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Jillan

The Diva has Arrived!

About Me

MySpace Codes Get Your Own! | View SlideshowOk, ok, ok. I won't pretend to be shy and demure since we ALL know this doesn't work for me. I will simply embrace my narcism and go on and on about the fabulousness that is me!I enjoy rainy nights, long walks on the beach, contact sports...hahhahah! Had you going there didn't I?I LOVE: My husband, my family, Liam Neeson, Peanut Butter and Jelly Samiches, my new house, my mukety mutts (Jake and Roxie), my kitty, designing, sewing, watching movies, shopping, Project Runway!, scrapping, and life in general!I am not so fond of: ice crunching, smacking, changing the cat litter, cleaning, people who don't read traffic signs and a few other things I am not at liberty to discuss on the WWW.

My Interests

The baby has her own site!www.lillierosaliehanel.com

I'd like to meet:

Me and Mandy Patinkin!One wish down, one to go...

Movies:

What Dreams May Come, Frida, The Breakfast Club, Harry Potter (all of them!), Love Actually, A League of Their Own, Big Fish, Identity, October Sky, Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago, Fried Green Tomatoes, Malice, Nell, Moulin Rouge, October Sky, Under Suspicion, Rent

Television:

Project Runway, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, Huff, Weeds, The L Word, Criminal Minds, Find and Design, Nip/Tuck, The Closer

Books:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding, Memoirs of a Geisha, Brave New World, Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

Heroes:

My dad, Betsy Johnson, Cameron Manheim

My Blog

BzzzzBzzzzzBzzzz

Thats the sound coming from my house as we sprint around trying to finish the living areas for the party Saturday night. Lillie will be the "Queen Bee"  for Halloween.  It just seemed approp...
Posted by Jillan on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:12:00 PST

Retraction

Sick-ish Baby + Exausted Mama = NO COSTUME SALE Lillie is teething and has a cough and is not sleeping well.  She wants to nurse all night which means I sleep in short increments in contorted pos...
Posted by Jillan on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:47:00 PST

Costume Sale at My House!!!

I am cleaning out my costume stocks and am having a sale Wed. night from 6-8 pm.  I have loads of stuff so come browse and see if there is anything you need! Here are the links to all my other cr...
Posted by Jillan on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:42:00 PST

Somethings Gotta Give: I Admit Defeat

Anyone who knows me is familiar with my fantacism surrounding a certain spooky holiday right around the corner.  Around this time every year I am feverishly stitching, hot glueing, and acessorizi...
Posted by Jillan on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:18:00 PST

Joy and Rapture

From out of the abyss of paint brushes and 2 am rantings a ray of light shines through on a glorious life raft.  We hired a painter!!!  He starts on Monday! No more nightmares about my dau...
Posted by Jillan on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

Broadway Babes on Primetime

Wow!  This is the season for Broadway actresses to make their way from the stage to the small screen.  Of course, Kristen Chenoweth is a bad example since I see her in a new movie every time I turn ar...
Posted by Jillan on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:21:00 PST

Things I Hate At 2 am

*Painting *Paint brushes *Paint spills *Paint all over my hands *Paint all over my clothes *Hunter green and faux-finish bullshit that bleeds through 2 coats of primer and a coat of paint *Having to w...
Posted by Jillan on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:14:00 PST

The Incredible Stripping Bear

With all the crazy breastfeeding nonsense I completely neglected writing a blog about my dad's fantabulous 54th birthday. He is a HUGE Chicago Bears fan and always has been. Of course, I had to run ...
Posted by Jillan on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:58:00 PST

Hell yes, well show our breasts!

The nurse-in went very well.  I estimate between 40 and 50 people came out to show their support for public nursing.  It was interesting to see all different types of mothers band together a...
Posted by Jillan on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

I am officially a Lactivist

WOW.  This story is receiving TONS of attention.  Click here for the link to the story they aired on Fox7 news at 5 today.  I never expected our babies to make their TV debut befor...
Posted by Jillan on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:51:00 PST