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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

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