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Jen

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Hi, I'm Jen. I'm married to an amazing man (Dave). We live in the Bluebird District of Colfax in Congress Park with our (feral) cat Tatiana.I'm a business owner, music fiend, groupie, reader of "good" books and trashy novels, Denver native, Colfax groupie, economist (by training) and a market researcher.

My Interests

music; art; community development. I'm passionate about Colfax. We live in the Bluebird District portion of Colfax and I just love the great new energy there. go to www.MyColfax.org to get your Free Colfax Card and news on the latest happenings on the strip. Support our local merchants: Hooked on Colfax, The Fabric Lab (where you can exclusively get the Colfax T-Shirt), Chiele, Barbs Flowers, Collins Bikes, The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Mescal, Goosetown Tavern, Enzo's, Atomic Cowboy, Goodfriend's, Plastic Chapel, Senger's and more!!

I'd like to meet:

Drive By Truckers, Lou Reed, Michael Yon

Music:

Current obsession: Brighter Than Creation's Dark, the new release by Drive By Truckers. I can't stop listening to it. Drive By Truckers Dirt Underneath Photoshoot Daddy's Cup
.. Favorites: Split Lip Rayfield, Drive By Truckers, 16 Horsepower, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case. And Horse Thief. They rock. Bobby Bare Jr., Tom T Hall; Wovenhand.

Movies:

Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, anything by the cohen brothers; bottlerocket; rushmore; royal tannenbaums; fear of a black hat; gone with the wind; miller's crossing; office space

Television:

Burn Notice (yummy), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deadwood, the Shield, Rescue Me; Damaged, the Closer; Monk, House, 24,...and where would we be without Buffy??? (Ok, I get one dork show, and it's Buffy, damn'it.).South Park, South Park, South Park

Books:

Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Pride and Prejudice, Huck Finn, The Invisible Man, all the Harry Potter Books (the latest rocked), and on the "fun" side, I love Richard North Patterson

Heroes:

The men and women serving in the armed forces. Kirk RundstromDave and the rest of the guys in Horse Thief. My family. My friends. Anyone who starts a business. My neighbors. All of the people working together to make Denver a better place to live. You all inspire me!!!

My Blog

another blog about death

It's been a really long time since I've taken the time to blog here. Just looking at my most recent posts, it seems that by and large my blogs are death-related.  (I guess it's been a rough coupl...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:34:00 PST

a sad morning on the block

So last night (early as hell this morning), Dave woke me up at 4:00 am. As soon as I opened my eyes, I realized that our bedroom was awash in flashing lights. When I looked out the window, there were ...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:39:00 PST

Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

Ever since our extremely good-looking UPS dude dropped off my copy of the Drive By Trucker's latest release, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, I've been listening to it non-stop.On my first listen, I did...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

Bruce Springsteen makes me weep

I'd never given much thought to Bruce Springsteen until I met my friend Jody nearly 10 years ago. His music really wasn't on my radar. But to Jody, Bruce was the end-all be all of musicians. As we bec...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:52:00 PST

and then the fire started

The week began with rain and ended last night with fire. (I can't believe it's only Thursday morning.) I rose early Monday morning to prep for my first-ever round of golf. It was Colfax on the Hill's...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:21:00 PST

10 TV observations

When driving back to the office today from a meeting in Broomfield, I found myself thinking about all of the lessons I've learned from watching TV. "They" say you can't learn anything from television,...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

Holy Shit! It's a swarm of bees!!!! In my TREE

Good news. Here in Congress Park, the bees definitely aren't dying, disappearing, acting sick or performing some vanishing act.They're swarming, in my front yard.About 10,000,000,000 honey bees are no...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:12:00 PST

I can't sleep & you've got a rodeo clown who not only rescues the cowboy, but saves the childre

Were there a category for insomnia, I would post under it. It's 2:01 a.m.; I need to get up at 5:00 a.m. to finish some pro bono work that I've been trying to get done, but my brain is fried. I can't ...
Posted by Jen on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:18:00 PST

Songs for Drella v. too much

This is a "Songs for Drella" night.  (Wild because it was released on April 11, 2000,  and, OK, it's April 11, 2007, OK......totally unintentional moment, and yes, I'm a dork.) Have you ever...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:18:00 PST

still going through the book......

Ok, still going through the "book" I wrote at 17. Have found a couple entries that I'd love some perspective on...otherwise, I guess I was(am) fucked up.So.,.....1. Who wrote (other than me): "please ...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:29:00 PST