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1. Tattoos are disgusting.
2. I love One Direction and Justin Bieber.
3. I hate God.
4. My favorite colors is grey, like my soul.
5. Demi Lovato is a disgrace and not someone I look up to and admire dearly.
6. NASCAR is my life.
7. I hate memes.
8. I love brussel sprouts.
9. I have no friends.
10. I hate chicken.

I will tag people later today.

And I haven't done anything art-related in awhile, other than my writing. Which can be found here: [link]

I miss photography.
Maybe one day I'll be able to come back to thee. :\

Instagram is the closest I get these days. You can follow me, if you'd like: dearjenna.

I promise I still live.

While being at school I have had several side things I have been trying to accomplish... Balancing everything has been a bit of a struggle, however. (I'll post links to everything you need to know about, and you should check out because you love me.)

My junior year of college is coming to a close, and I am excited to go back home. Saturday, my dad did call me and tell me he and my stepmom, Shanna, are getting a divorce, but it's just about the most tame divorce you have ever heard of... They still love each other and are friends, and still talk... It just wasn't working out, and sometimes that happens. I was torn up about it at first, but I haven't been upset about it since I got it out of my system. I'm going to miss the flow of things that were when I go home, but I'm looking forward to just being home, and, for the most part, sleeping-in the first few days... At least on the weekend some. I need it. Desperately.

Aside from that sad news, things on my end of the world (or three hours from the bad) are splendid! Trey and I are still going as strong as ever, and we just had our last date for the school year Tuesday night, which was a lot of fun. He even got a little dressed up for it, which I thought was sweet. I'm gonna' miss that dude.

My younger brother has a little girlfriend now, and this would be his third one and I'm praying she's not crazy. I have to be a "superviser" for them when she comes over Saturday to hangout. As my brother put it, her parents think he's all about "DEM ASS AND DEM TITTIES," and so he doesn't want them to be mistaken and think they can't trust him or that he's not a good guy.

I have my second final exam in one hour and 45 minutes. I'm not really looking forward to having to take it. While I think it might be pretty easy, I'm so stuck on it being the end of the semester, I don't want to do anything. I had to force myself to study for it for 10 minutes. Thankfully, as I said, it'll be easy.

Yesterday I had a final at 2:45 p.m., and we are typically given a two-hour time slot to finish our finals, and I finished in 15 minutes. And I know I beasted that shit.

I feel like I'm just spouting off random things to people who may or may not even read this, but it's okay. It's kinda nice to just do this again for the sake of doing it. I missed being able to get on this website as much as I used to...

So, what else is new..?

Having worked with our college newspaper for what feels like forever, this passed semester, I finally took an assistant editor position, and it was fun. Next semester I'm going to be the Managing Editor for the paper, which means getting PAID to keep doing what I love. I love that. I have been stressing so much over the past year to find a job on campus, but few people would accept me--some of the interviews I just knew weren't that great of interviews, but the ones I aced I still didn't get. At this point, I'm just chalking it up to a lot of students going out for the position, and my time being bought up by the paper. Meh.

I plan on finishing filling out the forms so I can be put on payroll when I come back in the fall.
Next step is trying to figure out something to buy my time up with during the summer. I have an interview with a newsletter, of sorts, in my hometown. The editor liked my stuff, so I'm hoping that means that I will get something--even if it's an unpaid internship. I would really love to have my own paycheck this summer, but if that doesn't work out, I'm definitely fine with having more experience so I'm not so lacking when I graduate next year--which won't be until December 2013, I found out.

My best friend's birthday was yesterday so I cannot wait to go home tomorrow evening and see her. I miss her. I just need to give her a big hug, my dogs a big hug, my dad a big hug... And maybe my brother.
I miss everyone.

And I'm hoping things aren't awkward for too long into the summer, because I know the minute I come home I am going to miss Shanna terribly.

I think I have pretty much rambled about anything and everything. I wish I had found more time for my art, but there's also this whole my-camera-is-out-of-batteries thing, and the whole I'm-too-lazy-to-pay-for-batteries thing. Seriously, though. Some places REALLY try to rip you off with their prices for batteries. It is ridiculous. I actually did try to go out and do something for my photography, but my batteries were so dead it'd only let me turn on the camera, and then the camera would quickly shut off. So aggravating.

As far as things I have started and plans for the summer, here are my links for everything you should pay attention to:
Ravenclaw Pride [link] - I was sorted into Ravenclaw via Pottermore, and I was super excited about it. It was exactly what I wanted. Since then I have tried to get a forum going dedicated to Ravenclaw, but it's hard with my limited time. So, to those who are interested, Ravenclaw Pride is there for you if you are in Ravenclaw or just love Ravenclaw!
Animal Crossing Disorder [link] - I know I've mentioned this forum before. If you love gaming, and especially Animal Crossing, you'll love our forum! It's growing all the time, and this summer I plan on doing a lot to get it and Ravenclaw Pride tons of summer traffic!
My blog, "Here's To Life" [link] - Obviously, I talk about this all the time. I love my blog. My blog has been dead for at least a couple of weeks--though it always feels longer. When I come back home, I plan on writing several pieces though to post throughout the weekend and week. I miss blogging, and it's killing me I've had zero time for it.
About Me [link] - Yup, that's my About.Me page. It has all of my links and a little bio about me. That's pretty much all I have to say about that.

I plan on making so many graphics for both of the forums, so that people will have something to post in their signatures and webpages. I'll be really happy when I can sit down and do that Friday night/Saturday. Once you have an idea, and you just plan on making variations of that idea, it's really easy to crank out like 20 different options of the same sort of graphic really fast--but I plan on having a large variety, so it won't just be one type of thing. AH! I just have so many ideas.

I also plan on working out hard, and trying to get that job, and I also plan on reading as much as I can.

Before I had to start reading for school, I was a complete book nerd. I loved to read. It was like it was all I had to live for or something... I miss being able to recite thinsg from a book and tell you exactly everything about a character. I miss feeling like I've accomplished something after sitting down and finishing a book.
I can read fast, anyway. My biggest problem was never finishing because of speed issues, but finishing because I couldn't find the time that I wanted.

But that's going to change.

In fact, I have a thread in the forums right now. I'm trying to get people to list their top 5 favorite books that I should read this summer. I plan on cleaning out my personal library, rereading Harry Potter and The Looking Glass Wars, going through my dad's bookcase and then seeing what else you guys have to recommend...
GO HERE AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK I SHOULD READ: [link]

Okay, I promise I'm done now. Later!

I have a new About Me profile! There, you can find all of my links a little information on me! (It's much easier keeping up with than the Google+ profile.)

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Things are happening. I got engaged and it's a new year.

An apocalyptic year, if you believe all of that.

Whatever this year may mean to you, I hope it's the best one yet.

I'm going to try YET AGAIN to complete a project: a 52-week project.

Check the deviation and my new gallery folder for more information.

I have some stuff I need to post from my digital art, but I'll get to that sometime later. Maybe tonight. I've got to study for a lit test.

I just wanted y'all to know, I have been doing stuff here and there.

In other personal news. Yesterday was my 21st birthday and I got a Princess Peach tattoo. :3 [link]
Trey's matches mine. He got his done Tuesday: [link]

Yeah, that's all the news I have. Short, I know.

Tumblr: [link]
Twitter: [link]
Blog: [link]

It's entitled "Monday's Undead."
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<sub>So, I'm feeling a bit inspired, and I plan on doing a few artsy things. One of which includes going on that photo shoot with Savannah tomorrow morning, and even, maybe eating some dericious cupcakes.

Yes, dericious.

In other news, I meant to have a photo shoot with Kayla, but I had to cancel because she and I both had a small time allotted to the event, so I thought it'd be better if we went for another day--not to mention, I felt like my life was slowly falling apart.

We will reschedule. I have another month to figure it all out.

At any rate, by tomorrow afternoon I will be watermarking and uploading all of the photos that we have taken that I approve, and I hope to come back with a lot. We'll just be scoping out the Square, but it's such a fun place, and it's where I feel most centered during the summer.

Wish me luck?</sub>

Previously on Jennifer's Journal...

*Jennifer spoke a long time about the time she was merely trying to fill with small things so she wouldn't get bored...*

And now...

<sub>Not a lot has changed. I went driving around and re-acclimating myself to it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Luckily... I suddenly was overwhelmed with the artsy bug tonight, though. I think I am going to work on a creative page in my art journal for The Hunger Games, and I'm currently making plans to take pictures.
I'm calling on my old friend, Kayla, who has modeled for me a lot in the past, and I'm even trying to get to Savannah. (I even told Savannah the monastery doesn't have to be an option, I just want to take pictures. I'm craving it now.)

My feeling of idle hands and misery have since left me. I've been feeling down and just basically wallowing in it, thinking my break wouldn't come until August when I go back to school. But how is that any way to live? I miss being upbeat all the time. I've gone back to it, and I'm happier. No reason to mope. Now I'm trying to do as many productive things I can in a day, or at least just one so I feel better the rest of the day about anything else deemed "lazy" that I might do.

Yes, the Companion Cube plushies are still on hold. And, at this rate, won't be until I am back in school and I start getting some money again. Ah well.

And because I missed Pretty Little Liars again, I will be watching that after dinner tonight.</sub>

I have a few tentative plans to actually upload art and do something creative this summer.
I'm excited.


I hate having idle hands, honestly. Keeping myself busy keeps my anxiety and impatience to a minimum, so to have something to do will be nice.

I wasn't feeling up to having a photoshoot with Savannah at the local monastery because of the heat, but we might be doing it sometime at the beginning of next week, provided she's off to do it.

If nothing else, I'll be dedicating a page in my art journal to The Hunger Games, and, speaking of which I need to finish reading Catching Fire. I left off after chapter 5.

Speaking of journals and things with pages, I haven't written in my journal in awhile. I need to get on that, again.

I have/had plans to make Companion Cube plushies, but that's something that is going to have to wait because I don't have the money, and not having a job means I'm not going to be getting it any time soon. I asked my parents--they said "maybe."

Hmph.

I guess we'll just have to see. I definitely haven't forgotten about the plan, though.

That's all I have to say, I guess...

I'm going to go watch the episode of Pretty Little Liars I missed last night.

I had to quit my Project 365. Ah well. At least I gave it another shot. I just had no motivation to keep going with it.

Speaking of motivation.
I'm getting low on funds.
I seriously need a job.

Eeeck!

In other news, tomorrow, my friend Savannah and I will be travelling a few towns over to do a photoshoot at a monastery. Wish us luck!

<sub>...It's probably not even worth mentioning to some.

For awhile, I've had my tagline as "Walk the Talk Photography." That in itself has stayed true for me as far as meaning in my art and just my own spiritual aspirations, but I thought something more blunt was in order.

I've changed it to "Love Revolution Photography" because that is what life is all about, really, for me.
I have my moments like anyone else, but a revolution of our hearts is important. I say it a lot on my blog and occasionally on Twitter.

Expect my signature watermarks on my photos to change with new uploads.</sub>

I have a new video up for the "Sunday Songs" segment on my blog that was posted at 11am this past Sunday (yesterday, already, for most people), and I would like for you all to look at it.

This particular addition to my weekly segment means the absolute most to me.
I'm not sure I'll be able to find one that means more for awhile.

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I really want people to see how much it means to me, and why.

<sub>So, as far as interesting things go, I have two more weeks until I am out of school, away from my boy, my best friends, and back at home to my best friend, Melody, my three dogs and my awesome family--oh yeah, and my awesome hometown!



I'm really excited about all of this. Super sad to not be near Trey, ~chelsea2435 and their families, but really excited to be home for the first time since Spring Break.

My hopes are to get a job at a local summer daycare service at a church nearby, play "Pokémon White," and generally just relax.

As far as my art goes, it will have to be held off until summer. I plan on doing at least three pictures for my Project 365, Modified, and that is it. Everything else will just have to be as it is. (I plan on uploading some pictures of my amateur sewings, but other than that, everything is being put on hold until summer actually begins.) The obvious reasons: finals and studying.

Yeah, finals. Not looking forward to them. I have a lot of stuff I have to get done in the next week, but I plan on doing that after this weekend is over. The past two weekends have been spent helping Trey move his stuff out of his apartment... Which isn't fun, but I do it for him 'cause I was raised right.



Easter is tomorrow and for the second year in-a-row, I will not be able to spend it with my family, but I am spending it with Trey's and I'm really excited for the amazing food and just togetherness that I missed last year. Last year at this time, I was sitting in my dorm with my old roommate, Cieanna, listening to Chris Tomlin in my headphones, and trying to get the full experience.
As you can imagine, that did not go in my favor... And I was pretty bummed.

As for the lulz: Encyclopedia Dramatica's newest lolcow model, "Girlvinyl," (aka the creator of ED, for those who have no idea what I'm talking about) sold out, and sold off the website to some "safe for work" something-or-other/He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named that really doesn't matter...

However, contributors and anons who joined an unspoken, reasonable and understood coalition against her and the new ED redirect, OhInternet, saved their articles, and what was worth saving that they could, and formed another: [link]

It makes my heart smile.



So, have at it, children.

And, while you're at it, join this forum with me: [link]</sub>

<sub>Not gonna' lie, sometimes the mods here on deviantART lock my threads on the forums for silly reasons. Why would I post something on my journal if my journal gets little attention, and I actually wanna' talk to deviants or just share something with them?

They should work on that logic, methinks.

Love you guys. You deal with a lot of trolls and do it with style, but uh, seriously?</sub>



Anyway, for anyone who actually reads, I've been listening to this nonstop for 3065 seconds while I browse the internet: [link] <-- Yeah, that's what I was sharing.

<sub>(I'm never really good at these journal titles. I never say anything interesting.)

First thing's first: I am currently on the lookout for an awesome message board to become a member of. I miss being a member and since my second banning from Animal Crossing Community, I am fed up with the pretentious moderators and rules they have there and want something better.

For those curious, the first time I was banned, I was much younger, and I did troll the Hell out of a moderator. However, eight years later, they banned me again because they found out I had been previously banned. You would think they'd get that eight years is enough time for the typical twelve-year-old to grow up, but whatever.

As far as my lack of deviations, I am simply just too busy for anything recreational in the way of art. But school is ALMOST out. I get out the first Friday of May, thankfully. Then I am out until the middle of August. I pray this is a good summer to me.

I have been really into making plushies lately, thanks to ~chelsea2435--our inspiration, however, cannot go discredited, and it is all thanks to ~loveandasandwich. Seriously, check her out.

I have a few things I have made but never took pictures of (pictures for people or even the little things I have been sewing. I plan on snapping pictures of all of them, soon, and uploading them onto deviantART. Until then, chat with me or something so I know you still care.

Check out my blog! It won Blogger's Blog of Note recently.</sub>

You should all follow me on Google Reader. I find some really amazing things and share them.
Here are some of the coolest artsy things I have found, look through at your own leisure, there is a lot:

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[link] - (I'm a Demi Lovato nerd, really. Don't judge me. )
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[link] - (Another Demi track, sorry.)
[link] - (I found this particular week's PostSecret the most interesting I've seen in awhile. Not entirely sure why it struck me that way.)
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Hope you enjoyed.

<sub>I keep forgetting about my 365. I'm sorry. I'm not intentionally doing it. Every time I get with the boy, I just forget about it. This time it was a sweet picnic date we went on... I just forgot to bring my camera out there. Had it been sitting next to me, that would have been a perfect picture opportunity.

And it's aggravating that I forgot.

I have a few uploads I'm going to be making here shortly, anyway, for my art journal. Sorry my photography hasn't been as frequently uploaded lately. I just haven't had much time to do anything...

I really hate school.</sub>

<sub>Typically, when I begin a new journal entry, I try to have something profound to say. However: this is not a typical time for me.

I find myself getting more and more restless. Part of me is a bit homesick, but if nothing else, I am just sick of this town and school. I want a break. I just need a three-day weekend to get out and do something fun and clear my head.

I feel overwhelmed all the time with my schoolwork and it's all I can do from breaking down, sometimes.

I have, however, been feeling rejuvenated in the way of writing and art. Being on the paper isn't killing me as it was last semester... I've found a genre of writing I enjoy, an editor who is fun to be around and my art isn't suffering when I do work on it.

School may be stressing me out, but I'm feeling a lot better about everything else. Now, if I could just get that break...

Profile with links to all of my stuff: [link]</sub>

<sub>So, it has been too long since I have taken pictures just to take them. I have quite a list of things to get done Tuesday that ~chelsea2435 plans on helping me with (girl, you have no idea how much I owe you after everything you've done for me--and I do owe you, don't fight it). Hopefully, in between all of that, I can manage to go out and take some pictures. I am feeling the withdrawals. Everyday I sign into deviantART and I see all of these people who have gone out of their way to just take pictures, and great ones at that. I really do think I have come up with some great stuff in the past. It may not be as great as others' or a different style, but I love what I come up with. I just haven't come up with much lately. And since not much other than school has been happening, there isn't much to report for my Project 365, Modified, which, I knew going into this, I would have that problem, but it still sucks to have absolutely nothing to upload for you guys. I even have plans and marked pages in my art journal and I haven't touched it in forever, either.

French class has been my somewhat overwhelming element tonight. It really is frustrating, and I think I am getting a tension headache from the work. I thought I was just hungry, so I ate, but I still have a headache (maybe the Coke didn't help), but I think I need a Reese's Cup. They may be my taste bud's Kryptonite, but the chocolate would release some testy endorphins in my system right now. Srsly. I need something now.

I guess I am always in a state of starting never-ending projects. No, the ones I am referring to now are not art projects. It's just personal promises I have made to myself.

Like happiness.

I've written about it some in my blog. Just recently, actually: "100 Words: Make your own happiness." Have you guys been going by there? Lately I haven't had much to say or much time to say it, but I hope that changes soon. I might sit down and write something about my weekend. Who knows, really? Anyway! The point I am trying to make is too often I find myself giving into whatever my mind wants. Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, your mind wants to submit to more depressing thoughts? That has been my problem the past month. Whether it is school or just other things that really only exist in my own mind, I find when I am most bored, things will suddenly get rough. And I am done with it. It's all a mental game. Sadly enough, too many people refuse to see it that way, but even when I started succumbing to sadder thoughts, I knew it. And it may be why it is so easy for me to snap out of it, because I know it and have the will to just get the fuck over it.

I am happy. I have a wonderful life. And there is so much that gives me joy.

So that is my personal project, or one of them really, to just tell my brain to shut the fuck up and just be happy.

And I know, I still haven't gotten a picture of the boy for my project. That is to come shortly. I have a  picture, it's just not what I want to add to this particular collection. I'll get it together soon. I promise.

Until I finally get it together art-wise, follow me on Google Reader, my blog and Twitter. At least you'll know what I'm doing then.

- Jennifer</sub>