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Jennifer

Maybe when things turn green again, it will be good to say you know me.

About Me


I'm almost 30 and I'm finally ok with that since everything is slowly falling into place. I'm currently obsessed with redecorating my apartment. I love cartoons, books, and crossword puzzles; Starbucks, Miller Lite, Jack's, and writing. I love thunderstorms and rainy weather, and I hate when it's hot and sunny because I don't like to pay the bill for my air conditioner and I don't like to sweat because my hair gets frizzy. I need to get a passport. I have a new cell phone every few months. I spend too much time at Jack's with Lib and Mary, but just enough time at the Moose's happy hour. I'm a nurse at Children's Hospital in the PICU - I love my job, but I hate going to work, if that makes any sense. It always just feels like there's so much other stuff I'd rather be doing. Working there makes me see life in a different way, and I find I get very self obsessed when I'm off for a long period of time. Seeing kids with real problems kind of puts my life into perspective, and sometimes I feel guilty for thinking my problems matter. I'm not a very complicated girl - if I like you, I'll talk to you, and if I don't talk to you, I probably think you don't like me. I try to see the good in everyone, sometimes to a fault. I make snap judgements that always sound like the worst case scenario, and I'm usually wrong. I've got wonderful friends who save me from myself, parents who gave me all the things I need to get by, and two amazing younger brothers who treat me like I'm the baby of the family. I'm a girl you can tell was raised with boys because I'd rather wear a tee shirt and sneakers than heels and I rarely wear more than lip gloss and mascara. I can be ready and out the door in a half hour, and can function on 5 hours of sleep if there's something fun to do. I've spent my whole life waiting for things to fall into my lap, and I'm starting to think that the world doesn't work that way. I want to find someone who won't give up on me. And he has to make me laugh.
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My Interests

- bubble baths
- trying to squeeze in time for Libby, Mary, Amy, Shane, Jess, and JT
- Writing
- reading
- music
- movies
- driving
- attempting to be at Jack's at least once a week
- friends
- bar stool dancing and karaoke
- blogging
- being around people
- Starbucks
- laughing
- trying to make people laugh
- meeting new friends
- ordering pizza
- touch screen machines
- working
- TV
- shopping
- daydreaming
- words

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I'd like to meet:

I don't really want to 'meet' anyone. I'd just like people I already know to find me.

Music:

Hinder
Snow Patrol
O.A.R.
American Hi-Fi
Green Day
Remy Zero
Modest Mouse
Dashboard Confessional
the Clarks
Ari Hest
Cowboy Mouth
Oval Opus
Cake
Avril Lavigne
Saving Jane
Amy Winehouse
Jack Johnson
Ingrid Michaelson
Feist
One Republic
Poison
Yellowcard
Ataris

Movies:

Waiting for Guffman
High Fidelity
Big Fish
Love Actually
Saved
The Devil Wears Prada
For Your Consideration
Superbad
Knocked Up
Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

- Big Love
- Gilmore Girls
- Monk
- Psych
- Sex and the City
- Friends
- South Park
- Family Guy
- Will & Grace
- Coupling
- The Office (BBC and American)
- The Daily Show
- The Colbert Report
- Real Time with Bill Maher

Books:

Anything by David Sedaris, J.D. Salinger, or Kurt Vonnegut. Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and The Feminine Mystique.

Heroes:

My mom for giving me her outlook on life and always pushing me to do more. My dad for being the best man I know. Jeff for showing me that family will always be there for you when you need them in ways you'll never expect. Jeremy for the big hugs and being the one person who will always understand me.
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My Blog

Suburbia

There's something about the suburbs. The green grass, lack of sirens, simple houses, open spaces, and slow pace that makes it what it is: a confining area of homogeneous small minded people with relat...
Posted by Jennifer on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:32:00 PST

From the other blog...

The other blog is at www.afabulousmess.com. If you didn't know. Well. It seems that all I have to do is write one sentence these days to spur a debate on my blog. I'm trying not to get involved, but ...
Posted by Jennifer on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:14:00 PST

Random blah

    I'm promising myself no more attempts at trying to be someone I'm not, no more trying to say and do the right thing because it never works out like I plan it will, some things can't...
Posted by Jennifer on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:30:00 PST

I remember you (it's mostly fiction)

     I hate that no matter how much time passes, I'm always reminded of you. Sometimes it hits me like a bolt of lightning, I'll be sitting there laughing, holding hands with someo...
Posted by Jennifer on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST

I thought I was done with this shit...

... but I have to take a med math test tomorrow. And I need to get a 90% to pass. But at least I get paid to take this one.      Eep.
Posted by Jennifer on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:50:00 PST

For my fellow graduates...

     Well, this is it. We graduate in less than four hours. I, for one, never thought this day would come, but here it is. And I didn't think it would be as bitter-sweet as it's tu...
Posted by Jennifer on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:46:00 PST

Fiction: Part One

It's hard to determine the exact point where everything stopped making sense, and I definitely can't figure out when I fell out of love with you. Some things just happen slowly over time and, once a ...
Posted by Jennifer on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:11:00 PST

The 2 am girl

     I didn't coin the phrase, but it's the perfect descriptor of that girl we've all been, the girl I sometimes still try to be, and the one that, deep down, I loathe inside mysel...
Posted by Jennifer on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:26:00 PST

Fiction: He said, she said

When I saw her, my stomach hit the floor and I realized that this wasnt going to be as easy as I thought. I looked up and realized he was there, and my first reaction was to hide. My first thought was...
Posted by Jennifer on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:36:00 PST

Babble

     I had a blog written, and it disappeared and I don't feel like writing it all again.      Suffice it to say, I can't sleep because my mind is wandering int...
Posted by Jennifer on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:56:00 PST