the end

I GRADUATE TODAY!!! no more school :) that's all.

Pranks

Happy Halloween!!! So I'm actually not too thrilled on this holiday. For the past few years here at school, I have yet to attend a Halloween party, go to a Carnival, dress up or do anything fun. Ok, so my first year, I volunteered at the kids carnival at the elementary school, but that's it. This year I'm breaking the tradition! Wish me luck!

Anyways, while taking my online class that I horribly procrastinate to no end, I of course end up on youtube watching videos...but then they put other related videos at the end of that one and you end up watching like a bajillion movies over 2 wasted hours. The past few days, I've been watching pranks. These are my favorites...

time

i hate time. i think it's cause i don't really understand it...you know when you're enjoying something and time whizzes by? or when you're waiting for something to happen and it takes a bajillion times as long to reach that point? ya...that sucks. today's going to be a long day.

White Trash

So I've been shown this website that i keep looking at over and over because it keeps making me laugh :P It's called www.peopleofwalmart.com.

This website gives people the opportunity to take pictures of people shopping at Walmart while wearing the most white trash thing, or even just acting white trash. It shows their cars, their outfits, what they're buying...People take pictures of these people and submit them to the site. It's basically amazing and you're missing out if you don't take a peek :)

That's all.

obsession

So this week, I was thinking about little things that make me happy, and little things I get a little carried away with. "Jenica's little obsessions." The word "little" is being used very loosely. I started talking to my sister last night about when I first started getting a little carried away with "loving" things. Immediately I replied "HANSON!" I remember back on my fourth grade years and my fascination with the 3 brother band...after a while I started remembering everything else I got carried away with. Here is my list. Enjoy. And I give you permission to laugh...just not too much...

Hooray! No Spam Here

I love Gmail. I think it's wonderful that they put all the junky stuff they think I wouldn't like into this little folder called Spam. Then, every so often I delete all of my spam, and my gmail account rejoices. See for yourself! It makes me smile every time.

Annie Leibovitz

So I've known about these pictures for a while, and they're by Annie Leibovitz. I think they're absolutely beautiful! She did these photos for 2008's Year of a Million Dreams for Disney. See if you can name the celebrities in each photo. Enjoy :)

Bruschetta

Ok so two posts in one day is a record for me! So I was salivating at work thinking about the amazing looking bruschetta in the movie "Julie & Julia". I decided to make some of my own, and let me tell you, it was absolutely amazing!

All you need is some french bread, a clove of garlic, tomatoes, and olive oil. I chose to throw in mushrooms as well because I love them :) mmmm...Don't worry, for those of you that saw the movie, I didn't crowd the mushrooms :P

So you fry the bread and veggies separately, then you put the veggies on top. Simple. Fast. Delicious. All in all, I considered it a success!

Don't ever date your Manager: A True Tale

So I hope that I didn’t let anyone down by not uploading my famous story last night. It really is a good one. Anyways, I have some free time right now so I will now enlighten you with everything NOT to do on a first date (actually don’t do any of these things for any date). Anyways, enjoy.

Once upon a time, there was a hard working Disney employee named Jenica. She had to wear these hideous costumes to work, which made her look super cute. While sporting the pleaded navy blue pants up over her belly button with her red and blue collared shirt, she couldn’t keep the boys away.

One day, she came in to work and met her new manager for the day. We’ll call him Wilbur. He immediately noticed Jenica’s rockin style, and couldn’t wait to ask her out. So, he followed Jenica to the cafeteria on her lunch break, just to make sure she was having a good lunch.

“Hi Jenica,” he said. “How is your food? Do you like your food today?”

Jenica politely nodded and smiled, but continued with her meal. Wilbur repeatedly watched her eat, summoning all his courage to ask her on a date.

“Jenica will you go on a date with me tonight?” He finally said. Jenica already had plans with some friends, but was also not interested in dating her manager.

“I’m sorry Wilbur. I’ve already got plans.” She did not want to give him any false hope of there being a chance for another date, so she didn’t give him another time she would have liked to go.

***
The next day, there was an email waiting in Jenica’s inbox. It was from Wilbur.

Hi Jenica
It’s me Wilbur. How is your morning going? You should go out with me tonight I think.
Wilbur

Jenica was at a loss here because she didn’t have any plans to make an excuse. She regretfully told him that she had plans again, then to the best of her ability tried to avoid him for the remainder of the day.

For the next two weeks, Wilbur asked Jenica out every day and she sadly turned him down every time. Finally one day, Jenica got an email that said:

Jenica
I know you don’t want to go out with me, but I really just want one chance. Please. Let me know what day you are free to go on a date. Please don’t turn me down. I just want one chance. One date is all I’m asking.
Wilbur

Now Jenica felt utterly horrible. Wilbur was very awkward looking, and no fun to talk to. She did not want to waste one of her fun filled evenings at Disneyworld with him, but she had no other choice. He had played the pity card. She said she would go, and to pick her up at seven that evening.

***

When seven came around, Jenica was waiting at the gate to be picked up. Wilbur drove in to the parking lot, and Jenica clamored into the date of destruction. Minutes later, they were on the freeway, driving into the unknown. Literally. Ten minutes into the drive, Wilbur looked over at Jenica and said “so what do you want to do tonight?”

Flabbergasted at the thought that he hadn’t planned out any of the evening, Jenica replied “you decide.”

The next question that followed was “Are you hungry?” Jenica didn’t want him to think she was expecting a meal, yet didn’t want to turn his idea down. So she said “Well, I could eat”. He then replied “Well if I bought you food, would you eat it?”

Frustrated at this point, Jenica replied “Yes, lets go eat somewhere.”

Wilbur continued on the road for another five minutes before mustering up the courage to ask where they wanted to eat. They ended up at his choice of a fast food restaurant where Jenica ended up holding the door open for him to walk inside. Once they had their meals, Wilbur horted his down, while Jenica enjoyed her food. Wilbur stood up, asked if she was done with her half eaten meal, and before she could respond, he threw it away. Jenica wanted to go home.
The date was not yet over. It continued to a mini golf course where things continued to go downhill. Wilbur didn’t golf very well. He started yelling at his ball, and continuously had conversations with it to direct it into the hole. He yelled that he was having no fun and drove Jenica home.

When Jenica was finally safe from her disaster of a night, Wilbur asked her out the next day. She regretfully told him that she had decided to start dating someone earlier that day. It was the only excuse left to use.

She hasn’t talked to him since.
And she lived happily ever after
THE END

Superheroes and Such

So here I am sitting alone in Rexburg with nothing to do, and I thought that I should update my classy blog. My life doesn't consist of anything too exciting, but I'll tell you one thing I'm in love with lately...The Green Arrow. Yes, I have succumbed to the world of Smallville and all of its super cheesy treasures. But seriously, anyone who doesn't like the Green Arrow aka Oliver Queen is just plain crazy...See for yourself!

But really...very attractive billionare with a bow and quiver who wants to save the world? I mean, you don't run into those every day :P I need to find me one of them!

I blame my old roomie for getting me addicted to Smallville. I just warn any of you that if you start on episode one, you have to keep going. Don't do it! You'll waste the next few months of your life trying to catch up on all the awesomeness/cheesy pick up lines.

That's all I have to say for now. If you stay tuned tomorrow, I may post a blog about the very awkward date with my boss a few months ago that I promised you all...

UPDATE! GET YOUR UPDATE!

Ok, so lately I have been oober busy with work. I know that is absolutely no excuse to fall behind on updating my blog, so I have no excuse. I guess I haven't really had any pictures to post, or anything to write about. So at work today, Kelly (the girl I work with) and I have been getting kind of obsessed with actions and brushes in photoshop. If you have photoshop and don't know what these are, let me enlighten you.

Actions are a nifty little tool you can install in the photoshop program that makes your pictures look all cool and stuff, without you having to do hardly any work. I became quite familiar with these around December. Only till this week have I found several different actions to play with and keep me occupied. I got Kelly hooked. Then she introduced me to brushes. When you open photoshop, the brushes installed are the boring round ones with no special use. The brushes she introduced me to are wavy ones, eyelash ones that elongate your eyelashes, feathers, hair extentions, and all sorts of cool things :) So while we have been creating masterpieces of art, I thought I should blog about my newfound love. Brushes.

You can download all you want for free at www.deviantart.com. Type in what you're looking for (i.e. brushes/actions) and it's like Christmas on a webpage! Bria came to me earlier this week saying she wanted me to put two of her wedding pictures together where her bouquet was in front of her face with just her eyes showing. I did that and sent it to her, but then I got a little carried away...See for yourself. Ok. I talk to much. It's fine. Peace out.

Awkward

So do you know what I've thought about lately? How awkward it is when you walk in front of a guy right before you open a door. Especially here at BYU-Idaho. You're walking and you know that the door is approaching, but the guy is usually expecting to open the door for you, because he feels obligated. So, instead, I usually do the "hold the door open behind me" move while he walks through, and then opens the second door for me.

Every time I open a door for a guy, I get that look that's like "why the crap are you opening the door for me, I'm not a girl." Guys, seriously help me out here, because I don't know how to make it not awkward. Also, when the guy opens the door for you, and there's two doors right in front of each other and he opens both of them, is it weird that we say thank you twice? Maybe it's just me...just a thought.

Pictures With the Sisters...(and brother)

So I went home for Jocey's graduation last week and during the weekend, we decided that we were going to take some pictures by the waterfall up the street. Well, they ended up being so fun we framed them for my Dad for father's day. At the end of the "shoot" I said to Jenessa, "Later on in the summer, I want to take some cool shots in the waterfall pool." She then said "I'll do it!" Then proceeded to jump in this little pond, the same day that it hailed. Crazy girl. The pictures turned out awesome though! Here are our favorite shots:

Update on Eavsdropping girl

...she's still tutoring the jerk who escorts several ladies a day...I saw them studying in the library again while she had the look in her eyes "please like me, please!"

I kinda want to punch that guy in the face.

2am funnies

So I discovered that one of the most entertaining things you can do at 2 in the morning is look at pictures of ridiculous pets in costumes. The other night, my roomies, Garret and I were sending things back and forth to each other via msn, and we ended up laughing for a good hour over these poor dogs where their owners had dressed them up. Most of them look pissed...except for TacoDog. He looks pretty proud. Anyways, here are a few of my favorites that we found.

Eavesdropping

I'm a terrible eavesdropper. The other day I sat on the third floor of the library studying with Bria for my advertising test. Down the table, a girl sat down while retrieving books, calculator, and computer from her bag. She looked a little timid, and also looked as if she had spent an hour getting ready for her study session. She had on a purple blouse, flashy earrings, and some very bright makeup. Soon after, a guy approached her saying "You have no idea how much I appreciate you doing this. You're a lifesaver, really!" He gave her a hug, she smiled and they sat down. The guy proceeded to explain to her all of the homework he had in his chemistry class, and about his test the following day that he was clearly not prepared for. He handed her his homework assignment and as she looked over it, he received a phone call. It was another girl. It went something like this: "Hey baby! I miss you so much! Awe, you know I love you. I haven't seen you forever. So when are you going to stop by? No I'm with my FHE sister right now and she's doing my homework. She's awesome..." The conversation lasted about 10 minutes while the girls smile seemed to falter.

When he finally hung the phone up, he would look at the homework and read off the work she had just done, pretending he knew was she was doing.

For the next 2 hours, Bria and I listened to this guy receive 3 more phone calls, and a visit from another girl. The girl continued to do her homework, although Bria and I both wanted to tell her just to walk away. She obviously liked the guy, but was beginning to look livid by the end of her "study date". Finally 5 o'clock rolled around and this guy said that he had to go, but if she could finish up his assignment, and meet up with him the next day to explain the answers before his test, he would be "most appreciative". He walked out with another girl while his poor FHE sister put all her books back in her bag, and got up to leave the library. What a productive day.

You can tell that I studied a lot for my test.

Swine Flu

With this huge scare of the swine flu, it becomes kind of embarrassing to walk around campus with a cold. For the past two weeks, I’ve had a minor cold that hasn’t really gotten better or worse. I have the occasional sneeze, a cough, and the sniffles. When I sit in class with a tissue in hand, in can’t help but notice the “sneaky” glances from others wondering why I dared come to school with a chance of infecting them with my disease...

For a Park City update, here's what's new: 3 children have been infected with swine flu in the Park City School District. As a result, all church services, school, Prom, and any extracurricular activities are canceled till next week. That sucks. Ha!

Also, this is a text I received last night: "They once said that a black man would be president when pigs fly. his first 100 days and BAM, swine flu." Thanks Chris :P

Here is also a picture of the Elder's in Mexico...This is Trevor Atkinson, my little sister's boy hanging in Mexico with his companions:

Back to the West

I don't want to say that coming back to Idaho was much of a culture shock, but very different than the life I've been living the last 4 months. First of all, the weather. For some strange reason, people here seem to think that 50 degrees is warm, and proceed to walk around town in short sleeves and shorts while I bundle up for the day in a big coat and sweater. Second of all, the absence of humidity. I now believe all the people from Florida that I would take on snowshoeing hikes in Park City. There is no air here! Third, there is absolutely nothing to do here. From going from the extreme to hopping onto a bus to go to a Disney park, to "let's go to Walmart" is quite the difference.

Just for those people who know me well, the day I move into a new apartment, I'm usually so excited to decorate that I stay up through the wee hours of the morning to finish creating a decorative masterpiece. This year, I'm so tired of packing and unpacking, that my clothes finally got settled into my closet yesterday, and I could care less if my pictures ever made it to the wall...

By the way, I love new classes. This semester, I'm finishing up my creative writing minor so for the majority, my classes are all English based. There is one exception. I have one Intro to Advertising class where there is this one kid who enjoys copying everything the professor says. My teacher will be talking about a commercial that aired during the superbowl and he'll say "these companies pay millions to have their product air for only 30 seconds, and it's mostly just for entertainment". In the meantime, weird kid to my left is saying "yep yep. uh huh. yep 30 seconds. Purely for entertainment. uh huh."
He does this all through class...awesome.

Anyways, class started. Have a nice day.

things and stuff

Have you ever tried to make an incredible, cheesy, catchy card for that someone special and you end up doing this bit? Couch, boutch, doutch, foutch, gouch...grouch! Wait that's not nice. Houtch. I have no idea why I was just thinking about that, but I make these awesome Christmas cards for my parents every year where it's basically a play off of The Night Before Christmas. At around 11:30 on Christmas Eve, my siblings and I all sit in the basement making this card, drawing stick figures while Jocelyn is dubbed the rhyme master. Just a random thought...

On another note, I re-read the Harry Potter books this week (for those of you who know me well, don't judge). When I get into my Harry Potter moods, I go look up the movie trailers and become incredibly geekish (well, more geekish than I am normally). Apperentally I am behind the times because there is this video of Harry Potter puppets singing this incredibly annoying song, and it's been stuck in my head since the first time I watched it. For those of you who feel left out not having watched this video, feel free to check it.



Since I haven't updated my blog in forever and I am starting to get little messages on facebook to catch up, here's an update of what's been going on (which is not a lot).

I work insanely weird hours at work where I have to ride the bus a good two hours of my day. Some of these bus rides are quite epic and deserve more than just a mentioning in this blog, but perhaps I will save it for another day. I work at a hotel at Disney World where guests still complain for some reason. When you go to Disneyworld, how much time do you actually spend in your hotel room? Second, why would you complain about how far the walk is from the lobby when you're going to walk on an average of 14 miles a day in the parks? Just a thought.

When I'm not working, I'm creating awkward moments with people I work with. For those of you who have had the awesome priveledge of going out with one of your managers, avoid the situation at any cost! One of my managers at work had to be one of the most persistant guys on the face of the planet! Besides the usual stalking, messages, constant emails, high level of creepyness, I guess he could be an alright guy. However, I don't think he was ever taught the word No in the english language. For some reason, he interprets it as try again. This date alone requires its own blog which I will not be able to touch on tonight, but in the near future.

After I soldier through these experiences, I spend a lot of time mini golfing, eating sushi, making late night IHop runs, and sleeping. Oh yeah, and going to disney parks.

Here in Florida, I discovered the worlds greatest smoothie that's located at Panara. If you see a Panara, go! And also, look out for the sad depressed guy with a red mustang. Give him a hug.

Ok, pretty sure this blog doesn't make much sense, so I think I'm going to leave it here. Hopefully I'll have some sweet stories tomorrow. I'm going to Boma. The best buffet on the planet. We will finally find out if Abby can out eat Shaun (I think she's going to kick his butt). Pictures will be posted. Peace.

it's a small world

So I've just decided that I will always be terrible at journaling. So since November, a few things have changed. I am in Florida right now doing a Disney internship doing vacation planning and hotel stuff at the resorts. It's pretty fun, but you get so tired! Between working 40 hours a week and playing in the parks all day long, there's not much room for sleep! My family came and visit me last week and I'll post pictures soon...Right now I'm watching the Oscars and keep getting side tracked. I will add pictures later :P But for now, here's one for your enjoyment!