Friday, January 5, 2007

And so that was Christmas...

Dear friends,

Today we mourn the death of a beloved friend...

dead Xmas tree

Our Chritmas tree just looked so sad lying at the end of our driveway, on its side, in the pouring rain, so flimsy and pathetic. I almost felt a tear welling up when I looked at it.

...and then I was plagued with uncontrollable laughter as scurried inside to get my camera.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Ugly Betty

ugly betty
Have you guys seen Ugly Betty?

It is supposed to be a new one tonight. This show is my mom and I's guilty pleasure. It is so silly that it is fun to watch.

Every time my mom sees a poncho in the store she's like, "Who does that remind you of, Jenn?"
Betty! and her giant ugly Guadalaja poncho that she wore on her first day of work to a fashion magazine. ha ha.

And Betty (America Ferrera) is so pretty in real life...

ugly betty

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Queridos Maria Carmen y Paco

host family This week I got a letter from Spain! The family I stayed with sent me a really sweet card and note and it made me so nostalgic. Espana, te echo de menos!!!

writeand now I feel like I jerk. I only wrote Maria Carmen once and now she's sent me two things. I remember trying to have a pen pal when I was a kid and I'd always forget, or not feel like writing. And now it's happening all over again, 10 years later.

Monday, January 1, 2007

Happy New Year!

Happy New Years Happy New Year!
Wahooooo
2007

Sheetz coffeezI have spent all day sleeping after not sleeping for 24 hours.
I think the free holiday Sheetz cupp-o-ccino did its job.

Monday, December 25, 2006

Jingle Bells

reindeer rudolphHo Ho Ho, Santa is coming. or maybe he was already here. Oh and Rudolph too.

I still enjoy the thought of setting out the cookies and milk (and carrots) and then laugh when I think about my poor dad having to eat all that stuff before I wake up. Ha ha ha.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Friday, December 22, 2006

My blog is 2 years old... and i missed it

bday cakeOh noooo, I'm a horrible blogger. Moonlight Masquerade had it's two year birthday a few weeks ago and I completely forgot. I'm sorry blog. I still love you. Here is a cake for you. Happy Birthday!

...only 8 days too late

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Thoughts About Personal Change...and Blogging

giraffe I was browsing my old Yahoo account because I noticed that my info said that I was still 14 years old and in changing that, I stumbled upon my old website that I had created in seventh grade. It is soooo funny. The graphics are just horrible and my design skills combined with the html that I taught myself is indeed comical. I viewed the guestbook and someone wrote a mean comment about how awful it is, but hey, I can't disagree. I can't even log back in to Angelfire to even delete the site because I don't remember my password and my old email account is obselete.

giraffegirl's land logoI think the most interesting part is how much I have changed in the past 8 years. I wonder if people just change that dramatically over their teenage years or if it is constant metamorphasis? Will I look back on this blog in 8 years and say, man I was an idiot? Probably, yes for three specific reasons.
A. Hopefully I'll be smarter
B. My views will probably change or at least shift as I experience and learn more
C. My different life stage will give me a different outlook on life.

giraffePerhaps we don't even change at all, maybe we just shift our perspectives of ourselves and that is why we appear so different. Actually it is kind of nice to have a documentation of your state of being at every stage in your life. (a perk of journaling, ha ha) But, then there is the whole issue that it continues to represent you to the whole world even 10 years after you write it since it is in a public forum, even if that doesn't accurately convey the skills, attitudes, interests, and values that you have at the current moment.