Tuesday, June 21, 2011

eh.kitchen fun?

I don't wanna brag or nothing...well gosh actually I'm totally gonna gloat in it. One day I'm gonna make a significant other fricken so happy they will not know what to do with themselves. I am a great little chef and have no problem cooking naked. I can cook a mean meal for any diet; serio. You like new mexican, mexican, greek, chinese,japanese,american,whatever cuisine I can do it big son. You're a vegan I got it on lock... or even just a vegetarian I do it so harsh in the kitchen people freak the FUCK out. One time I made this kid a sandwich and he was like,"what the fuck is this sammy its sooooo damn good," he calls me to this day to make him those sandwiches. I'm just always so proud whenever I finish in the kitchen because everyone walks away happy, full, and beyond satisfied which makes me feel super good about myself.  Anyways; I made some food today(you wish you could smell my kitchen) and took some pictures of the process. Some of these pics are from cooking today some of them are just from the past week and my being so self absorbed just like you...and you...oh and you over there pretending to be too cool to read my shit... So here's a photo essay of my meal and a couple days/the week beforehand.


Earlier Last week my friend and I were very drunk off this shit:

My friend broke a glass and chard's were everywhere including his foot. That was a good time. His house is full of awesome stuff to get lost in. He may or may not be a border line hoarder. I'm into it big time.

I went to taos and captured the sun. It looks super rad. Feast your eyes on what god would look like if god peeked over the clouds and winked at you, I mean if that type of thing existed.


This is  The.BURLMASTER( yes that's the way its spelt on his papers). He is the craziest, coolest, punk as fuck pup I've ever known. Love my pup. He loves listening to me play the piano and killing birds he likes to dance and get his teeth brushed. He needs a girlfriend...he has an unhealthy relationship with his puppy bed and humps the daylights out of it then tries ripping it to shreds.I adore him. If u met him you'd love him too.



These are pics of me because no blog of a young woman is complete without pictures of herself and especially these ones which I happen to love because I am obsessed with the shirt I'm wearing and my glasses make me look cuckoo, crazy,sexy(instead of crazy,sexy,cool like TLC..although cool is something I'm just always exuding because geeezuuus I can't even help it mane.)



Now onto the food. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of any of the finished products because as soon as I finished I ate it all..well not all I fed a few other people and made fillet Mignon for the meat eaters but was epically good. You get the idea.
 Breaded Parmesan zucchinis
With a Red Pepper, Tomato and Garlic Romesco sauce 

 Roasted Potatoes, Garlic, Onions, Peppers with Fresh Rosemary(from the garden) and Olive Oil
 Fresh Cucumbers and Radishes for the salad
 Grand Marnier Strawberry Sauce For Strawberry Shortcake
 YUMMZ
And Whipped Cream I made



Eat your hearts out all day everyday..bad boy for life
<3,
J.Lightning

Friday, June 10, 2011

Some stickers I made. NBD.


Each one is aprox. 5.5"x4"....I like them a lot. They were all entries from my moleskine.
<3, J. Lightning




Saturday, June 4, 2011

xxiv.

So before I get into the b-day extravagance story I'll let you in on these images I shot of my friend Ray and his store Microwave which I really am kinda obsessed with I like them so much. This day was so brutally hot(temp-wise)and Ray may or may not of had a heart condition. Some kid with poorly fitted pants came in and asked if he could trade in a pair of shoes even though he did not buy them here. WTF? who even does that. We laughed at his expense poor kid.
Ray in the front
Messes
more of the mess
uptop
pretty disgruntled phone chatting

Now on to the events that I vaguely remember that made up my bday. Frances surprised me by taking me on the eve of my birthday to the Radisson(which i just heard is going under) Water Park which was totally totally epic and super fun the only thing was that I forgot my camera which made me sad. While swimming I was starting to feel completely old and irrelevant when a 17yr old asked for my number and told me he would "be seeing me around" I laughed and told him," I'm about to turn 24 you are too young...I cannot give you my digits homie." The kid was persistent though and I just was like, "I think it could be illegal for us to even talk." It sorta made my nite though I mean besides the heady water sliding and splashing around.  I bought my last pack of cigarettes. Got completely lifted from doing our trademark waterfalls that I passed out on the sleep number beds harshcore watching father of the bride 2.

On the actual day of my birthday however I really tried to stay relatively sober. I went to a bbq at my gma's and they had like cake and ice cream and a huge spread so The.Keeks and I ate and got our little cousins(they aren't really that little by the way) drunk on rum and coke. I got pretty tossed to the point that things started to become very hazy. I remember The.Keeks suggesting we go smoke a blunt so I believe we went to our friend Robert's to do so and watched some kind of television where I proceeded to down more rum and get belligerent I suppose. Frances informs me that I was pretty drunk and being ridic. I don't remember the conversations I had at all quite honestly by this point. I hear we went to Gisela's but I can't really recall that besides the pictures. That's really the only way i'm piecing this together. haha. I guess we drank more at Gizz's house and played with her dog and watched the Hangover because a couple days before that I had seen the Hangover 2 which was funny but not as funny as the first. We left to meet up with people at Anodyne. I vaguely remember taking a shot of Patron and having more rum and coke's I really can't remember Anodyne worth shit so...here are some shots....supposedly I got lost and The.Keeks almost left me but luckily she didn't but I did throw out all my makeup I guess and lost 20 dollars. Don't know how it all really played out but hopefully my friends still love me. Enjoy <3 J.Lightning
I wish I knew what Gizz was talking about
These pics were so rad of her

This is rum in the.Keeks's purse...obviously things were getting blurry
so tossed fer sure
but still cute
The.Keeks lookin sultry..and me just all faded
hahaha
partial to this blurred shot
Romy
I laughed so hard when I saw this. I love A.Murray's face and Val is priceless.(do not remember)
More drunken hysteria
This is a really great pic of everyone...well except me but my arm looks good i guess.

Thanks to everyone who called me, texted me,fb'd me, drank with me this nite. I was so depressed about my bday and you guys made me feel loved and alive.

Friday, April 8, 2011

reflections




You know a week or so(quite possibly less or more since I really don't have any concept of time anymore)ago someone told me:
   "25 is the most pivotal year for most people; you ask anyone and they'll tell you they grew up at 25."
  I responded by saying,"hmmmm is that so. Well, for me it's now it's my 23rd year," but you see I'm not most people as we all know. So I pryed,"Why was 25 so essential for you?"
  "I really grew up I found purpose I started doing what I loved. Maybe its different for girls since they mature faster. You're still young wait till your 25."
  I wanted to say,"Gender has nothing to do with it I've always had an extremely strong sense of self. Knowing who I am and what I stand for...that has nothing to do with my being of the fairer sex. I am not a girl I am a WOMAN," but instead he said,"do you know your purpose?"
   I said," Sure," in a very unsure way because I didn't want to come off as being insulted because I wasn't I just felt shut down. The conversation ended and we moved on from that subject matter. We should have continued it because I felt that I didn't have my Julia edge. I was nervous. Not nervous by the conversation just nervous by his beautiful face. I let him lead the conversation because this is where being a woman comes into play with men.
   I wanted to say," I have a strong sense of purpose," "I have a unique perspective on humanity due to my colorful experiences. I have lived and I still am. I'm sick of people playing me off like I don't know anything about anything or I'm young and fragile. I'm anything but. I'm in your face fucking rowdy ass living my life the only way I am able to. I am not a coward and I am not afraid of relationships or getting involved/breaking hearts/living reckless/selfishness/self-reflection. I'm all about learning. I have great insight into my own life which gives me the ability to have great insight to even a strangers life.I want to say things to my generation through my art and maybe even writing that makes even one person identify with my personal struggle and maybe have an idea or concept resonate with someone or inspire someone to create or just learn to deal.That it's okay it'll be okay.That is my purpose.Maybe I can create a ripple even if it's just a little one and then maybe over time it will effect someone I don't know I can't say but I'm still gonna try."
   I didn't say any of that though because I've been worried about being outrageously intimidating currently. I've realized that my opinions and realizations of reality bother many people. At a very early age I learned that I intimidated people and I have always suffered with friendship maintenance because people start to resent the fact that I'm a no BS type of person. I don't want to play games PERIOD. If I feel like I'm being used I walk away from that friendship/romance.  I don't like to mess around; not with my life, my heart, or anyone else's for that matter. I don't think its fun and I don't think uprooting peoples situations for sport is fun either. People affect me in such a huge way I'm very sensitive even though I try not to be it's my biggest weakness. I am deeply affected by others I can't stand that about myself. I also never go with my intuition anymore due to heavy training of myself...intuition is bullshit no one solved any problems with their intuition. My intuition jaded me for a long time it made me sad because I feel for the weak because I am weak so I let all these weakling sneaky cowards into my life because "deep down they're probably good," but unfortunately not all people are good people even if you want to believe they are and these days people are completely amoral and straight psychopathic. I'm not sure why but I seem to attract these kinds of  malicious gossips and vampires and because of that I see the world for what it is and humanity for what it is an ugly social pit of demise if you let the wrong people into your world. I have long stopped giving people the benefit of the doubt.
   I believe in loyalty. Primarily due to the fact that I seem to be the type of person that most people just fucking use and then leave. I've had so much tragedy in my life because I let these vacuums(Not that i'm implying my friend is a vacuum he's actually a really legit dude who I respect.)of people know things about me when they don't deserve to know those things and they use those insecurities of mine to manipulate and squash in order to keep you accessible to them. I think you should value the people who come into your life but if they are trying to sabotage you or don't realize life is the only absolute that this is all we have and it ain't no game son get rid of those people. Don't maintain superficiality it's not worth it.
    I have a weakness for the word,"LOVE," I feel people shouldn't fuck around with that word. I think people should value language. Love and Adore: any people who say those in excess about anything or anyone you stay away from. I learned somewhere that people who say I love you all the time to everyone don't value shit and also lack passion in their life I found that to be true for me in most relationships be it romantic or platonic. People really need to start looking those words up most people don't even realize what they really mean. If I tell you I love you I truly mean it.
   These days I keep myself very protected. I've been passionately hurt by many people who don't value themselves and or only value themselves but really have no value whatsoever therefore could never value me.Those people are and were foolish and I was a fool to let them in.
  A lot of people put on charades, put on masks and sometimes not even very pretty ones. They pretend to be something they aren't this is especially true for our generation; for my peer group. Mostly they are too dumb to even realize that they are doing this and when they realize that they are they are left empty and realizing they are a fraud and must keep up the fraudulant behavior and thats how their lives will always be. People my age don't value anything period. People my age have no respect for anything. No integrity. At least this is my experience. Its so so disheartening. It makes me cry and I become very depressed and retreat from society on many occasions. I soon come to realize that other people just suck in general and that I have to do whats good for me I am not gonna let this world trample on my soul and truth. It hasn't totally extinguished my flame yet although it's come close.
    "Everyone wants to be accepted"....not me. If acceptance means being part of all this vacuous nonsense I'd rather not.  I've tried to be a catty dumb bitch to fit in when I was young....it doesn't work for me it always leaves me feeling ridiculous and makes the people who encourage that type of behaviour even more outrageous. 
  So this is what leads me back to 23 is the most pivotal year of my life thus far. I feel I realized a lot about myself and about the social nature of human beings and relationships. I suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized I've been through a lot. I feel I've progressed even more this year then ever and I will continue to progress. My definition of success changed and I stopped relying on silly ideals and cliches. I stopped letting other people define me I define myself. So I'm ultimately glad at the way the conversation with my friend went because it inspired me to realize I have to stop making excuses for other people I can't be afraid to say what I'm gonna say because it might not be acceptable or it might intimidate someone. If anything it should endear someone to me. RIGHT?
*forgive me for not being the most punctual person.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

the.fourth.nite.in.March.

Man so far March has been awesome. Last nite we went out Frances, Nick Jones, and I. Nicky just recently turned 21 so we took him out on an adventure to say the least. We got so ROWWWDY. It was pretty ridic. I ended um planning a wedding with my friend James lolz. We were tossed fer sure. Mikey J showed his beautiful face and I full on karate kicked this guy that I sorta know.bahahahaha..he was not pumped and as a matter of fact after that happened he looked at me like I was the effing plague and then I sorta was embarrassed but I couldn't help laughing to myself and being like,"I can't believe I just kicked that dude inside Anodyne....WTF? I'm glad its last call and we're leaving before I can cause any more damage," especially because I was carrying my krink ink prepared to bomb glad I didn't get in any trouble...glad none of us got in any trouble. Well except with our social lives I definitely drunk dialed some people which was not too cute pretty sure I may have caused some chaos..Hopefully homies aint too pissed. Anyways I took some cool pics and I laughed pretty hard at them man were we trashedcakes. It was a good nite. ENJOY.
                                 
                                            This is how I started my nite off Stella and Scotch                                         
Nick Jones
JLightning and The.Keeks.
 BAHAHAHA
went to the library for jello shots..lolz...and to take obscene pictures of this cocktail waitress's chickitas cheekin out.
This is where the nite starts to get majorly hazy...:)
Drunk Keeks
JELLO SHOTS
Back to Anodyne: Mikey J and I makin faces
More faces
TOO TOSSED
This picture is priceless
Mikey J.
Makin even the innocent feel guilty
<3,
J.Lightning