.january.
met a boy, the first boy to give me butterflies in a long long time.
was sick.
went to my first drag pageant. frozearts baby.  
cathedrals...jump little children.

.february.
kept that same boy. even though i hated the lack of independence.  
watched RENT for the very first time, and cried.  
realized that i had gained a new best friend, the kind ( Read more... )

i love people who encourage me to be myself.  no matter what ( Read more... )

i've come to the conclusion that there are some quotes that just change your life.
some of them can apply to many situations day to day, and some will forever take you back to a certain place.

sometimes those places aren't all that important, and sometimes they mean more than those quotes could ever say.

"you are that which you pretend to be." -kurt ( Read more... )

so i've been doing a lot of dance stuff lately.  to help me get my life back in its element.

and its been working.
i've been working really hard lately and it makes me feel accomplished.
and it just makes sense.

i just got home from dance....
and i'm sitting at my house by myself....
and i just started thinking.

isn't it funny too look at people and how they change?
and how that affects their relationships with the people around them?

i think it's funny.
kinna weird too.

hannah kinda got pissed at me last night for stuff and it sucked.
it wasn't even a big deal ( Read more... )

i've been in a much better mood lately.  i think a lot of people are very happy about that ( Read more... )

so....
i just got off el telefono.
and i'm now entitled to make a list on lj of everything i love, because right now i'm very happy and i need to shout it to the world.
here goes...

Jess's happy list:

1. 56 days and counting until christmas.  I LOVE CHRISTMAS.
2. I am having a christmas party.  which is even less than 56 days away.  I LOVE CHRISTMAS.
3. I ( Read more... )

i took a nap earlier...
and i had the best dream i've ever had in my life. 
too bad it was a dream.......

it was somewhere around christmas and i was having a get together at my house.  and i had bought really great presents for everyone.  and julie and i had woken up at six in the morning to bake cookies and make other food and decorate.  and my ( Read more... )

6-23 ( Read more... )

some people will say I'm crazy...
in fact, I may even think that myself.
But in the past year of my life I've realized something.  Something that's probably the most important thing I will ever learn.
It's that you can control your own mind, you can think whatever you want and believe whatever you choose.
However, the heart is a much more complex thing ( Read more... )