a portrait and a conversation.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, there are pictures here
as dogs, Guy, hahaha, hat, home, ish, Jess, joy, kind, kisses, late night, party, party hat, pop, portrait, second
I get home pretty late these days.
Usually so late that even the dogs are asleep by the time I get back.
Which makes me sad.
So tonight I woke Strider up. I brought him upstairs and told him I’d get him a treat. Then I put a party hat on him–well, on each of us–and we posed for a picture:
He gave me kisses and snuggled with me for a second. But see, I still hadn’t given him his treat yet, and he knew it. Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell if a guy is being kind to me because he wants something from me, or simply because he’s truly kind.
But I think I’ve been around Strider long enough to know that he’s one who truly loves me.
And treats.
It’s not mutually exclusive for him, I think.
And then I got him the promised treat, which made him about one hundred and fifty pounds of pure, late night joy.
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Oh, and this conversation between my pop and I recently occurred:
Pop: You’ll never be fat, Jess.
Me: Okay.
Pop: Well, when you get pregnant, you’ll be fat-ish, but then you’ll probably lose it…
Me: Um…thanks?
Hahaha fat-ish. I’m not sure what, exactly, that looks like, but at least my pop is confident that I’ll probably lose it.
Probably!
take a turn with me, Miss Dashwood.
in Thoughts and Feelings
as arm in arm, choice, Christian Bale, crazy thing, cute guy, danger, girl, handsome guy, hat, kind, middle, miss dashwood, newsies, physical proximity, sense and sensibility, sort, stranger, stranger danger, street, way
Today I just might have been right in the middle of a scene out of Sense and Sensibility. I say this because a gentlemanly sort of man offered me his arm while we were right about to cross the street in Manhattan.
It actually took me by surprise. He was a young handsome guy, wearing a nice coat and the kind of hat that Christian Bale might have worn in Newsies. Not a bad choice, really. He pointedly looked at me and then offered me the crook of his elbow.
“Oh, no thank you,” I said, smiling.
“Girl, you hurt my feelings,” he replied.
Now, I didn’t want to hurt his feelings, but, come on. If that is the worst thing that happens to him, then he is doing just fine.
“I don’t get rejected often,” he went on.”And I don’t offer often, either.” he finished, still looking at me.
By now we had started crossing the street, so while we were walking together, I told him that I just didn’t want to walk arm in arm with him.
And then he complimented me, told me that he would like to walk arm in arm with me, and I thanked him and went on my way.
“Why wouldn’t you walk arm in arm with a cute guy, Jess?!” Jenna asked incredulously, after I related what happened to her. “That’s just not really my style, I guess,” I said weakly.
But maybe it should be.
The crazy thing is that I totally can walk arm in arm with a guy in a Newsies hat in New York City. Like, technically, there’s nothing wrong with it.
Except for the whole stranger danger part.
And the fact that physical proximity with someone you don’t know is kind of awkward.
But still, I give the guy props for being pretty proper about the whole thing.
good/bad in this new year.
in Funny Stuff, I Lift My Eyes Up, Thoughts and Feelings
as bad news, berries, braces, curd, escapee, fates, food stamps, hat, living at home, mental institution, orange hat, pop, run, someone, story, stupid man, time, today, townhouse
The good news is that I went for a run today. I think so much better when I am a). outside and b). running. Imagine how very brilliant I would be were I to ever run a marathon. But the bad news is that there are hunters afoot these days. Which means that my mom [...]
films and cardigans and hats.
in Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as bad case, cardigan sweater, cardigans, champ, coming my way, envy, fashion, film project, hat, kind, lamp shade, oscillate, overabundance, scarves, single ladies, soft yarn, sweater, tonight, way, winter fashion, Yesterday
Tonight I helped friends of mine with a film project they are working on. I do not know the first thing about these kinds of endeavors (but I can tell you all about the forty-third thing about these kinds of endeavors, however. They generally have a lot to do with cleaning up and a little [...]
headlines.
in I Lift My Eyes Up, Loved Ones, Thoughts and Feelings
as big dogs, California, hat, heart, life, lifting my heart, order, polka dots, room, sun and the moon, water bug
These are the things that are currently lifting my heart, in no particular order. recording. we’ve been in the studio lately and yes, it’s happening and yes, I’m really pretty very much and totally excited about how it’s sounding dresses. People have been giving me some mighty pretty ones lately. They match summer like a [...]
it’s okay, you can laugh.
in Funny Stuff, Loved Ones, photography
as caption, church youth group, German, Germany, hat, Herr, honest to goodness, little photo gallery, pennsylvania, pop, ridiculous situations, strider, thick fur
My pop has the kind of laughter that comes easily with a thrown back head and little inhibition. And by little inhibition, I mean not much embarrasses him. I remember he’d come to pick me and my brother up from our church youth group on Friday nights wearing a hat that looked built for a [...]
