im a geek for stuff like this...

So even though i shouldn't be spending any money right now, we FINALLY
got the lomography ring flash in at work today and as soon as i saw it i almost fell to the floor!.
So i bought it and now i love it and i haven't even used it yet.





I'm so excited to get some money soon and buy some good film at b & h and just start shooting with my holga and more importantly my diana..
why is it that i love taking pictures soo much and never really develop my film..???
i'm lame...

Then i finally got back on my ebay kick and started looking up polaroid land cameras.
I have a crappy one back home and i never used it because it seemed impossible to find
film but now living so close to the best camera store ever made me want to get one. I
put a bid on one on ebay and WON!!!
so now i'm expecting this lovely thing in the mail..



Luckily there are a gazillion websites dedicated to teach you how to use transfer film and as soon as i get the hang of it ..i'll probably go transfer film crazy !
It's just amazing all the cool effects you can get mainly the double exposure of a polaroid...
yes kids this is the only thrill i get in life.

too much time on my hands....

I don't think i've done anything in the past week that is worth mentioning besides going to visit Luis or hanging out with Luis in the city. The rain has kept happy thoughts away and definitely has kept "adventurous mel" at bay. I need to start walking around the city more. I have taken a week off from looking at apartments for my sanity's sake really. I've been watching wayyy too much tv and how can i not when "how i met your mother" is

back on the air!!!and yes i know that Ms. Britney Spears will be on next weeks episode and im glad that at

least with this cameo HIMYM will get better ratings and more people will tune into the show so it can get picked up next season (yep im a geek) other than that im eating some really good chocolate cake from atlas right nowit's 2 days old but still taste goodddd.....

gosh im lame...

it's raining

rain is expected all next week...
i mean ALL next week ...WTF?
i guess this is what it's like to have seasons, but really now
if i wanted this much rain i would of moved to seattle .

I'm currently staying with my friend Jean till i go through the hell
of looking for an apartment . She lives dab in the middle of time
square which has its perks (It's 5 minutes away from my work)
and it's disadvantages (normally around 2 or 3 am drunk people
walk the streets yelling absurd things to each other normally happening
when i have to wake up around 6am) But the best thing is that
she lives right above a restaurant whose RED sign seems to sit right
next to her window making her room glow red whenever you turn off
the lights( her window is covered with a black curtain making it virtually
impossible to seep through with the lights on ) anyways im soo
obsessed with this mostly because it reminds me of that Seinfield episode.
(and i barely even like seinfield) but mostly because i just find it funny/amusing.
Really it feels like red light special all night long..
And really i get all kind of noise waking me up in the middle of the night,
it seems new york city never sleeps or more like whoever the fuck is out in times square
at all hours of the night. I hear construction always going on but i never really can
see where its happening. I hear drunk people walking the streets but i really don't know
of any bars on this block. I hear horses outside yet i never see them walking down my
street....All this boggles me..i just imagine a guy with a boombox playing this melody of
noises just to make me toss and turn all night, regardless i kind of love it.

dear craigslist,

why do you allow such ridiculous people to post apartment posting on there..
im over it..
thannks for nothing,
melissa
.................

finding an apartment in new york has become my second job.
lame

i've made it to nyc

...and of course it's raining!
I somehow got sick on one of my gazillion lay overs and now im paying the price.
It is so cold outside anytime i step out my lungs feel like they are collapsing, i hope
this is not a foreshadowing of the coming months.
There are a list of things i must get to...
a lot of buying stuff i forgot to pack,
a lot of remembering the stuff i forgot to pack and seeing if they can ship it over
so i won't have to buy it, then there's that big thing you know the whole finding a place to live thing. yeah if anyone knows of any places that need a roomate let me know ASAP!!!

Today i ventured out with Lex to see a movie , we saw Miss Pettigrew lives for a day ..
it was a very entertaining movie , i dare say i REALLY REALLY liked it...
Amy Adams was amazing in it, and this time i knew it was her and not Isla Fischer who i am
constantly confusing her for, i went a few years thinking they were the same person which
up until this movie i had my doubts but she was so charming and electric in the movie ...
but just to plead my case

Amy Adams...


and

Isla Fischer


Do you see it...
I was thinking of marketing a SCENE IT based on movies and the question
Isla Fischer or Amy Adams....???
maybe i should wait till they make more movies though?
.....
there will be a lot more random blogging once i can come to my senses, realize that im in new york city and get over this stupid sickness thing

passing time.

i don't like kate nash.
i really don't ...i mean i get it, i get her appeal..
it's like the moldy peaches ...i get it..
but just like the moldy peaches im not neccesarily a fan but i LOVE a few of their songs..
i can't stop listening to "merry happy" and "foundations" by kate nash..
now i know these are the singles and therefore i don't feel guitly because by association
singles are suppose to be catchy and pretty much get into your head till you feel there is no end..
so in my opinion she is doing her job...
as for the moldy peaches they are just annoying and eventhough we all love the song " anyone else" and by far i love love love the song " nothing came out" i really just can't stand listening to anything else they sing about.
which i don't understand since i listen to both kimya dawson and adam green on their own records but i can't appreciate them together???
why am i so picky?
you know 3 years from now im going to declare kate nash and moldy peaches as my favorite bands of all time and then everyone will be like "you see...you just didn't know what you were talking about"...
sound familiar ... rilo kiley

saying goodbye..

Moving to new york in a week..
and i've been trying to get my fill of places..
I really haven't even started packing
i have a general idea of the things i want to bring
Book's , movies, sweaters, some cute dresses, keepsakes, and my camera's
but besides that everything is pretty much disposable...
who knows how im going to fit my life into two 50lbs suitcases but it must me done and fast..
I recently went back to san francisco to say goodbye to jen..
and im so glad i went , sf always reminds me of nyc..
and it was almost like good practice.
I mostly just hung with jen doing the usual...photobooths and lunch.
Her apartment is so cute and i just love that we are both grandma's that like to
sit at home and watch "bravo" instead of go out and party.. We did go ice skating though,
which i haven't done in years and i realized that my ankles are not up for it..after a few rounds around the rink i was pretty much done and upset that everyone could skate circles around me "literally" and i was such an amature..hahaha..
I think nick said it best "we don't pay a park to walk around in circles" hahaha
but we did pay the ice rink for that exactly ....
but none the less we had fun and i didn't fall ONCE..
back at the apartment it was WAR literally as i watched nick kill off all these people on his video games...i finally met TAI the cat and he is so cute..
i loved just hanging out around the house with those two and maybe hopefully they will come out and visit me when im all settled.. ...here are some pics

things i love....

1) asian photobooths...

these things are like 10 dollars a sheet...which can get really expensive when you end up taking about 4 pictures everytime you're there, but they are completely worth it when you think about all the cute wigs and hats they provide you with. and all the drawing time where you can choose from ridiculous backgrounds and write whatever you want in glitter pens.

2) Jason Segel and everything he is included in especially how i met your mother...

I mean look at this guy! he's 6'4 and loves disneyland , what's not to love...

And his body of work is just priceless...i mean any show that he is involved with is pretty awesome ...from freaks and geeks , undeclared , and my fav how i met your mother...

he just doesn't lose..

playing that loveable goofball
I'm trying to plan a "chance" meeting with this kid so he somehow falls in love with me..

yeah you laugh now but it will happen...

3) Evah Fan..

Im not much of an art person but her art is just so amazing...

it's simple . a little cheeky but still conveys a message...
i would hope that i can at one point in the near future have one of her pieces hanging on my wall.

4) pinkberry and any other rip off of this yogurt franchise

i might be just joining the bandwagon but once i got my first taste of green tea with chocolat chips i was hooked...some people like to smoke pot..other kids really like coke..

this is basically my addiction

i'll go to any lenghts try any rip off just to get a taste...

psycho? maybe...

5) Diana Camera....

Just when i thought holga's were easy to use , i discovered the Diana..

Me and my friends had been on the hunt for this little toy camera on ebay for around 6 months

but they were always too expensive then luckily lomography.com decided they were going to put it out and all of a sudden we both own one.

It is so lightweight and simple to use and has two features that i enjoy..vignetting and pinhole

it's pretty awesome..once i get some more money i'll be buying some film and i'll show you my results...

christmas fun?

Juno 3 times , is defitnetly better than Juno the first time...
On christmas day michelle cooked me and luis christmas dinner..
i got hella full off potatoes...that's all i really want to eat for the rest of my life POTATOES!!!
I love love love marathons and i watched a few before dinner , Kimore Lee life on the Fab lane
is my new obsession. She is fucking crazy..talking to her kids asking them if they like her emerald ring or her chinchila coat...they are fucking 6 and she expects them to have opinions about that stuff..CRAZY
but i love it....
After dinner michelle wanted to see Juno which i had no objection against, but i did have an objection to the theatre that she wanted to see it in .
We went to the Art theatre in Long Beach which had the most uncomfortable chairs in the world ..i think my knees were up to my chest.. never going back there doesn't matter how indie and hipster it can be..i want to go to the mainstream theatres with the reclining seats!!!!


a few days ago there was a real awesome christmas party at annel's that consisted of good food and good conversation....
Luis at one point became obsessed with making apple cider which solidified him as king of the kitchen for the night.






Now on to christmas eve....











my little sister got 2 bags full of gifts and the first one she opened was priceless. It was this life size doll named Emily who you could make walk along with you (weird right?) Well this doll became the focal point for all the pictures i took that night.


She also had this problem with her skirt..no matter how you sat her down you could always see her underwear , and we wonder where kids get this stuff (we can't blame britney for everything).

I got some cool stuff...but like every christmas i spend most of it in my room waiting for the food..
im a grinch

my mini new york trip

i went to new york for technically 4 days...it was the fastest trip of my life..
eventhough my atlanta,ga trip to visit luis on warped tour a few years back
was basically the shortest trip of my life it lasted a day...)
I was hoping that being in new york during christmas time would put me in the christmas spirit, because all those who know me well know im a huge grinch.
That was a negative, but i did get to see everyone i wanted to see (including a certain band that played a certain show that was pretty awesome)
I rediscovered my love for new york food.
Whatever it is , i want it...
i could go on and on about these past four days
mostly about the cold and how im a pussy and can't deal but i wont .....
and i'll just let you enjoy these few pictures i have....