Dear South Weber Police

Dear South Weber Police,

I know I was speeding but give me a break.

And I'm not talking about a Kit Kat Bar. 
Actually.  I'll take a Kit Kat with my ticket, please.

Love,

Jenn Igrewupinthecountrywhereyoudriveatleast50mphoneveryroad Hansen

Being afraid of bathrooms in general is a rational fear.

It's been decided that I am a bit jumpy these days.  I'm not sure what started it but it's the sad truth.  I might be rounding down when I say that the boys have scared me 5 times last two nights on our trips to the infamous "skate shop."  Sure--it has ramps, and foam pit material but I saw it as more of a decked out crash pad for the homeless of Ogden.  Not kidding. 





This is the actual skate shop.  I  found this pic online and it's "pre-foam pit."
So it looks a bit different now, but this is basically it..


Saturday night was creepy.  The idea of the skate shop was new, doors that shouldn't be moving were moving, and there were sounds--suspicious sounds.  Maybe the shopping cart at the back entrance of the building threw me for a loop and automatically made me assume that homeless people call the skate shop their home.  I'm not sure what it was.  Even after we had more people with us the second night and I had decided that it was a pretty sweet spot and thought I had gotten over the creepy feeling, I still managed to get scared.  No.  Scratch that. Terrified.

I'm already creeped out of the dark so throw in a creepy hallway and an equally creepy Men's bathroom and you have yourself a scene for a horror film. 

"NO WAY my friends would pull a prank on me while I'm peeing after I was already frightened to go into the bathroom. No wayy!"  WRONG.

One of them [he who shall not be named]decided to turn off the lights to the freaky bathroom, mid stream.  Who does that?!   Am I the only one who saw the creepy bathroom scene in Halloween H20?  Am I the only one who remembers THIS?:

My thoughts were immediately flooded with all of the bad things that could happen in a bathroom. Every crazy person from every scary movie standing behind me with a knife or something.  A homeless man kicking down the door and charging. "IT" the Clown standing in the corner.. [OMG, the bathroom scene from that Movie scarred me for life, I swear.] I mean it, our thoughts are trippy and can get out of hand sometimes within a matter of seconds.


So come on people.  Of course I'm going to scream bloody murder and have a not-so-mini freak out where I am on the verge of tears and have to do everything in my power to keep from junk punching someone right up in their bidness while slowing down my heart rate.  I freaked.  I admit it.

So note to my "friends"--Being afraid of bathrooms in general is a rational fear.  I don't care where you are. I've been known to get creeped in church bathrooms too.  So, listen and you listen good. DON'T turn out the lights while I'm in there by myself? ok? ok.

Jersey Shore--Getting into Character.

When we decided that we were going to have an Italy party for last night's season 4  premier of  the Jersey Shore....I, of course, took my party planning seriously even though I knew that most of my friends didn't really care about the show itself (so they say...secretly I know that they are obsessed now)  So I got a whole mess of pizza and even semi-decked out my dining area with some Italy pride!

Everyone showed up a little late but when my boys walked into my apartment for the party I was DYING!  They decided to keep it a secret that they were dressing up for the occasion.  Let's just say, they made my night and I forgot about the fact that they were late.  It was like we had our own little white (minus willy) version of the Jersey Shore right there in my apartment.





Nieko--AKA: DJ Pauly D, Willy--AKA: The Situation, Easton--AKA: Ronnie
(Obviously BEFORE T Shirt Time!)

 BAHAHA.  See why I love them?! omg. Easton even dyed his hair and dang, E...Lookin' Good :)

I was so busy getting stuff ready for the party that I hadn't gotten to do my snooki poof when the boys arrived.  The boys weren't having that.  They followed me into the bathroom and gave me pointers on how to do "the poof" based on what they had seen on the show.  Then we kind of stood there looking at ourselves in the mirror for a sec just like they do before going out to da club. haha.  No joke.   I think we were getting WAY to into character...

See for yourself:


The Situation, Snooki, Ronnie, Pauly D



Don't worry...He's not really touching my "no-no square." in fact...he's pretty far away!  haha. Like I said, we were just really in character..

It's never a dull moment with these boys :)

Here's a a recap from last night's episode so if you haven't watched it yet--stop reading:

1-I still love Jersey Shore

2-I'm still obsessed with Pauly D. 

3-The Situation's hair in season 4 is disgusting!

4-I love Single Ronnie.

5- Snooki and the Situation, say whaaaat?

6- Even though Deena and Pauly's little make out at the end was siiick.. I soooo would kiss that man. no joke!

7-JWoww? GTF.. Gym. Tan. Find out why Jenni did that to her freaking face!

HAPPY FRIDAY, GUIDOS and GUIDETTES :)

Let it strengthen you...

To the BFF--Love you :)

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Love,

Jenn Hardthingsmakeyoustronger Hansen

"It's a numbers game" --Mike the Situation

10- My prediction of how many big fights Ron and Sammi will get in on JS4 Italy....give or take a few, I'm sure.


9- The amount of hours I could probably sleep straight through right now.
 
8- The number of times I've said that I was going to give up watching the Bachelor/Bachelorette....epic FAIL every time!

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7- The amount of hours left in this work day...minus a little.

6-The time that PLL shows on Tuesday nights :)

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5- is for the 5 boys I had "guy" talk with last night.  Oh how I luuuuuuv talkin' bout the ladiessss and being accepted as one of the guys ;) haha

4- The number of times I've already talked to my mom this morning... haha. Oh, I love her.

3- The amount of times I've been to the dentist in the last month and the number of times multiplied by 100 that I've wanted to pull out all of my teeth and just get dentures. ok, ew, but really!

2-DAYS until my JS4 Italy premier party!
 

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1-is for the one little baby boy that I miss so much...MASSSSSON!!!

0- The amount of prizes I freaking won at South Weber Days last night.  Booooooo! Can't home girl at least get a sticker or something? for the love!

Who knew..

 

I think this happens to me too often.....

                    Lesson: Give people a chance. 





Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

Thursday night I ventured out with a couple friends for my first Twilight Concert Series experience in SLC to see Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.  I had only heard a couple of their songs before but loved the ones that I had heard and knew that it would be a good concert.  I mean, LOOK at them:

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So fun!


*Rewind 3 hours*--Jenn goes to dentist for root canal. Jenn gets root canal.  Jenn complains about severe pain.  Jenn gets pain med prescription.  Jenn picks up pain med prescription.  Jenn goes straight to frontrunner to meet willy for concert.  (yeah right.. like I was going to miss the concert on the account of my numbness and intense pain. pshh!) Jenn takes pain meds at concert.  Jenn=dumb, a bit sleepy on the slower songs, a bit blah, but nevertheless, still had fun!


I loved everything about the atmosphere of the concert.  It was free, there were TONS of people there, henna tattoos, little vendors, sunshine, sweaty people toking up..you know.. the usual.


Here's a little taste of what you would have heard had you been at the concert:



(sorry it's live...so there may or may not be a swear or two. But really.. THAT's how fun and alive this band was the other night!)





Mix in a few "Let's have a round of applause for being alive" and "hello beautiful human beings" and thanking the world for trees and stars and such and that pretty much sums up the band and the concert in itself.  It was super inspirational and filled with Hippie Love :)


Most of the people there were super classy too and why do I always make friends with them?! I'm not sure.  It just happens.  The lortabs I took for my teeth might have had something to do with it a bit but I met a girl named megan.  She had tourquoise hair.  We had some good mini convos about her smoking habits, her tattoos and her love for the cancer symbol that she had tattoed on her wrist.  Nieko swore it looked like it said "69" instead.  Either way, it was weird. But for a brief 30 minutes or so, I'd say we were friends for sure. She was nice;)


I know what you're thinking, "Jenn, I really want to see this girl."  haha. Don't you fret.  Nieko made me take a pic with her JUST so you guys could see.  Typical..

bahahahahaha. clASSy.  See the kid with the brown hair in the brown shirt behind her?  He's standing like that because he's trying to hide his pipe.  Megan didn't know him but don't worry, he shared with her.  People at concerts are just so freaking nice :)


I won't even go into the story of the old drunk dude who played with my ear for a few seconds on the frontrunner.  It was like I didn't even know what was going on.  It just happened.  I guess I shouldn't have waved at him?  Whatever.  It was super funny after the fact.


Wow. Two times on the front runner in one week and it hasn't let me down yet.  *insert sarcastic thumbs down*


All in all it was a good time but we were EXHAUSTED after it was over.  I woke up the next morning and my shirt and my keys were on the floor next to the front door and kitchen counter. I guess I was THAT tired.  Who knows? ...Don't ask.  


Well, my beautiful human beings--have a lovely Saturday! :) 

In the midst of a crappy morning, you sometimes need a legit reason to smile...

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...especially if you have to go back to the dentist again so they can get the dang job right. ugh. my life.

Well, Thank you Zac for being today's reason to smile :)...you sexy, sexy man you.

**I've posted so many pics of him in the last year that I'm worried I'm going to run out. But then I remember that these will never get old**

Waaaaa

I seriously just now, on my lunch break, remembered that I bought one of these head massagers from Urban on Monday and haven't busted it out yet:

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Only problem is that it's in Layton...I'm in Salt Lake...


and that's how I feel about the situation. [no pun intended] [actually pun totally intended]

....oh it's onnnn tonight.

Just let go--Out with the bad...In with the new and better

I always have so many topic ideas that pop into my head everyday based on things I'm doing at that certain time.  This last week was not an exception.


If you want to read about the little events of my weekend you can read here. [Just a little tid bit of information: I obviously don't post all of my posts to fbook.]


I thought of at least 4 great blog topics based on the events of last weekend but I remembered that I'm so open with my opinions with the people in my life that the individuals would know that I was referring to their life stories....even the blog titles would give them away...sooo.... to save me from having to explain myself or apologize about my occasional rudeness and honesty, I will just stick with a quick post about "Letting go."


We all have something that we know we need to let go of.  Hatred towards someone who offended us, a past love, a crush, a toxic friendship, fears or even insecurities.  I would classify these as anything that you know is making your life more stressful and dramatic than it needs to be. We've all had at least one of them.

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Honestly, who are we kidding?  There are some things we just can't fix no matter how hard we try.  It's rough but why stress over the unfixable? If your favorite car is broken and all the glue and professional car fixers in the world can't put it back together..sooner or later you have to stop trying and move on.

 Maybe things used to be good and it's hard for you to forget it and let go but the fact of the matter is that people change, circumstances change, feelings change and life in general changes.  As long as you are being honest with yourself and with others, there is nothing more you need to do. There will always be something new right around the corner.

You are allowed to have sad/stressful days and days where everyone around you thinks that you are being competely ridiculous but the beautiful thing is that you can choose how long you let it go on. 

And if you're taking too long and your family or friends are trying to help you...just let them try:)

Out with the bad.  In with the new and BETTER!

**Note**yes, this is me having one of these life realizations today... even Jenn stresses about dumb things sometimes ;)