Saturday, January 22, 2011

There's a first for everything.

Okay, so ive had a pretty insane past couple of days.
A couple things have happened that are totes worth blogging.
To begin, i experienced my first ever fender bender.
It went something like this:
So im driving through town, NOT texting, NOT going over the speed limit, NOT following too close, and all of a sudden, the guy in front of me (vehicle description: really hott chevy moded out truck) stops abruptly. I happen to be looking in the odies parking lot to see if it was kiana sitting in her car, which it was.
Then i look forward, totally saw it coming, slammed on my breaks, said a couple out of control words and WAMMMMM.
In the hustle and bustle of the crash, my iTrip thingy popped out so all i hear is a screeching radio. Also, all my school books plunder to the front of my car and are now sitting in my dash board. And lastly, amongst the tragedy i must have accidently hit my gear shift into neutral so im like "OH CRAP! I cant drive!" So obviously im thinking i like destroyed my car or something.
Okay, now GET THIS.
The guy that i hit just pulls into tesoro, gets out of this car smoking a ciggarette, calls 911 all chill like, looks at me sitting in the middle of the road with my hazards on and throws me a "are you okay?" hand gesture. Im like sitting there balling my eyes out, and return the "yeah. idiot." gesture back. And of course, since im "okay" he thinks itd be fine to just mob on into tesoro and get himself a coffee...
The cops then show up and take our information and what not. My car wasnt nearly as bad as i thought, and the officer got in and just drove it right up to tesoro, making me look/feel like more of an idiot.
On the upside, the guy i hit was real real nice. (:


Cool, huh?
-Jena

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Memories. To the best of my memory.

1. Christmas Tree Valley snowmachine rides.
2. My dolly that i could NOT sleep without.
3. My dad praying with me everynight.
4. The fact that i used a pacifer for wayyy over the usual age limit.
5. Spending mass amounts of time at my Aunts house through the woods.
6. The water winnie.
7. 6 people getting ready for church on Sunday mornings.
8. My brothers putting a bean bag on my face and sitting on it.
9. The family video camera.
10. Spying on Dane and his girlfriend.
11. The window wells in my 2nd house.
12. Crying with my mom when we moved to Colorado.
13. Having a forehead that was WAY to big for my body.
14. Dance recitals.
15. Vergines asking me to be in company after my first year of dance.
16. Being babysat by Beau and Tamara.
17. Peninsula Christian Center.
18. Being in my kindergarten teachers wedding.
19. Getting my first walk-man.
20. Christmas morning.
21. My dad talking to 'santa' on the phone.
22. My green blanket.
23. Getting extremely homnesick.
24. 340 Polaris Indy Lite.
25. Running into a tree on ^
26. Crashing on my bike, getting a concussion, forgetting a whole day.
27. Shooting in the gravel pit.
28. Stealing the video camera, going up to my room and creating "the jena show".
29. Performances with my cousin/best friend from fairbanks.
30. Granny and Papa's house.
31. "The airplane". Welded by Papa, and the cause of the scars on my fingers.
32. The cabin in Eagle Lake.
33. The rock pool at Grandmas house in Hawaii.
34. Chasing chickens on the Hawaii farm, and bringing Grandma bullfrogs.
35. Being 100% convinced that boogy boarding and surfing were the same thing.
36. Re-doing my hair 500 times before ballet class.
37. Mr. Aram calling me Emily for the first 2 months he taught me.
38. "The mat" at Aunt T's house.
39. Falling asleep on the front of Spunkle's snowmachine.
40. Taking off on the Kitty Kat at 4 years old.
41. Getting my first fishing pole, and 22 rifle.
42. Watching A Christmas Story over and over on Christmas Eve.
43. Thinking i was the master of sign language all through 1st grade.
44. Playing "Fear Factor" and making my friends eat nasty crap on the playground.
45. Falling through the trampoline.
46. Easter egg hunts where my dad would run into the house like he forgot his Bible on easter morning, and hide all the eggs real quick.
47. The christmas year that we switched to fake trees.
48. Chili on christmas eve at granny and papas.
49. Money in my birthday cards from ET and Spunkle.
50. Camping every single weekend of summer throughout my whole childhood.
51. Driving my uncles truck all the way down Swanson, telling him it was not the first time i ever drove. But, it was.
52. Growing up riding in the boat watching my brothers wakeboard.
53. The paddle boat that never actually paddled.
54. East Redoubt road.
55. Getting lost in wilderness way.
56. Being bitten by a scorpion in Hawaii.
57. Two red three wheelers.
58. Being on snowmachines 24/7 for the entire week my cousins would visit.
59. Drawing on the piano.
60. Putting on 5 pairs of pants when i knew i was going to get spanked for drawing on the piano.
61. Reading 'you are special' with my mom.
62. Yearly school clothes shopping.
63. 4 chocolate milks on the counter every morning when we woke up.
64. My first pair of glasses.
65. My first pair of glue on nails.
66. Bernstein bear books every single night.
67. Being scared out of my mind after watching CSI for the first time.
68. Laying in my crib singing and telling stories to myself for hours on end. I was a nightowl.
69. Mommy playing the piano every night.
70. Not being able to remember a single night where some kind of instrument wasn't being played in my house.
71. My first pair of UGGS. (:
72. Giant dog from Grandpa.
73. Getting wood with papa, riding on the side of the big yellow tractor.
74. The craftsman lawnmower that served as all the grandkids toy, to this day.
75. My first red, with silver hearts dance costume.
76. Running into the side of a door at Cody Carrols halloween party in 4th grade. The result of the scar thats still on my forehead.
77. Discovering scrunchies.
78. 10 hard shell taco bell tacos for the Poppin suburban after church on Sundays.
79. The smell of Granny and Papas house.
80. The same christmas CD every year, growing up, being played on the giant CD player in the living room.
81. When Dane got his first girlfriend.
82. Fearless Leader.
83. Moving to Colorado, seeing Papa cry for the first time ever.
84. Long boarding down our HUGE Colorado driveway, scraping my whole back.
85. My best friends going away party, and then mine.
86. The day i decided i loved country music.
87. Going to every A Static Lullaby show we could possible make.
88. Blowing bubbles on the 6th floor porch.
89. Exploring Grandma and Grandpas upstairs when mom and dad were gone.
90. Every years school pictures out on every birthday.
91. The year i played basketball.
92. Little Beaver Bible Camp.
93. The BLOB.
94. Flying kites on mothers day with dustin and uncle lee.
95. The day we got Dani Doo.
96. Popping Daddys toes.
97. Getting my first pink razor cell phone.
98. New York City Dance Alliance.
99. "Bounce my bed and pray with me."
100. Accepting Jesus.