Archive for December, 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
So, I’m signing off from work, and I wanted to wish all of you—those I love and all my doppelgangers—a Happy New Year! Next time you hear from me, it will be 2007. I want to leave all of you with a little taxi cab driver wisdom for the New Year that stood out to me:
Don’t worry if one person isn’t showing the same love that someone else has shown you; no two loves are the same.
On that note, take a taxicab, be safe, have a fun fun freakin drunk-ass New Years! For all of you in a relationship, I hope it’s everything you’d thought it would be; don’t settle! And for all my Single and Fabulous friends—you better all have make-out stories to tell me!
Luv,
Jeanna
Fat’s Comin Back!
This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
Let’s tip our glasses to loving our curves as leading figures in the fashion world go to war against underweight fashion models! It’s about freakin time.
A day after Nicole Ritchie’s was arrested and her booking sheet listed her weight as 85 pounds—GUROSS!—Diane Von Furstenberg sent a letter to Council of Fashion Designers of America, urging them to take a stand against underweight models. I think it’s a beautiful coincidence.
Fashion capitols all over the world have already taken a stand:
In September, the organizers of fashion week in Madrid, Spain, issued the world’s first catwalk ban on models who didn’t meet a minimum body mass ratio of 18, a number calculated on height and weight, which would exclude Kate Moss. (Sorry Johnny.)
In November, a 21-year-old Brazilian model, Ana Carolina Reston, died in a Sao Paulo hospital from complications of anorexia. She was 5-feet-8 and weighed 88 pounds. Brazil has joined the campaign to create guidelines.
Diane’s letter included her quoting:
“…As designers, we cannot ignore the impact fashion has on body image. We share a responsibility to protect women, and very young girls in particular, within the industry, sending the message that health is beauty.”
“I always think it’s a good idea to promote health,” she said. “I believe in strong women.”
Thank you Diane. Perhaps you should be the next President. I believe in healthy, beautiful bodies too.
Ladies, finish that last piece of holiday cake and certainly opt for the full-fat egg nog instead of light…FAT’S COMIN BACK!
Currently Anticipating: My 25th silver birthday bash. If you didn’t get the evite, then you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog anyway.
Currently Feeling: Releaved that the ban was lifted from Blogger at my work. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but I can blog again!!
Currently Reading: The Power of One (I just finished The Thirteenth Tale, read it, it was fabulous!)
Currently Hating: Figuring out what the hell I’m going to do for New Year’s this year. I HATE IT!
May Day, May Day!
Quick update.
My effing work blocked Beta Blogger, so I am currently unable to blog. I know, I shouldn’t blog while at work anyway, however, we’re all guilty of Internet activity that we shouldn’t be partaking in while at work. I’m working on a fix, but since I don’t have the Internet at home either, my blogs might be few and far between for awhile until I come up with a solution.
Please don’t give up on me, I’ll hopefully be back soon.
Luv,
Jeanna
B-I-N-G-O!
I’ve added a new week-time ritual to my repertoire—Bingo on Thursday nights. Frankly, I’m starting to scare myself…book club, bowling league, bingo…is anybody seeing a scary pattern here? Have I suddenly skipped from being super popular to being an Old Maid? Fuck, I’ve even purchased a cat.
Maybe I’m just figuring out early what it takes years for everyone else to realize—activities such as Bingo, Bridge, Bunko, and all other events that usually have “60-years-old and over” attached to them, are really the absolute best ways to spend any free time. God, I’m so progressive.
So, Bingo at Jabu’s on Thursdays has become the place to be. Formally 25-cent PBR night, the local Queen Anne dive has switched to now offering free bingo, starting at 8. That’s right, I said FREE! For the last couple weeks, I’ve met some college friends of mine, Brett and Angie, for an all night drinking and bingoing funfest. I know what you are all thinking; with Bingo comes the crazies. The lucky troll dolls, tokens, bingo daubers, rituals, etc. This isn’t quite like that kind of Bingo. It’s actually pretty low key; the Bingo boards are paper punch-outs, and there’s only four or five rounds with prizes such as Sonics or movie tickets. Plus, there are many, many pitchers of alcohol involved. I’m not sure why, but each week as the night progresses, the bingo caller seems to call things faster and it becomes way harder to keep up and check all four cards in front of me. Watch out for that.
Not only have I had a fun drunken time each week, but I’ve managed to learn a few things too:
Currently Feeling: Slight withdrawals, but better.
Currently Anticipating: The weekend’s birthday festivities.
Currently Loving: Friends who know how to handle their alcohol.
Ta Da!
So, I figured it was time to change the look of my blog site to something a little more “sophisticated.” It’s taken me hours and hours to do. The first go ‘round, I deleted all the changes after spending hours trying to sort through the html code. Have any of you tried reading through code and figuring out what it all means? It’s something I’ve taught myself to do since the creation of MySpace and Blogger, and something I enjoy quite a bit. I’m even contemplating going to grad school for Web site design…
Anyway, here it is. Ladies and gentlemen, I now have links on my site! Hope you enjoy and it isn’t too hard to read or navigate. I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Love all of you! And I promise to be back to my fabulous story telling soon. It’s been a rough last couple of weeks, but I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve for the next couple days…
Luv,
Je
Reason, Season or Lifetime
I found this blurb today while scouring the Internet. Despite all the prayer crap, I don’t think it could possibly make more sense to me. Especially during this week, while I’m trying to figure out the REASON for the relationship with me and Tre. I think it’s a perfect way to look at why people come into your life, good or bad, and a way to let go without being bitter. That aside, I have so many awesome SEASON and LIFETIME friends. I don’t know how one person gets as lucky with friendships as I have in my life. It’s the tie that binds me together…
People come into your life for a REASON, a SEASON or a LIFETIME. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime!
Seriously, Is it Christmas?
Ho, ho, ho.
Happy Kwanza, Hannukah, Christmas, Holidays, etc.
Are you all ready for it?
Each year after Thanksgiving, Christmas suddenly explodes everywhere. Stores start playing holiday music, coffee cups at the local java hut suddenly have snowflakes on them, every Web site and form of communication has some sort of advertisement for a Christmas present and people start talking about Christmas shopping. Fuck. Even some of my friends have changed their MySpace layouts to Christmas themes. Why do I feel like every year I’m not ready for this? It certainly was much more exciting, (or maybe much more agonizing), when we were all in elementary school and December seemed to last for three months. I guess it’s just another shard of youth that slips through our fingers as we get older.
I read something the other day that sounded the bells of truth in my ears—with the coming of the holiday season comes this overwhelming sense of seriousness. I suddenly feel very serious about more than one thing. First off, my finances and lack thereof. How do I make a decent salary, but continue to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle with paying my bills? Why am I almost 25 and feel like I can’t afford to buy Christmas presents this year? It’s made me take a serious look at teaching myself to budget and save. For real this time. I’m too old to not have a savings account.
And then there’s the forced seriousness of whatever relationship one happens to be in around Christmas. Especially when it’s a new one, like mine. Suddenly, everything has started to bother me lately that wasn’t a problem two weeks ago. Is it because I’ve suddenly switched into holiday-boyfriend mode? What do I get him for Christmas, do I take him home for our family holiday party to meet my parents, do I bring him along as my date to my friends’ holiday parties? Who fucking knows. Sometimes I really feel like I don’t have the time or energy to worry about these sorts of things.
But then again, that’s what the Christmas season seems to entail—time and energy. We all need to take the time to figure out what we want for Christmas, what we’re going to get our friends and family and when we’re going to fit Christmas shopping in. And each year seems to be a bigger rat race than the year before.
I’ll tell you one thing. Whether I have the money for presents or the boyfriend for a date, I’m going to survive this holiday season by getting silly at holiday parties. I’m gonna dress up in my fanciest, swankiest attire and get drunk like the bums in Pioneer Square. At least that will get me through the slight bumps and seriousness that sometimes accompanies the holiday season. Shit. What am I going to do when I actually have a family and can’t behave like the irresponsible adult I love to be sometimes? Eh. Maybe mommy will just have to have more than a couple mugs of “spiced cider.”
Happy Holidays!
Currently Feeling: Nervous that I don’t have any solid Friday night plans. I’m such a planner, and the last thing I want to do tonight is stay in!
Currently Anticipating: Jana’s 30th Birthday celebration tomorrow night—it’s a doozie!
Currently Reading: The Rotter’s Club, and gonna start The Memory Keeper’s Daughter.
Currently Hating: That I’m not being asked out on any fucking dates. Come on! The time hasn’t come to get too comfortable, yet. I still need to be wooed and swooned cause I’m not entirely sold!
