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I tried to go back in the old GG archives and I finally found the thread that he was lurking on but he deleted his post. Womp womp. It did make me miss a lot of the regular posters over there in those days (2013) though (I've always been more of a lurker but I've been reading for a long ass time, it turns out).
For a backstory so I don't leave you all hanging and since Val said that Don "knew" of the other site, this was in the heyday of Disorganized Don. He would go on drunken YT comment rampages left and right and go down to his trader dungeon to talk about random crap all the time and post it. He would often grab's Jen's camera the second she put it down and would talk about chicken wing temperatures and 56 ingredient sauce for 24 minutes. He was quite clearly enjoying his moment of fame and the interaction he was getting from it.
Someone, I am not sure who, deduced that he was reading GG I believe based on comments he was making on YT and also from a mystery person that showed up on GG (I couldn't tell you the username now). The thread "Questions for Don" was created in hopes to lure him out, which it did because how could the husband of Jennifer Ross "possibly resist??". There was a list of questions posed and I can't remember what he said exactly but I remember him posting some intense Google analytics to "prove" that people genuinely loved Jen and didn't just watch because she is a trainwreck. It was clear from these analytics that it had to be either him or her because it wasn't the kind of info that you could armchair google. I, true to my smartass IRL self, made a truly inspired comment likening people watching her to the same way people watched Farrah Abraham of Teen Mom fame's fake porn (which was big news at the time) because of the train wreck factor. It turns out that I had the same affect on him that I have on most men in my life and he packed up his toys and went home, deleting all of his previous comments in his wake.
The end. Long Live Drunken Disorganized Don and the pretense that he just "had knowledge" of GG and didn't actively participate in order to have the bountiful, fiercely private rack bestowed upon him and his nice boy defense of his gen-you-ine pwincess Jennifer of the Great Land of Loftice. -
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For an "in the meantime" treat I am trying really hard to find the interaction that I am fairly certain I had with Don quite some time ago on GG (Maybe I'm wrong? Some of you would be able to tell, I'm sure). Does anyone know if you can search your posts on there somehow? I thought I knew what board it was on but now I'm not certain. -
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Totally off topic and this may have already been discussed but given that tomorrow is election day here in the US I've been wondering: Do you think Jen votes? And if she does do you think she researches the candidates on her own or just votes for who Don and the Rosses have convinced her is the right person? I'm just curious and am NOT trying to bring up any candidate mud slinging so I'm posing it as a neutral "Does Jen have her own brain when it matters" question. -
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ooo I have some to add!
Glass children's mugs
Christmas movies
seasonally appropriate leashes
Snoopy Christmas ornaments
Moleskine journals
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That is terrifying. She is really taking this "busy mama" campaign to the extreme if she can't even grab a blotting paper out of one of her 36 walking pharmacies. -
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I just read your post on Jen's running. Yep, yep and yep. My BF is a member of Marathon Maniacs. Good grief. That man does about five marathons a year (must be 26.2 miles, half marathons do not count). He is also a coach for a running group in our city to help people achieve a marathon.
He always says that if someone makes excuses not to run in bad weather (uh, hello Jen), they will start to make excuses not to run even in nice weather. She should not be getting so many injuries. The BF says she is probably doing her stride wrong or increasing mileage too soon.
She really should have joined a running group. They are a blast. She would have made friends, learned correct techniques and had a group to hold her accountable. Jen really is not a joiner though, I guess.
Oh, and I agree about the Lulu Lemon clothes. Argh.
Woohoo to other running nuts! Your husband sounds like my people
She would have had fun if she joined a group if she was a different person, one of my friends is one of the head trainers at FF Chicago and he's awesome. But she's definitely a lone wolf and I think she would have hated it because I do believe that she has social anxiety outside of her circle (or as someone said earlier outside of her control group).
And I don't think she was every really injured, hence her saying that her knee/hip/pinky toe/etc feel "tender". Currently my knee cap feels like someone is shoving a hot knife in it when I go up or down stairs, I would never describe it as tender. So I just have it KT taped for a few days until it feels better and I'll keep running on it in the meantime. You know, as runners do. I've yet to meet someone who likes to run who didn't go down without a fight. How many times did she skip running because of her toenail? I don't even know the last time I had all 10. Thank God she gave it up so I don't have to cringe anymore when other people ask for running advice from her. -
.I doubt she will ever disappear completely because without YT she goes right back to being the weird introvert with no friends. But I am sad that the days of 2012 Jen are gone, I lived to see what craziness she came up with next (like all of us here did, I think). Long live $2000 pre-fall makeup hauls, melting Godiva truffles into her hot chocolate while saying she didn't eat much sugar and needing PD breaks from her yoga schedule!
Ok, I love this paragraph so much. I had totally forgotten about I-Limit-Sugar-Jen regularly dropping a Godiva truffle into hot chocolate and now I can't stop laughing. That might be my favorite Jen Thing ever.
Someone upthread (sorry, I forget who and didn't remember to quote!) mentioned that he/she always knew Jen's running hobby wasn't as legitimate as she made it seem. Can you elaborate on that? Signed, Someone who knows nothing about running.
(Please keep in mind this is just my opinion, there are a lot of great people in the running world that will have different ones but probably pretty similar)... For me it's less about her times and more about how she acts before, during and after. Her times are pretty respecable middle of the pack for someone who doesn't train very hard and for several of the races she did, had gotten nowhere near even 10 miles before the race. This is probably why she gets "injured" during them, because she starts training, does ok and then slacks right before and does the race anyway. Been there, done that, we all have but it's her standard training instead of a one off race or two that snuck up on you which is why she hates running because she doesn't train smart and it hurts.
It's more about the constant whining and babying herself, which is no surprise. I have met maybe 3 people in my running store career that had shin splints that couldn't be helped with a combination of massage, new shoes and compression socks. For the most part we call it a newbie injury because we see it the most in new runners or runners just getting back into it that push to hard, people that need new shoes and people that run on the road a lot (because of the pitch of the road not being a flat surface). Instead of icing by itself for 20-40 minutes (which I doubt she even needs to do at this point, it's probably for the sympathy) she should go to her local running store (there are 7 Fleet Feets in Chicago alone) and get refitted once every year or so instead of proudly just buying the same old sneakers on Zappos. If I remember correctly she runs in the Asics GT 2000 and/or Kayano which, paired with a custom orthodic, has to be one hell of an inflexible brick and my feet hurt and legs hurt just thinking about it. They could also talk to her about massage and hydrating properly plus nutrition. Eating the right things during your race is key in not feeling like total crap which took me about 3 half marathons to figure out since I also never talked to anyone at a running store about it either. They could also teach her about other running apparel made specifically for runners other than LuluLemon. Imagine that, there are companies that make better products than what she wears just because she gets a rush from dropping $2k in one store are a time! But what do I know, I'm not a fancy PT she paid $200 for ice packs to.
Also, and this is just my personal pet peeve, I hate that she lives in one of the most amazing cities in the US for fitness and running with some of the best races and flies to Disney races instead and does nothing local. If she truly loved running and wanted the race experience (some runners don't like races and that's fine) then she should be all over the Chicago race scene. For her it's all about the trip, the merch and the social media photos for headpats. She's definitely not a runner who loves it and I will never for the life of me understand those runners (outside of triathletes who hate running) when there are so many other physical activities that aren't as hard on your body that you could choose instead (no offense to anyone here reading this who may fall into that category, I happen to be someone who sucks at running but I love it anyway and I often question why as well
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I'm jumping on the bandwagon to say I found Jen when YT suggested her Vegas haul video to me not long after it was posted (the one when she went with Don and bought a bunch of middle class America luxury items). I remember watching it and thinking there was something off the way she said that her husband bought the Jimmy Choos for her because he liked to see her in heels (I got a dress up/trophy wife vibe from that) and the mini temper tantrum she had about the Michael Kors necklace being the wrong one. I went back and watched some of her old videos and she seemed so insecure, sad and lonely. It's very apparent in her NYE video when Don was in a wedding how she stayed in her room the entire time and even left the wedding early to take a bath instead. I felt so sorry for her that she clearly didn't have any friends or know how to make them. I remember watching that video and just wanting to hug her.
After that I was hooked because as I wacthed more I couldn't wrap my head around a stay at home wife since I come from a large family (I have 6 aunts on my mom's side) and no one was even a stay at home mom let alone a stay at home wife. It was so different than my normal I couldn't figure it out and being a science nerd I kept trying to wrap my brain around how her life worked. An allowance? Maids when you're home all day with no children to care for? Personal Days when you already aren't doing anything? And don't even get me started on the "running", up until recently I managed one of the biggest running stores in the country and she is laughable even in the amateur arena. I thought she was odd but harmless and I loved her hauls because I'm a shopping addict but can't afford what she can so I watched everything she posted.
But then she started to change and the smugness started to sink in. Finally, after years of being the weird introverted girl with no friends, she found a platform where people not only liked her they PRAISED her. So she needed more and more and created multiple channels, flooded social media, called Youtube her career (and it IS a career now but I have never seen another YTer spend so much time breaking down the third wall when that seemed to be her main subject for a long time) and basked in finally belonging. Then it got to be too much, she couldn't handle anything less than straight praise and she realized that working is HARD. She truly did create so much unnecessary work for herself with 3 channels, 3 blogs, IG, FB, Twitter, she was even one of the only people addicted to KIK for a while. So she backed off, went to weekly vlogs that weren't well received, got pregnant and said "Screw it, I'll do what I want!" which is how she should have kept it in the first place.
I doubt she will ever disappear completely because without YT she goes right back to being the weird introvert with no friends. But I am sad that the days of 2012 Jen are gone, I lived to see what craziness she came up with next (like all of us here did, I think). Long live $2000 pre-fall makeup hauls, melting Godiva truffles into her hot chocolate while saying she didn't eat much sugar and needing PD breaks from her yoga schedule! -
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I should also add, snark aside, that picture she inserted with her and CC in the Fall Haul video is one of the most genuine smiles I have ever seen on Jen. -
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I lived for when he briefly came onto GG throwing around her Youtube stats to prove that people watched her because they loved her and not just because they wanted to see how much of his money she would spend on a whim on a hand painted Golden Girls-esque Louis Vwee-ton bag.
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