not gonna do it. sorry.
in Funny Stuff, Thoughts and Feelings
as brother jason, business, day, diatribe, friend, God, Jason, job, one of the guys, perfect sense, record, Shane, something, ten feet
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.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings, photography
as brother jason, candles, colors, day, Easter, easter sunday, Eggs, Eve, God, Jason, kinship, little bits, love, method, nobody, pretty pictures, something, thumbnail, ukrainians, upload, wax, way
*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.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as A. Mess, Appleton Road, baby bear, bath, brother jason, door, house, Jason, Mama Bear, Mexico, papa bear, sun, time
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.
in Loved Ones, Performance, video
as Angel, brother, brother jason, Christine, Delaware, Don, Jase, Jason, kind, Latshaw, pain, pin prick, sariel, small pin, something, Sunshine
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.)
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as brother jason, Canada, easter musical, Esther, extreme tiredness, Haiti, Jason, Joe, Kentucky, pair, pennsylvania, skin, small comforts, tonight, underwear, underwear drawer, world
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.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as bank, brother jason, California, drew, egg on my face, eye, flight, Florida, Jase, Jason, Jessica, Latshaw, Miss Latshaw, purchase, roundtrip flight
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.
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as brother jason, Christian, Disney, God, hair, Jason, Johnny Cash, kid, life, neighborhood children, pots and pans, Shane, something, Thunder Mountain, vineyard churches
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
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, photography
as alien attack, angry alien, basement, brother jason, California, caption, good hands, hand, Jason, night, right, van down by the river
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
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as brother jason, Don, email, fact, God, Heck, hi friend, Jason, orange, orange shirts, precious medals, real friends, something, world
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 [...]
My name is Jessica and this is a nice, quiet space that I like to cram with words.
