I've been taking a lot of pictures lately...if you haven't noticed so i've decided to create another little side blog that says Jenn's Pictures which i will update regularly...there will be little writting just pictures!! So enjoy if you would like...if not that is fine too...i may also post some of my favorites on this page!! : ) I will probably even grace you guys with some videos...i have some great video footage of the GNC : )

I have finally posted what you have all been waiting for...what most of you check this blog for...actually you can get to the grandpa griffith pictures without this blog, i'm just trying to make myself feel better : )...anyway, the grandpa griffith pictures from the vzd's show have been posted!!! yes...i got to go...played a show the same night and didn't miss a GG show!!

I found the christmas costumes in the music closet at one of my schools...so i dressed up like an elf...i told you!! : )

Before the weekend is over i'm about to get serious in a blog...just letting you know!!

So i've been in this fresh foods kick...cooking fresh green beans, squash, broccoli etc...i even bought my first pineapple...and while cooking them i realized it takes longer to prepare them and takes longer to cook them but in the end the outcome is way better than anything in a can or frozen!!! Thus proving that the things you have to work harder at in life often are the things that are better and the things that take longer usually turn out better too!!

There you have it...my philosophy on life (as of today : )

btw...i'm really not angry...i've just been taking a lot of really dumb pictures of myself!! its fun!! and i have to entertain myself somehow!! just wait until you see the one of me in the elf outfit : )
(no i'm not making that up!!)

Who wants to sleep on the lawn of the capital with me on Saturday night???

I know what you are thinking??? has this girl really gone insane...is this the end of her???? but i'm not insane..yet!!! So why are you going to sleep on the lawn of the capital????

Go to Invisible Children and see for yourself....i watched the movie about what is going on in Uganda, Africa...these children look exactly like the students i work with on a daily bases...they are the same age...they like the same things...except in Africa they are scared to death that they are going to get kidnapped by rebel soldiers who are trying to overthrough the government...the rebel leader has decided that its a good idea to get them while they are young and he is sending in his people in the middle of the night to take these children, bring them to the "bush", brainwash them, and get them ready to kill.... the ones that aren't able to do or aren't willing to "reform" he is killing or having children kill...the African children are scared (who won't be) walking miles and miles to places that the rebels won't go and sleeping on cement floors with hundreds of other kids, hundreds no kidding!! ...some of these children at 9 and 10 have left their families because its safer...what child should have to go through this!!!

So why the capital...all over this country on Saturday night people are walking to the capital (walking like the children there) to peacefully say to the government "do something, these kids need help"...camping out to show that there are people that care for people no matter what race or where they are in the world.

I know there are several groups walking and if you are interested in going let me know and i will fill you in...i will be going late due to prior commitments and if you would like to go but want to wait for me let me know that too!!

there is also a myspace....http://www.myspace.com/invisiblechildren you can check that out too, and become their friend!!

If mike isn't dancing in my little video then something is not right!!

I haven't been able to get this to work exactly right yet but people need to see it... : ) unfortunately..i don't think mike will be able to view it and he will love it : )

yet again i'm up at the butt crack of dawn...and still not sure why...at least i'm sleeping well when i do sleep : ) it just means i get a lot done in the mornings right...well, one might think so but really i don't...i tend to just sit at the computer and look up pointless stuff instead of working out or cleaning...well...o'well!! i did throw away a bunch of pens that don't work, but really was because i was upset that i never pulled a working one out of the container and decided it was time to throw all the bad ones out!! : ) So far i'm in a much better mood this morning than i was yesterday...sorry about the depressing post. i have a few grandpa griffith pictures that i will post at some point this week from the last show...i'll let you know when they go up : )

Where do you go when you fit no where? Your like a square trying to fit in the space of a triangle...

What do you do when nothing quite fits?


I'm just in one of those moods...but i'm blogging anyway!! i shouldn't blog when i'm in these moods because i know tomorrow will be totally different!! I'm truly ready to re-define normal...i know normal is not going to be the same as it was a year ago but i'm ready to start the getting my life normal again!! Soon, very, very soon!! I believe these next 4 weeks could be the longest ever!!! well that was depressing : ) until next time....

Well we made it back from San Antonio and no one is hurt : ) Here are a few pics from the trip!! I also have some pictures from our Nonna's show and our adventure to the sky bar on my sisters birthday which i will be posting soon. i did get a new camera (again : )!! Happy Monday!!

HAPPY EASTER!!

For the second year in a row....my siblings (and riley and pat) are in San Antonio for Easter!! Pat, Riley and I drove yesterday and i hit austin about 4:00pm...which means we sat in traffic there until about 5:30....man did it suck!! I'm not sure how people live in that city : ) Anyway...its always fun here...today we go to fiesta texas...the 6 flags of san antonio...

now i'm really changing the subject!! the stringents at nonnas was really fun!! we are playing there again on thursday may 11th and everyone should come out...it is free (sorry i had no idea at all)...and we are on the top balcony...lots of fun!!

we played a song with gena's husband that night by sting....englishman in ny...and i fell in love with it!! i made pat listen to it several times on the way here...and i really really hate i-trip...it doesn't work!! we also listened to the gg cd several times...when you are sitting in traffic forever you have to do something fun!! its funny to me to see peoples faces when something makes sense all of the sudden...the light really does come on!! pat had this on blind love..i don't know what she thought it was about but all the sudden she says (rather loudly : ).."i get it"!! which also lead me to believe that she probably doesn't understand most of what i tell her : ) oh well...

i did get a new camera!! hooray!! and its about 50 times better than my old one so i'm excited to start using it...and i know you all are excited for me to start using it : ) there will be many pics a comin' : )

I finally did it!! I'm going back to school...thats right!!! I enrolled at Rose State, taking 12 online hours this summer so that i can start the adult studies program at SNU in September...Hooray for me...i'm extremely excited!! I also got the paper work started for the SNU program. It will take about 2 years to finish (one night a week for 3 semesters) and i will have a degree in psychology and can become a licensed therapist!!! I'm very very excited and can't wait to get started...i just hope i'm smart enough : )

some of you have seen this picture...this is my new friend Katie and I with our crawfish in New Orleans!! yes...i do eat seafood...and i did eat the crawfish...i tried sucking the head : ) but i think all i got was juice and no brains...wow, that sounds horrible...i won't be saying that in front of kids!!
this is a new picture of riley...if you couldn't tell...in my opinion he is still the cutest puppy in the world...i'm taking him on a road trip this weekend...pat, riley and i are hopping in my brothers truck to make a trip to san antonio for easter!! last year was tons of fun and this year should be fun too!!

this is me...with my new grandpa griffith cd...which i will review in the first publication of gorgeous geekville, which will come out on monday april 17th...i know everyone is looking forward to seeing what all we can come up with!!

I'm up again at the freakin' flippin' crack of dawn!! i hate when i can't sleep...i'm on a new pill and its messing with me!! but it will eventually go away...it always does!! in about 45 minutes i'm going to pull out my gazelle and workout for a while...this week is CRT test week...which means i don't have students in the morning...kind of a bummer because i don't really have anything else to do either : ( only about 6 more weeks of school...not exactly sure what i'm going to do next year but i'm going to enroll in some online classes today and fill out the application for starting school in september!! and will start, yet again, another job search...fun times to be had...

man...its intimidating to me to sit in a group of beautiful people who are beautiful both inside and out...i feel like a total outcast!! i feel something bad coming on!!! : )

anyway...i had a total view into my mind today...i sleep with no bed frame so my box springs are on the floor...at dinner tonight a group of friends and i were talking about fears and i started telling the story about when i was a kid...when i was little i feared that there were two men that had knives (they would have had to been swords : ) that were under my bed and would eventually stab me in my back through the bed...so as i was telling that i realized i sleep with my bed on the floor and wonder if my childhood fear (which obviously, i thought, i don't fear anymore) is the reason for this...things that make you go hmmmm : )

we were also talking about how we (as a society) have come up with things that have to be done a certian way...such as...wear your watch on your left arm...or wedding rings, the band on the certian side of the ring...this is a cello music thing, but i always got made fun of for putting my rock stop on a certian chair leg...i know that there are others that i'm not thinking of right at the moment but its weird how little things like that pop up and you realize that there is absolutely no reason why we have to wear our watch on the left arm...who cares really!! and why does it matter!! is anyone going to die???? why have we become a society that everything needs to be so absolute???? (i'm probably putting to much thought into this...i'm thinking about it more that i'm writing about it...fyi)

I've posted new pictures from last nights grandpa griffith cd release party!! very nice job guys!! and the cd rocks hard too!!! whens the next one coming out????? : )

Wanted: Female writers (or not writers) who want to write articles on pretty much whatever you think is cool : ) We are putting together a blog to copy Nerd City only it will be writen by women who have a lot to say!! Please let me know if you want to join the fun!! Our first publication will be Monday April 17...articles will need to be to me no later than April 15th : )

FYI...when thrift store shopping this week, my sister and i came across the ugliest sweater known to man (no kidding)...so, of course, i bought it so that i can wear it to the new years eve sweater party!! its horrible...horrible i tell you!!

I have to work tomorrow so i should get to bed...until later!!

Well...i guess i haven't written anything in a while...i would say that nothing new is going on, but that would be a lie...there are tons of things going on in my life but nothing that can or needs to be blogged about : )...I guess i've just been in a self mood...i've been spending a lot of time with myself...which, i believe is good...i wouldn't say self reflection because i'm not thinking a whole lot just being alone...the wheels of life have started spinning again...things changing...decisions to be made and i'm just waiting for it to stop and see where i land...bad maybe, maybe i should be making these decisions and getting them going but i'm not exactly sure what all my options are at this point...once i know that then i will decide!! I'm truly excited about June...i am going to be able to get my life back in order about then...pat is going home and i can take down all the curtains i have hanging and unclutter the clutter that has become my life in the last year...i'm mainly just talking about my living space...i am sure that i will miss her once she is gone but being as i'm still young i will not be doing that again...maybe even ever : )

The stringents are going well...we have several things lined up in the next few months...the next one being this next Wednesday at a place downtown called Nonna's...we play from 7-10...we have some new music now so if you are sick of the old stuff at least you would hear a few new things : )

At the moment i've been listening to a lot of andrew bird, the stars and classical...i've been enjoying my hours at the red cup with my i-pod, journal and sudoku!! that seems to be one of the places recently that i fit : )

if this whole blog is coming off depressing..its not meant to be...i'm not depressed or upset about anything...as a matter of fact i'm pretty content with life right now...there are even many days of happiness!!

I am excited about the Grandpa Griffith show (CD release party!!) tomorrow night...i may have to go out and buy a new camera to take pictures...i know GG would be lost with out my pictures : )

Alright...enough of my nonsense!! I will try to blog more...i promise!!