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Hi everyone - I'm Melissa, known as Measi online. I'm a married mom of one in her early 50s, owned by several cats, currently living in Rhode Island. I'm a cross-stitcher, journaler, penpaller, bookworm, Pagan, and gamer geek. This is my little corner of the Web.

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Garden Sampler Update

Melissa
August 29, 2010March 30, 2025 No Comments

Today was a very stitch-filled day, completely focused on Garden Sampler. I made great progress and I think that I might be able to get this completed tomorrow – or at the very latest on Monday.  I have a little text left, a bird in the lower corner, and then some fill-in flowers, and I’m done. […]

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September 2010 UFO RR – trying to decide what to send

Melissa
August 29, 2010March 30, 2025 No Comments

Another Round Robin has just closed for signups, and now it’s time to start thinking about what I’ll send around. My photos below are about a round out of date… I seem to have misplaced my latest updates on them. But you’ll get the general idea. I had an initial decision to send Walk in […]

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Aaaaand the blog is back up and running!

Melissa
July 14, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

Honesty, the b.s. from Globat’s moves to new servers just finally pushed me into fixing things.  I’ve wanted to go to WordPress for a while because of the flexibility, but had dreaded transferring my entries over. Turns out, I didn’t need to worry – there was a very easy blogger to WP importer.  I do […]

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Revisiting 1001 Days Meme

Melissa
July 9, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

So… my 1001 days expired last month.     I managed to do 46 things on my list, with some things still in progress.  Honestly?  Not bad.  I’ve forgotten dates for some of these things I’ve done… but I will be honest on them, of course.  101 things in 1001 days The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of […]

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Warcraft Thoughts…

Melissa
June 12, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

So… my guild’s a bit slower than some to get into raiding. We had a bit of drama happen a few months ago, the quick-to-80 people left, and it put the 10-man stuff on hold for us. BUT… we got there. And about… six weeks ago(?) we started with Obidian Sanctum. Took us a few […]

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Baby birds in the next

Melissa
May 30, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

Before I do my photo meme post, I just have to share this one… Erich found a birds next in our Pyracantha bush yesterday, nestled in a well-hidden patch underneath the thorns. It’s only a couple steps off the driveway, growing next to the house. We thought there were only a couple birds, but now […]

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My first new car

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May 26, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

I bought a TARDIS (aka a Honda Fit… or a Jazz if you’re in certain countries. It’s a light blue one – it came in the actual TARDIS blue, but none were in stock and I honestly loved this color equally, so I’m very happy. Manual transmission (my preferred, honestly), ability to use my iPod, […]

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Stuffages

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May 15, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

I’d say not much has happened recently, but it has been a busy couple weeks. Just a blur of a couple weeks. The bad stuff: – Mom was laid off last Friday. It wasn’t completely unexpected, though. She works in real estate, and the company had been stripping off personnel all year. I left a […]

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Green thumb!

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May 10, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

The first stage of planting is now in the ground – my herb garden is built (as you can see in the photo), and my veggies are now in their earthboxes. This year’s herbs include: thyme, sage, 4 types of basil, cilantro, dill, mint, lavender, garlic chives, and lemon balm (aka “melissa”). Vegetables include 3 […]

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Admin Day Flowers

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April 22, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

I’m normally not a pink person… but these are quite lovely.  Sometimes, there are small perks for being a secretary, regardless of the PC title we’re given these days.

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I'm turning 50 in 2025, and exploring this new decade of my life with a refocus on blogging about my life - marriage, parenthood, being owned by cats, Paganism, cross stitching, journaling, books, and letter writing... and probably some other stuff along the way. Nothing monetized here - just old-fashioned personal blogging.

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