THREE FEET OF SNOW!

So.. here's the line-up for awesome weather way up nawth... or as my amazing Knoxvillian cousins say "almost Canada":

Thursday - Snow
Friday - Snow
Saturday - Snow
Sunday - Snow
Monday - Snow
Tuesday - SUNNY (kinda)
Wednesday - Snow
Thursday - Snow
Friday - SUNNY

All in all, we're supposed to get between one to three, get this.. FEET of snow!!!

I'm happy.  I know a lot of people don't like snow.  I have friends who complain about it.  It's cold, it's wet, you have to shovel it, etc. etc. etc....

However, I am a huge fan of snow.  Driving in it is kind of fun (NOTE: if you live in Maine, please learn to drive in snow.... it is not necessary to go 25 MPH on the interstate), and it's gorgeous afterward.  Everything just shuts down (hopefully not the power, but even so) and it just feels like the world is on pause and we can breathe. 

It's the best time to get some coffee (or tea, or coco, whatever you're into), a good book, and just cuddle up and relax.  Some of my favorite memories are of my family just reading in the living room with candles lit and the wind howling outside.  Cribbage tournaments and whole books read in one sitting and quietness and laughter.  Wow I just said 'and' a lot.

Side-note... I was hoping to film my SK6ERS music video... video out in the snow with my brother.  So, hopefully we can do that this weekend. 

<3

new year's goals

As of today, I have exactly 6 months before Sam & Emily's wedding.  If you don't know, Sam and Emily are two of my best friends and this is going to be the most amazing wedding ever.  I'm one of Em's bridesmaids, which means bachelorette parties, tons of fun, and also wearing a pretty dress :)

Now, this dress situation poses an issue.  I have been trying to get healthier and lose some weight for some time now (seems like forever), but I think this wedding may be the push I need to eat healthier and work out more.  This can't be a casual "I'm going to try to be healthier when I can" kind of thing.  I have got to be serious.  I'm going to be working at least 55 hours a week during tax season and it's going to be so easy to just want to sit on my butt and veg out when I get home.  I cannot let myself do this.

So... you my friends are going to have to keep me in line.  I'm basically talking to Kateland, but everyone else here too.  We're going a sort of "biggest loser" thing on HNet in January, so I know I have a support group there. 

My Wii Fit is going to be my savior though...

Okay... so specific goals (because, as my father always says: "if you don't set goals, how will you know when you've reached them?")

1. Sleep more: bedtime is 9:30pm 
1. Get up earlier (5:30am) and eat breakfast before work
   
2. Excercise EVERY DAY! 
1. Use the Wii at least one hour a day-get a routine set up
   
2. Go for walks outside when it's nice (preferably with mom)
3. Eat healthier
   
1. Bring lunch to work (and healthy snacks)
   
2. NO MORE SODA
   
3. Keep a food diary (I hate doing this FYI, but it's worked in the past, so I'll suck it up)
4. TAKE YOUR VITAMINS! (I always always always forget this)

 Ok... lets do this...

Project "get sexy" has commenced :)

the indispensable calvin and hobbes

Random addition for the day 
becauseitsmyblogandicandowhatiwant :) 

I stole the majority of these off this blog

Calvin & Hobbes Quotes:

As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

My only regret is blowing the best day of my life while I’m so young

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.

“It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.”

In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

This one’s tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen … 

I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life … Procrastinating and rationalizing.

I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information

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Calvin : You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.

H : “What are you doing?”
C : “Being cool.”

H : “You look more like you’re bored.”
C : “The world bores you when you’re cool.”

C: We are a fierce and dirty band of cut-throat pirates! Keep a sharp lookout matey, we dont want any sissy girls on our ship!”
H: “We dont like girls???”
C: “Of course not dummy, we’re a murderous bunch of pirates, remember?”
H: “Who do we smooch then?”

“Today for show and tell I've brought a tiny marvel of nature: a single snowflake. I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal.. ..turns into an ordinary boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it in the classroom. And now. While the analogy sinks in. I’ll be leaving you drips and going outside.”
- Calvin and Hobbes

“Somewhere in communist Russia I’ll bet there’s a little boy who has never known anything but CENSORSHIP and OPPRESSION. But maybe he’s heard about AMERICA, and he dreams of living in this land of FREEDOM and OPPORTUNITY! Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… AND TELL HIM THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!!”
“Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans.”

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<3

Hey Now...

I've been listening to a lot of Something Corporate lately.  My friend says that it's depressing, but I don't think so.  I find hope in it (i can never ever get through a day without mistakenly quoting a hanson lyric....sigh...).  I recently watched the Jack's Mannequin documentary 'Dear Jack' which chronicles the lead singer of both band's, Andrew McMahon, battle with leukemia.  You should definitely watch this.  It's amazing.  


www.strikegently.com posted a link to the live stream of the film... click it :)
http://www.zshare.net/video/679490101f187cf5


In other news, Andrew (not McMahon... BeeBo) told me yesterday that he missed my vlogs.  YouTube was being very lame at the end of November and would not upload my videos, so I missed the last few days of vlogging every day in November for NaNoWriMo.  I should have something up this weekend though, and will link you when it's up.  
<3


Straw Dog -Something Corporate

and i just need to feel

and now, a two-day blog, because last night was awesome and today was boring

December 6th, 2009

Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers show day!!!!

     I went to church in the morning, I was still feeling pretty weird after the whole almost seeing Chris thing.  I'm kind of glad he wasn't there, but at the same time I wish I could have seen him.  It's just the whole first boyfriend thing... I don't know if I'll ever fully get over it, but I can try.  Either way, had a much needed talk with the Big Guy and felt a lot better.  

     I drove my brother to school and hung out with his roommates while I waited for Stephanie to get out of work (she works in his college's town).  She texted me and let me know she didn't feel well and wasn't going to come with.  

     So I went alone.  I wasn't upset, I actually had a really awesome time despite being at a venue I'd never been to before and being there alone.  I know it's kind of weird, but it seems that Hanson fans always have sort of a vibe around them.  I say this because I knew the 3 girls at the bar were Fansons the minute they walked in, and they're generally awesome people (especially when at shows--unless they're bitchy....which they weren't).

     So I made new friends and had an amazing night.  Small venues are amazing!  For the last song (before the encore) Stephen decided to bring the band into the crowd and play 'See You Later, See You Soon' which, though is not my absolute favorite Sk6ers song, has my favorite lyric.  I have this phrase on a sticky note at my desk at work, on a homemade Starbucks coffee mug, and on my white board at home.

Somewhere east of that solo and a little bit west of the bridge

was the singular kind of moment that you remember as long as you live.

Boots was also standing in front of me.... I think he's cute... I think it's the smile... I dunno.... 
:)

I had a smile on my face the entire time.  I have a favorite quote that seems to fit here... two quotes actually:

May you live all the days of your life -Jonathan Swift

If you smile when you're alone then you really mean it. -Andy Rooney

     Even though I was alone in the sense that I knew no one at the concert, I really felt like I was living.  I wasn't self-conscious (which is a big deal for me), I was just in the moment and experiencing something.  I wasn't taking pictures or anything, just being there, which was just perfect.And even though I wasn't technically alone, I wasn't smiling for anyone for me.  Sometimes you smile for other people.  Those smiles are different than when you smile when you're truly happy (like when you're alone).  It's the best kind of happiness when it's like that.

     After the show I literally ran into Stephen at the front of the venue, automatically asked "high-five?"   and he was like "yessss!"  High-fived me and gave me a huge hug, and we talked for a bit (he's super sweet).  He dragged me over to the merch table and said hi to the other guitar player (not Kit.. the other guy.. I forget his name).  I had a 2 hour drive home though... So I headed out.  

I'm not sure how I got home without falling asleep or going off the road.  It was scary

                                                                  Got home at 1am... woke up for work at 5:45am.....

December 7, 2009

I was tired... all day

Had a nice dinner with Nana though :)

I am going to sleep now :)

SUPER EXCITED TO WATCH THE GLEE FINALE AT A THEATER ON WEDNESDAY WITH BEEEEEBO!

<3

Song of the day: I have spread some love -Thieves and Villains  

and if you're looking for advice my dear...

I have been a complete fail today...


I misplaced my concert tickets for tonight (Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers)
I cannot for the life of me find my driver's license
My car is a mess
I am not hungover (yay!)... but still feel a bit off from going out with Stephy last night


Solutions to my failures...


-Called the ticket vendor and got my order switched to will call
-United States Passport :)
-Cleaning out my car as soon as I post this
-Making pasta and eating Italian Ice.... I think not eating anything yet today except for coffee is adding to my stress level and weird feeling.





{{  Break to eat  }}


i feel better now


<3


Father's Day -Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers

my life is just a something corporate song....

..and the world is singing along...

I'm feeling 'meh'

...Something Corporate is my go-to band when I am down.

I may see my ex tonight

I'm nervous

And sad

And a million other emotions....

I'm just going to sit here and address christmas cards and listen to SoCo on shuffle and pretend to not be anxious...

<3

Shake down you make me break

For goodness sake

I think I'm on the edge

Of something new with you

Shout out don't drown the sound

I'll drown you out

You'll never screan so loud

As I want to scream with you

Standing there with your smile blinding

Your eyes from seeing

My face as I'm dying

To figure out a girl

But she drifts so far away

I'm on her coast

So maybe I should stay

And map around your world

[Chorus]

So Don't Say

"These currents are still killing me"

And you can't explain

But the wind went and pulled me 

Into the hurricane

Stand up don't make a sound

Your ears might bleed

There are sweet flourescent enemies

That live inside me

The world moves faster than I knew

Not fast enough to not creep up on you

And the space we put between

So pull me under your weather patterns 

Your cold fronts and the rain don't matter

Becuase a sun burn's what I needed

[Chorus]

You don't do it on purpose 

But you make me shake

Now I count the hours 'til you wake

With your babies breath

Breathe symphonies

Come on sweet catastrophe

Well, maybe this time I can follow through 

I can feel complete

Stop paying dues

Stop the rain from falling

Keep my ocean calm

Lets Take Off And Fly...

Holly posted pictures as her Blog today, and I am obviously going to copy her (because it is a wonderful idea!)

So.... things that have happened this year so far that I will never ever forget:

Jeremy and me being awesome at the US Open in August

Saying hello to Michael Johns (also at the Open)

Front row at Hanson in October with Cindy...

I may have guilt tripped some girl into giving me my spot back, but hey, she didn't have to move

(and she did push me out of my spot in the first place).

Halloween was fun.. then not fun at all.. then fun again (and a little awkward)

:)

I wrote LOVE on my arm in November

www.twloha.com

...and had good times at The Academy Is... with Andrew and Brittany and Mr. Cuervo

<3

I seems that I have this awesome life where I get to go and do all these cool things.  Which is true, but only a recent development.  I decided when I graduated from school that I was no longer going to put off doing the things I wanted to do.  I'm single, I have a good job, and I'm basically happy.  So why put off doing things?  I have money, I save what I can, but while I'm young and single and have minimal responsibilities, I am taking advantage of my situation and doing what I want.

This is not to say that I am being selfish or anything, I just want to not stress out all the time and worry.  Right now music and my friends are a huge part of my life and who I am, so I'm going to enjoy them.

I'm going to 3 (well 4 if you count tonight) concerts in the next 7 days.

It's going to be awesome.

I will take tons of pictures.

<3

Promise the Stars -We The Kings

from the leaked 'smile kid' album (I love www.strikegently.com!!!!)

when there are clouds in the sky you'll get by

this song basically sums up how I feel right now...

I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today -'Toes' Zac Brown Band


Just had drinks with friends instead of being responsible and going to bed at a reasonable hour.

Makes me miss the old days when our group of friends hadn't been split into about 4 separate (very small) groups due to break-ups and arguments and general growing-up-ness.

Now my 2 best girlfriends from home are planning on moving away to the Carolinas in July... I don't know what I'm going to do.

Just enjoy the time we have now, because you really never know when someone will leave your life unexpectedly. I've lost good friends due to really stupid things and it is not fun. I'm very blessed with my friend group now (though most of them I don't see regularly) and it just feels so good to know that I have more than 5 people who I know would be there for me whenever I needed them. That's the kind of friend I have always been and it feels good to finally have that reciprocated.

I just spelled reciprocated correctly on the first try... so with that small victory, I will say goodnight

<3


Smile -Robert Downey Jr. Verson

I just smile...

I'm watching Glee / Sherlock Holmes is Hot / Not being able to sing today has been difficult

There.. got my random out of the way for today.


Since I've been sick lately, and still went to worship practice Tuesday, I'm not singing for the rest of the week and am trying to talk as little as possible. My voice was really shot after Tuesday and I have some high notes to hit on Sunday.

I always feel like these posts have to be profound, or flow well, or ...something.

However, today my brain is kind of all over the place. And I'm hungry. (see.. I can't even finish the though about not being able to stay on topic)

But there is excitement ahead! 2 more days of work until the weekend, then 2 days off and Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers on Sunday, 3 days of work and a 4 day vacation in Boston and New Hampshire, a Dashboard Confessional show and tons of tax-free shopping :)

I am beyond excited to get to Boston and NH again. Always fun times. Always good memories. I love a good road trip! :)

<3



Smile -Lily Allen

I'm looking now at pictures of us

Blog Every Day December!!!

Just so everyone isn't confused (because I may have some new readers this time around), My titles are usually song lyrics from a random song off my iTunes or something that's been on my mind lately. I'll include the title and artist at the end of the post.


Now down to business...

I really wish there was some sort of device that could record my thoughts. I do my best thinking while driving and really wish I could remember everything. I was driving home from tennis about 20 minutes ago and was writing this blog in my head. It was wonderful, and now I cannot remember a word of what I was going to write.

Driving is also my favorite place to listen to music. Yesterday I was meeting some friends for a pizza/game night/birthday party and was a half hour early. I could have gone in but instead drove 15 minutes past the house into basically the middle of nowhere just to finish listening to the new Matt Wertz live album (which is fantastic by the way).

Sometimes it's difficult for me to explain why music is so important to me. My friends here, who I see all the time, don't really get how music is such a huge part of who I am. A few do (they're also musicians, so that's probably why), but the majority just see music as expendable. I had a friend yesterday say to me that they never really listened to the lyrics of any songs. The beat was all that mattered and they didn't have a favorite band or musician or anything. It seemed like, to them, music was just something that existed and was expendable. At least that was what I got. I probably had a more adverse reaction that was required, but it's difficult for me to hear that the music and lyrics that I cherish are not really being heard.

Every day lyrics and music are going around in my head. Whether it's just humming a song, or remembering lyrics that help me get through my day. I'll hear someone say part of a chorus in normal conversation (for example -- i wrote this time around earlier... which sent that song rolling through my brain), or just have a song pop into my brain. Whatever it is, I can never ever get music out of my life.

I am so happy to be able to listen to, appreciate, play music, and sing. If I lost any of these abilities I would truly be heart broken.

Does anyone else feel like this?

<3 Hold It Up -The Rocket Summer

Hogwarts here I come!

I sent out a mission on mystery google today... okay, I sent it 5 times... :)

I got 2 responses!!! Harry Potter Nerds FTW! I feel that they are not true nerds, as they called Hagrid the grounds keeper and not a professor.... and spelled McGonagall wrong. but oh well.... I am also saddened to remember that Dumbledore is dead, as the second email is from him.

Oh well.. I GET TO GO TO HOGWARTS!!!!

Dear Jennifer:

My name is Professor McGonagall from the admissions office at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is with mixed feelings that I write to inform you that you were accepted into our school two years ago. There was a terrible accident with the delivery owl charged with your letter and we were under the impression that you had chosen not to attend our school.

We have recovered the missing documents that were lost by this mishap and have found that you are now two years late for school. We are sending our grounds keeper Hagrid to collect you immediately, please be prepared for him to contact you within the next two days to set up a muggle free location to meet.

If you have any questions please contact us immediately as you have very little time to prepare as it is.

-Professor Minerva McGonagall


Dear Jennifer:

I am writing to apologize greatly for the error by one of our house elves. The error is concerning the failure of delivery of your acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

It has only recently come to our attention that you have been thinking that you are a muggle for the last two years. Believe me, you are not. You may not be aware of it, but you are very magical, and a very promising prospect within our wizarding world.

Again, I apologize for your inconvenience. We have contacted a friend who knows about your wizarding heritage and she has been given instructions concerning how to get to Hogwarts.

Thank you,
Albus Dumbledore

My Life Is Average

so.. since I'm at work.. I'm reading www.mylifeisaverage.com I have a doctor's apptmt in 10 minutes.. so my slacking is acceptable (shhh don't tell anyone).

anyway.. these made me giggle:

Today, I was riding the bus to work and a little girl was sitting across from me. I have bright purple hair, and today I had a scarf and nail polish to match. My phone rang, playing the theme song from Power Rangers. The little girl looked over and when I took off my hood to take the call, a look of awe came across her face. When I hung up she quietly asked if I was a purple Ranger. I winked and put my finger over my lips. She grinned and nodded. MLIA

Today, I discovered that in the state of Pennsylvania, holding your finger in someone else's bellybutton without their permission for more than 30 seconds is considered rape. Never have I wanted more to commit such a felony. MLIA.

Today, instead of working on my application to Stanford, I taught my dog to respond to Harry Potter spells. He now stays when I yell, "Petrificus Totalus," comes when I say, "Accio," and plays dead when I yell "Avada Kedavra." I feel that this was an acceptable substitute of my time. MLIA

Today, I went to the vending machine after school. I put in my money and pressed the numbers but nothing happened. It had eaten my dollar. When I pressed the "return" button, the screen that usually flashes "Have a nice day" was broken along with the machine, so it started flashing "HaHaHaHaHa..." at me. I was hustled by a vending machine. MLIA

Today in my anatomy class we were watching a video on the nervous system. The first thing it said was "Human bodies, we all have one." Thanks video, for clearing that up. MLIA

Today, I was driving around an unfamiliar town with my father. We passed by a Planned Parenthood. Directly next to it was a daycare center. In between the two buildings there was a sign that read "No matter what you choose, we've got you covered". I nearly peed myself. MLIA.

ok.. that's all for now. I'm so going to train my dog to respond to wizard spells though. That would be sweet!

NaNoWriMo...

I am going to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Crazy right!?!

Though the whole idea of NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is to accomplish the 50,000 mark, for me it's more the goal of actually writing something. I've always enjoyed writing. I've always thought I was a pretty good writer/grammar freak. It kind of freaks me out to think that I could possibly do this. But I suppose we have to confront our fears.. or do things that scare us... or something to that effect... in order to grow and learn and figure out who we are a little bit more.

I know that my friends Deanna and Jon are also doing NaNo this year (w00t!), bu if any of you are writers, aspiring authors, or feel like tackling the impossible this November, please join me as I try to accomplish this.

One thing that will be my savior as well as a huge annoyance in this is the fact that you can't go back and edit stuff. December is for editing. I'll have to let my ill-punctuated, wordy, and all of those run-on sentences (that made sense when I thought them but are now 4 lines long and don't make sense at all) hover over my head for an entire month until finally in December I can make it readable. In fact, the previous sentence is bothering me for all of it's pieces and awkward parenthesis. If I were allowed to edit while writing this in November, I would never get anywhere close to 50K words.

linkage:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Add me as a friend! I'm JenJen212 on there. :)

Also.. I'm going to the NaNoWriMo kick-off meeting later today. I'm interested in seeing who else shows up. (It's just at Tim Horton's)


DFTBA!!!
<3 Jen


oh.. PS: Say Anything's new album comes out next week. You should buy it. Max Bemis is amazing!

Hanson Road Trip 2009: the extended edition. Part 1

I have got to write this down. If I don't I may forget the amazing-ness of the trip and I don't ever want to forget.. so here goes :)

Lets see how many Hanson references I can randomly scatter throughout this post... a prize to the person who can guess the most. :) ready???? set??? go!!!!


4:30 am WAKE UP

I, of course, had done no packing whatsoever at this point, and miraculously gathered everything and was ready to leave at 5:30 when Cindy arrived. I cannot explain how amazing it is to have IRL Hanson friends. Texting and AIM are great, but having Deanna and now Cindy around make me feel like less of a dork for knowing all the words to every song they ever thought about recording... and having half of my external hard drive dedicated to videos and photos and music of my favorite band... because they do too (especially Cindy).

5:30 am GET UP AND GO!

Drove to Kittery, shopped a lot, bought a red jacket (this is important), drove to Wonderland, parked the car, walked a very long way & bought Charlie Cards. <3

10:30 am IN THE CITY

By this time we were quite excited. I was more excited to be in Boston than anything else at this point. I don't really get 'Hanson excited' until they're standing in front of me. I owe my expertise on navigating the Boston public transport system to Brittany and Deanna, and we got to Fenway in about a half hour. There was a man selling stuff at Government Center and singing random songs. I blame him for my having Billie Jean stuck in my head for the majority of the day. Great song in general... not such a great song to sing under your breath while walking past the amazing boys of Steel Train and HelloGoodbye. :/

We didn't actually know where anything was in Boston.. just that the Kenmore Station was the Station for Fenway. When we asked the bus station attendant where the House of Blues was she responded "next to Fenway"... to which I had to respond "...and which way is Fenway?" *facepalm. I researched everything on the journey except the actual destination... go me!

11:15 am CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC

We eventually made it to the HOB (after doing a complete loop around Fenway) and saw *yay!* TOUR BUSSES! I love those busses. I want to someday have one and go on tour and get to sleep in those teeny bunks and have a messed-up sleep schedule from playing shows every night and doing crazy random stuff... If I don't become a singer I need to marry a musician or something. but I digress....

I was hungry. Cindy was hungry. We had passed a cute Mexican place on the same block as the HOB, so we walked back to eat some lunch. HGB walked in front of us when we passed their bus again... I said hi to Forrest.. he said hi back... I fangirled a little.

We ate our food (outside so we could watch the boys unpack their busses and walk around), it was yum, Travis Head walked by us and got take out from our restaurant. While Cindy was inside HGB and half of Steel Train walked by me.. I talked to them again... :) It's weird how shy I get around people who are in bands that I like. But once I get past the first conversation I'm good to go in the future (example - Isaac Hanson last year -- I no longer get tounge-tied while talking to Hansons... score). Also--super cute waiter (more about him later).

2 pm THE WALK

We lined up for the walk... pretty standard procedure (for me anyway). Guess what--the boys were late (no surprise there). But what people hadn't told us what that they were doing walk registrations first this time around and we hadn't yet. So everyone who had registered went to the other side of the street while we all waited to fill out our little cards. Zac and Ike walked out of the venue right in front of us as we were writing out or emails and such. :D Cindy didn't even finish filling hers out.


dun dun dunnn... to be continued :)

Hanson- River 10/14/09

my favorite 3cg song!!!!

Walking is a big deal

I loved Isaac's end of walk speech... someone put it up on YouTube (Thank you whoever you are!) and I just wanted to share it:

Walking is a big deal.
The reason why it's a big deal is because actions speak louder than words.
The reason it's a big deal is there are very few people who will talk to you about any particular thing that they care about, and then go out and walk barefoot to demonstrate their passion and their decision to make a positive impact on the world.

The other reason why walking is a big deal is that we are all individuals. We may be in a group, but ultimately we are all individuals who are making a choice to say: "this is something I believe I can make a positive impact on the world with, so I'm going to show up and I'm going to do something about it".

Very importantly, remember: it doesn't stop here.
We, individually, have the opportunity to positively affect the people around us. This is about our own capacity to lead. Not just with in the world where we're trying to stop the more than 2/3 of the AIDS deaths in the world which are happening in sub-Saharan Africa; the hundreds of thousands of children who are dying from a virus that, in many cases, they were born with. That's not just what this is about.

What this is about, is recognizing within our own selves, our own capacity to lead, and hopefully our own compassion.

You guys are incredible people.
We are blown away by you.
Because this is a BIG DEAL.
Thank You.

It does not stop with a dollar, it begins with a dollar.
Because tomorrow you can host your own walk. Because tomorrow you can decide to do something in your own capacity for greatness, it's only yours to choose.

So we thank you for walking today. You guys are incredible, you blow us away, and you're not alone 'cause we're going to keep on walking one way or another, and we thank you for that.

You encourage us everyday.

-Isaac Hanson 10.14.2009

link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVySVjzz9Y

I TOOK THE WALK!
http://www.takethewalk.net

i love ben

my friend Ben sent me this earlier... i love it!

"If they made a movie about Jennifer Cliff, what would it be called?"
I answered: "Jen Cliffs Day Off; The Aliens Ate My Mom; My Tennis Partner Is Serving, Oh My!; One Shot, Two Shot, Three Shot, Floor; Attack of the Hanson Brothers;Dont test me, I Bite!"

a HUGE post about my vacation will be up this weekend. I have got to write it down because it was so amazing... I never want to forget.

<3

Head under water and you tell me to breath easy for awhile...

I am way too old to be living here. I am becoming a whiney teenager again. I want to be able to do what I want. I want to cook my own food. I want to clean my own house. I want to decorate the way I want. I want to organize my kitchen in a LOGICAL way. My frustrations with living here are killing my relationship with my parents. It was different when I moved back in. I helped out, was happy, didn't mind because I wasn't going to be living here for more than 6 months... it's been 18 months... i'm still here.

I do need to stop whining though. My parents don't think I can take care of my own place. I can. They only see the part of me that sleeps in until 8am on Saturdays and likes to relax in the morning and do work in the afternoon. I have to get up early every day (and so do they), but urgh.. i feel like i'm whining over things that I should be thankful for. And I am. but I still need a change.

Basically I am a whiney little girl.

Comments/criticism/insight/etc... are welcome.

<3 JJ

Love Song -Four Year Strong (Punk Goes Pop vol.2)

meow meow meow meow...

I found this on HNet this morning.... i almost lol'd at work. :)

The Dog's Diary

8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm - Dinner! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!



The Cat's Diary

Day 983 of My Captivity

My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength.

The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet. Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates my capabilities. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a "good little hunter" I am. Bastards!

There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow, but at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released, and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded. The bird must be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now ...

if you wanna sing out.. sing out

I just ate too much lo mein.. blah...

I just finished watching One Tree Hill. I'm not gonna lie, I definitely cried at least 3 times. It was good :)

There are some things I'd like to talk to you girls about... but there are some people (guy people) who know of this blog's existence... so I can't. But I'll hopefully fill you in on HNet soon (or via text for Dima)... but ya.. I'm confused a bit.

I picked a Cat Stevens song for today. I like it. It makes me feel better. Like I'm not as lost and drowning as I've felt lately.

night loves! <3 JJ

If You Want to Sing Out - Cat Stevens

I'm not surprised, not everything lasts

As always, the month that I choose to blog every day my life actually gets interesting and i have stuff to do. Friday night I went to a Dierks Bentely concert with my friend Scottie. It was really fun.

My family went to camp this weekend and I decided to stay home. I said that I had CPE homework to do for work, but have yet to actually do it. i did clean the whole house. I went to Deanna's (my college roommate) apartment last night, had some food, watched a cute kitten, and the breakfast club.

Today Church was outside and awesome. I am slightly sunburnt, and was completely soaked earlier due to an epic water balloon fight. Eli and his brother, sister, and a kid named Eric are over right now.

I'm tired... blahhh

loves -JJ

HAven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble <3

she told me her name was billie jean...

ummmm.. so ya.. Best Buy took Elle (my laptop) and game me a new one... I know it's the same thing and all... but I miss her :( This one feels more like a guy (I am so weird!!!) So.. ya, I am not happy because they took my laptop away and gave me this guy laptop, who I feel I must re-name, but ya.. I'm definitely going to have to name him.

Sorry, sometimes I type the way I think, which is random and has many ellipses and pauses and such.

I have to re-set up everything here, and I lost the blog post I wrote in the car. Basically it was amazing and i saw a lot of great tennis and semi-stalked Rafael Nadal at the practice courts and had jeremy take pictures for me. I will most likely put these on the facebook once I have time to move them over from my flash drive and re-edit them.

night loves!

<3 JJ

oh.. and since I have no music on this laptop as of now, the title comes from this video which is amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm9L60YBj3s

I hate to see you cry...

so... I'm taking my MacBook in to BestBuy today... hopefully they can fix it quickly (or just give me a new one since i haven't done anything to it at all...) Yesterday was interesting, but i didn't get home until late.

-I worked all day
-Went to Eli's dorm to check out some adorable videos of us from High School
-Chris was in the videos and it made me miss him more :(
-Had dinner at a local sports bar and watched the Red Sox for awhile

Then I mentioned to my friend Steph that I wanted to get my hair cut, and what would she do to it if I let her (she's going to beauty school and will graduate in December). Long story short... 2 hours later I have the shortest hair cut that I have ever had in my life. It's cute, but i just need to get used to not being able to put it in a pony tail and styling it and such.

Tennis is starting up again soon (hopefully tonight) and I cannot wait! I need to get some of this stress out!

Anywho.. I'm at work and should get back to it :/

(will post later today for BEDS #3)

<3 JJ

Heart of Life -John Mayer

Oh I don't believe it...

So.... I just tried to upgrade my MacBook to the new operating system and it's being stupid. So I have to go to BestBuy tomorrow to see if they can fix it. I typed out a super long post about my weekend while driving (well..riding, not driving--that wouldn't have been safe) and it's on the Mac... So look forward to that tomorrow. I'm tired and going to bed.

Night loves!
<3 JJ


Song in My Head - Sherwood

i ran into your best friend today...

SO..... I missed blogging, so I decided that I would 'blog every day september' (BEDS is an odd acronym... we may need to brainstorm a better name for this endeavor).

If you're new to my blog, my titles are normally the first line to a song that is currently playing on my iTunes (and I post the song and artist at the end too).

Notable things about today...

-it is so cold in my office... so very cold
-peesemould is teasing me about having nothing to do at work while I am freezing my butt off formatting excel spreadsheets.
-I got 3 older HNet membership kits yesterday and have been listening to them on a loop for most of the day (thus the title)
-I'M GOING TO THE US OPEN ON MONDAY!
-...& NYC Sunday :) We're leaving at midnight on Saturday, it's going to be epic!


I don't feel particularly witty today, so I wont ever try to be clever.

<3 JJ

Lost Without Each Other (Hanson)

i love my nana

I am beyond excited. Well... that's not true. I will be beyond excited in about
3 months. I am house sitting for my grandmother (who lives in a brand new house next door) while she is in Florida from January until mid-April. She stopped by today to talk about when I will move in.... which will be in 3 months...November.. woot! So I'm going to try to pack some stuff slowly and organize my stuff so it can be moved quickly over there preferably by myself alone, because I really don't need to hear about how I have too much stuff. I have it because I use it!

This is a good thing for a multitude of reasons:
1. living by myself!!!!!
2. YouTube video recording will no longer be awkward and require no one to be in the house.
3. Music can be played at a level of rocking out.. not a level i like to call "just turn it off, 'cause it's so quiet I can't even hear the words".
3. Living in a gorgeous brand new house.
4. Friends can visit me after 8:30 and not have to be quiet because people are sleeping.
5. Maybe I can actually start dating more (living with your parents and dating is exponentially more awkward when you're 23).

Oh.. also... my own kitchen to cook what I want, when I want, how I want.. yummm

Bad things:
1. I still can't buy a dog
2. No internet <--- this is being fixed within the next month.
3. My parents are still right next door and have the ability to walk over in about 30 seconds / spy on me / will call me a lot. They love me, I deal with it 'cause I love them too.


My Dad is calling this my 'trial run'. I think he has forgotten that I lived by myself for 4 years at college and didn't burn down the dorm, or get pregnant, or arrested, or murdered, or not clean my room (though we have different ideas of what clean is). This bothers me... but I'll be out soon and am excited about it. I have suppressed the need to leave the nest for a very long time and it is finally screaming at me..GET OUT! GET OUT NOW! YES THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO GO.. BUT DO IT!!!!

Thank God for my Nana for understanding.

to do

When I have my own apartment I will always have iced tea in the fridge. Sometimes I will make lemonade and then mix them together. I will paint the walls odd shades of blue and green. It will be perfect.

I will shovel my own walkway in the winter and watch my fair lady at 2 in the morning by myself in the summer when it's too hot to sleep.

I will have 2 dogs. They will have clever names.

I will have pictures everywhere, so I can remember my favorite moments when I'm sad.

I will have a music room with one wall covered top to bottom with the lyrics of my favorite songs.

<3

in leu of a sassy video...

...i have blogged :)

And shall do this again for my Monday video tomorrow, just so ya know.

Never Have I Ever... worked in retail.

I've been house-sitting for my Aunt and Uncle, so I haven't talked to you guys in awhile. Lets start off with some chicken adventures...

I've been taking care of some chickens for the past week and a half. This sounds easy. I expected it to be easy. I did not expect to have to move their coops everyday in a constant rain storm. This has dampened the joy of moving huge wooden coops by hand every day (pun intended).

We had a casualty on Friday. It was gross. Ethan came over and took care of it for me. He is amazing.

In other news, I have been going to the gym regularly and am kind of loving it. For some reason, I am more motivated to work out and eat healthy when I am not around my family. They're all just a little to concerned about the way that I look and am always talking about how much I weigh (which isn't a lot, but they're all skinny people with fantastic metabolisms and I've got some curvage going on). This isn't to say that I hate the way I look, but I would like to be a bit healthier, and the constant pressure at home is ironically counterproductive. Yet another reason to get my own apartment.

I have yet to start reading our book. Mainly because when I went to Borders to buy it I bought 3 other books as well and just finished one of other ones I bought. I am going to start though right after I finish this post. :)

I don't know how many fingers I have left, but will count again and have a number for you soon. I am losing a lot.

Exciting Hanson-related things are going on. Including a fall tour (dates coming *soon), the release of their documentary Strong Enough to Break (SETB), and a re-design of their website. I'm excited :)

OK, talk to you all tomorrow!

<3 JJ

Books Read

Also.. I've just realized that you're all probably DYING to know how my book-reading resolution is coming :)

*I've starred my favs*

By John Green:
1. Paper Towns
2. An Abundance of Katherines
3. Looking For Alaska*

By Maureen Johnson:
4. Girl at Sea
5. Devilish
6. 13 Little Blue Envelopes*

By Melissa Anelli
7. Harry, A History

By someone... I forgot who.. oops (will change when i get home)
8. Driving Sideways (actually have 2 chapters to go.. but close enough) ;D



...not too bad for it being June :)

<3 JJ

writing

I was late for work today. 53 minutes late to be exact.


...I thought these words while I was en-route to said work and waiting at a stop light. I plotted out a novel about analogies between waiting at lights, for someone else to tell you you can go, how frustrating it is when you know that you could go, but not being able to. Basically wrote the first paragraph in my head on the way to work (an entire mile and a half from the spot where inspiration struck).

This thing that's annoying is that this happens to me a lot and I never write them down. Maybe I'll start this one. I have so many beginnings of stories... but no endings. Maybe that's a cool way to write. Let someone else imagine the ending. Books rarely wind up the way we envision or want anyway.

Ya, so I'm going to make myself write today. Haven't written fiction in ages. It's been 7 years since Kait and I stopped writing our novel....

Ok.. enough blabbering...

<3
Jen

oh the shame

I have failed :(

If any of you are very disturbed by the fact that i did not complete BEDA in it's entirety, I will let you punish me...to an extent :) (AKA no licking goats *cough this means you deanna)

In other news, i am now only one month away from finishing my summer class and officially being a master of science in accounting... yay!!!

I'll blog more later... it's still quite busy around here at the moment.

<3 JJ

BEDA23: I'm having trouble trying to sleep...

Deanna will not like that this happened to me today... I have mixed feelings. I am semi embarrassed.. but I liked it, so ya.. i dunno..

Ok.. here goes... starting with the most embarassing..

1. I am subbed to JonasBrothersMusic on YouTube (oh the shame)
2. I was the 309th person to watch their new video today (because I have no life and check YouTube constantly)
3. I liked it :)

It reminded me of the stupid crap my brother and cousins do, and has nothing to do with music, but everything to do with what guys find to entertain themselves with.

Nick Jonas: Basketball Extraordinaire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ppi4-NmbJ0




In other news, I am making a video possibly tonight in response to JohnnyDurham's Urban Dictionary meme.. because i heart him

oh, and I skipped tennis practice today. :D

<3

(Green Day: Brain Stew)

BEDA22: i'm tired and i wanna go to bed

i vlogged my day today.. it should be up tomorrow. I just finished the rough edit, but need to add a few finishing touches.

you can find it here at sometime tomorrow night. Most likely after 9 'cause I'm at work and then tennis tomorrow until 8.

woot!!!

<3 you all!!

(i don't know who sings this.. but it's from the movie jaws when they're drunk, and it's stuck in my head now... bumbumbum...)

i just wanna go home
i'm tired and i wanna go to bed
well i had a little drink about an hour ago
and it went straight to my head
bum bum bummmm

BEDA21 BONUS!!!!!!!!!!

Some Awesome just happened... thought I'd share :)

Brittany is so jokes :)



crayolawax: johnnydurham is super cute!
JenJen: he's mine!!!!!
JenJen: grr stay away
JenJen: lol
JenJen: he commented on a video i made in response to one of his
JenJen: made my day/week/life
crayolawax: hahahaha
crayolawax: lma
crayolawax: o
crayolawax: no
crayolawax: just laugh my ass
crayolawax: actually =]
JenJen: hahaha
JenJen: lma
JenJen: *actualling lma
JenJen: actually i robl
JenJen: rolled on bed laughing
crayolawax: hahahahaha omg that is my favorite
crayolawax: ever
crayolawax: by far
JenJen021286: also, actualling is not a real word
crayolawax: hahahaha
crayolawax: it's the verb to actually
JenJen021286: lol

BEDA21: Lets sing this loud

Good evening fellow bloggers! I am not in the mood to write today. But since I took an oath (see BEDA1) ... here goes :)

I have lots of homework to do. I had all weekend to do said homework, but I enjoyed myself and took naps and hung out with friends, and generally pretended that it didn't exist. So now I have until 2pm tomorrow to read a chapter, finish(well..start and finish) an S-Corp tax return (Nerdy fact of the day: an S-Corporation is like a mix between a regular corporation and a partnership. Income and expenditures flow through to the shareholders, though in certain situations, the entity itself may be required to pay tax. They are mainly used in situations where corporations are closely held my their shareholders--family businesses, etc....), and do homework problems.

Now that I've written that all out it doesn't seem so bad. I'm hoping to finish the return tonight, and just have to do problems and read tomorrow.

Tinted Windows is on Letterman tonight.. in 22 minutes to be exact. I've listened to the album a few times today, and am not crazy about all of it. I can tell that I will be in moods that it will be all I want to listen to, but right now the only one I can really stand is Cha Cha. I feel bad that I'm not in love with it, but I have to be honest. And yes.. I would still go see them in concert.. and no, not just because Taylor's in the band. ...though since we're being truthful, it doesn't hurt that he's in the band either ;)

ummmm.... ok, I'm off to waste 20 more minutes, then set up my return while I wait for the 5 minutes that TW will be on TV :)


Oh, also... go here: http://www.myspace.com/hellocontrol
and download their free EP

iliessthanthreethem :)

<3

(Hello Control: Hear you Sing)

BEDA20: rollin' down the road.. rollin' like a stone

So, Tinted Windows comes out tomorrow, and I am excited!! I've heard most of the songs already, but still can't wait to buy it. I just posted a video to my collab channel after YouTube took forever uploading it and then had a error and made me re-do it. (youtube.com/sassyladysociety)

I just watched The Hills (yay!)

Ok, so things worth mentioning about today:
-I am going to be wicked tired at work tomorrow
-Class was awesome, we talked about how to fudge net income legally :)
-I really did nothing, as I was up until 4 am last night catching up on episodes of 'The Best Years' and woke up at 11, went to class, and ya, am now going to bed.

Hopefully my life will get more interesting (but also hopefully not more dramatic :D)

<3 JJ

(Tinted Windows: ChaCha

BEDA19: i forgot

...and it's 3:44 a.m. and i'm going to bed...


ttyl <3

BEDA18: This is the first day of my life

So... I just got home from Adam's. [See, the difference with me and Deanna, is I don't make up crazy nicknames for my friends, I just say their names :)]

Anyway, Adam is one of my best friends from high school and lives about 5 minutes away from me, which is quite convenient for random movie nights at 9 p.m. Which is what happened tonight. We watched a guy movie.. it was okay. I'm not really a Nicholas cage fan, but it was nice to hang out with him. Josh was there too. 'twas a good way to end a good day. Hey! I'm a poet and didn't even know it. (slaps self in forehead for being a dork and actually typing that)

Prior to the impromptu movie date, I cleaned my room, "did homework" AKA watched Juno and messed around on the interwebs. My room really hasn't been this neat in a very long time.

And to keep in the backwardsness of today's post... When I got up I didn't really feel like being social. So I watched a movie and ate dry cereal that I stole from upstairs just for occasions like this. I'm at that age where I am really ready to move out of my parents house, and sometimes just need to be away from them. They didn't bug me though, or tease me about getting up at 11 (which I didn't--I was up at 8...but watching a movie)

It has just occurred to me that you are most likely not interested at all in my uneventful day... lets just say it was nice :)

Hi BEDA Buddies!!!!!!

<3

(Bright Eyes: First Day of My Life) <--i love this song!!!

BEDA17: I think it's better if we stay friends...

so... it's 12:51 a.m., but we're going to count this as today's blog. :)

I just got back from my friend Jordan's show. He has an awesome band and they are amaZING live. I can't really hear anything right now and its kind of bugging me, but it's worth it to be front row at one of Soundbender's shows. They have myspace and youtube... check it outttttt

I don't know who my BEDA buddy is, which makes me sad. I have no email from MJ or anyone. I hope I have a buddy!

So.. random.. the bracelet I got tonight saying I was old and was allowed to consume alcoholic yumminess says "Bumstock 2004" I think they need to get new bracelets.

<3 you!


(Julia Nunes: Blushing Cheeks)

BEDA16: Monica, Monica, have a happy hanukkah!

blah


i feel blah


i have a new favorite youtube musician. Well maybe not favorite, but one of my top 5.
http://www.youtube.com/user/amigomusica <--- he lives here


I have listened to Where the Light Is by John Mayer quite a bit today and it makes me happy. I love that I feel like I'm at the concert...such a fantastic album/video.


I think that's it...


night all!

<3


(Phoebe Buffay: The Christmas Song)

BEDA15: if you're sleeping through the best part of the day

SO, it's kind of weird, but after I picked this title, Everybody Else got on AIM and I talked to whoever was online for the band a little. Basically said I was excited for the new record :) Yay! If you haven't heard of them, go check them out. I met them and have their autographs. <3 They're great guys.

Today I got a horrendous grade on a tax exam, which he is going to scale, so hopefully it will be okay. I'm going to work uncharacteristically hard at studying for the final, and will hopefully get him to bump my grade up based on my tenacity and hootspa. I"m better at the word part of taxes... not so hot at the math part, and hey--the computer does most of that for me anyway, so I think I'll be okay in the real world.

I got a YouTube message today saying that someone loved my videos and favorited some... but they didn't subscribe. This confuses me. If you like them so much, subscribe! Help out the little guy (or girl). Anyway, I'm grateful for the support either way. Anyone have any insight (pun intended ;)) as to why people leave nice comments/messages or friend you but wont subscribe?

Ok, I'm off to bed. Night All!!!!

<3 JenJen

(Everybody Else: Wake Up)

BEDA14: What happens when I chase you up the stairs?

I am currently on Omegle.com and talking to perhaps the coolest person ever. I am quite sad that I will never talk to this person again.

Anyway, my day was good. Got some awesome news!!!! (not going to tell you.. it's a sekrit..but it was good)

My back really hurts and I am excited to sleep in tomorrow and go have coffee with my Nana next door. She just got home from Florida and I miss her.

I am not excited about youTube changes, but I am not going to get upset about it, 'cause hey.. they need to make money too. I just hope they kind of remember their initial mission and keep the user-generated stuff a priority.

Today's post is random.

I also signed up for MJ's BEDA Buddy thing, so hopefully I'll get an awesome buddya nd a new friend soon. Woot!!!

<3 you all!!!

(Greg Holden: The Chase)

BEDA12/13: This is the Story of a Girl

I cannot believe that I forgot again!!!!! Serves me right for going to bed early.

Ok, so here's what I would have written yesterday: :D

SO, I gave my testimony at church today. It went really really well. I was surprised at how I wasn't nervous, or how the sentences that I'd tried to spit out at practice on Saturday just flowed and made sense and were just perfect. I felt a little hypocritical, however, seeing as I'm not as perfect as my story might imply, but everyone makes mistakes in life right? so far mine have been minor... but we'll see what happens.

I had Easter dinner with my family and my cousins Kyle and Cody came over as well. These are my two favorite guy cousins. We ended up driving all the way to Orono after lunch/dinner (whatever you call a meal that you eat at 3 pm...) and saw 'I Love You, Man' which was good.

Annnnnd.... I'll edit this after I do stuff today worth writing about...


stuff worth writing about:
1. I procrastinate too much
2. I am very tired
3. I have had a headache for 2 days.. grr
4. I love my Dad
5. My Sassy Lady video is up.. check it out if you wanna:
http://www.youtube.com/sassyladysociety
(and yes...I am wearing my Hanson shirt.. i just found it and was excited :D)



<3

(Matchbox Twenty: Story of a Girl)

BEDA11: Did you hear?

So, I will definitely not be home in time to get this posted until around midnight. Denise, Steph and I are going to see.... umm.... The Hannah Montana Movie. This should come to no surprise as the last movie we saw together was HSM3. We like weird things. Anyway, I know that Jordan (Hi Jordan!) has taken on the task of reading all of our blogs today and didn't want him to fail.. so I'm posting a part 1, and will add more when I get home :).

Schedule for the day:

Tennis Match#1: 9 a.m.
Tennis Match #2: 3 p.m.
Meeting at Church for Easter-related stuff: 6 p.m.

...man I'm going to be tired

<3

(Secondhand Serenade: Maybe)

BEDA10: High School Party, Senior Year

I almost forgot to blog!!! oh no!

It's also cold in my room. I do not like this at all.

So, I cleaned my room today. Well, it's not quite finished, but it looks a lot better than a couple hours ago. I can now see the carpeting, which is lovely.

I forced myself to be social and go out to the pool hall for a couple hours. Spent $10.00 on broccoli bites and a soda and hung out with a couple of my girlfriends. It was nice, but my stomach was not happy with me today either, so I came home early. I also have TWO tennis matches tomorrow, and have to be at the club (yes I play at a tennis club, and it's not as glamorous and la-de-da as you think :D) at 7:45 to warm up before the other team comes. You're not supposed to warm up until they get there.... but I have connections ;) ..people know me. That reminds me, I need to watch Anchorman again sometime soon.

So, I should probably sleep, because getting up at 6:45 is going to be a lot of fun. Also, I have no idea where my tennis skirts are. I have like 5 and can't find any of them. urgh.

<3

(Bo Burnham: Senior Year)

BEDA8/9: Don't be so scared

So... I didn't Blog yesterday. it was a long day. Wanna hear about it? Suuuuure ya do :)

It was super fun (sarcasm). Started out cramming tax homework into my brain for about 5 hours, then drove to school (1/2 hour), studied more with my friend Meagan and got ready for a presentation. Took the evil exam at 3, got out at 5, ran to the Union adn bought expensive food for dinner, printed out a ton of handouts and ran back to the business building and gave an hour-long presentation on audit evidence and audit documentation. Basically my day was better once the exam was over, but it was also awesome that I now only have one (easy) exam left for auditing. My other class has no final exam (our grade is basically just our class participation and random homework assignments). All I need to do is pray I get a B in tax class, and I can graduate in 3 WEEKS!!!

Ok, ya.. that was kind of boring and nerdy, and if you read all of that then I am truly sorry. I currently don't feel very well. I'm hoping it's just normal not feeling well and not a "I have to take off work" kind of sick. I am a fan of money and working full time starting in May is going to be awesome.

ummmm... I have 2 tennis matches on Saturday, which should be fun. I play on a Women's USTA (United States tennis Association) team. We had practice tonight. My serve is finally back and is, if I may brag a little bit, amaZING ;).

night all!!!

<3

(The Academy Is...: skeptics and true believers)

BEDA7: out of all the reindeer you know you're the mastermind

I love my title today... love it!!!

I have achieved a new level of procrastination today. It seems the more I have to do, the less I want to do it. Seriously, 18 years of school is too many years of school. Yup, that's right this is my EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF SCHOOL! (not counting pre-school, 'cause lets face it, that was kind of a blast).

Ok, I'm going to go cram tax law into my brain, and hopefully pull off better than the effing 52 my a-hole of a professor gave me last exam. (The highest grade was a 75... he'd better scale it... urgh.... I can't even express my frustration without making wild and crazy hand gestures, and this is becoming a very long parenthetical statement, so ya, I'll end it here.)

My mantra today has been 3 more weeks... 3 more weeks.... Thank you Jesus that there's only three more weeks!

<3 ya!!!!


(Hanson: Run Run Rudolph)

BEDA6: i don't need no doctor...

randoms:

It is currently 12:21 pm.
I have so far today eaten spaghetti and meatballs, a handful of yogurt covered raisins, and some cheez-its.
I have been looking online for apartments for most of the morning,
as well as hitting up good ol' freecreditreport.com (yay for having awesome credit!! 720 ba-bay!)

I think the main reason why my room is so messy is because I have fit 3 rooms worth of stuff into one bedroom. I have a living room (tv and couch), kitchen (kind... just a mini fridge and a microwave), and my actual bedroom. Blahhhh

The thing that sucks is that basically every apartment in Bangor looks like grossness... I was more in the mood for apartment complex with like security, and not weird people living around.

I have always said that I wanted to live in Maine forever. But I'd never really been anywhere else besides Florida.... and ya, there are much more awesome places out there.

Oh and I'm also still talking a little southern and it's really annoying Jeremy. I didn't realize I was doing it.


Oh, and Facebook just told me that the Hills is on tonight... yay!

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(John Mayer: I Don't Need No Doctor)

BEDA5: yes it’s true... some men have it all

So, I knew that Taylor (Hanson [if you're new to this Blog.. I love the band Hanson, but try to keep the fangirling to a minimum :D]) was in Nashville for something this weekend, ('cause he tweeted it... I'm no stalker!!!) and I was mildly excited to be only 2 hours away from him over here in good old Knoxville, but then I realize that it was for a performance with alot of other awesome groups. Oh well.

It's almost 11 now, and we have to go shopping and stuff because Blake says I need to buy an excessive amount of bright orange things so I don't forget about them and come back this summer for awhile... which I am planning on doing... hopefully.

Oh, and Deanna.. I was kind of Ginny Weasley this weekend... don't judgeeeee! <3 I'll tell you ...just not on the internet :)

I'm coming to realize that these blogs have been kind of short, which I was going to excuse myself for because I am on vacation, but until school chills out for a bit on Thursday (I have a test and a presentation on Wednesday), they're probably going to be minimal as well. Oh wells.

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(Hanson: I've Been Down)

BEDA4: I can't imagine all the people that you know...

Why is it that I can go on vacation for four days and meet awesome people, and a great guy, but can't seem to find anyone in Maine? Maybe the answer is to move to Tennessee. I'm seriously considering it. I've always thought that I'd live in Maine my entire life, but after these few days here, I am liking the south more and more. So don't be surprised if I graduate and end up moving... cause I think it'd be an amazing adventure. I'd be scared shitless of course, but hey, anything worth doing should be terrifying right?

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(Something Corporate: Konstantine)

BEDA3: baby, now that I've found you

I love Tennessee. I seriously want to move here.

I was pretty nervous about meeting my cousins and their friends, but everyone is so friendly. The guys are awesome (the groomsmen were over last night), and the few girls I've met so far are sweethearts. We arrived around 4:30 and waited around w. my Aunt until everyone arrived for the rehersal dinner. In true Alex-ness, the groom showed up with a keg (he works in a brewery) of the most awesome beer ever...which he made up himself. I was impressed.

so, in summation, as I need to go socialize, one of the best things ever. I taught one of teh groomsmen to dance, and hopefully the dancing will continue later tonight :). Oh, and Jeremy ruined Aunt Pam's vintage Kool-Ade spoon while cooking red hot dogs for the southerners (in beer) at 1 am...

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(The Foundations: Baby, Now That I've Found)

BEDA2: You were the only face I'd ever known

Ummmm... so seeing as I will be on a plane for the majority of tomorrow, and then hanging out with family and such at the wedding rehearsal dinner, I 'll do back to back blogs (though it is technically April 2nd)

Argh I have to be up in 3 hours. This is going to be interesting. I am horrible at packing. I also really need to clean my room.

Happy April2nd everyone!


Good Morning!
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(The Academy Is...: Everything We Had)

BEDA1: i did my best to notice...

I commit to this idea and am determined to create something EVERY DAY in April, including weekends. Every day, I will find something to say. I embrace the reality that there is always something to talk about, if you are willing to take the time to look for it.

I, Jennifer (nottellingyoumylastname'casueit'stheinternet-andifyoureallywantedtoknowyoucouldfigureitoutonyourown), promise to blog every day in April.

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Okay, so first of all, my titles of these will most likely not correspond to my musings of the day. This is basically because I am randomly picking the first line of lyrics off from a randomly selected song. I'll add the song title and artist at the bottom of each segment in case you're interested...which you obviously will be. :)

Now that that's settled, I am so glad that it is Wednesday night!!! Wednesday night is my favorite part of the week. It means that I don't have class again until Monday and I get to watch American Idol with Meagan and Ryan. Sadly, Ryan will only be there for one more week. *major sad face* He got a job in Delaware and is moving right after Easter. I'll just check one person off my possible boyfriend list... oh wait.. he was the only one that i had a chance with... oh well.

I am happy being single and am busy and all that jazz.. whatevs. (did I just type whatevs.. geeze I must be tired)

Things I learned today:
-some people are jerks and will always be jerks. This becomes more of a problem when they are your professors and grade you on the fact that you didn't put a dollar sign next to your answer on a quiz (never mind that you got the right answer)

2. My family is amazing!

C. Legal letters for auditing purposes are best received close to the audit letter date (rather than at year-end) as to be more complete in it's information concerning subsequent legal proceedings. *nerd alert*

Night All!
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(The Killers: Human)

my b

ok, so you can ignore yesterday's pitty party. I am back to 'normal' and completly thankful for all the awesome in my life :)

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I don't see my friends anymore. The thing that's weird is that even when I do have time to go out, I end up staying at home. I was looking online today for apartments to rent in town. I am past the point of being ready to move out, and am at the edge of "I'm going to pull my hair out if I stay here for another year".

I don't even think I want roommates. Just maybe a cat....maybe. I'm very excited about being able to do what I want and not feel guilty for not spending time with my parents.... I am not interested in watching FOX News all day, or cleaning excessively. I clean when it's necessary and am not freaked out by a bit of untidiness, unlike Mom.

ok, a bit of venting out :) I can not apartment shop and dream and... ya. :)

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oh, and my brother just told me that I'm horrible to hang out with... I was happy he was coming home, but not if he's going to be all, what's wrong with your life, it's perfect, be happy all the freaking time blah blah blah...

I can't spell Shakespeare .. or can I?

...seriously ..did I spell it right? :)

Anywho, I recently purchased a FlipCam from Woot.com. This is an amazingly nerdfightastic site, especially because this was part of the description of the product I purchased:

The Play’s The Thing
(Enter GHOST and HAMLET.)

HAMLET Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I’ll go no further.

GHOST Mark me.

HAMLET I will.

GHOST My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Must… hang on, what is that?

HAMLET A camcorder.

GHOST Film me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold.

HAMLET Dude; I have to vlog this.

GHOST Rather vlog of revenge, when thou shalt hear.

HAMLET What?

GHOST I am thy father’s spirit,
Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in- PUT THAT DAMN THING DOWN!

HAMLET No way! I got this Flip so I could show
The world all the events that I might see
And a ghost might get me linked off Boing Boing!

GHOST I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and- how much room give you they?

HAMLET About 2 gigs, that’s like an hour’s fun.

GHOST Takes Double A’s?

HAMLET Yes, and they give you some.

GHOST Murder most foul, my killer was able;
Hey, that thing come with a TV Cable?

HAMLET It did.

GHOST Oh, wow.

HAMLET So what?

GHOST I find thee apt;
And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
That roots itself in ease on- TURN THAT OFF!
Wouldst thou not chill a bit? Now, Hamlet, hear:
Your Ultra 60, Pure by name and brand,
The flip arm lets you move your little film-

HAMLET Don’t dismiss my dreams of art, dad.

GHOST Shut up.
An extra feature: know, thou noble youth,
Direct upload to MySpace, AOL
Or YouTube too.

HAMLET O my prophetic soul!

GHOST Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
The Internet, from whom you seek your fame-
This camcorder will prove a fine device
To film dear Rosencrantz most secretly.
Or maybe, I don’t know, avenge my death.

HAMLET That first idea, I like that one the best.

GHOST I have no son.
(GHOST exits)

HAMLET O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;
For let not yet all this recording start.
First must I find my friends, and gain their trust,
My dearest Uncle, and his dearest men,
And then film them humping their ottoman.
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! I bring order!
With my refurbished Flip Ultra 60 Camcorder.