//summer so far...//

IT'S SUMMER TIMEEEEEEEEE!

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it's also 9:33 and i'm already in bed.

Party animal.

Let me tell you what happens when you get a full time job.

You get up. EARLY. You go to work. You work for 8 hours. Your butt gets sore from sitting on it all day.  But you're still uneplainably tired. You come home. You eat dinner. You fall asleep.

Grown up world sucks.

But alas, summer is not all gone.  Been able to do some awesomey things as well.

Likeee

-Getting fro yo. A LOT.

-Or hanging out with the boyfrann, who is no longer 2.5 hours away. YES!

-And going on dates. To delicious Crave. And then watching airplanes takeoff/land on the runway.

 -Getting to see your best ladyfranns and catch up on months of miscellaneous life happenings

-Got a bug bite. From a gnat. Which made my entire forehead swell up//It was casual.

-Watching some good ol Downton Abbey, cuddled up in bed, stuffing my face with popcorn and sobbing all over again at *****'s death. (Mom, I know you read this and you haven't gotten that far yet...JUST WAIT.)

Although work is consuming the majority of my summer, I still plan on making the most of it off the clock, which also includes this here blog!

So thank you for your patience as I adjust to my new schedule and try to figure out how I'm going to make more hours suddenly appear in my day to day life.

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Alright, its 9:57. Way past my bedtime.

//falcon pride//

 empty room...

full Betty...

The word "bittersweet" can't even begin to describe how I feel about transferring.
Even though I am beyond excited about my future at a new school, a new house, and a new major, I was incredibly sad to be leaving behind the campus and the people I have gotten to know over the past two years here at this little Ag school.
As I sat alone at one of my last opening shifts at the Info Desk yesterday, sipping my hazelnut coffee, playing DJ, and listening to the usual busy murmur of the University Center, my heart was just overwhelming sad by all of the little things I was going to miss.

Likeee....
.-Sauntering over to the coffee shop and making small talk with the ladybaristas on a regular basis
-The crazy squirrels and their trash can antics
-Walking by the Ag Sci building to see some cheesecurds in the making
-Taking in the sunrise on the way to breakfast every morning
-Deciding to randomly go to the Falls Theatre on a school night, not cause it was necessarily a good movie, but hey, it's only three dollars!
-Falling in love with journalism/mass comm/graphic design in some of my favorite classes
-Getting a surprise every now and then from a special someone like letters/visits/care packages/flowers
-Seeing a familiar face EVERYWHERE on campus
-Being "inspired by the charcoal black and candy apple red"
-Shopping in the best of the best antique shops that only the small, college towns can offer
-Getting compliments on my music taste and selected Spotify playlists for the UC
-Walking back from a closing shift after a fresh snowfall and relishing the pure silence of it all
-Bonding with my fellow co-workers with crazy customer calls and half-off apps
-Friday nights consisting of Netflix, my futon, and all snack food for dinner
-Trying to dye hair in the community showers, followed by a "pantsing" incident...
-The number of  inside jokes my sisters and I now have to last us a lifetime
-Learning more about agriculutre, farming, and cows than I ever would have imagined
-"Sweeet, sweeeet timothy grass"
-Roomie nap times
-girls Bible study/puppy chow time
-A sweet surprise in the workroom (aka Batcave) from the prostaff every now and then
-Going for the usual run around the campus farm and seeing my horse friends
-Counting down the days until the next Premium Night for dinner
-Learning more about myself and the world around me each and everyday. Like for real. "I've got a lifetime of knowledge."

And much much more.

I am/was so incredibly blessed by my time at good 'ol River Falls.
And even though I swore I wasn't going to miss it all that much, here I am getting all sappy writing up this blogpost.
I know that when I flip back through the novel of my life, I will pick out the chapter titled "UWRF" and smile back at all of the good times this campus and I had together.
Simply because...it was Falcon awesome.

day 13//public apology

random thoughts first...
Since this is the only day this week where I don't have to get up for a 7:45 final or opening shift at work...
I am currently eating breakfast in bed.
And when I say "breakfast", I mean an open box of cereal since all my bowls are packed away. And a swig of almond milk. STRAIGHT from the carton. Ah gonna miss these college days <3

Anywho, back to May blogging...

day 13//Issue a public apology

this just makes me cry a little on the inside...

Dear Finals,

I'm sorry everyone hates you so much.  It's not that you're a bad person!...It's just that...you've given us such a bad taste in our mouth, it's hard to change our perceptions of you.

Take for example, this poli sci final coming up. You didn't HAVE to be culmative.  You could have made my life so much easier by only concerning yourself with the last few chapters and be done with it.

It's things like this that make it so difficult to like you.

Maybe you should switch things up a little bit!  Change your name to "Free Food Finals" or "Fun Festivities Finals"!  Maybe along with that, don't even add the word Finals in there.  It might just scare off any wary students.

I'm just trying to help you here, bud.  Help me to help you.
Take my advice and loosen up a bit.

Forever yours, (sadly...)
-Melissa

**The fact that I just created a dialouge between me and intangible object....

HELPPPP MEEEEE.

Four days and counting....

day 10//how embarrassing

day 10//embarrassing moments

So there I was.
Struttin' my stuff down the hallway.
Like the model my little tenth-grade brain thought I was.

School was almost over for the day and I was eager to meet up with my friends for our last class (gym...).
I was feeling pretty fantastic that afternoon; decked out in some new outfit, got a good grade on a paper, and/or uttered a word or two to my crush. Big steps, my friends. Big steps.
Anywho, I strapped on my oversize backpack, slam my locker door, and head down the hallway to almost-freedom.

Ohhhh yeaaaaa

Here comes Melissa. All coooool & on top of the world.
Rollin' like a bigshot.

and then...it happened.

Trapped in the mosh-pit stampede that are high school hallways, I was walking pretty close along the side of the wall.  And this is where our display cases were protruding out of the wall.  Well for some reason, mr.display maker decided to add some prong inserts that stick dangerously out of his creations.

I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it.
I'm sure he didn't think that those prong-like devices would be a magnet towards a helpless girl's backpack strings.
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Please picture this for a moment. Those bouncy carnival rides. Where two people are strapped with a rubber band, each of them racing towards an object justttt out of their reach; And when defeated, they are ripped backwards towards a nice, cushy landing.
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Try a glass trophy case.

So, there's high and mighty Melissa, bungeeing back towards the case at frightening speeds, and finally makes impact.

WHAM!

Every head turns to stare at the poor tenth grade girl, smooshed up against the wall, backpack still tangled up with the evil glass display.
I quickly turn, struggling to break free, my face redder than any ginger could possibly imagine.
While I'm still riding the strugglebus, some swaggering senior wise guy cracks up (for the world to hear)...
"You know there's a wall there, right?"

And being the sassy student that I was NOT...
I meekly whispered a small, "Yeaa...", unhooked myself from the horrible situation, and quickly shuffled down the hall, where I rambled off the mortifying experience again to my comforting friends.

High school. Pshhhhhh.

day 9//one moment

day 9//a moment in your day

 ...is the best time.

day 8//advice

SOOOOOOOO?!
DO YOU LOVE IT OR DO YOU LOVE IT?

Ahem. Still kind of obsessing sorry.

Anywho, if any of you bloggers out there are interested in where I got this theme, check out Dinosaur Stew on Etsy.com.  Stumbled upon her shop and I am so glad I did! It was so difficult to choose one since they were quietly whispering my name, begging to be on my blog...

"melissaaaa, melissaaaa you want meeeeee,dontcha?!"

But alas, this is my pick, which I believe fits my style/personality/eyes perfectly!

Just...one more time...me + this template = <3

Unfortunetly, I gotta get back to my studying and finishing some papers and other college nonsense.
But quick! Today's Blog Everday in May...

A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.

 My advice? Listen to this song.

Heard it before? Listen to it again.

But for real.

Like mid-mascara swipe, my heart was just overwhelmed by the word I so desperately needed to hear.

Forgiveness.

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God's timing is pretty awesome like that.

day 7//fears

Jumping right ahead from day 3 to day...7? Yep, that's just how things are gonna roll around here.

day 7: the things you are most afraid of

(Defs got a couple of those. Some serious, some...a little peculiar.)

time. not having enough of it.

bird poop. specifically landing on me.

throwing up. I've willed myself not to for eight years now. no joke

hospitals. and my mom's a nurse. goody.

car accidents. Extra cautious driver here.

losing friendships. It's tough man, real tough.

writer's block. Then it's bye bye bloggy for a couple days.

loud noises. fireworks, thunder, student drops a textbook...I jump a mile high.

monkeys. the big ones. 'nuff said.

ocean currents. good thing we're landlocked.

growing old. scratch that. i basically live in my bathrobe...really though...I'm wearing it now.

the future. ah yes, the great unknown...

 pic from our trip to gulf shores, AL this spring break.

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now you can see why fear number 2 made the cut.

On a brighter note! I would defeneitely recommend coming back here tomorrow folks!

Cause if all goes well and my computer skills are up to par, you may see a pretty awesomely amazing new layout! I mean, maybe I'm just nerdy, but I plan on getting up tomorrow extra early, grabbing some coffee, running to the school library (they got Apple), and uploading this new theme PRONTO.

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Geekfest over and out.