In Search of Myself

Easter scrapbook pages

10 pictures, baby.  Dude, sometimes I rock.  heh.

Bwah ha ha

It's a running joke/gripe around here that I'm the only person in our building without walls or an office.  As the receptionist, I have to be in the hallway.  Sucks, but I live with it.  Today we had little cones sitting on my desk, that an athletic team had left in one of the vans we let students check out.  Anyway, assistant director boss dude saw them sitting there and asked what they were.  Then he said we should use them to "partition" me off an office.  He got up and put them all around my area and said "Wait, it's not finished yet."  He went to his office and came back with a piece of paper he had written on in marker.  It says "Jenny's new office.  Please do not disturb.  Thanks.  Management."

Now I kind of don't want that athletic team to come get the cones.  I kind of like my new office.  heh.

Something I wrote

My new article is up at ACOT:

Don't make it harder than it has to be
How fear really messes with your mojo

click here to read it.

Easter Pics

I tried to take some pics outside, but it was too sunny.  Gotta love that face!!!
click link for more

Heartbreaking

I think that every person in every college campus across the country is talking today about what happened yesterday in Virginia.  Any school, for that matter.  I know that a lot of policies and communication issues are going to be revisited.  How do we plan for reacting to something like that?  It's so sad that we have to.  My heart is broken for everyone involved in Virginia, and for the fact that the world we live in can be so broken and ugly.

Easter

I was lazy this Easter.  I didn't buy myself a new outfit.  I didn't even bother figuring out what to wear until Easter morning -- and I remembered I had a purple outfit I'd worn to a wedding two years previous that I hadn't worn since.  Score.  I didn't buy Jake new clothes.  Luckily, the weather was chilly, and long pants and a long shirt was appropriate -- so I put him in his little Christmas suit.  If the weather had been warm, I would have just thrown khaki shorts and a polo shirt on him.  I'm all for dressing up for church, but I don't buy into the whole you HAVE to buy new, fancy clothes every year for Easter thing.  Maybe it's just me.

Now on a side note, HOW CUTE do Jake and his buddy Ryan look, standing next to each other?!  I can't believe these kids will turn FIVE in the coming year!  (Ryan in July, Jake in Sept.)

Church Family Portrait

On Easter after services our church did a portrait of all the members.  I think it's pretty cool!

(The photo is on our church's website, so I feel ok about posting it on the net.  Anyway, you can't really see anyone's faces clearly.  LOL!)

Me as an M&M

hee hee hee.  this website rocks.

P.S. if you do it, be sure to e-mail me your picture!!!!

A walk

Journaling says:
I have to say, this made me pretty darn proud.  We went on a walk and Jake was SO excited about everything he saw.  We have been walking down this road for 3 years now, but with a camera in his hand, everything changed.  He’s always stopped to comment on what we pass or to ask questions, but this time he was stopping every few steps to take a picture.  I love the ones that include his (size 13.5!) feet.  Those rock.  I love that Jake just intuitively knows how much more interesting life can be through the camera lens.  April 9th, 2007

Our adventure last week