Don't forget your roots. But also don't ROT.

You're worried about the plane going down? What are you, a pilot? -jm

tough lover

i constantly have lists, but today i made a serious one. a life list. inspired by http://www.mightygirl.net/mighty-life-list/

my life list:

1. go dog sledding
2. ballet lessons
3. safari trip
4. see cirque de soleil
5. see barnum & bailey circus
6. see lion king play
7. volunteer with lions in another country
8. rock climb. a lot.
9. stay in the tree houses in costa rica
10. go to the newberry library
11. trip to belize
12. go sailing again
13. stay at a cottage in new england
14. pay off credit cards
15. kayak. maybe even ROLL!
16. skydive
17. boxing classes
18. improv classes
19. learn to play piano
20. learn to do great eye makeup – well, and wear it often
21. heal my injury & continue great posture
22. finish my website
23. start a design-per-wk blog
24. make more infographics
25. start sharing design work on a site (have an invitation!!!)
26. buy a better camera
27. download more music
28. learn more about politics
29. create brittneys tattoo design
30. get a nice pen – and make my own ink
31. paint my face in kiss makeup and be photographed
32. be photographed wearing a fur hat
33. design a font
34. find the perfect swimsuit
35. grow my hair long enough to seriously braid
36. be little red riding hood for halloween
37. put bright colors in my closet
38. fill my sketch book
39. buy a bright winter coat
40. try to wear a necklace
41. fur vest
42. find a use for mason jars
43. learn how to polish shoes
44. see typeface
45. decorative bowls for jewelry
46. use google reader
47. have a serious savings acct
48. ask for help
49. wear shoes & clothes i never wear
50. buy a really big sweater
51. pottery
52. street bike
53. fly a kite as an adult
54. go on a jungle safari
55. sleep on brandon and brian’s balcony
56. conquer men’s egos with mario brothers
57. take someone i love to a christmas party
58. make my own christmas cards
59. write a book
60. learn web. seriously learn web design.
61. design, design a lot, for myself and for great causes
62. check out LA – just because you have to
63. start something and get others involved in it
64. sell something i totally dig
65. ziplining
66. make my speaker-in-a-suitcase
67. jump off a cliff into water
68. smoke a cigar
69. own a horse
70. be a runner
71. stop working a 9-5
72. californication soundtrack(s)
73. grind my own coffee
74. do a 30-day cleanse for me (be chief)
75. learn a foreign language
76. see live jazz at the green mill
77. show my work in an art expo
78. get my own christmas tree
79. try ice skating
80. design a deck of cards
81. take another trip to california before spring 2011
82. brand my fox studio complete with site and new bus cards
83. have a grill
84. pin-up photo shoot
85. spend a weekend in boston
86. try my hardest not to sleep more than 7 hours/night
87. plant a garden
88. illustrate a book
89. buy renter’s insurance
90. organize a getaway for just me and my brothers
91. record myself playing piano and singing and post it on my blog (!)
92. buy and use anti-aging creams
93. have a dinner party
94. replace any of my dishes that are white with BRIGHT
95. sing amazing grace in front of someone(s)
96. go horse back riding
97. hire a cleaning lady
98. own a hammock & use it regularly
99. lasik
100. have a blog with advertisements and serious readers

i had a serious list for the summer : http://jenniferwisniewski.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-spent-good-portion-of-my-day-multi.html and then i got a terrible soccer injury.

so, i had to improvise. what i have accomplished this year:

1. gone parasailing
2. BA in visual comunications
3. learn letterspress
4. buy a fur hat
5. buy yellow rainboots
6. cover an entire wall with maps
7. go camping 3+ times in one season
8. have health insurance
9. apologize when i should
10. make my first student loan payment
11. pro-bono work
12. deer antlers for my apartment
13. ladder shelf
14. be good at driving a manual

can't i just always have this?

you know when life just works?
that's today. well most of it.



highlights:
laughed with people i like
learned more about my baby brother
watched my two cousins seriously chomp a hockey team 7-3
#16! #33! my lil hockey rug rats
found prettiest scarf that i've seen in over 2 yrs. now its mine. #baller

it was seriously the best. i wish i could hang around my brothers all the time.

best lines:
jw: justin, you date girls that run out of bars crying. that's "your type."

kev: i kind of like this girl, i don't know what it is about her. sometimes i get the vibe she likes me and then other times i don't.
jw: just don't text her, you'll have her wrapped around your finger in no time. wait, does she have blonde hair?
kev: no, brunette.
jw: cool, do what i said.

jw; he's my precious baby angel
marj; he's so lucky to have a sister like you
jw; tell me about it
kev; dude, you're embarrassing

aaron: yeah i think you girls giggling missed like four goals actually. will it be like this the whole game?

i started designing this earlier tonight and decided i'd do one page of people per week that have been influential in my life. startin' with the closest folks.

blogging to american football, suits the scene

i saw this movie tonight:

it's so interesting the things that remind you in which capacity you are supposed to be maintaining young within. when did life get so serious? one part of me doesn't even want to sleep, i just want to work and feel something for what i spend all day doing. the other half of me wants to stay in watching hank moody be a rockstar on californication until something comes across the screen that reminds me what i'm fighting for. what omni track can swing me back?

my injury has really re-shaped my life in a magnitude of ways that are almost incomprehensible to someone like myself. i don't understand limits. always finding a rift in the rule book. isn't that the point? maybe a few other things matter, like surround sound or something. my body doesn't understand a life without endorphins, or... for fucksake, FUTBOL.

this year has been weird, in the most unsettling of ways. when something was dropped into my lap the other day (figuratively), i put my hands up and shook my head and asked "why the FUCK are we all living inside one big haunted house?" every person that's even moderately close to me is having a rough time. we're all just exchanging rooms with one another. and it's a freaking maze. i haven't outrun the men with chainsaws yet.

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the best thing

this is my life right now. it's absolutely excellent.

my suga's getting sowr

My baby brother turns 17 today. I feel like I should be stepping into an elderly home. I couldn’t imagine kevy ever being older than 12, with his curly blonde head of hair and DC shoes. Doesn’t it seem so often the case with siblings---they become closer when one moves away? Every day of my life while I lived with kev, I would beat up on him and he would tell on me. It was a great thing we had going…really. I moved away and almost instantly fell in love with my little brother. I worried about him all the time. I started finding ways to ensure he worked hard to have good grades. He has this naturally happy, honest and translucent aura to him. Incredibly tall, but very skinny- you always notice him… and he’s always always smiling. So impactful. I think of that smile twenty times a day.

I was visiting home one day this summer and we had spend the entire day at the beach. Went back to my mums and I was just relaxing in the four seasons room with my arms folded behind my head and my legs crossed above my feet. Kevin came and sat with me the entire time and just talked to me. My god, he can make me laugh. Like, really really laugh. He uses his hands when he speaks- I always appreciate people who do that. That day we’re both sitting there just talking about something my older brother had said while we were at the beach and Kevin stopped mid sentence, put his hands out and sort of up in the air and said “GOD I just canNOT get over justin’s hair. I’m justttttt OBSESSED with it.” My brother is a handsome fella and can make me laugh in about an instant with all his goofy voices. He always says to me, “jenny, you’re my girl.” But that hair… man, that hair… it’s his trademark. And kevy’s is his smile.

Things aren’t so black and white now, but I’m proud of where I came from. I have two astoundingly optimistic men as siblings and i’m so thankful I never had a sister. I can swoon most girls, but man… I do not like to share things with them.

Anyway, much love to muh boyz.

total tuesday; inspiration

what made me geek out today;

on tha' list

aaaaaand finally, THIS makes my 80+ hour week of work & freelance worth it.

again, check out project nia because they do awesome stuff.

bite o' fall - zaZZZZzzZZZing

saturday evening was:

fall - cider - cookies - rain - jams (notorious & xx) - pumpkin seeds - carving pumpkins -

........ALL IN PLAID! i felt like i was in a costume.

[hey, when is the last time you had a coat with a hood? hey fall, heyyy]

oh! yeah! i carved a spider-web pumpk! baller-style.

all the best ideas

ash and i used to have sunday fundays every sunday. then summer came and i started being out of town. we sort of had one on saturday. it was full of inspiration, music, sketching, talking, planning, figuring things out, solving problems, coffee, reading, 0o0o0oh and birthday ice cream... (and presents!)

[letterpress print i printed here over memorial day for ash]

they told me i don't need to worry

prior to heading out friday night, we had a dance and photo 7th grade party. it was awesome.


flat iron arts hosted a FASHION MASH this last friday. all of the flat iron studios were open and then a fashion show at double door. it was phenomenal.

[live music]

[obsessed with this guy...]

[the hipster version of eminem]
[fashion show]





[double door bathrooms...AHHH]