the (mis)adventures of jenna

On Sunday, Joey made my dream come true and took me to a corn maze. (Seriously, I've been wanting to go to one of these forever.) It wa...

All week last week I'd been trying to find a sheet so I could be a ghost to go trick-or-treating. I figured this was the only way to do...

After much, much deliberation (and several failed attempts to get a white sheet secondhand), I have decided not to dress up as a ghost to go...

Several months ago I found a Monarch caterpillar. I named him Stripidy and, for lack of a better spot, stuck him in Joey's water bottle...

My brothers think that if we combine the whiteness, fluffiness, and sassiness of Ernie with the general energy, hyperactivity, and tricksine...

Today is one of those days where I wish I could claim I got dressed in the dark. (I didn't. In fact, I laid my clothes out last night.)...

I was strangely comforted today as I was watching the news online. A headline caught my eye, "Pull Your Pants Up, Dallas!" and I ...

In a valiant effort to save taxpayer dollars, I spent the last twenty minutes peeling unused stamps off old envelopes. I'm doing a mail...

Couplea days ago I looked at Joey and said, "I want to go trick-or-treating this year." Joey looked at me kind of skeptically. ...

VOTE NO AGAINST DRIVING 9 HOURS ON DECEMBER 25! The Iowa Campaign for Healthy Families needs your help to get the truth out about the Family...

I have scarcely felt so miserable except when I've been legitimiately sick. After I drank the evil SoBe NoFear I felt weird, paranoid, ...

Joey and I are at his parent's house this weekend. Mostly we've just loafed around and watched Over the Hedge, played Keen (I beat ...

My parents-in-law sent me some wonderful balloons as a get-well gift, but Henry didn't like them at all! We decided to break him of hi...

We taught Henry the command "stay" by playing hide and seek with him. He gets real excited about it, especially when he "fi...

Henry tries to help us make the bed....and winds up getting stuck under the fitted sheet. Poor kid.

Tomorrow Joey gets all 4 of his wisdom teeth out. I am really looking forward to this for two reasons: 1. I get to take the whole day off w...

OK. Since I accidentally let it slip at work, I'll just make the announcement: JOEY AND I ARE MOVING TO TEXAS. AT THE END OF THE YEAR. ...

It's 3:00 p.m. and I want marshmallows. Really, really bad. I don't know if it's a seasonal thing or what, but I have these ma...

Saturday was my last day as a volunteer at Living History Farms. I expected it to be rather bittersweet, but I was mostly relieved by the t...

I am in such a terrible, grouchy mood today. I have been "slamming" drawers, punching buttons on the copier so that they actually...