2009 Get the Hell outta here and bring on the new year!!

What a year its been!

Through the trials that made us stronger and the tributes that made us warm,
We've all grown to be much wiser than we all were before.
This year has been about
holding on to things we cherished,
praying hard for those we love,
digging deep for that last ounce of strength to help us go another day.
New births, new hearts, long hard drives, lots of tears and lots of smiles
New places, feelings, faces.
What I have lost, I will never forget...
But my gains are worth more than I could have wished for.
I have so much to be thankful for,
for being in my life
for helping me see the truth,
what is worth living for.
My biggest Thanks is for finding a place I feel I can call home.
through all the hell and heaven this year has been
We are all much better for it!
So 2009, Thanks for the craziness and the change!
now get the hell outta here and bring in the new year!!


"Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself." Matt 6:34. After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

What I've so far learned in 2009. We must add to the "Rant"

There's lots to learn with a new year... and so far I've learned Lots... not really fantastic life moving knowledge at the most, but fun stuff :-)



I remembered that before the age of 9 I hung out with 7 boys... These boys were great friends and and through 20 years of different lives and a little bit of a reunion via Facebook we still have something to talk about! We are currently trying to figure out what our final conversation was... Kool aid, Hot box cars and kick ball probably.

20 years later you find out that even with the distance you still like the same cars, did basically the same dorky stuff in high school, and wonder what it would have been like if you hadn't lost touch.








every party should involve a game of Kings or Monopoly.














If you don't get to spend New Year's Eve with your Navy boyfriend (because he's a dummy) you'll end up catching a picture of some other girl watching the ball drop in Times Square in the arms of a sailor!! *sigh*









Jo's name ends with an uh, and I am so happy she was not in Colorado so I could spend New Years Eve with her and her family in the "Historic town of Milford"



& specking of Milford I learned a couple other things. Milford is about a mile away from Jersey and a mile away from New York. Port Jervis taught me about Admiral Nelson (Jo says its great i just liked the picture) & knock off Southern Comfort sucks!

When you Drink Alot with Jo at L and M's house and then spend the entire next day hanging out with Jo watching season 1 of "One Tree Hill" with a hang over you will not go hungry. Chef M makes sure of that and man he's a good cook!

Packing places in Port Jervis and probably everywhere but NJ sell individual bottles I bought 2 Strawberry Smirnoff Ice for $1.50 each. That stuff is TASTE-eeee!!!!!


A Night back in Jersey is worth millions especially when when spent with H & L


Living 80 steps from bar stool to bed will be missed when you have to hike up a hill in freezing cold weather.

you will be missed too when it snows and your neighbor has no one to drink with while shovling the dreaded drive way!!


You will Always be a regular at Johnnies Tavern once loved always loved!! God I miss that place.
God I miss Boonton!!

certian friends' boyfriends cause drama... and when your away from the drama long enough it's bigger when you have to be around it again. :-(

Every Military Man (or any man for that matter) has a teenager trapped inside him... You will be reminded of this when your Navy Boyfriend calls you up while drinking with his buddies and pleads you text him a picture of your boobs. With your agreement... you do so fully knowing that his single buddies now know what they look like and are jealous of your boyfriend and can't wait to meet you. Beware of the fully nude photos girls!! He probably will pin them to his helmet well combing the sandbox in the Middle East.

New York / New Jersey pizza does not have Wisconsin Cheese on it!!

PA is only boring if you have no one to hang out with!!! (where are you SAMMIE???)

Sheetz in Hazzy is almost as cool as Quick Check in Madison or WaWa in Little Egg Harbor. Exspecially when you are related to the counter girl! (then you get free coffee cards sweet!!)

Turkey Hill in Brodheadsville is full of Jersey girls!! I love it!!

that's all I got for now.

Bring on 2009!!!

Minus 1 New Years Kiss (due to draw Navy draw backs & J better get his butt home soon so we can pretend it is Christmas and New Years Eve for him) I am more than ready for that ball to drop in Times Square!

I did a lot of Fearing in 2007 & 2008... Which is not me at all... I am working hard to find me again.. so this year I promise to become more of myself. Less Worrying, More Happiness... The past is over and I must look forward to a New Year. New trials... New Errors... New wonderful things, sunny skies and things that will make me cry or make me smile & an easier way to get through them. I am going to work extra hard on my personal to do list, which I already have a head start on! I really have a good out look on 2009! Bring her on!!!

Please Help my Family, J & his family, and my friend's families do the same and one little personal prayer goes out for Mandy and her Hubbie and also this family!

I love you and will see you all next year!!!

All My Love,

Jessica Lynn

Looking back, moving forward

Just a quick thought. Ever go back and read who you were just a couple months before and realize that even in 4 or 5 months you are pretty different? I don’t know if I am better today but I am defiantly stronger and looking at my weak spots as an advantage… So I need work still… but I will be okay and that is the biggest thing that matters. 2009 is less than a week away. The bad dreams of 2008 will be out the doors. Wherever I am this New Year’s I want to run out to my car and open all the doors… J’s mother says that is the way to get rid of the bad luck and start fresh and new!! I can’t wait for the New Year!! I however think that I have grown stronger and can take on a lot of things now! Can’t be the person you are without your past. It makes you who you are.
<3 J