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J.Baum

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About Me

I'm short and loud. I have blonde hair and have 'Jenny Moments' as my partner at work calls them. I am generally happy. I hate waiting and am very impatient. I hate keeping people waiting so I am punctual. I don't mind folding laundry but hate putting it away. I don't know who to vote for in the primary anymore, esp. since Kentucky's isn't until May, wth?! I love sitting w/ the older crowd in church b/c they actually sing. I love to read. I love to fingerpaint w/ my daughter. Family time and MommyAndDaddy time are very important to me but having separate interests gives me a chance to support my nearest and dearest. I believe in achieving goals. I don't believe in 'forgive and forget' but do believe in 'forgive and learn.' I can eat w/ chopsticks. I can't water-ski. I don't have any tattoos. I love my friends and am glad to have found some more in the past few months. I love when my family visits but can not stand being in an enclosed 1000 sq ft area with them for more than two hours. I believe that my great-great-grandma would slap me across the face if I didn't actually use the quilt she made for me and put it in that case in the closet instead. I vote. I love America and I Heart Huckabee. I love that I have friends who will put their lives on hold for my family and serve in an unwelcoming country so that I can continue to live like I do. I say 'please' and 'thank you', 'bless you' and 'you're welcome.' I don't know how to keep my mouth shut sometimes. A lot of the time, really. I hate ignorance but don't really try to educate. I just make fun and laugh it off. I dislike people who can't get off their phone to pump gas, order food, discipline their child, wash their car, etc. Get off the phone and personally interact with someone. I also start conversations with strangers.
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My Interests

Food and drinks, reading, taking Emma outside to play! Yay summer!

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Music:

The Postal Service, Weezer, Ben Harper, DMB, Jack Johnson, Frank Sinatra, 311, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, The Shins, The Fratelli's, RATM

Movies:

Fight Club, Office Space, All About The Benjamins:), The Hitchhiker's Guide..., Scarface, Lost in Translation, Reservoir Dogs RIP Chris Penn, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead, Elf, Closer, 40-Year-Old Virgin, 300, The Break-Up --it was like watching my first year of marriage...like someone followed us around and videotaped us...'I want you to WANT TO do the dishes!' 'Why would I want to do the dishes..?'

Television:

When I have time....I love Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy. SATC and Friends. And, whatever Emma wants to watch which now means The Backyardigans. We even have back-ups on DVR. SportsCenter for "Name that Molina" and because it's on one of the ESPNs at all times. St. Louis Cardinals baseball and Colts football..I wish IU was televised down here but I am getting by. Go Hoosiers!

Books:

*The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing By: Melissa Banks *Shopgirl By: Steve Martin *High Fidelity By: Nick Hornby *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim By: David Sedaris Some of Emma's Favorites: *The Potty Book *any of her Backyardigans books.. *Baby Words

Heroes:

Of course my mother, my Grandma Burger who has always showed me the way to go with out me knowing until afterward, Emma for the way she knows when I'm down and how she runs and gives me a hug, then puts on my flip flops and runs around the house blissfully, Jesus-duh!

My Blog

Tampa I

I'm very happy to say that I'm so busy that I don't have time to be very homesick anymore. Still am, but not nearly as bad.I wake up in the middle of the night which happens to be when Brandon is chi...
Posted by J.Baum on Fri, 02 May 2008 07:16:00 PST

iPot--and not a 4/20 thing...

This week started out incredibly sad--Brandon lost his grandmother who was 93 and such an incredible person I think the world actually did stop for a little while.  Granny B is greatly missed and...
Posted by J.Baum on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:46:00 PST

My Happy Day

My preschool was in Jasonville, Indiana.  It was in someone’s home or just a house that they had converted until they had built the new one...anyway.  The old one holds so many of my m...
Posted by J.Baum on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:01:00 PST

And now for the corporate encore...

Boy, oh boy, where do I begin.  My last blog was about how my career had jaded my culinary dream.Then I got laid off due to the elimination of my position and the fact that I had been there for o...
Posted by J.Baum on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PST

I Already Knew This...

I already knew this but I didn’t realize the extent of the damage my culinary prowess has received.  Tonight, I mashed CANNED sweet potatoes and topped them with candied pecans, pecans that...
Posted by J.Baum on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:46:00 PST

Stop Eating After 10pm!

   I had a Blurty.I don't really remember having a blurty but that was in my early Sullivan days and my last entry was about a bet I had going w/ a guy I had been teasing.  The bet was ...
Posted by J.Baum on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:16:00 PST

"BE STILLLLL!"

Emma is doing my hair w/ the remote control.  Seriously.  She is telling me to, 'Be still!'  I wish you guys could hear her telling me that...too funny.  And the way she laughs is ...
Posted by J.Baum on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:18:00 PST

Brunettes are about to have more fun..

I'm dying my hair.  Well, I'm not.  That would be a mistake...I'm employing my wonderful stylist to dye my hair.  I can't be a blonde anymore.  It was hot for awhile but I'm throug...
Posted by J.Baum on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:19:00 PST

Cold Fingers

So I have this beautiful little girl, I get married to a good man, and two years down the road, things start getting a little crazy.The man and I have settled down a little.  The little girl is i...
Posted by J.Baum on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:44:00 PST

Rabbits and Chickens

1. I had crazy 'morning sickness' when I was in my first trimester and was doing an extra credit dinner for Chef Moeller when he told me to pull the meat from the rabbit confit and the smell of it mad...
Posted by J.Baum on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:05:00 PST