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Name: Jessica-LanaƩ
Birthday: 1/5/1986
Gender: Female


Interests: Here are my favorite things (in no particular order): Pirates, gypsies, and all things bohemian, stars, well just the night sky and darkness (not in the evil sense of the word) in general, the word "melancholy", football - real football!!! GO ENGLAND! Viggo Mortensen, pianos, kit kat bites and books (the older and dustier the better!).
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

One of the many adventures of Jess Kelso

 

My friend Laura just passed her driving lesson and wanted to take me out for a drive to do some shopping and grab a latte, you know, typical girly stuff. That was all good and we had a great time, did everything we set out to do, walked back to the carpark, got in the car, laura turned the key and....

SNAP

The plastic fell off of the key!!

We couldn't start the car because we couldn't turn just the metal part of the key enough to start it!

So what did you do Jess, I here you asking...

Well I did what any self respecting girl with limited car knowledge would do, I called Ian...who was at work.

So I then had to move to plan B and went downstairs to see if I could find anyone that worked there to help us.  So I finally find this 20 something bleached blonde wannabe mechanic with a shinny name badge and explained the situation.  To this he replied..."yeah...sorry, there's nothing we can do"

"Can you at least come up and look at it and see if you can do anything?"

"Yeah...no, I can't really do that"

"Ok...well are we going to get charged for staying here longer, I mean it's not like we can move at all?"

"Yeah...we're still gonna have to charge you...sorry"

So a somewhat frustrated Jess went back to the car and had to think of a plan C, Laura's brother had the spare key and he was at work 15 miles away so Laura called her Dad but we didn't know the name of the multistory carpark and he had no clue we where we were.  At the end of that conversation we heard the simutanious bleep indicating that both our phones we out of battery...

so we franticly found out the name of the carpark and called her Dad bak with literally enough batter life to say "Greenview Carpark level 4" before the battery died, followed by sitting in the car for an hour not knowing if anyone was going to come for us watching people get into their cars start them up and drive away...

Her Dad finally came with the key thankfully, but just another example that nothing can just be simple!!! But hey, thats what makes it an adventure, right?

 


Tuesday, June 05, 2007


I haven't been on xanga for a while and when I logged in today I realized that I kind of left things on a sad note so just to put your minds at ease I have some good news and it seems that good things do come in threes...

1. Ian's eye surgery went extremely well and he actually has 20/15 vision now which is better than 20/20!! So he's like a mutant but with no real powers.  He's hoping to hear back from the police soon.

2. I had an interview for theassistant manager position at my little chocolate shop and I got it.

3. A lady at my church is going to be overseas for 4 years which frees up her beautiful 2 bedroom apartment that I will be moving into in early september.  I have agreed to stay two years but may extend that depending on whats going on in my life in 2 years.

Jehovah Jirah.


Monday, May 14, 2007

Melancholy

Moving on is hard.

I've been here for 6 1/2 months and SO many life changing things have happened, we just keep plodding along but some days when I sit back and actually think about this year so far it's overwhelming.

I almost burst into tears in a coffee shop last week when Ian asked me what was wrong, the thing is when he asked me I didn't think anything was wrong other than the fact that I had been sick for 2 months and was tired.  He asked me how I felt about moving house and until that point I thought I couldn't care less about the move; but as we talked it just all came flooding over me at once, I suddenly realized a few things:

  1. Yes, I am sad that we are moving, that house has been the one consistant place in my life where I felt at home while I traveled around the world.
  2. Yes, I do miss my Grandfather everyday and wish I could have just talked to him for 5 more minutes, just to hear his voice and listen to his undeniably wise thoughts.
  3. Yes, I feel completely unsettled moving from house to house and staying with different friends over the next few months.
  4. And finally the hardest thing, is I miss my friends. My friends in NY were the hardest group of friends that I have ever had to say goodbye to and the relization that I probably won't see most of them again in this life breaks my heart.  They left so many spaces in my heart that can't be filled by anyone else. 

But I feel like I can handle it better now that I know I feel that way. Like I know how to pray about it better.  I dunno, if nothing else it's a good reminder that I am weak and completely human and therefore need the strength that can only be found in God.

On a side note, Ian is getting laser surgery for his eyes on May 31st so he can apply for the Police.   If you remember please pray that the surgery would go well, I'm a bit scared for him! Getting into the Police would be a huge answer to prayer just because it would mean a steady income and secure future on the job front and also means that we would be able to save up for bigger more exciting things!

Katie, Tim, Brian, Renee, Kaz, Ames, & Rushie...know that you are truely missed!!

 


Tuesday, April 24, 2007

high time for a new entry!!

 

Well hello fellow bloggers, I figured it was enough of all this video milarky and time for a real update with real words.

My parents moved their moving day up to May 11th. So its packing packing packing.  Although I've been quite pathetic at getting myself motivated for all that.  It's not that I'm sentimental about leaving the house it's just that I'm tired of packing and unpacking and moving around, it's all I've done for the past 4 years and I'm just ready to settle somewhere now. However that won't happen for a while, since I'm staying with friends until the end of June and then moving in with the Boyds until hopefully Jenny and I can get an apartment.

I got a new phone. It's this...

phone

Yes it's pink...I'm actually really not a pink phone kind of person in fact when I was describing what I wanted I specified that I did NOT want a pink phone but then this caught my eye and I just had to have it...and now I do!!

So for those of you who call me, I obviously wont have my home number after May 11th so you'll have to reach me on this 07947686468 and thats 011 44 794768... for those calling from the US.

In closing some snipits.

  • Kirsty Barthram is up here for 5 months and I am loving having a girl around.
  • Jenny's final art show is in 3 weeks so we are all going up to Dundee to see it.
  • I turned pro on wii bowling, YEAY!
  • My boyfriend dresses better than me, and that's a fact!
  • Made a fantastic Thai Green Curry last night.
  • I still love my job and all things chocolate.
  • Josh is alive.

 


Wednesday, April 11, 2007

My Summer Tunes

These are the songs which form my theme music for summer and that I just can't get enough of this year.  So enjoy.

I actually bought three pairs of new shoes just so I could dance around in them while listening to that song

I don't promote alcoholism but its a nice tune and bring Jazz back to its roots

Going to see these guys in August and I am STOKED! Gotta love the chilis



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