J's 2006 World

Well well well well well... here we go again....new year, new bat time....
Ahead are some 2006 highlights of Jolene's World, circa 2006, (READ: highlights because I had access to a camera) Enjoy!

One of my boyfriends won best actor for his portrayal of the great Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, I am proud.


I purchased a scanner early in the year, all so I could scan stupid photos like this pic of me and my first husband, Big Bear. The critters are our children. I'm not sure where they are today, but I reckon they are doing well for themselves.


I took a silly freelance gig, but I got my brother featured in my story! yay!


Got a Kickin' role as Karen in David Mamet's Speed the Plow, a role Madonna first played on broadway... pssst told I was better than Madge!


My body looks huge, but look at cute Adam being so serious behind me!! Tee-hee!


Hello Karen has Cleavage!


Then I met a boy...he sells T-shirts on the internet.


Took a dramatic pause in my dressing room at the cast party.


Adam behaved a little more dramatically in the theatre's ghetto kitchen.


Made a great friend in Mark, the show's most important crew member...here we celebrate at the Chicago Pride Parade, just after the show's final matinee


A moment of happiness from that crazy parade.


I love this outfit!!!! Pink is always the new pink!


In the Summer of '06 I loved hanging on my 'patio.'


My darlings, E and Kim came for a very quick visit...too quick! But enjoyable none the less!


A randomly funny photo that remians to be an inside joke!


In 2006 I adored the DVD the Mirrormask!


Oh that boy again! Our first awkward pic together.


ROAR...according to the Chinese I was born in the year of the Tiger! So fitting!


Enjoying the summer!


Oooooh the EP Suites welcoming Goat...


And on the South side one of EP's Giraffe's


Cute. I found out I'm dating a dumpster diver. UH, actually... this is for real!!!!!


But yet he makes me the most interesting dinners!


Ooooh a beatiful friend gets married!


Her wedding ceremony at Theatre in the Round In Minneapolis!


While home I shot this pic of my baby sister.


I also celebtared the 4th of July by the Mississippi river in downtown St. Paul.


Then I squeezed my parents goodbye at the airport.


Summer in Chicago is soooo nice!!!!! I miss it!


Too much fun, scamming my way into Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Chicago.


Seeing The Flaming Lips! Yes!!!!!!


Frankie and I having fun at the festival.


Getting too addicted to a television show.


My boyfriend, Sawyer.


And yet another addicting show...


My boyfriend from this show...yum!


While home in the Fall of '06 I got to visit with my good friend Cate and her cute hubby, Tyler.


Ooooh it's Halloween time! These pumpkins have since been eaten by rats. :(


For Halloween we dressed as Donnie and Marie Osmond.


Seeeeeeeeeeee! We almost look just like them!


A good Chi-town friend...and the kicker? She grew up minutes from me in Roseville, Minnesota!


An unseasonablely warm day in the winter of '06.


And this is my weird boyfriend... after Halloween he got a discount on Pirate make-up and couldn't let it go to waste... this was a random night in November.

HAPPY 2007!
Kiss Kiss

Best YouTubin Ever!

My stomach hurts soooo hard from laughing when I watch this...I love it.



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Welcome to Jolene's World! It's so much better here!

I Wish I had Five Arms

Wait, having five arms would be sort of creepy...

I miss my blog... I have been super busy....and with that, like my dear friend Kim wrote in her blog justacitygirl.blogspot.com, I give you a quick run down of the happenings of Jolene’s World....

-Working lots at the magazine, currently I have six stories due on Wednesday, not one is complete. It’s overwhelming and fun!

-Frank and I barely talk anymore as we are way too consumed with the second season of Lost on DVD...best show ever!

-I ate dinner at Usagi Ya in Wicker Park with my friend Mandy. I had a Spicy Tuna Roll minus the magsomo-egg stuff, and a shitake mushroom roll-minus the spinach cuz I don’t want to die. I drank Green Tea. It was the best sushi I have ever had.

-This morning I had much needed closure on an irking issue. I feel great!

-I am in the midst of designing Frank's Halloween Costume, we are going to be Donny and Marie circa 1977.. Marie's costume is already complete. We are hoping to win mega moula at a local contest...

-I am seriously missing my friend E who I haven’t seen in way too long

-I barely leave my desk at work and I am happy.

-I have auditioned lots, and been rejected lots…I keep auditioning.

-Miss. Honey has been a snuggle bug as usual! I would still like to eat her.

-I saw my cute Grandma celebrate 89 years of life. Wanted to give her Honey as a present.

-Went to the Paper House warehouse sale, pure madness. The things people will do for paper.

-Getting very irritated with the continuous rain. The city is windy and cold.

-Painted, rather than carved a pumpkin... it joins another painted pumpkin..the two pumpkins have been christened, Donny and Marie.

-Been scraping my purse for change to get home on the el.

-Met Mark for our weekly cheap eats and chatting at Redfish . He gave me a Hello Kitty suitcase with bubblegum.

-Went to a real doctor because now I have insurance! Learned I gained 10 pounds in the past 6 months….people say it’s because I am in love (insert finger in throat). In reality it’s because I have an addiction to late-night feedings of M&M’s, alcohol and bread.

-Acted in a reading of some fun women-written plays

-Received a fun, new plush couch...for FREE!

-Watched the Chicago Marathon Runners, first hour looked diligently for my friend Amy running in the crowd, second hour diligently looked for a break in the ground to get my bum over to Ann Sather’s Cafe across the street.

-Been procrastinating with the best of ‘em.

-Still screaming like a wild banshee to get out the door on time in the morning

-Heard a great line I want to include in my next play: “The reason you put me through school to get my master’s in (to protect the source-insert your own fancy subject) is so I could have interesting conversations at dinner parties.“

-Frank just made me giggle with a card that says “You’re Invited (on the front and on the inside)…Popcorn and Lost. Please RSVP” And with that...disc 5 begins!

What's New in Jolene's World

Does anyone know????

Maybe sneaky Mean Jo Green knows... oooh she's too busy posing in the CUTEST picture ever! It's Jo and Granpa Lee....ooooo for Cute!

I Miss My Girlfriends!

Women are so motivated! We move forward and follow our dreams and this often leaves close girlfriends geographically far apart....while we remember one another we now make new friendships, new dramas, new boyfriends (or in some cases, gulp! husbands!) and we create new experience too hard to explain to one another. But alas we are fabulous and know we MUST do these things to be the best we can be....and while I am happy for my girlfriend, I still have to say: DAMN I miss my girlfriends!These women are too fabulous to replace! Just take a look!


In the middle, beautiful Kim, following her dreams, getting cultured, and living the life she should be living in Minneapolis, the BEST city in the world! Miss. Kim is smart, funny, patient and full of complete glamour and style...this girl superbly managed a fab Irish pub in the city, but knew when to leave to get more of what she deserves! And on the right, gorgeous E, studying Chinese Studies as her Masters in London! The sweetest, most kind and calming woman I know. Educated, smart and most importantly a truly strong spirit, inspiring to me and probably most everyone she meets!


Ooooh wedding bliss! The bride is beautiful Meagan, the happiest woman I have ever encountered! Can’t you tell from her smile?! Meagan, newly married is following her dreams of acting in Hollywood! Now living in L.A. with her sweet hubby, Rick, Meagan is a treasured friend to have! And on the left is the FAB Maid of Honor and my dear friend Kristin. A wonderfully emotional being, Kristin points out the cynicism while always coming off endearingly loving. The most loyal woman, she will fight for you to the end. Darling Kristin is living in St. Paul, Minn., running a Twin Cities theatre company, acting, and taking care of a new feline friend, as well as a crazy, yet sweet boyfriend!


Cater-TOT! This pic was probably taken at a bar-stop after a showing of an amazing play about vampires. Cate is happily married, cheery and lovingly raising her two pups! No other girl deserves to have two devoted pups, as Miss. Cate is too good a girl to not make them feel special. Cate and I don’t talk as often as we used to, but that doesn’t mean she is not still in my thoughts. This girl has a way to make you spew coke through your nose and feel a warm fuzzy in your heart, all at the same time!


Oh Miss Alyssa, Oh um, I mean Carrie! Tee-hee...C challenges me so....I could talk for hours about the craziest stuff with this lady. Miss. C, aka Alyssa, is working in downtown Minneapolis for a top ad agency and dedicating her time to those she loves. Alyssa is brave, independent, inspiring and so hip!!!! Oh yes and fiercely kind, no other woman understood me more when it came to....


Princess Xena, on the left. I will NEVER forget you, neither will Miss. Honey (on the right.) Xena trusted me with her life. She was a timid one when she came to become my girl, but we soon became attached. She licked my armpits, snuggled on my lap, told me, in her special way, 'thank you.' Wherever you are Xena, I miss you, we miss you, we love and I am forever sorry.