Troy-  Melissa, I gotta ask you - of course you're the first female Canadian Idol - anything changed?  Has it sunk in at all?  Have you had time to reflect?  Like "What the hell happened?" or anything?

MO-  No, you know we haven't really had too much time to do much reflecting at all.  Eyery day I'm very grateful to be where I am, for sure.  I don't know.  While it has happened so fast… I live very much in the moment, you know, so everything that's happening to me I'm living it and so it kind of goes a little bit slower.  So it's not as much of a blur as everyone sees it. 

Troy-  And you moved to Toronto and you got an apartment in Toronto, right?

MO-  Umhmm.

Troy-  Last time I checked out your blog you ate expired carrots.

MO-  [silence]  Uh… Oh, that's the other blog. 

Troy-  How many blogs do you have?  You've got the MySpace one, the Melissa O'Neil one…

MO-  Yeah, the one on there I don't do that one too often because it's not as customizable as the MySpace one.  But I really have to get on MySpace so to everyone (reading) and sending me messages about it, I know, I know and I'll be on it soon.

Troy-  Any big differences moving from Cow Town (Calgary)  to TO?

MO-  My parents aren't around.  That really bites.  I miss them a lot.  Um… it's stinky.  I'm not going to lie…

Troy-  Don't lie…

MO-  Toronto's cool and everything, but, damn, when you walk down the street you just get hit with these smells out of no where.  Just totally left-flanked with these things and you just… oh, it's not right.

Troy-  Melissa O'Neil.  You've got yourself a website there...

MO-  Yes. 

Troy-  You're kind of an Internet junkie.  On your website melissaoneil.com, there's the "Community" section, right?

MO-  Yes there is.

Troy-  And somewhere in that wacky page is a hidden Melissa, right?

MO-  There's a hidden Melissa.

Troy-  And you knew about this?

MO-  I knew about this.  I asked them to put it on actually.

Troy-  You're behind it, huh?

MO-  Yeah.  Love the random stuff.

Troy-  You have a few messages in there.

MO-  Most definitely.

Troy-  I've got "Eat your veggies" and "Use all your crayons."

MO-  I am reading the new… I have two books I'm reading right now but I just can't say the other one.  One book that I'm reading is called "Bust" and it's a new girl guide to the new girl order for the world.  It's cool.  It's a feminist and empowering female book, but it's kick your butt.