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September 2026

  1. weekly retro #83: new month, new git meltdown
  2. what i made during my fifth ceramics class
  3. weekly retro #84: art, allergies and dying
  4. weekly retro #85: aggressively hydrated
  5. weekly retro #86: a paranasal nor'easter before the real one

August 2026

  1. weekly retro #78: making art, taking trains
  2. weekly retro #79: just an italian girl from new york
  3. weekly retro #80: hematomas and hope
  4. weekly retro #81: inventing time management
  5. weekly retro #82: my doctor said to sleep more

July 2026

  1. weekly retro #74: heat dome
  2. weekly retro #75: bingo
  3. what i made during my fourth ceramics class
  4. weekly retro #76: hazy shade of whenever
  5. weekly retro #77: blue skies and painted pixels
  6. nearest neighbor studies 1, 2, 3

June 2026

  1. weekly retro #70: asked the vet for a lobotomy but they said no
  2. weekly retro #71: the cat's alive, knicks in five
  3. weekly retro #72: cone's off, cramps on
  4. weekly retro #73: frequent stops

May 2026

  1. weekly retro #65: may the third be with you
  2. what i made during my third ceramics class
  3. weekly retro #66: spring showers and neighbors' flowers
  4. weekly retro #67: prepare to compare my good mood now to my mood after the heat wave
  5. weekly retro #68: quiet before the scheduled storm
  6. weekly retro #69: no i will not just title this one 'nice'

April 2026

  1. weekly retro #61: happy easter, xbox
  2. weekly retro #62: pumagreg gets his ankle monitor removed
  3. weekly retro #63: there's a lot of depression in this one
  4. weekly retro #64: jetlag from the same time zone

March 2026

  1. weekly retro #56: didn't have to shovel but my back hurts
  2. weekly retro #57: the usual amount of clay, blood and lasagna
  3. 10 years of getting hotter and smarter
  4. weekly retro #58: logged off, touching clay
  5. what i made during my second ceramics class
  6. weekly retro #59: kicked, burned, but still spinning
  7. weekly retro #60: spoony time

February 2026

  1. weekly retro #52: walking in this cold for a haunted doll head
  2. weekly retro #53: below zero temperatures should not be allowed outside
  3. weekly retro #54: failing to be birthday neutral
  4. weekly retro #55: forgot the title lol whoops oh well

January 2026

  1. 2026: again, another year of blog on the desktop, again, another time
  2. weekly retro #48: imagine what i would have done if i didn't get covid
  3. weekly retro #49: dude that sucked
  4. weekly retro #50: back into the groove
  5. what i made during my first ceramics class
  6. weekly retro #51: wheel throwin' and storm postin'

December 2025

  1. weekly retro #44: poked, prodded, but not fully deflated
  2. weekly retro #45: stress is free and yet expensive
  3. weekly retro #46: the ramp up to the ramp down
  4. weekly retro #47: the one i almost forgot because what day is it even

November 2025

  1. weekly retro #39: hoping for a renewing november
  2. weekly retro #40: the week i saw canbubu
  3. weekly retro #41: slow vs. slop
  4. weekly retro #42: sick of the cold and my phone
  5. weekly retro #43: mopping and brƻlƩeing

October 2025

  1. weekly retro #35: i'll tell YOU when it's time for spooky things
  2. weekly retro #36: following pumagreg's lead during the nor'easter
  3. weekly retro #37: boston soy iced latte party
  4. what someone (i) who has done aerial yoga (over) 150 times brings to class
  5. weekly retro #38: the heat is on

September 2025

  1. weekly retro #31: big pharma deez nuts
  2. weekly retro #32: hospitals, trucks, and a little coke
  3. here is the latest on "candles" #2
  4. weekly retro #33: being bad at new things is good
  5. my "shopping" note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time
  6. weekly retro #34: clawing myself back into a routine-hole

August 2025

  1. weekly retro #26: let's hope this is the last one about teeth
  2. weekly retro #27: new coming soon business
  3. you do not have to use generative ai "art" in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free
  4. weekly retro #28: pivoting to video
  5. weekly retro #29: (close to) an ego death by wax and words
  6. weekly retro #30: live laugh cup

July 2025

  1. my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options
  2. weekly retro #22: another week of *not* eating the flowers
  3. weekly retro #23: my last week with this one specific tooth
  4. weekly retro #24: fake teeth, real busy
  5. weekly retro #25: burns, exposed ankles and other horrors

June 2025

  1. weekly retro #17: blog birthdays, blood and buds
  2. weekly retro #18: june in bloom and gloom
  3. weekly retro #19: garbag'ino, garbag'outo
  4. weekly retro #20: what if a haircut smelled like fresh cut grass
  5. weekly retro #21: just a little something to take the edge off

May 2025

  1. weekly retro #13: crunchy flowers and interesting feline shapes
  2. weekly retro #14: the 'late because i went to boston' retro
  3. weekly retro #15: spider feet have hydraulics
  4. on 'important changes coming to glitch'
  5. weekly retro #16: one of those winding road kinda weeks
  6. five years of living, laughing and blogging

April 2025

  1. figure drawing session - april 2, 2025
  2. weekly retro #9: seeing deftones, drawing nudes, and practicing patience with myself
  3. weekly retro #10: the one where i accept that i can't have a humanoid body like krang
  4. weekly retro #11: playing radio, chandlery and blue prince
  5. figure drawing session - april 16, 2025
  6. weekly retro #12: the one where i became a walking weather stick

March 2025

  1. weekly retro #4: the one where i have a party and then get mad at my computer
  2. making custom matchboxes
  3. weekly retro #5: are there brokers in the ocean?
  4. trying to learn to enjoy markers
  5. weekly retro #6: the one where i got sick
  6. weekly retro #7: despite the haters (germs) i'm back
  7. weekly retro #8: touching grass

February 2025

  1. some figure sketches from january
  2. weekly retro #1: last full week of my 30s
  3. making butter (kind of)
  4. weekly retro #2: lordy lordy, jenn is forty
  5. weekly retro #3: three teens in a trenchcoat start a business on their period

January 2025

  1. 2025: another year of blog on the desktop again
  2. a pixel watercolor sketchbook i filled up
  3. books i read in january and thoughts on medicine and literacy

December 2024

  1. the pee-hole post or a quick fix if your air compressor's drain valve is leaking and other sidequests
  2. ten years of cattoo, or a comparison of a tattoo i got 10 years ago and what it looks like today
  3. candle math
  4. a collection of candles i made

November 2024

  1. brighton boobs
  2. photos from 2004
  3. that tfw when the world ends again
  4. my airbrush library

October 2024

  1. i made a very hard decision this year

September 2024

  1. ten years ago i let people fuck up my 8-bit art

August 2024

  1. there's a good reason i didn't blog this month yet

July 2024

  1. kissy lips again, this time about an art residency i did at the ace hotel in 2015

June 2024

  1. join my freaking mailing list
  2. kissy lips won't delete šŸ’‹

May 2024

  1. wonderville turned 5! also we're doing another show there this month
  2. last week i learned cpr and now i've got a new personality
  3. just some upcoming events and things on my mind

April 2024

  1. an april photo dump before april is over

March 2024

  1. falling for prince's fridge
  2. the intersection of candles and code

February 2024

  1. i made a second watercolor palette from eyeshadow
  2. catching up on candles

January 2024

  1. my 2023 year in code
  2. 10 years since i warned you's about bitcoin
  3. 2024: another year of blog on the desktop
  4. grade school entrepreneur

November 2023

  1. get a sticker book

September 2023

  1. my 2016 electric objects interview, revisited

August 2023

  1. karol polak made 8-bit art

July 2023

  1. arnold palmers for people who are trying to cool it on the sugar

June 2023

  1. condemned to blog

January 2023

  1. 2023: the year of blog on the desktop
  2. command strips and lemon dill chickpea pasta
  3. fmk: butterfly clips, thyroid disease, seventh grade?
  4. how to grow a web presence, 1/n

July 2022

  1. i spent the last month on a pretty cool watercolor project

June 2022

  1. circling back on the aquatic toilet seat
  2. pickling red onions
  3. candle-making my way to a cento fine foods sponsorship
  4. oh boy, she's making watercolors again

May 2022

  1. welcome to year 3 of live laugh blog
  2. a few very good youtube videos
  3. carousels, cashews, candles and community
  4. this isn't necessarily the aquatic scene toilet seat i will get but it illustrates my 'point'

February 2022

  1. on friday i turned 37
  2. she's still balding
  3. the grey muse, an etsy pin haul

December 2021

  1. this is a post about a haircut, spicy candle, elusive vegan turkey roast, gray cake, etc.

November 2021

  1. brb, circumnavigating the globe
  2. she is beauty, she is grace, she is balding

October 2021

  1. i’m giving an important talk at ā€œinternet explorersā€ on saturday 10/9
  2. here's what i bought at some dollar stores this week
  3. i spent most of halloween chaotically making candles

September 2021

  1. some foods that have been comforting me this past shitty month

August 2021

  1. hello, august ć€°ļø āž° āžæ
  2. bug vs. shark
  3. reverend jenn
  4. domesticating feral tomatoes
  5. yes, i am trying to get back into painting pixel art again

July 2021

  1. my candles needed thicker wicks
  2. a review of the remarkable 2, or 'i love my cutting edge digital paper technology!'
  3. my truth

May 2021

  1. an early birthday gift to my blog
  2. we began a candle-making adventure, i messed up!
  3. lemon cake, hold the shingles!
  4. i bought a heatless curling rod on etsy, and then i used it!

April 2021

  1. illustrations of procrastination: semi-homemade vegan chicken wrap

March 2021

  1. live laugh yawn, a tuesday morning stream
  2. a good video on how to make soy candles
  3. a lady of the evening's nails

February 2021

  1. happy 36
  2. pumagroggy
  3. demand justice

January 2021

  1. my 2020 gratitude thread
  2. how do sunscreens work
  3. napping on the job
  4. dear planet fitness,
  5. how to cheat at nail art
  6. repurpose your alcohol vessels as flower vessels instead
  7. there exist more palatable fusions of ā€œitalian for kidsā€ and baked goods than just that spaghettio pie

December 2020

  1. illustrations of procrastination: sweet potato and black bean bowl
  2. today i put jeans on, on purpose!
  3. emotionally stable woman crushes baskin robbins turkey cake challenge

November 2020

  1. halloweens of yesterjenn

October 2020

  1. some things that are helping me get through october
  2. commemorating a nice sunday with a large fake snake skeleton (as one does)

September 2020

  1. i’ve made it 6 weeks into a 12 week strength training program, so i’m ready to talk about it

August 2020

  1. 6 statement pieces that really make a statement
  2. here’s a ā€œwhat a vegan eats in a dayā€ post for me to point folks who are artificially concerned about my protein intake to
  3. getting a tofu press made a huge difference in my faux ā€œeggā€ salad and my stress levels
  4. i was a virtual fan at an nba playoffs round 1 game
  5. i vividly remember the first time i was made to feel dumb for asking a question
  6. i dropped off my food scraps and no one yelled at me

July 2020

  1. 3 quick and healthy dishes i make when my last meeting went 20 minutes into lunch and my next meeting is in 40 minutes
  2. ayyy iā€˜m walking (more) here!!
  3. the first ever live laugh conf was both two weeks ago and a huge success
  4. rating some of my favorite photos of me, except they were augmented by my friend gianni to have weird smiles
  5. celery soda for adults (real grown ups only!)
  6. finally, a classic smoky eye tutorial that works for my down-turned, hooded eyes
  7. this blog is not even two months old but i’ve already given it a new look
  8. i am a stamp collector now

June 2020

  1. lizzo told us to fry oyster mushrooms so i did
  2. shocking: cursed woman makes cursed spaghetti and "meatballs"
  3. how is this for "aesthetic"
  4. here is the latest on "candles"

May 2020

  1. hello world
  2. 6 very important things that had been sitting in my work bag since before the quarantine

category list

  1. art
  2. food
  3. health
  4. laughing
  5. living
  6. style
  7. tech
  8. working

tag list

  1. 14c
  2. 3d
  3. 3d-printing
  4. ace-hardware
  5. acrylic
  6. adhd
  7. aerial-silks
  8. aerial-yoga
  9. ai
  10. air-dry-clay
  11. airbrush
  12. alice-cooper
  13. alopecia
  14. anatomy
  15. andy
  16. animals
  17. anniversaries
  18. announcements
  19. apple
  20. appliances
  21. apps
  22. aquarium
  23. art
  24. art-books
  25. art-collection
  26. art-fairs
  27. art-supplies
  28. artists
  29. arts-and-crafts
  30. atmosphereconf
  31. atproto
  32. baby-jenn
  33. bad-habits
  34. baking
  35. basketball
  36. bathroom
  37. beads
  38. beauty
  39. because-i-got-high
  40. beeswax
  41. beveraginos
  42. birds
  43. birthday
  44. blizzard
  45. blogging
  46. blogging-while-high
  47. blogging-while-menstruating
  48. blood
  49. book-binding
  50. books
  51. boston
  52. botnik
  53. brooklyn
  54. bugs-rock
  55. business
  56. cakes
  57. candle-making
  58. candle-science
  59. candles
  60. carving
  61. cats
  62. ceramics
  63. ceramics-class
  64. certified
  65. chickens
  66. childhood
  67. chores
  68. christmas
  69. circus
  70. classes
  71. clay
  72. clocks
  73. code
  74. codepen
  75. coffee
  76. collage
  77. college
  78. colored-pencil
  79. comedy
  80. community
  81. computers
  82. concerts
  83. cone
  84. conferences
  85. consulting
  86. cooking
  87. covid
  88. creatures
  89. cricut
  90. cssperverts
  91. cursed-kitchen
  92. death
  93. decentralized
  94. decor
  95. dentist
  96. depression
  97. diy
  98. doctor
  99. dollar-stores
  100. drinks
  101. dumb-shit
  102. dunkin
  103. education
  104. eggs
  105. elections
  106. email
  107. equipment
  108. etsy
  109. events
  110. exercise
  111. exhibits
  112. family
  113. feelings
  114. figure-drawing
  115. fitness
  116. flowers
  117. food-art
  118. friends
  119. fundraising
  120. gameing
  121. gaming
  122. gardening
  123. gear
  124. gianni
  125. glitch
  126. gluten-free
  127. gouache
  128. grandma
  129. gratitude
  130. gym
  131. habits
  132. hair
  133. haircut
  134. halloween
  135. hand-building
  136. hardware
  137. hashimotos
  138. haul
  139. health
  140. history
  141. hobbies
  142. holidays
  143. home
  144. home-office
  145. hoobastank2
  146. hope
  147. hormones
  148. hosting
  149. htgawp
  150. html
  151. hypothyroidism
  152. illness
  153. ink
  154. interviews
  155. jamie
  156. jams
  157. javascript
  158. jersey-city
  159. jerseyscript
  160. juan-pablo
  161. karaoke
  162. kglw
  163. kitchen
  164. knicks
  165. kremer
  166. labels
  167. latest-on-candles
  168. libraries
  169. library
  170. lifehacks
  171. lifting
  172. lips
  173. lisa
  174. live-laugh-conf
  175. live-laugh-yawn
  176. macos
  177. mail
  178. make8bitart
  179. makeup
  180. male-romance
  181. mammogram
  182. manhattan
  183. manicure
  184. manicures
  185. markers
  186. matches
  187. math
  188. media
  189. meetings
  190. meetups
  191. meta
  192. mike
  193. mocktails
  194. molds
  195. moon
  196. movies
  197. museums
  198. music
  199. nail-art
  200. nba
  201. nearest-neighbor
  202. neocities
  203. newsletter
  204. non-alcoholic
  205. nutrition
  206. nv10
  207. nyc
  208. obsidian
  209. old-photos
  210. ootd
  211. overconsumption
  212. overthinking
  213. pain
  214. paint-making
  215. painting
  216. paperwork
  217. period
  218. pharmacy
  219. photography
  220. photos
  221. pins
  222. pixel-art
  223. pnc
  224. politics
  225. portfolio
  226. posting
  227. potch
  228. printing
  229. prison-abolition
  230. procrastination
  231. pumagreg
  232. purchases
  233. quick-meals
  234. radiology
  235. randwiches
  236. rating
  237. reading
  238. recipes
  239. recommendations
  240. remarkable
  241. render
  242. repurposing
  243. residencies
  244. resources
  245. reverend
  246. robot-karaoke
  247. robots
  248. routines
  249. santa
  250. satire
  251. school
  252. selfies
  253. sfpc
  254. shipping
  255. shirts
  256. shoes
  257. shopping
  258. shows
  259. sick
  260. sketchbook
  261. sketching
  262. skincare
  263. snow
  264. sobriety
  265. social-media
  266. sonic
  267. space
  268. speaking
  269. spf
  270. sports
  271. spreadsheets
  272. stamps
  273. steps
  274. stickers
  275. storytime
  276. streaming
  277. streamplace
  278. suppliers
  279. sustainability
  280. svg
  281. talks
  282. target
  283. tattoos
  284. tech-talks
  285. teeth
  286. television
  287. thanksgiving
  288. therapy
  289. thingiverse
  290. threejs
  291. thyroid
  292. tie-dye
  293. tiktok
  294. tips
  295. toronto
  296. touching-grass
  297. train
  298. trains
  299. travel
  300. traveling
  301. tutorials
  302. twitch
  303. twitter
  304. upcrate
  305. upcycling
  306. valtown
  307. vegan
  308. vegetables
  309. vet
  310. video
  311. video-editing
  312. video-games
  313. videos
  314. virtual-window-shopping
  315. vlog
  316. vlogging
  317. walking
  318. water
  319. watercolor
  320. watercolors
  321. weather
  322. web-development
  323. weekly-retro
  324. wfh
  325. whats-in-my-bag
  326. wheel-throwing
  327. whitney-museum
  328. wikihow
  329. winter
  330. womens-prison-association
  331. wonderville
  332. wordhack
  333. world-cup
  334. writing
  335. xoxo
  336. yoga
  337. youtube