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April 4, 2012 · 1:45 PM

insomniac.

Working the night shift has totally off thrown my circadian rhythm and now instead of being able to sleep during the night, I am finding it hard to sleep at all. It doesn’t mean I don’t want to sleep, because I love sleeping. It just means that when I try to sleep I can’t. When I finally do get to sleep it is usually with the assistance of some sleep inducing medication that are just lying around. But that sleep isn’t normal sleep because I am actually “knocked out” for 9-12+ hours without waking up for anything….anything.

After I finally do wake up from those drug induced sleeps I am in a drowsy daze for at least another 2 hours.

Every time I try to sleep at night I fall asleep at a decent hour and then I wake up 5 hours later and can’t go back to sleep. I watch horrible shows off thecw in efforts to fall back asleep. But it never works and the next thing I know I have watched a whole season of some awful show. It’s the worst.

I guess all the switching from days to nights has taken it’s toll on me. I am not the same young 21 year old, switching days to nights willy nilly, that I was a year ago. Those were the days and I didn’t even know it yet.

Also there is a new two cat minimum on my bed, and one of those cats is almost never Minkee. It’s a bit excessive. I guess the only way to keep them off my bed is to kick them out of my room, but then I would have to shut the door…if you give a moose a muffin. Right ladies?!?!?! I said that to a patient the other day, “if you give a moose a muffin”, not “Right ladies” and they were from another country so they didn’t understand, but it made me miss my childhood reading with the gal gals.

I am going to try to sleep now.

Thanks for reading.

Love,
Surely tired,
Melissa

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March 28, 2012 · 2:49 AM

late night shenaniganz.

this happened.

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not even on purpose either.

I turned in my paper. Hoo-ray.

How does everyone feel about angry birds in space?!?!?!?

I’m just curious.

Love,
Merlerser.

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February 28, 2012 · 11:55 AM

same old, same old.

I just want to share with everyone that regardless of all the changes I am experiencing there is one thing that stays the same…my relationship with my mini cat, minkee.

She is a dream cat, and I can count on her to be cute and sweet always, and always have the softest fur.

I know she looks real mad in this picture, but she was actually purring like crazy, and having a great time. Love this cat!

Having minkee around has been a constant since fall 2009, and I am so glad.

I am pretty sure my mom is going to read this and say “but our relationship is something you can count on, that’s the same…” and that is true. BUT often times our work schedules overlap and I don’t even get to see her before I leave. I love you mom of course, and know I can count on our relationship to be consistent.

Peace, love, and minkee dolls.
- M. House

PS. I had a dream where I had to do chemistry in a class, and then I woke up. What a total nightmare.

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August 20, 2011 · 6:28 PM

father alphie

We say “Father Alphie” because Alphie has a black collar with a silver medal buckle that goes in the middle of his neck, which just makes it look like he is wearing a priest’s collar….thus “Father Alphie”.

We adopted Alphie from my brother Luke, who saved Alphie from certain death at a kill shelter. Thinking that Mickey wanted a friend…but it turns out that was the last thing that Mickey wanted. So Mickey started acting out, and behaving really badly. Alphie is nothing like Mickey, in that he didn’t love his crate, and he never wanted alone time. So my Mom and I came to the conclusion that it was not in Alphie’s best interest for us to be his forever family. It was such a hard decision and I don’t think that I can ever foster a pet again. It is so hard because I would try to adopt every pet, which is ridiculous and un-realistic. It’s way too emotional and I became so attached to this sweetest lil’ dog.


how could you not love him?!?!?!

But we found Alphie a forever family today, and I am confident that it will be a great fit. It involves a 10 year old girl, and a stay at home Grandma….which I think are just what Alphie needs in a family.

We made the decision based on the following facts:
1. Mickey was going to bite someone if Alphie stayed in the picture, and that someone would have most likely been me. (In the 4 hours since Alphie has been gone, Mickey is being good and sweet again….I guess he really never wanted a friend).
2. Mom works 12 hour shifts.
3. When I get a job I will start working 12 hour shifts, and it wouldn’t be fair to Alphie to be stuck in a crate all day. It’s fair to Mickey because he love’s his crate, and he gets let out during the day, he is totally content. But if I put Alphie in his crate for 30 minutes – 3 hours he was miserable. Not his dream life.
4. New family has a little girl that would love to teach him tricks, and because there is a stay at home grandma, he will be with someone all the time, and that’s all he ever wanted.

We came home after a short outing today, and I was heart broken to not have him here. When I woke up from my nap I was so sad that he wasn’t in my bed.

I seriously love Alphie and will continue to miss him so much…but I think we found him a really good situation and I am grateful to have spent time with such a sweet dog.

I am so glad that we saved him from the pound…I hope he is happy with his new family.

I need to keep practicing test questions and stop missing Alphie.
Love,
Melissa.

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August 4, 2011 · 8:59 PM

dinner club

so the dinner club is not really a thing. except it is now. the dinner club is just my mom and i trying to have dinner every night together.
oker.

but my mom works 12 hour days, for 3-4 days in a row. So on those days and the during the rest of the week it is my goal to start making dinner. because what else am i doing?!?!?! right ladies!?!?!?! right. we have to eat something…so i’ll cook it. NBD.

My goal was to cook dinner every night this week…but so far I am only 2/5. We will see what happens during the rest of the week.

I have been getting most of my recipes from my #1 favorite magazine. “Real Simple”. That magazine is a dream come true. I can’t say it enough.

On Monday night we had shrimp with spinach and rotini pasta. (these are pictures from the magazine…not my picx) click on the pix for the recipe…

It was my first time preparing shrimp, and the recipe needs some tweaking…but other than that it was actually really good. Then last night we had huevos rancheros.

OMGEEEE it was amazing. That is my new favorite meal. It’s a fried egg on a corn tortilla with a black beans, avocado, salsa verde, and cheese. I told my sister Elizabeth how good it was, and she said, “yeah I eat that every night”….did everyone know about huevos rancheros except for me? If so I’m p’sst.

JKDC. But seriously if everyone knew how good it was…why didn’t anyone tell me???

The main thing that is missing from my cooking is an apron. So I will just make one. I love making them, just every time I do I just give them away. SO I will just keep one this time. perfect.

I am running pet daycare over here. We settled on Alphie’s name being Alphie.

We are adjusting. He needs a lot of work, but he is smart and I am trying so hopefully we will get there soon.

I was a rodeo clown catching animals the other day.
Alphie woke me up at 4:30am to go outside. So then I woke up Mickey and I took them both outside. I couldn’t fall back asleep. My mom had to leave for work at 5:30, and when she was leaving Finn got out. I had to go catch him, and I left the door partially closed….big mistake. Pinecone (another cat in our house) opened the door. Mickey went running, so now Finn, Mickey, and Pinecone were all out. Luckily Alphie and Minkee didn’t have any desire to be apart of the chaos. I had to cross the street to get Finn. Then I had to put him in the downstairs bathroom so he wouldn’t get out again. Mickey was making his rounds so I just had to wait for him to come back. But Pinecone was unaccounted for, and I found her in the bushes. I had to trick her into letting me pet her, so I could scoop her up and bring her inside. Mickey took longer than normal. But finally around 6:30am he scratched at the front door. It was crazy.
I had on my clown nose with my oversized cowboy hat and everything. JKDC!!!!!!

My days are full of taking care of pets, being followed around by Alphie (who is essentially just like a baby…he cries if you leave him….he seriously follows me everywhere….everywhere); when I am not doing that I am studying for the NCLEX – taking practice questions or something (I have the coolest apps for test questions on my new phone…my mom’s old phone…it’s an android sent from heav’n); doing things for cherry house quilts biz; or cleaning something…and now I am trying to make dinner every night…so it’s been surprisingly busy, and an excellent crash course in time management and stay-at-home mothering. I don’t sit around all day.

I am also starting my legitimate job search. I seriously need divine intervention to find one, get hired, and find the means to get to and from work….but I feel confident that I will all of those things will happen and I will eventually find a dream job.

My NCLEX is at the end of this month….yikes….bikes….but I am studying and plan to rock that thang…

Sorry for posting a lot less. I have just been trying to find my groove in TX and I have mostly been unpacking.

BUT I LOVE YOU ALL!

THank you for continuing to read my blog, and for following my tales of growing up and trying to become a nurse.
I am so grateful for your support……..seriously thank you.

love love love,
melissa.

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July 21, 2011 · 7:05 PM

tx 4vr

so i am back in tx.

i got back on tuesday night. it was pretty crazy moving and i couldn’t of done it without the various people who were kind enough to take me to the post office on numerous occasions. i look at my pile of boxes that is currently occupying our dining room and i am curious as to how i still have so much stuff. i have already gotten rid of so much stuff. i gave away boxes and boxes of fashion fabric and there is still some left, and yarn and books and everything you could name, toiletries, clothing, shoes, food, cat litter, i gave away a little and a lot of everything and yet there is still so much. how do we accumulate so much stuff?!?!

i am pretty sure that my blog reading audience has dwindled down to just ashlee but that is okay. as long as one person still reads my blog or wants me to keep writing i will….but if ashlee drops out, i just might too.

it is surreal to be home. it is crazy that my time in baltimore has come and gone. i went there to go to school and i went to school, and now i am not there anymore.

right now all i know is that this house is pet palooza.

my mom had an outpatient surgery so my grandma and i are tag teaming as on call nursing staff. so my grandma is in my old room, what is currently “the guest room” but will become “my room” again at some point. i am moved a mattress onto the floor of what used to be “the girls room” but what is now “the sewing room” and i am staying in here, and so are the petz.


(see finn in the background, everybody loves to party)

we got a new pup. new to us. his old name is alpha. that’s not his name. mom wanted him to be alphie, alton wanted him to be murdock, but those names aren’t right either. i don’t know what this pup’s name is.

i went through the desert with a pup with no name….

mickey is having an HT (hard time) with adjusting to having a new pup in the house…like the only child who gets a baby brother and starts to want to use a crib again. but we will figure it out.

i got a test date for the NCLEX. i’m keeping it a victoria’s secret though. i’ll tell you that it is toward the end of august. and you say, “but melissa, why would you put it off for so long?” and i will say, “because i just got my ATT, and I just moved home, I want some time to just focus and study and make sure that I am really ready for my test because let’s be real here, no one wants to lend me more money to take this exam twice….right ladies, right.”

sorry for not posting in a real long time. i’ll be good i swear.

i love you all.
<3

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June 20, 2011 · 3:34 PM

best frndz

my best friend, minkee and i doing “The Pretty Girl Rock”.

just kidding.

Ashlee hates kerry hilson because, “all she ever talks about is being pretty”.

In other news, I found an empty closet to take a nap in during my hour long break on night shift. It was wonderful. But now one of the other clinical associates found out about the nap closet and the secret is out! Like there are just secret closets for the taking at night all over the building where I work. I highly doubt it. That’s okay though, I think we will just coordinate our napping schedule so there won’t be any cross over.

One of my favorite nurses at work is going to move to NJ. I am a lil’ bit heart broken, so I am making her one of those aprons that I love to make for peeps. Pics will follow. Pinky swear. Because I have been working a lot over the past couple days I can only sew in stages. I miss marathon sewing but that isn’t really an option right now. The sacrifices of adulthood. JKDC.

I am thinking about making some big life changes right now. Like joining the all Black/male singing quartet alumnus from my high school, “Future’s Promise”….they sang a soulful version of Sarah McLachlan’s “I will Remember You” at my 2007 High school graduation. It was unforgettable. Or maybe I will become a celebrity dad, like will smith, or david beckham. Just kidding, you guys the life changes I am contemplating aren’t really about becoming a dude. I future’s promise. They are really about where to move, and whether or not to trust my favorite Uncle, Sam.

“Wait, Melissa doesn’t have an Uncle named Sam? What does she mean?”

Well right now that is for me to know and you to find out. But not in a mean way, in a 90′s “Hey, Who turned out the lights?!?!?!” kind of way.

TTYL.

love,
future’s promise hopeful,
Melissa House.

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June 7, 2011 · 11:24 AM

dere’s a hole in da ceilin’

speaking of holes in the ceiling…i have one.

i wanted to make a crochet baby doll for lisa because she loves zombies more than lyfe….get it because they are the living dead…ha ha hah ha.

but the first one didn’t turn out like i wanted so now it turned into minkee’s new baby doll. she loves it, and cuddles it and attacks it and stuff. she is so cute.

i work this week and i am going to make my meals.
i made meatballs and rice the other day….what a grown up. horray.
i have to work tonight and hopefully i can study for my nclex a bit if there is a lull.

that’s what is going on. oh brother.
love,
melissa.

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May 14, 2011 · 5:18 PM

noble christmas pup.

so 1st of all….every dog is a pup, no matter what shape or size they are pups for life.

and every time you see a pup on the street you say, “hi pup!” and you acknowledge the pup but never the owner.

at home in tx we have a dream pup, mickey rooney.

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he was a hand me down pup, and somehow he found his way to my brother’s house, and he was only supposed to be a foster pup, but no one wanted to give him a forever home.

for thanksgiving 06′ my mom and i went to Luke and Becky’s when they were living in Lousiana and she was pregz with Alton at the time. SO LoNG AGO! no babies were even born yet, and i hadn’t graduated from high school either.

when i met mickey it was an instant love connection, and i said, “mom can we keep him, can we keep him?!?!?!??!…..pleeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeeee!?!?!?!?!?!?!” just like a little kid, even though i was 17 years old.

i had my heart set on our home being mickey’s forever home….
then my mom and my brother worked out a deal so we would take mickey after the new year.

in january 07′ luke brought mickey, and we have had him ever since.

this was taken the day we got mickey. was overjoyed that is why i look drunk with really yellow teeth.

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i feel like this is something a 2nd grader wrote called, “why i love my dog?”

but i do have a 2nd grader’s love when it comes to mickey.

what a dream dog. he is the size of a puppy.

unless he goes to the groomer or i bathe him he smells bad. but i don’t mind, because he tolerates me bathing him.

everyone loves the micksta.

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not to be confused with the minksta, who is miss baltimore crab, just kidding, she is my baltimore cat.

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he is perfect, even though he has many flaws, i just love him so much.

every time we take mickey to the groomers i think he gets one of two bandannas, a saint patricks day bandanna, or a 4th of july america bandanna. the st. patrick’s day bandanna is given in march, and the 4th of july america bandanna is given the rest of the year.

so mickey is constantly celebrating the 4th of july, and america. mickey is proud to be an american.

perfect.

USA USA USA!!!!

just kidding. not kidding.

i wrote this post because out of the blue, my mom sent a picture of mickey today, and i was overwhelmed with my love for my lil ole mickey pup.

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February 22, 2011 · 9:15 AM

when there is smoke there is…..you know what.

it was so scary on saturday there was a fire 2 houses next to mine. i live in a row house and all the buildings are pretty much connected and it was really windy that day. i left my house to go drop off my laundry – for someone else to wash it – and when i was coming back there were fire trucks galore.

something like this (this is not a pic of the actual scene, but is perrty close, yall)

I didn’t know which house was on fire. I was hoping it was the frat house, because it is the furthest from my house….but the frat house was intact. When I saw that it was further down the street i freaked out a lil’ bit, and i decided to run and get the minksta. No one even tried to stop me when i was going inside my apt. But I ran to my apartment, I got minkee, and tried to put her in her bag, but she wasn’t having any of it. I exclaimed, “minkee, this is not a drill!, no one is going to die today, do you hear me?!?!?!?!” and she knew i meant business, so she stopped fighting me, and let me put her in her bag. I grabbed my netbook, and my spanish grammar practice book, i put my imac to sleep, and i left my house. it was so sad. I saw a total of 4 class mates while i was homeless for an hour. 2 of them offered me shelter, and the other 2 said, “this wouldn’t have happened if you had stayed in the house where you used to live”. True colors, yall. I sat outside star bucks and identified with the belligerent homeless man that muttered obscenities as he walked past me. He was the only one I felt I could relate to for that whole hour of potential homelessness. It was too close for comfort. I went back home and I asked the fire fighters if I could go back to my house and they gave me the all clear.

The first thing I did when I got home was let Minkee out of her bag, and then I bought renter’s insurance. Because now I know better.

Also I still have to wear my splint which means I have yet to return to work. But I really want to go back to work. :(

Also I am totz jeal of my mom for getting to live the ex-pat life off and on for those 1st 2 years of this millenium. She was in Italy and ernglarnd. lucky. all i want to do is be french or something. i was looking at the american hospital of paris and how I could get my nursing licensure to transfer, I emailed the nurse recruiter and she said my nursing license is not recognized by the french government, said i must speak PERFECT french, and then listed a many bureaucratic hurdles to jump, and then said, “if you feel you can fulfill the above conditions, don’t hesitate to contact me”. I am glad I wrote her, and she responded so quickly. It is the most direct answer with actual facts that I have received about becoming a nurse in france. I am not deterred very easily though. I feel I can fulfill the conditions, if I really want too! But I don’t know. i just want to be french mostly, and I am just intrigued by the ex-pat life. just like david sedaris in “me talk pretty one day”. I don’t want to renounce my Americanity ever. I just want to experience a different culture and a new lifestyle, or something new i guess, ya know!?!?!?!?!

My mom’s long lost cousin, that she recently just got back in contact with, who I refer to as my uncle….lived the ex-pat life. 1st he served his mission in Guatemala, then he went back there to work, and raised his family there for a time, and his kids are all blonde hair, blue-eyed – and speak perfect Spanish. I am totz jeal. Now they are back in the states having lived the dream life. LUCKY.

Can’t i just be an au pair/nurse or something?!?!?! to a swiss family robinson?

No se. (I don’t know).

Pero, yo practico mi español todos los días. those are the facts.

please bless that there are no more fires, and take it from me….get renters insurance.

love,
melissa.

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