Mel

Cinema at the Square time!

I don’t know why I always seem to hear about Cinema at the Square (Playhouse Square, that is) almost when it’s too late. I missed it completely last year. FANTASTIC, that I found while searching through the schedule that “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life” is playing next Thursday. I just had to buy a pair of tickets. Fuck off. Don’t come following...

Mel

Sister time & dotdotdot

My brain is a little mush today. Good mush, I suppose. Not the gross mush you (definitely not me) eat for breakfast, but the mush that envelops the brain during periods of extreme happiness, that it pretty much feels stupid. Mush. Wow, I seriously need to work on my intimate conversation skills. I was able to spend some time with my sister Friday night before she moves this week, which makes me happy. She...

Mel

Is it vanilla? Maybe banana… oooh, pina colada.

Internets. Today I woke up very happy. I may or may not have woken with a boner… Wait, is “woken” a word? And it was more than just the Golden Grahams. After my night, you might think I would be sluggish, hungover or 24 fewer brain cells. Oh, Wednesdays, we can’t take you anywhere. I left work early yesterday (yes!) for a committee meeting at D’Vine. Some days it’s...

Mel

I will pay you a dollar to dry off your sweaty balls.

Is there a world where Mondays don’t exist? But then all the annoying “Monday” crap would occur on Tuesday, right? But Tuesday is Penis Tuesday fun day, and I somehow find that exciting. Or maybe that is just penises in general. *sigh* Regardless, I need to find a way to start sleeping on Sunday nights. I tossed-and-turned way beyond Cheaters and both late night South Park episodes. Then,...

Mel

Did he just say ‘drop a number two on your face’?

What’s up drunks? You’re welcome for that drink. Last night was the Mansions/Paper Rival/New Frontiers/The Honorary Title show at the Grog Shop. Awesome show. Early, which left plenty of time to party on, Wayne. I really was truly only interested in Paper Rival, especially after seeing them at the Grog Shop this past year. I hope they start catching some publicity or something because I would...

Mel

Changing gears and eating cheese

Wow, I was a wench yesterday. Almost immediately upon publishing that post, Matt from Addicted to Vinyl TOTALLY hooked me (and Esteban) up with all the Journey mp3s. He totally rocks and played a HUGE part in changing my mood yesterday. Moving on… Last night, Mel was at MELT! I was catching up with an old pal. From something straight out of those stupid girlie dramas, the waitress was blatantly...

Mel

There’s popcorn in the shots?

Hey there, hi there, ho there, Campers. Who’s making pancakes? No matter it was Monday, we found a way to cram as much alcohol into our night out before working man’s bedtime. As you have probably figured out, my friends and I all enjoy Mexican for our birthday dinner of choice. No exceptions last night, with a double celebration for two of my good friends at Cozumel. We chose the location on...

Mel

I’ll take the mulligan.

No surprise, I added another fun weekend to my summer “to-done” list; however, there are some things I would do over. Saturday, I must have rode about 30 miles on my bike. I left my place around 2:30, to take off for Walk+Roll Lakewood. I didn’t realize activities started at 4. Odd time. I definitely would have lounged around for another hour, had I known, but I cut over through some...

Mel

The bomb pops bursting in air!

It’s Thursday already? My holiday was fun. After a day-long cookout on the 4th, my friend and I decided to skip Lakewood fireworks to make our own ooohs and ahhhs at the west end bars. Since weather was cooperating, we started at the outdoor patio at Around the Corner. I shook the hands and thanked a few local (young!) Marines home from their recent deployment in Iraq. It’s so sad, but somebody...

Mel

No wind knocked out of MY sails!

Clevelanders, last night I did one of the coolest things in this city. I went kayaking on Lake Erie. 41º North Kayak has a bunch of different tour packages — I chose the Cleveland Rocks! Sunset Tour. I have no kayak experience, but felt I was capable enough with my rafting skills… and that canoe thing I rented in Costa Maya. We left Wendy Park (on Whiskey Island) around 6 p.m., after quick...

Mel

My name is Jim Dobson. Can I buy you a shot?

Weekend, much? Well, then let’s begin. It was a weekend of a thousand birthday celebrations, but for the same friend — another 30-year-old addition to the club. Friday night, we started with bar food and brews at Slim & Chubby’s. Mmmmm, BLT and giant salad. (Note: I ruined my diet this weekend with really crappy food. Starting over again today). I was exceptionally hungover all day...

Mel

My scary attempt at new dating adventures. Part 8,229,109.

The world is such an awesome place when you have work clients that share their great baseball seats and never-ending bar tabs. Not so awesome is waking up on a Friday morning… and feeling like ass. The hedgehogs over at one of Cleveland’s major banks shared their fourth-row-behind-the-visitor-dugout Indians tickets to entice us to add another new torture chamber for my work days (read:...

Mel

Oh, sigh, weekends and driving

I think I’m done with the east side for a while. I mean, save for commuting to work already EVERY day. This past weekend of driving killed me. Fortunately, my new rugged tires seemed to enjoy the lovely highway travel. I have a cousin that just graduated from St. Ignatius. It was bittersweet, being that his mom (my aunt) was the one who passed away just recently. The solemn memories seemed to...

Mel

Gray skies are gonna clear up!

Ah, weekends. I spent a lot of time with just myself this weekend, but I never felt alone. The strangest thing I realized after an errand-busy Saturday, was I had this perma-grin on my face. There was nothing particularly humorous on TV at the end of my evening. I was just smiley. Weird. It was a good day. I was the early bird on Saturday (up at about 8 a.m.), with a visit to Crocker Park, to ultimately...

Mel

She was worth it

Regardless if you get laid or not at the end of an evening, most single somethings have high costs and impressions to make in the course of dating. Behold, the most expensive way to pussy on the planet — the  $1,150 date. What is the most you have spent on a date? I booked a New Year’s Eve getaway to Chicago for a “date” and I two years ago. (Although, my ass wasn’t paying...

Mel

Cleveland weather!

Seriously, I hope you got out and enjoyed that beautiful day yesterday! The girls and I (gosh, I missed that phrase!) met up near Big Met in the Metroparks and walked with the kids for almost two hours. There’s not a ton of pedestrian traffic here, so once I get my bike rack for my car, I’m definitely taking the trails. We also stopped over to see the horses and inquired about adult horse camps...

Mel

Summertime and the living is awesome!

This was an amazing weekend, Internets! There was a ton of revisiting to do with good friends, old ex-boyfriends, and of course, favorite stomping grounds. You buckled in? After a late after-work nap Friday, I woke to a “You feel like going out?” text message. The night was certainly too beautiful to waste under blankets, so my friend and I went over to Around the Corner. With the intention of...

Mel

Beer will do ya!

In an attempt by my friends to cheer me up, knowing full well I would be sitting home feeling sorry for myself, I received this strong-arm technique of a text message Tuesday night: KT and I are giving you two choices, we bring over a 6 pack or we take you out for dinner and drinks. Sounds like my kind of decision to (not) make! And my friends knew exactly what I needed. They took me over to West Park...

Mel

Revisiting AK-Rowdy… and youth

When my younger sister says she doesn’t enjoy going out anymore, it gives you pause. When I go for a Saturday girls’ night and worry about the trampy-ness that has invaded the female gender, Hell might as well have just frozen. After the rigor mortis set in from a two-and-a-half hours viewing for Sex & the City, our little Akron group needed to get loose. While in thought, frozen drinks at...

Mel

Happy belated Mother-effin…

How sweet it is to get double-trouble exploring the city of Cleveland Saturday afternoon. Let the Mom & me adventures commence. Being all consumed by big birthday bashes (and free hamburgers) this year, my mom and I had a Saturday afternoon to ourselves to gleefully celebrate a belated Mother’s Day and that “adding a one to my age” business. Both of us drool for greasy spoons, so I...