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Happy New Years! +Pics from Chattanooga!

Posted by Jessica on December 31, 2009 at 10:11 pm in fun, life
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So, I’m back from my trip. It was awesome. Downtown Chattanooga has some interesting things about downtown… either that or I don’t get out much, lol.

Anyway, here are some of the random pictures that I took!

On A Horse Statue in Coolidge Park

On A Horse Statue in Coolidge Park

On an adjacent Elephant statue

On an adjacent Elephant statue

Next to the Tennessee River and the Delta Queen

Next to the Tennessee River and the Delta Queen

The Delta Queen from ...some bridge we walked across, lol

The Delta Queen from ...some bridge we walked across, lol

Some statues of a pair of feet. x3 Interesting statues.

Some statues of a pair of feet. x3 Interesting statues. And for reference, I'm about 5'5.

In front of the Chattanooga Aquarium that we were too broke to go into

In front of the Chattanooga Aquarium that we were too broke to go into

I saw this totally awesome guy waiting for a high-five, so I gave him one.

I saw this totally awesome guy waiting for a high-five, so I gave him one.

Lol, so that was one day of my trip. Chattanooga is a very artsy town. I spent most of my city life in Nashville, Tennessee and I’m too afraid to drive downtown, I’ve had a few bad experiences, but this makes me want to go downtown before I go back to Knoxville for the next semester. I just recently learned that Nashville has a walking bridge. I’ve been living here most of my life and I didn’t know that!

Anyway, tomorrow I go with my mother to get my hair cut. I’ll do some before and after pictures, but it probably won’t be anything too drastic. This is more or less a manicure visit since I haven’t been to the stylist since September.

Happy New Years, everyone! ^^ Be safe and good luck on the new year!

How often do you go exploring in the city?
Does your town/city have something interesting about it?

Happy Holidays and Going To Chattanooga (Again!)

Posted by Jessica on December 27, 2009 at 5:04 am in Ramblings, life
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Yeah, I know I went earlier this month, but meh, I’m going again. I’ll be gone for three days and I’ll return on the 30th. ^^

Christmas was awesome. I mostly cooked and ate and that was just fine with me. I’d put pictures up of my gifts, but I don’t really feel like it at the moment. I’m too tired/lazy to actually do it. >_< But I did get a Snuggie. I was kinda surprised because… well, the commericals make me angry. Like you can’t read a book or hold a baby because blankets are too much trouble.. But, I got one and I do enjoy it, lol.

I also finally help my dad set up the iPod Mini. He’s technology impaired and things I’m like a Wizard or something on the computer, lol, so I ripped most of his CDs to his computer and added them to his iTunes and such. I’m such a good daughter. I also helped my sister set up her Zune. My dad still wants me to get him some Skullcandy headphones. I let him use mine and he fell in love with them. He actually tried to steal them from me! But they’re pink and mine, so I wouldn’t let him and promised to buy him a pair back on campus since the campus electronic store sells them at a discounted price.

I’m not sure what else to mention in this post. I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday and I’ll be back with you for the New Year!

What did you get for Christmas?
Excited for the year to be over with?
Made a New Years Resolution yet?

Babysitting and Baby-colds

Posted by Jessica on December 24, 2009 at 3:34 am in Writings, life
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So, on Monday I did my mother a favor and took over her day babysitting her niece (My cousin Crystal)’s kids. Crystal has two little ones, a nine year old boy and a four year old girl. It wasn’t so bad, they were really good. Besides being a over-excited about playing video games, they were awesome. There was even a third kid who was another cousin that was staying over that was good as gold, so I was watching three kids from about 2-6pm, which was perfectly fine with me.

Well, the four-year old that I was watching had a bad cough. I didn’t think too much of it and told her to cover her mouth when she coughed and kept hand sanitizer handy. Well, I ended up getting sick yesterday. I stayed all day in bed and hoped that it wouldn’t get worse than a fever and congestion.  And luckily, when I woke up this morning, I felt much better!

Lol, onto other subjects! I’ve been doing a bunch of nothing still. It’s driving me insane. Whenever I’m on campus, I always feel busy or have somewhere to go, even if it’s just a walk. But at home, it’s home or going out, but what is there really to do when you’re sorta broke? Lol, campus and classes are starting to look more and more exciting.

On Sunday, I’m heading down to Chattanooga to visit with my friends. It should be a fun few days. I’ve been to Alana’s house a few times and this’ll be the first time I’ve gone to my friend Jessica’s. I’m excited!

So, now onto the subject of Christmas, which I’m fairly certain a lot of people are thinking about.  I’ve started cooking already with my grandmother. Yeah, I think two days in advance is a bit much, but my mom can’t make cornbread for nothing and we need it for Christmas and if my grandma feels like doing it today, I guess we are.

I hope that Christmas goes smoothly. I really like nice quiet holidays. The craziness is fun for a bit, but I just like to relax… that and open presents. Yay, presents!

I also started yet another short story. This time it’s from the point of view of a woman! Le gasp! Hopefully it’ll turn into something interesting and if it does, you can be certain that it’ll appear on my Works page. :)

I can’t think of much else to say for the moment, so I’ll end this entry here. I’ll update again on Christmas!

Casino Trip!

Posted by Jessica on December 19, 2009 at 6:10 am in Writings, life
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Well, I’m back from Metropolis, Illinois. I’ve actually been back for a few days, I’ve just been way too busy to update the blog lately.

Well, to all of those who have never been gambling, there isn’t much to it. It was like being in a huge arcade that took dollars with a bunch of uptight middle aged people. The employees were cool and my parents rocked, but besides that, everyone else sucked. I think the most I won at any time was $25, lol

However, the hotel did have a nice view.

That’s the Ohio River in the background. Apparently, outside of Las Vegas and Indian Reservations, it’s illegal to have casinos on land, so every other casino is over water. Interesting stuff!

Also! Metropolis, Illinois is also the hometown of Superman. The entire city is Superman theme. Even the town paper is called the Planet. There is also a HUGE Superman statue in the townsquare!

Yours Truly in front of the Statue

Yours Truly in front of the Statue

I think the festive hat was a nice touch. Apparently Superman is very American and believes in Santa! It was really nice to see!

So, the short story that I was writing is finished at seven pages. It wasn’t smutty at all, sadly. So! I am currently working on a self-indulging sequel to the story inwhich the two characters get togehter. Want to read? It’s called “Moving On” and its located under the “Works” Section, listed above, or just click here. I’ll post again when the sequel is finished!

On December 27-29th, I’ll be going back to Chattanooga. I’ll stay two days with my friend Jessica and I’ll be staying a night with my friend Alana before I come back and get ready for the new year.

Well, that’s all for now!

What was the last trip you were on?
Ever been gambling before?

Christmas Shopping, Bibimbo, and Opryland Hotel

Posted by Jessica on December 13, 2009 at 5:47 am in life
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Well, last night, I was reminded by my friend that I was supposed to take her Chrismtas shopping. It had totally slipped my mind and I played it off all, “Of course! Be there at one!”

So! Lol, I went to my friend’s house that’s a good thirty minutes away and took her to a mall and a few stores. She had told me to pick something out as a present while we were shopping around at the different stores, but I could never figure out what I had wanted. We ended up going to a delicious Japanese restaurant called ‘Sapporo’. Mmm!

We started off with some Miso Soup and some kind of salad that I forgot the name of. It was wonderful, really. The Miso soup had the best tofu I had ever eaten in my entire life, but then again, I haven’t eaten a lot of properly cooked tofu.

The main course of the meal was the Bibimbo. I got the fried egg! Delicious! I was honestly kind of wary about eating this. I have a habit of whenever I go to an unfamiliar restaurant, I order what ever someone at the next table has if it looks appealing enough, this case was no different. I’m glad I did, it was delicious.

And since we were unsure if the above was enough for us both, we also ordered and split some Crunchy Shrimp Sushi. We were both thoroughly stuffed by the end of the meal, and had to get a to-go box.

Well, after that, I dropped my friend back off at her house and came back home. I waited for my aunt and a cousin to order pizza and then we went to the Opryland Hotel. Every year the hotel puts up an impressive array of Christmas lights and it a lot of fun to simply go wander around the HUGE hotel and take pictures and such. :)

To see the pictures from Opryland, look under the cut.

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