island adventures, part tres

on saturday, we had a huge bday party for juanita and bryn which was really fun. bestest part was playing "run around the house" which involves... well, running around the (outside of the) house. soooo goooooood. i am trying to think of ways to convert this to an urban apartment setting to not much avail.

anyhoo - that day, we made some apple cake with liberated apples and then headed over to decorate. but i stupidly didn't take any pictures. i was too focussed on enjoying the company and rocking out to timbaland and one republic's ultimate slow jam.

here are some pretty fleurs growing in a tub and niki borrowing some apples for our apple cake to make up for it.



thanks to everyone for such a great weekend!
xs and os,
jess

p.s. and now that the adventure is over, i'm at home and have my period and am generally feeling a little bloated. nothing a few days and a solid dose of vitamin i won't cure.

overdue

so, i've been 29 for 10 days now, and i have to say that i like it. funny how a number increasing by one can make you suddenly get your mojo back, and make you feel like you have your shit somewhat more together.

here are some pics of my illustrious birthday gathering, which ROCKED by the way.




i have amazing friends and i am one lucky lucky 29 year old girl.

(oh, and when i blew out my candles, i had one boyfriend left. sweet. now whether that candle remained lit because i didn't blow on it purposefully is a secret i will never betray. i do like, though, how it's one boyfriend, and not a series of jerkass chumps, cuz that would be depressing.)

ooh! ooh! it's my birfday!

just a quick post since i need to get down to important birfday things like lying on my couch waiting for the phone to ring.
i went on dlisted and here's michael k's list of fellow "birthday sluts":

Dolph Lundgren (50)
Gemma Ward (20)
Jasmine Trias (21)
Dwight Yorke (36)
Hal Hartley (48)
Adam Ant (53)
Dennis Miller (54)
Kate Capshaw (54)
Roseanne (55)
Anna Wintour (58)
Lulu (59)

while most of them are crap, which i already knew, look (especially col) at birthday slut #6. ADAM ANT!!!!! "stand and deliver" was probably a song about him getting his birthday presies. but, holy crap, he's 53!!!

craziness amongst the scorpios. what else is new?

t minus 14 days and counting

why, oh why, am i blowing candles out?
weeeellllll that's because when i was home with la famille, we had a birthday pie (thanks harrow united church and grandma) and i got to do a little pre-emptive candle-blowing-out.

so in anticipation of my favourite national holiday (unrecognized by the ignorant masses), here's the list.

WARNING: these gifts are not practical, but, hey, it's a wish list!
* le creuset kettle (a half one - the 80 dollar kind)
* a little cast iron skillet
* an ipod shuffle (shockingly, i don't want it in turquoise - green or pretty pink please)
* 1 skein of noro "silver thaw" wool from dyelot 5A only available in the states. pooh.
* the "duh" list - the new nigella cookbook, the new (and hopefully not the last) rebus novel
* meaningful gestures from lovely people

party news will be going out SOON.
yesssssss.

(on a completely random note- look at the pic closely - you can actually see my eyebrows! rare occassion my friends)

i be employed

just got a job doing community development.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

i am very very very happy.
it's one of those things where from the minute i saw the posting, i got that "i like that" tingle combined with the "i want that" shiver. and i like and got it.

only thing is i start on monday which is soon but, hey, i've had 2 months off and it's not like i have to postpone it in order to do anything other than lounge on the beach and read. which is what i'm going to do today, along with lots of SHOPPING.

mama's gotta brand new bag, biiiitttccchheeez. that's in a figurative and possibly literal sense - i've been eyeing some bags at roots and today might just be the day jessica wessica stops drooling and coveting and just buys the damn thing.

and it's my dad's birthday - happy birthday, dad!
now for some coffee. (yes, i lived on the wild side and actually did something before ingesting my morning drug).