Ok World, You Won This Round.

Hello All!

So, just to give you some scope on my state of mind today, I am still in my pajamas… it’s 2 pm.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to put on real people clothes yet. I will get there eventually. For now, I’m just recuperating with some coffee and my favorite mug.

To fill you in on the reason for my misery, I worked a 13 hour double shift on the boat on Friday, drove 2 hours home, danced at a York Capitals game on Saturday, drove 2 hours back, worked the worst 13 hours of my life… followed by breakfast at 2 am with some great new friends and 12 hours of comatose sleep.

I would love to rant on about how rude people are when they go out to eat. Considering I’ve waitressed all through high school and college, I feel very knowledgeable on the subject. But harboring a negative attitude toward the entire human population because of the ignorant actions of a small fraction of individuals is unnecessary. And my being upset won’t change other people’s actions. I can only handle my reactions.

That being said, anyone reading this, I implore you to please be respectful to those who are serving you. Treating servers as servants who are therefore beneath you is abhorrent.

Anyway, on a positive note, the Capitals won this weekend! And the Lady Capitals performances went off without a hitch! I love these girls.

Dance has really been my sanity.

Well, I should probably get going with this day! Happy Monday!

-Jen

The Makings of a Final

Hello All!

It’s finally the last week of school and everything is surprisingly coming together. Even with my busy weekends of dancing I’ve somehow managed to keep myself on track for a finals week with no all- nighters.

As you can probably tell, My weekend was a little crazy.

But I did manage to accomplish a few art- related things! For my final color theory project I wanted to mount my paintings on dark stained wood. So Tori and I made a morning out of it!

It was so beautiful and sunny!

The whole process only took a little over an hour but it made a world of difference! Also, Tori is so tan, she is almost the same color as our dark walnut stain!

Back to the finals grind!

-Jen

Let’s Go Capitals!

Happy Monday!

If you’re anywhere in or around Pennsylvania wasn’t it a beautiful day?! I think I may have managed to get sun burnt (curse of red hair).

This was randomly written on my 6th coffee cup of the day. Thank you anonymous sharpie author.

This weekend was crazy packed! I feel like this blog is making my life appear exciting and glamorous but I promise you, you’re only hearing the cool stuff. Right now I’m doing laundry and writing lesson plans… but no one cares about that.

The big event of this weekend was the kick off game of the York Capitals Arena Football Team! (http://yorkcapitals.com/) which also means the debut of the Lady Capitals Dance Team!

I had such an amazing time with these ladies!

(Allie, Kortni, Me, Bre, & Sarah)

7 out of our 12 dancers were not able to make it to the first game because of a prior dance commitment (including Tori). So we had to hold down the fort with just the 5 of us! It was crazy tiring because we were constantly sprinting from one end of the arena to the other, taking pictures and signing autographs along the way (that sounds so pretentious but I swear it happened!) The stadium was packed with over 1500 fans! It was an overwhelming experience, and thankfully, the Capitals won (32-25). It was such an exciting game packed with touch down dances and fights. My lovely family and friends were there to support me and I couldn’t have been more thankful, my mom even bought a Lady Capitals calendar!

We were exhausted by the end.

But it was so worth the effort! We had so many kids approach us to tell us how well we did and to ask us for our autographs. It was a humbling experience to realize that this was exactly what I wanted to be doing when I was 6 and dreaming of being a dancer.

I can’t wait for the next game in 2 weeks!

Until then, it’s the art student’s life for me! Time to get back to work!

Jen

No Sleep Til You’re Dead.

Happy Thursday!

And happy it is! Thursday means the end of my school week, thank goodness! I have no idea how I’m even functioning right now. I’m  literally running on caffeine and inertia at that point.

Yesterday we had senior studio jurying! (ugh) so glad it’s over, but here’s my display:

I feel pretty good about it.

It’s out of my hands now.

On top of hanging and labeling my display at 8 AM after 2 hours of sleep I also had to make 2 batches of clay, do a fashion photo shoot for my photographer room mate, and we had a dance performance last night! Then I had to go home study for my exam today and write an 11 page lesson plan… BUT IT’S ALL OVER NOW.

I have a video to our dance performance on my facebook wall, it went really well!

Maybe I’ll actually get to sleep this weekend… probably not.

Have a creative  day!

Jen

 

It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Hello all!

Yes, slowly but surely, spring is beginning to shine through in Philadelphia. And spirits are subsequently brightening.

I wish I could say I had a lovely Easter, but my weekend was packed with a photo shoot, canvas priming, of course food, and maybe even a little love. You know what they say about Spring after all.

I’m making surprising progress on my most recent endeavor! I’m beginning to actually come through on some of my crazy schemes. Most of the time my brain pattern goes something like this.

THOUGHTS:

“I’m so fat… I should be skinnier… I should totally start running more… I know! I’ll get up at 6 AM every morning and run 3 miles and only eat salads! I’m gonna be one skinny minnie by June.”

REALITY:

(June rolls around)… “I feel so fat… I should’ve been exercising all year… cake.”

So the fact that this extra- curricular painting is even in existence in the middle of the semester is nothing short of a miracle (Maybe I’m in the Easter spirit?)

I’ll try and post pictures of my progress tonight , but to be honest with you, I’m looking at a couple of all nighters ahead of me.

But I do have some fun pictures from the photoshoot!

Me and my best best best friend Tori!

(clearly, our photoshoot did not take place in a disgusting locker room)

She also has a pretty cool blog, you can find it here:

yourgirlyguide.wordpress.com

Here’s a really horrendous cell phone picture of the team!

AND! I finally got to meet baby Layla!

I don’t think she hates her red- headed step- aunt 🙂

Like my fake eyelashes?!

Alright well, back to the grind! I’ll see you all on the other side, hopefully with a new painting!

Jen

Dance on Dance on Dance

Happy Monday!

I think Mother Nature decided to bring me back to reality after such an awesome weekend!

But we won’t go there, it’s probably a sore subject for everyone.

This weekend was packed to the last minute with all kinds of dance related goodies. My dance team at Temple University (Inmotion Dance Ensemble) competed at the Groove Competition in Lititz. It was an EARLY morning, I was up at 5 curling my hair and gluing on fake eyelashes. But it was worth all of the lost sleep!

Looking this good takes hard work.

The whole time I watched the competition I kept finding myself fighting back tears. I missed doing things like this so much! Dancing is such a huge part of my identity.

I’m so proud of my team!

This dance wound up placing 8th overall!

And InMotion won the judges choice for “Best Dance Crew”

But I couldn’t stick around for awards, I had to drive back to York! I had Lady Capitals practice at 12:30. We learned the cutest new dance 🙂 I’m so excited about it!

Then I was up early AGAIN on Sunday because it was PHOTOSHOOT DAY! That’s right, the Lady Capitals shot a calendar 🙂

Tori managed to snap this picture of me, don’t I look thrilled? P.S- GIANT DONK

I also managed to sneak this pic of her, isn’t she GORGEOUS!?

She also has a lovely blog, you can find it here:

yourgirlyguide.wordpress.com

It’s been so amazing to be able to dance with my best friend again, and the fact that we had photo time slots back to back made this day even better! Except for the fact that I had to head straight to work after the shoot (womp womp).

Hopefully you all had lovely weekends as well

Jen

 

York Lady Capitals Uniforms

My sister wishes she wouldn’t have quit dancing haha. I finally got my uniform for the York Lady Capitals!