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
01 September 2009
28 August 2009
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)
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)
15 August 2009
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.
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.
10 August 2009
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
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
28 June 2009
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
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
09 June 2009
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
*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
...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
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