First we must welcome Julia into the world!! Sarah had her baby yesterday....a little girl...which surprised the hell out of me (i was sure it was going to be a boy). They decided not to find out what it was going to be....i am hoping to be able to do that...it think it would be an awesome surprise not to know! But also very, very hard....

Today...i'm turning in my 2.5 weeks notice! I'm a little nervous about it...what if something happens with the school or just whatever...even though i have signed a contract and all...but i have to do it anyway!!

So...we went and saw Ween a week ago this last Saturday....they were really awesome and they played for about 4 hours straight!! It was a little much for me...but that is not the point of this story...the point is when we got home we had no power in certian parts of our house....Cody and his dad decided the next day that the kitchen light was causing the breaker to trip...so we have not been using the overhead kitchen light. Yesterday...Cody and his dad put up a new light fixture in the kitchen and then hung a fan in the den....it is extremely funny to me how excited i get now about little home improvements!! It makes me very happy that I will not burn up everytime i'm in the den and that the house is looking more like Cody and I...In the week between jobs i'm planning on doing some painting.....i'm going to paint mainly just white in the hallways but i think it will make the house feel better!

Days like today

I'm tired and i'm irritable. I knew today was going to be a little on the rough side because we have a lot changes going on at work today...i've been taken away from my secure home...the place that i felt safe and thrown into the open waters where i know no one and i have no one but myself to rely on...so it seems right now! i know it will get better but right now i'm ready to go home! okay enough bitching...

so this weekend cody and i decide we are going to go to breakfast on Saturday morning...we live right down the street from a Jimmy's egg so we decide we are going to walk there. we get there and we see that they only take cash or checks (very weird these days) of which we had neither...so we go back home and get in the car to go to a little new coffee shop on 16th. we get there and we go inside to order and they didn't have breakfast like we were wanting but it was about lunch time anyway so we decided we would order sandwiches. cody tried to order and we were told that the bread hadn't arrived for the day so they couldn't make us sandwiches and it would be about 30 to 45 minutes...so we order an expensive cheese plate and teas and wait for the bread. it was lovely outside so we head outside as we sit down and put our teas on the table...the table collapses and we get tea ALL OVER US! so we laugh it off because by this time its just funny...and move to the other outside table. eventually the bread came and we got the rest of our food for free but it was one of those days :) lol! :)

work and other things

So, we are up for our one year reviews...and already there is at least one person who won't be joining us again after about 30 days. it somewhat freaks me out...but i'm not going to worry about it. we also were supposed to get a raise this month...that also doesn't look like it is going to happen, which sucks because i am truly needing that this month. Today, we go to the distract social secruity office. We are going to watch the people on the other side of the claims that are sent to us, how they are processed etc. It should be pretty interesting, especially because that is what cody does only in chickasha. So, it should be fun!

Tomorrow is inspection day...not really sure how all of that works. I have to work tomorrow so i won't be there but i guess we find out tomorrow how it all goes!

Also tomorrow....D-fest in Tulsa...the Flaming Lips play tomorrow night and then Starlight Mints play Saturday. Tickets are still on sell and only $20. Thats a pretty damn good price for 2 days of shows.

So, i know what you are thinking...you have books that you want to buy but you don't want to pay full price for them...well, check out my amazon bookstore...thats right, i'm selling books on amazon and i'm going to be adding some dvd's too. i may post my dvd's on here first to see if anyone wants to buy them before i put them on amazon. jenn's amazon store okay, i'm going to try to get something done this morning! :)

still down

the computer system at work is still down...if it isn't repaired by the time lunch comes around i think i'm going to leave early! :) anyway, i made cody this harry potter shirt last night to wear to the harry potter book release thing at borders we are going to on Friday night! i embrace my nerd-dom. i am making me and my bother and sister one also...those will be posted later :)

snape is good!

Okay...obviously i'm getting really really excited about the next and last harry potter book! so today i've been reading some theories for book 7 and have a few of my own...so i'm going to share them with all of my blog friends :)

1. as my subject states, i don't believe snape is working for voldemort...i think that dumbledore convinced snape to kill him for some reason...

2. and the reason that i'm beginning to like for his killing dumbledore is that dumbledore has put some sort of protection over harry by dying....something like what lillie did.

3. i don't think harry is going to die (although according to cody that would be the only way to make a GREAT book, i sometimes think he smokes stuff when i'm not around :) although i do believe that ron or hermonie dies and that just makes me extremely upset so i'm not thinking about it!

4. i think dracos mom (narcissa) will give up her life for draco's life

5. neville will avenge his parents by killing bellatrix lestrange, jkr uses the sympathy card to much when talking about neville for him not to avenge his parents

6. dumbledore is dead but is not gone, he will come back weather its in portraits of himself or as a ghost but he will help out harry somehow (even jkr said something about she was having a hard time with fitting dumbledore in the writting of the 7th book)

7. harry is not a horcrux and neither is neville (this theory just seems really absurd to me :) (but the fact that i'm writing out theories for an upcoming harry potter book is pretty absurd too :)

8. draco will have a chance to kill harry, ron or hermonie and won't do it, abandoning the dark side, but i don't think he will come straight over to the good side :)

9. pettigrew (wormtail) owes his life to harry and will somehow repay that

10. harry doesn't have enough knowledge to kills voldemort by himself...there is going to have to be someone that will help him.

i tend not to care about the "relationship" and wedding stuff...so i'm really good with whatever happens there.

i do have a question though...jkr states that there are two main characters that die in the 7th book....what is her definition of a main character i wonder...i think most people are thinking it will be two from harry, ron, hermonie and hagrid...i agree that those are important main character but we know that either voldemort or harry have to die...so there is one out of the way....and really the other main character can be from the "dark side"...lucious and draco malfoy are just as main character as hargid in my book....

THIS IS A SPOILER page that i believe is totally wrong but i'm posting here anyway :) spoiler

and guess what...a theme park

never say never

i'm sure that there will be more harry potter to come this week as we get closer to the book... :) and i've had A LOT of free time today, being as the computer system at work in on the fritz, i'm bored out of my mind though! :)

I am so ready to go home...i've worked my ass off all day and still feel like i've gotten nothing accomplished but now...i'm mentally done...that pretty much happens to me about 4:00 each day. This week is national disablility professionals week....who knew! No one...i'm sure its just something that was made up. But because of this made up week...we are getting many perks...we've been getting free food so far and then tomorrow we get movie time! At this point i'm just going to go to get away from my always ringing phone!

I've changed my work schedule...i've decided that its really not to my benefit at the moment to have Fridays off...yes, i know what you are all thinking, that i'm smoking something and what i could say to that is "i wish"...hehe! :) But no, having Fridays off has caused me major headaches on Monday...all the Friday work piles up and it seems like all claimant disasters happen that day....i will only have to work 4 hours on friday and still have my afternoon off. And i really wasn't making it to work on time most days anyway....and today, i was actually early for my new schedule so hopefully it will stay that way.

Thats really the excitement in my life at the moment...i now! truly exciting...actually, it looks like the lancaster sound may be getting back together at least to create another cd...and who knows what will come from that. Knowing those guys probably not much of anything but i'm going to play anyway. Okay, i guess there is more going on than i really think....July 6th..i'm going to be going to dallas with lisa curl to open up for the father of natalie from the dixie chicks....its the little things! It should be pretty fun and good contact time!

Some upcoming Jenn shows:

Thursday June 14th at the Starbucks on Western stage...the stringents i think we play from 8-9, i'll check for sure though

Thursday July 5th at Pearls Lakeside with Lisa Curl, time TBA

Friday July 6th with Lisa in Dallas

Friday July 13th Woody Guthrie festival with Lisa Curl at 12:30 in the afternoon

Sunday July 29th the Stringents at Earlywine Park, Arts Council Twilight Series 6:30-7:20

I'll post my august dates at a later time...surely i'll have more august dates. The Stringents June and July dates are kind of limited...sarah is going to travel europe so won't be here to play! :)

And i believe, Grandpa Griffith is playing:

June 16th VZD's 10:00 PM

July 21st Galileos 10:00 PM

Sept 22nd State Fair 8:00 PM

And, a band called simple tree:

June 28th Othello's in Norman 8:00 PM

Currently thats all i have....as for shows...quite a good line up of good music! :)

I just can't do anymore work today...i don't have it in me! But alas, what do you do...well, i don't work...i also don't have a lot of new things to say either. It seems that i'm typing this blog because i'm bored because i'm not working but i can't do anymore work or i'm going to go out of my mind...which would not be good because i like my mind...well, most of the time!

The stringents played at galileos last night and that was really fun....well, kind of fun. I've been a little on the moody side lately so it wasn't as fun as it could have been or maybe was! man, i'm confusing in a making sense kind of way! hehe!

Anyway, i'm thinking some of us may go to the drive in movie this weekend....doesn't that sound like good times! it does to me...and its a triple feature for 5 dollas! Shrek 3, Spiderman 3 and something else....not sure what the third movie is though. Although i've already seen Spiderman 3 i'm good with seeing it again...i just need to make sure i take bug spray....i've already been eaten alive!

A movie that (if anyone still reads this) everyone needs to watch and is TRULY fucked up...its called Old Boy...its an asian film and although i should have expected the ending...you are so busy trying to figure everything else out that it suprises you...messed up i tell you. But should be check out!

I'm playing hooky today....I've pretty much caught up on my work and we are getting a lighter case load and i don't have a car...yeap....you get a new used car and look what happens...you have no AC. Good thing its still covered under warranty! Woohoo! So this week at work i will work about 3 days...i may have to take off a little early on Thursday and next week i will only be working 3 days! Hooray....Cody and i are going to San Antonio....our first couple trip together, hehe! I'm certain it will go okay....his sister lives there and i have family there so its going to be a great family time! We have pretty much met each others entire family so its no big deal anymore! Actually, some of you (if anyone still reads this) have met his sister....she came to a roller derby bout and then came with me to the brewery! Okay, i promise not to ramble on and on about cody!

I did have a great time the other night....it kind of felt like old times!

Lets see, what else can i write about! Well...i do know music....there is this neat thing that paste has started....its called discrevolt....if you are in a band or interested in new music you should check it out...discrevolt.com....its going to replace the cd. what it is, is a card....that you get something like 15 points on...and you design and sell your card at shows....then the people that buy them go to the website, type in the code on the card and get to download your songs....you can change your songs any time....and they don't have to download them all at once...in case you do change the songs.....its really a great idea....they offered for a while, 100 free cards with free shipping and the stringents barely got in on the deal.....i will be getting our cards tomorrow and i'm excited....right now we don't have anything to sell but when we do every card we sell will be profit....nice really. Above is the picture of our card!

As for new music that i'm listening to.....lets see....i'm digging the new travis....theres a band called the tossers, man...i feel like there is a lot but for the life of me i can't really think of them at the moment....well...i'll just have to let you know later. although, at work i've been listening to the cool as folk station on yahoo music and am finding many new bands that i really like....and then most of them are on e-music so that works out well! :)

As for what i'm doing with music....i, of course, have the stringents....for a list of our upcoming shows see thestringentents.com :)...actually, sarah will be out of town a lot this summer and we don't have many shows in the month of june or july but the ones we do have are going to be pretty cool.....on that everyone should come to is on a Sunday night at Edgewine (?) park July 29th...it is on the south side but the good part of the south side....its a twilight concert put on by the okc arts council....best part is that it is free....who can beat a free concert in the park....i'll

keep you posted. Then i'm working on a couple of projects with my friend Lisa Curl....we are currently starting a band of sorts....we've practiced a couple of time but don't really have a good idea on what are sound is yet.....but that comes. Then I'm playing with Lisa on her music, already established....we are going to be playing the woody gutherie festival....and several times at pearls lakeside....then we have a show in dallas coming up.....good times really.

Cody and i got our tickets to ACL last weekend. if anyone is interested in coming with us let me know...we can take the short bus (thats what i call my box car)....its a pretty good line up i think. http://www.aclfest.com/lineup.aspx i'm sure most of you have already looked at this...i'm most excited about seeing andrew bird....man, he is killer. :) Fionn Regan is going to be there too...who i think i blogged a while back about....i like his stuff too! actually now that i look at the line up again...i'm getting more excited...yes i do know that its not until september but i do love live music....

Okay...i hope everyone had a wonderful day at work or whatever it is you all are doing and i'm going to play around on the computer and watch more carnival (which is really killer, btw, and really weird) and possibly some heroes...and then who knows what else....i may be back to type another blog about movies i've watched lately....who knows...if not i will do that later....yet again i'm going to try to start writing more often...it got hard all the sudden when we started getting more case and i was actually working all day....but i think i'm starting to get into the groove of work...which is nice and i think i may be there for a little while at least...well, until i go on tour with lisa that is (haha, that was a joke :)

Well, work is becoming more time consuming :) There are more case and more people crying to me on the phone and more people winding up in jail for 3 years and have 6 kids...it makes me sick to think about sometimes!!

I got a call yesterday from Big Brothers Big Sisters and I have a meeting with a potential little sis this Thursday. This is exciting to me...when they were telling me about her it was kind of neat because it looks like she has some of the same things i went through. If that doesn't work out then i guess they will try to see if there is someone else for me. The dad of the little girl will be at the meeting too, just to make sure that i'm okay. I'm sure my hair could cause some problems :) But we will see....

Roller Derby was awesome the other night...i wanted to join but recruiting has closed so alas...i will have to wait. But, when i do get a chance it will be fun!

Lastly...the good news of the day.... jenn officially has a boyfriend! :) Some of you met him the other night at the bout. He's a great guy and hopefully we will be at Grandpa Griffith on Saturday night so you guys can see how great he is too! :)

Okay, its about time to leave work...Hooray!

Well, I'm offically done with the work that has been assigned to me this week. So unless something un-forseen happens i'm ready for the weekend! :) I love working four, ten hour days and then getting three days off! It makes my life very happy. The down fall to all of this though is that its now 2:30 and i have to be here until 5:30....so needless to say, i'm going to be bored. Good thing i've taken up knitting :) I'm currently working on a baby blanket for a friend of mine...i've already started one and it just didnt' work out so well so we will see what happens with this one...i like knitting because it keeps my hands busy and your able to talk and pay attention to other things while doing it! Being as i'm a person who needs to be doing something most of the time, it comes in handy.

And i've also got my book. I'm currently reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, i have two words to say....FUCKED UP! I'm loving it but this is seriously one of the most messed up books i've read in a while. When i was going to bed last night i noticed this weird face staring up at me from the floor. Yeap, almost peed my pants because the DAMN cover glows in the freakin' flippin' dark!!! But all is better now...

Stranger than ficition came out on video on Tuesday and i recommend everyone to see it. Its really good and Will Farrell does a very good job in a serious roll (but this is my opinion). Also, Target currently has the Firefly DVD's on sell for $20. This is a killer, killer buy and Firefly just pretty much kicks ass....so thats all i have to say about that!

I hope everyone has a very lovely weekend...