stuff jen says: Mar. 22: “You can’t make that Shiite up”

Mar. 22: “You can’t make that Shiite up”

I have just a few points:

It’s a real thing and according to Darby, who is a proficient intertube user, it’s called “Kuku ye shevid obaqala” and it really is delicious and I am NOT a lima bean fan so I was surprised I liked it.
I do not know why Google won’t tell me “kuku ye shevid obaqala” is a real thing. Is it possible that Google just doesn’t index Chef Boy-ar-dee products? (Heh heh heh…)
That was a joke. I know Chef Boy-ar-dee only does Italian food.
Darby is right: no one would actually choose the name Jennifer Saltmarsh Manullang. I do prefer that over what he normally calls me, though, which is something closer to “Manullang-a-ding-dong”—and that’s just to my face. I know the names get much more profane when I’m not around.
My name may be odd, but I’m glad not to have a name that makes marketing companies question my gender and so, to be on the safe side, send feminine hygiene products to me all through college, DARA.
Happy Persian New Year or some such holiday!
That is all.

Oh, and muchas smoochas to that guy around the corner whose name I don’t know and whose blog I don’t read and who I’ll be waving at with one finger next time I see him. :)

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AnonymousMarch 22, 2009 at 2:52:00 PM PDT
Easy now Chicas....you need to fine tune your sarcasm detector, LOL. BTW, I was named after a famous Persian king(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_I_of_Persia). Dara is just a derivative of it. I blame receiving the feminine hygiene products while at college to post modern maternalistic hegemony instituted by female corporate overlords to "keep the man down". My name, in essence, is speaking truth to power. So deal with it. Also, I'll be bring over some Kuku later around 5pm. You'll be home?
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JenMarch 22, 2009 at 3:51:00 PM PDT
Dara, Dara, Dara...

Um, I've never heard the term "hegemony" before. Stop with the making up of words! :)

We'll be home at 5. Yay!
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DarbyJune 27, 2011 at 11:39:00 AM PDT
Easy now Chicas....you need to fine tune your sarcasm detector, LOL. BTW, I was named after a famous Persian king(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_I_of_Persia). Dara is just a derivative of it. I blame receiving the feminine hygiene products while at college to post modern maternalistic hegemony instituted by female corporate overlords to "keep the man down". My name, in essence, is speaking truth to power. So deal with it. Also, I'll be bring over some Kuku later around 5pm. You'll be home?
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facts of jen's life

So, who do you think you are? I think I’m Jen. People who don’t know me sometimes call me Jenny. That’s weird.

Tell me about yourself. I was born a small black child, and am now a grown-up, or at least my kids think I am. I’m in my mid-40s and live in the ‘burbs of Portland, Oregon. My husband is Victor, and my kids are Katie and Jack. Read this if you want the real and very long scoop.

Tell me things people might not know about you. I am an ordained minister and can perform marriages. Why no one has asked me to do this for them yet, I do not know. ● At the request of my Disney-hating friend Ed, I got mouse ears embroidered with the name “Satan” and I didn’t even get kicked out of Disneyland. It’s quite possibly the ballsiest thing I’ve ever done. ● I “helped” write this book, published in 2012: You Take it From Here, by Pamela Ribon. My name is in the back, and I’m still geeking out about it. ● I recorded a song in a studio in 1994 and it got local radio play for a few months. At least two times I turned on the radio in the car and my song was playing at that moment—very cool. ● I nearly died from a zit in 1986. I am not making this up. ● Victor and I once appeared on The Tonight Show. Really. If you can find a VCR, I’ll show you the tape.

I read some of your posts and I think you might be an alcoholic. I drink way less than I write about drinking. If I ever STOP talking about booze, then it’ll be time for an intervention.

What do you love? Books. Coffee. Fonts. Broadway musicals. San Francisco. Bacon. Rum. Law & Order. Naps. Butter. Home. Crack cocaine. iDevices. Words. Disney vacations. You.

If you could punch anything or anyone in the face, what/who would it be? Cancer. I was diagnosed with lymphoma in November 2009. I kicked its big fat ugly ass and am in remission now. ● Comic Sans. ● People who won’t take responsibility for their problems—the “I didn’t do anything to deserve this!” attitude. Look in the mirror. That’s who to blame. ● Celebrities who are famous for no reason. Y’know, if we stop looking, they’ll go away... ● Bad grammar and spelling and the dummies who use it.

You seem bitter. Did someone piss in your Cheerios? I’m not bitter. I think unicorns-and-rainbows stuff isn’t very interesting to read, so I tend not to write that way. But also, now you’re being kind of a jackhole.

It seems like no one ever comments on your blog posts. Why is that? Most people comment on the Facebook links. I don’t know why.

What if I want to tell you something? Two ways to reach me: leave a comment on a post, or e-mail me at jenniferTAKETHISPARTOUTmanullang at gmail-dot-com.

Mar. 22: “You can’t make that Shiite up”

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