Irreverence

Yesterday Bri and I decided to go to the temple and there was some funny things that happened that somewhat disrupted the sacred reverence in that holy place. I did my best to laugh silently and at time had tears running down my face.
To paint you a picture:
1. Bri and I get our jumpsuits and the Provo temple is so busy that they always run out of our sizes. I am not a fan of short ones so they always give me ones that aren't short but I guess the women just gave Bri hers this time. I walk out from my stall and I see her and immediately all I see is a big Samoan man. Her jumpsuit is not only so big I could have fit in there with her but it comes up to about mid-calf! I could not stop laughing...she look so funny. When we sad down it went to about her knees! Hahahahahaha.....
2. So then we are in the confirmation room and suddenly I am exhausted and I can barely hold my eyes open. I sit down and about 10 minutes in I am STRUGGLING! I am like half asleep and half awake but I can't open my eyes (it wasn't good). And all of the sudden I start to fall sideways, and I make this really weird moan/sigh sound. OMG...all I could think about was how loud it was and how embarrassing that was. I could not stop laughing at myself THAT is so embarrassing. I finally got over it and just couldn't do anything but read while I was waiting because I would start to laugh hysterically.
3. A girl that was in the confirmation room with us came out later and sat next to me and asked me if I fell asleep and told me that it cracked her up and she couldn't stop laughing...then I felt really bad for disrupting every one's peace in the temple. I am horrible.
4. After I do my baptisms I rinse off and then I go to my locker where apparently I picked the wrong one and it was broken I sat in my stall for like a good 2 minutes trying to get my locker unlocked and the whole time all I could think about was the fact that I was going to have to go home in my towel but then I finally got it open.

Moral of the story: Get enough rest before you go to the temple! :)

Such is Life

I am really not a fan of working full time. I am however a fan of money and ya know...not starving to death and stuff like that. I am very grateful for my job, especially in the country's economic situation, but I really don't like working full time. It is my last week before school starts and I go back to just 20 hours a week. I have never really been excited for school to start but I am right now. I am going to be less busy when school starts...crazy! Only 3 more days of full time work (for at least 8 months)! Yay!

On another note. This weekend I got pretty much moved in. I have a few more boxes to unpack and some organizing to do. Hopefully all of that will get done today! As soon as everything is pretty much done there will be pictures! :) Everything is coming together very nicely!!

Lunch Time!

My mom has been in town for education week and it has been so much fun. While I have my opinions on education week and the HAVOC it wreaks on the BYU campus I am so glad my mom has been here. I have gone to lunch with her during my scheduled time with her. It is kind of weird because she is here but she isn't necessarily here to visit me, its just a perk! ;) But I have to schedule all the time that I want to spend with her, that ok though! But we have been having a great time. This is us at lunch, she was really proud of her smile and then she saw the picture and was disappointed. Its ok...we had a great time!

"Opportunities come, and then they are gone"

Lately I have been realizing that I need to be happy in the things that are going on in my life right now and not look to the future to solve the things I feel are not right in my life. I have been thinking about this talk that President Monson gave in last October's conference. Here are some highlights and some quotes I found particularly inspiring:

Finding Joy in the Journey

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays"
-The Music Man
"For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon him, and he receive not the gift? Behold he rejoices not in that which is given unto him, neither rejoices in him who is the giver of the gift."
-D&C 88:33
"Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year, so that in whatever place you have been, you may say that you have lived happily"
-Horace

Round Two!

So last night my mom took Bri and I to dinner and a movie. We went to Red Robin and this particular restaurant has so many memories for the three of us (plus Kelsey). One of the first times my mom met my roommates from last year, Kelsey and Bri, she took us to Red Robin. I wasn't as good of friends with them as I am now and my mom didn't know them at all. She was trying hard to impress them but things just went a little awry...she ended up spitting soda all over the two of them and tripping and falling down the stair on the way out. All in all she has been the butt of many jokes! Haha. But last night she redeemed herself, all liquid stayed in her mouth and she learned to walk :) we had a great time!

My Make-up Quandary

So I have decided in my life to not be SO dependent on my make-up...some days I just don't have to wear it. Haha...this doesn't happen often BUT some mornings are just a little busy and I don't have time for my make up and it really isn't a big deal to me because I am not trying to impress anyone at work. So this leads me to some problems...I know that I look better with make-up on...most people do. If we didn't, we wouldn't wear it. That being said I don't think I really look that much different with or without make-up...my eyelashes are pretty dark and pretty long on their own so its not like my eyes disappear.
HOWEVER
Last time I didn't wear make-up a woman at work asked me if I was feeling alright because I looked pale and flushed. I had to inform her that I just wasn't wearing any make up. Apparently the natural me looks like I am about to barf.
Now to the real reason for this post is because this morning I didn't have time to put make up on because of an really annoying alarm that was going off in my room for like a half hour or something but I didn't know what it was let alone that it was mine because I had never heard it before. I packed up my room last night and apparently in the process turned on the alarm on my iHome and it was going off at like 6:15 this morning. So finally at 6:30 when I realized that it was coming from my room I had to start going through boxes to find it. Needless to say all of my nicely organized and packed belongings are not longer that way. Sorry...tangent...back to the make-up. So I was just sitting in here and a guy that I work with comes in and asks me if I am feeling alright because I look like I have a cold.
UH! Seriously what is the deal...I don't wear make-up and I look sick. MAN! This is ridiculous...I am DEFINITELY wearing make-up tomorrow!

Happy Birthday Abigail!

Today is my niece Abigail's FIRST birthday! I am so sad that I am not at home. I REALLY REALLY wish I was there. I hope that sweet girl has a great birthday! She is getting so big, every time I see her she has grown up so much! I love her and miss her...especially today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY!

8 WHOLE dollars!!!

A while back I signed up to participate in some studies. You get paid for the studies and it doesn't take too long. So yesterday I did my first one, it was kind of weird and I didn't really get it but I hope that I helped them a little. And I made my self eight bucks! Yeah! If any of you follow my picture blog, this was going to be my picture before I went to the MTC and decided that was a better story!

My accomplishment!

So on Friday at work I was so excited because I spent HOURS cleaning out my paper shredder and fixing it because it didn't work and I really needed to use it. I took some picture because I was so proud! Now not so much but on Friday I really wanted to blog about it but the Internet doesn't work in my apartment and I didn't have my camera with me yesterday. Now it really isn't that exciting but I was so proud of myself then and so I figured I'd share some of the pictures I took because it was a really big project!When I look back on this I think it is so funny because I was SO happy that I had done this. Simple pleasures!

Before:
After:

The room when I was done:

The tools that I used...I had to get creative. The box opener worked best!

The poor pen that was destroyed! Good thing I didn't try to use my finger!

Pictures

Here are the pictures of my new place that I will be moving into in a short 13 days! (I gotta get packing!!). Just a word of caution I had NO make up on yesterday (it was a rough morning) so that is why I look so beautiful in these pictures!

All coming together!

Most people have had their housing for next semester set up for months. At the beginning of the summer I realized that since EVERYONE already housing I should probably start looking into it. I realized it but I didn't really do anything about it. Every time I talked to my mom on the phone she would ask me if I had found housing yet and the answer was always no...I hadn't even looked let alone found anything. I don't really know why I wasn't that concerned but I wasn't and I just kept thinking that something was going to just appear. About 3 weeks ago or so Bri and I finally started look and researching and realized that we had kind of messed up because pretty much everything was gone but I wasn't stressed I knew we would find something. Well that attitude lasted me right up until Tuesday when I realized that I had to be moved out of my apartment in two and a half weeks and was actually going to be homeless. I started to panic and was REALLY stressed. So now let me get to the point of this post

...drumroll please...

Brittany finally has a place to live. The condo/townhouse contract was signed today and the first half of a fairly hefty deposit will be delivered tonight to make the whole thing official! I am so excited. I feel really good about this place. I hadn't felt good about any of the other 40 billion places that I looked and I can't wait to move into my new apartment in two weeks and one day when my contract at the Branbury is officially over...man did I wait until the last second!

I am going to go take a picture of it from the outside today...it is so cute! Stay tuned!

RAIN!

Yesterday was the typical bi-polar Provo weather. Ever since I have been back it has been really hot and it has finally been summer. I had to walk ACROSS campus yesterday during work and it was SO HOT I thought I was going to die. That is why when I was leaving work and saw the outside completely wet I was SO shocked. I couldn't believe it was raining. I don't think we have made it through one complete week with no rain this summer. I truly couldn't believe it. This picture doesn't do it justice. It was out of control, the wind was blowing and it was pretty much pouring. This summer has yet to really feel like a summer in Provo...

Time for an UPDATE!

So I haven't blogged in a while. That last post is kind of depressing...I'm not sad to see it go! Nothing really exciting has been going on in my life so that is part of it but also I have been sick for like two weeks. It is kind of killing me. I think I am getting over it now. But when I went to the doctor's he said that it could last up to THIRTY days on and off...shoot me now! AH! Oh well...I am learning to function pretty well while feeling like crap and it has been better the past couple of days which is good!

IN the middle of being sick I did get to take a trip home. While it was a little bitter sweet (more bitter and less sweet) because we didn't get to go to Disneyland...it was a really fun trip. I spent the majority of my time is HOT, SWEATY, STINKY, GHETTO Bakersfield, CA!!! This is where Aaron's baseball tournament was. It was a lot of fun to spend time with my family and relax a little bit. The baseball was also fun to watch...while they did lose...it was fun to see Aaron play. He is such a good ball player...MUCH better than I ever was! lol!

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures. One....it was too hot, I tried to move as little as possible. Two...I really didn't feel well and taking pictures is really not what I wanted to do. The only pictures I took were at John's INCREDIBLE pizza-something...it really wasn't that incredible and it is small children (and my mom ;)) on bumper cars! lol. Random choice of pictures on my part...whatever!

I also got to spend some time with Ashlie on our long drive home from Bakersfield...we just talked the whole way, it was really nice to be able to catch up with her. And then I got to spend a day with Amber and Derek and Abigail! I hadn't really gotten to see Abby much during the trip and it was really fun we went to a birthday party and we got swim. She is such a cute girl! I miss her lots! All in all it was a great trip, it was one of the first times that I have been home in a while when I was not ready to come back to Utah. Don't get me wrong I love my family and I love being home but it is usually nice to come back and get back to my life and my things...I really didn't want to leave. I thoroughly enjoyed myself this past week! Unfortunately it is back to the real world!