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