A belated thank you…

This fabulous piece of pottery…is mine. All mine I tell you! Erin’s parents bought it for me. My *I can’t believe you’re finished going to law school* present!  And I never took a photo. And then I took a photo but didn’t blog about it! Such a beautiful piece! I also have a creamer and sugar bowl and a mug. Erin has well, BOXES of pottery from this man. (High School Art Teacher, John Kane of Bloomquist Pottery on the Art Festival Circuit) (Read a little more here!)

I have always said that I would loveLOOOOVE to have the large casserole dish someday as a future wedding gift. And since both the Wedding and End of Law School were impossibilities. Very very very thoughtful. THANK YOU sooo much!

Amelie

I watched this lovely little french film with Audrey Tautou.

I chalked it up as *research* and the boyfriend let me get away with it, mostly cause I think Audrey is so darn handsome and adorable! Oui!

Amazon.com

“Audrey Tautou (star of Amalie) shimmers like a born movie star in Happenstance. A woman on the morning train tells Tautou that the full moon will lead her to her soulmate; from there, Happenstance follows a marvelous interlocking series of events, in which little things (like whether or not a young museum guard eats a piece of chocolate) affect bigger ones (like whether or not an adulterous husband will tell his wife the truth). The numerous characters intersect with each other’s lives, creating a web of coincidences that finally catches Tautou like a hapless fly. This could have been cloying and forced, but the writing and directing are so deft and subtle that the coincidences of Happenstance feel natural and compelling. A sweet and hopeful movie, with excellent performance all around, but Tautou’s wide-open eyes leap out of her every scene, hypnotic and charming.”–Bret Fetzer

Spring sing!

One should always celebrate the day where motorists roll down the window to let Spring inside while simultaneously letting the song…outside. Driving under the influence of song. I am guilty. 100 times over.

But who knew it could be *good* for you too! Singing Improves Road Safety

I would think this would be a dangerous habit. I mean I heard Survivor and I had no control! (Is there anything BETTER than a rocking Survivor song while in a car? *Maybe Meatloaf!*

“I can’t hold back, I’m on the edge…but it’s too late to turn back now…”

I just couldn’t help myself. The radio gets louder…my voice more urgent, I must share with the world! Sometimes I also share my give of harmonizing. Yes, annoying. But it’s in my blood. And it’s SPRING!

“I can feel you tremble when we touch. And I feel the hand of fate. Reaching out to both of us…this love affair can’t wait”

Ah, no control indeed…just like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

FATHER: One day, lad, all this will be yours!

PRINCE HERBERT: What, the curtains?

FATHER: No. Not the curtains, lad. All that you can see, stretched out over the hills and valleys of this land! This’ll be your kingdom, lad. HERBERT: But Mother–

FATHER: Father, lad. Father.

HERBERT: B– b– but Father, I don’t want any of that.

FATHER: Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show ‘em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one… stayed up! And that’s what you’re gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.

HERBERT: But I don’t want any of that. I’d rather–

FATHER: Rather what?!

HERBERT: I’d rather… [music] …just… sing!

Ah, Prince Herbert I know the feeling. Although I hear that women with *huge tracts of land* are almost as good as singing

Questions every woman should ask of their lover before becoming man and wife.

Courtesy of Meatloaf. (The correct answer is bold and in italics, just in case you’re wondering.)

Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?

I can do that! I can do that!

Will you hold me sacred? will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, Im so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?

I can do that! oh oh, now I can do that!

Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?

I can do that! oh oh now, I can do that!

Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?
Will you take me places Ive never known?

I can do that! oh oh now, I can do that!

I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now kiss the bride.  I mean any man willing to hold me down in holy water if I get too hot is a keeper.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

A book which has been on my shelves from some months now…is coming to Rochester this Thursday for a lecture! $10 at the Rochester Academy of Medicine benefits the Rochester Mental Health Association. Anyone interested in attending????

Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness

Joshua Wolf Shenk

Ok, Lil Brother.

You know my blog address, no need to google me.

29 Apr, Sat, 09:29:26

Google: my sister jennifer is crazy

I’m Still Laughing

From last nights episode of My Name is Earl.

Earl: What kind of kid puts acorns in his shoes?
Randy: A squirrel kid might. Except a squirrel kid doesn’t wear shoes.

Earl: I can’t believe it found its way back to us.
Randy: It’s like one of them crazy-ass Australian wooden frisbees. Get rid of it, Earl!

And the one I can’t get out of my head (paraphrased. since I can’t find it anywhere)

Earl: You’re letting me go? but I thought you were turning me in!

Police Officer: Earl, I’m a bowler, not a police officer. When you got up and ran, I reached for my bowling ball, not my gun.

I love this show. And give kudos to the creative virtuoso that figured out how to write/market a sitcom to the Arrested Development admirers as well as the rest of the viewing public who watch one of the seven FatDumbHusband-HotLoyalWife sitcoms on every other hour. Genius I tell you. Pure genius.

Today was a very good day.

Last week, I was sick sick sick. I took time off of work, but it wasn’t pretty. Today? I took a *soul* vacation. A well needed break indeed. And I am all smiles and motivated and back to my old self.

Thank God. I hate being a poopy, depressed uninspired Jen.

And really, I know this is going to sound sappy and well, sappy is the best way to put it…but just being with Mark makes me feel better. And all it has to be is the two of us individually doing the things we would normally be doing…together. Mark has a very calming effect on me. (And he reminds me that my Lil Brother pays him handsomely!) Soothing, centered, safe. Just being near him makes things better. Go figure. I think this is what you people told me a relationship is supposed to be all about. I had no idea it would be this simple and easy and good.

My weekend awaits!

The SIMPSONS: Alternative Title- Ode to the Sucking

Mark: What Simpsons character do you think you’re the most like?

Me: Lisa. (Duh!) Although I bet you would like me to be Maggie…(Ba dum, dum!)

Well, I wouldn’t say loathsome…but tedious and mind-numbing, yes.

“Always know that your writing is the most important pursuit in your life. Working for a loathsome corporation inspired me to keep writing so that I always had something more important than my dumb job.”

-Samantha Hunt