March 9, 2025 • 23 mins
In this milestone tenth episode, Jennifer reflects on turning 43 and shares nostalgic stories about MTV Spring Break culture, her college cruise adventures, and her self-appointed role as the wedding reception entertainment specialist.
• Celebrating podcast milestone with a reflection on turning 43, described as "the most uninteresting age"
• Recalling MTV Spring Break obsession and the Panama City trips that defined high school senior year experiences
• Sharing wild stories from a 2004 Carnival Cruise with 100 Miami University students
• Discussing relationship relics and home décor disagreements, including a 19-year dislike of husband's mounted sailfish
• Confessing to creating a detailed spreadsheet of wedding reception music with a strict "Do Not" playlist list
• Offering wedding reception survival tips, including the essential advice to pack backup shoes
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
What's up everyone.
Welcome to Episode 10 ofJennaPod.
It is Sunday, march 9th 2025.
If you are new to the pod,welcome.
Go back and listen to someother episodes.
Get to know Jennifer ofFairfield, ohio, fhs, class of
(00:31):
2000.
Being on episode 10 is exciting.
When I randomly and I meanrandomly started this podcast
January 5th, completely withouta plan, I didn't know where it
would go.
But this week I had my firstbot reach out to me via email or
(00:56):
maybe it was a scam artistasking me to be a part of their
podcast network, be a part oftheir podcast network, and even
if it was fake, I was flattered.
I did find the social media ofthe person who emailed and they
did seem like a real person.
But parts of the email was verysilly.
(01:18):
I wanted to respond but Ididn't.
I'm just saying either acomputer or a person went into
my show notes, got my emailaddress and AI emailed me and
that made me feel special.
I've made it.
(01:39):
I turned 43 this week.
Has to be the mostuninteresting age, kind of like
37, maybe 53.
I am not a birthday person atall at all.
At work it's taken off allcalendars and don't you dare get
(02:01):
everyone in the office to signa card for me and I don't know
what happened to make me the wayI am.
I'm not scared of aging.
I'm not scared of dying.
When I was young, I was obsessedwith my birthday.
I have had some randomlylow-key celebrated birthdays
(02:24):
after 30.
I had a get-together atDisconcider in Nashville for my
40th.
That was fun, great bar.
I think it's the pressure forit to be the most amazing day of
the year and that is too much.
Really, my mom's the one whoshould receive a prize for
birthing me.
But I do love hearing frompeople.
(02:45):
But really it was just aWednesday.
I worked.
It was cloudy and gross, didn'tfeel like doing dinner.
Now, early March is trickybecause sometimes it's 75 and
sunny on my birthday and thisWednesday it was like feels like
25 degrees.
(03:05):
So you win some and you losesome.
How do I bring the magic ofbirthdays back?
Maybe it needs to be asleepover with friends.
We go see a movie and thenlet's get La Rosa's pizza, and
by sleepover I mean a hotel roomwith my own bed and we are
(03:25):
going wine tasting in NapaValley.
Maybe on my 44th birthday Iwill be doing something epic TBD
Spring break 2025.
See you at Senor Frog's bitches.
I was supposed to be in San Josedel Cabo this week with my mom
(03:49):
but I was unable to go.
I got to go last year forspring break.
It was sick.
I thrive with old people.
However, I am dog-sitting Honey, aka Honey Badger, while her
family is somewhere tropical forspring break.
At one point my home became akennel for spring and fall break
(04:12):
around here and I kind of hadto rein that back.
It was getting out of control.
Growing up, I was obsessed withMTV's Spring Break.
Obsessed with MTV's SpringBreak.
According to Wikipedia, itplayed from 1986 to 2005 on MTV
(04:33):
and then from 2006 to 2014 onMTVU.
I don't even know what that is.
I'm talking 90s Daytona inPanama City.
It was a religion for me and Idaydreamed about being there,
just 13-year-old me watching thenotorious Big performed, big
Papa, probably sitting in mypajamas eating a bologna
(04:56):
sandwich just waiting for myparty girl era.
Now, I never got to go on atraditional spring break until
my senior year in college.
If you are from Fairfield Ohio.
When you were a senior,everyone went to Panama City.
My best friend Reby and Iweren't allowed to go.
(05:17):
I don't remember being thatupset because, like, yeah, that
sounds about on par for what ourparents allowed and didn't
allow us to do.
The stories that would comeback to school every year after
that damn trip.
It was the gossipiest tea ever.
Who drank, who got arrested?
(05:40):
Who had S-E-X?
Some of my most PG friends thatare still a part of my life
went and I'm just like, yeah,there is no way their parents
knew what the situation was.
I may be wrong, but it soundslike these days parents will
help organize senior trips forsenior kids.
(06:01):
So parents go and it's moresupervised.
Back in the late 90s it was theWild West, with zero
supervision.
I do wish I could have gone toexperience it, just for the lore
.
I always love seeing photosthat circulate every five years,
even though I wasn't there,years, even though I wasn't
(06:28):
there.
Some of these photos would endup in the yearbook Silly.
Anyway, fast forward to spring2004, and 100, I repeat, 100
Miami University students wenton a carnival cruise.
It was a week of completedebauchery.
I had a boyfriend at the timeand I think that was good
because it was like I had thebuddy system, a home beacon, if
(06:51):
you will Like.
There's my person.
We end up together at the endof the night.
I have described my obsessionwith being prepared for all
scenarios, and that was apparenteven during college.
On some of the weekends in thesummer we would get 30 to 40
kids together and go cabrooingin Indiana.
Cabrooing is when you gocanoeing with alcohol.
(07:16):
I would pack pretzel rods tomake sure even the most blackout
child had food, and I wouldtake a gallon-sized Ziploc bag
and would hold everyone'slicenses, because there was a
rule if you were drinking andthe po-po, canoe and po-po
pulled you over, you had to haveone on you.
Hey, I would even hold your carkeys.
(07:37):
I would not lose them Becauseeveryone knew I was responsible.
You know you gotta tie yourshit to the canoe.
Don't be a rookie and tip overand lose all your beer.
Anyway, 2004 Carnival Cruise.
I couldn't tell you where wewent, but one day there was an
all-ocean day.
(07:57):
I think we were maybe inCozumel, Cancun-ish.
It was all you can drink.
Throw in some flip cup, someocean flotation devices like a
big slide.
I think there was a trampoline.
It was a grand time.
Somehow I was put in charge ofwearing a watch and ensuring
(08:18):
everyone got back to the shipvia taxi or something.
So you have to remember this is2004.
We have no way to communicatewith each other.
We have no cell phones.
I mean, these days there stillisn't Wi-Fi on a ship, correct?
I don't know.
I haven't been on a cruisesince 2006.
I remember jumping, screamingand waving people down who were
(08:41):
in the ocean to get their ass ingear because no man left behind
.
Did I puke a lot on that cruise?
Oh yeah, because I puked everyweekend in college.
In January of 2004, usher's yeahcame out, the song featuring
Lil Jon and Ludacris.
This has to be one of the mostpopular party pump-up songs ever
(09:05):
For the cruise.
My friend Boss, aka Chris,burned a CD with a song on it
and that's an old sentence.
He gave the DJ of the cruisethe CD and when I say every
night at the club, the club, wemade him play it at least 10
times.
At one point one of the collegekids apologized to a family
(09:29):
there about being on a cruisewith a bunch of drunk baby
children and the father repliedback it's fine, this is very
entertaining.
Do you have a funny springbreak story for the pod?
Shoot me an email, I'll read it.
Listener.
Submitted.
Spring Break Madness, did yoursignificant other, bring home
(09:51):
decor or a family heirloom intoyour life that you don't like,
but you can't get rid of it.
I have a sailfish hanging in myfireplace room, a giant blue
sailfish that I have dislikedfor over 19 years now.
I've only had it in my homesince 2011, but I always knew it
(10:13):
would follow us.
Now I don't hate where thestory of the sailfish came from.
My husband and his father restin peace, roger.
His father rest in peace, rogerwent on a fishing trip in the
summer of 1999 in Boca Raton,florida.
I loved my father-in-law.
He was in my life for 14 and ahalf years and I was one of the
(10:34):
lucky ones.
My husband and his father werevery close, but I don't think
that means I should have an uglyass fish hanging in my home.
My mother-in-law made a picturecollage of the fishing day and
it is hanging next to the fish.
I feel the pictures are enough.
And yes, good job, you caught abig fish.
(10:56):
Ooh, and then this sailfishisn't even all real.
All the fins are real, but thebody is fake and the giant
eyeball is fake, and I have todust this thing with its fake
eye looking into my real eye.
As soon as we hung it up inthis house I said great, now we
(11:19):
are Applebee's, may as well gosponsor a t-ball team and get
their team photo on the wallalong with a local sports jersey
.
I also have three works ofbaseball art hanging in my
fireplace room that areallegedly worth money.
My husband was a catcherthrough college and baseball is
very important to him.
(11:40):
One of the works of art is ofhome-run legends Babe Ruth,
roger Maris, sammy Sosa and MarkMcGuire, signed by the artist.
There's another one, calledForever Golden, with Yvonne
Rodriguez and Johnny Bench,signed by both athletes and by
the artist.
Now, these could be worth ashit-ton of money, but they are
(12:03):
priceless to my husband becausethey were gifts from his parents
.
How do I find out how muchbaseball artwork is?
Do I ask Siri I?
I am the one who lug thesearound from home to home,
preciously wrapping them inbubble wrap to ensure their
safety.
Wrapping them in bubble wrap toensure their safety.
(12:28):
Listen, I know there are thingsof mine my husband would love
to get rid of, but I am thepresident and CEO of this family
, but luckily we are bothminimalists, so we don't really
have many issues with storageover here and our small lack of
storage home.
Speaking of baseball art, acouple years ago I was doing a
major clean out of our homemaybe two years post moving into
(12:50):
this house and I came across apainting of a baseball.
Now I am pretty sure I movedthis piece around since 2007.
Keyword 2007.
Let's say this story took placein 2023.
The painting was our highschool colors, so I assumed my
(13:14):
husband painted it because hewas a good artist growing up.
So I walk up to him and I say,hey, guy, can we get rid of this
?
I know you painted it, but Ijust don't think it will go
really anywhere in our home.
And he says I didn't paint that.
(13:34):
I said well, um, who did?
He said my college girlfriendpainted that for me.
I can't imagine the look on myface.
I'm pretty sure I said what theactual fuck?
And then, without hesitation, Iwalked out to our trash can and
tossed it in there because no,ma'am, no sir, I don't think I
(13:59):
have anything from exes in myhouse, possibly a couple
pictures in a bin from highschool and college.
Neither of my exes have socialmedia and I find that's rare.
Like I talked to them 20 yearsago and then nothing ever again.
But if you are my ex andlistening, hey, how are you,
(14:22):
what's up?
And then I married someone whodoesn't consume social media.
Maybe it stems from mypersonality being giant-sized.
If you have ever been to awedding reception with me, you
already know this.
I am in a big lull in my liferight now where I don't have
(14:42):
many weddings to attend.
If you ever, ever, and I meanever need a plus one to a
wedding, ladies, I got you.
I've done it before, I'll do itagain.
I love a wedding reception.
At my friend Rachel's weddingway back in the mid-2000s, the
DJ asked if I would go on tourwith him.
(15:05):
I've been to a bar mitzvah andbar mitzvah recently and the DJs
that were brought in they comewith hype people like dancers
and get-the-crowd-going peopleand I would fucking thrive in
that situation.
But really the DJ is theend-all for people to decide if
(15:25):
your wedding was fun or not.
Well, that and the open bar.
I could care less if the dinnerwas bad, because I already ate
enough cheese crackers andgrapes to coat my stomach for a
good times with Tito's soda anda lime before they run out of
the limes and shout out to allthe badass signature drinks we
(15:49):
are all having at weddings thesedays.
How yummy, how fun.
I think the signature drink atmy wedding was Miller Lite, even
though there was an open bar Atmy wedding, I put together a
spreadsheet of all the musicthat was to be played and you
may be like oh yeah, jennifer, Itold my DJ some songs I liked.
(16:11):
No, ladies and gentlemen, I gavethe DJ an entire fucking
catalog spreadsheet in order ofmusic to be played.
Whenever everyone walked in tothe last song before we all went
home, it had to be like sevenhours long.
I picked out all my slow jamsfor dinner and all my dance
(16:34):
songs for the bumpin' andgrindin'.
I even had a do-not playlist.
I even had a Do Not playlistand you probably know what they
were, in no particular order thepopular version of the Electric
Slide released in 1983, cupidShuffle 2007, and the Cha-Cha
(16:55):
Slide from 2000.
I know there were some othersongs, I can't recall.
I feel like there were six toseven.
I would love that spreadsheet.
I got married in 2008, and youcouldn't go anywhere without
hearing those songs.
This past summer, my best friendReby was in town with her
family and we took hertwo-year-old downtown Nashville
to a honky-tonk Reby is shortfor Rebecca, if you have been
(17:19):
confused.
Every episode I have mentionedher.
As we were leaving a rooftopbar, the downstairs floor was
bopping, it was like 1 pm andthere were two workers teaching
line dancing to a big group ofbachelorettes.
Now, rebby and I were co-dancecaptains of our high school show
(17:39):
choir and love to dance, solet's jump in.
I was like, okay, grapevine tothe right and grapevine to the
left and two steps back.
Well, hell folks, we are doingthe electric slide to Shania
Twain's.
I Feel Like a Woman Now.
(18:00):
While Reby and I were killing itand the way only white women
can, adding some snaps, shimmiesand some claps, I noticed none
of the baby children in thisbachelorette party knew what was
going on.
So then I'm thinking do youngpeople not learn the electric
(18:20):
slide anymore?
Are they just learningticky-tock dances and not
getting down with their granniesand their aunties at wedding
receptions?
And now a reading from theelectric slide.
Are you Coming with me?
Come, let me take you on aparty ride.
(18:43):
I'll teach you, teach you,teach you.
I'll teach you the electricslide and scene.
There are two songs I willrequest at a wedding reception
once tipsy.
And if you hate these songs,you better add them to your
(19:05):
personal Do Not playlist.
They are Summer Nights fromGreece and Mr Big, I'm the One
who Wants to Be with you.
My girlfriend Jillian hatesthat song and she walked out of
my friend Rachel's wedding whenthey played it.
As soon as I hear hold on,little girl, it is peak
(19:27):
serotonin in my brain.
And if you don't like that song, just like General Botany at
Miami University, you can suck adick.
Now, if you are in a differenttax bracket and you had a live
band at your wedding, have at it, but your band better kill it.
(19:47):
Back in October of 2024, I wentdown to Jasper, alabama, for my
Titans rookie sister, hannah'swedding.
I knew there was a live band,but I wasn't prepared for a
12-piece mega band to be onstage with four singers who were
also full-on dancers.
They are called Universal Crush.
(20:08):
Look them up on Instagram.
It may as well have been aVegas show.
They've performed at the WhiteHouse.
They were absolutelyoutstanding.
I've never seen anything likeit.
I've also been known to stealcenterpieces and flowers from
wedding receptions.
Sorry, not sorry.
I have friends who havechildren in college or are just
(20:35):
about to go into college and I'mlike, damn, we're in the South,
I could potentially be in theera of being the next older
generation at a weddingreception.
Right, like your 20s and 30s,you are the young, fun people at
the wedding.
But you get into your 40s andit's like, oh, I need a Celsius
and an Adderall to get throughthis.
As soon as one of my friend'schildren have a wedding, I've
(21:00):
decided I'm going to dress likemother of the bride, mother of
the groom, something with ashawl, maybe a very glittery top
, for sure, a full skirt andsome sensible shoes.
Now, pro tip.
And at this point, ladies, ifyou haven't figured it out, I
don't know where you've been.
Sure, you need those sexy heelsfor the wedding.
(21:24):
Get that dress, get them heelsfor pics.
If you are like me, right afterdinner it's shoe-changing time.
I always have an extra bag withme with either flip-flops,
tennis shoes or some Uggs.
Who am I kidding?
I can't afford Uggs.
I'm wearing a generic brand.
(21:45):
Most of you don't know, but youare wearing fake China Uggs.
If your Uggs had the giant G inthe middle, they were made in
China, not the originalAustralian brand that became
popular in the 2000s.
There is zero excuse for yourfeet to be torn up, bleeding and
(22:05):
blistered by the end of thenight.
Put your big girl panties onand have a backup plan for those
bunions.
Anywho, if you need someone toget the party started at your
wedding reception, contactmyself and then I will also
bring along my friend KellyCooper.
Friend of the pod, former ProBowl cheerleader, former
(22:28):
Oklahoma State dancer andcurrent director of spirit
programs for the University ofTulsa.
She's me, but eight yearsyounger and eight inches shorter
.
That's what she said.
That didn't make any sense.
Spring break, cheers people andhave a good week.
Jennapod is directed, producedand edited by me, your girl,
(22:54):
jennifer.
Please rate, review andsubscribe to this on Apple
Podcasts, spotify or whereveryou are listening to my lovely
voice Laters.
What's up everyone.
Welcome to Episode 10 ofJennaPod.
It is Sunday, march 9th 2025.
If you are new to the pod,welcome.
Go back and listen to someother episodes.
Get to know Jennifer ofFairfield, ohio, fhs, class of
(00:31):
2000.
Being on episode 10 is exciting.
When I randomly and I meanrandomly started this podcast
January 5th, completely withouta plan, I didn't know where it
would go.
But this week I had my firstbot reach out to me via email or
(00:56):
maybe it was a scam artistasking me to be a part of their
podcast network, be a part oftheir podcast network, and even
if it was fake, I was flattered.
I did find the social media ofthe person who emailed and they
did seem like a real person.
But parts of the email was verysilly.
(01:18):
I wanted to respond but Ididn't.
I'm just saying either acomputer or a person went into
my show notes, got my emailaddress and AI emailed me and
that made me feel special.
I've made it.
(01:39):
I turned 43 this week.
Has to be the mostuninteresting age, kind of like
37, maybe 53.
I am not a birthday person atall at all.
At work it's taken off allcalendars and don't you dare get
(02:01):
everyone in the office to signa card for me and I don't know
what happened to make me the wayI am.
I'm not scared of aging.
I'm not scared of dying.
When I was young, I was obsessedwith my birthday.
I have had some randomlylow-key celebrated birthdays
(02:24):
after 30.
I had a get-together atDisconcider in Nashville for my
40th.
That was fun, great bar.
I think it's the pressure forit to be the most amazing day of
the year and that is too much.
Really, my mom's the one whoshould receive a prize for
birthing me.
But I do love hearing frompeople.
(02:45):
But really it was just aWednesday.
I worked.
It was cloudy and gross, didn'tfeel like doing dinner.
Now, early March is trickybecause sometimes it's 75 and
sunny on my birthday and thisWednesday it was like feels like
25 degrees.
(03:05):
So you win some and you losesome.
How do I bring the magic ofbirthdays back?
Maybe it needs to be asleepover with friends.
We go see a movie and thenlet's get La Rosa's pizza, and
by sleepover I mean a hotel roomwith my own bed and we are
(03:25):
going wine tasting in NapaValley.
Maybe on my 44th birthday Iwill be doing something epic TBD
Spring break 2025.
See you at Senor Frog's bitches.
I was supposed to be in San Josedel Cabo this week with my mom
(03:49):
but I was unable to go.
I got to go last year forspring break.
It was sick.
I thrive with old people.
However, I am dog-sitting Honey, aka Honey Badger, while her
family is somewhere tropical forspring break.
At one point my home became akennel for spring and fall break
(04:12):
around here and I kind of hadto rein that back.
It was getting out of control.
Growing up, I was obsessed withMTV's Spring Break.
Obsessed with MTV's SpringBreak.
According to Wikipedia, itplayed from 1986 to 2005 on MTV
(04:33):
and then from 2006 to 2014 onMTVU.
I don't even know what that is.
I'm talking 90s Daytona inPanama City.
It was a religion for me and Idaydreamed about being there,
just 13-year-old me watching thenotorious Big performed, big
Papa, probably sitting in mypajamas eating a bologna
(04:56):
sandwich just waiting for myparty girl era.
Now, I never got to go on atraditional spring break until
my senior year in college.
If you are from Fairfield Ohio.
When you were a senior,everyone went to Panama City.
My best friend Reby and Iweren't allowed to go.
(05:17):
I don't remember being thatupset because, like, yeah, that
sounds about on par for what ourparents allowed and didn't
allow us to do.
The stories that would comeback to school every year after
that damn trip.
It was the gossipiest tea ever.
Who drank, who got arrested?
(05:40):
Who had S-E-X?
Some of my most PG friends thatare still a part of my life
went and I'm just like, yeah,there is no way their parents
knew what the situation was.
I may be wrong, but it soundslike these days parents will
help organize senior trips forsenior kids.
(06:01):
So parents go and it's moresupervised.
Back in the late 90s it was theWild West, with zero
supervision.
I do wish I could have gone toexperience it, just for the lore
.
I always love seeing photosthat circulate every five years,
even though I wasn't there,years, even though I wasn't
(06:28):
there.
Some of these photos would endup in the yearbook Silly.
Anyway, fast forward to spring2004, and 100, I repeat, 100
Miami University students wenton a carnival cruise.
It was a week of completedebauchery.
I had a boyfriend at the timeand I think that was good
because it was like I had thebuddy system, a home beacon, if
(06:51):
you will Like.
There's my person.
We end up together at the endof the night.
I have described my obsessionwith being prepared for all
scenarios, and that was apparenteven during college.
On some of the weekends in thesummer we would get 30 to 40
kids together and go cabrooingin Indiana.
Cabrooing is when you gocanoeing with alcohol.
(07:16):
I would pack pretzel rods tomake sure even the most blackout
child had food, and I wouldtake a gallon-sized Ziploc bag
and would hold everyone'slicenses, because there was a
rule if you were drinking andthe po-po, canoe and po-po
pulled you over, you had to haveone on you.
Hey, I would even hold your carkeys.
(07:37):
I would not lose them Becauseeveryone knew I was responsible.
You know you gotta tie yourshit to the canoe.
Don't be a rookie and tip overand lose all your beer.
Anyway, 2004 Carnival Cruise.
I couldn't tell you where wewent, but one day there was an
all-ocean day.
(07:57):
I think we were maybe inCozumel, Cancun-ish.
It was all you can drink.
Throw in some flip cup, someocean flotation devices like a
big slide.
I think there was a trampoline.
It was a grand time.
Somehow I was put in charge ofwearing a watch and ensuring
(08:18):
everyone got back to the shipvia taxi or something.
So you have to remember this is2004.
We have no way to communicatewith each other.
We have no cell phones.
I mean, these days there stillisn't Wi-Fi on a ship, correct?
I don't know.
I haven't been on a cruisesince 2006.
I remember jumping, screamingand waving people down who were
(08:41):
in the ocean to get their ass ingear because no man left behind
.
Did I puke a lot on that cruise?
Oh yeah, because I puked everyweekend in college.
In January of 2004, usher's yeahcame out, the song featuring
Lil Jon and Ludacris.
This has to be one of the mostpopular party pump-up songs ever
(09:05):
For the cruise.
My friend Boss, aka Chris,burned a CD with a song on it
and that's an old sentence.
He gave the DJ of the cruisethe CD and when I say every
night at the club, the club, wemade him play it at least 10
times.
At one point one of the collegekids apologized to a family
(09:29):
there about being on a cruisewith a bunch of drunk baby
children and the father repliedback it's fine, this is very
entertaining.
Do you have a funny springbreak story for the pod?
Shoot me an email, I'll read it.
Listener.
Submitted.
Spring Break Madness, did yoursignificant other, bring home
(09:51):
decor or a family heirloom intoyour life that you don't like,
but you can't get rid of it.
I have a sailfish hanging in myfireplace room, a giant blue
sailfish that I have dislikedfor over 19 years now.
I've only had it in my homesince 2011, but I always knew it
(10:13):
would follow us.
Now I don't hate where thestory of the sailfish came from.
My husband and his father restin peace, roger.
His father rest in peace, rogerwent on a fishing trip in the
summer of 1999 in Boca Raton,florida.
I loved my father-in-law.
He was in my life for 14 and ahalf years and I was one of the
(10:34):
lucky ones.
My husband and his father werevery close, but I don't think
that means I should have an uglyass fish hanging in my home.
My mother-in-law made a picturecollage of the fishing day and
it is hanging next to the fish.
I feel the pictures are enough.
And yes, good job, you caught abig fish.
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Ooh, and then this sailfishisn't even all real.
All the fins are real, but thebody is fake and the giant
eyeball is fake, and I have todust this thing with its fake
eye looking into my real eye.
As soon as we hung it up inthis house I said great, now we
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are Applebee's, may as well gosponsor a t-ball team and get
their team photo on the wallalong with a local sports jersey
.
I also have three works ofbaseball art hanging in my
fireplace room that areallegedly worth money.
My husband was a catcherthrough college and baseball is
very important to him.
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One of the works of art is ofhome-run legends Babe Ruth,
roger Maris, sammy Sosa and MarkMcGuire, signed by the artist.
There's another one, calledForever Golden, with Yvonne
Rodriguez and Johnny Bench,signed by both athletes and by
the artist.
Now, these could be worth ashit-ton of money, but they are
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priceless to my husband becausethey were gifts from his parents
.
How do I find out how muchbaseball artwork is?
Do I ask Siri I?
I am the one who lug thesearound from home to home,
preciously wrapping them inbubble wrap to ensure their
safety.
Wrapping them in bubble wrap toensure their safety.
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Listen, I know there are thingsof mine my husband would love
to get rid of, but I am thepresident and CEO of this family
, but luckily we are bothminimalists, so we don't really
have many issues with storageover here and our small lack of
storage home.
Speaking of baseball art, acouple years ago I was doing a
major clean out of our homemaybe two years post moving into
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this house and I came across apainting of a baseball.
Now I am pretty sure I movedthis piece around since 2007.
Keyword 2007.
Let's say this story took placein 2023.
The painting was our highschool colors, so I assumed my
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husband painted it because hewas a good artist growing up.
So I walk up to him and I say,hey, guy, can we get rid of this
?
I know you painted it, but Ijust don't think it will go
really anywhere in our home.
And he says I didn't paint that.
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I said well, um, who did?
He said my college girlfriendpainted that for me.
I can't imagine the look on myface.
I'm pretty sure I said what theactual fuck?
And then, without hesitation, Iwalked out to our trash can and
tossed it in there because no,ma'am, no sir, I don't think I
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have anything from exes in myhouse, possibly a couple
pictures in a bin from highschool and college.
Neither of my exes have socialmedia and I find that's rare.
Like I talked to them 20 yearsago and then nothing ever again.
But if you are my ex andlistening, hey, how are you,
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what's up?
And then I married someone whodoesn't consume social media.
Maybe it stems from mypersonality being giant-sized.
If you have ever been to awedding reception with me, you
already know this.
I am in a big lull in my liferight now where I don't have
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many weddings to attend.
If you ever, ever, and I meanever need a plus one to a
wedding, ladies, I got you.
I've done it before, I'll do itagain.
I love a wedding reception.
At my friend Rachel's weddingway back in the mid-2000s, the
DJ asked if I would go on tourwith him.
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I've been to a bar mitzvah andbar mitzvah recently and the DJs
that were brought in they comewith hype people like dancers
and get-the-crowd-going peopleand I would fucking thrive in
that situation.
But really the DJ is theend-all for people to decide if
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your wedding was fun or not.
Well, that and the open bar.
I could care less if the dinnerwas bad, because I already ate
enough cheese crackers andgrapes to coat my stomach for a
good times with Tito's soda anda lime before they run out of
the limes and shout out to allthe badass signature drinks we
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are all having at weddings thesedays.
How yummy, how fun.
I think the signature drink atmy wedding was Miller Lite, even
though there was an open bar Atmy wedding, I put together a
spreadsheet of all the musicthat was to be played and you
may be like oh yeah, jennifer, Itold my DJ some songs I liked.
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No, ladies and gentlemen, I gavethe DJ an entire fucking
catalog spreadsheet in order ofmusic to be played.
Whenever everyone walked in tothe last song before we all went
home, it had to be like sevenhours long.
I picked out all my slow jamsfor dinner and all my dance
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songs for the bumpin' andgrindin'.
I even had a do-not playlist.
I even had a Do Not playlistand you probably know what they
were, in no particular order thepopular version of the Electric
Slide released in 1983, cupidShuffle 2007, and the Cha-Cha
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Slide from 2000.
I know there were some othersongs, I can't recall.
I feel like there were six toseven.
I would love that spreadsheet.
I got married in 2008, and youcouldn't go anywhere without
hearing those songs.
This past summer, my best friendReby was in town with her
family and we took hertwo-year-old downtown Nashville
to a honky-tonk Reby is shortfor Rebecca, if you have been
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confused.
Every episode I have mentionedher.
As we were leaving a rooftopbar, the downstairs floor was
bopping, it was like 1 pm andthere were two workers teaching
line dancing to a big group ofbachelorettes.
Now, rebby and I were co-dancecaptains of our high school show
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choir and love to dance, solet's jump in.
I was like, okay, grapevine tothe right and grapevine to the
left and two steps back.
Well, hell folks, we are doingthe electric slide to Shania
Twain's.
I Feel Like a Woman Now.
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While Reby and I were killing itand the way only white women
can, adding some snaps, shimmiesand some claps, I noticed none
of the baby children in thisbachelorette party knew what was
going on.
So then I'm thinking do youngpeople not learn the electric
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slide anymore?
Are they just learningticky-tock dances and not
getting down with their granniesand their aunties at wedding
receptions?
And now a reading from theelectric slide.
Are you Coming with me?
Come, let me take you on aparty ride.
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I'll teach you, teach you,teach you.
I'll teach you the electricslide and scene.
There are two songs I willrequest at a wedding reception
once tipsy.
And if you hate these songs,you better add them to your
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personal Do Not playlist.
They are Summer Nights fromGreece and Mr Big, I'm the One
who Wants to Be with you.
My girlfriend Jillian hatesthat song and she walked out of
my friend Rachel's wedding whenthey played it.
As soon as I hear hold on,little girl, it is peak
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serotonin in my brain.
And if you don't like that song, just like General Botany at
Miami University, you can suck adick.
Now, if you are in a differenttax bracket and you had a live
band at your wedding, have at it, but your band better kill it.
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Back in October of 2024, I wentdown to Jasper, alabama, for my
Titans rookie sister, hannah'swedding.
I knew there was a live band,but I wasn't prepared for a
12-piece mega band to be onstage with four singers who were
also full-on dancers.
They are called Universal Crush.
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Look them up on Instagram.
It may as well have been aVegas show.
They've performed at the WhiteHouse.
They were absolutelyoutstanding.
I've never seen anything likeit.
I've also been known to stealcenterpieces and flowers from
wedding receptions.
Sorry, not sorry.
I have friends who havechildren in college or are just
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about to go into college and I'mlike, damn, we're in the South,
I could potentially be in theera of being the next older
generation at a weddingreception.
Right, like your 20s and 30s,you are the young, fun people at
the wedding.
But you get into your 40s andit's like, oh, I need a Celsius
and an Adderall to get throughthis.
As soon as one of my friend'schildren have a wedding, I've
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decided I'm going to dress likemother of the bride, mother of
the groom, something with ashawl, maybe a very glittery top
, for sure, a full skirt andsome sensible shoes.
Now, pro tip.
And at this point, ladies, ifyou haven't figured it out, I
don't know where you've been.
Sure, you need those sexy heelsfor the wedding.
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Get that dress, get them heelsfor pics.
If you are like me, right afterdinner it's shoe-changing time.
I always have an extra bag withme with either flip-flops,
tennis shoes or some Uggs.
Who am I kidding?
I can't afford Uggs.
I'm wearing a generic brand.
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Most of you don't know, but youare wearing fake China Uggs.
If your Uggs had the giant G inthe middle, they were made in
China, not the originalAustralian brand that became
popular in the 2000s.
There is zero excuse for yourfeet to be torn up, bleeding and
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blistered by the end of thenight.
Put your big girl panties onand have a backup plan for those
bunions.
Anywho, if you need someone toget the party started at your
wedding reception, contactmyself and then I will also
bring along my friend KellyCooper.
Friend of the pod, former ProBowl cheerleader, former
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Oklahoma State dancer andcurrent director of spirit
programs for the University ofTulsa.
She's me, but eight yearsyounger and eight inches shorter
.
That's what she said.
That didn't make any sense.
Spring break, cheers people andhave a good week.
Jennapod is directed, producedand edited by me, your girl,
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jennifer.
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