Author Archives: messytessy
Flirting with freeganism–and failing.
It all started because of mint.com. If you don’t know about mint.com, let me elaborate. It’s freaking awesome. It tracks your spending and makes budgeting awesome. It does this by providing a read only view of your accounts and categorizes your transactions. It also provides metrics to track trends. It is my obsession despite the [...]
An open love letter to my friends
So I’m going to get a little sentimental on this post, but I haven’t felt like posting for awhile so I think this is a good way to start back up. This week has been a great week for catching up with old friends I miss dearly and it’s got me thinking. I want to [...]
Crazy Cat Lady v2.0
I promised pictures of my cats, and today I’m delivering. Some of these are older, but Aloysius hasn’t had his chance in the sun. Without much more ado, I present you Orenthal James and Aloysius Biscuit: Enjoy!
5 Horror Films…
…you should see right now. So not everyone loves horror films, so some people will avoid these suggestions. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I love to be scared yet most scary movies are simply just bad movies, so the pickin’s is sometimes slim. If you love being scared as much as I do, [...]
What’s in a Name?
When I first named this blog Messy Tessy it was because the moniker was always a term of endearment. I looked up my name on babynamer.com recently, which tells you a name’s possible drawbacks– mine being ‘Messy Tessy’ or ‘Messa Tessa’. Messy Tessy has never been insulting as it’s fairly accurate due to my almost [...]
5 Documentaries…
…you should see right now. This is the start of me chronicling my movie recommendations. I am doing this because I talk about movies too damn much anyway in every day conversation so hopefully this will curb that habit. Also, my mother always laments that I need to write my recommendations down and this will [...]
A writer’s promise to her readers
Ohh mansies. Blogging. I have the same sense of dread and confusion mixed with exploratory curiosity that cats have when you let them out of their carrier at the vet’s office. Imagine me bobbing and weaving around the WordPress site smelling everything, hissing, and eventually curling in the corner to stare at you. Maybe my recent acquisition of another [...]
