Haha I love all of that.

Haha omg just looked at the pics from 2005 and I was super naked. Dress was pretty see through. Glad I did that when I was 18 because I would not do it now...

2004 - black silk, floor length, slip dress. Ralph Lauren and I felt fancier than I ever had before.

I think I have finally, finally figured out my makeup collection. No desire to buy more. I have all the colors I could want. Thank you God. Looking forward to my morning makeup routine and looking fancy for church.

Those pictures are beautiful! And way more exciting than my day, which was driving for ten hours. Woohoo for me that I did it, but sheesh. Massive rain storm for the last two-three hours. I want to lie down and die for days. But tomorrow is Easter so I will be dressing up and churching. And then cooking.

I love my dip brow too :-) It made me realize that I was using wayy the wrong color for my blonde brows. They are pretty full but with the dip brow they match my hair better. Hooray!

That's awesome! Such a good quality to have :-)

Ooh looks good. And not super $$ which is nice!

I wear Lancôme la vie est belle. I love it and get compliments everywhere. That said, I acknowledge that it’s just a mid range scent and not exciting/niche. I’d like to get into perfume but I don’t really know where to start :-(

I was just thinking this. While the adult response is of the “what an idiot” variety, I keep remembering what it felt like to be a young adult and totally invincible - you don't really think anything can happen to you. Whether or not this girl fell off the wagon, college-aged kids do ridiculous things. It's so sad…

Not a single mom, but my mom was. My dad also had a drinking problem, was shitty with money, etc etc, and mom decided that splitting up was the right thing to do. It 100% was. Children sense when their parents are unhappy, and my mom couldn’t have been happy with my dad. We are very close to the point of being best…

I have hair loss caused by dermatitis caused by celiac disease (ughhhhhh) so I just started using Lush New! Shampoo and their Roots hair treatment. Def helps with itching and I’m noticing less fallout. Please think good thoughts for my poor scalp :-(

La Vie Est Belle by Lancôme. Overpowering when I put in on but sweet and mellow moments later. I also have a crazy amount of perfumes but I’m obsessive and have to pair them with shampoo, soap, etc.

I'm putting off writing curriculum on my dream topic (Shakespeare) and watching a hell of a lot of Bones. I'm giving myself a pass bc my plumbing overflowed today...

Oops! My former Jez name was onlydancing. I guess my hub would be bmorebeau now.

Any celiac Jezzies out there?

Wanted to hop in real fast - teaching can make you believe in the future, for sure. I teach acting to students who may need extra attention or help, and recently a girl who was unmanageable and even threatening in the first class totally shone. She took direction, interacted respectfully with other students, and most…

Okay that second picture is going to haunt me.

I was taught child-first language while I was working as a special ed para, but since then I’ve heard arguments on both sides of the issue (with some saying that child-first is problematic). I’ve tried to think of it in terms of my own diagnosis - would I rather be a “bipolar woman” or “a woman with bipolar disorder”…

House on Mango Street completely changed me as a person and as a writer. I read it in middle school - a private girls school where I stuck out as the poor, weird, crazy, queer girl - and I felt so enlivened by a story which described poverty and otherness. Her writing validated my experiences. She’s definitely one of…