My name is Jen...

and I'm a Coke-aholic.


There. I admitted it.




A couple of times a year I give it up. I know that it's horrible for me. According to what I've been told over and over by numerous different people, pop is one of the worst food/beverages you can consume. On the radio tonight they were talking about it, saying that both regular & diet have 6 tsps of sugar in them (not sure what size that serving is). That's not a little.


So as I said, I often quit pop. This year I did for Lent. I think I had also quit back in September. I usually give myself a time frame: one month, 40 days, etc. When that time is up, I allow myself a little bit. Then I will eventually have a little more. Before long, I'll be sitting at work/school thinking about coke and how I can't wait to get out so I can stop and have one. An ice cold, refreshing Coke. Particularly one from a fountain. Draft. On the rocks.

All it takes is one hit. One hit and then I'm gone.

It's just soooo good!



Well, I recognize that Coke is bad for me. I need to not have it anymore. So, today I quit. Cold turkey. I have not had a drop of Coke since last night around 9:30.

I've thought about Coke a lot today. I wouldn't have quit if there had been some in my house, or if I'd been motivated enough to go to the store and buy some. I guess my laziness today did amount to something. :-p



Will I allow myself to have Coke again? Heck yes! Will I still stop on my way home every day and buy myself a Coke? Not anymore. It's all about self-discipline and moderation.


They used to say "Coca Cola Classic, Can't beat the real thing." I'm beating it.

So, goodbye my dear friend with that beautiful red and white logo, with that delicious spicy carbonated goodness. I will sorely miss you...for a few days.





And to those who just read through this ridiculous nonsense post, God bless you. Haha. :-p

American Idol

So I fell asleep about mid-way through the Idol Gives Back thing on Wednesday and wasn't home to see the results show last night. My mom informed me today that they sang "Shout to the Lord" as their opening number last night. I couldn't believe it and figured she'd dreamed it (as she is prone to dreaming things and then not recalling if they were real or not :-p). However, when I checked YouTube a short while ago, I did indeed find two versions of Shout to the Lord that were performed on American Idol! One is from Wednesday night and one from Thursday night.

I find a couple of things interesting about this. First of all, they edited out the word Jesus on the Wed. night one and replaced it with "shepherd". On Thursday though, they sang "Jesus." If I recall back enough, there have been contestants who have sung blatantly Christian songs on the show before, and Simon has criticizing them for singing songs they wanted to sing for themselves and trying to make a statement. Yet, they sang this one twice, and I'm sure he had to approve it. The song is obviously not a pop or rock song, and though it was "inspirational" week or whatever they called it, I found it interesting that this was the song choice. Are they trying to reel the Christians in or something? Maybe the producer is a Christian? Whatever reason, props to them! I'm sure it was awesome for those contestants who are Christian to be able to sing a song truly dedicated to the Lord. And for the others, maybe this touched them and opened some doors. Heck, this song went into millions of homes. I pray it touched a lot of people!

I think I'll go search around and see what other people think about this. Part of me thinks it's cool that they sang the song. Another part of me though just wonders why they "performed" it...if that makes sense. For whatever reason, it's great that it happened and they sounded pretty fab! Haha...reminds me of Heirborne (though we never sang that song I don't think)! :-p

I'd love to know your thoughts on this!!! Please tell me what you think.
Here are the two performances:


Wednesday's edited performance:


Thursday's "Jesus" performance:

Aqua Net anyone?

Hairspray is playing at Shea's in Buffalo this weekend, and Matt and I already bought tickets to see it on Sunday, which we are very excited about! But then, they had a contest on Channel 4. You had to upload a pic of some crazy hair. Then, they did a random drawing from the pics posted. I uploaded this lovely one from last summer during Brigadoon. I had tried to put my hair in curlers for the show, but this is what came of them. I ended up missing Whitney's bridal shower because of the horrificness, as I had to fix my hair before going on stage that night!




Anyway, I got home tonight and checked my e-mail. I had an e-mail from Channel 4 saying "Congratulations, you have randomly been selected to win 2 tickets to Hairspray!" WOOT!!! I'm super excited. The tix I won are for Friday night, so I'm taking my mom. Hopefully they'll be right up front. My mom won tix to a show a few years ago and we ended up being in the front row! Sunday night's performance is up in the nosebleed section of the balcony.


So basically, I'm super excited and can't wait for Friday now! To top it all off, I have a break beginning Friday that goes all the way through the following week. YAY!!!