The Holiday......

Oh Jude Law why is that every time I watch you in my favorite movie 'The Holiday" you have this tantalizing and bewitching effect on me. You have got to be the most beautiful British man alive, David Williams you are tied with him, Lauren I think you would agree =) , lol . What is it about British men that I find so gosh darn appealing and attractive? Is it the accent, is it the way that British men have this way of being so polite and good mannered. Their British mums have raised them all right and proper, that's why. Listen up American men, take some points and tips from British men and maybe you will be more appealing. I know there is a British man out there that I am destined to meet. We will move to London to a posh flat or the beautiful countryside of England to a small cottage just like the one that Jude Law's sister in the movie Kate Winslet lived in and his name will be Ian, Julian or maybe even Rowan and we will live happily ever after. Wake up Melissa, it is never going to happen. A girl can dream can't she......*SIGH*. If only life were perfect, lol.....=) OH BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nostalgic for AFI......

This is the Video that started it all for me. I remember like it was yesterday, it was June of 2006, the time was 4:00pm and I was flipping through channels trying to find something to watch and as I flipped the channel I landed on the Fuse network and this video was playing at the time. I stopped dead in my tracks and was enthralled with the vision of the lead singer of this band I knew nothing about. The music coming from my television set impassioned my soul. I had to find out just who this stellar band was. As I sat there bewitched by the lead singer, I thought to myself finally a band in 2006 that has that 80's new wave sound and look. When the video was almost finished in walks my daughter, who was 7 at the time, and says, "oh you like AFI now". I said, "What", AFI, who's that? She said, "the band on the TV mom, their name is AFI and this song is called "Miss Murder". I was flabbergasted, that my 7 year old daughter not only new the song title but the name of the band. Sure enough the video ended and there it was in black and white, AFI, Miss Murder, Decemberunderground, Interscope Records. I immediately went to my computer and googled them, found their myspace page and the rest is history. I have been a HUGE fan ever since. I have grown to love their old music and absolutely love the new stuff. I can't wait for the EP and new album to come out. I am sooooo excited inside. With new albums comes new tours and I am ready to see them live again. It has been exactly 1 year, 5 months, and 15 days since the last time I saw them live in Bakersfield, Ca. I didn't get to go to the secret show back in October at the Troubadour cause I didn't have anyone to watch my daughter. I am a mother first and I don't leave my child with just anyone. If my mom is not available and I can't get a hold of my sis-in-law and brother then no show for me. Which was a real bummer but I had a friend on the inside who text messaged me every 15-20 minutes all night long with updates. So I kinda felt like I was there. Even after the show when my friend went to Swingers and saw Hunter, Jade and Marissa there. I kinda wish I had gone to Swingers that night cause #1 I love their food and #2 I love Hunter Burgan. This blog was to reminisce about my absolute favorite band in the world AFI. I love them now and I will love them forever. Davey Havok is the dreamiest man alive. I am bewitched by his beautiful soul . I love HIM =)

"THIS IS ME" by Demi Lavato

My beautiful daughter practicing her SOLO!!!


HERE'S MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER SINGING "THIS IS ME" BY DEMI LAVATO FROM DISNEY'S CAMP ROCK. THE VIDEO IS KINDA DARK AND THE SOUND IS A LITTLE GRAINY, SORRY. WE WERE USING HER KIDS VIDEO CAMERA I GOT HER FROM WALMART. MY DAUGHTER LOVES TO SING AND DANCE AND EVEN ACT. SHE IS MY LITTLE HAM!!!!

Rest In Peace "Baby Hudgins"

"Forever in Our hearts"

I am THAT lady with all the CATS =)

Aaaaahhhhhh no matter how depressed I am or how stressed out I am or how miserable I am or even how much pain I am in at any given moment, these 3 little furry girls always make it ALL go away. These are my CATS and I LOVE them with all of my heart and soul. For I am THAT lady with all the CATS.... and damn PROUD of it! This picture was taken like 20 minutes ago. They all know that I had a pretty miserable day today and are all rallying around me and KIKI (gray and white cat on the right). She is pretty sick today =(

DEXTER, Sushi, The beach AND Coldstone, Oh My! =)

So my Saturday morning began with me spotting the Dexter production sign still up and intact on the corner of Wardlow and Long Beach Blvd. The previous night as I was fulfilling a midnight craving of frosted mini wheat's cereal I passed what looked to be a production of some sort set up at the donut shop and little cafe that was transformed into what looked like a Spanish open patio cafe on Long Beach blvd on my way to the Ralphs grocery store. To my utter delight they were filming non other than my favorite show "DEXTER". I looked intensely for a glimpse of Michael C. Hall to no avail. There was just way to much going on. Lights, people all around and equipment. I was so tempted to stop and have a look around but I chickened out. So off to Raphs I went to get my cereal and some milk. The next day I saw that the sign was still up on the corner and noticed that they were no longer there filming so I got a brilliant idea to take the sign from the corner. This was way out of character for me to steal a sign but I just had to have it, so I DID IT! Well I asked Naty my lil girl to go get it at first but she couldn't reach it so I got out and got it. Isn't it a beautiful sign =) I love it!!!!

So after we got the sign I had a doctors appointment for social security I had to go to at 12:00pm and it being only 11:30 am I decided to go get Jamba Juice for me and my monkey butt, lol. She loves Jamba Juice. We both got the Banna Berry smoothie, hers with a vitamin boost and mine with a green tea caffeine boost. I do not recommend this boost because it makes your smoothie bitter, yuck. After my doctors appointment Naty and I were hungry and I was craving sushi so we both decided on going to our favorite sushi restaurant in Downey called Midori's. So off to Downey we went. We both ordered the Bento Box, which comes with chicken terriyaki, rice, salad, assorted tempura and 6 California rolls. I know what you are thinking that's alot of food, but no it is in very small portions of each item. Lunch was fabulous, Yum. It definitely satisfied my craving.

By this time it was 3:00 in the afternoon and boy was it HOT! Natalie suggested we go to the beach so we packed up the truck and went to Huntington State Beach at PCH and Beach blvd. It was still pretty packed for it now being 4:00 in the afternoon. After like 15 minutes we finally found a parking spot and off to the beach we went. WOW, what a difference the weather was. It was so cool and had that beachy breeze it was awesome. The waves were pretty out of control. I was in full panic mommy mode and kept telling Naty to come closer to the shore. Call me paranoid but I kept getting really scared that a wave was going to crash on Naty and pull her so far out that she was going to drown. So I kept a watchful eye on her at all times even when this fat, ugly middle aged, disgusting, balding guy started fiddling with his cell phone trying to disguise the real fact that he had it on camera mode and was taking pictures of all the little kids playing in the water, one of which was my daughter. So I ran right in front of him with my towel and fanned it out blocking his view from my child . Even if he was just looking at other things on his phone, which I know he wasn't, I was not going to take any chances. I am anal, I am paranoid and I am a very cautious parent when it comes to my little girl. It seemed to work because he left after that =) So after Naty played in the water a little bit longer she got out and we built sand castles and collected tiny sea shells. She made a sand castle dome with a mode around it. It was really cute. It was nearing 7:00 pm by this time and I had yet another craving and that was Sprinkles cupcakes. Knowing that we were not that far from their Newport Beach location I told Naty that it was time to go and by the time we got cleaned off and into the truck it was 6:45 pm. Sprinkles closes at 7pm on Saturdays and I didn't think we could make it down PCH to Avocado in 15 minutes so I nixed that idea much to my disappointment, but Naty to the rescue she suggested Cold Stone and I said "Yes, Please, lol. So we went to the Cold Stone in Long beach cause I couldn't find the Huntington Beach location on Warner and Golden West. I am not that familiar with HB.

We got to Cold Stone and Naty got her favorite Love it size Mint Ice Cream with chocolate chips and I got a Banana split decision Sundae with a waffle cone on the side. It was very good.

So all in all it was a very happy Saturday for me and my daughter Natalie. Not once was I miserable. I love spending time with her. She goes back to her dad's on Monday afternoon. She was suppose to go back today, Sunday, but she woke up with a cold and is running a slight low grade fever, probably from the beach, oh well we had fun and that's all that matters.

Sunset Tan...........

MAKES ME F'ING SICK. IS LIFE THAT BRONZED, BAKED AND OH SO FAKE IN WEST HOLLYWOOD!!!!! GIVE ME AN F'ING BREAK!!!!!

So Excited......

I LOVE PAMELA ANDERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orange County Fair.....

Yesterday I went to the Orange County Fair for the first time in my life and had a great time. My favorite part of the day was visiting and petting all the barn yard animals and seeing the pigs and baby piglets was the highlight of my day. We ate Southwestern BBQ beans and Cloeslaw for lunch. I ate cotton candy and a huge white chocolate covered strawberry, my mom ate strawberry short cake and all my daughter wanted was a blue pixie stick. Then we went on some rides, those that I could tolerate, ie, the fun house and the haunted house ride, hahaha, lol. She then rocked climbed twice, went on this huge slide twice and played some games. I had a real good time. It was nice to get out and see all kinds of happy families. My Naty won some of the cutest stuffed animals. I am so thankful to my ex-husband for letting Naty go with us to the fair, as she is spending the summer with him this year and he let her go with me.Which was way cool, Thank you David!!!!! All in all it was a very lovely day, despite the drama that ensued right before we got there =(