Resonance

Available for those who act quickly. This isn't shameless self-promotion, but I do have insider interests, as the stores are Leah's.

So, here's the deal, email your Valentine's Day stories (the more interesting, the better) to info@jean-therapy.com by midnight tonight and tomorrow get a 30% discount good for the rest of the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) at either store. This offer is not valid on sale merchandise, but everything else is fair game.

What better time to grab a deep discount on some great stuff (labels include Ted Baker, Varvatos for Converse, Drifter, Paige, Denim of Virtue) at a fraction of the cost?

Side note; the best stories get posted on Jean Therapy's blog.

Better hurry, time's running out and seriously, if I hadn't already told Leah my horrible V-Day story and didn't have to work tomorrow, i'd have sent that email already. There are several items I have had my eyes on for a while.

Good shopping!

Seems that on Facebook, there has been this little phenom (meme, I suppose) called "25 Things". The premise is simple, write a list of 25 things that people might not know about yourself, tag some other friends in the note, and see how many others end up posting their own list of items. I have avoided answering these call-outs. Mainly because I am a kinda' private person. Then, I realized that I have this here blog and if i'm really all that private, why would I have this? So, to that end, here is my list of 25 things that people may or may not know about me.

1- I was voted Class Clown in high school by the senior class my junior year.

2- My dad taught my brother to golf but didn't teach me because I was a girl. He did teach me how to do everything up to changing the brakes on a car, which he didn't teach my brother.

3- I have a fair poker face, but I am really a softie. Watching "Milk" made me cry. Even though I knew how it was going to end.

4- I once sang in front of my entire high school (San Pedro in LA) "Saving All My Love For You" after one day's practice because my drama teacher heard me singing a part of it in class the day before and needed a female vocalist for this concert.

5- I can't read music, but played clarinet and bass clarinet in school all through high school until I had to sight read for a test. Then, I was moved to drums.

6- I really don't like to talk about anything in my life that concerns money.

7- I once had a poem published.

8- I didn't know how to cook until I got out of the Army and became involved in the restaurant industry.

9- While in the Army, I was busted to Private and had to climb my way back up the ranks.

10- I once scored a perfect 300 on my PT test while in the Army.

11- I also scored a 40 out of 40 on the firing range, making me a Hawkeye.

12- My father and I never really got along. He always picked arguments with me because my politics were liberal and didn't like the fact that I am gay. The last time I saw him alive was the best time I had with him as an adult. And if I hadn't left when I did, I think that it would have gone downhill.

13- I have part of my father (he was cremated, interestingly, cremated remains sound more like a shaker than anything else when shaken) in a drawer at home. I have no idea what to do with it. When I see the jar, I always say "Hi, dad."

14-I have a paranoid streak that really makes it hard, sometimes, to not suffer from mild panic attacks.

15- I am mildly dyslexic, but it only really shows when i'm dealing with numbers.

16- Once, when I was a kid, my brother and I used some coins in a jar that our dad so we could buy ice cream. Ended up, they were valuable Liberty Dollars.

17- I have a hard time spending change. Related to #16? I don't know.

18- I am deathly afraid of flying. There have been times when I have almost not gotten on planes, or wanted to scream to get off of one before take off. However, I really love the take-off and landing.

19- When I was in high school in North Carolina, mom and dad trusted me to take care of the house and they would go away for a night or two. When they did, I would sometimes invite my friends over after seeing "Rocky Horror' and we would have a fairly tame party that usually included frozen pizzas and watching my dad's porn on fast-forward.

20- I was never really much of a hell-raiser as a kid.

21- If I start watching a television series and miss some of it (like a season or two) for one reason or another, I can't pick it up until I have caught up on the episodes I have missed. This tends to mean a marathon of dvd's over the course of a day or two off.

22- If my fingernails are dirty or too long, I feel dirty and distracted. This really sucks when i'm camping.

23- I can wear my grandfather's dress uniform from WWII. With the exception of it being a little too long in the arms, it's almost a perfect fit. He was also in the Army.

24- I once lived in an apartment with so many other people that my room was the dining room. It didn't have a door.

25- I was once in an audience for a taping of "Jeopardy". We had to sign an agreement stating that we wouldn't shout out any answers, we weren't allowed to leave the building until they gave us a break, they taped almost an entire week's worth of shows and it was UNBELIEVABLY boring. We didn't stay after the break.