The Egg
Last night Eric and I did some much needed grocery shopping. You know the essentials -- milk, eggs, cereal, coffee, pickles...etc. We did the usual -- pull up in front of the condo complex to unload the groceries before parking the car. On the second trip to the car, I realized that we'd accidentally smashed an egg somehow and this egg was daring to drip on the inside of Eric's car (bad bad bad!). In a panic I asked, "Oh my God! What do we do now?!" to which he replied, "Here just do this...." and tossed the egg over his shoulder, in the direction of some nearby bushes lining the condo building. As if on the TV screen - Eric and I turned in sudden fright and watched as the egg - in slow motion - landed on the neighbors window. SPLAT! Oh my -- this was a sticky situation indeed! At first we laughed and booked it - thinking it best to flee the scene. Half way to the house Eric realized that his car was parked out front and would no doubt incriminate him so best to move it - quickly. The little boy whose bedroom window we'd hit was glaring out of the window to search for the culprit and Eric was busted. He was forced to knock on the neighbors door and explain why he'd egged their home, and how it really
was an accident, and remind them not to be startled when he comes over to clean up the mess......
Ok ok I'm back
Sorry I've been away! I've had such a busy week -- that I was going to pull my hair out -- and I've had a lot of training...check it check it..
Monday: Management Training: Becoming a Leader
Tuesday: Manangement Training: Interpersonal Communications & Valuing and Developing Employees ~ Spanish Class
Wednesday: Senior Management meeting in office (CRAZY!)
Thursday: How To Be An Exceptional Assistant seminar in DC ~ Spanish Class
Friday: Freedom!! So tired went to bed at 9pm.
Saturday: Shopping (looked gross in everything) and then babysitting
Sunday: Our 1 year anniversary! Lunch with Eric's parents, then I slept through the Underworld movie at the theater, then anniversary dinner at the most amazing French restaurant in the area which cost us an arm and a leg but was SO SPECIAL I nearly died in my souffle.
Today: I'm back again!
Hightlights:
The reunion has been scheduled for August 19th!! Keelee and I are working on a plan to meet up with some friends in Vegas, rent an RV, drive to the CA for the reunion -- and party in the RV the whole time. I'm thrilled!!
Lizzy called last night to say that she wants to buy me a ticket to come to San Antonio in the next few weeks. The round trip tickets to and fro are under $200 and so she's buying my ticket and I'm buying Eric's! I've wanted to take Eric to San Antonio for EVER!!!
I have my first Spanish quiz on Tuesday:
Canto
Canta
Cantas
Cantamos
Cantan
Estoy
Esta
Estas
Estamos
Estan
And a grip o'verbs. .... WISH ME LUCK!!
Oh I've been ADDICTED to puzzles lately. I've done 6 in the last 2 weeks. Am I turning in to a Beautiful Mind case? What's with the puzzles? I think it helps my brainicles come down after 3 nights of class...LOVE EM! That, on top of my aforementioned training courses, is why I haven't blogged. I'm ashamed to say it.
Site Bashing
I fell in love with these brushes that my hairdresser uses. They're called Marilyn and they're all the rage when it comes to spa-stuff. So I went online to find a better price because $25+ per brush was just a little steep for moi.
I discovered
www.WebBeautyStore.Com and ordered all 5 of my brushes for $55!! Score! Right? NOT. While I did get my brushes the order was wrong. They sent me the wrong size of a brush so it's been a week now and I've emailed - no response. I've called -- not only does no one answer - and then forward you to an answering machine - but the answering machine says "We're sorry -- this answering machine if full and can no long take messages" WHAT!!! So I just got ripped off at an online store and so I announce to you DO NOT BUY SHIT FROM
WWW.WEBBEAUTYSTORE.COM The such and their criminals who steal money.
My first audio blog....huh.....
Class of 96'
So here's the thing. My 10 year class reunion is supposed to be coming up this summer. I'm
quite unsure what I should do.
To go or not to go.
Why, you ask?
Some of the people who might be there I don't want to see.
Some of the people who might be there I'd love to see but don't want to see the others.
Some of the people who might be there I'd love to see, but I don't want them to see me.
Some of the people I want to see there - I KNOW aren't going.
Some of the people I know aren't going I like the best anyway -- so is it worth it to go at all?
My vision of buying a plane ticket to California has never included Lompoc (Pronounced Lom-poke..
we're weird about that).
Maybe curiosity did kill the cat.....
I'm fucking scared.....
Now once upon a time I had a plan with Colin to go to the reunion. This was back when 2006 seemed eons away and my skin was still taut. He was going to be date to the reunion, we were going to ride in a limo, have a few drinks, have a good time and make a big entrance (well
I don't make big entrances -- but Colin is hard to keep control of so I'll probably wait in the limo until the coast was clear and then sneak in...unnoticed) But now as it turns out I haven't seen Colin since graduation day, 1996, and as much as I loved his bald head, he's now an afro sporting punk-band singer who I never talk to unless it involves hours and hours worth of drinking before hand.
Keelee -- I need Keelee to go with me. She's tall, my size, and fun. I could hide behind her all night until I felt comfortable and then burst out once I'm drunk. But the thing is Keelee isn't sure she'll be able to go...school and whatnot. So it's all up in the air.....
I'm just not sure...to go or not to go....(Courtney you can't comment as I already know your stance.)
Hola!
Yo soy Jessica! Son las dos y media de la tarde.
Pretty good, eh?
My leaf is still in Las Vegas and I am starting to sleep poorly. The dog has taken his place in our bed and she insists on laying perpendicular to me, kicking me in the back all night.
This morning I woke up extra early to do my hair and put on some fancy work clothes because we have a meeting in our office today. Once I'm all done up (minus the make-up I had yet to put on) I take Lady for a walk, in the rain, and accidentally locked myself out of the house.
Dripping with rain, I tie up the dog and walk around back to retrieve the spare key. Scaling one wall, and climbing a 4 foot fence in my dress shoes, I finally get back into the condo. With no time to spare I unhook the dog and run out the door with my make-up in hand. No time! No time!
I've accepted the fact that my hair is flat and sticky. And that I am 75% made-up; missing only my eye shadow and mascara. I look like a Geisha. I am trying trying trying to look on the bright side!
Bright Side Moments/thoughts:
I had a big burrito for lunch (paid for by the company)
I FINALLY got my history book in today
I wrote my extra credit assignment for History on Martin Luther King Junior
The leaf called me to say he's having fun
I just found out I can do my Spanish labs on line instead of going to the campus
I have successfully avoided all mirrors to keep up the denial of my Geisha~ness
ALL the truffles from Christmas time have been eaten in the office and I'm not pumping chocolate through my veins.
I have a date with a friend I haven't seen in a long time this Sunday
My bills are all paid
My car is running
My leaf comes home tomorrow
Home again home again jiggidy jig
I'm home from the tropics of Iowa! The trip was great and Iowa was surprisingly beautiful! It even snowed one day while we were there. I also had some of the best food I've ever eaten and that was a BIG surprise.
Now I'm home and Eric's in Vegas. We missed each other by a few hours and I'm so missing him to death. Each time I think of him my stomach lurches and I get a knot in my throat. I know distance makes the heart grow fonder and all that blah-blah stuff but I'd at least like a hug!
I have pictures from Iowa but I haven't uploaded them yet. I got back yesterday and had a bunch of stuff to do so...I didn't get to that. I'll have school for the next few nights so I may or may not be able to get them uploaded. I'm going to try my darndest!
I saw Brodie yesterday for the first time in what felt like FOREVER! I got to put him down to sleep twice, give him a bath, and feed him cereal (which is new for me. he just started eating that). I smothered him with love and I feel much better today. I think if I could tuck Brodie in my purse and carry him around with me all day I'd not miss Eric so much.
Just under 2 weeks before our 1 year anniversary. It's been the best year of my flippin life. I think January 29th will be my new New Years! When Eric and I got back together was when my life started to turn around and I'm so happy to have turned a new leaf. I just don't want my leaf in Vegas is all.
More tomorrow!
Hasta Manana, amigos!
Adios Amigos!
In exactly 15 minutes I'm heading off to my first History class of the second semester. I'm hoping the professor gives us our syllabus and then lets us go -- I have big plans tomorrow and must get rest. But more about that in a bit.
My Spanish class is at a different campus then the one I was taking class at last semester. This new campus is much larger and has many many more students. I had to go there today to get my new Spanish text books -- and found my self frightened and out of place. Why do these students make me feel like I could be the professor? In order to shake off my social anxiety I pretended, just for a minute, that I actually WAS a professor. I wanted to psyche myself out long enough to grab my book and head back to the safe adult world of the office space.
I got lost. Really really lost. I found myself ducking around corners to double, triple, quadruple check the map I'd printed. I felt like all eyes were on me and everyone in the cafeteria was thinking, "Why is that older girl wandering through the trash receptacles behind the food kitchen? Is she lost?" As a last resort, I stand still and look at my watch near the side of the street as if I was waiting for a bus, a ride, a knight in shining armor to gallop up and save me from the humiliation of college campus insecurity!
After a safe period of time in my
imaginary bus stop -- I turned around and headed for the nearest door. Luckily ending up at the "Information desk" where a pimply 19 year old explained that I just needed to go down one floor and make a left. Phew!
So once I got to the book store -- the line was long and it was hot. Like - the bookstore is in the basement of the college, and there are 350 people stuffed in to this 650 square foot room - hot.
45 minutes later I emerge from the bookstore feeling pretty confident that I could find my way back to the parking lot since I'd just completed a self sponsored campus tour. Walking towards the enormous parking lot I take in huge deep breaths of crisp winter air when it hits me - I have no fucking clue where I parked. A-3? B-3? C-3? Oh shit! Here I go again trying to look as if I know what I'm doing. Luckily the parking lot is two hundred yards long so I have a while to figure out what I'm going to do. I spot a grey Hyundai Sonata in the distance and squinting my eyes I desperately try to pick out a feature that I know is mine. Upon my approach I realize that car has a row of stuffed animals in the rear window. Since I think people who must travel with stuffed animals in their window should be shot, stuffed, and hung from the front grill of a mac truck -- I knew that couldn't be mine. Frustrated, and cursing the very people that benefit from my $50 per semester in parking fees, I spot my lovely, dirty, dented, stuffed animal free, but with new tires (!) car. After all that I need a vacation.
And lucky me I have one coming right up! I leave tomorrow morning at 8am on a plane to the tropical region of the U.S. called IOWA! Yes, I'll be soaking up the cold in the luscious corn fields of the mid west. For those of you who need to reach me, provided they have satellites out in Iowa, I'll be reachable by cell phone.
Be home Tuesday!
Adios!
Facinating Facts about Chinchilla's
Eric sent me this neato
article on Chinchilla's. You don't have to read it because I've already picked out the most interesting facts about Chinchilla's for you.
Allow me to share.
- Chinchilla fur is considered the softest in the world
- Chinchilla's must regularly bathe in dust or volcanic ash to remove moisture from thier fur
- Chichilla's have the highest fur density of any land animal - more then 20,000 hairs per square centimeter!
- Thier fur is so dense that they don't get skin parasites -- because the little parasite would suffocate
- Humans grow one hair per folicle while the Chinchilla grows fifty per folicle
- Chinchilla's are monogomous and live in pairs when in the wild
- Chinchilla wives have a pregnancy that lasts 111 days!!!
- In captivity Chinchilla's live about 20 years
Yuss call me Yessica!
Tonight is my first night of school in the Spring Semester of 2006. This semester I am taking Spanish I and History 102.
I am required to take FOUR semesters of a foreign language in order to enter the teaching program at GMU; which I am SO FREAKED OUT ABOUT! I tried taking both German and Spanish in high school and never excelled in either. Not even like a little bit. So this is a SCARY adventure for me. But I learned yesterday on a corporate_skill_setting_conference_call that one should think NOT about how one CAN'T do something, or MIGHT NOT be able to do something, but rather how one CAN succeed.
So I am going to do just that! I am going to leave my past foreign language failures behind and come to terms with the things I'm going to do to succeed in this class.Starting this week I will be mucho absorbing as much of the Spanish language as I can. I'm not sure what the class Syllabus will hold for me yet -- but whatever it is I'm sure I'll be chatting it up with our local Hispanic community in no time!
Willy Willy Willy!
So I'm a little worried that I might have to give my Willy back to my brother and Stephanie -- but that's ok. If they want Willy back I can't keep him from them. At least I took the time to research the needs of a Chinchilla, provided him with the Chinchilla essentials, and cuddled him out of his slobbery slump. Never the less, whether he's mine forever, or just to borrow for a few weeks -- I have picture to show you!!!
Here...is...WILLY!
Here is Willy in the dust bath/condo. It's really just a bath house but he really likes to just hang out in there constantly.
Here is Willy posing for the camera. He's a star!
Here is Willy's mansion. He's really loving that soft bedding.
Here is Willy running from the Paparazzi! Run Willy Run!
Hail To The Redskins
Hail to the Redskins! Hail Victory! Braves on the Warpath! Fight for old D.C.! Ok so I'm not much of a sports fan -- but I'd be lying if I didn't say that I like the Redskins. I may not be able to sit and pay attention to an entire football game -- but I'm always asking about the score. This Saturday Eric and I went to some friends house to watch the game and the last few minutes were great! I love that intensity. We won!Switching gears.....After the game Eric, John and I went to my brothers house to hang out. My little brother and his girlfriend just bought a house in this cute little neighborhood. I had the tour last Friday but Eric and John had not. Once there we hung out, had a few drinks, and then stumbled upon my new pet! My brother and Stephanie had a mildly neglected Chinchilla, that had recently been slobbered on and chased around by, my brothers English Bull Dog, Bentley. It was an accident of course but never the less the poor little guy was suffering. He was also in a room that was pushing the 90-95 degree range. This poor Chinchilla was TRA-MA-TIZED and covered in soot and dog spit! So Eric and I picked up the cage and walked out the front door!Sunday morning we scooted off to our favorite pet store (the one where Eric nearly got his finger lopped off by a macaw). After a few minutes of pet couseling & a $55.00 bill, we went home to fix our little Chinchilla's home. Did you know they take dust baths? You wouldn't' believe it but it really works! And they freak out! They hope and jump and roll around in dust. It's so neat! So I named him. I don't know if my brother's girlfriend has already named him but I renamed him for now. Willy. Willy the Chinchilly.I feel bad for Stephanie that I took her pet but I think all in all Willy is glad to be away from Bentley and that hot ass room. I have taken pictures of him and his new abode and I will post them soon.Today is my 8th year anniversary. I have officially lived in DC for 8 years straight. For a military brat that is REALLY GOOD. Prior to this stint I hadn't lived anywhere for more then about 2 and a half years. I wasn't sure I'd like to stay in one place this long. And I've definitely contemplated moving -- but I kind of like having my roots planted somewhere.
A Special Birthday Wish!
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I would like to take the time to announce a very special celebration day! Someone that not only I care a lot about, but is also very close to Eric’s heart, turned 31 today! This person is one of my loyal readers. I am quite sure she started reading my blog to get dirt on me but has proven to be one of my most dedicated readers since then. She truly is the wind beneath my wings. *Wink*wink*
Jansen a.k.a JZ, Chainsaw, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRL! And to truly express our birthday wish formally, and in attempt to smother you with love, I’ve rooted through Eric’s box of old pictures to find these --- these---
sssssstunning remembrances of who you were…..oh in like 1988/89..and high school.
PS. Don’t ever dis my secret Santa gig again!
All our love,
Eric & Jess
Picture correction
Some how I fucked up and had my Christmas Eve pictures in the New Years Eve spot. So if you looked at both, and got confused, check out the New Years Eve ones again. I fixed it....
Early 90's Family Reunion
A family reunion in the early 90s. My family has this habbit of making all the cousins take a picture together which used to be regarded as pure torture. It's not so bad anymore but it's hard to get us all together. Doesn't my sister look hot?
New Years Eve
Here are the last of the pictures (I think).
These are of our quiet New Years Eve.
Christmas Eve
Here are the pictures from
Christmas Eve 2005
The Christmas Party & Liz's Trip
This is one of many pictures of Liz and I before the big Christmas party. Eric took a gazillion pictures claiming that they were all bunk so I decided to step up the poses a tad.
I used this classic pose. One of my favorite modeling poses, actually. Look how Liz is just dying to smack my ass!
This is the next and final pose. This one really only works when Liz is in town. I'm hoping she sends this one to the insurance company when she tried to get approved for a breast reduction. I think it'll do just fine.
Here are the other
pictures from her trip...
West Virginia Miners
Last night I was stuck on the CNN report of the West Virginia Miners and thier hopeful rescue. I woke up this morning to find out that they had been rescued --- at least that's what the families were told ......hours later they were told that was incorrect -- the miners were actually dead. All dead except for one lucky guy. Such a
sad story.
Happy New Year!
Well here we are in 2006. This May it will be 10 years since my high school graduation. I've done lots of growing up since then. I've been through 8 mailing addresses. About 4 boyfriends. 5 jobs. 4 cars. 1 arrest. 1 Christian Cult experience. 1 purchased home. 3 starts of college.
......that's a lot. I'm happy to say I'm glad to be here with my current (and last) boyfriend, in school, with a great job, and wonderful friends. I'm excited to see what 2006 has to offer. I hope it's filled with lots of good grades!
Eric and I celebrated New Years 2006 together. Since we've been friends for 8 years -- I'm sure we've been at the same New Years party once or twice -- but we've never been able to kiss at Midnight. Our celebration was much calmer then my celebrations of past years. Instead of heading out for a wild night of bar hopping or keg parties -- we made dinner reservations at one of our local Japanese steak houses. It was only complete because we were able to have that meal with our good friends Deannie and Dean. We then met up with John and Claudia at our house for a night of Champagne and a board game. We played
Scene It -- ever played it? I without
one doubt SUCK at trivia games -- but I always enjoy learning new things. I think I got one answer right for our team. I've also found that drinking Champagne whilst playing trivia games is not good for the overall team score.
I have pictures of the night but they're at home. I did download them on to my computer though so Step A is complete. Sending you back a week ago I have pictures from the "blast from the past" happy hour I went to. Check em' out.
here is a picture of Dad and I. Dad is looking mighty Christmasy if you ask me!
I used to baby-sit those two children on the right. Do I look that much older then them?
