First page of the brother jason archive.

happy DBTDTB day.

Posted by jessica on May 7, 2010 with 44 Comments
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Today I was in the grocery store and happened to see someone with whom I barely ever speak.

We both said hi. It was a sort of surprised kind of hi because neither of us expected to see each other in the refrigerated meat aisle (could there be an uglier aisle title out there?). If it were church, then we probably wouldn’t have said anything, really–both being very used to seeing each other across the way and saying nothing because who shouts HELLO!!! across three hundred chairs and a very loud worship song? But like I said, we were in the midst of refrigerated meat. No three hundred chairs. No loud worship song. And the only thing left to us was to talk.

I had, however, just gotten invisalign this morning. This is braces for people who are shy about braces, as my friend Shane puts it. And so I was not yet in the habit of speaking to people with them–not to mention the fact that I was not in the habit of speaking to this particular person at all.

So my hi was short and I was hoping to just stroll on by. Except after our initial greeting, he very loudly exclaimed, Ohhh! Which made me stop. It was the kind of noise that would make the animals at the zoo stop whatever it is they are doing and wonder if Ryan the Lion had finally bitten somebody like he’d been threatening to do since ’01.

And after this guy’s exclamation, he looked at me and asked, Are you a mother…yet? To which I said no and then he sadly told me that he would have liked to have wished me a happy mother’s day. I told him that I’d pass the sentiment on to my own mother, who is more than deserving of it in her own right, and that was that.

And then I told my brother Jason about the exchange, just cause I thought it was rather odd and we often like to tell each other about life’s oddities. To which he said that I should have said, No kids. But I DID get invisalign AND a divorce, so yay for me!!!

And then I asked him if there was a day for that.

To which Jase said, Screw Mother’s Day. You have your Divorced, Better Teethed, Dropped the Bum* Day!!!

And so Happy DBTDTB Day to me!

Catchy, isn’t it?

Hallmark better get on the ball and start making some cards. I could certainly help with the text, if necessary.

*nobody means anything very serious by the word bum here. We are simply using poetic license to emphasize humor. And also, no bums were actually hurt or injured in any way during the making of this blog post.

not gonna do it. sorry.

Posted by jessica on Apr 10, 2010 with 28 Comments
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Sometimes I skip one day of blogging and my brother Jason thinks I must have died or something.

And sometimes I say something that makes perfect sense in the context of whatever it is I am talking about, but when isolated, it can sound pretty bad.

Or funny, depending upon how you look at it.

Like today, for instance.

When I was talking with Shane, telling him about a conversation I was recently party to with some friends. Basically one friend was asking another friend (who is straight, for the record) if he would engage in, uh…non-straight relations… in exchange for ten millions dollars. My friend thought about it for about half of a second before saying, Absolutely. It’s ten million dollars. Then the question was posed to another friend of mine–who again, happens to be straight–and she was like, Of course. TEN MILLION DOLLARS, FOOLS.

But when they asked me, I was all, Nope. Not now, not ever. I’ll get a job, thanks. Er, but not that job. And as I was recounting this to Shane, I was getting more and more passionate about it, telling him that God could provide for my needs without me having to get all sexy for it. And the more I got into it, the higher my voice raised, until I ended my diatribe by loudly pronouncing:

SHANE, I WILL NOT HAVE SEX FOR MONEY!!!

At which point Shane asked me if I could say it a little louder please, because the fishermen who were about ten feet away from us might not have been totally clear on what it was I was talking about.

But then again, considering the way I shouted it, they just might have been.

And can you imagine overhearing that statement, and that statement alone, between a girl and a guy just sitting and minding their business? After hearing something like that, suddenly their business just became a whole lot shadier, I suppose.  Or maybe it’s his business that got shadier.

And hahahahaha, we laughed a long time about that one.

And we also laughed about how one of the guys who was fishing nearby yelled over to us, asking us what kind of sandwiches we were eating. Because, who does that? Who asks total strangers what kind of sandwiches they’re eating, like it’s their business? And it’s not that we minded telling this guy, but we just thought it was even funnier when he could barely believe that we weren’t eating something with shrooms in it.

In fact, we ran into him again a little later in the day and he asked us if we were sure those sandwiches didn’t have shrooms in them. Like we’d forgotten that they did last time he asked us, but now that we were high or something, Ohhhhh right–they did have shrooms in them, after all! I think it was really disappointing to him that they were simply filled with plain old peanut butter and nutella. Can’t please ‘em all, I guess.

Oh, and he also asked if I go to Avon Grove High School. Good one. And once he found out that I do not, he asked if I was a hair stylist.

Because I guess it has to be one or the other.

And for the record: No, I will NOT have sex for money; I stand by what I said.

so this is easter.

Posted by jessica on Apr 4, 2010 with 14 Comments
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*updated to include the pic now; thanks for fixing it, Jase!  I have pretty pictures to upload here. Of eggs, dyed lovely colors. And I have a thumbnail that is dyed orange to prove that I, along with some friends, dyed those eggs. And even decorated them in a way that used wax and candles [...]

baths and secrets. but not secret baths, that’d be weird.

Posted by jessica on Mar 21, 2010 with 26 Comments
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First, I’ve been feeling like Goldilocks lately. And not just because of the color of my hair. More because, see, I am a fan of a good bath. But recently I’ve been striking out. And it’s been all Papa Bear or all Mama Bear all the time while I’ve had to jump out of the [...]

sariel.

Posted by jessica on Mar 14, 2010 with 34 Comments
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So, the day the awful truth that just about changed everything came out, my brother Jason’s response was to immediately buy a plane ticket and fly from CA to be here with me. He showed up the next day. He had something close to a mullet, but it was actually kind of a nice distraction [...]

yellow underwear (yes, I just said underwear. scandalous.)

Posted by jessica on Mar 6, 2010 with 43 Comments
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I have so much homework to do right now. And some of it is spelled T-A-X-E-S. And some of it is spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-E. And some of it is even spelled E-S-T-H-E-R. Um, lest you think that Esther is some chick that I need to do, let me explain.  I am referring to the rest of [...]

my bad.

Posted by jessica on Feb 18, 2010 with 10 Comments
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Drew called me tonight, upset that I spent $225 on the eye doctor. I tried to explain to him that I’ve never been to an eye doctor in my life, and I certainly didn’t decide to start this week with a sentimental visit to his eye doctor. He apologized for the misunderstanding. I hope he [...]

not disney world, but not bad either. well, most of the time.

Posted by jessica on Feb 16, 2010 with 15 Comments
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I love people. Find them fascinating, really. And this weekend I was among about 700 of them altogether. My friend Christian organizes an annual youth conference for the association of Vineyard churches here on the east coast and asked me to tag along this time. Even sing a few songs, which was so very fun [...]

scary little hand

Posted by jessica on Jan 28, 2010 with 13 Comments
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Terrifying, I know. How do you think I feel about it? Because see, it’s right outside my door. In my parents’ basement. Because, although I am not living in a van down by the river, thank God, I am living in my parents’ basement. Which is actually very nice. Minus the scary little hand. Actually, [...]

orange t-shirts and why I hate them

Posted by jessica on Jan 18, 2010 with 12 Comments
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Recently I opened my inbox to find this header for an email: Hi friend…Can you be trusted? And after smiling at the fact that none of my real friends would send me an email with that as the subject–I mean, certainly not now, anyway–it reminded me of something that my brother Jason and I had [...]