Relay!

Pass my site on to anyone you think might be interested in donating! It would mean the world to me!

Thanks for reading...I promise I will update everyone (or the maybe 2 people that read this) on life soon...

Thanks!!!

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Hello!

I want to start off by thanking everyone who donated last year! It is because of you that I was able to raise over $850!! Thank you!

This year I have kicked up my goal a bit to $1,000! I know that with your help, I can make it there!

Being involved in Relay For Life has been such a wonderful experience for me, and I really hope that I can pass that on to the people around me!

Relay For Life® helps raise much-needed funds and awareness to help the American Cancer Society save lives from cancer. The money raised goes towards research as well as aiding with paitent services such as transportation to and from doctors appointments, andLook Good...Feel Better which helps to restore the emotional balance of cancer patients who may have experienced the physical changes that can occur as a result of cancer treatments.

Please support my efforts by visiting my personal web page to make a secure, tax-deductible online donation.

I know times are very tough, but every little bit helps! Every donation really does make a difference, and helps the American Cancer Society save lives every day by helping people stay well and get well, finding cures, and fighting back.

Thank you and I will keep you updated on my progress.


Thanks in advance for your support!!!!

Jenny Leccesi

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/JennyLeccesi

Sacramento HORNETS!!

So, I recently went to orientation at Sacramento State University (I will be attending in the fall)...and I am VERY scared.

I'm not scared of the school or even the work. I am more scared of time management and letting myself down. I will be working full time in Benicia and then driving to Sacramento three days a week to go to school at night. (for those who don't know...Benicia is about an hour away from Sacramento...with no traffic). I am SO scared of getting overwhelmed and not being able to manage homework, school and working full time.

I am debating trying to find a new job in Sacramento, but they take such good care of me at this job (even if I really DON'T particularly like what I do there)

I am also second guessing whether or not I can actually manage three classes and a full time job.

I kind of just want to quit and go back to school full time, but unfortunately, bills are to much for that.

Sigh...Just a lot to think about....Wish me luck

Besides that not to much is going on! Just very busy at work.

Also, I just had the privilege to participate in Relay For Life here in Vacaville. Its a 24 hour walk to raise money for cancer research. It was 109 degrees and very sunny, but it was totally worth it to raise the money for a good cause. I walked 13.5 miles and our team has raised over $8,000 so far! All the teams that participated in Vacaville have raised over $230,000. It was an awesome experience and I can't wait for next year!

Been a while I know...I don't ever really think to update this. Maybe I will again soon. We will see!

Kids...

Wow...this kid loks like he is 8....

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

The Coast

My wonderful guy surprised me with a trip to Bodega Bay to watch the sunset the other night. It was amazing and I felt I needed to share...

P.S. I love that I live close enough to the coast to do this kind of stuff!

pitty party

Sometimes I seriously feel like I have no friends...

Everyone is harping on me about when I am going to com back and visit because they can't come out here because it is too expensive....well...i have to pay the same amount to go back there...

Just having a crabby moment because I am coming to realize that only one person has come to visit me in the two years I have lived here....

Just miss having people around. I feel like everyone has written me off as a friend because I moved out here. I dont know if I will ever find those connections again...or at least it seems like it.

Crabby....

Tired....

Missing people....

Maybe I sould have just stayed in Illinois.

again

I'm moving......

Again.....

I can't wait!

School

So...I did it...I applied to some colleges out here.

UC Berkeley
UC Davis
Sacramento State

I hope I get in somewhere...and I hope I can pay for it....And I hope I can figure out my job while all this is going on.... :-) Wish me luck!

Fingers Crossed

I hope I get in...I hope I get in....I hope I get in.....



Oh man I'm nervous

:-)

Few things I want to randomly comment on:

This is ridiculous:

The city of Batman, Turkey is suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Brothers Studio claiming that the unauthorized use of their cities name has caused "several unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate, based on the psychological impact that the film’s success has had on the city’s inhabitants"

Really?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27669362/

Also, want to say we had a very exciting election! What a great time to be an American (not that it wasn't before)! I just wish I could have been in the city that night for Obama's speech. I am a bit upset with how things turned out with prop 8, but the fight for equality is not over yet! I DO NOT agree with how some people are handling the loss by being horrible to others. That is not the point of this. Doing things like spray painting churches and spewing hateful things is not the way to gain respect for the cause.

And that is as far as political discussion will go because I do not enjoy discussing them....

Thanksgiving is right around the corner! I can't wait for my Grandparents to come out and visit! Chris will be heading home for Thanksgiving to visit his family. He hasn't seen his mom since January so he is VERY excited! I wish I could go with but it is just SO darn expensive to fly around the holidays. I am still paying off the trip from August and I don't think getting further in debt is a great idea right now.

On that note...I am so poor its not even funny :-( I mean I can pay all the bills but there is not much extra there for the fun stuff.

I am so tired today! I went and saw a really good concert last night! I was a lot of fun. I saw Ludo...if you don't know them look it up...The Graduate opened for them and they are pretty awesome as well (and they are from good old Illinois).

Anyway that's it for now! If i don't blog before Thanksgiving...Have a Happy one!

To many...

I watched way to many wedding/bridal shows this weekend and they made me think..


I have this outstanding fear that NO ONE is going to be happy for me when I get married. I see all the shows where people scream and yell with excitement when couples announce their engagement....

I don't see that happening for me...


and you know what? That terrifies me....


I'm also in a weird mood lately...so I guess that doesn't help

Addiction

I have a real problem.....

An ebay problem. I CANNOT stop bidding on thing. I have won AE vests in the last month alone and I am bidding on a jacket right now. I just cant stop!!!!

Oh well.

School is going well (i went back to school for those who dont know), my job is going well, I got a new laptop (which I am in LOVE with), Maggie and Justin are coming to visit soon!!!!, I am going to IL again next weekend for Nicole's wedding, what else...what else....

OH! Last weekend Chris and I went to Sacramento to see a hypnotist show....it was the adult show.....and Chris got on stage! He was hypnotized and doing all sorts of crazy/innappropriate things....like speaking chinese and thinking his name was dickhead...oh my it was fuuuuuunnnnny! We ordered the video and I can't wait to watch it again.

Well here is a pic of chris and the hypnotist






And here is the very lovely view from our room....What a fun weekend! (and a Great way to celebrate 4 years)


Well Thats all for now!! Later everyone!

It's always easier to leave than be left

DMB sax player dies at 46 from ATV wreck injuries
08/20/2008 4:42 AM, AP

LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46.
Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted with complications that arose weeks after the June 30 wreck, according to a statement on the band's Web site. It did not specify what led to his death, and nursing supervisor Galina Shinder said the hospital could not release details.
On June 30, Moore crashed his ATV on his farm outside Charlottesville, Va., but was discharged and returned to his Los Angeles home to begin physical therapy. Complications forced him back to the hospital on July 17, the band said.
The band went on with its show Tuesday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where lead singer Dave Matthews dedicated the entire show to Moore.
"It's always easier to leave than be left," Matthews told the crowd, according to Ambrosia Healy, the band's publicist. "We appreciate you all being here."
Saxophonist Jeff Coffin, who played with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, had been sitting in for Moore during the band's summer tour.
Moore, who wore dark sunglasses at the bands' many live concerts, had classical training but said jazz was his main musical influence, according to a biography on the band's Web site.
"But at this stage I don't really consider myself a jazz musician," Moore said in the biography. Playing with the Dave Matthews Band was "almost better than a jazz gig," he said. "I have plenty of space to improvise, to try new ideas."
Lead singer Dave Matthews credited Moore with arranging many of his songs, which combine Cajun fiddle-playing, African-influenced rhythms and Matthews' playful but haunting voice.
The band formed in 1991 in Charlottesville, Va., when Matthews was working as a bartender. He gave a demo tape of his songs to Moore, who liked what he heard and recruited his friend and fellow jazzman Carter Beauford to play drums, and other musicians.
The group broke out of the local music scene with the album "Under the Table and Dreaming." The band won a Grammy Award in 1997 for its hit song "So Much to Say" off its second album "Crash." Other hits include "What Would You Say," "Crash Into Me" and "Satellite."
Fans who attended Tuesday's concert expressed sadness over Moore's death and concern about the band's future without him. "LeRoi was just super important to the band," Shawn Harrington said before the concert. "That's how the band came to be."

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Those who know me, know I am a HUGE DMB fan. As a matter of fact I am seeing them in concert Monday night! I was really hoping LeRoi would make a full recovery....

He was an absolutly amazing musician

VEGAS

Well Vegas was a lot of fun! I came home UP $20. Thats unusual...I even stayed up till 5 in the morning playing blackjack! It was more fun then I ever thought it could be! We also got and oppertunity to take a trip to the Hoover Dam which was just amazing! Here are a few pictures of the fun!




I checked out this website that my cousin Maggie was looking at that checks the walkability of your neighborhood (www.walkscore.com) I was amazed to see how much is around me. I knew lots of things were close, but I had no Idea that there was THAT much around me! My neighborhood score a 92/100

Well I am heading to Chicago and Waukegan Next week for a long weekend. My friend Kim from work has never been to Chicago and REALLY wanted to go so we planned a trip. I am going to show her around waukegan on thursday and then we are gong to head to the city on Friday and stay there till Monday. We are even going to go to the Cubs game on Sunday!! so excited for this trip!

I will probably update after that! :-)

Im back

Well I finally got around to showing you guys my new car. I still LOVE it! Its so much fun to drive!


Nothing new to report! Going to Vegas this weekend! My birthday is tomorrow....yippy....

Ryan and Elizabeth came to visit a couple weeks ago. We went to the Cubs Vs. Giants game and Kerry Wood threw my mom and I Baseballs during batting practice! It was super fun. The cus lost...but it was still a pretty good game.
So yay update...ill report back after VEGAS!!

Boo to Gas

So....While gas prices are going up up up....

I decide to get a new car...and not just any car...an SUV

AND I COULD NOT BE HAPPIER!

I aboslutly love my new car. I got an 08 Escape and it is awesome. So I am spending a lot more on gas, but it is so worth it to have the room!
I can't wait to take it up into the mountains.


ANYWAY-
Nothing else is really going on. I've REALLY been missing my friends lately. Its so hard not to have anyone here to hang with. I guess I am not as sociable as I used to be. Its just so much harder for me to put myself out there and meet new people. I sont know...Ill figure it out eventually.

laters....

Here it is

OY! Please keep in mind we are still unpacking and getting crap in order!!! It looks like a mess right now, but you all waned to see it..... Again I will put more pictures up as soon as we get more stuff unpacked and put away

WOW!

SOOO sorry I havent gotten pics up!! I am going to go do that right now....PLEASE keep in mind we are still in the process of getting things in order!!!

Post to follow shortly...... :-)

Home

Pretty much all moved in!

Its cozy.....

I love it here

...now i just wish my mom would talk to me....

MOVING!

I am soooo excited...

We finally got an apartment. It is so cute and i LOVE it!

We signed a lease last night and we move Saturday

Wish me luck...let me know if you want my new address!

GOne

I chopped my hair off today....and it was exciting...I forgot how much i LOVE my short hair!!