I forgot to add this!

Okay I didn't actually forget to add this post. I'm writing it now. Must be because I'm firing off like a (defective) blogpost-machine gun right now. Oh, right I said I wasn't going to include anymore lame, made-up jokes. Before I lose the couple people I hope don't already think I'm too crazy to read anymore. Right, I guess this is the part where I tell you a little bit about me - which was actually supposed to be my first post. Ok, now that you've lost all confidence in my organization skills, on with it then! My name is Jaden Taylor and I'm eighteen years old. I'm from Toronto, Canada but hope to move to L.A. and get a real job someday. I am an (amateur) artist, writer, photographer, musician, singer, voice over artist, and less-than-amateur cook. I love doing anything that involves the little bit of creativity in my possession. So I use it all up on mindlessly playing computer games. Okay, I do read sometimes and (try) to write. I'm actually putting together a children's book series called "Prissy Little Chloe" which is what these posts were supposed to be about before I usurped them. The last few have been so totally random and because my dog won't pose for a picture. I think she has it in for me; no wonder why she's always running away from me. I got a change to take these from a few years ago, when she liked me a little better I guess:

Oh, wait. I didn't take that one. And there's this one (the first picture I ever took of her back in '08!)

Okay I probably didn't take that one either.
Chloe is my best friend in the world! She's really snooty, and well prissy. Always wants all the attention and she never listens! Who taught her that? Must be me, cause I teach her everything I know. But then again my mom taught me, so it's really my mom. Ha, I don't totally botch everything. Sometimes.

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