weird dream

Last night I had a pretty strange dream. Not sure why I'm writing about it but it was pretty interesting from my viewpoint. In the dream I was going to this college, no idea where it was but I went there knowing not a single person. The college was set up like a giant mall, well it was a giant mall. The classrooms were classrooms but once you left one the hallways were filled with shops on each side. Out of nowhere came every single person I had ever met/seen in Longwood High School, many of which were friends but others who I just knew of and had never spoken to. It's been a few hours since I woke up so I don't remember too many specifics but there was a point where Courtney Rainey and Tamar Massen (miss you guys!) were walking somewhere and I was behind them but never said anything and then suddenly Marie Ledger (miss you too :/)came out of nowhere and was like remember the old days, or something like that. More crap happened that I don't remember but then I went outside and sat on the grass with Evan and apparently John Krasinski (Jim from The Office..mmm) went to this school too and was yelling out of this window on some really high floor. He yelled something of which I replied to sarcastically and then he proceeded to tell me to come upstairs. On my way back inside the building Brianna Carro was there and she was like Jennnnn Klockkkk! and that's it haha When I saw him he looked nothing like the real J.K haha but he told me to go to some room, the door said it was called "the cuddle room", and it was pretty much just like a kid's playroom/daycare at a gym. Very, very strange. After that I met back up with Evan and more shit happened that I can't remember but suddenly I was at an office in Bedford, New Hampshire where my Aunt lives. Then I woke up.

Compared to other dreams I've had in the past, this one seems quite normal. For some reason though, it's sticking in my head and I'm tempted to try to fall back asleep and pick up where I left off...but its 1:40 in the afternoon and I have to leave for work in 3 hours.

Speaking of work, this is the last week I'll be working during the week at Michaels for a while. School starts again on September 4th and I'd like to enjoy the last few days before then and just work the weekends that I am home. However, I really want to leave Michaels. Most of the people who I'm good friends with there are leaving/have left already and I really just don't like it there anymore. I used to enjoy going to work but now I can care less about doing my job well. As soon as I find another means of gathering income I'm out of there.

Philadelphia 8/16/08

I woke up at 4:30 in the morning and ended up leaving the house at 6:00 to catch the train from Ronkonkoma to Penn station at 6:40. Surprisingly there were a ton of people on the train which I was not expecting since it was so early on a Saturday morning but it was a typical ride on the LIRR. I got to the city at 8:05 and went upstairs to pick up my Amtrak tickets and then got on the train to Philly at 9:10 and was on my way! The picture above was taken on the Amtrak train.

The train ride was actually really nice and only an hour and a half long. The inside of 30th Street Station was beautiful! I explored around there for a few minutes and then Jeff called me.

Him and I made a plan the night before that he was going to pick me up from the station around noon when he brings his friend Damian there to go back to nyc. However, on the phone he told me that they were all by Independence Hall and he wanted to know if I wanted to meet them there. So I said yes and asked one of the security guards how to get there and if there was a bus that went to that area. He showed me a map and it turns out it was just down the street that the station was on and that it was only about a "15 minute walk". Sounded good enough and keep in mind that I was very quickly so I figured it would take me no time. Well, turns out the walk was over a half hour long and Jeff and I kept calling eachother and all I could say was "5 more minutes". the outside of 30th Street Station

Market Street, the beginning of the trek to Independence Hall

City Hall

Independence Hall

Anyways, eventually I get to Independence Hall, called up Jeff and he said they were sitting in the park behind the building. So I walked over there and finally saw Jeff, Gary, Damian, and their poodle Charli! Hugs were exchanged and then Gary asked if we all wanted to go grab lunch. The 5 of us walked for a while until we found this cute little cafe called Gigi that had tables set up outside so we sat down there and had a really nice lunch. The food was really good; I had a chicken caesar salad (Jeff did as well) and the waiter was really nice, oh and Gary and Jeff wouldn't let me pay so that was extremely nice of them. While eating this old guy was attempting to parallel park right next to us and he failed miserably. It took him forever to just figure out that he had to actually turn his wheel to get his car into the spot. What made watching this guy awesome was that we all just kinda stared at him and then looked at eachother and cracked up. I'm surprised no one spit out their food or drink from laughing so hard. In conclusion, lunch was fun.

We finished lunch a little after 1:00 so Gary and I needed to start going to the theater for Spamalot. On our walk back to the city hall area, there was this random guy who was dancing on the sidewalk and was trying to get people to join in with him. Jeff and I broke out a dance move for like 4 seconds and then proceeded to laugh a lot. We parted ways with Jeff, Damian and Charli and the plan was to meet Jeff back at their hotel after the show. Gary and I started walking towards the theater and he was telling me a lot of random facts about places around the city, he knows his stuff! He took me into this Macy's that used to be some other department store, the name escapes me, but it's like going into a palace or something. The architecture inside was gorgeous and it was also home to the world's largest working pipe organ. When we got to the theater Gary told me to wait by the stage door after the show and he'd come get me and whatnot. I still had a few minutes to waste so I ventured into this small mall which once again, was freaking gorgeous inside and had 2 chandeliers right at the entrance. 1:40 came around and I went back to the theater to get my Spamalot on.

The Kimmel Center where Spamalot is playing until the end of August

The show was great. I saw it on broadway the day before Les Mis closed just because Gary told me he was joining the touring cast and I wanted to see what he was getting himself into. I have to say, the tour (though I'm quite biased because Gary is King Arthur) was much, much better than the broadway version. Gary was a fantastic King and he had the audience in the palm of his hand. In my opinion, with Roger DeBris from The Producers being the best, King Arthur may just be his next best role possibly ever. He was really great!

After the show, I waited about 30 seconds or so then Gary came out of the theater and we started walking back to the hotel. I think we were talking about Europe mostly haha. Anyways, when we got back to their hotel, Gary called Jeff to see if he was coming outside to meet us but he told Gary that he was paying bills and that we should just go up to the room. So we went upstairs to their room to hang out for a while. We watched a lot of CNN, I drank some strange Italian soda they had ( but it was very good), and we played with Charli.
Gary walking in front of Charli haha

For a while now Jeff and I settled on a plan to get cheesesteaks and italian ices when I came to Philadelphia so that was our idea for dinner. There was a marketplace not to far down the road that they said had a lot to choose from but they closed pretty early so we left Charli asleep in the room and went out to get dinner. When we got to the market, pretty much everything there was closed or closing but there was a nice italian restaurant so we got a table outside to eat. We started off with this really good salad and then proceeded to eat our weight in pasta. All of us were extremely full haha. Once again, they said that the meal was on them but I kept insisting to pay at least something. But Gary said that he was going to wait until we went out to a very expensive restaurant and then I could pay for everything because this would simply be a waste hahaha. I managed to have a bus boy take a picture of us right before we left, too bad it's not in focus really.

We left the restaurant and headed back to the hotel. However, not much longer after getting back did Gary have to leave to go back to the theater and do the 8:00 show. I grabbed a picture with him right before he left and then he told me that he'd see me again when they got back to NY, yay.
Gary left at about a quarter to 7 so that left me with just about an hour to hang out with Jeff. We talked for a bit and then we decided to verse eachother in Word Twist, a game which I have not been able to been him in for several months now actually. I lost by 2 freaking points, 2! Ugh. It was fun though.

That would be Jeff's gameface.

Oh yeah, I put up Charli's hair , she really didn't like it at all though haha but it was cute while it lasted!

Jeff told me that he was glad I came to Philly instead of Raliegh or anywhere else because we actually had time to hang out, which was nice. Before I knew it, I had to get ready to leave but Jeff and I managed to take a few pictures before heading outside.

Jeff got Charli and the 3 of us went outside to catch a cab right out of the hotel. While waiting on the sidewalk a bunch of people started coming up and freaking out about Charli and how cute she was haha. We finally got a cab and I gave Jeff a hug goodbye and we decided that we definitely would get together in Ny soon. It sucked to leave but I had a really nice time with everyone and a great day.

The Amtrak back to NY was delayed 2 hours and then once getting back to Penn Station I had to wait another hour until there was a train back to Ronkonkoma. I didn't get home till after 2 am. Ew.

Overall, I had a really great time with Gary and Jeff in Philadelphia. Making a trip to see them has been in the works since February when I was originally going to fly down to Orlando over spring break, and then since that didn't work I was going to try Raliegh, NC but that just never went through. Philly was much easier and it was worth the wait.

I'm back

Life is awesome.

Tomorrow I'm going to Philadelphia to spend the day with Gary and Jeff and see Spamalot in the afternoon to watch Gary rock out as King Arthur. I haven't seen him, or Jeff, since January when Les Mis closed so I'm really looking forward to seeing them. It promises to be a fun time!

The vacation vlog is in the works, I've been really lazy lately with the video stuff lately so bare with me.

Danielle is leaving me in 7 days for New Paltz, blahhh. I'll miss her tons but her first break is the weekend of October 10th...my birthday!

and I love my boyfriend.

That's all for now

Summer Lovin'

My poor, poor blog. I abandoned it for quite some time now, I guess it's time to start posting again. Summer has been pretty sweet so far and I cannot believe it is July already...yikes! August is the exciting month but tomorrow at noon my dad, step mom, brother Mike, and myself are going to Candlewood Lake in Connecticut for a week. Though it is not the usual "stay at a mansion with the best people in the world for 14 days on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina" vacation, I'm pretty excited. We're renting a cute little house right on the lake and I think Mike and I are going to attempt wakeboarding at somepoint during the week. I dropped Kovu off at Snow Drift this past Thursday to stay while I'm away and I can't believe I actually miss him haha. He makes me want to shoot myself when he's home and as soon as I leave him, 2 hours later I'm waiting for him to charge into my room and rip my arm to shreds. Cutie pie.
At the moment I'm sitting in my dad's den watching standup by George Carlin and it's very funny. Speaking of funny...new reality show airs on sunday...I LOVE MONEY! The best contestants from I Love New York, Flavor of Love, and Rock of Love in a house together, a.k.a FREAKING SWEEEEEET!
Oh yeah, so the short film thing I made for Marissa and Danielle's AP Euro class got rave reviews from the class. It should be up on youtube at some point this week. I'm also probably going to make a vacation video blog so that should be fun.

Updates during the week from the lake house. See ya!

Blue Skidoo, Jen Can Too!

So much for the "almost daily updates". I lied. Anyways, busy busy busy lately. I took on the responsibility of assisting Danielle and Marissa with their AP Euro final project which they chose to make a movie for. Any one who knows me well enough knows that making stupid movies is a past time of mine. I went out and bought a sick Sony harddrive video camera and burned $542 doing such, so worth it though, I love it to pieces. Oh yeah and I also had to spend 100 bucks on a new video editing software because the camera outputs mpeg 2 videos which isnt supported by the free stuff. I love pretending I have money!
A quick plot summary of the movie: Marissa, Danielle and I are high school students studying for our art history final in a museum. I am not prepared at all and I jokingly suggest that we should be able to skidoo into paintings like in Blue's Clues and just talk to the artists themselves. Danielle then hits me and knocks me out and her and Marissa leave the museum while I'm unconscious on the floor. A dream sequence then begins and I wake up in new clothes( so I look like Steve from Blue's Clues) and I'm able to skidoo into a bunch of paintings and I then talk to a few artists and all that. Ultimately, I get an A on the test and the terrible friends who left me at the museum fail.
Filming has been a very aggrivating process so far, but it's pretty fun. It's not even my project and I'm doing 70% of the work, I love that. I do school work when I"m not in school and I could care less about my own classes during the semester. We've mainly just been filming at our houses but yesterday morning we all went to the public library really early to film the opening scene which takes place in the museum, since the upper level of the library is an art gallery. We even got a security guard to be in it which was really funny. I'll most likely upload it to youtube when it's finished within the next 2 weeks.
Evan and I are going to see the new Indiana Jones movie tomorrow night, I'm so excited. Him and I have been watching the first 3 this week to refresh our memories. I used to pretend I was Indiana Jones when I was little, I have an authentic hat which cost my parents quite a bit of money, rugged adventure wear and I carried a jumprope in my belt loop as my whip. I was tough...things haven't changed at all ;) Anyways, things with Evan are going really well, I really like him. I haven't been this happy in quite a long time so hooray for that!!
I guess that's all for now. It's almost June already, yikes.

Happy Happy Happy!

Hi! Ok almost daily updates now, I promise! So school has been officially over since last week and I got my grades back the other day ; History of Modern Art- A, Introduction to Ecology - B+, American Heritage 1-A, Fundamentals of Acting- A- (got lazy and didnt do the last play review, oh well), Elementary Spanish - A, College Algebra - A....GPA = 3.83, .03 points higher than the fall semester, yay! haha glad thats over with. Hello summer :)

American Idol season finale is next weeeek! Ahh I'm so excited. We're having an Idol bash at my house Tuesday night (it'll be like a 5 person "bash"...oh man watch out!) so if you wanna come just tell me! Danielle and Marissa are definitely coming, Evan really doesn't want to because he despises American Idol (tell me again how this relationship is going to work?? :P ) but he'll be there! haha and then I think my mom's friend(s) may stop by. Speaking of Idol...guess what I just ordered....4 tickets to the tour in August! My mom, brother Mike, Danielle, and I are going and I'm so freaking excited. August is going to be awesome between the Idol tour and going to see Gary just a few days later in Philadelphia. Happy happy happy :)

Andrew and I decided the other day that we're going to make a youtube show one of these days. We have yet to decide on a name or a concept (with the exception of one scene we planned out) but this just gives me an excuse to waste all my money on a nice video camera! Any donations will be gladly accepted !

It's over!

Hey guys, wow sorry I'm really slacking on this whole blogging thing. My classes really got the best of me this past week so I've had very little time to myself. But I don't have to worry about that happening anymore...CLASSES ARE OVER! WOOOOO. I only have 3 finals to take which all should be somewhat easy. So hooray for me being a college sophomore at 17 years old! haha.

I'm finally getting a new cell phone soon. I'm ordering it in a few minutes so it should be here by the end of the week. Same number and all that jazz, just now I'll have a Blackberry Pearl instead of my Razr that has given me hell since last year when I got it. My Razr likes to turn off randomly and reset itself often and that's always a good time so thankfully it is being replaced.

I have a lot to talk about in this entry since I'm behind a week or so. Last Wednesday on campus was Spring Fling - just a little hang out thing in the Quad during Common Hour. Though it is one of my days off during the week I had to go to school and help out with my acting class since an elementary school was coming to the college. My friend Joe and I had the worst kids ever. They were 3rd graders and they were just maniacs. Working with them cemented my decision to not have kids. No joke, haha. Anyway, after attempting improvs and other games witht hem, a few of the guys from class and myself went to the Spring Fling thing as it was beginning. Right away we grabbed some bbq food and then we spotted this blow up obstacle course where you can race someone so my friend John and I raced first, then I raced Carlee, and then I raced James twice. It was much harder than it looked! I was exhausted by the end and I was graced with a battle wound on my elbow from a loose piece of velcro that I rubbed my arm on while climbing. After that fun adventure, Evan met up with us and we decided to go over to the Campus Crusade for Christ table. Me, John, and Carlee decided to do this activity where they put 3 gumballs in a styrofoam bowl and covered it with whipped cream and the objective was to get all 3 gumballs just using your mouth and then blow a bubble. Sounds easy right? HAH god it was so hard haha. Once I finally found the gumballs I couldnt blow a bubble cause the whipped cream blended with the gum. Gross. John won, I pretty much came in second, and who knows what the hell Carlee was doing haha. We all were so gross and Evan stuck around to watch which was nice :) After that I went home. And yeah... haha There are only a few days where I really love my school and that was one of those days.

The next day (Last Thursday) I went into the city with my step brother's fiance Shannon to celebrate her birthday so we saw a show and after we went out to dinner and ordered over $60 worth of food between the two of us. Keep in mind that our combined weight is barely over 200 pounds haha. It was a good time.

And I look extremely attractive in that picture! Anyways, so after dinner we were catching the 12:19 am train back to Manhasset where Zack (my step-brother) was picking us up. While waiting around by the LIRR board Shannon all of a sudden says "Look it's Tailor Made!" (from I Love New York 2 ) and it was him! He looked so nervous and scared it was hysterical. We followed him around the station for a few minutes and by the t ime we were going to ask him for a picture we lost h im in the crowd.

This past weekend was eh, I went to my Dads house and just got in some good relaxing time. Nothing really eventful happened. Well I guess that's all! I promise to update more often since now I know people actually read this and I'm getting yelled at for not updating enough! haha. Until next time...

I'm really looking forward