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April 7, 2013 · 4:59 AM

3 yr blogiversary

Hey ya’ll.

Guess what, it was my three year blogiversary on March 30, and I didn’t even realize. So much has changed in the past three years in my life, I will give you a brief run down of some of the major fun things…

1. Graduated from nursing school

2. Moved back to TX

3. Passed my NCLEX and became an RN

4. Enrolled in my masters degree in nursing informatics (NERD ALERT!!!)

5. Got my first RN job at MD Anderson, learned so much, and made a few really great friends

6. Bought my very own first car

7. Mason was born

8. Parker was born

9. Took an awesome Eurotrip

10. Mom lost all the lbz.

11. Finished the residency program at MD Anderson

12. Found my clinical placement for my masters degree

13. Got an RN job in SLC

14. Moved to SLC with Mickey, started my clinical, and my new job. I will graduate at the end of June!!!

15. Started living in the same town as both of my sisters for the first time since Ash was still in high school & I am loving it.

The past three years have been pretty busy, but I have mostly loved all of them. I have learned so much, and I am not the same 20 year old nursing student that I was when I started this blog. Yowza.

It’s thanks to the fam, friends, and all the PKMs out there. You mean the world to me.

So happy to be here with all of you. AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT!!!

Let’s keep making beautiful memories together.

LOVE YOU MUCHO,

Melyss

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November 23, 2012 · 12:26 AM

T-GiVeZ

Hey y’all.

It was just T-givez, Ashlee saw that I titled my post as t-givez and then saved it as a draft, and she titled her post t-givez also. BUST’d. JKDC.

I always say, “happy t-givez” and people are like, “WHAT?” and I’m like Happy Thanksgiving, DUH. Rude, they should just know what t-givez is. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Just kidding y’all.

So for T-givez I went with a girl from work, Kris, to a Thanksgiving buffet at a fancy restaurant in Houston called, Americas (with an apostrophe over the i). I told her that I wanted contemporary American food, and she saw that the title of the restaurant had America in it, so she picked Americas. Actually it is just Latin American food, and had nothing to do with North America, or contemporary North American food. But it was okay, because the food was great!!!

My mom helped me pick my outfit because, “I want you to find a young single doctor”, she said. I said, “Mom, like there are going to be any doctors there even”, and she said, “well you are going…”.

There were no doctors there, just large families that were having family togetherness. So it was a bust in that respect.

On the restaurant description on opentable.com it said that the dress was business casual, so my friend and I both wore dresses. Upon arrival at Americas we found that it was business casual optional, because there were quite a few people there wearing blue jeans. The wait staff asked us why we were dressed up, and if we were going to a party afterwards, and we said, “this is the party!”

The restaurant was awesome, the food was great, the wait staff was amazing, and it was fun to be out with Kris. But in the end I just wish I would have been with my family at home having a families Thanksgiving. How every Thanksgiving should be.

Here are some pics from the day.

Not great pics of the food, but it was delish, I pinky swear.

PANAROMA! (thank you iphone IOS 6)

As it turns out we ate crepes and I realized that I am crepe lady. Eating crepes everywhere I go, with photo evidence and everything.

I ate crepes in Hungary, the top left picture; France, bottom left; and most recently Houston Tx at Americas, for T-givez.

TOTZ crepe lady.

Also they had these little mini deserts so good.

Let’s go have a family Thanksgiving meal together please.

Love you,
Melissa

MIA

Hey y’all,

Sorry I have been MIA recently. THINGS HAVE BEEN CRAZY!

But, I recently got back from SLC visiting the gang. I can’t wait to move there.

My family rules.

I loved having sisters/family time and I missed it so much.

Also I am in love with Mason, I think we all are. While I was there I got to see KATIE BROWN, which was AMAZING. LOVE HER!!! BESTies 4vR. Thom thanks for making a dream dinner that night. Recently, I got to knit Mason some pretty cool stuff. I knit him a blanket and a baby’s bonnet. HOORAY for baby knits. Parker your next!While I was there we did an accidental reenactment of a famous dust bowl photo by Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother”

“Migrant Melyss”

Th-th-that’s all folks.

LOVE YOU.

Sorry for being a bad blogger, and not “cool” bad in the MJ sense. But I will start making up for it. I PINKY PROMISE!!!

HAPPY THORNKSGORVING!!!!

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October 17, 2012 · 6:22 AM

tell me how i’m posta breathe with no air.

JKDC. y’all, I am just posting about not drinking soda anymore. So it’s been 24 hours, and I am still going strong. The kombuchas are making this dream a reality. I have gone weeks before and stopped drinking soda altogether in the past. BUT THIS TIME I’M 4realz, for permanent y’all.

I just drink soda when I am at work to stay awake. So instead of drinking a soda a 4am when I get real tired I will just drink water or a kombucha and stretch or do something active to stay awake. I don’t need soda. ya feel me. I am serious about this changing habits biz. I had a salad for dinner and grapes as a snack. (At first I wrote grapes as a snake…grapes as a snake is funnier)…

Now I just need to stay consistent and wash the dishes or otherwise I will be in big trouble with the girls and mom….so I am going to take care of biz.

PKM, Ash, and Mom. Thanks for always commenting, and thanks for still reading the blog, and thanks for thinking of dinner club, and this one. Y’all rule. ja rule. JKDC.

I don’t like talking about politics because that, the great pumpkin, and religion are the 3 things you don’t talk about….but I will say that I am officially registered to vote and I am so excited. This will be my first time voting and I feel great about it. I have even planned where I can cast my early vote so I can still visit the girls in the beginning of novemb. SO BLESS’d.

I hope everyone has a great day. When you all are getting to start your awesome day, mine will just be ending, but that’s okay it’s noon somewhere. RIGHT LADIES!?!?!

Keep crushing.

LOVE YOU MUCHO,

melysses.

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October 13, 2012 · 3:56 AM

ASH HAS A BLOG!

I am so excited you guys. Ash has a blog. That is great news.

She deleted her facebook, and then I deleted my facebook. I wasn’t copying her….I swear.

But I am still on instagram and my username is Melysses (OF COURSE), and I am still blogging (SOMETIMES!)

I will be better. I have been going through kind of an HT (hard time). I am just learning to deal with all of the territory that comes with being an oncology nurse, the death and dying, and terminal illness stuff being an everyday occurence. It’s really rough, and let’s just say…it’s not for everyone.

But I am in my 2nd to last semester of my graduate degree, and that is pretty big news. RIGHT LADIES!?!?!

The Paris post is still in the works. I’m sorry for being a bad blogger. I still love everyone and thank you for your continued support.

BTWs I can’t wait to see PKM at market this year. <3 <3 <3

Much love y’all.

M. House

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May 20, 2012 · 3:55 AM

listen to your mother.

I never had a teen rebellion phase. If I had any sort of teen rebellion, it was when I dressed like I was from the 1980′s for 2 years in high school, and that was 1. out of love for the eighties, and 2. more a rebellion against societal norms than anything else.

Any time I disagree with my mom I feel like I am finally having that phase, but it never lasts for more than 1 whole day, and that is pushing it. Whenever, if ever, I have defied my mom in the past, at first I felt sneaky and rebellious, like I was getting away with something, and then I just felt really guilty and sad. It’s better to just avoid the whole thing and just listen to her in the first place. She’s usually always right.

She is going to Iowa for business and I won’t get to see her for days. I feel like I never get to see her anyway even though we live in the same house. We work opposite schedules and we are two ships passing in the night. She says it is more like we are housemates. OMGEEEE!

So when she is gone I am going to throw a keggar. JKDC.

So when she is gone I am going to miss her a lot. I already do, we live together, and never see eachother.

Have fun on your trip mom. Love you mucho. I hope you had a great mother’s day!!!

BEST MOM EVER.

Love to everyone, and word to your mom.

- Melyss.

where’s my brain????

At work you make a daily schedule, to remember your patient’s basic information and what time you give certain meds or hang chemotherapy…most people call them your “brain”. But I always think it’s funny because when I can’t find my work “brain” I can’t find my real one either.

I have been trying to embrace my Danish/Scandinavian culture lately…so I started listening to a Danish language podcast to learn some Danish, and I ordered a few Danish and Scandinavian cookbooks.

Two of my cookbooks got here today, and I am so thrilled. I was reading them and I called my sisters and my mom to talk about how Danish we already are and we didn’t even know about it.

Our ancestors are from Svendborg, Denmark, on the island of Funen . I will go there someday. For jersey shore.

dream town.

I had a paper due on Sunday night and my professor was kind enough to give me an extension. I am now 2 days late. I am having the hardest time writing this paper, that’s not even a hard paper to write.

I am just so interested in planning my new Danish life instead of finnishing (get it FInn, cause we’re Scandinavian…har har har) my paper that’s past due.

It’s awful.

Did you know that a baby born in the United States is more likely to have a low birth weight compared to any other developed nation in the world? True story. That is what I am writing my paper about, decreasing the incidence of low birth weight in the African American/non-Hispanic Black female population, it’s that specific. Like you guys even want to hear about my paper….omgeee.

In other news I think I am getting less awful at my job. So that’s great.

I’m going to work on this paper now before I fail at life.

Love,
Melissa.

thanksgiving

There is so much to be thankful for. I know it, you know it, we all know it.

SO…

You guys, I made my first thanksgiving this year. It was pretty successful, just my Mom and I.

I made mashed potatoes, herb/cheddar biscuits, and a blueberry pie.

The rest was from the store.

If I could have changed anything I would have had a green bean dish. But I didn’t, big mistake.

JKDC. NBD.

There is a lot going on y’all. I will give the details in the near future.

I have been making clothes too, I will get pics up soon.

Sorry I have been neglectful to you guys. I still love you all. I haven’t forgot about you, I pinky swear.

More soon. Plus a tbd celebrity crushez post.

Let the holiday seasons begin.

Love, melysses.

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October 15, 2011 · 10:55 AM

jorb intervu.

hi errrrybody,
this week i flew to austin for a job interview…the job was a no go…but more importantly i got to see jessica garcia.

DREAM TOWN USA.

USA USA USA USA!!!

Love her, 4vr.

jessica and melissa….thru the yrz.

I got to stay with her. Which was perfect. We had a garbanzo bean curry for dinner and it was amerzing. There were 3 cats in the house, so I instantly felt at home. PERF!

The job I interviewed for was not meant to be…but luckily enough I have 3 interviews coming up in the next 2 weeks. HOPEFULLY there will be a love match somewhere (with the job I mean). One is in San Antonio (remember the Alamo), one is the tx medical center (tx represent), and another in k-wood (beat kingwood nuf’ said…jkdc, but you guys I went to Humble High School…what am I supposed to say?)

2 of the positions are for med surg units
but one is for labor and delivery….i would be pleased as punch to get any job offer, but l and d would extra exciting.

i rode my new bike (new – to me, it was lizzy’s, she left it, it’s mine, and we got it fixed the other day – hence new) yesterday. i felt like i was 16 years old and working at cold stone creamery, going to humble high school. it was so weird. i would ride my bike to work everyday when i worked at Cold Stone. trapped in a time warp.

but yesterday I rode my bike to target. i didn’t have a bike lock so I had to ditch the b#$^h one more time. i hid it behind a cobblestone pillar with shrubs on either side, that made it invisible from the parking lot, and only visible to the workers on their smoke break…but they were too busy smoking to want to steal my bike. so luckily no one stole it. but i got a helmet. you guys why are helmets so ugly? all i want is to be safe, not stuck in 93′. is that too much to ask? yes i think it is.

wish i was in slc with the gal gals but i need minkee time and mom time with those 2 other gals.

love dove.
ttyl
me-lzibab.

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September 25, 2011 · 9:48 AM

party in atx.

You guys,
I got to fly into Austin yesterday and spend the day with the nephews and fam (Luke and Becky). It was so fun! It was pretty much perfect, I just wish that Mom would have been able to come.

I landed in Austin at 10am, and then I got back to Houston at 5pm. DREAM!

We went to the children’s museum. The boys are so big, and cute, and sweet. I wish I got to see them more. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

It was really good to see Luke and Becky!

Here are some pics from the day.

Needless to say, A GREAT DAY HAD BY ALL!

But I was supposed to meet Asher in Paris, and I can’t and I am so sad.
Being in IAH yesterday just made me want to get on a plane to meet her there so bad. I knew I would feel that way so I left my passport at home, to avoid the temptation altogether. BUT it was still there, and I do really wish that I was there with her.

MISS YOU MUCHO.

Ashlee and I had such a great time when we went there in 2008 and I am sad we can’t have another great time in 2011.

ITsalllgood.

In other news….
I got an over-the-door ironing board so I can finally get crack-a-lackin sewing in my room. I AM STOKED!

I am almost done with one credit of my MSN program. So it’s time to CELEBRATE good times come on. Let’s wait til the class is over, but then it’s time to party like it’s 1999. I found out that I was taking way more credits then you are supposed to. But I didn’t make my schedule, someone else did. So I have just been partying with the work load, and trying really hard to do well. It’s okay that my work load is doubled right now because I don’t have a job. At Walden they split the semester into two terms, and I guess that in a grad program that 6 credits for one whole semester is considered full time. Most of their students are working so they take one three credit class during the first term of the semester, and another three credit class during the second, for a total of six credits, making them a full time student. I had no idea. So this term, I am enrolled in seven credits. But I love the work. I spoke with an adviser and we changed it so I am taking another three credit course during the second term. Then I decided, I am not working so bring it on, and I am going to try to take 2 – three credit courses. I have to get special permission, but I think it will be great.

That means that by the end of this semester I will have 13 credits of my graduate degree completed!!! There are only 35 credits in my whole degree. There are 13 foundational credits that you have to take before you can start the specialization of your program. After this semester I should have all the foundational credits complete, so I can gets a’ specializin’. HORRAY.

So I will only have 22 more credit hours to go til I have a master’s degree. WHAT WHAT!!!! I love it, I love it, I love it!!!!

Then if I get a job in the winter I can reduce my credit hours to what is considered full time, and everything will be grand. If I keep up at this rate I will be graduating in December of 2012. A GIRL can dream right ladies!?!?!?!??!

Ashlee, I hope you are having a great time in Europe.
Lizzy, I hope you are taking lots o bike rides at dusk.
Mom, I hope you are having energy and strength at work.
PKM, I hope you are crushing on Timothy Olyphant, as you always should be.
Jessiclese, I hope you are so happy in ATX.
Grandma, I hope you are loving your new dog.
Everyone, everywhere, I hope you are all having the best time, and are the happiest, WITH all of my sincerity.

Love everyone,
Melissa.

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3 yr blogiversary

T-GiVeZ

MIA

tell me how i’m posta breathe with no air.

ASH HAS A BLOG!

listen to your mother.

where’s my brain????

thanksgiving

jorb intervu.

party in atx.

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