Things I could never give up, Web edition........

For my Comm 2400 class we were asked this question: "What is the one Web 2.0 characteristic, platform, or feature you would find hard to give up if you had to...and why?"  

For those of you who don't know what web 2.0 is, it is the the second stage of development of the World Wide Web, characterized especially by the change from static web pages to dynamic or user-generated content and the growth of social media. In layman's terms it's is the "like, comment, share and subscribe," aspect of online material we have today.  What would we do without the "like" button on facebook or the "heart" button on instagram?

If there was one platform or feature that would be hard for me to give up it would have to me YouTube. I love YouTube. I love that I can find any nostalgic video or movie from my childhood as well as fun tutorials and things that make me happy like Good Mythical Morning https://www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink2  or SNL sketches that I missed last week.  It would be hard for me to give YouTube up because it is such a source of laughter and happiness for me, as well as it's not something that I have posted on instagram or facebook and I am constantly watching the like button to see who has liked my photo or video, and hoping that one guy will like your stuff you have posted,(we have all been there). YouTube is a nice outlet for all of that, I just click on a video and I'm suddenly in a good mood. 

Untill next time!! 

xo, Jenna 

Valentine's day= Horror movies.

  To help you, get in the lovey dovey mood  I have compiled a list of the best scary movies to watch tonight. So cuddle up with some pizza and ice cream and have a happy  Valentines day. 

Trick or Treat

More like, is love a trick or a treat? 

An American Werewolf in London

The first werewolf love story.

The Others

 The essential long lasting love story.

Hocus Pocus

 Who didn't fall in love with Thackery Binks? 

Scream 1

  High school romantics will love this.

The Women in black

 You can't blame the women for going crazy, she just loved to hard.

The Lost Boys

First movie to make vampires hot, pop culture figures. 

The Strangers

  Totally messes up love for the ages.

Fright night

Anton Yelchin all day.

Shaun of the Dead

  Great for the zombies lovers 

Drag Me to Hell

Gypsies, tramps and .....a love story? You be the judge.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

If you don't want a love like Jack and Sally, you have no heart.

Halloween

Halloween? More like a typical valentines day for all the single girls out there. 

I hope you all love the movies I have suggested. If you haven't seen them go out and rent them at your nearest blockbuster or Hollywood video, or be cool and stay at home and Amazon it or Netflix it. I hope your day is filled with love. Keep it scary.

 XO-Jenna 

 

 

 

Point 2 seconds

So, is it strange that one person and can make your day slash week better with just a few words? Well, the guy that I "hive out" around is kind of acting like he is into me. But I don't want it all to go to my head. Maybe he just wants to be friends. I love slash hate the fact that my head goes from zero to a hundred in .2 seconds. But he has made an effort to talk to me and singles me out whenever I'm around. That's got to mean something, right?
All I know is when I am around him I feel like rejoicing and thanking my heavenly father for putting such an amazing handsome man on this Earth. Even if nothing happens at least I have the fun twitter patted moments that he gave me....BUT let's face it if he asked me to marry him I'd do it in .2 seconds.

XO-Jenna

He is just not that into you..... Mormon Girl

    To all my fellow beautiful, smart, single, funny, awesome Mormon girls. If he snapchats you and texts you all day...he is still not into you!
   Unfortunately I know you want to believe that he has to be into you a little because why else would he want to text you funny things or have a fun "snap battle" before bed? The fact of the matter is he isn't asking you out. Therefore  he just doesn't see you that way, and you should stop "snap battling" him and go to bed. So you can get your beauty rest and start your day out with a good work out and maybe, talk to that special guy at the gym you have had your eye on.
Believe me, I have been burned by guys. I know you want to think that he is into you because he's showing you attention, but in my extensive research it never turns out the way you think it should.
   The best thing we can do, is just do us, and try and be the best we can be. Honestly as cliché as this sounds, if he is showing you all this attention and knows how cool you are and still doesn't go for you, then he really isn't worth your time or your lip-gloss. Save that for the guy that is worth re-applying your lip-gloss.

XO-Jenna

Mrs.Ryan Gosling or Mrs. Matthew Gray Gubler

There are a few things that I am sure of in this life...I know I am loved, I know I will be a great mom one day, and I know I will marry either Ryan Gosling or Matthew Gray Gubler.

Okay obliviously that last one is far fetched, know they are famous actors and my chances of marrying either one, let alone being in the same room as them are slim to none...but isn't it almost easier to believe that silly fantasy sometimes?

The other night my friend and I were going off about how, if our Hollywood crushes just saw us they would be hooked on us.  Like we'd forget all of our insecurities, suddenly have this crazy confidence, and we wouldn't be intimidated by them at all. After about two hours talking about how much we love our celeb crushes we started talking about guys we actually know and that we think are cute, and my attitude began to shift and I sunk into my shell and began to think "I could never get that guy... that I do actually know. and he is real and we are always in the same room together." So why I am so willing to believe that Ryan Gosling would fall in love with me just by looking at me, but I don't believe that this guy that is really awesome and likes to hang out with me, wouldn't. 
The only answer that I came up with was " it's always easier to believe something you know probably won't happen."
I need to stop believing that. I choose to change that saying to,  "it's always easier to believe in me," plain and simple. The result of that statement is... more confidence, love and happiness, because that is the only natural order of things if you believe in yourself. I know it doesn't mean that when the universe plays pranks on me it'll be any less embarrassing or scary, but it'll be easier because I believe in me. What normal guy wouldn't want a girl who has a happy disposition? And if I do truly believe in me, whose to say if I run into MGG or Ryan they won't fall in love with me;)

The tale of the football game.

     It was a cold October night and I had been asked out on a date by an old high school friend, that I always thought was cute and was so excited that he asked me out. Mr.W was 6'1 with dark hair and blue eyes. My type to a "T". From what I could remember he was funny and fun to talk to. I was sure he would be my next boyfriend or at very least my next fling. My sister Anna helped me get ready. A short black skirt to show off my bangin' legs, black boots, a black tank with a red girly hoodie. I wanted to wear red because I knew he went to the U. We were to meet up at Iggy's sports grill and my hives were out of control. I hadn't seen him for a while we just started texting one day which led to our date. I got there and he was as cute as ever, and more muscular then I remembered. We started to talk and the waitress brought water and he ordered an appetizer. Everything was going well until the game began.
He ordered an appetizer and that was it. So I didn't order anything because I was too shy to eat if he wasn't eating. I know dumb, right  but what was I suppose to do? So he began telling me about the team, he knew the players personally because he was the intern or something like that for them. His major was sports something or other I really wasn't paying attention I just really wanted him to shut up and kiss me. That didn't happen. He focused completely on the game and every time a one of the U players scored he would shout there name like they could hear him through the T.V.  Please keep in mind  no one there was even into the game he was shouting by himself. When he would speak to me it was during the commercials and what our convo was about football.
I went to the bathroom to call Anna. She told me to leave but how could I? I didn't want to be rude and just make up some lame excuse. So I sat there the whole 4 hours. I sat there drinking water and eating nothing. I sat there watching him yell out players nicknames. Yelling and wooting when the team would score.
   FINALLY the game ended. Mr.W looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes and asked if I wanted to go to his place. My answer was no, those eyes did not sway me anymore. All I could think was, Do you really think I would want to hang out with you after being subjected to a stupid football game for four hours while sitting on a hard wooden chair? No Mr.W I don't want to go back to your place and watch the sports channel and make out with you, because frankly your not cute to me anymore. Of course I didn't say that, but I wanted to. I just said it was getting late and I had to be up early the next day.
This wasn't the only time I had an awkward run in with Mr.W we had three more, all equally weird and as strange as the last and we never kissed...not once. I should call him Mr. boring but I don't want to be rude.

Travolta.

When I eat donuts late at night I have nightmares about John Travolta. Because of this he is the one celebrity that if I saw him in real life I would not run but sprint in the other direction. (The thing is I can still watch face off because of my love to Nick Cage, but that love is for another blog.)

 

My Nightmare.

 

 

So when I lived in Austin Texas my friends and I would always be out late and we would always end up eating somewhere. We got into a phase where we would go to this place off Guadalupe called Kens Donuts. This Indian guy owed it  and made everything from scratch...so good, and an added bonus, it was open 24 hours. One night we got some donuts at about 1 A.M. How could I have known I was to wake up the next morning in a cold sweat.... The Nightmare... In the dream I was with my friends much like the night before on Guadalupe. All the sudden, John Travolta was there, hanging out with us, no one was surprised that he was there, but me. He joined in on the chit-chat and laughter, but his eyes were fixed on me making me extremely uncomfortable. I just ignored it and tried to engage in the conversation. Then Travolta started twitching but no one noticed it, but me. So I took a step back as he escalated to wild thrashing. Then a sudden pause... it was as if a demon had possessed him and he began to charge after me! So I sprinted off in some direction to get away from him! I looked over my shoulder and he was gaining on me with a nasty "Caster Troy" circa the movie "Face-Off" kind of smile.  Laughing as he charged at me, I woke up. Hoping to never relive that dream again.

Three weeks later:

I found myself at kens donuts once again. Completely forgetting about my "Travolt-attack"... I ate a donut. I got home and fell asleep and it was if the dream had been on pause, it picked up right where it had left off! He was charging me, but this time it was hard for me to run, it was if I was running in quicksand. He grabbed me and threw me into a limo. When we were in the limo I could do nothing but scream, but no one could hear me. It was just me and Travolta....and at the that moment just was he looked at me with that sinister smile..... I woke up.

Say what you will, but I know when I eat donuts I have these dreams. I will not be trying out this theory of mine out for a third time. Even though it has been three years since the last occurrence, I don't dare ever eat a donut if it's late at night or even ever, for fear that that dream will continue. 

For now I just leave you with this one truth...John Travolta is the scariest person in the world.