks a million!

MEASUREMENTS
Approx 11½ ins [29 cm] wide by 10½ ins [26.5 cm]
tall.

MATERIALS
Bernat Baby Bubbles (70 g/2.4 oz)
75416 (Bubble Gum) 2 balls
Size 5.5 mm (U.S. I or 9) crochet hook or size needed
to obtain gauge. Stuffing.

GAUGE: 11 sc and 12 rows = 4 ins [10 cm].

INSTRUCTIONS
FRONT and BACK
(make 2 pieces alike)
Ch 2.

1st row: (RS). 2 sc in 2nd ch from hook. Turn.

2nd row: Ch 1. 2 sc in each of next 2 sc. 4 sc. Turn.

3rd row: Ch 1. 2 sc in first sc. 1 sc in each sc to last
sc. 2 sc in last sc. Turn.

4th row: Ch 1. 1 sc in each sc to end of row. Turn.

5th and 6th rows: As 3rd row twice.
Rep 3rd to 6th rows 3 times more, then 3rd to 5th
rows once.

Next 5 rows: Ch 1. 1 sc in each sc to end of row.
Turn.

**Next row: (RS). Ch 1. Draw up a loop in each of
first 2 sc. Yoh and draw through all loops on hook
– sc2tog made. 1 sc in each of next 13 sc. Sc2tog
over next 2 sc. Turn. Leave rem sts unworked.

Next 5 rows: Ch 1. Sc2tog over first 2 sts. 1 sc in
each sc to last 2 sts. Sc2tog over last 2 sts. Turn.

Fasten off at end of last row.**
With RS of work facing, join yarn with sl st to rem sts
and work from ** to ** as given above, omitting reference
to unworked sts.

Sew Front and Back tog, leaving an opening 5 ins
[12.5 cm] long on one side. Stuff pillow. Sew opening
closed.

Snowmen

2007-12-23T19:25:52Z

I made some snowmen for my friends and my sons' teachers. I hope you like them, please feel free to comment.

Click on the picture to get a larger view.

Myra

Christa

Joshua

Nicholas

Group

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

2007-12-18T23:47:22Z

Ingredients Needed

-8oz package of Philadelphia's Cream Cheese
-1 Cup of Sugar
-2 tsp of Vanilla
-3/4 cup (1-1 1/2 sticks)of butter
-2 1/2 cups of flour
-1/2 tsp of baking soda
4 pieces of melted Baker's Semi-Sweet Chocolate
1 pack 6oz of Baker's Premium white chocolate
-6-12 crushed peppermint candies

Directions

-Preheat oven to 350

In a bowl combine your Cream Cheese, Sugar, Vanilla, and Butter and blend until smooth
Then add Flour, baking soda and mix until well blended
Add in the melted Semi-Sweet Chocolate

With a tablespoon add divide into roughly 52 balls. roll each ball until they are about 3ins in length. Then place them onto a cookie sheet. Bend top to form a cane. Place each one about 2ins apart. Cook for 10-12 minutes or until cooked fully in the center.

Remove from oven and cool for at least 5 mins.

Once cooled, remove from the tray.

In a freezer bag place the white chocolate and melt the chocolates in the bag in the microwave. Once all melted cut a tiny tip off of the end of the bag. In a diagonal motion drizzle the White chocolate onto the cookies, top with your crushed peppermint.

What Ass...

2007-12-03T05:51:24Z

I'm getting annoyed over the PC vs Mac commercials. How can they get by saying all those lies.

1. Not everyone has issues with Vista. We have not had one issue.

2. MM makes videos and slide shows easily...it doesn't appear on a pie chart

3. Macs are not PERFECT! Some people have and do have issues all the time with Macs and their so call flawless operating system.

4. Microsoft does a lot of work for Apple, yet Apple slags them off.

More to come

J-O-S-H-U-A

2007-11-03T16:57:38Z

How hard is it for people to respect my decision to have my son Joshua called Joshua.

So I got 3 total hours of sleep last night and everything is annoying the hell out of me. As of now it's annoying the hell out me. I just don't get it. WHY? I say "this is Joshua" they call him Josh and I correct them saying "no it's Joshua" what do they do??? Well Josh this blah blah blah.

One day I'm going to SNAP and just go off on someone saying IT'S JOSHUA FOR FUCK SAKE!! NOT J NOT JO NOT JOSH NOT UA BUT J-O-S-H-U-A!! I just don't get how people treat me like a piss a garbage. I know how to name a child, he is MY child. And my child is Joshua!

I just hope I don't have an issue with people treating me crap cause I don't nickname Nicholas.

/rant

Mommy Advise

2007-10-10T05:28:52Z

So I went to drop Nicholas off at preschool and a couple of the mothers were talking it the owner/teacher about colds.

Now I dont know if this works with adults but in children if they have a cold, you rub their feet in vapor rub (yes I said feet). Then you put socks on them and tuck them into bed for the night. In the morning it should have helped.

Video

2007-10-09T05:09:16Z

Pushing Daisies recap part 1

2007-10-04T22:14:22Z

It starts out with young Ned starting to realize his gift, though he doesn't know the full magnitude as of yet.

Next we meet young "Chuck". Chuck is Ned's crush and they play in her front yard. Monsters attacking the cardboard and playdough city beneath them.

After they played Ned's mother was dusting him off with the broom as he watched Chuck's dad hosing her off through the window.

Suddenly his mother passes out and young Ned looked confused. He bent down to her and touched her check which she awoke.

She brushed it off thinking she just slipped and got up to remove her pie from the oven.

A minute later Ned (as well as Ned's mother) noticed Chuck's dad drop dead.

Ned realized that he could only bring the dead back for a minute. If any longer someone else had to die.

That night Ned's mother is tucking him in and when she gives him a kiss night, she dies.

"First touch life, second touch dead again- forever".

The funerals followed. Both the same day. (It's explained that Ned's dad ships him off to bordering school and never seen again. Where Chuck is fostered by her two aunts.) At the funerals the two children walk over to each other and have their first and only kiss.

We learn that after the death of his Mother, Ned becomes a social outcast. He's afraid to get close to someone and they die too. Also Ned obsession is pies.

Present time and Ned is a pie maker. He uses "dead" fruit to make his pies. Cause when he touches them they rippen.

At The Pie Hole we meet Emerson Cod (the soul keeper of the Pie Makers secret)and Olive Snook.

It goes on to tell us how Emerson and Ned came to know each other. We see Emerson, who is a private detective chasing a guy across the roof tops. The assalent falls and bounces off of a trash container (those big ones stores use) and into Ned's arms. Of course he comes back to life and takes off running and Ned chases him and touches him, dead again.

Emerson sit and talk about their first job. A dog, Cantaloupe, is a accused of killing her owner and will be put down. Emerson says Cantaloupe was framed. We learn the details of the crime.

Emerson and Ned head to the morgue. Emerson can't take the look of the vic, Leo, and leaves the room. Ned sets his watch and touches the guy. They have a short conversation and it is learned the the nature of the murder. The Secretary in the home office with her Rottweiler.

more later....

Voting for Credit Challenge.

2007-10-04T19:32:10Z

Please vote for the credit challenge.

CREDITS:

1. I'm no Superman

2. In the End

3. Alias Style

4. Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

5. Credits

Only 5 this year :(

Vote in order from your favorite to least favorite. If yours in one, please leave it off.

Dead Doll

2007-09-28T22:08:18Z

Dead Doll clips.

Sara barely moving under car (beginning)
Nick and Warrick at Nat's
Grissom realizes what the rain could do
Sara under car
Grissom remembers
Hodges and Nat
Cath finds tasser prong
Hello Gilbert
Sara wakes and free from trunk
Sara and Nat fight
Sara tries to get out from under car
Grissom and Warrick go over car
Sara and Nat talk
Sara wakes under car and it rains
Nick Remembers and finds number
Brass threatens witness
Car found and Race to Sara
Digging for Sara
Sara gets out from under car
Sara walking through the desert
Grissom and Cath find the rocks
Sara Builds Rocks
Oh no a dead body
She's a survivor
Sara goes Down
Finding Sara
Medics arrive
Copper leaves and Grissom worries
End Scene

Thanks and info Part 1

2007-09-22T19:55:45Z

Thank you to all that sent me their best wishes. I greatly appreciated it.

This is all what happened. I got at the hospital about 6:30 and checked in and sent to Surgical Daycare. There they took my blood pressure and temp and all that good stuff. I got to pee in a cup- more fun. Then I got to go sit a TV room and watch TV until a nurse came to get me.

We went took the elevator and went into a pre-surgical ward. The anesthesiologists, Dr. Hagen, came to talk to me and started my IV. She was all happy she didn't need a tourniquet to find my veins- they are great. Then she goes off for a bit and trips over the wire and almost pulls out my IV.

And waddling in Dr. Heed came by to see me, she's the surgeon and preggers (just a cool fact is all about her being pregnant no real bases for the story). A few minutes later they wheeled me into the OR and what not.

So a few minutes more and they wheel me into the OR...kinda freaky seeing the nurses and that. Kinda like walking into a horror film. Anyway I move onto the table and they strap the vital things to my back, and then they start the medications and and everything.

Woke half way up in recovery and had some ice chips, and had oxygen on. I know i was in and out for awhile. I remember having ice chips just as I was going out a recovery, but that is it.

More later

Post Op Info:

2007-09-20T03:50:14Z

Thank you all for coming in and checking to see how things turned out. I've changed my settings so anyone can leave me a message. Send me the love people...just make sure you sign your name so I know who to thank.

Message from Gavin:
Mel's operation went well and she is now recovering in hospital, we hope she will be coming home late Friday or early Saturday.

This or That

2007-09-08T21:13:56Z

We leave a busy lives these days, and that's a fact. We're forever rushing from one place to the next without stopping to think about the decision we are making, and how they are effecting our lives and the lives of people around us. But when is it enough?

What can we learn from the events in Hammond, Indiana?

We can learn time with our love ones is precious and not to take it for granted. We also learn not to rush, if you're late, be late. Don't take measurements that could lead to you never getting there. Life is to short to tempt fate.

For those who don't know about the incident I'm talking about. Edie Bolanosat was driving her minivan, with her 4 children aging 3-13, in the Hammond station parking lot. Her speed increases as she passed a CSX freight train traveling east. On the Johnson Avenue near the Hudson Street intersection. She crossed the tracks only to be hit by a west bond train. The impact forced her minivan to pin and be pushed in front and the east bound track.

Bolanosat, who is listed in critical condition, along with her two sons survive. Sadly her daughters aged 8 and 11 were killed.

Lives are forever changed by this one decision. Not just the family and the community...but the train crew and their families.

People choice not to believe that the mother is at fault. They say the car was fulty somehow. That she had no control of it speeding up, and pausing before turning out, and had no control of it going over the tracks.

Others place the blame on the city for only having flashing lights. That they should've put a gate there. And we all know nobody goes through the gates.

Yet, some want to blame the trains. Why not sure. It's not like they can stop.

For those who have not seen the video:

Before I leave you let me ask you a question which happens to be one of my favorite quotes.

"Would you rather be a few minutes late in this life time, or a several years yearly for the next lifetime?"

Guilty Pleasure: Grissom

2007-08-28T20:48:45Z

Title: Guilty Pleaser: Grissom
Author: MelOlle
Word Count: Drabble
Rating: PG

My name is Gil Grissom and this is my guilty pleasure.

Soft, warm, and able to send tingles to every nerve of my body at the very thought of it. It’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of before I go to sleep. Sometimes I even think about it while I’m working. When I know nobody is watching I’ll swiftly dive in, steal one, and pull back out before anyone is the wiser.

Have you figured out my guilty pleasure? Just follow the evidence...

It s a kiss from Sara.

Iconathon IV

2007-08-16T03:27:05Z

Even more and more icons...

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Iconathon III

2007-08-16T02:59:26Z

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Iconathon II

2007-08-16T02:11:22Z

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Iconathon I

2007-08-16T00:03:44Z

I been making icons. So here are the tables....set 1

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Icon Textures

2007-08-08T04:48:31Z

"I've made a set of icon textures if anyone would like to use them.

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