Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

I do this every year, (or, at least, every year since 2003) and it is absolutely compulsory.

As in years past, I must preface this with a warning to not proceed if you have delicate sensibilities. I would say, though, that overall, I've been especially good this year. Read More »

Each year, we at the house take an intimate look at the last 12 months, in a frighteningly frank way. This is to keep things honest, despite anything else that may have been written. This year it seems more important that ever, because we haven't been checking in as much.

As always, if you think you may be offended by cursing, graphic sexuality, talk about death, destructive relationships, or substance abuse, among other topics, turn away now. Have some kittens.

In addition, if you feel that such talk might ruin your holiday, save the read until after the new year.

And now, on with the show. Read More »

“Aw, you know you loved it.”

“Well of course I did. But it's not the same when there's no conclusion to the whole thing. I just got so wound up.”

“It's different for women though.”

“That's the thing, he was right there with me, if you know what I mean.”

“Huh.”

“He was in the bathroom for like 5 minutes afterward though.”

“I see.”

“He came to a conclusion on his own, didn't he?”

“Oh yeah, definitely.”

“Dammit. You know what really sucks? I haven't had a decent conclusion since that morning.”

“Ou, that's rough.”

“I know. right? It's like I got rewired or something. I used to be, like, master of my own conclusions!”

“The first two syllables of that phrase being the operative ones.”

New design. The idea came from something my dear CB said to a group of people seated around a table with me on my last birthday, a table that constituted just a fraction of the people that showed up that night to spend time with me: “Jenna has a black belt in popularity.”

People talking about how likable I am will never get old.

Geek talk with CB; lunch with Mom and Dad, because they think everything I say is hilarious and they make me feel like a standup comic; Hot Kathy (Demo) by Apes & Androids; EveryTopicInTheUniverseExceptChickens.com; Defaced; the photos of Franca Alejandra (warning: some are NSFW);The Scissor Sisters on Passions (which you've got to admit is just fucking weird; twitter (like having an AIM "away" message without the annoyance of actually using IM of any kind); “You move Smoothly!: Cute five-year old breaks out moves, kicks out jams, etc.” Let My People Come, The Musical; “Slab City. Several hundred people spontaneously built a city on desert land that was owned by the government, and continued to occupy it for decades despite the absence of any services that are taken for granted in civilization, such as water, power, gas, sewage, garbage, phone, postal or governmental authority.”

We do this every year. Frank, R-rated discussion of friends, drinking, sex, music, money, illness, politics, and many other subjects follow. If you are a sensitive, delicate flower, I suggest you go elsewhere. Particularly if you are over 50 (if you baby boomers proceed anyway, I'll bear no responsibility for possible heart attacks). Read More »

Seeing the Indian for three weekends in a row; Etta James live in concert; the OK Go treadmill dance; the OK Go Million Ways dance, getting most or all of my news from the show with zefrank; questions and answers on Consumating; watching Goodfellas on a loop; arguing the merits of the new My Chemical Romance record with Neil and CB; driving from point A to point B without my car breaking down (2 out of the last 6 trips. Could be worse).

I've been running stats on this site since June, and I get plenty of hits for the standard search words: jenna's house, jenna, jenna tollerson, whore house, but sometimes I have to run the search terms on my own site to figure out how the hell they got to me. Witness the following:

how to be a web whore
who is dr. pepper's chief operating officer now?
massive idiosyncrasies
and they rode on in the friscalating
vintage budwieser t shirts
drawing on drunk friends with sharpies
is+it++possible+or+anyway+i+can+talk+to+chris+brown+in+person?

The last one is my personal favorite. It's kind of like someone is using Google as a wishing well.

So it's your friend's birthday, and he's plastered. He just got his own fancy digital camera, and he takes about 200 pictures of you (and at least 1000 more of everyone around you). One of them is bound to come out good.

My dear, dear friends; CB insisting that I go see Beck with him, and that it's his treat; fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; quality time with Zach at the beginning of happy hour; getting plenty of sleep; owning up to the fact that I was horribly unhappy at my old job, and even though I have no money now, I somehow still feel like the luckiest girl in the world