I want to be a Jewel. Do you?

Wow. You know, you really shouldn't eat Sour Patch Kid candies while you're in the middle of a once-a-day, 14 day, 3D Crest white strip treatment for your teeth. (That was quite the sentence if I do say so myself.) 


I feel like a invisible gremlin is driving razor sharp toothpicks into the roots of my precious bicuspids.


I'm not sure if it's normal to feel this much sensitivity during a whitening treatment? Perhaps my teeth will fall out. Maybe I should have just been happy with the slightly dingy yellowness? That's better than having no teeth at all. 


*sigh*


The things we do for beauty. 

Well, I came on here to actually write about something, so I suppose I should get started. *ehhem* Here we go! 

The Art of Thrifting.

What is “thrifting?” According to Microsoft Word 2007, it's a word in the English vocabulary that does not exist. Squiggly red lines grace the bottom of the letters, trying to annoy me enough to change the spelling to simply, “Thrift.” However, I dare say "thrifting" IS a word. I will add it to the dictionary in Microsoft Word 2007, so it believes me as well.

Much better, squiggly red lines have vanished! I am the squiggly line vanisher!

No, but seriously, what is “thrifting” and how does one actually go about doing the act of “thrifting?”

I started thrifting because I had little money to spend on clothes as a teenager/college student. I remember my first amazing thrift store find. Back in highschool, I was invited to go to a local schools' dance with my friend Andrew Howe. I had nothing to wear and knew that I, nor my parents had extra cash to spend on an expensive formal dress.

Why I'm excited for work every morning...

I don't exactly know what to write about today.

I guess I'll start with, "Holy mother of awesome pants! I love my job!!" (Yes, awesome pants)

By now, I'm sure most (if not all) of you know I work for JCTV - we're a Christian Youth/Young Adult television Network based out of Tustin, CA.

It actually has been slightly frustrating these past months of working - until yesterday.

You see, up until yesterday, I wasn't fully sure what my job actually entailed. Sometimes I programmed the music videos, sometimes I wrote short scripts, sometimes I organized tapes....

It was mostly frustrating because I've been having to ask over and over; "Uh...ok, what can I do next?" Now I understand that this is completely normal for when starting a new job, but I wasn't even sure how much liberty I had to say, "So, I see a potential area for growth here...can I step in and improve the workflow in this area?" Etc.

So, yesterday we had an all JCTV meeting that took nearly 4 hours. You'd think we would have left feeling completely exhausted... but the truth is, we left (or at least I left) feeling completely liberated and excited for the future of JCTV.