“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. EXPLORE. DREAM. DISCOVER.”-Mark Twain

Welcome to the personal blog of Jeanna, or Je Anna as my mom put on my birth certificate. I’ve been called G-Dawg, G-Money, G-Unit, G-Slice, or just “G,” which I believe are all incorrect. “Je” makes much more sense. Or Je-Dawg, Je-Money, Je-Unit and Je-Slice. If G were my shortened moniker, then my name would actually probably be spelled Gianna, and I would have escaped a lifetime of being called Gina. Mispronunciation of my name is the bane of my existence. Damn, Gina!

By day, I live in Seattle and work as a Community Manager for Pelago, makers of Whrrl, a location-based social networking app found on the Web, iPhone and other mobile platforms. After graduating with a journalism degree from Western Washington University, I took a little foray into writing and project management at a global nonprofit, and then marketing for a commercial real estate firm until finally landing the job most meant for me… I’m passionate about Whrrl, technology, social media, online marketing, and the idea of building and growing a community, on and offline.

By night, you can find me out and about in my “IRL” community of Seattle, proving one day at a time that Seattle is a whole lot more than that place that “rains all the time.” I LOVE sushi, wine, Classic and Indie rock, high heels, US Weekly, my Persian, Stella, everything pink or made with bacon, scary movies, books, Gerber daisies, Almost Famous, big earrings, rollerblading, sunshine and red pepper flakes. I dislike exclusivity.

I started this Web site in 2006 as Memoirs of a 20-Something and wrote for three years under the name 20-Something (which you’ll find throughout my archives.) Just shortly after the third anniversary of my blog, I decided to give it a new name and a face lift – something that could take me into my 30s, and so That’s What Je Said was born. As time goes by a little bit more layers of the privacy onion come off (some might argue there is no privacy when your chosen profession is social media), and after four years, I finally decided to come out of the “blogging closet,” so to speak. Here is my life – my friends and relationships, pictures, wants, highs and lows, and professional musings – all out for the Internet and Google to find.

Glasses raised to enjoying this ride together,