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read my profile sign my guestbook Name: Melissa State: Pennsylvania Interests: Jesus, interior design, ice cream, and the ocean Expertise: getting lost Occupation: Student Industry: Art Message: message me Member Since: 7/23/2004

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Well, friends. Its been a VERY long time since an update....my last entry was a month ago and lets me honest, I was just posting someone else's writing. So for those of you whom I have not seen in many months...I miss you and the City of Brotherly Love. So here is what is happening in the life of Melissa:

In January, I started working at Sasaki Associates and officially became an interior designer. Woo Hoo! The company is great...there are over 200 people and about about 20 or so in interiors. Sasaki does architecture, interior design, landscape architect, graphic design, civil engineering and planning. Our company is really committed to the environment, our office is right on the Charles River, I can wear jeans and I can buy discounted movie tickets from our Human Resources Director. Cool, huh?

I've been living at home with my parents since leaving Philly but am planning on moving closer to my job, which is just outside of Boston.

I've been involved in Hanson First Baptist where my father is the pastor. I've made many friends. I've been loving teaching Sunday School to 3rd and 4th graders. They make me think and they make me laugh. This Spring I'm involved in a women's study on the book "The Bad Girls of the Bible". Its been a fun and enlightening thing...I never realized how many shady women there are in the Bible or how many terrific women there are in my church.

So that's a brief update of my life. Miss you if I don't see you.

P.S. Boston and Cape Cod are gorgeous in March. Come see, you can stay with me!

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

This Valentine is for the one who puts "penpal" in budspenpal. You know who you are.

Jelly Jill Loves Weasel Will by Jack Prelutsky

Jelly Jill loves Weasel Will

and Will loves Flo the Fink,

Flo loves Tom Tomatoface

(atleast that's what I think).

Tom loves Steffie Sloppysocks

and she loves Pete the Punk,

Pete loves Gretchen Gumhead

and she loves Sam te Skunk.

Sam loves Linda Lemonmout,

and she loves Fred the Flea,

Fred's in love with Jelly Jill,

...I wonder who loves me.

And now, a valentine for the rest of you:

I Love You More than Applesauce by Jack Prelutsky

I love you more than applesauce,

than peaches and a plum,

than chocolate hearts and cherry tarts

and berry bubblegum.

I love you more than lemonade

and seven-layer cakes,

than lollipops and candy drops

and thick vanilla shakes.

I love you more than marzipan,

than marmalade on toast,

oh I love pies of any size,

but I love YOU the most.

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Friday, February 10, 2006

	Today, on the way to work I saw this very pretty and well dressed girl walking a dog with shoes on. It was one of the moments I wish I was with anyone I knew because it was hilarous.
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Yesterday, I started "40's Days of Purpose" with my church. We're reading "The Purpose Driven Life" and I'll be involved in a small group. I'm really looking forward to that. I'll be in a group with 6 others in their 20s and 30s. I'm by far the youngest - but among other things, I need to be reminded that friendships are not dependant upon people being within a few years of me. Really looking forward to having people to talk to that aren't at the other end of a phone.

Looking forward to reading this book. My life seems pretty purposeless today. I'm trying to figure out how to live in limbo. I feel like my life is on hold. I have no job, a church that is my father's but not my own, only one friend within an hour's radius, no money. I'm lonely. The truth is though that we are living our lives. We can't pretend to wait for them to start because that is a lie. My life is still moving even if it doesn't feel like it. So I'm looking forward to learning about purpose when life feels so without one. God is working. But after 4 years of intensity and no moments to breathe, I am finally starting to do just that and in the stillness I realize that I have alot of questions that have gone on unanswered and unresolved. And I think that maybe God has alot of things to say to me.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Thought I would try out this Xanga thing again after many months away. I have no excuse except that I was busy and then I didn't feel like it. But tonight I kind of do...so I'm back and open for business.

Today I went to the beach. I had gone yesterday with my mother and nephews and kept thinking, "I wish I brought my sketch book. I wish I brought my camera." So today I went back with both and it was really beautiful. I sketched a little, waded a little, photographed a little. Then on the way home I bought a mint chocolate chip frappe (aka milkshake to those of you not from New England).

Life here is quiet...and I am trying to know how to live for God in my current circumstances. That has proved to be of great frustration to me. A friend reminded me tonight that our meaning and significance is not because of what we do and I need to remember that. Hoping to hear back about a job I really want this week. If you have a few seconds to say a quick prayer that I get the job, it would be appreciated.

Much love, my friends.

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