Anniversary

December 21st.

The day Alex and I started going out :]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I had turkey, sweet mashed potatoes, and this new salad recipes that my sister made - it was SO good. For dessert, we had this apple pie that my sister's boyfriend brought over, apple bread (which was more like cake) + pumpkin cookies that my mom made, and the cake I made for Laurie's birthday. ^-^

After dinner (but before dessert) we watched Star Trek - I liked it ^-^ I like the character's relationships with one another... they were interesting. Chris Pine + Zachary Quinto = some of my favorite actors.

Got a bucnh of well-wishing texts - it made me happy ^-^

Alethia's younger brother's hamster died though :( May his (or her) soul rest in peace.


And on that note!


(while we're on the topic of bad news)

I did some physics and psychology work. blech!


Anddd now to comment on Rachel's journal (which I confiscated :P)

CIAO!

Tests went well!

...

*knocks on wood*


Well, I guess I won't know until grades are put in. I probably have a B+ now in physics ... -.-#


Baking a cake for Laurie. It's this triple chocolate cake - but I added in blended strawberries with sugar and milk, strained (to get the seeds out).

Let's see how it turns out...


EDIT: 97% on pre-cal test!!!

Sigh....

That kid I talked about in September...

I feel like we're drifting apart.. it makes me sad :/

I don't see him in the mornings - he could never make it on time anymore so he just goes to class. But of course I wouldn't know until it was too late - the bell would ring and then I MIGHT get a text saying Hey I'm late. -.- Yeah, obviously! I get to school at 7, and class starts at 730. That's a half hour of me waiting in the hallway, trying to make myself look busy. After two weeks of that, I just couldn't help but feel heartbroken every time the bell would ring to go to class and I'm still there,

....


waiting.


I drew the line when on the last day when I waited for him, a classmate from my first period saw that I was upset and he stayed with me - I said he didn't have to, but he said he felt bad.

He PITIED me.
I was like....
Ouch.
This is the last straw.

So I told him to just forget the mornings and that I'll start going up to Alethia's room again.

I know he doesn't do it on purpose, but like.. I just feel like we're drifting and he's just letting me go. Like he's not making any effort to keep me? I invite him out but he always has plans, when I text him he has homework - not his fault,

but don't IGNORE me ://

I can't help but be haunted by the story Rachel once told me - about her and her "best guy friend" and how she thinks that it'll happen to me.


And I can't help but think that she's right.

Made a cake

For my bff --- it was her real bday yesterday!!!

Except one of my friends -who went to culinary school - had to leave before we could finish the cake, so she left the dyes and some utensils with me, and I had to frost and decorate it----

ALONE!

SHE'S the one who went to culinary school! I felt bad--

she is far more skilled than I, yet my bff got stuck with my hack job :X
She loved it nonetheless, which is good!
It was so funny making the cake though -- we almost forgot to put in the oil, and then the cake rose so high that it got burnt from touching the top rack! LOL!

Lethie and I at her house:

Nervous for tomorrow....

Physics test, pre-cal test, psych quiz.

...

Bff

Tomorrow is her "birthday" -- it really isn't until Sunday, but we're having a party in 3rd period (because we have nothing better to do :P)

So I baked her a toffee-less Toffee Cake!!!

(I say toffeeless because it has no toffee. Why it's called that is beyond me.)

It reminds me of a treasure chest for some reason, so that's what I'll called it---

Treasure Island!!!
lol I added some stuff - (I have a bad habit of improvising) - cinnamon and turtle crunch (Chocolate bits & something else.. caramel maybe?) - it tastes AMAZING.

I hope she likes it ^-^

She'd better -.-

I spent like 2 hours doing that even though I have all this other stuff to do!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

My additions: a half cup more chocolate chips, cinnamon on top, and turtle crunch!

^-^

So I cut it into brownie sized pieces (even though it's cake) and put them into paper plates, sealed it with saran wrap, and then decorated the top with stickers and a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Along with a flag in the middle saying Lethie Land

XD


And we got class rings today!! I love mine. it's so unique -- and pretty!

And I wanna sleep.

Don't feel like doing HTML. sorry. ...


Zzzz...


Oh crud! I have to study!!!

Tomorrow

New Moon comes out tonight at midnight..

I wanted to go -

but I'm far too exhausted.

I feel asleep last night at two, and then woke up at 4:30 and have been up ever since.

I have three quizes tomorrow -

• one of which is completely unrelated to the material learned in class.
• 50 vocabulary words to memorize - 50! :/
  
• And then there's math... BIG quiz. Which tanks, since I tend to space out and forget rules of exponents and logs. -.- So I'm pretty scared for my grade in there. I should be studying my ass off, but I'm so tired I can barely concentrate.

And dammit Alex! You need to fix my computer!!! It STILL has no sound. So I have to o upstairs &use the guest account of my sister's computer. Do you know how annoying that is?!

*ahem*
Anyways.

So we had this taste tester thing in one of my AP classes today -- my teacher brought a few students up to the front of the class and gave us a strip of paper with some kind of chemical on it. Within 5 seconds, if you don't taste anything other than paper, you're a nontaster. If you kinda taste something, then you're a medium taster--and if you taste something right away, you're a supertaster. Apparently, I'm the last one - a supertaster- and DAMN was that stuff nassssty! It kinda works like Gushers. You can taste the gummy immediately when you put it into your mouth, but when you bite it, it explodes and you get the full flavor.
Well for this test, if you're a supertaster, you can taste the chemcial right away; however, you don't get the full blast of it until you move it around on your tongue, and then the ... flavor just comes gushing out. With that first swish of my tongue it exploded for me - it was so gross I wretched in front of the class!

Who, in turn, laughed at me -.-
well, come to think of it, if that happened to someone else I'd probably laugh too. I had to go run out and get some water. The teacher's stepson was there, too - he asked me what it tasted like. At that moment I couldn't tell him, because it was hard to describe. Bitter, pungent. But how do you describe such a taste? I couldn't think of anything similar until now, when I just had some coffee to keep me awake. That chemical tastes like the aftertaste of black coffee.

(black coffee = straight coffee. No sugar, no milk, no nothing.)

I have to make a mental note to tell him that tomorrow morning.

So I think my keyboarding skills are improving - for a while I was like eh.... I used to type faster... and now I type relatively fast (and pretty accurate!!) without looking at the keyboard! It's weird though, because I can see my hands moving out of my peripheral vision. Blech, speaking of vision, that's one of the things I should be studying now, but instead I'm making a blog!
Why is this called a blog, anyway?

Alex, where are you?

I need you...

Alice Cooper

Going to the Alice Cooper concert tonight.

So I get to see him cut his own head off. -.-

Joy.

I texted an old love interest of mine this morning. He was on a tv show that my school puts on. He's chattier than I thought he would be - and I just texted him like 10 minutes ago and ....!

Silence.

He's probably skating or something.

bahhhh

I have psychology stuff I need to be doing - I didn't even really read what was assigned on like... Thursday and I have a quiz Monday apparently - on like 20 pages of it!


Got a new haircut today!

XD

At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, and now it's all good ^-^

*hums* Leather and Jeans! Garage Glamorous! Not sure what is means, but this photo of us is so magical, We'd be so fantastical... Cause you know that baby I!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRDcBsxEFY&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

Cold Love

From flushed cheeks do their eyes meet
From nervous glances do they greet
And from cold love does he pass by.
Secret warm words exchanged
She is bold; she hath no shame.
Heart on sleeve, she bleeds love.
Does he bleed too?
Why then, if so,
does he only bleed in secrecy?
Her heart open, flows affection
His heart stitched to outside
Reopened in private counsel
to her.
From her presence the shell encloses
Once so bold
Now callous before her.
Face to face, no words ensue.
Silent passion
Trapped underneath self torment
His silence speaks volumes to her.
So close they are,
But worlds apart they stay.
Yet though her heart is so open
His words turn cold before they reach her
She can not feel his "warmth."
Does she bleed in vain?
He approaches; her words are frozen
From sheepish glances do they greet
And from cold love does she pass by.

Lonliness

When you pierce a lonely heart,
it does not bleed
for it hath no love to flow
The desolate chambers from which compassion past heed
Have been preserved in its shriveled state.
Sheathed from empathy, sympathy and the like
Plagued by selfishness and jealousy
It weighs unused in the hollowed out space of its owner's chest
the warm rays of companionship can not pierce the darkness here
Like an illness, the lonely heart rejects the company
It does not, can not, recognize what companionship is,
For it can not miss what it has never had.
When you pierce a lonely heart
It does not bleed
For misery is the only thing is knows.

Found my old poem book

I'll post each one as a separate blog.


...And I strongly dislike physics >:(

So I love this kid.

Won't say his name, but my friends know who it is.

I feel like I'm addicted to him

- and I get a little anxious when I know that I can't talk to him.

Of course he doesn't know that, though.

He's sooo ...
amazing.

like everything you could ever ask for.

But he's my best friend.

Edit: Picture of us at my Halloween sleepover (yes, he slept over)

Happy Easter!

So Rachie found my blog...

Hi Rachie!! *waves*

I wonder when everyone else will, too. But it's not like they'll wake up one day and be like..

OH, I wonder if Jenna made a blogspot! Let me check!

So far I texted almost 50 people wishing them a Happy Easter.

And so far I've gotten 19 replies.

:|

So that adds up to.. 19 nice, considerate people--

and what,

31 assholes?



......

My mother and I went to church today. It was an hour and 40 minutes long.. but it didn't feel like it! Saw a few people I knew, like Gabi, Pauline, and this one guy I met from club activities (his name slips my mind).

(Dad and my sister Laurie don't like going to church. Esp. Laurie. She makes such a fuss about it and she's 18).

SO anyways...

I got 2 jars of coconut flaked-milk chocolate covered machemdia nuts (<--favorite) and these bands that can function as either bracelets or hair ties. Super cute.


Well, I'll update as I go. I'm supposed to go to the beach... sometime.


We're having lobster raviollies.

No lie.

Well,


Happy Easter everyone!!!


Love,
Jenna



ps.

EDIT: Went to the beach for a few hours with my mother -- Very relaxing. I even got a tan!

Not to mention somewhat even out my skin tone on my legs... now I only have 2 tones instead of 4.....

....

I'm wearing my sister's prom makeup on my face. I really like it. It has a nice bronzey background with a dark brown shadow.. it's really nice. Plus there's the light pink highlighting the cheekbones, and "Vanessa" Buxom lip plumper on my lips.. it's red lip plumper with bronze/gold undertones.

Ah, Darnit. Julian can't go on tonight. Bah!

I have to review chemistry and I realllllyyy don't want to.

AHH! I have to plan my bday party! (if it ever happens).

Shopping Spree!

Spent a good part of my birthday money today!

In short: DSW: Flip flops. (lmao. Who buys FLIP FLOPS at Designer Shoe Warehouse?)
LOEHMANN'S: Dark green Lucky Brand bag + Earrings
Paris Hilton's Fairy Dust perfume
Cute panties by Honeydew
And....!! More flip flops.

=|

By anonymous.

lmao.jk. I forget, Mom's already stashed them upstairs in my room.

Sephora: Urban Decay's Primer Potion
Sephora's House brand eyeliner #225, 04 Flashy Green & nailpolish Merengue
Bare Essentiald' Buxom Lips -- "Destiny"
Laccome's (or something like that) Bronze eyeshadow


& Lunch.

lol

Like everything was on sale at Loehmann's. I was so happy! The LB bag was 60% off. I was like WOOO!!! I lovvveee Lucky Brand, but their stuff is just so expensive.
And they have great prices on perfumes as well. Like 30-40% off.

...

I'm starting to sound like an advertisement. Ha!

I also tried Smashbox's HD makeup... AMAZING. Expensive though.

And I also tried on the liquid blush thing...

that was pretty cool as well.

Like it would ooze out clear out of the tube, but as soon as it got on my skin it got BRIGHT hot pink, and then when I put it on my cheeks, it just completely washed out into this nice pale pink. So it's safe to say I had a blast today with my mom! (<-- ideal shopping partner. Lots of experience.)

We went to the food store on our way home... and let me say this, thank the lord I primped up at Sephora because right as I was leaving I saw the guy I used to like... I was just caught SO offguard. Ha, I said hi though :D His sister is really cute (she's like 6 or something) and his mother's pretty - real friendly too.

Ironic that he's so quiet...

or maybe that's just when I'm around him?

Oh well. Doesn't matter now.

Watched an episode of TruBlood with Mom when I got home.

It's (well so far) a show how vampires have made their existance known and how they're coexisting with humans in society. Their blood, if consumed by a human, is like Viagra.

x10,000.


Hahahhaa.
Takes place in Lousiana, which apparently there is nothing better than to do than get drunk &have sex--

lots of it.

And not the nice, modest romantic sex either. Like, the soft porn type.

Frikken AWKWARD to be watching it with my mother...

well, it used to be. I've gotten kinda immune to it.

Dad strongggly disapproves of me watching the show, and makes a point of saying that to my mom everytime he sees us watching it. lmao.

Talked to Julian late last night. I had fun. I like him a lot :D He can be pretty WEIRD sometimes, but I love him nonetheless! XD



Read an article on why women prefer taller men. (http://personals.aol.com/articles/2009/02/12/why-do-women-all-seem-to-want-taller-men/?icid=AAMthInCirAtxt)
Interesting stuff.

Who needs magazines when you have sites like these?

lol I sent Sara on a mission to find my blogspot. Muwahhahahaha! She'll never find it!!




Talked to Rachel today. (<-- is mi amorr <333) She showed me a video of her dance that she did last night at her temple. Pretty cool stuff - it reminds me of the movie The Prince of Egypt.


Easter is tomorrow!!! We might go to the beach, oddly enough. o.O lol

(Who goes to the beach on EASTER?)

Hmm. I need a trim. My hair is getting long...

Alright, well it's one in the morning. Guess I'm not going to hear from Julian.

*snaps*

Ah, well. Can't get everything.

Darn! And I still have the HD make up on. lwekufhlKARJH

Sexy Seventeen!

Sexy Seventeen.

That's right.

"Sweet" Sixteen is out the door!

Time for a whole new kind of family. ABC family.


:|

Just kidding.

No but really. I've been seventeen since 9:15 this morning. At 9:15 this morning, I was receiving a Swedish massage!! (Which isn't as erotic as it sounds. lmfao)

And then I got a manicure (which is already partially ruined). (<---is incapable of NOT ruining nail polish)

And then a pedicure. I seriously thought I was going to kick that woman in the face.

(Not because she was bad, or anything.)

I'm just SO unbelievably ticklish! And she kept using the scrub thing on my feet. I think I amused her. -.- (But then again, who wouldn't be? I was grasping the armrests for dear life while holding my breath every time she was going to use the scrub).

My mother's pedicure person (bless her soul) had quite a job getting those calluses off her feet.
I took a look over at the nifty device she was using and commented, "That looks like a CHEESE grater!"
Her reply?

"It is."

:|

BLEGH. x.x

Then we went to TooJays <33>

https://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=301&catalogId=301&productId=501838790

^^^ Dress I might be getting for a party. XD

First blog?

Okay! So. First blog.

What the hell do you even write in here?

Is it like a diary or just kind of a ..to-pass-the-time bs stuff?

Okay, well, it is what it is... so here goes.

I named my blog "by baby" because it's a play on what Alethia(bff) and I say to each other all the time. Everytime we part or hang up, we always end with "bye baaaaby!" so it's kind of homage to that. (<--did I use that right? I don't even think I know what homage means but it sounds right to me in that context.) (<----is an english geek.) (<----has a bad habit of doing (<---- ___) ).

Today is actually my birthday. I'm 17 as of April 10th. Does that mean I'm barely legal? Haha. I remember my sister once bitched at me because I had a glittery martini that said Barely Legal on it when I was 13. lmao. The hell did I know. I just liked the glittery martini!

My bffs threw me a surprise party... last week. (<-- they were going away this week, my actual birthday.)


And now it's 2:46am. My mother booked a mani/pedi/massage for me, my sister, and her at a nice spa today at 9am. (<---the spa package was a gift to my mom from my dad last year, but we never got around to using it).


And now I must go because my 5 years old cat Trixie is screaming at the top of her lungs all over the house looking for me to play with her, and she's going to wake up the whole damn house -- in turn, bringing attention to me being on the computer at quarter to three. Don't get me wrong, I love my cat, but she gets me into trouble when she does this kind of shit!


....


Anyone know what a Swedish massage is?