The Birth of Mel's Blog

This summer marks the one year anniversary of moving to the DC area from my lifelong home, Louisiana. A lot has happened in the past year. A lot. Anyone who knows me knows what a hectic, crazy life I lead.

For example, I've managed to:

• find every possible way to get lost on my way to the office
• find that every possible way I CAN get lost on my way to the office will lead me directly to the Manassas Battlefield
• enter a trivia contest with the team name of “Terry Schiavo, half a brain… not bad for a Florida voter.”
• have a vagrant outside of Hooter’s try to kiss me
• sneak into a production of Mama Mia at the National Theatre
• have three transvestites ask me where I got my outfit
• pass out on the metro… heading in the WRONG direction
• get an entertainment center from IKEA stuck in my car
• suffer from a bout of Claustrophobia while leaving a Nationals game

And that was just my first week up here. Seriously.

Of course, keeping my friends up to date on the hilarity that is my life has been next to impossible. It was my good friend Catherine, the youngest member of my urban family, who suggested I keep a blog so that she could still laugh at my expense despite the fact she’s moving away.

So, now you all won’t have to wait until the next time we chat to hear about my misadventures. From dropping my car keys in the Chesapeake Bay to my dinner date who sat in his chair "Indian style" at a very nice restaurant and asked me if it would be okay for him to kick off his shoes (I can’t make this stuff up)... it’ll all be here for your reading pleasure.

Enjoy! :-D