sorry, i can't think of a title for this one - heck, i don't even know if it makes sense

sometimes i stay on the computer longer than i want to. it's like i'm waiting for something, but i don't know what. i check my blog 14 times, check my email 8 times, and refresh my facebook page who knows how many times. i don't want to log off because i'm afraid i'll miss something. i'm not really expecting anything, i just feel like something isn't there yet that is supposed to be. i wonder if i'll ever find it. although, like rhett butler tells scarlett when after her nightmare she asks him if she'll ever dream that she's found whatever it is that's hidden in the mist, "dreams don't work that way." perhaps i never will find it.

dear my boys,

just thought you should know that all the pirates wore sexy socks today. and it looked super shnazzy. see? http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=8534215 just thought you should know.
love,
mel

when the cat's away...

what i bought at the grocery store:
frozen pizza
french fries
mountain dew
wine coolers
ramen
pudding
apples

how on earth am i supposed to work like this?

none of my co-workers are twins fans, lotr dorks, losties, readers, bloggers, or apt to talk about Christian stuff. and i wonder why i always feel like no one understands me.

Pop Review: Mountain Dew Typhoon

Ah, tropical Dew. That sounded like one worth trying. A few years ago Sprite was playing around with different flavors, and they had a tropical one. It was very good. So I figured, what the hey, I'll try tropical Dew. And then I thought, it's $1.25 to try a 20oz bottle, and $2.50 to get a 12-pack, let's just go 12-pack. Good choice. It's refreshing, and different, and good. Not as good as I remember Tropical Sprite being, but I would definitely recommend Mountain Dew Typhoon.

thought on ian somerhalder

5 years have done 'im good

Person

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Dear Studly,
My mother once said you look like an underwear model. However, that was before you shaved your goatee. Now you've gone from sexy Italian to creepy Italian. Please grow it back so we can want to see you in your underwear again.
Sincerely,
Melilot

not kum bah yah

my neighbors are sitting around their fire singing 'down.'

prayer request

the danish indian gypsy's farfar (grandpa) is doing poorly again, and again she asked for prayer. he's back in the hospital with pneumonia, and i'm sure he's still weak from the first bout. please lift him, and her and her family, up in your prayers. again, i'm so honored and yet humbled by the fact that she would come to me with her prayer request. pray that GOD would work in her heart through all this, and pray that i would have wisdom in how to witness to her at this time. i so want her to love the LORD!
thank you, girls.

(oh, and if you feel silly calling her 'the danish indian gypsy' when you pray, you can just call her mirabel. that's what we called her in junior high anyway.)

what's the deal?

first the number of comments and number of comments don't match, now it's just deleting my comments altogether! wtc?

Aciphex

that drug's name just doesn't sound good.

Pop Review: Mountain Dew Distortion

One of my co-workers had some and let me try it. It was ok, except for the major aftertaste. I kept thinking it tasted like something, though. Finally it came to me: a margarita. It's a well-known fact that I love margaritas. However, I like them flavored and blended. This tasted like a plain old ordinary one on the rocks. Not something I would buy.

hey cook,

see how cute slowey is?

ok then

so i finally gave in and gave the cook my blog address. he's going to be sorely disappointed. maybe i should jam-pack it with Bible verses for him.

heavenly days, my boys make me smile :)

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5189843

i'm drinking tea right now because

my tummy's a little unsure of itself.
isn't that a lyrical thought that i had?

unless i'm in a usual suspects mood. though if i had to pick one, i think i'd go gladiator.

Gladiator

Gladiator truly is my favorite boy movie.

i'm just gonna say this, then i'll quit being political

we all know i stay away from the issues (except of the flight of the conchords variety), but after reading that other article, it was nice to read this.
http://newhanonbaseball.blogspot.com/2010/05/praising-arizona.html

I concur

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - from Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen

Target Field

I know you've all been waiting to hear what I think of the new Twins stadium. So here you go.

As far as the stadium goes, it's really nice. It's a significant improvement over the Dome in its newness and the fact that it's shaped like a baseball field, not a football field. It incorporates a lot of Twins history, both in design and, cleverly enough, in concessions (Killebrew Rootbeer, Hrbek's Restaurant, Tony Oliva's Cuban sandwich stand). Our hot dogs are still better than Kansas City's (not that that takes much). The scoreboard is nice and big, and you can actually understand what is said over the loudspeakers. It also has closed-captioning on screens along both base lines.

That being said, the complaints I thought I would have ring true. It's expensive (both the tickets and the concessions). Parking is a bear. It was windy and fairly cold and a tad rainy. (Thankfully I was under a bit of an overhang and the wind was gusting in the other direction. Others were not so lucky. And Enrique and the girls got drenched and froze to death a couple nights later.) Also, I couldn't find onions for my hot dog, or napkins. Why those weren't next to the other condiments, I don't know.

But on the other hand, baseball is meant to be played outside. We had some sun, and there was a double rainbow. Happily, you can't actually smell the incinerator that's next door. Sadly we don't get fireworks for homeruns, but I s'pose who cares, as long as we get the homeruns.

As for the game, I couldn't have chosen a much better one. We were leading until the 9th inning (thanks to an amazing pitching performance by Nick Blackburn) when a bad guy hit a rocket to right field tying it up. They let Handsome finish the inning, though, and Pretty Boy Hardy hit a triple and scored in the bottom of the inning to get Handsome a complete game win, and to give Target Field its first walk-off victory. It was great.

you know how tolkien's my hero? yeah. he's my hero.

"In England, as in America, the systematic study of dialects is a recent phenomenon, so no one can say just how many rich and varied forms of speech died before anyone got around to recording them. One of the first persons to think to do so was, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, J.R.R. Tolkien, later to become famous as the author of ['The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'], but at the time a professor of English at the University of Leeds. His idea was to try to record, in a comprehensive and systematic way, the dialect words of England before they disappeared forever." - from "The Mother Tongue," by Bill Bryson

are you frickin' kidding me?

http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/265404-five-morgan-hill-students-sent-home-for-wearing-american-flag-t-shirts
guess what. this is America.

enchanting

i love the movie 'enchanted,' yet i don't watch it too often because it makes me depressed. i got the soundtrack out of the library awhile ago, because it's mostly score, and i tend to love scores, so i thought i'd try it out, but the one time i tried to listen to it, it made me think of the movie too much and made me depressed. i decided to give it a go again last night, hoping that if i sucked it up through the songs, i could get to the score and it would be fine. i made it through the whole cd this time. and i found something wonderful. yes, it still kind of depressed me, but i hadn't noticed what the last track was. all the movie songs are at the beginning, then it's the score, and then it's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMI3RK78-M&feature=related

cheesy song, but my goodness he has a great voice. why did he only get 3 singing lines in the movie? and why is 'hairspray' really his only musical? come now hollywood people. don't waste this talent!

dear weather,

if you're going to rain, please, please, please rain right now! first pitch is at 7:10 and this will be my first game of the season. please please please be kind!
love,
melilot