are those wedding bells i hear?

i finally got my wedding dress today! it fits beautifully. i absolutely love it. i'm so excited to be married to my best friend. the farther we get with the plans, the more excited i feel.   

<<<<(it's this dress in white. what do ya think??)

on a different note... my hands and fingernails have inexplicably turned black...? 

i'm really excited to see my family this christmas. so much has changed over the years and it is a rare occasion that we all can be together. i'm also excited for my brothers to meet david. 

i pray i get this job. 

now that i have some time to read, i am finally going to make my way through my stack of unread books. starting with - the cost of discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. i'm pretty excited about it. 

welp. those are my random thoughts of the day. you're welcome. haha 

Merry Christmas everyone... 

i did it...

real world here i come. 

ready or not... here it comes

for your own sake, do not read this blog. 

it probably wont make any sense and i'm not going to try to write it so that it will be comprehensible... 

someone said to me the other day: (after i had spent ten minutes explaining my jubilation at the prospect of completing another stage in life -school)

he said flatly, "school may be over, but you will still be the same jenna; so don't get too excited."

dv wasn't trying to be cruel but he has a way of putting things.... whatever he says evokes some kind of emotion w/ me: whether it's defensiveness, or anger or joy... 

i got to thinking:

will i be the same? will i just find something else to be bitter at and annoyed with? will this looming discontentment follow me to the end? is it bad if it does?

 i mean, if i'm being honest, this is how it has worked in the past. I hated every single thing about high school. i couldn't wait to be moving on to bigger and better things.  and college was a big fat disappointment to me. (but isn't that my fault?) i hated that too. again, i couldn't wait to be finished, so i could move on to bigger and better things.  it was just another hoop i had to jump through so i could start life....

now that college is over, i foresee myself being ticked that i have to gain work experience before i can be respected in my field, or go to grad school before i can even find a job... or whatever. why am i such a baby?? 

i know "bigger and better" doesn't just happen. i know i have to build it and work hard at something. so why am i always look for something different then what i have now? i'm spoiled. and i'm so ashamed of that. 

i'm moving in two weeks. know how depressing it is when you are about to move, and you can literally count the people you will keep in touch with on LESS than one hand? it makes it easy to move. it also makes you feel like a terrible person. 

my life isn't all boohooing of course. the things that i do get depressed about are mostly my own doing anyway or how or whatever. 

 

i'm sooo lucky to be with david. he's amazing. i cannot express how much fun i have just being around him. this past weekend i got to go to pa. and just be around him. just spend time with him and other people i know and love.. and miss deeply. it was the best weekend i've had in months. sometimes, briefly, i will think, "am i crazy?" is this the right thing? is this the right step? and then i'll get a call ... and he'll be on the other line, and we'll talk, and pray and laugh... and all doubt is completely erased. i just want him to know how much i adore him. i want to be a good wife. i want our communication to be like no other... and five, ten, fifteen years from now i want it to be stronger than it's ever been. i don't want to wake up in the morning and not know the man i'm married to. i know sometimes it will be hard... but i want it. i want all of it. the good and the bad. to learn and grow. i know we will have a good life together serving the Lord. 

and i got my wedding dress. i'm pretty excited about it. 

i don't want to move to where there is already 3 feet of snow. 

i'm nervous about getting my wisdom teeth out. i am afraid that i will throw up from the gas. gross. 

i have a lot to do over thanksgiving break. 

i hate packing. 

many fears, many hopes, many reservations. i know i am no different than any other human.

i'm grateful for the things i been given and the abilities i've been blessed with. i want to do the right things with my life. i want to be able to see the joy in things.

 i'm sorry i'm so bitter.... 

 

upon request... something new

what better way to spend the extra hour from daylight savings than to write a blog? 

it seems like so much is going on, yet at the same time i feel like i'm not doing anything. for the first 18 years of my life i was completely surrounded by people i loved and constantly spent time with. I did so many things and i was involved in so much. I feel like i lived those years with so much passion and vigor. 

Now... i feel old and tired. i am technically 

"busy" but i fee like i do very little. I find my current situation to be embarrassing... and selfish. I keep telling myself that i just have to wait until the next step, until i'm somewhere where i can be established. But i don't want to be telling myself that anymore. I regret not being involved here. i think i let my bitterness and anger keep me from doing anything at all. and i probably missed out on some good t

hings because of it. 

when i woke up this morning, i was trying to remember the last time i actually had physically touched another human... like when was the last time i hugged someone. i couldn't remember.

 I really wanted a hug today.

okay, my pity-party is over. 

i actually am really happy and excited for the first time in a long time. 

i'm getting married. yep. jenna rose hazelet is getting married. turns out i don't like cats (thereby ruining my plans to be a crazy cat lady with the blue eyeshadow) and there is someone who is really kind of perfect for me. we are happy and committed (i'm not just saying these words. there is so much meaning behind all of this. we have gone through a lot as a young couple and we work really hard to keep our focus on Christ and to be where we are).

but block off your calenders in december everyone...because if we can make it through the planning, there is going to be a wedding!!!

the damn alarm clock

it is poison to sleep



as i was rudely awakened this morning by my alarm, i wrote a poem in my head. i think it sucked and i can't remember it. i just wanted everyone to know that i write in my sleep.

the master of lies

after house sitting for the past 7 days and having access to a television with channels, i've decided that very few things are as misleading as marketing. it doesn't really matter what the advertisement is for: medication, live chat lines, a lawyer, fashion, food, vehicles; nothing is ever in reality as it is portrayed in the clips flashed on the screen. 

how is it that we have been so consumed by the image of things that we more easily accept lies than less-than-ideal/ utopian situations??

to be continued... 

Jeopardy

it's a dull roar trying to break free of its case

it's a hammer relentlessly pounding 

it's stinging and throbbing deep within

Or it is known as the swelling and tightening of the blood vessels and nerves that cover a person's head and neck.

What is: A Headache

there are a lot of things worse in this world than having a migraine headache and having no remedy... right now it's hard to think of anything...