08

So this past weekend JC & I went down to Kentucky for his softball tournament, Border Wars. It was so much fun considering the extreme cold and the wind...and the lack of sunshine. :o) I have alot of fun though. I really enjoy watching men's softball. it's so competive i love it. here's a pic of jc and i at our hotel friday nite. we had alot of fun. they won 1 and lost 2 and sent us home packing at around 4 pm on saturday afternoon. the experience itself was awesome, even if the team didn't make it all the way. there was some really tough competition there. they had a pretty good team considering only like 3 or 4 of them had actually played together before the other like 6 or 7 was just pick-ups that they had picked up last minute to be added to the team. so there were a few weak spots, so i think if those would have been different people it would have really made a huge difference. but for the most part it was a succesful weekend for me. i enjoyed being away from home for a while even if it was only like 1 1/2 days, it was sorta like a little mini vacation me and jc getting away. i really enjoyed it. we had plans to go to tunica, miss in may. i'm not sure if were going to be able to go now or not. his uncle drives like a travel bus thing and it's only like $80 or $90 per person and it's the drive down there all your food and drinks and some money to gamble on. it's really a good deal. there's like 8 or 9 casino's down there. jc went last year with his aunt and cousin and had alot of fun. i was really looking forward to going down there but with softball season starting and jc and i trying to pay for our wedding, i just don't think we'll have the money to go this time.

i really like this picture of jc and i, even if it is in the bathroom of our hotel. hehe i think we look so cute in it.

this work week hopefully goes by fast. jc has a ball tournament this weekend and i am completely broke so i plan on just watching him play ball and sticking around home this weekend. i get paid friday the 11th and hopefully i have some extra money from that pay to get some things paid for for the wedding....less than 4 months to go and i still have so much more to pay for.

07

i really enjoyed britney on HIMYM. she was her usual cute self. nothing really suprising or anything. she's always really good on screen.

so i'm absolutely in love with this bag...i want it soooo bad. it's only $35 but i'm seriously on such a tight budget with the wedding i can't afford it. it sucks so bad. i'm a huge kurt halsey fan and i love his birds. that's the tattoo i'm getting next. the birds from the "always member." so yeah if anyone wants to purchase the bag for me i'd really appreciate it. hehe i've been waiting for him to come out with some new stuff for months and now that it's finally here i can't friggin afford it. damnit....

so i'm really having a hard time figuring out who i want to be my "maid of honor" i really dont' know. i have four great close friends..they all mean something different to me. one has been my friend since we were like 6 and have lived and grew up just down the road from eachother since then. one has been my best friend for about 10 years now. we've been thru everything together. death, life, love, etc. and we've been on vacations together and just do everything together. from come to the doctor with me to go to wal-mart with me. hehe one friend who happens to be my best friends cousin is alot like me. we both fell in love very young, we act and think alot a like. we have SO MUCH fun together. and my last friend who i met thru my best friend...we've been best friends for about 8 or 9 years. we are alot alike too. we used to go out together all the time and we were really close when our boyfriends were good friends. it's just so hard to decide because my friend whom i've known forever, me and her really aren't that close anymore....ya know we kinda went our seperate ways after school. my best friend who i've been thru it all with....is one of my first choices. the only thing with her sometimes i think because she doesn't have a serious love in her life..she doesn't truly understand how important this day is to me...then my other friend just seems like she doesn't ever tell me anything. ya know if your best friends with someone they are soposed to tell you everything...and when she started dating her ex-boyfriend again everyone knew about it but me. even people that wasn't close to her or there for her during tough times knew before me. she said it was because she knew i didn't like him and i'd be upset...but in the end i was more upset that she kept it from me. so it's hard for me to make her an important part in my wedding when sometimes i feel like i'm not really an important part in her life. i don't know. i've kinda just wanted to have NO maid of honor. i know there is alot more things i need to stress out about than that...but we'll see what happens.

so tomorrow is march 26 which means 4 MONTHS UNTIL I'M MARRIED! it's so crazy to think about that. it's seems just like yesterday we got engaged. hehe...and now were four months away from our wedding day. it's crazy.

we made reservations at the boat this friday. i'm so excited to go. were gonna go down friday when we get off and stay the nite...party at the bar downstairs with a band that i heard is REALLY GOOD and then we are of course gonna do a little gambling. then stay there.. and then saturday morning wake up and drive down to owensboro ky and watch jc play softball.

well i'm watching big brother and it's getting really good so i'm gonna wrap this up...

06

so here is a picture of tabby, me, & kari trying on our dresses at david's bridal on saturday. theire dresses still need some alterations but for the most part everything that has to do with the dresses is done. so all we have to do is make an appointment for all of us girls to go up their together so everyone can get their shoes and alterations taken care of at the same time so i know it's all done. (note: don't pay attention to the date on the picture, my mom took the picture with her camera and she doesn't know how to change the date.)
anyways...so i am still feeling okay but i am coughing like i've got lung cancer. hopefully by this weekend i'm alot better so i can go to kentucky with jc to watch him play ball. i really don't want to be down their coughing and hacking the whole time. i'd just be miserable.
i finally got my invitations in the mail. they say i need to mail them off 6-8 weeks before the wedding...which i would like to have them all addressed by the middle of may...so that way by early june i can get them all sent off.
i'd also really like to have my "annual yard sale" again this may or june. i still have so much stuff leftover from last year's. i made quite abit of money last year so if i could make even half of what i made last year that would really help me out with the wedding costs and everything. i really need to start getting all of it organized and priced so that if i do have the time to do it before the wedding i can.
well big nite on TV tonight so i need to get all my stuff finished up online so that i can be ready. jc just made me take some nighttime cough medicine that expired like 2 years ago. he's tired of hearing me cough. hopefully i don't pass out early and miss all my shows. thank god for TiVo.

05

so all the wedding dress drama is over...thank god. i went saturday and exchanged my dress for the one i tried on there and fell in love with. i can't wait for it to come in. they told me it wouldn't be in until june but i'm sure it will be sooner. last time i ordered my dress they told me 8 weeks and it took like 8 days. then have to give you the "worst case scenario" i guess. anyways...so all that is taken care of and now i can worry about other stuff. i still have pictures and music to pay for....and when my dad gets back from florida i'm hoping he'll offer to pay for the reception....if not then i have food to pay for too... ugg.. weddings are too damn expensive...
tomorrow is a big nite for me. monday's are my usual WWE nite but this monday is a big nite. we have WWE on as usual then the season premiere of The Hills, then the season premiere of WPT, and then to top it off Britney is gonna be on How I met your mother. i've never seen that show....and i'm sure it's a funny show but on mondays i have other things to watch...so i don't ever watch it. but you bet your ass i'll be tuning in this monday....i need to have a damn game plan. i need to make sure i have it all set up on TiVo where it can TiVo what i can't watch because i'm sure somethings will be on at the same time. i know WWE is 9-11, the hills is on at 10, WPT is at 9....so i need to find out what time how i met your mother is on. okay... http://www.cbs.com/ is saying britney will be on at 8:30. that's a perfect time. yay so excited for her big debut on TV...hope this is the great start to a new career.
well....after a week i'm STILL sick. i feel alot better but i've almost completely lost my voice and i keep coughing like i've been smoking for 87 years. hopefully the coughing goes away soon. jc has a big tournament outta town this weekend and i want to be 100% so i can go.

04

i am so tired of planning this wedding. don't get me wrong, i'm SO EXCITED to be marrying the love of my life...and i can't wait to get married...i'd do it tomorrow if we could. and i'm so excited for the reception and just having a big party with my jc and my friends and family. i really could care less about the ceremony... i just want to marry him! my mom is driving me crazy about it. i don't care about the marriage...i'm just ready for us to be married and spend the rest of our lives together. marriage smarriage. hehe
so..i'm still sick. i was miserable at work today. by the afternoon my sick symptoms were getting better (sore throat, runny nose, chills/sweats) but by then i was exhausted from being sick and didn't even want to get outta my seat. and i haven't stopped coughing all nite.
last nite i only got about 4 1/2 to 5 hours of sleep just because i couldn't get comfortable. i was hot then cold....then i coughed....i hope it isn't another restless nite.
so i have an appointment tomorrow morning at david's bridal. i'm really not happy with that place at all. the staff is friendly and all but they're just so damn pushy. i just wanna be like..listen i came in here to spend money..YOU WILL GET MY MONEY! so just let me be....and when i'm ready i'll give you my cash. they just have to be on ya the whole time...and ask ya like 200 questions. i purchased my dress there like 2 or 3 weeks ago...i had to order it and now that i have it i hate it. so i'm taking it back tomorrow and ordering a different one. i think i'm still ordering the same style, but in a smaller size and different color. the one i tried on there was ivory and the one i ordered was white with a green band across the top. i hate it. i don't know what it is but i think it looks like trash. i absolutely loved it when i tried it on in the ivory in the store...but when i got this one....i hated it. i wanted to CRY when i put it on for the first time.
when i walked outta the dressing room in the ivory one at the store my best friend tabby got all teary-eyed. we knew it was "the one" as everyone calls it. ya know "the one" is the one people say you put on you just know it's made for ya....you know "the force is with you." hehe
anyways....so hopefully that goes by fast and painless tomorrow. i love the thought of getting married...and getting a wedding dress and being a princess for a day....i hate the idea of trying on 20 lb dresses one after another after another.....especially right now when i'm sick.
well i'm off to bed. JC has a softball tournament in the morning and into the afternoon tomorrow. so hopefully I can get my wedding dress shopping done and come home and get some rest... i gotta start feeling better...i hate being sick.

03

so i missed work monday because i was sick. i NEVER call in work sick...like in the three years i've worked here..i'd say i probably called in sick 3 times...so that averages out once a year which compared to some people and some places i've worked is really good.
anyways..so as tuesday and wednesday rolled around i was feeling better and now today i feel almost as bad as i did monday...minus the body aches. but here i am at work.
so i'm on lunch and i'm bored outta my mind so i'm posting. last nite i surfed around online trying to come up with my perfect domain name. nothing really stands out. everything i come up with is already chosen or it just doesn't seem "right." i really want to purchase it by this weekend so that i can get hosted and get started on this thing. i'm really excited to finally have my own REAL domain..instead of always using a geocities or angelfire account. i guess i'm gonna go thru http://www.godaddy.com to buy my domain. i don't really know of anywhere else. i don't know really where to get hosted either...i'm still new at all this stuff but hopefully i can get it all together and get started soon. well i really should finish up and get ready to clock back in...that was a fast lunch...thank god tomorrow is friday...that's all i know.

02

so it's hump day which is always a good day in my book. even though it's the middle of the week it's like a big flag waving saying "2 more days until the weekend." which the weekend happens to be my two favorite days of the week. hehe anyways...this weekend JC has a ball tournament scheduled if it doesn't rain it out and saturday i'm soposed to be going to david's bridal to get a new wedding dress and such. (note: yes i already bought my wedding dress but i had to order it because the one i wanted wasn't in the store and when i got it i HATED it... but that's another story) anyways...so i'm taking it back and ordering a new one. and i need to schedule a day that all four of my bridesmaids are off and can go and get fitted.
so it's been raining now for about 36 hrs it seems...i'm getting really tired of rain. i know it's a sign of spring.. (spring is in 2 days) which is fine, i love spring and rainshowers for that matter but this isn't spring rain. this is cold, wet, sloppy winter rain. it's not fun to play in and it's so dark out that it makes me feel depressed. it makes me want to go home and sleep all day long.
lunchtime is over...time to go back to work....

01

apparently the downfall of working at a doctor's office is that your constantly surrounded by sick people. my immune system must of finally just gave in. everyone around me had been sick at work and i had fought it off. but of course here i am. home...sick today.
today is st. patricks day. i love this holiday because everything is green which happens to be my favorite color. this holiday also means just a few more days until spring...which i can not wait for. my cousin will be playing baseball soon...and next weekend jc starts softball. the weather will be much warmer and i can start working outside the house.
we have about 4 months until the wedding...i still have so much to do. i'm starting to get a little stressed about it considering there isn't much time left and i still have so much stuff i need to buy and not very much money to buy it with. hehe but oh well...
okay..well this post was really pointless. i just wanted to try out my new blog.

Our Story

this is my boyfriend husband, justin. his friends and everyone calls him jc, but i call him cj. :o) we've been together since April 29, 2001. He means everything in the world to me and more. I don't know what i'd do without him.

how we met. (originally written in 2001)
i met cj in health class in the beginning of my sophomore year(he was a freshman). i knew of him...but that was really it. then i didn't really see him 2nd semester of school because we didn't have health together anymore.. summer went by..and back to school we were. then in around october i met jc again and started to hang out with him a little bit. his cousin and i were good friends..so whenever i would go to town and talk to his cousin he would be there. so me and jc came pretty good friends and hung out quite a bit..then a dance in november came..and i went with a boy named josh. jc said when he seen us together (he didnt' go to the dance..but seen me and josh and a bunch of our friends all getting ready to go out to eat) he realized then that it just wasn't right for me to be with him. then around christmas time came..and me and jc hung out quite a bit then also..but january came...and for some reason jc and i didn't talk for about that whole month..we did have a computer class together though..and in february we started talking again. we talked everyday at school and so on and almost every nite on the phone. on 4/20/01 i skipped school and ended up getting caught...alot of stuff was going on..and i got my car takin away..so i moved outta my dads and into my moms house.. a friend of mine, kyle, was getting into some trouble with the cops..and jc came over..and stayed with me alot...just talking until late..then going home.... after about 2 weeks of him being over at my house straight...he decided to ask me out one night before he went home...he asked..i was shocked..and i said no. he got really hurt..and went home.. i felt so bad...so a few nites after that..me, jc, (yes he was still talking to me :o) ) and a bunch of our friends decided to go to the movies (we got in a fight, but we'll leave that part out) anyways...he came over to my house..that nite..and i wanted to just say "hey..i wanna go out." but i didn't know if he still wanted to or not...so since i was really shy around him about that sorta stuff then..i decided to write it in a little note. so i did...and when he left i gave it to him. *i know, it was cheesy* anyways...so when he got home he got online...and boom...he said "of course i still wanna go out." and he's been stuck with me every since. :o) but of course...we do have our ups and downs...and we do fight. but who doesn't? but we have our good days too ;o) hehe anyways..we pretty much act like were married... except for the whole living with eachother thing..but he's practically over here 24/7 so he might as well have his own room here. :o) but thats how we've came to be. and i'm pretty sure...5 or 6 years down the line... we'll still be together. :o)

Updated 2004
he actually moved in with me and my dad about 9 months after we had been dating. then in january of 2004 we moved into our own house together. life is perfect...
Updated 2007
On December 24, 2005 Justin asked me to marry him and of course I said yes. It's been two years now since we've been engaged and 7 years that we've been together...we've been thru alot together but in the end we knew we were meant to be together forever. We will finally be husband and wife on July 26, 2008. The last 7 years have been the best years of my life and I can't wait to finally marry him and be together forever.

Updated 2008
I am now officially Mrs. Copeland. :o) It's funny reading thru this and actually now being his wife. hehe It's awesome. I always "knew" that we'd be married one day...i just can't believe it actually happened.. I can't wait years down the road to come back to this page and update it again with more of "our story."

my story

my name is melissa jo and i'm from a really small town in indiana. i was born and raised a hoosier but my dream is to be a Texan.  i am completely head over heals in love with my husband. we've been together since 2001 and were finally married on july 26, 2008. he is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and my best friend.  if you want to learn more about my love story click here.

loves

my husband justin, britney spears, the color green, stars, snoopy, potatoes, dogs, candles, american eagle, flip flops, uggs, photos, colors, live music, dallas cowboys, kurt halsey, etsy, braclets, anything handmade, vintage

hates
slow drivers, slow computers, snow, cold, dirty people, smelly things, old things, whistling, gum, home schooled people, socks, the noise socks make (just listen..you'll hear it), annoying people, some people in general.

about life

we have three kids. :o) 1 cat and 2 dogs. DQ (cat) is about 8 years old. I found her one day at the local Dairy Queen (DQ) and i saved her. she was very thin and sick and i fed her and took care of her until she was a healty cat. she just recently passed away on January 15, 2009.  I will never have another kitty because noone can ever take her place.  I love and miss you DQ!
Lacey is our 2nd child. i rescued her from the Humane Society in Terre Haute. she was about 3 months old when we adopted her. i'm not really sure exactly what breads she has in her. we just call her breed a "lace-dogg," it's the best bread ever. hehe i wish i could have lots of "lace-dogs" but she's fixed.
Bella is our youngest. she was born on february 2, 2007. i adopted her from my uncle ron. she's a faggle (fox terrier, rat terrier, beagle mix). she goes to my grandpa's house everyday and  he puppysits her and takes her on golfcart rides and walks all day long. they're all very spoiled animals. speaking of animals...i'm a HUGE animal lover. if i had room i'd take in any animal i could and help them find a good home. except i'd probably fall in love with them and not want to give them away. one day i would love to own or help run a rescue for animals.i currently work at a doctors office.i am currently unemployed. i was told 3 days before my wedding that they probably wouldn't be needing me anymore..so the entire time i was on my honeymoon i had no idea if i had a job when i got back or not. i came back to work on that next monday and worked a full week except would be taking that friday off (8-8-8 which happened to be my 25th birthday). at 4pm on that thursday i was taken back to my office managers office and was told "happy birthday..now i have bad news." i worked to live not lived to work. everyone should be like that. i grew up in a house where my dad worked all the time. yes, we had nice things because of that. but now looking back i'd trade all that in for more time with my dad. i will always remember that. i want my family to have nice things but in the end being with eachother is the most important thing. i think it is a blessing in disguise. i will be getting unemployment for a while so I'm getting the opportunity to stay home and enjoy life.
On December 1, 2008 I opened up my very own etsy shop.  You can find out more about Adiqshun Designs here.