Snow Day!

Weather.com is STILL saying that we are only getting an inch of snow but I'm staring out my window at about 2 inches at the moment & it's HEAVY, THICK snow. I also watched my neighbor across the street spin out approximately 54037 times just trying to back into her drive way. Why she was trying to do that is anyone's guess...she actually went up and into the grass divider between her house & her neighbors...and then sideways about 10 times before just leaving her car where it sat in the drive. It's always fun to watch the people on our street try and get out when they should not be trying...

I'm just happy we own a shovel now! Turns out we might need that snow blower, mom. HA!

Liam LOVED watching the snow fall this morning & I think we are going to try and take him out in it if it stays this nice and fluffy.

I had to go on and cancel my Crop because I would not want anyone driving in this. My meeting got cancelled for tonight also because of the weather, I'm bummed to cause I was really looking forward to it with all the new products and things going on! So I'm going to try and get some pages completed today - I'm so close to finishing this album I can almost taste it!

Another MEME to get the Jen Juices flowing

(title not intended to sound as dirty as it came out)

Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole , put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of.

1. +The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. +To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. +Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. +Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. +Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. *Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. +The Stand (Stephen King) - read both the edited & unedited
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. +The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. +Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. +Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. +East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morries (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. +1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. +I Know This Much is True(Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. +The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) - read half, got bored
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. +She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. +The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. *The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. +The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. +Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. +Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. +One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. +Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. +Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. +The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. +Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. +Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. +Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. *Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82.+ Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. +Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. +Watership Down(Richard Adams) This was the first book I made Matias read when I discovered his lacking library
87. +Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. *The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. +Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth(Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. +The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

YAY ME!

I just signed my VERY FIRST CONSULTANT for CM!

I'm so excited :) I am now someone's Upline!! YAY ME!!

I'm trying really hard to "grow my business" this year so that I can be as successful as I want to be & this is the step in the right direction. My short term goal is to become a Senior Consultant - that means I have two consultants 'under' me. My long term goal is to become a Unit Leader - that is my Major League Dream.

Right now I'm just happy to be getting off the bench :)

6 Weird Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me

There’s a Meme going around & even though I don’t know anyone for them to “tag” me, I’m going to start it here and hope it gets amongst our friends! These are all things that I was thinking about/doing this morning…

• I LOVE opening new things to use once I’ve used up its predecessor. And yesterday I got to do that for like about eleventy-seven things! Examples – new Wallflower (Fresh Linen scent), new face cleanser (the one SJP is advertising, I’m a sucker for anything SJP related it replaced the DOVE one), new foot cream (Bath & Body works Peppermint & Rosemary replacing Best Foot Forward Vanilla Chai Latte), new Lysol counter wipes (how exciting!), new birth control patch!
• I MUST follow the same routine in the shower every time or else I might forget something – like rinsing the shampoo out of my hair. That routine is as follows – put shampoo in hair, shave, if I’m conditioning that day put conditioner in, wash body, wash face, rinse shampoo/conditioner, rinse body, rinse face.
• I MUST follow the same routine while getting ready AFTER getting out of the shower or else I will forget to do something like put deodorant on. That routine is as follows – put toner on face, brush teeth, put deodorant on, put Chapstick on, put eye cream on, put underwear on, put lotion on, rub foot cream on, take towel off head and get dressed.
• I MUST follow the same routine every morning when I come down stairs or, you guessed it, I will forget to do something like feed the cats. That routine is as follows – start coffee, feed cats, empty dishwasher, load dishwasher, clean hand wash only pots & pans, pour self cup of coffee & go have a smoke.
• I have to wear socks in bed, even during the summer. I’m afraid that someone is going to grab me from under the bed and they cannot/will not if I’m wearing socks. And I cannot let my legs or arms hang over the bed – same person will grab me.
• I have ‘waking dreams’ and I’ve had one my entire life where I will witness a plane explode in the sky & I will be close enough to go help rescue people & I will do that. I know it will eventually happen & I’m still planning on helping people to safety.

And that makes six, people! I’m sure there’s a ton more strange things about me but as you can see I am a creature of routine. It drives me from the time I wake up until I go to sleep…it’s no wonder to me where Liam gets it from!

Asking for it

I'm sorry but there's a news story about this guy who is going around showing porn to kids after school...

The two schools that this happened at today were named (and this is the punchline, folks)

Longfellow & Haycock.

I cannot be the only one who finds that a bit off.

Number One Sign You Need to Step Away from the Computer

When you try and turn the page of your magazine with the mouse.

Welcome to it

I've started this new blog as a companion reader to the Adventures of a Liam Fellow - mainly because I do want to write about more Jen Stuff but I know that Liam's page is not the place for that. With that in mind, please recognize that this page will be more Adult in its origins. Nothing X rated or anything like that but definite use of swear words, PMS talk, & general Stuff About Me will find its home here!

So, like a blog dork, welcome & I hope you enjoy your stay. Please keep your arms and head inside the cabin during the entire ride.