... annndd she moves ... again ...

YAY!! Moving day! Later tonight I'm heading back to Hollywood. See, I don't have a car anymore. Well, let me break that down - technically speaking, the car I paid over $30,000 (bought it brand new, was retarded expensive. never again) for is sitting in the driveway. BUT! I STILL have not paid off my parking tickets, or gotten the car registered in CA - let alone keeping up the insurance. Just is not possible for me right now. I'm all about bending the rules, not flat out breaking the law.

My dad absolutely cracks me up, while back home for a few weeks - he was like, how exactly do you get around? My response, twitter, Dad. All I have to do is tweet ... people just believe in what I do and what I'm about, and they just want to help and be a part of the story.

My dad being a lawyer and a very very very logical human being replied, whatever makes you happy daughter. They're getting it. It's been an incredibly weird year for them watching all of this go down. Can't blame them. I was angry for a while, but you just have to let it go. What good parents in this world would tell you, yes daughter, please - give up everything you've worked for over the years, trash your credit, live off of random people on the internet. Sure, daughter, that sounds GREAT!

Either way, cracks me up ... COMPLETELY illogical ... but I've just been getting so so so much done, it blows my mind. So yahhhh!! That being said, another moving day, need to be in Hollywood to be more centrally located for the next chapter of the story. Being without a car is cool, I have no problem walking ... but not in the Valley. You all saw what happened to me the other day when I tried walking in the Valley DUDE! I'm not a friggen hooker ... oyyy, and I'm not even Jewish.

Moving is always a bit meh for me ... kinda ridiculous to think since I volunteered for this life, but I am still a 26 year old human being who's natural instinct is to be resistant to change ... but who cares. Life is change, adapt or die.

New year ... new chapter. Bring it.

#letsgetiton

*waves* Hello from Big Bear!!!

Cue 4sq checkin:

Got in yesterday afternoon ... and this place is for reals SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO beautiful. Like omg omg omg omg omg omg ... I posess too limited of a vocabulary to express the beauty of it all. It is incredibly. incredibly. incredibly. humbling.

This is the room that I'm staying in ...

It has the BEST Diet Dr. Pepper cooler that I have ever seen ...

I'm also totally finding new uses for my Spirithood - which always excites me ...

Yep ... so this is what I'm up to. Contemplating the meaning of life ... celebrating the beauty of it all ... and SO SO SO SOOOOOO excited for this new year!!! BAHHH!!

 

So thank you all so so much!! I am reading every tweet and Facebook message, just can't @reply to you all since I am on my Droid, and I can't do multiple @replies.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TNTML!!!

All my love and all my heart.

xoxo #nerdsunite

My Goals for #2011 - Resolutions are lame.

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JenSquard

It's that time of year again, when everyone all of a sudden thinks they are ready to make a change.  Resolutions start happening, and crazy things get put out there for people to try to live up to.  And because we, as a society, aren't great with resolutions or pre-planning, we generally fail.  So instead I make goals.  It doesn't mean that I never fail at them, I just think goals are a little more manageable, and resolutions tend to set people up for failure. 

This year it's time for me to step it up.  I'm not going to be pregnant, so I don't have that as an excuse.  My life with three kids is insane, but that isn't going to hold me back this year, either.  2011, it is now on like donkey kong.  Here they are:

Lose weight - like 40 pounds.  Honestly I don't care about my weight, it's just a number, I am just done having kids and ready to be my pre-mom size.  Totally do-able.

Get one of my posts on the "Most Popular Posts" list on TNTML. 

Book at least one wedding per month between April and September.

Bring in at least $1,000 per month in my photography business between April and September.  Begin to be able to re-invest into more equipment.

Have more sex.  Your sex life tends to get put on the back burner when you have so many kiddos...I'm taking it back.

Eat less fast food.  Ugh, not a fun one.  I LOVE fast food, but I am going to cut it back to once a week. sad.

Gain consistency over my TNTML posting.  Continue lifecasting while integrating some vlogging.

Completely potty train my son - out of diapers and pull-ups during the day.

Finish our remodel and move Cadence into her own room. 

There you have it.  I love my life and am incredibly proud of myself for what I have accomplished in the last few years.  I finally feel like next year is going to be my year, and we are going finally get some stability and sanity.  Can't even wait. 

Send me your goals for 2011 - I would love love love to hear about them - we can keep each other on track! Follow me on Twitter: @JenSquard or Facebook it up: facebook.com/jenswedhinphotography

#MyResolution for 2011

Alrite ... it's New Years eve eve, so about time I thought about this right? I never make resolutions. Ever. This was actually the first year that I made them, primarily because I had this website to even publish them on. Check out what my resolutions were ...

Skydiving ... CHECK!

Although I had to do it tandem as it was my first jump - I did do it entirely alone.

Well, almost entirely ... I livestreamed the adventure. I swear to goodness because of social media, I very literally never feel alone. So yeah! That was not a bad gig at all ... despite my face in this picture ...

 Thanks again www.itsthesheets.com and the Ford Fiesta Movement!

Nudist camp? Yep! Well in the very technical aspect of it all ... I spent 3 days over the Thanksgiving break topless in a Spirithood. Totes mcgotes not kidding. We had a whole lil hippie community goin on, and we were all naked for pretty much the entire time. HAHA! There's a hot tub in the house, so you know how it goes. I LOOVEEDD IT!

Still completely shocked this video hasn't been removed since there's boobs in it, but I'm just goin with it.

Talking nerdy? Oh fuck yes I kept that commitment. HAHAHAH!! Goodness GRACIOUS! Only if I knew how bold of a statement that was going to be. Had no idea a few months later I'd go from sleeping on a $1300 mattress from the Four Seasons, to a car. I am very very very committed to talking nerdy. Clearly.

So, what's in store for 2011? I have no idea - but I know its a lot. Every single day we're growing, and that's not even counting the pilot, big big big sponsors that are circling TNTML like hawks, stuff with AOL, stuff with Playboy, now stuff with Yahoo ... and a meeting with a muck at Google. I don't plan. Never have, never will. The journey is the destination.

 My 2011 resolution is to remain present. Period end of sentence. I will make a commitment everyday to just be. And that is all.

#letitbe

Dude, I'm totally going to Big Bear!

Becoming homeless was prolly the most difficult, but best decision I have ever made in my entire life. I kid you not. This site wouldn't be nearly where it is today if I hadn't decided to not give up, and to keep on trucking. Life is so illogical - it just BLOWS my fucking mind.

That being said ... got a text this morning from an old buddy who broke up with his chick and has a huge ass cabin in Big Bear for the weekend. I was like say no more- I'm TOTALLY GAME!!!

I'll be staying on the lake in a ridiculously large cabin with a hot tub, fireplace, and in room breakfast. Are you kidding me?! I still haven't had $10 to my name in a very very very long time ... life is so abundant when you just throw yourself out there, and just start living. How is it that I have been able to survive this long with THIS many cool adventures documented?!?!?!?!?! Wow ... wow ... wow. Thank you universe!!

Go ... right now ... stop doing shit you don't want to do, and start doing things you do want to do. You have FREE MARKETING to get your message out to the world! Figure out what you want to say, and go SAY IT!! Now .. like right now ... then send me a tweet and tell me about it, @JenFriel, Facebook my butt, or get all old school and drop me an email - JenFriel@talknerdytomelover.com

Dude! Can't wait to take my @spirithoods out in the snow!! WHOOP WHOOP!!

#nerdsunite