beauty

i just finished watching larry king with guest stevie wonder and the victoria's secret annual fashion show.

let's start with larry and stevie. first, larry king freakin old! but really, i wanna talk about stevie. he is just amazing. he was talking about what he thinks things look like, and i've never thought about it before, but what on earth would it be like to have to imagine what every single thing in the world looks like. stevie went blind not long after he was born because he was a premie. premies born have sensitive eyes, and the oxygen in his incubator was no help. they have since modified the technology, so not as many premies go blind, but blind since birth. having no idea what a piano looks like, but play it every day. make a living off of it. be married for years and not know what your wife looks like. have children and not know what they look like. i mean, you could feel it/them and decide for yourself what it looks like. and it would be one thing if you went blind after having the ability to see for a while. but having no preconception at all as to what anything in the world looks like. crazy. but, i guess you have no choice if that's what you have to live with. but, stevie is an inspiration. he found what he was good at. what he was awesome at and builds onto it everyday. i mean, he was sitting at larry king's interview desk with a keyboard in front of him and would just start playing random things at random time. to have the ability to do that, blind or not, is a amazing. to put your life experiences into songs (and very good songs at that) is quite the gift.

another gift: victoria's secret models' legs. dayum. you can't just get legs like those. those are gifts. ok, so i don't think victoria's secret models are very pretty. heidi. beautiful. alessandra. bombshell. miranda. hottie with a body. other than that...i don't think the others are very pretty. yeah, their bodies are slammin'. but that's easy. anyone could make their body look good (not tall...but good). what happened to hiring models that looked like heidi and tyra? they weren't stick thin. and they had one of a kind looks. these new girls, all i see are legs and blonde. who does victoria's secret think they're selling to? guys? no, you're selling to girls. so, putting a bra on a 5'10" stick isn't going to sell me. put it on a beautiful person like heidi klum, and i'm more likely to buy it. ohhh, something else you can do. lower your prices!

ughhhhh

dear time warner,

some thoughts and suggestions:

1. you're horrible.
2. when i'm on hold, waiting 20 minutes for someone to talk to me, don't have the automated voice say, "thank you for calling customer service. we are currently helping other customers. please hold for the next available representative" EVERY 30 seconds. and the music you play. c'mon. you don't need to play girl talk, but play some stevie wonder, or beatles. i heard the beatles once while on hold for a pharmacy, and it was the best wait.
3. don't charge me extra for shit you said you wouldn't charge me for.
4. don't trick me into signing a 2 year contract ever again. this is going to be a long 2 years. hopefully i won't live in this house for that long.


best,
jessa l.

getting in the christmas spirit

i'm torn. i LOVE christmas decorations. i even bought a whole bunch more stuff last year at the after christmas sales just to add to this year's decorations. BUT, i just don't know if i should put them up this year. i'm leaving for denver not long after christmas, and i won't have time to take everything down before leaving. and i know daniel probably will not take them down. and even if he does, he won't put things away properly (i'm pretty much a control freak when it comes to the organization of our house). with all that i have to take care of around the house before i leave, and all that i have to pack and organize, i just don't know if taking the time to decorate and un-decorate the house is going to be worth it. if i do put the decorations up, i'll have to take them down like on the 23rd or 24th. and that would just be sad. to have to take down chritsmas decorations before christmas is even here? that just sounds sad. but, to not have christmas decorations up at all? that sounds sad too! i don't know what to do. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i feel home

daniel asked me today where i feel most at home...at our house or at my parents' house? he said that he felt most at home at our home. but, i told him that it was a tie for me, and i'm sure he heard the hesitation there. it's really more like 49% austin, 51% houston. i think he was a little surprised when i said it was a tie. but, i tried to put him in my shoes by asking, if his parents still lived at the house he grew up in, where he'd feel most at home? he answered, understandingly, his home in mount pleasant, tx. i feel at home at our house because i made it look the way it does. i decorated and made it feel like home. but it's not completely home to me because 1. we've only lived here about 2 years and 2. i know this is a temporary home. i know that in a few years, we're going to buy a new place and rent this one out. that was the whole reason for buying this place. it was an investment. but, my family moved into our houston house when i was 10 years old. i did most of my growing up there, and i know where everything is. when i'm home in houston, i'm a kid again because my mom and dad take care of everything and it's comfortable. so, both places are very much home to me. but, i think my parents' house will always be 51% home to me, even when i'm 50 years old, as long as my parents are there. wouldn't you feel that way? i certainly would want my kids to feel the same way years from now.

viernes negro

i have a love/hate relationship with black friday.

what i hate
:: crowds
:: fake deals. for instance, banana republic outlet discounted their entire store by 50% today. sounds like a great deal and it is. but, none of the tags are discounted as they normally are on non-black friday days. so, for some things, you pay more than what you would if you went there on a random weekend in the summer when they want of get rid of merchandise but there aren't very many shoppers. and i have definitely found magnificent deals on days like that.
:: the rude shoppers. and the occasional rude salesperson.
:: parking. the lot was cometely full and went out into the fields!
:: the mess. ie this scene in lacoste:



what i love
:: spending time with my family and everyone putting their two cents in on what's bought. i don't think there is any other day of the year that my whole family goes shopping together. who does that anymore (besides families with kids who can't drive)?
:: the real deals. i mean, i see better sales on other days (i'm a bargain shopper. i get it from my mama). but, you see some good deals on black friday. and to get the best deals you have to sit outside of a store in the cold for hours. not my style (check back with me when i have spoiled kids. or when the bf needs a new pc and I finally am making some money)
:: my mom buying me things like i'm 12 and we're back to school shopping :)

today i got me some sweet knitted glove/mittens in back and white (yay jcrew student discount available for use with other discounts on black friday!) and a beautiful ski jacket (that will be used as an everyday jacket, too). my mama got me some winter boots. i never thought i would like boots with da fur. but i love the way these boots feel. there isn't fur inside, it's a thermal material. but seriously, these boots are super super super coformtable. and they were only $60! i shoulda had my mom buy the jacket instead of the boots because now i'm broke. but that's ok. it was sweet of my mama to buy them ♥

daniel and i also picked up a couple of presents for people on our list! so that's a couple of checkmarks. i wish we were done with holiday shopping.

now i wish i had the mullah to get this coat that feels like a comforter. this is another type of coat that i never thought i would like. but, seriously. go to rei and try it on. it's sooo soft, super light, and just comfortable. and strangely, i think it looked pretty good on me. i also want these heavier duty gloves. and these leather/cashmere gloves. ohhhh so beautiful! and a macbook.

thankful

hello! it's thanksgiving! the means fooooooood! and family! and being thankful :)

i'm thankful i'm healthy.
i'm thankful i got into nursing school! finally!
i'm thankful for my understanding, loving, wonderful, funny, weird family.
i'm thankful for my dear daniel.
i'm thankful that daniel let me get a dog in april and that we now have the crazy and cute oliver in our lives.
i'm thankful that my family, boyfriend and i are doing well in our lives. we have a lot more than some do, more than we need sometimes.
i'm thankful for the bestest friends anyone could ever ask for!
and for thanksgiving food. gooooooodness. i love food!

happy thanksgiving :)

televisor

i LOVE 30 rock. and i just recently started watching it religiously in about the middle of season 4. so, now that we've finally stepped it up and actually attached our blu-ray player to the modem, i've been watching a lot more streaming shows. including, 30 rock! and they've got all of the seasons (minus the current one) so now i'm up to speed. now, i'm watching the office in chronological order. i've only ever caught random episodes on tbs and watch random episodes on nbc, so i'll get caught up soon enough. watching 30 minute comedy episodes is so easy to watch quickly. i tried to watch all of lost on netflix for a while before the finale (i started watching lost late, too. twas about season 3 or 4), but the hour long "drama" (would that be a drama?) type shows seem like they take over your life. especially the ones you have to pay attention to. man. seriously, i couldn't do anything else while watching lost. but i can do tons of things watching the office. i cleaned out my entire room, closet, dresser, and vacuumed while watching the first couple of episodes of season 2.but lost was exhausting. and now the season that i left off at isn't available streaming. damn. i'm about to start up with madmen (not streaming). whichay be tiring, too. BUT, once i'm done with one disc, i'll have to wait at least 2 days until the next one comes in. so, i'll probably be upset when i can't know what's goingto happen next, but at least i'll have a break.

opt out day

tomorrow is opt out day at the airports for some idiots. and ya know what. i'm sure tons of them are going to miss their flights. nananabooboo.

also, they are putting people in danger at the airports. they are going to cripple air traffic. and making the tsa do pat downs on you for a couple of minutes rather than you walking through the damn machine for like, 5 seconds is making the tsa put their focus in a place it doesn't need to be. walk through the machine, and tsa can keep an eye on everyone walking through and look for suspicious behavior rather than touching your nasty body.

netflix

booooooooooo. i just got an email from netflix saying that the price is going up! i mean, it's only a dollar, but ugh. i hate inflation. oh well. i watch netflix all the time, so at least it pays off for me. but i really don't want it to go any higher.

i'm a pig

this is what my entrée plate looked like (after my apetizers plate)