Redecorating Lea Anna Style

Lea Anna took a break from collecting bugs and decided to decorate the house for Easter. This consisted of her coloring and cutting out Easter bunnies and scotch taping them to various walls around the house. Works for me - I think the place looks better already.

One Minute of Cuteness - Can You Take It?

I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video of Alex.

Caitlin's Baby Shower

We know Caitlin's having a boy, we know the baby's name....

Cayden Anthony, and we now have survived the baby shower. Caitlin had a good showing of people at her shower, around 35 came. She got alot of stuff so Cayden won't have to run around naked. Even Harold (an older man from church) picked out a outfit for Cayden to be sent with his wife. I think once I got the food done & cake finished (it took me a full day along with many practices to make) everything went okay. We ate cake, played games (Caitlin didn't want me to play the dirty diaper game) and watch Caitlin open presents. I am still recouperating. I won't be able to look at fondant again for a long time.

Vote for Katie!

Katie is one of our group member's dogs. She's sweet, smart and enthusiastic, and will do whatever her owner tells her to, including cleaning the shower! Please take a minute to click on the photo and vote for this goofy girl on the Bissell site. If she wins Bissell will donate $10,000 to SEGA and we can help a lot more Greyhounds : )

More about Katie if you're interested...

We Were Terribly Misinformed

Remember when we were kids and grown-ups used to tell us that if we dug deep enough we'd get to China? Well, they were a little off.

Go to Antipodr.com and see where we'd have been...or where you'd be if you started digging now, were able to blast through rock, weren't instantly vaporized as you got near the core of the earth, and the whole project held your attention long enough to finish (if you didn't die of old age, anyway).

Think Shank

Soooo.... As I was waiting in my friend, Sandy's car a few days ago, I got to thinking about my future...'n' crap.

I have come to the conclusion that my life is sometimes like a weird puzzle...and I am a retardedly shaped piece. As a retardedly shaped piece, I feel like I am constantly trying to find a place to fit in, in life. And I don't mean "fit in" in the high school way like, "OMG! I hope people like me..." I mean "fit in" in the way that, I am still trying to find my comfort zone/place in the world.... [Well damn, it makes sense to me...] There are just times when I feel like I'm meant to be somewhere else...doing something else, etc.


As far as school goes, I am officially changing my major. As much as I enjoy Graphic Design, the only reason I chose to make it my major is because I wanted it to be my fall-back career in case I didn't make it in film.(Not to mention, Job Corps would not fund my film education.) But, as time passes, I'm starting to feel more and more like Graphic Design isn't for me...not totally anyway. (Interning at a film company doesn't help either...it actually makes me feel even worse about the issue.) So, once this Spring semester is over, I'm going to get my certificate in GD, transfer my credits to El Camino and change my major to Film/Television (with Fashion Design on the side...for the hell of it).

Unfortunately, I'll be in community college longer, but I don't feel bad about that... As I've said before, I'd rather do it now, than when I'm trying to get my BA 'cause it would cost me more moolah...'n' yada, yada, yada. Besides, it would give me more time to save and work on my portfolio 'n' junk... It also gives me more time to research into art schools... I'm seriously considering the one in Atlanta, GA because I can double major, which kicks ass. So, yeah...Jazzmin the Retarded Puzzle Piece has a lot more "soul" searching 'n' sh** to do...

NE-wayz... On to another revelation: I saw this movie called Freedom Writers some time ago (with Hilary Swank)... It's one of those "white teacher goes to the ghetto and makes a difference movies", but I still liked it and it made me think. I realize that I end up liking movies like that because I know how it feels to have a teacher that opens your mind. Like, Mr. Sherry from Hunters Lane HS in TN...

He was the teacher that got interested in Graphic Design... Since I was (practically) the only student genuinely interested in it, he was always willing to spend extra time teaching me Photoshop 'n' stuff. No mater what retarded thing I wanted to do, he'd sit there and show me step-by-step. Then there was Mr. Brody and (a few of) the other teachers at the New Media Academy in Crenshaw HS (which was the only good thing about that damn school) that got me interested in Film. So yeah...

NE-wayz... Those movies make me think about how some teachers really can make an impact on your life. I think I would like to be a teacher... Not now though...and I'm certainly not gonna be all valiant and try to teach inner-city kids. I mean, when I'm done with my real career (whatever the heck that turns out to be) and want to do something more calm(ish) before I retire...then I'll go be a teacher, especially because I genuinely like helping people (to an extent)'n' stuff.

Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH AUNT TERESA for the iPod!!! It took me awhile to get around to putting songs on it, but now that I have, I'm soooooo happy. I forgot how awesome it was to be able to tune people out... Not having an iPod, after all, makes it harder to ignore Public Transportation douche bags.

And the book you gave me is awesome. I'm 1/3 of the way through it...


That's it for now....

Jazzy Out!

Lea Anna's Birthday Pics

We celebrated Lea Anna's 6th Birthday yesterday and we all had a blast inspite of it being too muddy outside for the pinata and setting the oven on fire just as I was about to put the food in the oven (note to self - must clean oven more often). The kids didn't complain about either events. Gary made a last minute trip to Domino's and they all were too involved in a two hour boys Vs. girls match with Daniel's Nerf guns to play any organized games anyway.