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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/27260514/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:54:05 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

Work Stinks!

I'm seeing red right now.

Last week when my company switched me over to hourly from salary the second week in the pay period and forced me to have to clock in and out every day, I, not knowing exactly what I was doing, managed to accrue 14 minutes ($4.00) in overtime. This has, apparently, caused some sort of volcanic eruption in the management department and they are now throwing a shit fit.

I'm sorry, but I can't help it that they waited a full fucking year to tell me that they made a mistake in hiring me as salary and forcing me to use a program that I knew nothing about in order to clock in and out every day. I've already been lectured five times since last week for clocking in before 8:00 in the morning or for clocking in early from lunch. So now I'm having a difficult enough time just making the required 40 hours a week. I arrive at work between 7:45-7:50 a.m. every morning. Instead of just sitting here and staring at a wall, I like to make myself useful and start in on the "to do" pile that sits on my desk every day. Except that I get involved in my work and I don't realize that I haven't clocked in till 8:03 or 8:05 and even 8:15 one day. That's 3, 5, or 15 minutes that I donÂt get paid for. But should I try to make up for that time by leaving for lunch early, coming back early, or staying late, they want to throw a hissy! They fucking hired me at a base yearly amount and I expect to get paid that amount regardless of whether I'm hourly or salary otherwise they're going to be finding another paralegal. That's all there is to it. If they donÂt like it then that's just tough luck. They're the ones who suddenly decided to change my pay code.

I wish they would just leave me the hell alone about it. I'm doing the best I fucking can. Maybe if they had done what they were supposed to do when they first hired me instead of waiting a YEAR to say, "oops, our bad" then we wouldn't be having this problem. This is NOT my fault. THEY are the ones to blame. So if I clock in early or clock out a little late, it's not so that I can get their precious overtime - it's so that I can get my full paycheck which these bastards are obviously trying to screw me out of!

I guess I'm just going to have to stop whatever I'm doing at 7:55, 11:55, 12:55, and 4:55 and just sit there and stare at the computer clock so that I can make sure I clock in an out on the exact our without getting even a second of overtime. Heaven forbid they have to give me a penny extra. And when someone asks why I'm not working, I'll simply reply with, "Well, I'd hate for the bosses to have a coronary and since they're more concerned with whether or not I punch in and out on time than whether or not I get any work done, I figured I'd better just sit here and watch the seconds tick by."

Thank GOD I leave for week long vacation on Saturday. I don't think I can take this shit for much longer.

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Cassie (Acoustic)
Flyleaf

The question asked in order
To save her life or take it
The answer no avoided death
And yes would make it

Do you believe in God
Written on a bullet
Say yes to pull the trigger
And my sister, Cassie, pulled it

They didn't love their lives
So much as to shrink from death
Inspired in their footsteps
We will march ahead

Don't be shocked that people die
Be surprised your still alive

All heads are bowed in silent reverence
The floor is wet with tears of sorrowful remembrance
The alter's filled with hearts of repentence
Perfect love kills all fear
Rejoice in this deliverance

They didn't love their lives
So much as to shrink from death
Inspired in their footsteps
We will march ahead

Don't be shocked that people die
Be surprised your still alive

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/27252487/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:52:01 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

Two Days Till Disney!!!!!

Ooh! We leave on Saturday at 8:40 a.m. I'm so excited! I just got finished packing everything that I'm going to take that I don't need between now and then. I tried desperately to keep my checked backage down to one bag and one duffle, but suitcase just wasn't big enough. I tried really really hard to stuf everything in. I even sat on the suitcase. Unfortunately......So I'm ending up with one large suitcase (full!) and one small suitcase (mostly full with room for suveniers) and one duffle bag (for shoes, hair products, makeup, pajamas, etc.) as checked and my purse and my computer bag as carry on.

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/27189644/ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:52:45 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

Just A Thought

Just six days till my Disney trip - I'm uber excited!

But that wasn't my thought. My thought was: it seems like the pieces that usually mean the most to the artist are the ones that are barely viewed and it's the everyday, emotionless pieces (i.e. stamps/fanart) that get

and comments? It's almost like no one cares about emotion in art anymore.

I'm just saying...

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/27095191/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:42:04 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

Points of Interest

These days I seem to have several topics about which to write and none of them ever seem to be related to one another in any wayÂ

1) I'd like to be the first to welcome everyone to the U.S.S.A (the United Soviet States of America) as I feel certain we shall soon find it necessary to change the name of our country to fit its new political regime. It is a land where the basic freedoms granted to us by our founding fathers are slowly but surely being compromised in such a way that the majority doesn't even realize it's happening; where this very afternoon our children are being led by the Fourth Reich.

But, perhaps I'm making my contempt for the new government too obvious, so...

Hiel!

2) Okay, why are men so blasted nasty? Is it really that bloody difficult to take a wad of toilet paper and wipe off the seat and floor where your bad aim has left a mess? I shouldn't have to clean up some guy's piss every time I go in the bathroom just because he's a lazy slob. It's disgusting and unsanitary. This is a place of business, not a frat house.

3) Only 11 more days till I leave for Disney World! I'm so excited! This will be my second trip and my friend, Mindy's, first trip. And she's lucky enough that her birthday happens to fall on our last full day there.

4) So, I recently heard that the world market is pretty much ceasing research and production of alternative, clean fuels because some mega oil deposit was recently discovered in Brazil or somewhere. Yeah, that does us a world of good. It's not like we'll ever use it. We'll drill it, put it in barrels and then stick it in the same hidey-hole the rest of our oil is being stored in while we continue to buy from the monopoly known as OPEC. Why, you may ask? Well, my dears, the answer is quite simple: stock. Our self-righteous leaders have mega stock in OPEC. We have enough oil in our stores right now to put OPEC out of business (or at least force them to compete for business) and lower gasoline prices back to reasonable amounts, but we'll never do it. Because darlings, our political representatives are much happier lining their pockets than ours. It's a sad example of the old saying, "the rich get richer and the poor get screwed."

5) I rented that Ben Stein documentary Monday - Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. It was really, pretty good, though it was really sad to hear what so many people have to say about those of us who believe in a creator. It's really unfair that Christians in the scientific community pretty much have to keep their beliefs under lock and key or face being fired and black listed. I thought science was supposed to be all about hypothesis and theory that would explain the otherwise unexplainable. Why then, is it so horrible to postulate on the theory that we did not come from apes or single celled organisms swimming in the primordial ooze as Darwin and so many others believe? How is it more far fetched to believe there some awesome being thought us and all that we know into existence when there are people who believe that nothing bumped into nothing and caused an explosion that somehow resulted in the solar system as we know it today? Really, if you read the Big Bang Theory, that's exactly what it's saying; a big mass of nothingness bumped into another big mass of nothingness and created something. Which really goes against everything I've ever been taughtÂhow do you get something out of nothing?

6) And finallyÂwhen I was browsing the web for design ideas for the dress in my latest deviation, I came across a forum for a church where a Pastor Ezekiel had posted pictures of an anime LoliGoth as well as a picture from the Lolita and Gothic Bible claiming that this particular fashion was evil, wicked, sinful, and that the girls who wore these clothes were sluts. He also had a few choice words to say about the "chinks" and "slants" who had made this style popular. I was, to say the least, appalled. The idea that a man who claimed to be a man of God could use such language and think that there was nothing inappropriate about it when chastised by someone on the board is unfathomable to me. I just don't understand the desire to harbor such hate against a culture and people that you know nothing about just because they don't look like you, talk like you, or dress like youÂor even worship like you.

It is quite obvious that he and I do not worship the same God. My God is the embodiment of love and perfec... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 I have a temper...for good reason http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26931869/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26931869/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:33:29 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

I have a temper...for good reason

I realize I rant a lot in my journal entries, but if so much stupid shit didn't happen to me, I wouldn't have to. If people could stop being assholes and idiots, then maybe my journals could focus on happy, good stuff. I beginning to think that if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.

I'm still pissed off at the guards at the Shelby County Courthouse for an incident that happened two weeks ago.

I went on vacation to Nashville back at the beginning of April and I had, apparently, put for rechargeable batteries in the side zip up compartment of my purse in case I needed to change batteries. And apparently, I never took them out. I know this because two weeks ago, I went to the courthouse (for the umpteenth time since April) and was stopped by a security guard. Before you can enter the building you have to walk through a metal detector and put your purse/bag through an x-ray machine.

And let me say this - the security guard was big and he mumbled when he talked and the entrance to the courthouse is pretty much all marble with high ceilings - in other words, it echoes a lot and if a person isn't speaking up, you can't hear or understand what they're saying.

So, my bag goes through the machine and he says, "Is that batteries?"

Actually, what he said was, "Is dat barries." Or at least, that's what I heard.

"Pardon?"

"Is dat batries?"

"I donÂt know. It's possible." So, I proceed to open my purse and fish out the contents of the side compartment for him to see: USB jump drive, fingernail file, three tampons, and lo! four rechargeable batteries. After showing him the stuff, I put it back in the compartment. He nodded and I started to head off and I hear -

"Ma'am, luw barries nd low."

So, I turned around, beginning to get agitated. The court offices close at 4:30 and it was 4:15 when I parked a block away and the papers that I had needed to be filed that day before closing. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Lue barries not lowd."

Really, if these people are going to be dealing with the public for a living, they really aught to be forced into taking speech classes so that they can learn to enunciate their words. The rest of us shouldnÂt be forced to play a game of charades just to figure out what you're saying.

"I'm sorry, did you say I can't take loose batteries into the courthouse?"

"Yes'm. Hafta toss 'em."

What the hell kind of damage am I going to do with loose batteries? I mean, really. Was there anything else in my purse that I could have used in conjunction with them to blow the place up? If I'd had a magnet and some tape, I could've used them to magnetize a paper clip. A cork and a bowl of water and I could've made a compass. IÂm gonna magnetize the place with four Duracell batteries. I looked at the other guy sitting there and he just shrugged like it wasn't his problem. If I hadn't only had four minutes to get through there and upstairs to the clerk's office, I'd have argued with him, but unfortunately my job comes first. So I didn't have any choice but to hand him the batteries to be thrown away and stomp off.

That package of batteries cost me $15 dollars and I just bought them in April because my dog chewed on the others that I had. Now I'm going to have to buy yet another expensive package to take to Disney. I was so pissed by the time I got to the clerk's office the lady behind the desk asked me what was wrong. When I told her she said they confiscate the weirdest stuff and she wouldn't be surprised if they weren't taking because it's against the rules, but because they just happened to want it.

Another time I went, about a week before that, I had gone to the American Idols Live concert the night before and had forgotten to take my video and digital cameras out of my purse. When I went through the machine the guard told me that I couldn't take cameras into the courthouse - which makes sense - and actually held out his hands like he expected me to give him my cameras. Are these people insane?! That's over $200 worth of equipment. Did he actually think I was going to just give him my cameras knowing I wouldn't be able to get them back? What kind of scammers is the county hiring these days!? I gave him a look that said 'back off buddy' and went back out to my car to deposit them.

The woman in the clerk's office told me a few of the things people had had confiscated before and I agree with her. Half the time I don't think they're confiscating the stuff beca... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Randomness http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26851741/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26851741/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:29:40 PDT My Literature | Stock Account | Stamps

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1) Has anyone else heard about this thing called the Sin Tax? I vaguely remember someone saying something to me about it back right after or right before the election, but I promptly forgot about it until my mom brought it up again last night. Apparently our government has the idea that we can't manage our own lives so they now need to manage them for us. And since so many Americans these days are overweight, they want to step in and "help" us out by charging what will be called a Sin Tax. If you're overweight and you go out to eat, you'll be charged more for your food than someone who looks thinner. And if you're overweight and you order anything with sugar in it, you'll have another tax added on top of that tax. Kind of like the tax they've imposed on people who smoke - how they have to pay like an exorbitant amount on cigarettes.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? I mean, hell, we've boycotted Cuba and North Korea because they're communist countries. We dislike Russia because of it's socialist republic and if China wasn't so gosh-darned big and hadn't loaned us trillions of dollars in the last decade alone, we'd probably be boycotting them too. We invaded Iraq because of their dictatorship (along with other various reasons) and because we thought they needed to be a democratic society, no longer ruled strictly by the government.

But isn't that what our government is now trying to make us? I mean, they want to control how and what we eat for goodness sake! An overweight person should not have to pay extra to get the same amount of food that some skinny person gets. It's one thing to charge slightly more for plus sized clothes because you have to use more fabric, but you do not have to use more ingredients to cook a serving for a plus sized person than you do for a thin person. So, overweight people might have made some bad decisions in their lives that led them to be that way, but they shouldn't be punished for it. You don't see anyone charging a tax for wearing a muumuu out of the house or banded leg sweatpants or any other fashion nightmares. That's because we were granted basic freedoms- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to sport bad fashion, freedom to eat unhealthy food.

What I fail to see is how our eating habits effect the government and why what I eat and how much should be any of their business.

If I thought I could get a job and a place to stay, I'd move to Canada. When was the last time you heard Canada declare war on anyone? What was the last Canadian uprising you heard of? Heard of any unrest in Canada lately?

My prediction: by the election of 2012 we'll be a socialistic dictatorship. That is, if a giant meteor doesn't crash into the earth and destroy everything as the Mayan calendar has predicted (okay, so it didn't predict a meteorÂjust that life would cease to exist after December of 2012).

2) I heard on the radio yesterday that Simon Cowel and his record company had signed three of the top four contestants from last season's American Idol competition. Of course Kris Allen got a record contract - he did win after all; and we all knew that Adam Lambert, no matter how awful and cat-in-heat like he sounds, was going to get a contract; and my girl Allison Iraheta got one as well (can't wait for her album. They offered a record deal to Danny Gokey, but retracted the offer after he stated that he would only record Christian music. We all know how Simon feels about Christianity. I think he's threatened by the fact that some people don't think he's GodÂ.or that people might worship someone besides him. Just audition with a Christian songÂor even a song that could remotely be labeled as Christian. You could have the voice of an angelÂChristina Agulera, Maraih Carey, Celine DionÂthey could all audition and if they sang a Christian song they would each and everyone be told by Simon that that was "the worst audition I've ever heard."

Of course, I think he made it quiet clear last season when he overrode the other three judges and sent Bikini Girl to Hollywood (and wanted to put her through to the next round) that he, at least, is not actually looking for talent so much as a nice set of tits.

3) Did you know they still haven't buried Michael Jackson? It's been nearly a month since he died. I'm surprised they aren't doing to him what they did to Pope John Paul II and carting him around the world to be showcased. He... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 WTF?! http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26811639/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26811639/ Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:09:39 PDT
Now, every morning when I get in, I have to clock in. I have to clock out when I leave for lunch and clock back in when I return and then I have to clock out when I leave in the afternoon. They donÂt want to pay me overtime (because they weren't paying me overtime before since I was salaried), so if I should have to stay late or come in early, I just get to come in late or leave early the next day. The plus side is that I get to keep the PTO I've accumulated and I'll continue to earn PTO the same as I was before. The downside is that whereas before if I had a doctor's appointment and I was gone for an hour or so, I was paid for that time. Now, unless I want to use my PTO time, I either a) don't get paid for the time I'm at the doctor; or b) just don't get to have lunch for a day or so while I make up the time.

This also puts a snag in my fun because the legal department goes out to lunch together whenever it's someone's birthday or a big holiday. These lunches typically last an hour or more. Now if I go with them, I have to not take lunch for a day or two afterwards to make up the time that I lost by going to lunchÂunless I just don't want to get paid for that time.

So, I guess you can see why I'm a little put out. I'm no longer guaranteed $36,500 per year. I'm guaranteed somewhere in the ballpark of $36,500 per year depending on whether I get sick or not.

Oh, and the journal CSS that I was using is apparently no longer available (since I keep seeing that message about photobucket no longer hosting the image), so I'm sans CSS until I can get home. Our office has recently installed a web-blocker that keeps me from being able to download the code for a new journal. I also can't go to yahoo, gmail, msn, imbd.com, neopets, gaia, or any other website that might have anything to do with "entertainment" "games" or "fun". Whoo! Makes bringing lunch so much fun when you can't even check your personal email during your lunch hour.

Yet somehow, I'm still allowed to come here.

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Venting Makes Me Feel Good http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26500430/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26500430/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:26:51 PDT

Venting Makes Me Feel Good

Why are things always so difficult? My car's in the shop AGAIN. I just put two new front tires on it back at the end of March - less than five months ago. I put a new windshield in it back inÂ.February so that I could get an inspection sticker and I need a new one again. This will be my third or fourth windshieldÂ.in the past year. Now it squeals whenever I put on brakes, it shakes fairly bad, it rocks really, really bad when I go below 20mph, and it jerks whenever the car changes gears.

It's just not fair! I love my car. It has everything I need or want (minus the V6, but I can deal with a 4-cynlynder); CD player with auxiliary hookup for my iPod, plenty of cargo space for when I travel, looks cool, and sits up off the road like a SUV. I hate regular cars because I feel like I'm riding on the pavement - you have to fall into them and climb out of them. I don't want to feel like every other car on the road could run me over monster-truck style. I want my PT. It's only three years old for goodness sake! And I've only had it for two years! I at least got to keep the Grand Am for four and a half years and nearly had it paid off when I traded it. I still owe like mega bucks on the PT (approx. $6,140.00 + interest). No dealership is gonna give me anywhere near what I owe on it because it's been wrecked twice. I might get close to what I owe on it if I sold it myself, but then I'd have nothing to trade in which I guess would be okay, but I'd still probably have to pay at least $2,500 out of pocket to pay off the PT after selling it and that would leave me $0 as a down payment (not that I'd ever have a down payment available anyway.

But my mom's pushing me to start saving money for a new car soon because mine is "a piece of shit" (her words, not mine). She says I need to get a car from a reliable manufacturer like Dodge and Chevrolet. Mine's a Chrysler - at leas they're not going bankrupt anymore! If Obama's so determined to give away money, why doesn't he pass some of that wealth on to me? Oh, that's right. He only wants to give the money to "certain" people and I'm not rich enough (among other things) to qualify for his handouts. He's just like every other politician - if you can't afford to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign fund, he doesn't really care if you survive or not. Like some old country song says: the rich get richer and the poor get screwed. I swear, if there was ever a politician who actually cared about our welfare instead of just what lies they could sell to get our votes, it'd be a miracle. That is all these Washington people care about and anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.

Like I couldn't help but laugh this morning when one of those new adds came on the radio for some website wanting teens (14-17 years of age) to log on and write their comments on how the government is spending their money or about the fact that by the time these kids reach retirement age, there won't be anything left for them. Like the men and women in our congress and senate give a flying frick about what some pre/teen thinks about their decisions. They can't vote and therefore their opinion doesn't matter. If you're old enough to vote and have registered to vote then they might pretend to be concerned. If not, then they couldn't be bothered to give you the time of day. It's a waste of breath and a waste of time. Believing that they care is as stupid as girls thinking that Adam Lambert's gonna think they're sexy. Hello?! He bats for the other team. Sitting front row in you're little mini skirts and "I (heart) Adam" t-shirts, flashing your boobies while he screechingly maims some previously good song isn't gonna make him change his mind.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if every musician in history is clutching their music praying that the dying-cat-man doesn't choose to scream their song next. How in the hell did he make it as far on Idol as he did? Do that many people really want to loose their hearing? He screams in every song he does. And not the Steven Tyler or AC/DC kind of screaming where you can actually put words to the noise, but screeching in such a way that not even dogs can understand what he says. Ugh. I saw him in concert a few weeks ago at the American Idols Live concert and my friend and I had to literally leave the arena and hide in the bathroom until his section was over because our ears couldn't take it. Not only that, but it looked like he was trying to have relations with the microphone stand.

HmmÂlooks like I've totally gone off topic. I tend to do that. I leapfrog with conversations. Something will make me think of something else completely different and I'll go off on that and then continue to do that until I somehow (usually) come back to the original topic.

... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Harry Potter Movie Review http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26452762/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26452762/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:13:44 PDT

Harry Potter-Movie Review

Movie: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright
Viewed: July 25, 2009, 9:30 p.m.
Rating: (3.5 stars out of 5)

Tagline:
To know the futureÂreturn to the past

Synopsis:
Harry returns to Hogwarts for his sixth year to discover that Potions Class has been taken over by an old friend of Professor Dumbledore and the Defense Against the Dark Arts position has gone to Professor Snape who has been a thorn in Harry's side since his first year at the school of magic. He's also about to discover that life for the Chosen One can never be as simple as finding a date or becoming Captain of the quidditch teamÂor being in love with your best friend's baby sister. No, with the Dark Lord and his minions on the loose times are even more difficult for Harry as he delves into Tom Riddle's past to learn to secrets that could save his lifeÂand end Voldemort's. Hogwarts will never be the same and not even the safest place in England can hide him now.

Quote:
Ginny: He's covered in blood again. Why is he always covered in blood?
Ron: Well, it looks like it's his own this time.
-Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

Thoughts
The special effects were good, as they always are, and the comedic relief (which was certainly necessary in such an intense film) wasÂinteresting in the relationship between Lavender and Won-Won (a/k/a Ron). They've changed Lavenders in this movie and the change was quite significant. There were parts I loved and there were, of course, parts I didn't like. Any scene involving Luna or Bellatrix was most definitely a hit with me as they are two of my favorite characters (Hermione falls in that category as well). I did not think that the actor portraying Horace Slughorn was veryÂSlughorn-ish. I always pictured someone older, shorter, more rotund, and with more of a bull-dog face (hanging jowls). Actually, when I was reading the book, I pictured someone like "Mr. Granger" from Are You Being Served? in looks and in voice. Unfortunately the actor who played Mr. Granger is now deceased. StillÂ (How I pictured Slughorn: [link] and [link])

I really, really hate that they left out the Hermione/Ron kiss on the during the first Quidditch matchÂor before tryoutsÂwhenever it happened. I thought it was so cute in the book when she kissed his cheek to wish him luck and he walked out in a complete daze. Although, Ron's look after having eaten the love potion was definitely priceless.

And that kiss between Harry and Ginny was supposed to have been a public matter. She was supposed to give him a good smooch after playing seeker in his place and them having won a match. The way they did it in the movie, I couldn't tell (and still donÂt really know) if the kiss was Harry's imagination or if it really happened.

I also don't understand the purpose of burning down The Burrow. I mean, that never happened in the book! The Burrow was supposed to be protected by a spell (set by Dumbledore, I believe) that kept the Death Eaters away. The Burrow was a safe-haven for the kids. Why would they take that away? It didn't make sense to me. (Bellatrix running around like the mad woman she is was awesome though).

And where were Fleur and Bill? They can't be planning to ignore the wedding. It's a major part of the books. It's when the Death Eaters infiltrate the Burrow and send Harry, Hermione, and Ron on their mission. Yet the wedding wasn't even mentioned throughout the entire movie. Not once.

Lastly, I realize time constraints were a problem (it was already 2.5 hours long, but a really HP fan would have totally sat through a 3 hour film), but they should have added Dumbledore's funeral to the movie.

Those are just some of my thoughts. I mean, it was a good movie over-all. I just wish that they'd not altered so much stuff.

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/26355790/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:54:46 PDT

A Short Rant

Do you know what is absolutely amazing to me? That so many people will spend so much of their time creating art to declare how much they hate a book/movie. It's mind blowing. And do you want to know the most peculiar thing? If it's a series, they will actually finish reading/watching all of the books/movies. If I decide that I don't like something either because I don't like the characters or the plot or the way it's written, I'm not going to waste my time reading or watching it. I'm going to go find something that I do like. And if someone else likes it, then that's their prerogative. There's no need to start degrading people because they like what you think is "crap". This degradation includes coming up with demeaning nicknames for the people who do like the book/movie.

My question is this: if you detest something so much, why bother reading it? Why bother spending hours of your time that you will never get back drawing things relating to something you hate? Wouldn't it make more sense to put your talent to use in drawing something that you actually like?

If I see something that I don't like, I'm going to turn the channel. If I pick up a book and within the first chapter or first few pages realize that this isn't something I'm going to be interested in, I put the book down, return it or sell it, and start reading something else. This is a sign of maturity.

Another sign of maturity is respecting another person's opinion. If you wish to believe that a particular character is a "Mary-Sue" then, that is your right. However, it is also my right to state my opinion - that the rules and regulations defining what is and is not a Mary-Sue character are unclear, overbroad, and all-encompassing. It is also my right to state my opinion that the only reason you find this particular character to be a Mary-Sue is because you have developed a character-crush on this character's love interest - a conclusion I have come to from studying past comments and art posted on your deviant page. However, when I make an observation on a recent deviation instead of following suit with the rest of the masses and posting something along the lines of "W00t! [character] sux nd mus die! [character's love interest]=smex!" I am bombarded with replies which basically say, in amazingly well verbalized text, that I "sux". And instead of allowing me to reply, I have subsequently been blocked. Which is actually alright with me seeing as I had initially added this artist to my watch list because of a comic strip they were doing which has now been pretty much lain to the wayside to make way for more hate art and meaningless smut and they have now been taken off of my watch list. I won't name names because I'm not that petty. Which is why I haven't even listed the characters that were involved in the deviation.

And I will admit that perhaps I was a slight bit harsh in my comment. I had little time this morning while writing it to be more politically correct as I was replying while preparing for work. I simply said the following: "I'm sorry, but I don't find it fair to call any character a Mary-Sue just because you don't like them (or are jealous of them). The current standard and rules for recognizing a Mary-Sue character are so vague and all-embracing that any character ever created from Disney to Shakespeare could potentially be labeled a Mary-Sue. It's obvious that the only reason the majority of people hate [character] is because they have a character-crush on [character's love interest 1] or [character's love interest 2]. And being jealous of a fictional character is, frankly, just sad and pathetic. Perhaps it's time for some people to start re-evaluating their lives...and maybe get one (a life that is)."

I was then directed by the artist of the deviation to a so-called "Mary Sue Test" found here: [link] because this is the "test" the artist used to decide that this character was a Mary-Sue. I've read over the test and quite frankly, unless you created that character yourself, it'd be practically impossible to complete the test for the character.

And so, I'll end my rant on this one note, Consider this fact before you accuse a published author of having created a Mary-Sue: their work was deemed credible enough to warrant publishing - sadly for you, yours has not.

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Books!

So, I started reading the House of Night series by P.C. and Kristen Cast about the end of last month (right after I finished Shadow Kissed and am waiting for Blood Promise to be released).

Okay, so it was Twilight that got me into the vampire books, right? Well, I can't really say that I like Vampire Academy or House of Night better than I like Twilight because to me, they're like two different genres. Twilight was all about the romance with just a little action thrown in to give the characters something to do. Vampire Academy and House of Night are more about the action and self-discovery than they are about the romance (though there is romance thrown in, what with Zoey's love square and Rose having to hunt and kill the man she loves). In those two, the romance is just kind of a pit stop on the way (unlike
Twilight
where action was just a short pit stop on the way to romance).

I've already gushed about Vampire Academy so I guess it's time for me to gush about House of Night.

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT

Marked:: Zoey Redbird had problems. Her step-father was a tyrannical freak who headed a cultish, overzealous, religious group called The People of Faith. Her mother was a brainwashed shell of her former self whose only care these days was for the happiness of her husband and not the well-being of her three children. However, the only person not okay with the current situation was Zoey. At school, her on-again-off-again boyfriend of the past eight years was off again since he'd become a drunken party boy. So it was no surprise Zoey believed her life couldn't get any worseÂuntil the she saw the Tracker standing next to her locker. As soon as she was Marked as a vampyre fledgling, her life turned upside down. The girl she'd thought was her friend was too scared to come near her and her parents turned her out.

At her new school, Zoey's life is still as complicated as before. While most fledglings carry a sapphire outline of the crescent until their change is complete (at such time the mark would be filled and a mask of sapphire tattoos would appear to frame their face, the design of which usually represented something about the vampyre and their goddess given talent), Zoey has been specially Marked by the goddess Nyx and her moon has been completely filled in.

The novelty of her unusual Mark brought Zoey a certain amount of popularity and the animosity of the leader of the Dark Daughters and Sons (the school's fraternity/sorority) and the school's resident bitch, Aphrodite.

And being Marked hasn't saved Zoey from her share of boy problems either. Not only is she dating a fledgling, but she kinda sorta accidentally Imprinted with her human, ex-boyfriend, leaving them with a emotional and psychic connection. To add to the mix, Nyx has decided that Zoey must take over the leadership of the Dark Daughters and Sons from Aphrodite.

At least she's got four amazing new friends and a rarely seen affinity for all five elements (earth, wind, water, fire, and spirit) to help her out. She's going to need all the help she can get.

Betrayed: Zoey's been at the House of Night for a month and is quickly learning just how much responsibility has been placed on her shoulders. She has to discover just how to rearrange the Dark Daughters and Sons so that it's no longer an exclusive and snobbish clique, but a helpful and innovative group designed to the students. There's also the problem of being Imprinted with her human ex-boyfriendÂand the sudden and flattering attentions of Vampyre Poet Laureate (and full fledged vampyre and teacher) Loren Blake.

Then two human football players are discovered dead and evidence points towards vampyres. Although a tragedy, it's nothing for Zoey to worry about until her ex, also a football player, goes missing and his truck his found parked behind the House of Night. Then Zoey must use their Imprinted connection to find him and save him before he meets the same fate as the other two.

Unfortunately her rescue mission leads to more than just her ex-boyfriend. It leads Zoey to a discovery that will rock the foundations of everything she thought she knew.

Chosen: People she thought were her friends have turned their backs on her and people she thought were enemies have become her best allies. Now it's up to Zoey to save her best friend and figure out just how to save the world from utter disaster.

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Wicked: A New Musical

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Wicked: A New Musical on Saturday night with three friends and I have to say, if you have the opportunity, this play is a must-see. You donÂt even have to be a fan of The Wizard of Oz to be able to enjoy it. One of the pluses of the musical is, if you have a child around the age of 10, it would be enjoyable for them as well (any younger than that and they might get a little frightened).

The music was well done and the songs are catchy enough to get stuck in your head (March of the Witch Hunters has been running through my head since Saturday night). The props and costumes are well done and definitely ÂOzÂ worthy. The special effects, though not a big part of the show, are well done as well. Although I was disappointed not to get to see Wicked with its original cast (if only I could have seen Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel as Glinda and Elphaba), I thought the actors did a very good job in keeping with the characters. My only nag would have been the complete character change they gave Fyero (but they were combining three other male characters into one in him).

For those who donÂt know, Wicked is a musical play adapted from the book of the same name by Gregory McGuire. However, the book and the play could actually be looked at as two separate entities. The bare skeleton of the play is the same, but theyÂve altered the characters and the plot almost completely. Both are about Elphaba a/k/a The Wicked Witch of the West and how she came to be known as such as well as her friendship with Glinda the Good Witch of the North.

The play starts with Elphaba and Glinda at finishing school in Shiz. Glinda is pretty and popular while Elphaba is odd (well, she does have green skin) and an outcast. Through circumstances beyond their control, the two become friends until situations arise that have Elphaba rebelling against the Wizard that rules Oz, making herself Public Enemy No. 1; while Glinda ignores the grievances caused by the Wizard and rises to become one of OzÂs most famed and admired political figures. The two girls must somehow come to terms with their new roles in life and figure out how their friendship will play a part in their decisions and actions.

Definitely see this play if you have the opportunity. You wonÂt regret it.

Quote:
(Glinda) ElphieÂCan I call you Elphie?
(Elphaba) ItÂs a little perky.
(Glinda) Elphie, IÂm going to make you my new project.
(Elphaba) You really donÂt have to do that.

Songs I Like

IÂm Not That Girl
Wicked: A New Musical
Idina Menzel

Hands touch, eyes meet
Sudden silence, sudden heat
Hearts leap in a giddy whirl
He could be that boy
But IÂm not that girl

DonÂt dream too far
DonÂt loose sight of who you are
DonÂt remember that rush of joy
He could be that boy
But IÂm not that girl

Every so often we long to steal
To the land of what might have been
But that doesnÂt soften the ache we feel
When reality sets back in

Blythe smile, lithe limb
She is winsome, she wins him
Gold hair with a gentle curl
He could be that boy
But IÂm not that girl

DonÂt wish, donÂt start
Wishing only wounds the heart
I wasnÂt born for the rose and the pearl
ThereÂs a girl I know
He loves her so
But IÂm not that girl

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IÂve been in a discussion recently regarding the ÂMary-Sue-nessÂ of a particular character in a popular novel and would like to make a few things clear.

The definition of a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stew is as follows:

Âin literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors or readers. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly. The author may seem to push how exceptional and wonderful the "Mary Sue" character is on his or her audience, sometimes leading the audience to dislike or even resent the character fairly quickly; such a character could be described as an "author's pet".

ÂA "canon Sue" may also refer to a character whose canon portrayal itself is seen as a "Mary Sue", rather than a character who has been altered in fan fiction. Typically, this refers to a character accused of being overly idealized or having other traits traditionally associated with fan fiction "Mary Sues", such as being "special" by having a gratuitously tragic past, unrealistic skills, or a seeming inability for the character to do wrong.Â
Wikipedia

I, for one, tend to think this is an extremely vague and overly broad definition of the term. Within this definition every character ever written can and will be qualified as a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stew. Everyone from Juliet Capulet to Harry Potter to Cinderella, then, would be termed a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stew.

In my opinion the term should either a) be eradicated entirely or b) narrowed down to a more detailed and firm definition with a specifically outlined test which can be performed on any character to decide whether or not that character is, in fact, a Mary-Sue/Gary Stew.

It seems to me that the majority of people calling Mary-Sue on characters within a published piece of work (i.e. not fan-fiction) are those people who have developed what one might call a Âcharacter crushÂ on the leading male/female character and are typically defending their dislike of that characterÂs love interest by calling the other female/male lead a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stew.

In my view, any character that is developed by a writer as their leading character is, by definition, the ÂauthorÂs petÂ. We wouldnÂt have spent so much time on developing that character, writing them a plot, giving them a past and a story to star in if we didnÂt have a special relationship with that character.

So, please, just remember that just because you donÂt like a character doesnÂt mean that character is automatically a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stew.

Thank you.

Songs I Like

To Be Loved
Zhang Liang Ying (Jane Zhang)

I can see your face everywhere I look
But everywhere is nowhere without you
What seemed to be like days was just a moment in time
But it meant the world to me, cuz I knew

What IÂve been searching for all of my life
I had it right here - in front of my eyes
And what IÂve wished for was nothing compared to what I received
When you were here with me

And if youÂll never come back
And today was all that we had
And if I wonÂt see tomorrow with you in my arms
It wonÂt matter because
Now I know what itÂs like to be loved

YouÂre so far away but I feel you so near
ItÂs like you never left me - never said good bye
I can hear your voice in the crowd
I can feel you touch me right now
I can see you smile when I close my eyes

And I hold on to that every night
To help me understand - when I ask myself why
Of all the people out there - you chose to be with me
To share a love so rare

And if youÂll never come back
And today was all that we had
And if I wonÂt see tomorrow with you in my arms
It wonÂt matter because
Now I know what itÂs like to be loved

What a beautiful thing - to feel your love within
Like a child that sees the sunshine on the first day of spring
Just to know itÂs true - there is someone like you
Who can make me believe there is nothing I canÂt do

If youÂll never come back
And today was all that we had
And if I wonÂt see tomorrow with you in my arms
It wonÂt matter because
Now I know what itÂs like to be loved

To be lovedÂ

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Starring: Chris Pine, Leonard Nimoy, Zachery Quinto
Viewed: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Rating:

Tagline:
The Future Begins

Plot Synopsis and Reviewer Comments:
The tagline for this movie should have been more along the lines of The Future BeginsÂAgain considering the fact that the events of the movie can/will pretty much undo anything that happened in the previous series and movies. This is not necessarily a bad thing as it opens up the franchise for a whole new generation of movies and possibly even a new series if the writers were so inclined. IÂm going to include a basic rundown because I donÂt want to give everything (or anything really) away. However, if you feel like reading a hit by hit synopsis of the movie, please visit Wikipedia.

Seconds after the destruction of the planet Romulus, a Romulan mining ship with the only remaining survivors is pulled through a black hole 154 years in the past where they confront a Federation Starship, USS Kelvin. The occupants of the Kelvin include George Kirk and his wife who is about to give birth to their son. When the Romulans attack, George evacuates the Kelvin and rams his ship into the Narada (the Romulan ship) to keep the evacuation shuttles safe. During all of this, James Tiberius Kirk (Chris Pine) is born.

Leap forward twenty-five years and Jim Kirk is a rebellious and cynical Starfleet Academy student. He spends most of his time in trouble and is, in fact, in the middle of a board of education hearing for having programmed a cheat into SpockÂs (Zachery Quinto) Kobayashi Maru test when the Federation receives word that the planet Vulcan is being attacked by the same Romulans who had destroyed the USS Kelvin. The Romulans blame Vulcan Ambassador Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for not having saved their planet as he had promised to do. In retaliation, they have decided to destroy Vulcan while he is made to watch.

Because of the time leap the Romulan ship made and the subsequent destruction of the USS Kelvin and death of KirkÂs father, the timeline is seemingly out of wack; a point that is vaguely mentioned by the elder Spock during a confrontation with young Jim Kirk.

There are special appearances by many of the surviving original castÂ.except William Shatner who wasnÂt not invited, which really must have caused some ego damage. I think that the casting directors, all in all, did a wonderful job in casting the younger version actors to be as much like their originals as possible. Script writers even managed to add in a few of the characterÂs infamous lines (McCoy: Damnit Jim, IÂm a doctor, not a physicist!) (Scotty: IÂm givinÂ her all sheÂs got, Captain!).

If the original series had been this good, I might have been a Trekkie.

Quote:
ÂSpace is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silenceÂ
-Dr. Leonard ÂBonesÂ McCoy

Look at this!
Captain Kirk - Chris Pine by *Luinalda

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Also, any of you who are interested in my recent vacation to Nashville an attendance at MTAC can click here to see some photos [link]

Food For Thought

Yeah, yeah, I know. She's Hannah Montana, who could ever like her except young pre-teens. I actually really like this song. It's lyrics have real meaning.

The Climb
Miley Sirus

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,

Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I

Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down but
No I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going

And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm gonna to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb (yeah)

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb (yeah yeah ea ea)

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith

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Anyway, the drive was really good...till we left Memphis. Then it was raining...and raining...and raining...We drove in the rain for about three and a half hours. Then, there was some traffic lights out and some traffic and we just happen to get into Nashville at rush hour. It took us an hour to go 0.85 miles.

But then we got to the hotel. Because of costs, we didn't stay at the same hotel that the convention was being held at, but we were just down the street and the great thing is, we had three beds, so we didn't have to share!

Our hotel was so pretty! The lobby looked like an outdoor bistro or something.

Our room was pretty big too.

That was my bed for the first night. Then I was so pathetic that Sara took pity on me and changed with me.

Me and Sara goofing around with the luggage cart. That's Sara being rolled.

It was raining so hard that we didn't want to go back into the traffic so we just ate at the Mexican restaurant that was attached to the hotel. That's *mindylu32 and Sara.

The next day we got up rather early (for us) and I got dressed in my costume and headed to the convention. I only wanted to spend the one day there and then do sightseeing that we didn't get to see the last time we were there.

*mindylu32 (on the left) struck that Next Top Model pose...hehehe

I saw Sailor Moon!!!!!! It took everything in me not to scream like a little girl.

Peace, love, and doughnuts!

I don't really know who these are, but I love their costumes.

Me and *mindylu32. We tried to get Sara in the photo, but didn't quite work.

I saw this Joker while I was in line for the dealer room. He could have just stepped out of the movie.

Oh noes! She's writing my name in the Death Note!

Me and my pretty costume.

Chii! I love her dress, but I'd bet it's hard to sit down in.

I bought this really cute bag in the dealer room. I love the cute hearts and skulls combo.

After we left the con, there was still some time left in the day so we decided to go shopping at the Prim Outlets in Lebanon. While we were there, I bought a Coach purse and wallet on sale or 50% off! Go me, it's my birthday, not really...

Saturday we went to tour BelleMeade Plantation. It was so pretty. They had costumed tour guides and everything. There was even a restaurant above the gift store. God, we ate soo much that day.

Just down the street from there is Centenial Park where they have a recreation of the Parthenon, complete with a 42... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Twilight Release Party and Other Vacations! http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/23753439/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/23753439/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:30:48 PDT

Twilight Release Party and Other Vacations

OMG! I'm so freakin' excited! I'm going to a Midnight Twilight Release Party at Books-a-Million! Me and *mindylu32 are going to our local Release Party and I cannot wait! I'm going to wear my Twlight T-shirt (it says, She's tougher than that; she runs with vampires) I can't wait!!!!

And then in two weeks she and I and another friend of ours are going to MTAC in Nashville.

And then, this is the best part, she and I are going with another friend to DISNEY WORLD! (all the way in September. I hate the wait)

Food for Thought

Congratulations
Blue October ft Imogene Heap

Is this seat taken?
Congratulations
Would you like to take a walk with me?

My mind it kinda goes fast
I'll try to slow it down for you
I think I'd like to take a drive
I want to give you something
I been wanting to give to you all these years

My heart
My heart, my pain won't cover up
You left me
My heart won't take this cover up
You left me

I came to see the light in my best friend
You seem as happy as you've ever been
My chance of being open was broken
And now you're Mrs. Him

My words, they don't come out right
I'm trying to say I'm happy for you
I think I'd like to take that drive
I want to give you something
I been wanting to give to you all these years

My heart
My heart, my pain won't cover up
You left me
My heart won't take this cover up
You left me

And I can't change this
I can never take it back
But now I can't change your mind (You left me)

And I can't take this
I can never take this back
But now I can't change your mind
can't change your mind (You left me)
Can't change you mind

(You left me.. hu hu hu hu)
(You left me.. hu hu hu hu)
(You left me.. hu hu hu hu)
(You left me.. hu hu hu hu)

Go away
Make it go away
Please.

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/22947682/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:15:19 PST Movie: Taken
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
Viewed: Saturday, January 31, 9:00 p.m.
Rating:

TAGLINE
Die Zeit fÃ¼r Rache ist gekommen. (The time for revenge has come.)

COMMENTS
Liam Neeson plays Brian Mills, a retired "preventer" with the CIA. He left his job to re-build a relationship with his seventeen year old daugher, Kim, who is now living with her controlling mother and urber rich step-father. However, instead of spending the summer getting to know her dad, Kim would rather travel Europe following U2 with her friend Amanda. Against his better judgement, Brian signs the papers which will allow her to do so.

When the duo land in Paris, things turn out not so perfect when Albanian gang members break into the condo and kidnap Kim and Amanda to sell as sex slaves. Kim happens to be on the phone with her father when she's taken and manages to scream out descriptions of her captors.

What follows is mayhem in its finest form as Brian scours Paris for the Albanians who took his daughter while avoiding the French Police who want to deport him back to the US. Knowing he has only a 96 hour window in which to rescue Kim, he uses every means at his disposal which includes lots of guns, lots of explosives, and lots of murder.

I loved it!

QUOTE:
If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Brian Mills

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My Thoughts: New Moon and Eclipse

I got a new journal css to reflect my new obsession (i.e. Twilight if you didn't notice). I'd do a breakdown of Breaking Dawn like I did for the other three...there's so much I'd love to comment on...but everything I would say would give something away to those who haven't read it yet (i.e. *mindylu32).

Do you know, I've seen the movie four times. The last time I did that was with Titanic and I have to say that I cannot wait for it to come on DVD so that I can see the extras and that should hold me over until November 2009 (or whenever New Moon comes out in theaters).

And Rob Pattinson cut his freakin' hair. How is he supposed to have the "Edward" coiff if he's got military styled hair? I thought that part of the contracts they sign was that you couldn't cut/color your hair if your characer was supposed to have a certain hair cut/color.

And how do they plan to make Taylor Lautner look 25 and 6'8? I mean, he's cute and all, but he does look young and he's barely taller than Kristen Stewart.

Food for Thought

Invisible
Taylor Swift

She can't see the way your eyes light up when you smile.
She'll never notice how you stop and stare whenever she walks by.
And you can't see me wanting you the way you want her
But you are everything to me.

I just wanna show you she don't even know you.
She's never gonna love you like I want to.
And you just see right through me, but if you only knew me
We could be a beautiful, miracle, unbelievable.
Instead I'm just invisible.

There's a fire inside of you that can't help but shine through.
She's never gonna see the light, no matter what you do.
And all I think about it how to make you think of me
And everything that we could be.

I just wanna show you she don't even know you.
She's never gonna love you like I want to.
And you just see right through me, but if you only knew me
We could be a beautiful, miracle, unbelievable.
Instead I'm just invisible.

Like shadows in a fading light, oh, we're invisible.
I just wanna open your eyes and make you realize.

I just wanna show you she don't even know you.
She's never gonna love you like I want to.
And you just see right through me, but if you only knew me
We could be a beautiful, miracle, unbelievable.
Instead I'm just invisible.

She can't see the way your eyes light up when you smile.

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My Thoughts: New Moon and Eclipse

I wasnÂt going to do this because IÂve already finished New Moon and Eclipse and am about to start on Breaking Dawn today, but I figured since I did my thoughts for Twilight I might as well go ahead and do one for all the books, right?

I still love Bella. I donÂt think anythingÂs going to change that. And I still donÂt get why so many people hate her.

I felt so sorry for Jasper in this one. Can you imagine how horrible he must have felt after that birthday party? None of them blame him, of course. HeÂs still new to their way of life and itÂs more difficult for him to ignore his natural instincts. Still, IÂm sure he blamed himself enough. I just wanted to grab him up and hug him.

And ohmygod! Chapter ThreeÂÂÂI bawled like a baby. Stephanie Meyer has this way of writing that she actually seems to put you in the book, in the scene, in the characters place. When BellaÂs heart broke, it felt like my heart was breaking. The talent that Mrs. Meyer has is incredible. I started reading this book while I was at work, during my lunch break. When Bella was nervous about Â. and I had to stop reading and go back to work, I spent the day nervous. When she was broken, I felt broken. And at the end when Rosalie pulled that stunt Â I thought IÂd die. I already thought she was a bitch in Twilight, but New Moon brought her to Class A Bitch status.

IÂm obviously not nearly as forgiving as Bella and Edward because despite her repentance in Eclipse, Rosalie is still a bitch in my book. Of course, we learn her story in Eclipse and I do feel sorry for her. No one, no matter how superficial, petty, and shallow she may be, deserves to have to go through that.

(Despite this, I bought the replica of RosalieÂs necklace from the movie)

I think my all time favorite part of the book is after Bella and Edward have compromised and BellaÂs talking to Alice who is putting on a really good show of heartache and disappointment. I can just see her sitting there with her head down and her lower lip poked out, tears (if vampires have tears) sparkling in her amber eyes as Bella plays right into her conniving hands.

ÂWhatÂs wrong, Alice?Â

ÂBella, I thought you loved me.Â

ÂI do love you.Â

Â

ÂYouÂre like a sister to me.Â

ÂTo me, Alice, you are my sister.Â

ÂWords!Â

Poor Bella. She never had a chance. Of course, I donÂt know why she was being so stubborn in the first place.

And can I just say that I figured out JacobÂs secret before I even finished the first book? It was so obvious, even if I hadnÂt already read the book synopses on Wikipedia. Speaking of Jacob Â I really liked him in the first two books, but after I got into Eclipse, I canÂt help but think of him as an annoying little jerk. HeÂd rather see Bella hurt than happy, if you ask me. ThatÂs not what you call love. And think, he told her that heÂd never imprinted on anyone before Â i.e. he hadnÂt imprinted on her. Therefore, he would end up doing her just like Sam and Leah. How do you think thatÂd affect Bella? HeÂs an insensitive, conniving jerk.

But I have to sayÂÂhilarity: ÂDid you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that in the movies!Â

Anywho, suffice to say that IÂve been completely sucked into the Twilight universe.

Check these out!
Bella in Depression by :devidanimechick4DDR:

New Moon
iKidnapp-Alice Cullen by :devidsuukei:

Eclipse

Food for Thought

Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfi... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Movie Review: Twilight http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21622648/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21622648/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:50:08 PST

Movie Review: Twilight

Movie: Twilight
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson
Viewed: Saturday, November 23, 2008, 9:20 p.m.
Rating:

TAGLINE
When you can live forever, what do you live for?

COMMENTS
I just got back from seeing Twilight with *mindylu32 and OMG! I've been anticipating this moment since I read the book and I wasn't disappointed.

It differed from the book - most movies do because of time constraints and making the plot flow better in a movie lay out than in a book layout, but that honestly didn't bother me.

The acting I thought was good, though I did have a few quips about Kristen Stewart and even Rob Pattinson in their dialogue. Still, the things I would complain about weren't their fault - they were just doing as directed. Bella was seemed so....how do you say it?...rushed and nervous whenever she would speak. It wasn't until near the end that anything seemed to flow naturally in her speech. And Edward was the same way.

Was it just me or did Peter Facinelli look extremely odd with blonde hair? Perhaps an actual blonde would have been a better choice? And I'm sorry, but Jackson Rathbone was just way too feminine looking. I don't know what they did to that boy to make him look like that because I've seen his pictures and he didn't look girly in anything except Twilight. However, Alice Cullen (Ashley Green) and Mike Newton (Michael Welch) were exactly as I pictured them.

However, this is supposed to be a review of the movie, not a critique of the characters' looks.

Like I said, I thought they did a decent job on the movie. The book is more about the development of the characters and their reactions to the world around them as they become more in touch with themselves and with each other. That's not something that can easily be portrayed in a movie. The only real action of the book is in the last few chapters, which is what the movie focused much of its attention on, which is as it should be. A movie needs a plot to stand.

I'm just glad that they ended it the way they did. That tells me that they intend to make a second movie based on New Moon, but given that I'm reading New Moon right now, I'm wondering exactly how they're going to pull that off. Perhaps they'll do as *mindylu32 suggested and combine New Moon

and Eclipse into one movie.........not sure how I'd like that.

That's really all I can say about it without giving anything away that I shouldn't. I will say this - if you plan to see the movie, you should read the book first. It makes the movie ten times better (and a little more comprehendible).

And my biggest complaint? Gosh darn it they screwed with my meadow scene!! :rant:

Just a thought, is it horrible that I think Taylor Lautner was hot in this movie considering he's ten years my junior?

QUOTE
"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb."
"What a stupid lamb."
"What a masochistic lion."
-Edward Cullen and Bella Swann-

Food for Thought

Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Twilight Zoned http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21549530/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21549530/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:50:41 PST

Twilight Zoned

O.M.G.

I just finished reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. It was one of the best non-period books IÂve read in ages; at least since I read The Killing Game by Iris Johansen (actually, I love all her books).

I started reading it Saturday and could not put it down. I had to go and by New Moon yesterday after work because I knew IÂd finish Twilight that night and I couldnÂt wait to read the next one. I was on pins and needles through the entire thing.

Of course, my absolute favorite scene is in the meadow with Edward and Bella. Oh, it was so romantically sweet. I want to read that part over and over and over again.

WhatÂs funny is that Bella reminds me so much of me; klutzy to the point of disability and with no internal sense of direction. I could trip over my own two feet walking down the hallway barefootÂand have.

I just donÂt get why so many people donÂt like Bella. I mean, they argue that sheÂs a klutz and spends too much time needing Edward to save her, but the fact of the matter is that she survived for seventeen years without EdwardÂs help and has been taking care of her mother that entire time Â and was starting to take care of her father.

There were only three real times when she needed Edward to save her and one of them was his fault anyway. She didnÂt do anything any different from what anyone else would do. She got lost, okay? IÂve done it tons of times. And she thought that guy had her mother Â who wouldnÂt have gone? ItÂs not like she expected Edward to save her from any of those dangers. Besides, if people donÂt like girls who need rescuing, then why the hell is Disney so popular? Honestly, how many of those princesses has ever rescued themselves? Pocahontas is the only one I can think of.

And IÂll admit that she does seem a little bit needy when it comes to Edward, always wanting to keep him in her sight. But if you spent the majority of your life as the outcast freak and someone suddenly though that you were the most perfect creation in the world, would you want them to leave? Uh, no. And as for her being obsessed with EdwardÂs looksÂwell, the girlÂs got self-esteem issues. If some gorgeous, model-like creature started fawning attention on me, IÂd be surprised (and skeptical), too. :\

Actually it was EdwardÂs part as the Byronic hero that got on my nerves. Well, heÂs not a completely Byronic hero Â heÂs too damned gorgeous for that. Still, his self-sacrificing tendencies and contradictive arguments were a bit annoying (ÂI canÂt be with you because IÂm a vampire, but I canÂt let you goÂ; ÂIt pains me to be away from you, but you have to leave me aloneÂ; .) Ugh. Either get in the pool and swim or go home Â sitting on the edge and dangling your feet, does not work.

So, anyway, I loved the book and I canÂt wait to begin New Moon.

Bella x Edward - Twilight by ~lenity
*PrincessMelissa83 My Birthday Bash http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21524254/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/21524254/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:44:55 PST
My Birthday Bash

Oh. My. Gosh. I totally enjoyed my birthday. Totally.

My birthday was actually Wednesday (the 12th) and I turned 25. My parents, actually forgot. I sat at the kitchen table with my dad for like 10 minutes that morning and he never even said good morning. When I got to work, several of the women from Adjuster Central in the Bee-Hive (what I call the central area where the adjusters work) and from the Mail Room had decorated my desk with streamers and balloons and little doodads as well as a "Happy Birthday" banner. I was so surprised!

My mom called just as everyone was getting in (about 8:30) to say happy birthday, trying to play it off like she hadn't forgotten. Yeah, right. My boss gave me a Coach wristlet and the two attorneys gave me a gift certificate. They even got a cake and sung "Happy Birthday."

Then, Thursday, since several of us in our little office have birthdays in November, we all went to Corkey's for our birthdays.

So, then, my real birthday bash was Saturday. I got tickets for me, *mindylu32, and Sara to go to Jungua: Decendants of the Dragon at one of the casino's. They came to my house and we went out to dinner at one of the local Spanish restaurants. We came home and had Sangria and played several games of Clue (I lost each time ) and then went to the casino to see the show. It was fantastic! If you don't know what it is, you should definately watch this video. It was amazing. Simply, simply amazing. I can't describe it. I want to go back again and again and again.

It was the best birthday.

Food for Thought
Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfied.

Other Accounts
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A stock account with my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization
*PrincessMelissa83 100 Themes Updated http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/20067939/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/20067939/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:53:18 PDT
100 Themes Updated
I took this version from DisneyBubble's journal.

1. Introduction - [link]
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory - [link]
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand - [link]
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned - [link]
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces - [link]
77. Test - [link]
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up - [link]
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

Food for Thought
Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfied.

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account with my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization
*PrincessMelissa83 Worst Vacation Ever http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/19522974/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/19522974/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:19:48 PDT
Worst Vacation Ever
Woke up Sunday morning with a slightly sore throat and congestion. Figured it was just from sinus drainage during the night and it would get better by the time we got to the Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis. It didn't.

I was restless from being uncomfortable, so I went downstairs, played a $20 and won $146.65 on the penny slots. I cashed out.

Went to bed last night and couldn't sleep. I was so miserable that I finally got up and went downstairs 'cause I figured I was annoying Sara. Got a players card with a free $25 and played it - won $130.00.

That was at 3:00 a.m.

Went back to bed about 4:30 a.m. and managed a fitful night of sleep until we had to get up at 7:30 to get ready to head for the daytrip to New Orleans. Woke up with a sore thoat and froggy voice. Still congested. Also sick to my stomache.

Went to New Orleans and walked around. I made myself not focus on the fact that I was miserable and enjoy myself anyway, but in the back of my mind I could still sense that I was sick. Slept on the bus there and on the bus back. Woke up back at the Hollywood with an aching and stopped up ear. Seriously, my ear hurts when I swallow. How much sense does that make?

I'm freaking miserable and it's only the first day of vacation.

So, I did what every baby does when he or she feels as bad as I do. I called my mom. In tears. I'm a bit of a crybaby when I'm sick.

So, me and Sara are driving back up North tomorrow morning and my dad's being left here to fend for himself in regards to a ride home.

This month officialy sucks.

Food for Thought
Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfied.

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account with my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Ready to Kill http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18980492/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18980492/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:40:24 PDT
Ready to Kill
Several years ago my cousin's maleovent ex-husband took her to court and got custody of their little girl. Now his wife (who totally could have just stepped out of the Grimm's Cinderella) is playing the role of evil stepmother to a tee. She's telling Savannah and Jason (the ex) that my cousin is calling her, threatening her, cussing her out, yada yada yada when Kim's never done anything like that. She's telling him she's in a cult because she's a Christian and took Savannah to VBS two weeks ago. Now they're telling Savannah that Kim' a liar and a she's in a cult and that she's trying to take her away from her daddy which just isn't true. They've got Savannah all upset and saying she doesn't want to come visit her mom because they told her that her mom's crazy and is dangerous.

Now Kim really has gone off the deep end with a nervous breakdown because she thinks her baby doesn't love her anymore and Savannah's what Kim lives for.

And it pisses me off because Savannah's always been my baby since the day she was born. She's my little clone. She's like my own child. When Kim and Jason divorced she was only six months old and my family helped raise her.

So, yeah. I'm ready to murder little miss Grimm's Fairy Tale.

No, I take that back. I wanna go Snow White on her skinny bitch ass and torture her until she goes insane and has to be locked up in a padded room for the rest of her life. I want to stand over her and watch her cry.

I know it sounds bad, but I am fiercly protective of my friends and family. Especially when it comes to that little girl. No one is going to hurt her.

They think just because they got John Booth Farese as their lawyer no one can touch them. Yeah, every lawyer in Mississippi may be scared to go up against them, but I hate to tell 'em, my lawyers ain't from Mississippi and they ain't scared of Farese.

Food for Thought
Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfied.

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account with my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 All Good Things Must End http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18895071/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18895071/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:47:30 PDT
All Good Things Must End *IY Spoiler*
THIS JOURNAL CONTAINS INUYASHA SPOILERS!!!!!

I'm sad and yet I'm happy at the same time. Of course I'm talking about Inuyasha coming to an end. I'm happy with the ending, though the first few pages gave me a scare. I thought Takahashi-san was going to leave it with Kagome in her world and Inuyasha in his. But I'm ecxtatic that Inuyasha and Kagome are getting married! At least that's what I took the last line to mean.

"Inuyasha and I are to be bound tomorrow."

And how cute was it that Sesshomaru brings Rin gifts?

And Miroku and Sango's twin girls? "Doggy, doggy!"

But I'm so sad that it has to come to an end. I'll miss it. Now I just have to get the three seasons that I'm missing on DVD.

And I have to find another manga to obsess over. I've started Chobits and think I'll like it. I've also picked up the first volume of Little Queen and, I think, Love Hina.

Food for Thought
Remember that when God created you, He gave you your emotions. He gave you tears to help drain off the abscess of pain that's broken your heart. And when you cry, remember that you're in good company. After all, Jesus wept, took, when His heart was broken.

Just imagine living where love fills our lives so completely there won't be any empty spaces left in us to fill. Therefore we won't want anything. We'll be perfectly content - supremely satisfied.

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account with my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Grossness & Tattoos http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18762870/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18762870/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:51:58 PDT
Grossness
I've had to idiot proof the bathrooms in our office building. There are some very rude and disgusting people working in this building. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've walked into the bathroom (there are two on this floor shared by four businesses) and seen someone else's *dung* floating there. One lazy bum decided to not take the time to lift the seat and didn't even bother to clean up after he missed his target.

Ugh. I'm so not shaking hands with anyone from this building. I mean, if they can't take the time out of their busy schedule to flush, you know they aren't washing their hands.

After the first few times, I had put a couple of signs in there (one at eye level for those sitting on the throne and one at eye level for the men) reminding people these were not private restrooms and curtesy dictated that they flush after they were done. Apparently one of the men didn't like that 'cause the sign I had above the toilet is gone.

After today's unwanted surprise, I went on the internet and found The Idiot's Guide to Flushing the Toilet and printed it out. It's got pictures and everything. I've taped it to the wall and just wish I could see people's reactions.

I really wish I knew who the culprits were because I would so totally embarrass the snot out of them. I would go to their office with a can of Lysol and hand wipes and explain in a loud voice how to flush the toilet and why washing fecal matter from your hands is important. Then I would disinfect their desks while their co-workers watched.

The Idiot Proof Guide is found here [link]

Grossness
I didn't get to get my tattoo this weekend. I got there and was waiting for him to finish up with someone else. I wasn't there thirty minutes and the electricity went out. I guess there was a power surge from all the air conditioners in use, but power was out for a six mile radius. And now I'm not going to be able to afford it again for at least another month or so. I'm dissapointed.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18617745/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:03:34 PDT
Random Thoughts
OMG! I'm so excited! I've been working up the courage for years now to actually get a tattoo done and I've finally talked myself into stopping being a baby about it and just do it. So, my cousin's going to take me to her tattoo artist on Saturday and I'm getting it done on my bum area. I needed it to be someplace that it wouldn't show at work (since I work in a rather strict law office...well, strict on the dress code) and somewere the skin is somewhat tougher (I'm slightly allergic to pain). I've gotten shots in that area and it didn't hurt (well, not more than a mesquito sting).

I can't wait!!!!!!!

I plan to get a gold crown sitting on top of a red heart with some sparklies in it. See it here

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)

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A stock account my friend, *mindylu32.

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*PrincessMelissa83 Random Thoughts http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18004266/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/18004266/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:03:15 PDT
Random Thoughts
There are some theorists who believe the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012, based on the fact that the Mayan calendar comes to an end on that date (and various predictions by Nostrodomus and other "prophets").

I got to thinking the other night - we have an election in 2008 which means the next election will be November of 2012. If Obama were to lose this election, he would most certainly run again in 2012. If he were elected...it would usher in Armageddon!

Then I got to thinking, Revalationists (those who study the predictions of Revalations), therorize that Armageddon will consist of a seven year "tribulation" period and that half way through this tribulation period, the Antichrist will be assassinated and rise from the dead three days later possessed by Satan and that it is at this point the shit hits the fan, as it were. Things go from just so-so or moderately bad to Hell on earth.

2012 would be about that halfway point. And since Obama seems to be leading McCain and Clinton in the polls.....

Not that I'm saying Obama is the Antichrist. I'm just saying he'd make a damn good one.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization
*PrincessMelissa83 What's Her Problem? http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17919855/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17919855/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:33:31 PDT
What's Her Problem?
Suppose you were presented with this situation, would would you think? My parents go with my aunt to the casino just about every weekend. I live at home, so my mom usually calls to tell me they're going. Since they get free meal tickets to the buffet, I usually join them for dinner and then go home. The last few times that they've gone, however, when I say something about joining them, my mom has come up with 101 reason why I shouldn't. And they're not all that bright either.

Like a few weeks ago when they went, I was on my way home from work when she called to tell me. I said that I'd turn around at Coldwater and meet them there, but she said they weren't leaving just yet. So I said I'd come home and follow them, but sh said they'd probably be gone by the time that I got home. So I said I'd go look at Movie Gallery and she could call me when they were leaving and I would follow them. Well, they weren't going to be eating first thing. I'm perfectly capable of eating by myself. But it was seafood night and I don't like seafood. I've always found something, even on seafood night. Finally, I demanded to know what her problem was and she gave up the argument then sat there staring at me the entire time I was eating even after I told her to go play or do whatever.

Then today, she called me at 4:30 to tell me that they were headed to the casino. I said I'd meet them over there and eat at the buffet since we've not exactly got a lot of choice around the house (unless I wanted Ramen...again). So, anyway, she starts up immediately.

"We'll already be there when you get off work."
"Uh, duh."
"Well, we're going to eat as soon as we get there."
"I'm 24, I can eat by myself."
"I'm not sure if we're gonna have enough reward points for all of us."
"Well, find out when you get there and call me."
"You'll have left by then."
"But I won't be to the casino by then, will I?
"No...but it's seafood night and you don't like seafood."
"I've eaten there on seafood night before."
"You know it's raining, right?"
"Oh, my God! If you don't want me to go, just say so."
"You can come if you want. I don't care if you come. I just don't know if we'll have enough reward points."
"Forget it. I'll eat ramen." Click.

About ten minutes later, my dad called.

"Did you want to meet us at the casino."
"No."
"You told your mom you did."
"I changed my mind. Besides, she doesn't have enough reward points."
"Between us and your aunt, we have plenty."
"Well, it's raining and I just don't feel like driving that far."
"Okay, but if you change our mind call."

That's the second time my dad's had to play peace maker between me and her. Since March.

I have got to get out. NOW

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)
*PrincessMelissa83 Yay! http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17860507/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17860507/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:03:27 PDT
Yay!
I'm so excited y'all! The office manager called me yesterday to say that I had gotten excellent reviews on my evaluation and that I would be getting a raise starting April 1st so it would show up on today's paycheck. She said that I'd be making an extra $1,500 a year. I know it's not a lot, but something is better than nothing and with rising gas prices, it's a pretty sweet deal.

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets as well as a series of faeries dressed as Loligoth.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)

11. Lewis and Clark were not really meant to explore the West for all those months. They simply did not want to admit (especially in front of Sacajawea) that they were lost.
-Sherrie Weaver

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization
*PrincessMelissa83 Wow http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17684266/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17684266/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:10:52 PDT
Wow
I just watched a video on MSN of an elephant painting a self-portrait and it was amazing! This elephant was a better artist than me! Video link

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full pay.
*There'd be a cure for stretch marks.
*Natural childbirth would become obsolete.
*Morning sickness would rank as the nations number one health problem.

4. You know you're getting old when you yearn for those blessed old hymns of days gone by, especially:
"Go Tell It on the Mountain - and Speak Up!
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have Seeing"
"Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah (I've Forgotten Where I Parked)"

5. People who need to get older are much luckier than people who need to get younger.
-Ashleigh Brilliant

6. How is that you can gain two pounds by eating half a pound of fudge?
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

7. According to my birth certificate, I am living somehwere bteween estrogen and death, or, as someone said, between menopause and LARGE PRINT! But I don't have to act my age because, thank God, I've discovered a wonderful antiaging remedy. In fact, it's been promoted since biblical times as a cure for a wide variety of problems. What is it? Laughter.

8. Men: There are two theories for arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

9 The good news: I've finally discovered the Fountain of Youth. The bad news: At my age, I've forgotten what I wanted to do with it.
-Martin A. Ragaway

10. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way. The other is to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson (one smart president)

11. Lewis and Clark were not really meant to explore the West for all those months. They simply did not want to admit (especially in front of Sacajawea) that they were lost.
-Sherrie Weaver

Other Accounts
For all my fanfictions and other writings.
A stock account my friend, *mindylu32.

Clubs and Organization
*PrincessMelissa83 Musical Me http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17563547/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17563547/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:53:33 PDT
Musically Me
RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5.Put this on your journal.

1.If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
Danger (Been So Long) - Mystikal & Nivea (uh....hmmmm...)

2.How would you describe yourself?
Hit 'em Up Style (Oops) - Blu Catrell (hehehe...I'd do it too...)

3.What do you like in a girl/guy?
I'm Sensitive - Jewel (Does that mean I want a sensitive guy....or one that'll tell me I'm less of a person for being a girl?)

4.How do you feel today?
Crush - Mandy Moore (hmmmm...well, I do have a crush...)

5.What is your life's purpose?
Good Day - Jewel (My purpose is to have a good day, I suppose....or be up all night thinking)

6.What is your motto?
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables (No...it's not....)

7.What do your friends think of you?
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit (That's not right...)

8.What do you think of your parents?
High School Never Ends - Bowling for Soup (huh? That makes no sense)

9.What do you think about very often?
Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy (I think about an almost lover....Maybe...)

10.What is 2 + 2?
Wait For You - Elliot Yamin (No comment)

11.What do you think of your best friend?
She's Everything - Brad Paisley (that could be right if the song wasn't about what it's about. In the context of "she's everything a friend should be" it would be better suited)

12.What do you think of the person you like/love?
Popular - Chenoweth (interesting...very interesting)

13.What is your life story?
Come to Jesus - Mindy Smith (again, interesting...)

14.What do you want to be when you grow up?
Where Would You Be - Martina McBride (huh?)

15.What do you think of when you see the person you like/love?
Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel & Kristen Chenoweth (sounds about right...)

16.What will/did you dance to at your wedding?
Shakles (Praise You) - Mary Mary (heheheh! Shakles because I'm married and Praise You because I'll be singing halleluja it finally happened!)

17.What will they play at your funeral?
Wonderful - Idina Menzel & Joel Grey (That's just mean)

18.What is your hobby/interest?
Some Day My Prince Will Come - Ashley Tisdale (I'm looking for my prince...that's about right)

19.What is your biggest fear?
A Sentimental Man - Idina Menzel & Joel Grey (that's a bit contradictory from before...)

20.What is your biggest secret?
Something Bad - Idina Menzel & William Youmans (lol...how fitting)

21.What do you think of your friends?
Who I Am - Jessica Andrews (odd...just...odd)

22.What will you post this as?
Our Lips are Sealed - Hillary & Hailey Duff

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.
*PrincessMelissa83 Update: Politics http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17335824/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17335824/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:01:31 PDT
Politics

Update: After some further research, it has come to my attention that one of my statements is incorrect - it was not Obama who swore in on a Koran, but a fellow senator. This does not, however, change my views on the subject. I've also found a few more links, including the website for his "church" Trinity United. The church whose beliefs he is now claiming he doesn't completely support.

I know that a lot of people are all fired up for Barak OBama and that they think he is the person who is going to lead this country to new hights. However, I feel certain that should OBama be elected as president, this country is going to face a terror like it has never faced before. I'd give my most extreme thoughts, but then I fear those of you who do read my journal entries would dismiss everything else I am about to say as unsupported trash talk.

He calims to be a member of the Trinity United Chuch of Christ for many years and he claims to have had little to no ties with his father, a Muslim. Someone should investigate into when Obama joined the TUCC and I would bet that it corresponds to the same time that he began considering running for president because everyone knows that no one in their right mind is going to elect a Muslim for president.

Video footage has been taken and aired of Obama refusing to lay his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Way to support your country.

And though they'll never show this video on most news channels, this clip recently aired on the O'Riley Factor. It shows clippings from sermons by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. fueling anti-american, anti-white sentaments. This man performed Obama's wedding and baptised his children. Obama has been quoted in the past as saying that he thinks highly of this man, that he is a good friend and that he is a very influential person in his life, that he is a mentor and spiritual advisor. Please, please watch this video before making your decision. O'Riley Factor Video

And if that isn't enough to convince anyone, to add fuel to the fire Obama is being supported by Louis Farrakhan, who is also a good friend of Obama's pastor. Farrakhan is the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). I've included a link to his wikipedia profile.

Please, please, please consider these things seriously before making any commitment. Just listen to the facts surrounding Obama instead of the words he claims are true. Lucifer himself possesses a guilded tongue, but that doesn't mean he speaks the truth. Just like in any other political campaign, the parties are going to tell you what they know you want to hear - you have to study their past decisions, past acts, past opinions to know what they really stand for.

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.
*PrincessMelissa83 Politics http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17327738/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17327738/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:20:38 PDT
Politics

I know that a lot of people are all fired up for Barak OBama and that they think he is the person who is going to lead this country to new hights. However, I feel certain that should OBama be elected as president, this country is going to face a terror like it has never faced before. I'd give my most extreme thoughts, but then I fear those of you who do read my journal entries would dismiss everything else I am about to say as unsupported trash talk.

Upon being sworn into the senate, Obama refused to lay his hand on the Bible as requested and was sworn in on a Koran instead despite claiming that he has been a member of the United Methodist Church for many years and despite the fact that he claims to have had little to no ties with his father, a Muslim. To me, that is evidence of a man talking out of both sides of his mouth. Someone should investigate into when Obama joined the UMC and I would bet that it corresponds to the same time that he began considering running for president because everyone knows that no one in their right mind is going to elect a Muslim for president.

Video footage has been taken and aired of Obama refusing to lay his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. Way to support your country.

And though they'll never show this video on most news channels, this clip recently aired on the O'Riley Factor. It shows clippings from sermons by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. fueling anti-american, anti-white sentaments. This man performed Obama's wedding and baptised his children. Obama has been quoted in the past as saying that he thinks highly of this man, that he is a good friend and that he is a very influential person in his life, that he is a mentor and spiritual advisor. Please, please watch this video before making your decision. O'Riley Factor Video

And if that isn't enough to convince anyone, to add fuel to the fire Obama is being supported by Louis Farrakhan, who is also a good friend of Obama's pastor. Farrakhan is the head of the Nation of Islam (NOI). I've included a link to his wikipedia profile.

Please, please, please consider these things seriously before making any commitment. Just listen to the facts surrounding Obama instead of the words he claims are true. Lucifer himself possesses a guilded tongue, but that doesn't mean he speaks the truth. Just like in any other political campaign, the parties are going to tell you what they know you want to hear - you have to study their past decisions, past acts, past opinions to know what they really stand for.

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Food for Thought
Some things to ponder:

1. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it in the company of naked fat people.

2. Keep smiling! The lucious plum forgot to - and became a wrinkled prune.

3. HOW THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF MEN GOT PREGNANT:
*Maternity leave would last two years - with full... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Random Thoughts http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17186437/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17186437/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:06:40 PST
Random Thoughts

When I get to Heaven, I think the question that I'm going to ask first and foremost, depending on how many questions we're allowed to ask though I don't think that God would limit such a thing, is going to be in regards to the dinosaurs.

Nothing has ever confused me more in my life than the existence of the dinosaurs. In Genesis we're told that God created the earth and then the next day created animals and then created man. It never mentions the animals that are created, but we know from carbon dating and other scientific means that the chance of dinosaurs and humans co-existing is slim to none. And if dinosaurs existed, which we have the evidence of fossils and bones to prove that they did, then obviously God created them. Again, because of carbon dating and other scientific means, we know how long the dinosaurs existed and how long they've been dead which was millions of years. What we don't know is how long a day was in those very first days. God isn't bound by time as we know it and, in fact, it would seem that the early peoples in the Bible were not bound by time as we know it either considering that Abraham lived to be, like, 175 years old and Sarah conceived at 90.

Therefore, what I would suppose is that prior to God creating the first man, He created the dinosaurs and then changed his mind before creating man. But I want to ask Him to know for certain.

The only problem that comes to me in considering this as possibility is the hypothesis on how creatures of myth were created by ancient civilizations. Perhaps the proof that we have that dinosaurs existed isn't truly proof at all. Perhaps the skeletons that we've assembled are only figments of our imagination like those created by the ancients.

The existence of these ancient mythical creatures such as the Pegasus, Cyclops, and Griffin is believed to have come about by ancient peoples finding fossils of dinosaur bones, or large bones and assembling with the pieces they were found with, regardless of whether or not those pieces actually went together, to form something like a creature that they were familiar with and then giving it a name and a history.

The Cyclops was believed to have been created by forming the head of a Triceratops or other horned creature with other bones to make a slumped and deformed man. The area where the forehead horn would have been on a full creature, on a skull would be only a large hole with the eye sockets actually being on the side of the head. The ancients would not realize that hole was a horn and would therefore believe it to be a single eye and the actual eye sockets were ear holes.

But then you have to wonder - how would they not know that it was actually a horn socket and not an eye socket when looking at it considering that, despite what we might prefer to think, these people weren't stupid. There's evidence of certain individuals (Imho-tep of Egypt) successfully performing brain surgery in the time of Seti I....or was it Ramses? Either way, it was long, long before we were doing it.

And then there is the question of Pangaea, the name for the continents based on the belief that they began as one large land mass and later broke into the forms that we know today. This would seem feasible based on the fact that the continents seem to fit together in a way to make one large mass.

One suggestion was brought up by a friend of mine, Sara, that perhaps when God first created the earth, Pangaea was the original design and that it later broke up, possibly after the flood. Adding my two cents in, I suggested that perhaps the break up happened as a result of the Tower of Babel, considering that we know that God separated the people and gave them different tongues to keep them from conspiring in such a way again.

And my third and final question, for now, would be one that a girl brought up to me a long time ago. We're no longer friends, but the question still remains: Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? They were not born in the way that we were - they were created, therefore they didn't have an umbilical cord, which is how our belly buttons are formed.

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Crummy Weekend http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17088277/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/17088277/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:19:27 PST
Crummy Weekend

Well, this was certainly the worst weekend ever.

Friday afternoon I started feeling a little icky. Nothing major, just stomach pains and a general urge to go home as soon as possible. I chalked it up to that awful frozen dinner I'd had for lunch and the fact that it was Friday.

By the time I got home at 5:30, the ickiness had...uh...begun to "release" itself. I felt lightheaded and weak and shakey so I asked my mom to take me to the ER. Too bad I didn't specify which one 'cause she took me to Senatobia Hospital.

I had to lie down on the waiting room floor because I felt faint which actually worked to my advantage because they came out right after that and took me back to triage where they discovered my blood pressure was like 90 over 60 or something like that. It was really, really low.

I was put into a bed there in the ER and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited. They finally let my mom back there about 11:30. In all this time (8:00 to 11:30) I'd seen Punjab (the on call doctor was Indian and I didn't like him so I've been calling him Punjab) once and he asked me all of three questions. That's it. Never even got within three feet of me. (If he'd gotten within reaching distance, I probably would have punched him at that moment...)
About midnight, I felt sick so I asked if I could go to the bathroom (they had me on IV liquids by this time) so they let me. When I came back to the bed, I had to lean over to throw up into the provided bucked and was about to climb back into the bed. The next thing I know I was waking up on the floor with a whole crowd of people standing around me.

Punjab stood on the other side of the ER curtain after I'd gotten back into bed and told me that they were keeping me overnight. In retrospect, his distance was probably a good idea on his part because he might not have survived the night if he'd gotten near me after my treatment thus far. I swear, the entire time he was "treating me" Punjab never got within five feet of me.

So on doctor's orders (I want proof that Punjab's a real doctor), I was not allowed to have anything by mouth and I was on complete and total bedrest. You know what that means. The joys and degredation of the bedpan. Ugh. Shoot me now.

Honestly folks, Senatobia Hospital is like the roach motel of hospitals. I broke my arm in 5th grade and they let my lay in the ER for four hours before they would admit that they didn't have anyone on staff who knew how to set a broken bone. There is only ever one doctor on call at a time for the entire hospital. How many hospitals only have one doctor working? And it's not like they were blowing the budget on decorationg the place! They didn't even have a cafeteria! And as for the so called doctors staffed there....Some hospitals staff only those that were at the top of their class. We staff only those that were at the bottom. The very bottom.

So, where was I? Oh, yeah. I was taken off any and all liquids. My mouth was so dry that it hurt. I couldn't swallow. I asked Punjab if I could at least swish some water and he said no. So I did what any normal and sane person would do. I ignored him and did it anyway. Screw him. I'd bet I know as much about doctoring as he does anyway.

Saturday I woke up feeling much, much better. My blood pressure had gone up a little (110/68) and I wasn't throwing up anymore. The nurse brought in some broth and coffee and juice for my breakfast and I was halfway finished with it when she came back in and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, we weren't supposed to give you that. My bad." I could've strangled someone.

They couldn't let me have anything to eat or drink or let me get out of bed until the doctor came in to see me. My back hurt from lying down for so long, my bottom has a huge bruise on it where I hit an IV pump when I fainted and that hurt from lying on it, my legs were all jittery from not being able to move for so long - I needed up.
Just before lunch some guy came in to do an ultrasound to make sure that I had no gallstones. (And what symptoms was I showing to support gallstones???) Finally, at lunch, they let me have some broth and tea. Still, haven't seen the good doctor.

Sometime between noon and supper, and just after my fourth temper tantrum (I have a very short fuse when I'm sick), I said screw them and got up anyway, starting to go back and forth to the bathroom (bedpans are evil!) and ate supper sitting in a chair next to my bed. The nurses just laughed at me.

However, it was about that time that I noticed this reddish colored line from extending from the IV in my left wrist halfway up to my elbow. It took 'em half an hour, but the nurses finally decided that it might be a good idea if they took that IV out and started anoth... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Devious Journal Entry http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16761595/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16761595/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:48:05 PST
Not So Random Ranting

I've been selling the remainder of my Mary Kay inventory on eBay.com and I've made a nice little sum. Eventually I'm going to clean out my closet (and room) and put the remainder of my junk on there.

But that's not what I'm ranting about.

See, I got this idea from that movie P.S. I Love You when she and her husband are arguing about finances or something and she says something like, "I buy them on eBay - Mark Jacobs from Minnesota doesn't count." And I got to thinking...you know, people do sell namebrand (big names) on eBay....why can't I buy something? So, I started looking.

I've bid on four Coach purses and one Prada and each time I'm outbid in the last 30 seconds by one or two dollars. So far, all I have to show for it is this tiny little Coach wristlet that I'll maybe have reason to use once every year or two that I got for $50.00 that I only bid on because I thought I was bidding on something else.

And it pisses me off that I spend an hour and a half of my life hitting the refresh button every three seconds just to make sure that I'm the highest bidder when Jane Dodo swoops in with less than one minute to go and bids a $1 more than me so that by the time my page has loaded and I've hit "increase bid" the auction's over and I've lost.

But what pisses me off even more than that is when I tell my mother that the Prada purse I bid $175 on just sold to Jane Dodo for $177.50 with less than 30 seconds to ending so that I couldn't bid again, she laughs and tells me it's stupid to waste that much money on a purse. And she doesn't see why that makes me upset. Yet she's not exactly giggles and rainbows when I mention how spending $400.00 on the slot machines at Harrah's ain't exactly bright or a wise investment in itself. Of course, I should have known her philosophy would apply to everyone but herself. How silly of me not to realize.

Yes, I know it's just a purse. I'm not stupid. I know that a purse by Prada or Fendi or Gucci or any one of those celebrity designers, works just as well as a purse bought at Target. And I know that to a lot of people it's just another handbag, but it means something to me. I love fashion. I love style. And the purse is a part of the fashion world that I can actually have. I mean, even if I could afford it, Dolche & Gabana will never make clothes in my size - even Calvin Klien won't. But you don't have to be a size 00 to wear a purse.

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Features
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By :iconKaitikut:

By :iconalesyria:

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http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16573894/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:17:31 PST
Musical Survey

Stolen from

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:

# 1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
# 2. Put it on shuffle
# 3. Press play
# 4. For every question, type the song that's playing
# 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
# 6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

Opening Credits:
Days of Elijah - Twila Paris (Okay...that could work...I guess...)

Waking Up:
You Don't Lie Here Anymore - Shelly Fairchild (Apparently not if I'm waking up)

First Day At School:
Good Day - Jewel (yeah, the first day of school is never a good day...)

Falling In Love:
How You Live (Turn Up the Music) - Point of Grace (that has nothing to do with love...well...romantic love...)

Fight Song:
Turn Off the Light - Nelly Furtado (will turning off the light help me win?)

Breaking Up:
Dancing Through Life - Wicked Cast, Wicked Soundtrack (Apparently, I wasn't that torn up about it...)

Prom Night:
Misery Business - Paramore (I get to piss of my enemy on what's supposed to be her greatest night! yeah!)

Life:
Who I Am - Jessica Andrews (that could actually work...)

Mental Breakdown:
High School Never Ends - Bowling for Soup (it really doesn't, you know...)

Driving:
Be Prepared - Lion King (yeah, given my track record, be prepared for the wreck I'm gonna make of your car...)

Flashback:
Stupd Boy - Keith Urban (Guess he was stupid...)

Getting Back Together:
Hate That I Love You - Rhianna and Chris Brown (am I supposed to be happy about getting back together?)

Wedding:
She's In Love With The Boy - Trisha Yearwood (I hope so, if I'm marrying him...)

Birth of Child:
Hey There Delilah - Plain White Tees (You know, if I was gonna name my kid Delilah, it might actually work.)

Final Battle:
What Is This Feeling - Idina Menzel & Kristen Chenoweth, Wicked Soundtrack (given that this song is about loathing the other person, this could actually work.)

Funeral Song:
Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey (please, don't play this at my funeral.)

Final Credits:
I'm Not That Girl - Indina Menzel, Wicked Soundtrack (that's an odd finale..)

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Features
Some of my featured favorites.

By :iconKaitikut:

By :iconalesyria:

By http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16398419/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:18:02 PST
Recent News
Nothing new is really going on, but I felt like writing a journal anyway.

I got a rental car and it's pretty neat. It's a 2007 Nissan Altima and it's keyless. It's got this stick thing and as long as you have the stick in your pocket or in your purse, you can operate the car. You have to push a button to turn it on and off, to open the door, and to open the gas tank. However, with all these buttons, you have to lean down and pull up on a rod to move the seat back and forth and you have to actually pump a lever to raise the seat. They couldn't add one more button? One more button would have killed them? Geez.

Also, I think I might make a doll - like an actual doll either with the parts they sell at Wal-Mart or by refurbishing a Barbie doll. I want to make one to look like Kagome, each of the Sailor Senshi and possibly the rest of the Inuyasha troop. It depends on how well I do with Kagome. Do you think anyone would buy those off of eBay? I'm going to do a poll, so please vote. Thanks!

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Features
Some of my featured favorites.

By :iconKaitikut:

By :iconalesyria:

By

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<... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 What a Day http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16347306/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16347306/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:10:18 PST
Recent News
It rained really hard today and part of last night. I was on my way to work this morning and halfway there the car two cars in front of me hydroplaned on a bridge and hit the rail guard, spinning around in a circle. The car between us managed to swerve out of the way, into the other lane and onto the shoulder. I was pretty far back when i saw it, so I'm sure that had things been dry, I would have been able to stop in plenty of time. Thinking back on it now, I should have turned into te median and let the mud and grass help stop me, but when you have a split second to make those decisions, they never come. Anyway, I slamed on breaks, but with the wet, slick roads, the tires couldn't find enough traction and I ended up slamming the back of the car that hydroplaned (she had stalled on the bridge) which knocked her car forward and stopped mine.

The back of her car was like an aluminum can being squished. The trunk was gone and in the backseat. My car actually wasn't that bad. The PT seems to be amazingly resilient. Don't get me wrong, I mean, the guy at the body shop said that it's about $3,000 worth of damage, but there's no structual damage. It dented in the grill, knocked off the fender, smooshed in the steering wheel and wore all the tred off my tires. Still, that's better than it could have been considering I had been doing 75 - 80 MPH when I started to break.

Neither of us were seriously injured. I hit my head on the steering wheel because my air bag didn't deploy. I also sprained my wrist and my ankle (because I braced for impact), the seatbelt bruised my lower abdomen, and somehow scraped my knee. I've yet to figure that one out. So,I have a huge ass headache that will not go away, I can't walk, I have to wear one of those ugly boots, and my right wrist (did I mention I'm right handed?) is in a brace. It also hurts to laugh, walk, bend and basically move because of the bruises.

It's been a rough day, you know...I had the wreck at 7:30 a.m. I finally got out of the ER at 3:00 p.m. because they had to do x-rays and a CT Scan of my lower abdomen. Of course, it wouldn't have taken long to get the CT Scan if they had just asked me before they ran a pregnancy test. If they had asked, I would have told them the truth - unless it's immaculate conception, I'm not pregnant. But no, they didn't ask and I had to wait three freaking hours while they finished the blood work.

You wanna know the funniest part? I've had lower back pain since I was in that crash back in July. My back doesn't hurt anymore. Go figure.

Update from Previous Journal
I checked back and guess what! has been banned. Justice is served!

Current Projects
I am currently working on several projects.

Firstly, I am illustrating The Princess Bride. So far, it's going pretty good and I am halfway done. Westley and Buttercup are about to come out of the Fire Swamp.

I am also attempting to fanfics on my other account. The first is an Inuyasha inspired fiction. It's an alternative universe called The Spider's Web. Kagome witnessed her father's murder when she was a child and went into a catatonic coma. When she woke up, she realized that she had premonitioned dreams. Now, in college, she meets some great friends but ends up being stalked by the man who killed her father. Her new friends have to help her find him and bring him to justice.

The second is called Spirited Away: The Return. It takes place when Chihiro is grown and is attempting to publish a series of children's books based on her experiences at the Yubabba's Bathouse in the Spirit Realm. The publishing company she's working with seems to have lots of very familiar faces.

Another fanfic based project is doing mini comics for my 100 word Inuyasha minifics.

Finally I am also attempting to do a group photo of my Neopets Guild with all of us as Neopets.

Features
Some of my featured favorites.

By :iconKaitikut:
<... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 A Few Things and a Warning http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16236045/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16236045/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:27:49 PST
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Warning

I happened upon an art thief on DevArt. She hadn't taken any of my art, thankfully, and I've notifyed two of the artists she took from, but I there is one I haven't been able to find yet and your help would be appreciated.

The thief is and the piece I cannot find the original artists to is: . If you know them, please let them know about it. I mean, there's always the possibility that this is her actual work, but considering that 99% of her gallery is someone else's art, the chances aren't good.

Other News

One of my guy friends, Clint, came down for Christmas and I got to see him before he went back home. I haven't seen him since we were in high school so I was so excited. And he's moving here! Yay!

And I'm getting to totally redo my room. I'm getting a brand new comforter set (or new to me - I did buy it off of eBay) and I'm getting a new couch! My old one is 20 or 21 years old. My parents got that living room set when I was just a baby and when they bought new furniture a few years ago, they gave me the loveseat for my room (which I had my mom recover with lime green velvet because the original apolstery was brown, gray, and orange plaid). The cushion is maybe two inches thick and there are no springs left in it. I have to have a piece of plywood and a folded quilt under the cushion just so that I don't sink to the floor. It's sad, really.

I'm going to have to clean my room and take a couple of pictures of it before I redo it because I really liked the way it looked before. I'm especially proud of the doors. It's brightly colored and has that colorful, sixties, hippy kind of feel to it. The doors I'm going to have to repaint an off-white which is sad because I worked hard on them. They're Hawaiian blue with lime green spunged over it.

But I suppose we all have to grow up eventually. My new comforter set is more modern and more mature and I'll paint my walls tan so that it goes with my current artwork (fashion and travel). A more adult room for a more adult me (yeah, right).

Current Projects

I am currently working on illustrating The Princess Bride. I've gotten as far as the Fire Swamp.

On my second account, I am am working on two fanfics. The first one is a continuation of Hiyo Miyazaki's Spirited Away called Spirited Away: The Return that takes place ten years after the movie ended with Chihiro writing a children's story about her adventures in the Spirit Realm. Her publishing company holds a few familiar faces...

The second is a alternate universe Inuyasha fanfiction called The Spider's Web. It is about Kagome, a girl in college who was in a catatonic coma for several months after witnessing her father's mother. She meets Inuyasha, a boy who has also suffered from los in his life, as well as Miroku and Sango. All four have ties that bind them in a life or death tussel with Naraku.

I am also going to be working on a series of mini comics to illustrate a few minis that I've written that I'll be uploading as I finish the comics. These will also be on my second account.

Other Accounts

http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/16050117/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:10:59 PST
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NEWS!

There's not really anything new here lately except for the fact that I've slacked off on my The Princess Bride illustrations because I've been 100% focused on earning neopoints in order to purchase the last three pieces of the Secret Laboratory Map (which are the most expensive) on Neopets. I want that gosh darn lab ray!

And I'm sick. I always seem to get ill right before big events (birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas). It really sucks.

Oooh! Me, , and Sara went to Jackson for the weekend last week. It was so much fun. We got to see the "Between Angels and Men" exhibit at the Museum of Art. The art is gorgeous! There were all sorts of masterpieces there. I coud have sat on the benches just staring at them all day.

Well, Merry Christmas everyone!

Current Projects

I am currently working on illustrating The Princess Bride. I've gotten as far as the first kidnapping.

On my second account, I am am working on two fanfics. The first one is a continuation of Hiyo Miyazaki's Spirited Away called Spirited Away: The Return that takes place ten years after the movie ended with Chihiro writing a children's story about her adventures in the Spirit Realm. Her publishing company holds a few familiar faces...

The second is a alternate universe Inuyasha fanfiction called The Spider's Web. It is about Kagome, a girl in college who was in a catatonic coma for several months after witnessing her father's mother. She meets Inuyasha, a boy who has also suffered from los in his life, as well as Miroku and Sango. All four have ties that bind them in a life or death tussel with Naraku.

Other Accounts

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Featured Favorites

This will be my first Christmas without my Granny and she will certainly be missed. I happened to be in Hallmark the other day looking for a sympathy card to send to one of the big bosses in my firm whose mother had passed and I found this collection ornament called "Merry Christmas from Heaven" and I had to get it for my tree. I eventually want to get my Granny's name engraved in the back of it (it's pewter). And it came with this bookmark that has a poe... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Some People! http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15625642/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15625642/ Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:33:28 PST
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NEWS!

Ugh! I'm really upset right now. I came on here after a great Thanksgiving dinner with my family and I see that I have eight new comments. When I go to look at them, I find four identical messages from :deviantgodhatesyoualways: of some dead animal on its back with a pile of dung next to it - and not just one icon on each message - on my Usagi Is... picture. And I can't delete them! Administration says not to ask them to delete them unless it's something horrendously offensive or threatening, so I can't write them. I'd delete the picture and re-submit it, but it's one of my most popular pics and it's got a lot of comments on it that I would lose if I did that. Not to mention all the favorites that would be lost. It really pisses me off! I even tried to go that person's account and note them about it with a strongly worded letter, but they've been banned. Too bad they couldn't have been banned before they disfigured my deviation.

Current Projects

I am currently working on illustrating The Princess Bride. I've gotten as far as the first kidnapping.

On my second account, I am am working on two fanfics. The first one is a continuation of Hiyo Miyazaki's Spirited Away called Spirited Away: The Return that takes place ten years after the movie ended with Chihiro writing a children's story about her adventures in the Spirit Realm. Her publishing company holds a few familiar faces...

The second is a alternate universe Inuyasha fanfiction called The Spider's Web. It is about Kagome, a girl in college who was in a catatonic coma for several months after witnessing her father's mother. She meets Inuyasha, a boy who has also suffered from los in his life, as well as Miroku and Sango. All four have ties that bind them in a life or death tussel with Naraku.

Other Accounts

Clubs and Organizations

Clubs and Organizations

Featured Favorites

*PrincessMelissa83 Thoughts on Harry Potter http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15490149/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15490149/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:18:52 PST

I recently finished reading the entire Harry Potter series and while I will admit that it is a good series and, yes Mindy, I do think the books are better than the movies, I have a few thoughts.

On several occassions, Rowling has her characters needing to dress in "muggle" clothing. On these occassions she says more than once that the wizards and witches knew nothing of proper muggle attire or muggle fashion and therefore dressed oddly (i.e. the man with the sports jacket and pajama bottoms).

I see a discrepency or problem with this, however. Their children are wearing muggle clothing. I know this because Rowling mentions Ron wearing blue jeans and his mother knits sweaters. How are they managing to find matching, proper muggle attire for their children if they can't dress themselves in it?

This leads to my second thought. Several times Arthur Weasly has muggle money and has to ask Harry to deal with it because he doesn't understand it. Neither, it seems, does Molly....or very many other wizards/witches for that matter. If they can't manage muggle money, then where are they getting all these muggle clothes? If they can't put two pieces of clothing together properly, I'm guessing the robe makers aren't supplying them.

And as for the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I have to say that I'm dissapointed. Rowling went through seven books talking about the bond between Voldermort and Harry; building up suspense and the greatness of the big battle between the two when they would have their final showdown. With all the hype I expected pages of epic magic, flashes of light, curses, counter curses, charms - the works. Instead you've got two lines. One elementary disarmament charm and -poof- the great Voldermort is dead.

Terribly disappointing. I expected so much more from Rowling. It's like she got to the top of the hill and just gave up. Pathetic, really.

claims that I've got it all wrong. That the real climax was when you think Voldermort's killed Harry. And she's quite welcome to her opinion. We've agreed to disagree on this one point.

I say, however, that anyone who has ever read a book before would know that Harry isn't going to die and stay dead. If he were, the book would have ended there and not bothered to go on. What would have been the point? The story ends when the hero dies. But because the book does continue on for two more chapters, you should know right away that he isn't really dead. Thefore there is no climax there.

Anywho, there's my thoughts and opinions on the subject. I'm not trying to sway anyone to agree with me or even to get answers for my previous questions; just thought I'd share a little of what goes through my brain.

Have a great day!

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Birthday Bash http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15489931/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15489931/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:53:52 PST

It was so much fun this weekend! It a Birthday Gala of Royal Gatherings. As part of an inside joke wherein some girl who didn't like us at college called us spoiled ass princess bitches, my three friends and I are the soverign princesses of our respective towns. Therefore we wore crowns all weekend.

First, my girlfriends and I spent the night at my house Friday night. We watched Cinderella III and discovered that no, we are not Smarter Than a Fifth Grader; as much tv as we watch, we obviously haven't Scene It; and we needn't try out for American Idol. We also discovered that lack of sleep, pina colladas, and R-rated conversation makes great giggles in the dark.

We had horrible service at Applebees. Mindy ordered a penne that was supposed to come with garlic bread. Instead of telling her they were out of garlic bread and offering a different bread instead, the waitress decided to just not bring her any bread. She didn't bring Sara enough vinegrette with her salad and she didn't bring me any ranch dressing for my buffalo wings. We had to ask her for it. When Sara first tried to wave her over, she was going to ignore us. Sara finally called out, albeit quietly, "come here" and waved more impatiently and she had to come. By then, Mindy was out of drink and had put her glass at the edge of the table so the waitress could bring her a new drink. However, the waitress didn't even give her glass a second glance. We had to stop her again and ask for a refill. By the time she brought it out, Mindy was through eating. We gave her a two dollar tip which is more than I think she deserved. I was tempted to write something along the lines of "Provide better service next time and you might get a monetary amount" on the line where you add in your tip. it's a tip that might have done her some good.

Then we went bowling. I love bowling, but I stink at it. Really. If I hadn't had the bumpers up, I would have been in last place because I would have rolled nothing but gutters. The bumpers are the only reason I won.

Then I got baptised Sunday morning during the 8:15 service, so I had to be up early. At 6:30 I was in the shower and my mom comes in, slightly p'ved because we'd only just gotten up and my grandfather was already pulling in the driveway. We weren't leaving for church till around 7:40. He's always early, though. I'd think after 27 years of marriage, she'd be used to my dad's family.

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Office Boredom http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15214427/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/15214427/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:08:23 PDT

18 or lower means you're not stupid.

[ ] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were talking.
[ ] Gum has fallen out of your mouth when you were NOT talking.
[x] You have ran into a glass/screen door.
[ ] You have jumped out/off of a moving vehicle.
[x] You have thought of something funny and laughed out loud, then people gave you weird looks.
[ ] You have ran into a tree.
[ ] It is possible to lick your elbow
[x] You just tried to lick your elbow.
[x] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same rhythm.
[x] You just tried to sing them.
[x] You have tripped on your shoelace and fallen.
[x] You have choked on your own spit.
[ ] You have seen the the Matrix and still don't get it.
[x] You didn't notice that in the last question "the" was spelled twice
[x] You just looked at it
[ ] Your hair is blonde/dirty blonde.
[x] People have called you slow.
[ ] You have accidentally caught something on fire
[x] You tried to drink out of a straw, but it went into your nose/eyes.
[x] You have caught yourself drooling.
[x] You've fallen asleep in class.
[ ] If someone says "fart" you laugh.
[x] sometimes you just stop thinking.
[x] You are telling a story and forget what you were talking about
[x] People shake their heads and walk away from you.
[ ] You are often told to use your "inside voice"
[x] You use your fingers to do simple math
[ ] You have eaten a bug.
[x] You are taking this test when you should be doing something important
[ ] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn't realize it.
[x] You've looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand, hair or pocket.
[ ] You sometimes post bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen to you if you don't even when you know it won't happen to you.
[x] You break a lot of things.
[x] Your friends know not to use big words around you
[x] You sometimes tilt your head when you're confused
[x] You have fallen out of your chair before
[x] When you're laying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture of the ceiling.
[ ] The word "umm" is used many times a day.

:/ 24....does that make me super dumb?

]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Updated http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14781999/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14781999/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:13:54 PDT

So, I got a new computer which happens to have Windows Vista on it, which means that my older versions of PSP and all won't work. Yay. So, I've purchased the newer PSP10 and I'm just waiting for it to be delivered so I can put it on my computer. I'm so excited!

I finally got around to updating this thing. I had one more to add. Yippee. At this rate, I'm never going to finish this thing.

I took this version from DisneyBubble's journal.

1. Introduction - [link]
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory - [link]
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand - [link]
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned - [link]
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test - [link]
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Special Deal from Mary Kay http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14055519/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14055519/ Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:16:25 PDT

Exclusive Mary Kay Specials
Free Gift with Purchase

Only available through Beauty Consultant, Melissa Taylor, and only for a limited time.* When you buy your make up and beauty products through Mary Kay, you can receive a free gift with your purchase. These gifts do not take the place of hostess gifts if you choose to host a make-over session, but are in addition to any previously announced gifts offered through the Mary Kay company.

Mary Kay Signature Lip Gloss/Lipstick
When you purchase $25-$49.00 in products, you will receive your choice of the Mary Kay Signature Lip Gloss or Signature Lipstick. To browse the color selections, click on the links below.
Mary Kay Signature Lip Gloss
Mary Kay Signature Lipstick

Mary Kay Satin Hands Pampering Set
When you purchase $50-$74.00 worth of products, you will receive as your free gift, the award winningMary Kay Satin Hands Pampering Set.
Mary Kay Satin Hands Pampering Set

Mary Kay Signature Brush Set
When you purchase $75-$99.00 in Mary Kay Products, you will receive a free Mary Kay Signature Brush Set. These brushes are longer lasting than any you'll find in the stores and are of a higher quality. They also come with their own carrying case.
Mary Kay Signature Brush Set

Timewise Microdermabrasion Set
When you purchase $100 or more in Mary Kay products, you will receive the Timewise Microdermabrasion Set for free.
Timewise Microdermabrasion Set

As always, please contact me should you have any questions or would like to purchase any products.

Also, as of August 1, 2007, I will no longer be making order purchases as they come in. To make things simpler on myself, I will make inventory purchases on the 20th of each month, so please have your orders in by the 12:00 p.m. CST on the 19th. Otherwise, products not already in my inventory will be ordered with the next stock order.

*Indepenant Beauty Consultants with the Mary Kay Company are not obligated to honor any sales/coupons/specials offered by other Beauty Consultants. Such offers are valid only through the Consultant advertising them. The date of experation for this offer has not yet been decided.

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Neopets http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14038639/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/14038639/ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:16:40 PDT

I just got a neopet at Neopets.com and I would love it if any of you who are on that site wanted to be neofriends. Just drop me a note or a neomail at my site - [link]

And does anyone have a zei codestone they don't want or need? I'd really appreciate it. I have tons of stuff I could trade you for it.

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Bad Luck http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13885721/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13885721/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:39:09 PDT
I didn't remember at the time all the details. Something had me thinking that we had stopped at a redlight and then taken off, but I do remember now. We hadn't stopped at the redlight, we had approached it, but it turned green before I reached it so I had slowed down, but not completely. Just past the redlight, the car in front of me suddenly put on his brakes. I don't know if he had a car in front of him that was turning or what, but he suddenly braked and I was close enough to him that I had to slam on brakes to keep from hitting him. As if that wasn't bad enough, I heard RJ scream and then felt the jolt as a car behind me hit my bumper. I did not however, hit the car in front of me, thank goodness.

RJ says that she saw the car approaching us in her side mirror and that he was going pretty fast. I don't know if he even braked. I was concentrating on not hitting the car in front of me.

She had put her hand on the bar in front of her seat (over the glove compartment) to catch herself when I slammed on the brakes and when she saw the car coming from behind, she braced herself on that bar, locking her elbows and shoulders, for impact so that when the car it us, it lunged her forward and displaced her shoulder. We ended up in the emergency room getting x-rays.

RJ has light tissue injuries and whiplash. and I have whiplash, muscle strain, and a straightened neck. Yes, I said a straightened neck. Apparently, your neck is supposed to have a slight curve to it and mine no longer does. It might go back after the tissue and all has gone back down (it's inflamed right now), but there's also the possibility that it won't and I'll have to have physical therapy. It feels like my spine has been compressed in the small of my back - like I need someone to grab my shoulders and somone to grab my ankles and just pull.

Luckily, I don't have to pay any of this stuff. The guy admitted to me and to the cops that it was his fault - it was pretty obvious it was anyway...actually the real fault lay with the mysterious driver I had to brake to keep from hitting. If it wasn't for him, I'd have never braked like that and Mr. Fender-Bender would have never hit me.

Anywho, Mr. FB's insurance has to pay for my car to be fixed (it nearly knocked the back bumper off and who knows what else); for me to have a rental; my and RJ's doctor's bills; and CK says that he can get us some money out of this.

But if you want me to be honest - the money would be great and all, but I'm more concerned with getting the doctor bills paid off (I have no health insurance) and getting my car fixed. That's practically a new car! It's only been with me for four months! If CK can get me some extra money for lost wages, pain and suffering, whatever - that'd be a plus. I could pay off my major credit card bills (Maybe not so major - only like $1,600) and have some in my depleted savings account. But if I don't get any extra money, that'll be okay too. As long as the other stuff gets paid, I'll be happy.

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 A Vacation Story: Biloxi http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13836807/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13836807/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:31:20 PDT
So, on Sunday my friend Sara and I took of with my dad in my cute little car that barely held our luggage. Sara and I were in the front seat, talking and listening to my iPod Nano while my dad attempted to rest in the back seat. Everything was going great. He didn't seem to be paying any attention to us, we stoped and ate breakfast, we got back on the road and started back towards Jackson.

Then my dad pops up like a jack-in-the-box off Prozac. Suddenly he's over concerned about every little move. We got off on one exit that was under construction and there was a blinking sign that read "Left Lane Closed - Merge Right" and I happened to be in the left lane. I checked my mirrors and noticed there was a truck coming up on my right, so I slowed down to let him get passed before going over and as soon as my dad saw the truck pass his window he starts yelling for me to "stop! Wait!" like I was actually moving over at that moment.

Then we stop at a gas station so that he can use the rest room and while I'm pulling into a space between to cars and I didn't have a whole lot of room. I pulled in as far as I could and started to put it in reverse so that I could back up, turn, and go in the rest of the way and he's in the backseat gripping the back of my seat chanting "Oh, don't hit it. Please, baby, don't hit it. Don't hit it."

Geez! I've been driving since I was ten! I'm not going to hit it! When he got out, I leaned over and told Sara that if he was going to be like that for the last three hours of the trip, I was kicking him out and he could walk to Biloxi. (Or something to that affect.) I think in the last three hours of that trip he told me to "slow down or the police will pull you over" at least 100 times if not more. The snails were passing me because he couldn't take his eyes off of my speedometer.

We finally make it to the IP hotel and Daddy goes off to his room to supposedly rest up from his experience while Sara and I go off to eat at one of the resteraunts in the hotel.

The next day, we get up and think about fulfilling our plans about going to the water park but lo and behold it's raining...a lot. The Gulf Islands Water Park is closed due to the rain. And so was Ship Islands Excursions. And the only suvenier shop still open down there is Surf Style and they really don't have much except for bathing suits. So we went to the Edgewater Mall instead to do some shopping. I bought a pair of shoes, but even that didn't cheer me up. So much for retail therapy. We were bummed. Not just 'cause it rained that day, but because the Weather Channel (yes, the we watched the Weather Channel) said that it was supposed to be like that all week.

So, we did the only thing we could do. We went to the spa. I did what was called the Art of Bathing - you're put in this huge bathroom with a milk bath, candles, soft music and a mai tai. Someone comes in and uses a sugar scrub to massage your feet and legs then you're left alone to soak in this huge, air jet, bathtub for half an hour. When I was done with that, I had a manicure. Luxurious.

We got lucky on Tuesday because it was sun shining so we went to the water park and gave up on the Ship Island Excursions. It wasn't a huge water park according to Sara. I wouldn't know, I've never been to one, but it was fun because it had water slides and I went on three of the four. It had a wave pool and a lazy river so I spent most of my time on the river getting a tan...and a sunburn.

Wednesday we were supposed to be going to the Mardi Gras Museum, but it either moved to somewhere new or got wiped out by the hurricane because we never did find it so we went to the beach instead and rented what's called an aquacycle. It's this huge tricycle that floats in the water and the back wheels have grooves in them that work like a waterwheel and propels the bike. But you have to peddle to run it which is the bad part and those things are heavy.

We went to the Presidential Dinner that night and they draw tickets for door prizes. I won a pineapple, a house phone that looks like a flip cell phone, and a heated blanket.

We had to leave early Thursday morning. I was sleeping so good and then the hotel phone rang and I heard, "Are you up yet?" My dad was already up, packed, and ready to go and it wasn't even 9:00 yet. And I had to drive home. He could have at least let me get my beauty sleep.

The drive back home was no better than the drive down there. My dad was a nervous wreck. By the time we got to Jackson, he had to stop for something to calm his nerves... ]]> *PrincessMelissa83 Testing http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13618326/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13618326/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:34:47 PDT
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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 What Has This World Come To? http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13438166/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13438166/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:11:28 PDT
I was reading an article on Yahoo!Home about the Japanese government deciding to rename the island of Iwa Jima to it's prewar name of Iwa To after a petition by the decendants of the evacuees from the island. I can understand that and they have every right to rename their island and it shouldn't bother us, right? And yet the article has gone on to say that all of these American soliders (survivors who served in WWII and at Iwa Jima) are upset about the name change - that it's too deeply a part of our history to change it. But it's not our island! They have every right to change the name if they want to and it shouldn't be any skin off our back.

And then I read on and found that the American soliders who fought on Iwa Jima have a reunion on the island every year. How insensitive can you get? We won. More than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed there. 20,000 men who had families, children, wives, mothers, fathers who mourned for them; relatives who still live. How would we feel if Al Queda or whatever traveled to New York every year to hold a reunion/celebration on Ground Zero? We wouldn't be too happy about it. Is it any wonder that people think that America is full of insensitive rogues? What kind of image are we presenting?

And then my mother, dear lord, my mother...

While talking this morning, she tells me that she doesn't feel any sympathy for more than 20,000 men on Iwa Jima who lost their lives because they were in the wrong. Now that doesn't sound like a very Christian (or educated) thing to say. Yeah, I may not agree with them, but I feel sympathy for them because as Christians, as compationate beings, we should never take joy in the killing of another. Their soldiers were no different than ours, when you go right down to it. Japan, in those days, hardly had an open door policy. It was no different than any other regime who brain washed their followers into believing that they were superior to everyone else and therefore should rule everyone else. They believed what their leaders told them, they had no reason not to. It was the government, the leaders, that were at fault. The soldiers, like our own, were simply doing what they were told to do.

Like I said, I may not agree with them, but I do feel sympathy for them. I feel sympathy for the families who lost people that they love. I feel for the mothers who lost their sons, wives who lost their husbands, children who grew up without fathers. For all of them - Amerian and Japanese. I feel for them because I know that I would never want to have to go through that myself.

Christ said that we should love our enemies and show kindness to those that would scorn us, that would persecute us. And I think if everyone followed that instead of being egotistical, selfish, narcisistic and acting as if we (as a country or a person) are better than everyone else then this world would be a much happier place.

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]]> *PrincessMelissa83 What's So Great About Paris? http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13255142/ http://PrincessMelissa83.deviantart.com/journal/13255142/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:48:46 PDT the Paris Hilton?

Um, no.

I was so glad that she was going to jail and I was disappointed when I heard that they were reducing her sentence, but she was still going to serve the time she was supposed to serve - the time that any other person would be required to serve. And now this - three days in a private cell and sheÂs sent home for ÂmedicalÂ reasons. What? Did her roots start to show? Did she break a nail?

Now sheÂs supposed to be on house arrest - stunner bracelet and all. Yeah, thatÂs gonna last. No doubt she is going to be out bar hopping (and driving) by dark tonight - without a bracelet on.

So, whatÂs so great about Paris Hilton or any other celebrity that they shouldnÂt be subject to the same laws and punishments as the rest of America? WeÂre all supposed to be equal in the eyes of the law, regardless of how much money we do or do not have.

I say they should send her back and make her to do the entire 45 days.

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