About Me

Hi! I'm Jess and I am eighteen years old. I love, love, LOVE baking!! It just makes me oh so very happy! My dream, naturally, is to one day have my very own bakery. However, that is just a dream and I am just a girl trying to find her way in the world, no matter how cliche that is.

Here are some other things that you should probably know about me:

1.) I am a figure skater of twelve years. I have passed all of my moves tests and up to Junior freestyle. I don't compete anymore, but I do plan on finishing all of my tests. 

2.) I played volleyball all four years of high school. My last season we won districts and made it to the state finals. 

WHS Girls Volleyball 2013: Fortune Favors the Brave

At least we thought that we were pretty cool...

3.) I am a complete and utter perfectionist EXCEPT when it comes to baking and cooking. If you didn't make a mess, you aren't having enough fun.

4.) While I have absolutely no musical inclination, (even though I was in the school band for four years and could read the music, just not play it) I love to listen to the stuff!! All different types: Rap, Country, Dubstep, Pop, Rock, R&B. You name it, I will almost always love it. I am not, however, a big fan of 'screamo'. I'm sorry, but that isn't music, it's just someone yelling at the top of their lungs while apparently actually saying words even though no one in their right mind would understand what they are saying. My favorite bands are constantly changing, but right now I'm really into Passenger and Arctic Monkeys. 

5.) I wish I was a wizard, preferably Hermione Granger.

I am a really big fan of Harry Potter...

6. I love books and movies and musicals and concerts and theater productions, quoting all of the aforementioned in everyday conversation, and going out to restaurants that I have never been to before and sweatshirts and sweatpants and bunnies and coffee and coffee mugs.

This is a bunny in a mug. I don't think it gets much better than that.

7. I have a strong aversion to fruit. I cannot stand the smell of it, the taste of it, anything having to do with it, except for bananas. I absolutely love bananas. I eat one everyday. Call me weird. 

8. Exercising is a huge part of my life. I love running and jogging and walking and working out and stretching. I have this thing where I NEED to sweat every day. I know it's kind of gross, but it's healthy! As much as I love baking and sweets and sugar and desserts, I also love being healthy.

9.  I love the moon and the stars. I even have a telescope!!

Disclaimer: Taking pictures in the pitch black with the flash on is ALWAYS funny, without fail. 

10. I have the very best friends and family in the whole wide world and I love them very, very much!

My best friend, Rebecca (left) and myself.

Two more of my amazing friends, Addie (left) and Heath (right). 

11. I have two older sister, Mary and Casey, and one younger, brown and furry sister, Lizzie.

My sisters, in order, Lizzie, Casey and Mary. 

12. I wish I grew up in the eighties. (Seriously, 'The Breakfast Club', 'Ferris Beuller's Day Off', 'Pretty in Pink', 'Sixteen Candles', 'Uncle Buck', 'Footloose'... Need I go on?)

13. My favorite number is thirteen, and not just because it is a baker's dozen. 

I am #13, in case you didn't put two and two together.

Keep crazy, darlings!