New Year, 4th Blogoversary

January 13, 2015 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Welp … that was 4 years of blogging. 2014 went by pretty fast, the year not a lot of blogging was done. Sometimes you just need a break and to live life. And boy did I live. Too much has happened to where I don’t even know where to begin. So here’s a recap of 2014.

January

Paid off my student loans in less than a year!
First time being asked to be a bridesmaid.
Fitbit Force from Sissy & BIL … which later got recalled. No worries though. I’ll be getting my Fitbit Surge soon enough.

March

My first real car accident.

April

May

June

Wade Bowen Concert with these fellows.

July

August

September

13^thweekend: San Antonio Trip to mainly see Jenny and Travis. It brought me back to our college years. I didn’t want the weekend to end to where it made me start thinking about moving back to San Antonio.

21^st: Ann and Tony, got engaged which means more weddings to come.

October

4^th: 1 year old Rizzo. Still a rascal, but he’s my rascal that fills my heart with love.

October 25^th & November 23^rd: Renaissance Festival for the first time … then a second.

November

15^th: San Antonio … 2014 FTK Fashion Show and best friend time with Liliana. She even planned out where to take Patricia and I.

December

6^th: Company dinner at Mr. Peeples. Brought Michelle as my date.

12^th – 15^th: Tammy’s Pre Bachelorette Party in Vegas.

27^th: Bayto’s 21^st birthday celebration. When he drinks, he is so out of his bubble … and I love it!

28^th – 31^st: San Antonio just because.

So what’s to come in 2015? Too much. Lots of wedding festivities and a possible trip back to my homeland.

Cannot wait to see what 2015 has in store for us. Maybe more blogging? ……

2 Year Anniversary & Secret Bloggers Club: I Like To Brag

August 6, 2014 by Mellie Dee 8 Comments

I am marking my 2 years at my big girl job … TODAY! … Maybe one day these anniversary posts are actually about a boy. HA

You can read about my One Year Anniversary here. Not much has changed other than EVERYONE is in cubicles. I’ve learned a lot through my coworkers but I haven’t even scratched the surface. But some things I’ve learned that everyone seem to have known all through life is to:

Open up and socialize. You see these people more than you see your own family so friendships are bound to happen … if you let it.

I use to be so focused on getting my work done just to ask for more work. I am social by nature. I love getting to know people, not because I’m nosy, but because I genuinely care so I always ask a lot of questions about themselves. And for some reason, people ask for my advice. People I haven’t talked to in a while. Most tend to want boyfriend/girlfriend advice. Um … I’m single. I don’t know if I’m quiet the person to ask … but okay. I on the other hand try to keep things about myself to myself. But a year into the job, BossMan told me that I needed to open up … so I did. But I’m careful with whom I share things with. Some people are untrustworthy!

Take vacations when you feel is needed. “Work will always be there.” Something my supervisor said to me when I would say I’ll take a certain day off but end up coming in.

I just hate coming back from “vacation” with a pile of work! It stresses me more than if I was to be at work. But so far, I’m taking it one day at a time. People tend to ask where I go on my vacation days. Answer? Nowhere. I tend to just stay home and work on my side job. Fun stuff!

I dabble “part time” with graphic design and on some projects, I get paid. If it’s for friends and their family, more often then not, I feel like a douche asking for money. Often times, I tell them it’s whatever they want to pay me and if they forget then I don’t speak up. I’m telling myself, it’s good practice. Hoping one day I can get more jobs because I really do enjoy doing it.

Live life and have fun! I don’t regret focusing on school and my extra curricular activities from middle school through college. I love helping others and knowing that I’ve helped them makes it worth all the while so I know I chose correctly. I just wished I knew how to balance life better. To do all that and have fun. I’m learning slowly but surely.

Every Monday, I go out to the television studio and help out with the cameras for my friends’ show. I do not get paid for this and I’m okay with it. I see it as time spent with friends. Kind of reminds me of high school which makes sense since all of them went to high school with me except for two in the picture above. They’re a goofy, musically talented bunch of kiddos who make me laugh, and truthfully when everyone’s there, it makes my heart smile.

The Secret Blogger Club Hosts are The Blonder Side of Life and Nuthouse with their co-host of the month, Simply Kendall Rose. The topic is to brag about yourself. You’ll find my brags underlined and italicized. I’m sure I’m doing it incorrectly. Bragging can get awkward so this was kind of tough for me. Because of that, I kept it to the topic of my anniversary and what I’ve learned.

Happy Wednesday, Doodies!

Welcome to Mellie Dee!

July 17, 2014 by Mellie Dee 2 Comments

Eleven hours of training today at work. And now at Cloud Café working on this post and some various graphic design projects! Glad I took yesterday off for a little fun. Post about that up soon. Promise!

Today marks a year since I bought the domain, Al Forno Mementos. So it was only fitting to finally make the change on it’s anniversary. Moving domains was not as hard as I thought it would have been! So I’m really happy about that. If you’re ever wanting to host, I highly recommend HostGator. I ran into ONE tiny problem and they were amazing!

You can read all about how I came up with Mellie Dee in my “About Melissa” tab. Finally content with a name that means something about myself so changes with my domain in the future is highly unlikely.

Hoping this change will make me more incline to blog again. But until next time, I wish you all a great weekend!

Moving To A New Domain

July 12, 2014 by Mellie Dee 1 Comment

Last post as Al Forno Mementos!

Finally purchased a new domain for this blog! The new domain will be up sometime this week before the 17th. You’ll know it’s me once you see my comments popping up on your posts!

My social media has been changed as well. CRIPPLE15 is now MALOHAHO. These are all big decisions but I figured it was time to grow up.

What have I been up to since then? Not much.

Rizzo’s doing well. Finally got him groomed so he looks more … normal. Sadly, he still looks like a girl. *sigh* He’s only 7ish pounds. Kinda ridiculous. But I guess it’s good since he likes to jump on people …

And every Monday night has been filled with studio time with some of the best guys that I’ve ever come across in my life. I met all of them back in high school – except one. I help work all of the cameras and although it’s stressful (since it’s on live), it’s one of the most stress-free thing ever because it’s so much fun!

Back to work on fixing up this blog! Cannot wait to post from my new name! And I hope you all join me on that adventure!

New Year, 3rd Blogoversary

January 1, 2014 by Mellie Dee 6 Comments

One post in December. ONE. I’ve been busy living life and not worry about having to update, read blogs, nor comment. No fault in that right? Plus, Rizzo has been a full time job!

As always, new year means a recap so let’s get to it!