Archive for September, 2008
Post 15: Clay Aiken
Did you know Clay Aiken is gay?
I had no idea. I feel blind-sided.
I’m glad he finally got up the courage to come out. Phew. I can stop taking Lunesta now.
Post 14: High School Survey
It’s Friday night…where are you? Probably in Dublin at the movies or out
Now It’s Friday night…where are you? The same
What kind of job did you have in high school? I was a waitress at Jerry’s, the local Chinese restuarant
What do you do now? I’m a photographer
Were you a party animal? No
Were you considered a flirt? No
Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? I wasn’t that kind of a nerd 😉
Can you sing the fight song? “Go Big Blue…” I can’t remember the rest.
Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Mrs. Jack
Where did you sit during lunch? At a table. Mostly with athletes
What was your school’s full name? Marysville High School
When did you graduate? 2003
What was your school mascot? A monarch (lion)
If you could go back and do it again, would you? I used to say no but if I were to go back with the confidence I have now, I think I would’ve loved high school
What do you remember most about graduation? The giant monsoon that drenched us and peeling out of the driveway knowing I’d never have to go back!
Who did you take to the senior prom? I didn’t go to senior prom, I went my junior year
Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? N/A
Do you still see people from school? Yes, around here going to the local Walmart is like going to a reunion. Kinda awkward and annoying.
Post 13: The Grill
Mutter: [shouting] “DEAR IS THERE SUPPOSED TO BE FIRE COMING OUT OF THE GRILL?!”
Daddy-O: [shouting back] “UMMM…NO! WHY?!”
Mutter: “BECAUSE THERE IS!”
Daddy-O: “WELL GRAB SOME WATER AND PUT IT OUT! DUH!”
So much love in my family.
Post 12: Some of my favourite photos of my friends and me.
2005-2006
2007-2008
That’s J [to the] L on the left and T-Dawg on the right
J [to the] L, T-Dawg & our friend A&W
I guess I kinda got a little carried away.
Post 11: Living with a 5 year old. Also known as K-Ten.
This story happened in November of 2005. I had just returned from an 8am class and wanted to take a nap before my next class at 10:15am. This is what happened:
I am almost asleep in my bed. Warm and cozy underneath my blankets.
K-Ten: [bursts out of bathroom] “J! J! J! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!”
Me: [grumbling] “what! I’m trying to take a nap before my next class!”
K-Ten: [jumps onto my bed and thus on top of me.]“But what about McDonald’s breakfast! Remember? You promised!”
I had forgotten that I had promised K-Ten that I’d take her out for McDonald’s breakfast today. The last time we went it had already ended.
I roll onto my back and see K-Ten with a huge smile on her face and eagerness in her eyes. Similar to a child begging their mum for sweets at the grocery store.
Me: “B-b-but [I stutter] I only have 45 minutes until my next class [pointing to the clock] and I was up late last night writing a paper.”
K-Ten: [With disappointment in her eyes and her smile slowly fading] “Oh, okay.”
I’m on to her; she’s trying to make me feel guilty. I swear I won’t fall for it again. She hops down off my bed and I roll back over onto my stomach and proceed to fall asleep. I now only had 40 minutes to sleep. Ugh I hate class. Not a minute later I hear her jumping on her bed as if she were 5.
K-Ten: [while jumping on her bed] “I want McDonald’s breakfast! I want McDonald’s breakfast! Please J take me to McDonald’s! PLEASE!!!!!!”
Me: [still under my blankets] “NO!”
I hear flop down onto her bed. I hear her start yelling. I look up and see her face down on her bed kicking her legs and waving her arms and shouting “I WANT MCDONALD’S BREAKFAST!” Unbelievable I think to myself.
Me: [staring at her in annoyance and disbelief] “What the hell!? Are you seriously throwing a tantrum? You’re acting like a bloody five year old!”
K-Ten: [stops tantrum and stares at me with a childish grin on her face] “yes I am because you broke a promise and I’m upset.”
Me: [grumbling] “I s’pose you’re not gonna stop until I take you are you?”
K-Ten moves her head slowly from side to side while holding back a smile of accomplishment.
Me: [getting out of bed and grumbing] “bloody hell K-Ten. I feel like your mother and you’re my demon spawn.”
K-Ten: [runs over and hugs me] “Thank you mummy! I wuv you!”
Me: “I hate you”
K-Ten: [grabs my hand and pulls me outside into the cold air] “no you don’t. you loooooove me!”
We walk down the hill to my car and I take her to McDonald’s for breakfast five minutes before it ends.
McDonald’s Lady: “Wow you guys are just in time. We were about to change our menu to lunch.”
We grab our food and head back to campus. She skips up the hill and all the way to our quad. I’m such a push-over. I look at the clock. Time for class. Bloody hell.
K-Ten. I miss living with her. It was quite an adventure but it was amazing.
Post 9: Ongoing Battle
Mutter: [while laughing] “hey Jessi, did you know you’ve been in college for over 5 years!”
Me: [with a serious look on my face and sarcasm in my voice] “hey did you know you were once in college but got pregnant at 18 and had to drop out after a year!”
Mutter shoots me a look as if to say “okay, you’re right. you got me on that one.” or “praise the Lord you didn’t take after me! stay in college as long as you need to!”
Jessi 1 – Mutter 0
Mutter likes to point out the fact that I’m 24 and still an undergrad and that I’ve been in college since 2003. I like to point out the fact that she was once in college. But got pregnant and dropped out. It’s all out of love. That’s how my family is. The meaner you are to someone shows how much you love them.
Mutter (Aged 21) & BB (Aged 2)- 1983
Post 8: Conversations with Babe
Yesterday was Babe’s birthday so after practice I decided to drive to her college and hang out with her for a little while…plus she’s been going through some difficult things and I wanted to make sure she was okay (see Post 6: I wish). Babe is great at multi tasking. She was texting some dude named “Niles” while we were talking. This is a small snippet of the conversation we had while sitting outside her dorm.
Babe: [receives a text] “Ohhh. I’m so nervous!”
Me: “Ummm. Why?”
Babe: “Because he’s probably gonna ask me out, just wait…” [texts Niles back]
Me: “So, it’s not like you’re gonna actually go out with this dude since you already have a boyfriend…are you?”
Babe: “No, I won’t…but I’m still nervous. I always get nervous when guys ask me out.” [texting again]
Me: [laughing] “Oh, Babe…you’re something else”
Babe: “What do I tell him if he does ask me.”
Me: “Oh I don’t know…except maybe that you already have a boy and don’t want/can’t handle another one.”
Babe: “I know but he’s super cute…I wish you could meet him and see for yourself.”
Me: [smiling/laughing a little]
Babe: “J, what do I do…I’m nervous” [laughs]
Me: “Tell him you have a boy…nip it in the bud before it gets worse…duh.”
Babe & Me: [laugh]
Me: “So anyway continue on with your previous story…”
Babe: “Oh, right as I was saying…[receives text and shouts] AHAHAHAHA”
Me: “What?”
Babe: [laughing] “He just asked me out, what do I do what do I do???? Tell me! What do I say?!” [stares at me with a look of nervousness and eagerness]
Me: [looks at her with the look of didn’t we just have this discussion 1 minute ago]
Okay so for probably all of you that conversation doesn’t seem very funny, but if you only knew Babe and the thoughts that go on in her head, the things that come out of her mouth…you’d find it a hell of a lot funnier! She acts kind of like a hybrid of Jessica Simpson from Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and Anna Faris from the Scary Movie movies except unlike those two girls, she’s actually really smart and for the most part has pretty good common sense…she’s just kind of ditzy and unpredictable when it comes to what she says. Which is why I love her so much. She keeps me laughing. And guessing.
Sadly at 11:30pm it was time for us to say our goodbyes. So we hugged and said our goodbyes. Once she was in her dorm I sent her a text and we had a mini text convo:
Me: “I love you more than oxygen”
Babe: “Haha your silly 🙂 love you too”
Me: “lol…”
Babe: “By the way that was the best birthday present ever”
Me: “lol…what the frosty?” (I bought her a Frosty for her birthday because I’m poor)
Babe: “Seeing You!”
Me: “awwww…really?”
Babe: “Yes 🙂 for sure was the highlight of my day”
Me: “well that says a lot since your day was lame…haha…jk”
Babe: “true…in shower lol 🙂 text after”
Me: “K…have fun”
45 minutes later
Me: “I made it home alive”
Babe: “good! I’m glad!”
Me: “me too”
Again, probably not very funny or interesting but oh well. This is a blog about my life, not yours.
🙂
Babe in Walmart for a Softball prank. Haha, she’d kill me if she knew I put this pic up. Oh well.
Post 7: The ABC’s of Me
A. Attached or Single? Single. I don’t really think I’m fully ready to be in a committed relationship yet, as much as I’d love to be in one, I think I’m still a little too selfish.
B. Best Friend? I can’t really just pick one. I have a few.
C. Cake or pie? Cake fo-sho. I don’t really like pie, I love fruit raw and by itself but not really cooked and with other things…I’m weird. The way I see it, if I’m gonna eat a lot of calories like that I might as well waste in on chocolate rather than fruit.
D. Day of choice? Thursday for the fact that it’s the day before Friday and because it’s when The Office is on.
E. Essential item? It’s a three way tie between my cell phone, my car and my ipod. Without my cell phone I’d be far away from my friends (isn’t that sad how a cell phone is your lifeline to your friends?), without my car I’d get super bored (I live in the country) and probably go crazy from not seeing anybody, and without my iPod I’d have no music in my life and that would be quiet and lame.
F. Favorite color? Grayish/Tealish/Turquoise-can you picture it?
G. Gummy bears or worms? Worms.
H. Hometown? Well I was born in Syracuse, NY and raised in Penn Yann, NY; Wooster, OH; Melbourne, Australia; and Marysville, OH – but I’ve lived the longest in Marysville (and I currently live there) so which of those is my “hometown”?
I. Favorite indulgence? Oh jeez…hmmm…buying a really expensive dessert at a restaurant and massages. Ooh and when people play with my hair…I fall into a blissful sleep. Aaahhh.
J. January or July? January-I love snow and hate summer
K. Kids? I like them, not ready for them yet but I’d like to have a few someday. Right now I’m enjoying my 5 month old niece…she’s my “baby fix” for now. Again I refer to the first question, I’m too selfish to be a mum right now, I like to be able to do things on a whim and have time to do what I want…not good qualities in motherhood.
L. Life isn’t complete without? Friends, family, movies and music. Oh and my camera.
M. Marriage date? Sometime in the distant future I’m sure (see “A” and “K”)
N. Number of brothers and sisters? 1 older brother (who gave me 1 sister in law and 1 niece), 1 younger brother
O. Oranges or Apples? Apples. I don’t like oranges. I can’t breath because the smell is too strong.
P. Phobias? The dark (I’m getting better) and heights (not getting better)
Q. Quotes? I have a movie quote for anytime, anyplace and for anything. I’m a movie quoting nerd. But I accept it and have embraced it.
R. Reasons to smile? Oh so many things. My amazing family and friends, my adorable niece, being alive, watching the leaves change colour….so many things but I must move on to letter “S”.
S. Season of choice? Autumn. I love the colours, the smells, the sounds…I love haunted corn mazes, hot chocolate, pumpkins, thanksgiving (which eventually leads to Christmas!), hearing the sound of the fire crackling, cuddling under warm blankets, wearing hoodies and sweatpants and slippers…the list goes on.
T. Tag 5 people: Tricia, Holly, Liv, Josh and Kristen – “You’re it, quitsies!”
U. Unknown fact about me? I have many unknown facts. For example I have a heart shaped mole on the top of my left thigh
V. Vegetable? I like most veggies except onions, my mum always told me that when I grow up I’ll learn to love onions…sorry mum but I’m all growed up and I still hate onions…I’ll eat them if they’re soft and cooked in something but I hate the texture and taste…yuck.
W. Worst habit? Biting my nails is numero uno…can ADD be considered a bad habit (diagnosed my senior year of high school…thanks for taking so long to figure out it wasn’t just lazyness)? If so then that’s my number two pick.
X. X-ray or Ultrasound? I’ve had both a couple of times. I hate ultrasounds because you have to hold your pee for a really long time and then they push on your bladder…then again x-rays make you lie still which is difficult for me at times.
P.S. the ultrasounds were on my gallbladder, not my uterus.
Y. Your favorite food? Chinese anything…lo mein, potstickers, orange beef…mmmm…okay now I’m hungry. Dang.
Z. Zodiac sign? Leo. I don’t believe in horoscopes but they’re fun to read.
Michelle Tanner? Nope it’s me picking apples in 1986. I was two.
e una bella vita 