this is my town, THIS IS MY PRIDE, these are my friends, this is my life

Well if you need to know anything about cloning in the next several days I'm the one to ask, apparently. I just finished a three-and-a-half page essay about the godawful subject. Grace and I coauthored the lovely paper, and I'd say it's pretty good myself. If you'd like to read it, just ask. I'd love to give you a copy. And anyone can feel free to hop on MSN and proof-read it. It's only a huge chunk of my grade... And my mother is off to Arizona, so she's not here to comb through it. Yeah, you did read that right. Not only did my parents leave me and my sister home alone two weekends ago to go to Minneapolis without me, but now my mom has jumped on a plane headed to Arizona to celebrate her parent's fiftieth anniversary. Life's rough, I know. But a weight is off my shoulders now that this essay's done. I extremely dislike English papers.

In other news, it was GORGEOUS outside today. Obviously warm enough to launch a hot-air balloon, because I saw one on my way home from school today. Bizarre, I know. You don't need to tell me. Sure, it was wonderful at fifty degrees at ground level, but up in the air? Most likely not. There's probably an icicle-encrusted hot-air balloon laying about the city somewhere with a dead body falling out of the basket. Or maybe I've been watching too much Supernatural.

Well there's your first February update! I figured you wanted one, but that's about all I got.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Pages - There For Tomorrow
P.S. Despite popular belief, there's still four more days to endure before the five day break. FRICK!
P.P.S. Our power went out today when I sat down to write the English essay today. DOUBLE FRICK!
P.P.P.S. I have noticed that no one is attempting my lovely contest. It can't be that hard, people! Not even one comment! FRICK YOU!!!

See What I Can Do!

**This will probably be a very unusual thing for me to post twice in a day, but this was just too exciting for me NOT to blog about**

So we went to Buffalo Wild Wings, as mentioned in the previous post from today. While my parents and my mom's friend were downing their beers, I decided to accomplish what I've always wanted to do. I don't know where exactly I heard of balancing a salt shaker, but it came up there. AND I MANAGED TO DO IT! After about a half an hour of painstakingly balancing the salt shaker, and 20 years or so of bad luck from spilling the salt so many times, I GOT THE FREAKING SALT SHAKER TO BALANCE!

Then some guy came over, was amazed by my trick and picked it up. I was like "WTF?!? That took me FOREVER!" BUT THEN I DID IT AGAIN! The people on the other side of the ledge of where I was balancing it were pretty impressed with me, as were my parents and friend. The waiter thought it was "messed up." They didn't think it was possible. Oh, I showed them! After the little 'picking up of the salt shaker' incident, I left a note saying:

Property of Melanie.
DO NOT TOUCH!

Hopefully the next time we take a trip to Buffalo Wild Wings the salt shaker will still be standing, with a protective plexiglass case around it with a plaque congratulating the mysterious Melanie.

^ This above picture is from the internet. We didn't have a freaking camera to take a picture of my amazing accomplishment.

What is Melanie listening to right now?: Cute Without the "E" (Cut From the Team) - Taking Back Sunday
Oh, the food was good too.