The Dr is in

I have long last had a crush on Dr Drew...since the days of listening to Love Lines in the 80's as I fell asleep at night. As an 18 years old, I thought he was so cool because he was so smart and grounded, and even though older than me, was much more appealing than the baffling idiot man child that they usually paired him up with. At the time in the 80's it was Poorman, in the 90's Adam Corolla. This crush on Dr Drew lay dormant for a decade or so, and has now resurfaced with the watching of Celebrity Rehab, seasons 1 and 2 and most recently Sober House. He is still so smart and so darn grounded, and now in the 2000's he is apparently working out...cuz the good Dr looks great in a tshirt. Every week whenever the inmates..or addicts i guess would get out of line..who would talk them down? Talk sense into them..you got it...what a man. Thank you VH1,you've got my vote for best music video channel that doesn't play music videos .

6 Week body Makeover

I am one week into a 6 week body makeover...this plan reminds me a lot of Body for Life, or as I like to call it Body for Three Months, because that's as long as I did it...always told myself that I would just take a couple of weeks break and then go back to continue my Body for Life, but somehow it never happened. So, eventually my fit body became body with too much fat. I've maintained a respectable weight for a while, but have decided I don't want respectable, I want delectable,so i'm making some changes. Things are going well so far, my daily intake of food is spread out over six mini meals, and all together only include 10 oz protein and 11/2 cup of good carbs. I say good carbs, not in describing the taste necessarily, but describing the nutritional contect. Carbs such as sweet potato(without butter,brown sugar and marshmallows,sigh), and brown rice, or getting really crazy, wild and brown rice. By the first week I am already a bit bored, so I'm going to shake it up...I've added, wait for it..a whole wheat tortilla as part of my good carb choices. And check this out, i've been eating vegetables.. and not to be believed by many of the people in my life, ok well anyone in my life really,I have not only curbed my easily reaching a six pack a day drinking habit of Diet Coke, I am replacing it with the clear liquid known as water to many people. I'm also incorporating the use of the resistance bands into my exercise regime. The bands that I bought about a year ago, the ones that have been sitting in the box for easily 6 months before I opened the box and realized that the DVD they were supposed to come with, was not in the box. Not sure how to use them, so Im improvising. I'm sure I can figure it out, I'm no dummy. Yes, feeling pretty good about these changes...losing inches as we speak. A new thinner than average wind is blowing...

Its Miller Time...well I'm sure for a lot of people

Friday afternoon at about 5 pm represents freedom to me.. there's a buzz in the air..whether it be because a fun weekend is planned or because relaxation is at hand. I love the feeling of anticipation...anticipation of something great..that's how i feel on Fridays at 5pm...i love it..and even though working 9 to 5 is a complete atrocity at times...there is opposition in all things and without the work week I wouldn't have the week end...its just Jen looking at the bright side...its baffling to me how well adjusted i am....

Cyber Aunt

So officially catapulted into the modern age of computers..sort of...did a video call with my niece and nephew the other night. Now I'm hooked, I'm about to talk to them right now..as I avoid my homework. Webcam to webcam, I was able to see Gwyneth and Carson battling out who got to sit in what chair. Gwyneth at one point fell backwards in her chair and started screaming..aww it was just like being there. Now I'm getting texts from 7 year old Carson, things such as jpmwjpmw jpmwjpmw....looks like he's got a handle on this texting thing...good for him.

Algebra at 37

I am 1 1/5 classes away from finishing my psychology bachelors degree. In all of the twenty years since 1989 (eighty nine, eighty night, eighty eighty eighty eighty eighty nine) I have mosied along the path of bachelors degree when I feel good and ready, none of my time or mosying was spent with Algebra. And at this moment in time I am successfuly evading my homework. The last twelve weeks of my undergraduate career are full of integers and equations, and graphs, and areas of rectangles..and i'm going crazy. I'm an analytical girl by nature...i am able to understand the subtle nuances of a therapeutic conversation between two people. I am really good at reading between the lines. After numerous psychology courses,even abnormal psych made more sense to me than this algebra they speak of. They can't tell me at 37 what they told me at 16, that I will use algebra, cuz i'm onto them...

Like a train wreck

I am equal parts repulsed and ferociously drawn to the Bachelor....is it part of our dna as women...talk amongst yourselves..

Misunderstanding Alanis

Ok, so I began blogging on Confessionsofasinglemormon girl.blogspot.com, have been blogging there under the pen name Bridget for a good part of a year. My friend ,who blogged under pen name Kris thought it would be a great idea to start a blog documenting the ups and downs of being a single mormon girl. Thank you Kris for asking me to be a part of that blog..i have graduated to my own, felt the need to branch off and reveal who I really am...not Bridget, but Jen. Single girl in California...single mormon girl...does that however define who I am? In many ways yes. Being part of a large church that values above all families...to be on your own...figuratively and sometimes literally,without a family...makes it hard to define who I am without defining who I'm not...a wife and a mother...However, when I moved back to my Native California...almost three years ago..i did so at the urgings of a very strong spiritual beckoning... an answer and confirmation to prayers came through an Alanis Morrisette song..don't laugh... and the kicker is as I look up the words just now, to the song I was listening to and thought was speaking just to me...I realize..wouldn't you know it...the words I thought she said "the need to liberate" (which is exactly what this sister needed to do)..is in actuality, in Alanis' words "I need a moment to deliberate"...well the rest is history..Jen felt the spirit, even though she couldn't tell what the Hell Alanis was saying. God works in mysterious ways...California was and is the perfect place for me to learn how to liberate..from the labels I put on myself, for the boundaries that I myself place in front of me, and the glass ceiling I am so comfortable about having right above me..i have actually been known to windex that glass ceiling...its a new year...and almost three years after I misunderstood Alanis, I am in exactly the right place, liberating before your eyes....