Hocus Pocus

Halloween was today.  The ghouls have come out and trick-or-treated and the scary stories have been told.  The evil has been thwarted and the wicked witch of the west has melted.  Or not?

In my town trick-or-treating, or rather treating, happens before the sun goes down.  All the revelries have been carried out by eight.  Some say that it's great.  It's a Wednesday and there is no reason to have children staying up too late.  While I agree with that statement I wonder...has Halloween become too boring?

First off while I like the date, there is a 71% percent chance that it is on a school/work night.  This is frustrating because no matter what you do it has to happen before curfew.  Even if you don't have an actual curfew you still need to be able to function the next morning.  I propose that it be on the last Friday of October. 
You could say that the days leading up to Halloween are meant for spooky activities as well but there is nothing like participating on the actual day.  Wouldn't you like to be able to watch all your favorite Halloween movies, trick-or-treat, and go on a haunted hay ride all in one day.  You could tell scary stories to your friends all night. 

That is Halloween!  Halloween is not 2 hours allocated to little kids and their sweet teeth!  What happened to the trick part of trick or treating anyway?  I know that I'm not a child and that some of the magic surrounding holidays is not the same but I really believed in Halloween!  I believed that it could stay with me as I grew.  But now as a teenager I find myself asking, What is Halloween?  Is it a chance for children to pig out?  Or can it be more?  Will I ever feel the magic of Halloween again?  Or should I just grow up?  

I can feel my lips form the word no but is it really possible to hold on to such a childish notion of staying the same?  I cannot tell the future, only the present, so right now I will sit back and just enjoy my Halloween anthems.

                                                                        XOXOXOXOXO Mel.

To read or not to read: Fan Fictions

I'm sure you are all aware of a genre that is different than all other genres. 
Is it really even a genre?
Well, what I'm dancing around is the topic of Fan fictions.

Fan fiction is defined by being a story about something, anything really, that is written by the fans of said something.  I have heard about many fan fictions on the topics of Books, Movies, Bands and anything you could probably think of.  One website I know of has fan fictions about Anime/Manga (Japanese TV show/comic), movies, books, cartoons, comics, Plays/Musicals, and even games.  Can you imagine a Call of Duty fan fiction?  Another odd section of fan fictions I've come across are about Bands/singers.  So, what do you think Bruno Mars does in his spare time?  Why don't you write about it?  Or if not there is most likely already a fan fiction about it.  If you're One Direction there is already a website.

So to read or not to read?

I think fan fics get a bad rep for five reasons...
 1.  50 Shades of Grey started out as a Twilight fan fiction (Am I the only one who is a little disturbed by that?  I know sparkly vamps are a little lame but come on...COME ON)
 2.  The ratings vary, yes there are ratings!, but people can pretty much write what they want.
 3.  ITS NOT THE SAME!  True, this is not the author or the screen writer or even the band telling you that this is what happened.  You could view it as a fake.
 4.  Not all fans are master novelists.  Some people just shouldn't be putting pen to paper or in most cases fingers to keyboard.
 5.  Not every fan is a fan for the same reasons that your a fan.  Suddenly you are confronted with a story that isn't at all what you were thinking or that is not at all what you thought the characters would do.

Fan fics aren't all that bad and here are...five reasons...
 1.  You get to revisit that world that you loved so much!  And the characters too!  BONUS!
 2.  What would have happened if there was one more book or one more season.
 3.  If its a band it gives fans another thing to fan girl over but don't fan girl too much...(I have fan girled and I can't get up!)  Fan boys can also participate.
 4.  You have to stop watching, playing, reading, and listening to the same thing over and over and guess what?...over again.
 5.  The fans know their audience because they are the audience!  They know what you want to hear!  If you've just been DYING for Sam and Claudia to be together, there it is!

So I ask again, to read or not to read?
To be honest there are a lot of terrible fanfics out there but there are a lot of good ones as well.  Before best selling authors became authors they were most likely die hard fans of something themselves.  In my opinion I have nothing against fan fictions at all.  I'll even read one or two.  But to me it's like a mirage, it may be the most beautiful thing you've ever read but it's still not real.  (or if your talking about any sort of fiction its not "real fake".)  So really, like anything else, it is up to YOU to form your OWN opinion.
So tell me, to read or not to read?
                    
                                XOXOXOXOXO Mel.

                                                                                     

Love Triangles

Most of the time when I hear about love triangles its in a book or a movie like the Twilight "saga" or The Hunger Games series.  Harry Potter, the other giant franchise I can think of, proves that you don't need a love triangle but they are one of the only ones.  99% of the books I read have one; the Fallen series, Immortals series, and wings series to name a few. 

What is it about a love triangle that is so appealing to teenagers and YA novel companies like Little Brown and Harper Teen?

I know It's not real life because I've never actually seen a love triangle in action.  Usually what I witness is more of a love square or dodecahedron. 

Sheila-Bill-Sandy-Jack-Cathy-Bill-Veronica-Jack*
*that's more like it.

Really, the love triangle in principle is all wrong.  Usually it is two guys fighting over one girl or the other way around so technically calling it a love "v" is more appropriate.  A love triangle suggests that Edward likes Bella who likes Jacob who then likes Edward?!  Not exactly...

Even if you do witness a love triangle (or love "v" as I call it) it usually goes like this...
Harry and Liam both like Julie.  Julie likes Harry so they start dating.  Liam is now irrelevant, jealous but, irrelovent.  It usually doesn't take real life Julie a year to deside who she wants.  By that time most of the guys I know would just move on.  But in real life there are real life woman stealers.  So if Julie desides that Liam actually is the better candadate then she will break up with Harry to be with him.  This whole senario can go on for months but unlike books, the particapants usually get tired of it before GRADUATION!

So in conclusion, none of my friends have been in that so called "proper" love triangle.  Most of the time it looks more like this:

Even Sherlock and Watson can't figure it out. ;)
So, how many love triangles, squares, or hexagons have you come across?  And have you ever been in the middle of one?
                     
                        XOXOXOXOXOXO Mel.  

Readers

Hi!  The topic of the moment is just to thank everyone who is reading this!  I love you for your support in this writing escapade.  I'm a little too excited about actually having a blog vs just thinking about it.  Please comment on my posts!  I love feedback even if it's constructive criticism because it will only help me grow.  So, without further ado, here are some questions that I would love if at least someone could answer...

-Different small segments for each day that isn't necessarily the post of the day?

-Question of the day?

-What do you guys want me to talk about?

-Do you mind if I straight up talk about my personal life sometimes?

-Pop culture?

If you guys have anymore questions just put them in a comment!  Thank you. :)

                                  XOXOXOXOXO Mel.

Loss

"I miss you, I miss your smile, and I still shed a tear every once in a while.  But even though its different now, your still here somehow.  My heart won't let you go and I need you to know; I miss you."- Lyrics to "I miss you" by Miley Cyrus.

I know that you probably don't want to hear someone quoting lyrics from a Disney star that no longer has a good career but they fit.  I'm sorry I'm not sorry.  If it makes you feel better a songwriting couple with the last name Green helped write the song.  But if you take away the voice behind the song and instead focus on the meaning of the lyrics you will find that who sings it doesn't really matter at all.

Loss is something we all go through.  Whether you lost your pet caterpillar that you had to leave outside because Mom said so or you lost your Dad, loss is something that effects us all.  In the past years I have lost a great aunt, a grandmother, a cat, and an aunt.  I was too little to remember my great aunt's passing but all of the others hit me in one way or another.  My aunt was the most recent death.  Her funeral was this past August.  I'm not much of a cry-er but I felt with her as I have felt before and will always feel...I just wish I could have spent more time with them.  I wish they were still here, that I could just dial their number and they would pick up the phone or I could drive by their house and it would still be theirs.

Today in Spanish Class we were told to write a letter regarding a person we had lost in honor of Day of the Dead.  This is what gave me the idea for a post.  People were on the verge of tears.  Then after that class we had an assembly about Distracted Driving and heard stories by people that had somehow been connected to an accident.  Today was a very somber day filled with a bombardment of the synonyms and feelings associated with the word: DEATH.

My Spanish teacher asked me this so now I'm asking you:
What is one word that you think of when you think of death?
And also, think about the people in your life that are still alive.  Do me a favor and call one of them up and just talk.  You'll be glad you did when you can no longer.  If you know someone is suffering from a loss just be there for them and if you have lost someone just try to remember...they'll always be in your heart (Tarzan reference I hope you don't mind).

Now enjoy this wonderful song by Train that is both a song about loss and love.

                                                                   XOXOXOXOXO Mel.

Family

“Family is not an important thing, it's everything.”― Michael J. Fox

In life we develop many families.  You have your blood family.  These are the people that you are actually genetically related to.  Whether you love them or hate them they are probably the only family that will never abandon you no matter what.  Your family can consist of great-grandparents and second cousins twice removed or just you and one parent.  Whatever kind of family you have it is uniquely yours, trust me.  I bet there's not a lot of people with an Uncle Sam...oh wait...never mind.  But I can guarantee that no family is quite like mine.  This unique and, a lot of the times, crazy family is the most important.  If your going to burn bridges try not to burn the one connecting you to the people with the same eyebrows.  Thick and thin they will always be there.  Try to remember that next time you want to cuss out your younger sister because she put your designer jacket in the dryer.

Then you have your friend family.  These are the people that you deem as your "sister from another mister" and "brother from another mother".  I have a few of these as many people do.  They might not be as forgiving of your mistakes as your blood family but you are usually tighter with this family.  These are the peeps that you trust with your deepest darkest secret(s) and blood family issues.  These are the people that you wish had the same ears as you. 

Next is your friend's family.  We all have that BFF or multiple BFFs that we borderline live with.  Their parents become your parents and their siblings are now yours (congradulations).  You can come over whenever.  They'll feed you, hang out with you, give you gifts/money, and take you places with them.  They love you and you should be honored because that is a special place to be; in their hearts. 

Lastly is your group family.  They are the people you have a common interest with.  The glee club or the art club are families.  Band is a family.  I was in chorus from middle school all the way up to last year.  That was a family.  We were close in a unique way.  You all have that same passion, same drive, that you might not share with any of the other families listed above.  It's that connection which makes you a family.  I miss my chorus family like you wouldn't believe.  They had a concert today and I almost cried watching them perform.

So the moral of the story is...never forget your Ohana.

 

                                                                               
                                                                                   -XOXOXOXO Mel.

History Class

This title Mel in the Morning didn't come from just anywhere.  As a little kid my dad and I would film me doing "news shows".  We called this program Mel in the Morning.  It was a joke because if you knew me you would know that I rarely saw the morning on days when I didn't have school.  It was true then and is still true now.  I'm a night owl, not a morning dove.

I am close to the middle of my teen years and as a normal teen I have adapted a kind of ADD mentality.  This blog will be about a veriety of things including many trips to...

Girl World: Fashion, Make-up
Music World: "That's my JAM!"
Teen World: D-R-A-M-A  and the cure*
              *will not work if subject is stupid
Writer World: My different projects; novellas, short stories, and novels
Book World: (currently dealing with an infestation of bookworms, sorry) Books that I love, hate, want, have
School World: -___-
Miscellanious World: Anything else I can come up with

So I hope you will enjoy and keep reading. 
               

                 XOXOXOXO Mel.