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favorites today

article of clothing: sweat pants

song: your surrender by neon trees

nail color: deliciously dark

boy: nick jonas

language: french

author: dr. seuss

candy: rolos

beatle: george

girl's name: emma

boy's name: will

ocean: atlantic

flavor: lemon

hp character: luna

animal: butterfly

country: switzerland

color: green

friend: chandler

funny thing:

print via you are my fave

crafty

I don't really have anybody to heart-attack this February... ha.

So I heart-attacked myself.

Eryn and I made this cute hanging heart garland thing.

Kati made a really cute one, and she inspired me.

Here's a tutorial from Cora Anne Designs, it's super easy.

Yeah, Valentines is still a few weeks away.

But I think it's real cute all year round!

junior year in about 10 seconds

junior. from Jessie on Vimeo.

Last year in my advanced tv/video class, we had to take a picture of ourselves every day.

This past Wednesday I realized that I still had all of those pictures and never did anything with them.

So this is what I did with them. A short little thing.

Music = The Greatest Man That Ever Lived by Weezer.

This part of the song plays in my head whenever something really good happens to me.

Like when school ends on a Friday, for instance.

i found a quote that goes with this cool picture

"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress

is the woman who is wearing it."

-Yves Saint Laurent

and how about some other quotes that are just cool and/or funny.

"When two hearts race, they both win."

-dove chocolate

"He grew up on a freaking sailboat!"

-ky's roomate, amy. in a text, i believe.

"Why is everyone at this school covered in blood?"

-ryan moon

"But sometimes after I eat Del Taco late at night, I'm like, 'Ohhhh my gosh. Why is there a gremlin in my stomach.'"

-newman, that history teacher of mine

and credit where credit is due:

photo source: mypolaroidblog

you're looking at the dream team

seriously.

ryan and i have a killer radio show (pictured above)

and our band naming capabilities are unmatched.

a few of our inspired band names:

Metallic Undertone

Programmed to Love

Hands Around Danny

Jairu Crew

Street Teeth

Tokyo Reunion

Alarm Clock Romance

Three Angels and a Doofus

The Flavor Strategy

Ural Jerks

Ural Crazy

Identity Exhibition

Griddle Wizard

Freedom at Best

We have too many to possibly remember.

I hope being a Band Namer pays well.

made me laugh.

clap clap clap clap clap.

love this show.

new york in black and white

My mama took these photos and they hang in my room. I think they're cool.

I went to New York a few years back.

I saw The Drowsy Chaperone and Hairspray (before it was even a movie).

I ate at an italian restaurant in Little Italy.

I went inside the Statue of Liberty.

I stayed on the 38th floor of a hotel.

I held a crab in china town. That was gross.

I had a smoothie at the Jamba Juice on Times Square.

I went to the giant Toys 'R Us.

I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and had scalding hot chocolate in Brooklyn.

And a bunch of other stuff.

That was a cool trip.

my kitty loves me

even though he bites me while i'm sleeping.

agent vaughn

I'm so boy crazy.

It's probably so unhealthy.

But I can't help it.

Here's my newest crush.

Michael Vartan.

Thank you, Alias.

(and thanks Jenna for letting me borrow season 1)

It's these guys from spy shows.

They'll be the death of me.

ps

apparently michael vartan has been in park city for the sundance film festival...

i'm dying to go up there and look for celebs.

hey thanks

it's not november. but i feel thankful today anyway.

i'm thankful for my ukulele. and all 10 chords that i can play.

i'm thankful that i'm not taking AP statistics this year.

i'm thankful for hulu.

i'm thankful for warm showers.

and

i'm thankful for these amazing sunsets we've been having.

happy sunday.

my dad

has been a lot of cool places.

Like the Stonehenge,

South Africa,

Monaco,

France,

Scotland,

England,

China,

New York City,

Argentina,

Samoa,

The Netherlands,

Hogwarts,

and lots of other places like

Brazil, Spain, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hawaii, Mexico, Washington DC, Peru (Machu Pichu! Aahh), Jamaica, Senegal, Switzerland, The Galapagos Islands, New Zealand, Ecuador, Canada, Japan, Germany, the Bahamas, and Mongolia.

and fun fact

he's been to every state in the US, except Alaska.

and

it's his birthday today!

I love you Dad!

all photos taken by my dad,

except for the two that he is in, obviously.

lil vid

birthday. from Jessie on Vimeo.

(trumpets by flipsyde)

another little non fancy video i made on my birthday.

entirely filmed with my ipod (which i don't really recommend... rendering takes forever)

and i edited the heck out of that song. it's a lot longer in real life. so sorry if i cut out your favorite part(s) of the song or something..

i played with the color a little bit.

i think this is the first video i've ever made starring myself. weird.

oh, aaand there is a rather huge mistake in there that i didn't notice until after it was compressed. so don't hate.

tha's all. enjoy it.

birthday guy

that time we went to see harry potter 6

he's really good at basketball and drives a red car.

he likes mac n cheese and always helped me with my calculus (and pre-calculus and algebra 2...)

he introduced me to dashboard confessional back in junior high

and also peanut butter & jelly & cheese sandwiches.

he's extremely smart and girls really like him.

happy birthday (tomorrow) cade!

please don't crush my soynuts

My Princess Diaries-inpired list of goals.

Throw darts at paint-filled balloons.

Get a make over.

Eat pizza with m&ms.

Also, play the piano with m&ms on the keys.

Break a pair of glasses.

Put on tights in the back of a limo.

Ride on a sailboat.

Go to San Francisco.

Juggle pears.

Tie-dye a garbage can.

Fly kites on the beach.

"Cone" somebody.

Refurbish and live in a firehouse.

Stick one of those pore-strip things on my nose.

&

Be a princess.

Does anyone else love this movie like I do?

guess what

I made another video. And I'll be posting it here on Friday.

And I wore my cool headphones while I made it. See?

Well, you see guys, I make videos a lot. I've been making them a lot. For 4 or 5 years now.

But it just recently dawned on me that I should be sharing them. Hence the new vimeo channel I created last month.

I love it. I think film making will be my career.

So.. you can be expecting more videos from me in the near future.

Every Friday actually. I'm calling it Video Viernes.

Viernes means Friday in Spanish.

the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The Good:

Today is a beautiful day. A drive-with-the-windows-down kind of day.

The Bad:

I have to apply for scholarships today. That sounds like tons of fun, right?

The Ugly:

It was the first day of third term. The most dismal term of them all.

And one more Good to even things out:

Chuck came back on last night after a two month break. Oh hallelujah.

i think this dress was my favorite.

also, a little upset that inception didn't win.

runs in the family

click to enlarge:

ha.

hey, thanks everybody for the kind birthday-related words yesterday. getting a bunch of nice texts at midnight is fun.

my entire birthday was exceptionally great actually.

i slept in, had two breakfasts, opened some presents, went to sammy's for the sweet potato fries, opened some more presents, blew out candles on my delicious lemon bars, went to wingers and ate my weight's worth of food, and then went to see harry potter 7 again.

yeah, it was a great day.

it's my day!

hoy tengo diez y ocho años.

ajourd'hui j'ai dix-huit ans.

i'm eighteen today!

victor hugo said,

"Music expresses

that which cannot be put into words

and cannot remain silent."

and i think it's true.

i want to go see the floating lights on my 18th birthday

magical.

nothing fancy

school. from Jessie on Vimeo.

it's just a little quickie that i put together after my nap today.

no fancy editing or anything. just straight up school.

party

Things I'm considering doing to celebrate my birthday on saturday. (suggestions from kylie).

sledding. on crusty ice snow.

buy cigarettes because you can. or dry ice

go find apolo anton ohno's training rink and meet him.

have a party where all your friends bring different kinds of saltyfood (because you love it) and have a sodium party.

have a voting party.

give me a ukulele recital.

have a party like the one on modern family. with the climbing wall. and the craft table. and zip line.

send fan mail to zachary levi and see if he gives you a signed happybirthday postcard.

go on a quest to eat all the sweet potato fries in all the places within a twenty miles radius.

All great ideas.

I already googled Zachary Levi's fan mail address. No luck.

i have senioritis

I watched this today.

Nothing better than a video rest instead of doing something productive after school.

if you don't like it you love it

it's today's {music} happy list:

hey ya - outkast
marchin on - onerepublic
the greatest man that ever lived - weezer
losing touch - the killers
black or white - michael jackson
the ministry of magic - alexandre desplat
across the universe - across the universe
total eclipse of the heart - glee cast
loud pipes - ratatat
ensemble - coeur de pirate
diplomat's son - vampire weekend
tik tok - ke$ha
panic, shear bloody panic - hans zimmer
hallelujah - rufus wainwright
story of us - taylor swift
past my shades - B.o.B.
the boys are back in town - thin lizzy

it's kind of crazy how music can completely change my mood.

Jim's just really passionate about italian food.

Jim: Do you remember what you said to me on my first day of work, just before you walked me over to my desk?
Pam: Yeah: "Enjoy this moment, because you're never going to go back to this time before you met your deskmate Dwight."
Jim: That's when I knew. You?
Pam: You came up to my desk and you said, "This might sound weird, and there's no reason for me to know this, but that mixed berry yogurt you're about to eat is expired."
Jim: That was the moment that you knew you liked me.
Pam: Yep.
Jim: Wow. Can we make it a different moment?
Pam: Nope.

Jim: Four years ago, I was just a guy who had a crush on a girl, who had a boyfriend. And I had to do the hardest thing that I've ever had to do, which was just to wait. Don't get me wrong, I flirted with her. Pam, I can now admit in front of friends and family, that I do know how to make a photocopy. Didn't need your help that many times. And, uh, do you remember how long it took you to teach me how to drive stick?
Pam: Like a year!
Jim: I've been driving stick since high school, so... For a really long time that's all I had. Little moments with a girl who saw me as a friend. And a lot of people told me I was crazy to wait this long for a date with a girl I work with, but I think even then I knew that...I was waiting for my wife.

I sometimes live vicariously through Jim and Pam. It's fine.

when i was a lad i ate 4 dozen eggs...

This week in french class we learned about a few french foods.

This food?

Croque-madame

It could also be known as

"the food that started Jessie's major egg craving."

Seriously, I saw a picture of the dish and ever since I have been craving eggs like I have never craved anything before.

Just sunny side up, though. It's pretty much all I've eaten for the past two days. So weird.

I think I'll go make another one right now...

Is this bad for my body?

now that's what i call a taco

happy friday everybody!

i did not live until todaaaaay

Nick Jonas as Marius > Zac Efron as Link Larkin

I'm serious. He was so great.

this is all hypothetical...

Bad feelings:

Putting on your boots and then seeing a spider crawl out of one of them and up your leg.

Opening the bottle of conditioner and having it squirt into your mouth. (why why why was my mouth open anyway!?)

Tripping up the stairs. Like 3 times in one day.

Shaving a whole leg, only to notice that the little plastic cover thing was still on the razor. And having to shave again.

and

Pinching your finger in the hair dryer (yeah.. you read that right.)


No, all these things did not happen to me in the past two days...

i rarely talk about this

It's weird how any given Taylor Swift song can describe your life perfectly. How does she do that...

The song that was written about my life?
You Belong With Me.

It's true. Every word.

Yeah I'm being vague. Whater.

R2

The space heater in our basement reminds me of a droid.

Please, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

snow sharks

I feel a tad depressed today.

I don't want to go back to school.

I was looking for a way to cheer myself up, and this worked a little.

I think the snowman ones are the very best.

this year

I will learn how to fold paper cranes.

oncewed