Ring RIng!!

Recently my dad decided that we (my family) needed to switch cell phone services. We used to have Verizon but, as of last Friday, we are part of the AT&T family. I was a little hesitant at first but now I am so happy we switched because I got a new phone and I love it. It's the Samsung Propel and it is one sleek babay!! Here are some picture:

Current Music Obsession

Well anyone who knows me knows that my usual music obsessions include Hip Hop or Rap music but recently I've been into some very different stuff. Just about every day for the last week or so I have only listened to Kate Voegele. She isn't very well known and is probably most popular from her role on the best show ever, "One Tree Hill." On the show she plays this musician that Peyton and Haley discover and makes it big in Tree Hill as a talented artist named Mia. She isn't my favorite character on the show but she does date Chase on the show, played by Stephen Colletti who dated Lauren Conrad at one point, so I guess Kate Voegele deserves some "cool points" with that one.

She is really good though and I love her songs. She is like Shakira meets Marie Digby which equals AMAZING songs that I listen to all day. I actually got her cd from my roommate Heather a while back but haven't fully appreciated it until now. Here are a list of my favorite songs (in no particular order):

• "Wish You Were"
• "No Good"
• "Kindly Unspoken"
• "It's Only Life"
• "Only Fooling Myself"
• "Chicago"

So that's almost the whole cd but it's so so so good. The album is called "Don't Look Away" by Kate Voegele and it is amazing. I would highly suggest it.

It's Been Confirmed!!

I have this fascinating obsession with Facebook and I am ALWAYS on there. Recently my 14 yr old brother, Michael, has gotten hooked and it is so funny. He is will sit there for hours chatting with his little friends, making my brother Derek (18 yrs old) very jealous of all his Facebook friends. Today Michael took one of those silly quizzes on there and sent an invitation to me to complete the quiz. Most of the time I just ignore these requests but when I saw the title of this one I HAD to do it. It was "How Black Are You?" and since I would consider myself to be pretty black, I thought I for sure needed to take this "very official" quiz to find out just how black I am. After answering a bunch of questions about rap music, KFC and KoolAid I got my results. They were as follows:

"Result: TUPAC
You are 100% Black, From the clothes you wear, music you listen to, and your characteristics. People fear you when you walk on the street."

I knew this all along but now it is confirmed... I am 100% black (minus the actual skin color). I love my life now!

Tweet Tweet

I was watching Jay Leno the other night and Ellen DeGeneres was the guest on it ans she kept talking about Twitter.com. I was interested in seeing what Twittering was since my dad had mentioned the website a week prior to watching this show. So I decided to sign up for a Twitter account. After all the good things I had heard about this website, I just didn't get it. I didn't get any of it, how it worked, what made it different from Facebook or MySpace, and especially why it was becoming such a big deal. I have yet to really figure out how Twittering works so I decided to look it up on Wikipedia - probably the most credited source there is - and see what I could find. There is a lot of information on the website but here is the basic sum up of what Twitter is.


"Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and feedalizr. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees."

So if anyone Twitters and knows what they're doing let me know. And if I ever figure it out and I think it's worth knowing something about, I will let YOU know.

You can't be my friend unless you're married / getting married

Marriage - the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife. AKA Something most people strive to have.


I have about a million friends married/getting married. It is getting out of hand. There must be something in the water or something. I'm excited for all my friends and all I just feel like I'm turning into Katherine Heigl's character in "27 Dresses". As of right now I only have four dresses, one of which I haven't worn yet and a possible fifth may be added by the end of this year. I am well on my way though.

My first wedding that I was in was actually about four years ago in July. My oldest sister, Natalie, was married to her crazy husband. Now they have an adorable daughter, who is easily my favorite niece. That's pretty much the only good thing that has come out of that marriage. haha jk Joe, we like you, we just tease. My dress was actually this really cute periwinkle skirt with a white shirt. I would still wear that skirt, if it fit my fat body.

Then, three years later, on July 26, my friend/roommate, Brianne was married to her long time boyfriend Brandon. After five years they tied the knot and I was so excited to be in her wedding. This was the moment I truly fell in love with weddings. haha I was there throughout most of the planning, the showers,the pictures, more pictures, the set up, the getting ready, the ceremony, even more pictures, and the reception. I had V.I.P. access to it all and I loved it!! My dress for this one was a black dress that was more casual, with a pink cami underneath. I still wear this dress to church a lot and I love it. Ooo, and I got some cute black shoes out of that wedding too. Nice!

Later in 2008 (November 1st), my good friend, Whitney was married. For this wedding I was up at school for most of the planning, which made me feel like the worst maid of honor ever! It was a fun day though. I woke up super early and drove from Fort Collins to Aurora and to get my hair done. The wedding was amazing and I love both sides of her and Adam's (the hubby) family. It was a good time. I loved her colors, they were brown and a pink. My dress was brown with a pink sash that tied around and I looked pretty dang good in it. It's a little fancier, so I don't think I'll ever wear it again but it looked cute.

The next wedding I will be in is for my really good friend, Miss Janae. She is marrying this guy, Brian, that we actually knew in high school but they never dated until a few months ago. She is getting married in August and already has SO much planned. It's quite impressive. The dress I'm getting for her wedding is cute, it will probably look better when I have a tan, and I might have to get a couple alterations done. It is yellow and dressy, like Whitney's and will have a white sash with a peek-a-boo white slip at the bottom. It will be cute. We still need to find some shoes but the look is coming together.

I have this other friend who getting married some time this year and I am so excited for her. She may or may not be having bridesmaids, but if she does, she has let me know, that i will be one of them. haha This is just getting crazy. But like I said I am so happy for all of them and good thing I like all of their husbands.

Being around all this wedding planning has made me think about my own wedding a lot, not that I am getting married any time soon (and I am PERFECTLY ok with that). We'll see what ends up happening when that time comes though.

Dozing off

For the last few weeks, while I've been laying down to sleep, I have been having the weirdest thoughts. It's almost as if I am dreaming before I actually fall asleep. Last night, before I went to bed, I had the Kanye West song "Heartless" stuck in my head. As I laid down to go to sleep I was sing/rapping (saying, the rap, that is) the song. It turned into me making up my own rap and thinking to myself, "Why do rappers make so much money? This is so easy, I'm so good at it." Well now I realize how bad/dumb my rap really was, imagine that. haha But this is like the seventh (just guessing) time this has happened. It's so weird but it's kind of annoying. It's annoying because it keeps me from soundly sleeping. Over the weekend I started planning my life while falling asleep. I decided that I was going to go to hair school and move to Utah to live with my sister and then I could build my clientele through my sister and her friends. haha This is funny to me now because, first of all, my sister would never let me live with her, and second, the only reason I was thinking this was because my sister (her name is Lisa) was stressing out about finding someone in Utah to do her hair. See how weird these things are? This is the ind of crap I have to go to bed to every night. Anyway, I might become a rapper or a hairstylist someday, you never know, I guess I can't totally bash the idea of these two things until I actually fail.

Urban Dictionary

So I was on Urban Dictionary looking up some words and decided to plug in my own name. I was pretty pleased with the results. My name, Melanie, means (according to Urban Dictionary) "An awesome girl who likes to be ghetto, and pulls it off even when white. Generally pretty."

Then I decided to look up Derek (my brother's name) and it was pretty funny too. The definition was "Someone you CANNOT get off your mind because he is always so funny and cute. A Derek is a hotty with a killer body." I wouldn't agree with that, he is my brother and that would be creepy.

Natalie (sister) has such a sweet definition, which is kind of true. "A very cool person. A Natalie is loved by everyone. She is too good for words to describe."

It was kind of a fun little activity to do. lol But be careful, some names pull up some really gross definitions.