palm pixi

I have never been a gung-ho-lovey-dovey-give-me –flowers-and-teddy-bears Valentine’s Day fan. BUT for the first time in my life I have been counting down to Valentine’s Day since practically November. Every day for the past couple months I’ve opened my planner and flipped to see how many pages left until February 14^th—10 pages…5….3…1…ah! Finally, February 14^th came. I bet you are wondering why I have been anxiously awaiting the so-called holiday that I usually want nothing to do with, huh? Well, let me tell you: It’s because I had tickets to the Lady Antebellum concert. Not just tickets…AMAZING tickets! I was 10 feet from the stage. Ah!!!! It was the best. Night. Ever.

Let’s rewind a little bit to the beginning of the evening. When my date and I were walking in I handed over my purse to security for inspection. To my dismay, the security guard grumpily exclaimed that my camera was not allowed in the arena (gosh, I knew I should have headed to that nice grandpa looking security guard—he would have let me in for sure)…gasp! How dare they? It was very unfortunate. So my date took my camera back to the vehicle and I sadly went in to the arena empty handed. But wait! This story does not have a sad ending. Thank goodness for phones! My handy dandy little palm pixi of a cell phone in my front right pocket yet again pulled me out of a tight spot. Thanks to my trusty cell phone I was able to document a few moments from the evening.

What would we do without cell phones?

{Overheard}

When walking to and from class I very often like to be one of those anti-social kids with headphones in and an Ipod turned up too loud to converse with anybody in passing. On other occasions, I choose to leave the headphones in my back pack and tune in to the conversations going on around me. And since its just in passing, I only hear snippets taken out of context that very often get me laughing out loud. Take this past week for example…I overheard a lot, but these were a few of my favorite lines:

“Alaska would be great because I’d be faaar away from her”

Roommate, professor? Guess I will never know!

“I was the best missionary EVER”

Hmmmm…this statement is a bit contradictory if you ask me

“St. Patrick’s day is on Saturday…that will be fun”

Why? Do people actually celebrate St. Patrick ’s Day?

“Cool Yo Yo skills, is that a Gengar?”

HA! If I’m not mistaken, a Gengar is a Pokemon.

“…So I heard Donald Trump is running for President!”

Clearly behind the times and not interested in politics.

Oh BYU, you are sooo entertaining. I wonder what bits and pieces of my conversations people are quoting...

it makes the world go round

I love chocolate. No, i adore chocolate. Its like the sun to my earth: I can't live without it, it makes me feel good no matter what, and i crave it 24/7. I know, I sound a little crazy; but i speak the truth. Chocolate makes the world go round.

Anyway, i have a list about a million miles long of why i love chocolate, and the list gained one more reason yesterday. See for yourself...





Such a random and funny commercial could only chocolate. I laughed so hard when i first saw this, and then do you want to know what I did? I ate a piece of chocolate :)

Home Again

Welp, I’m back in Utah with the trip I’ve been anxiously awaiting FOREVER, behind me.

NY was an absolute blast. It was so fun to see my sister Chelsea and her husband Todd. And can I just say how much I love being an aunt? It is the absolute best. My nephew Jayden is as cute as they come. There wasn’t a time over the 5 days I was with him that he wasn’t making me laugh or smile in some way.

Aside from the plague (aka the throw-up flu) that hit the household (aka Chelsea, Jayden, and me) the trip was perfect. From visiting the house that my mom grew up in, to seeing “Memphis”, to train rides, to amazing grocery stores, to the city, to laughing ourselves silly...I loved it all. Leaving was almost unbearable.

On our way to the city

The Mayan Calendar (in the Natural History Museum). I read it and don't worry, the world is most definitely not ending this year.

Time Square. You can't tell in the slightest, but the sky was b-e-a-utiful.

The house that my mom grew up in!

Cooking with wine for dinner. That was definitely a first.

View from the top. NY isn't exactly the most scenic place in the winter, haha

Central Park, which was frigid by the way. Here is the conclusion we came to: Utah cold--makes you cold from the inside out- heart, bones, and all. New York cold--similar to putting your face on an ice block. Your skin literally freezes. Brrrrr. At one point i couldnt pronounce my b's or my p's because my face was too frozen.

Jayden fell down the stairs and got a little goose egg. And when i say little i mean monstrous.

Eating at the Shake Shack where i partook of my first hamburger since September! Take that jaw. Yummmmm.

And now I’m back in Provo where school and microwave dinners are a harsh reality and all I have are these pictures to cling to, to remind me that New York wasn’t just a dream!

FYI

So i know I told you I would be posting a couple times a week for one of my classes this semester…but I changed my mind! If you ever get a hankering to read about my opinions in regards to the media (which I just found out will consume about 8,788 days of my life…yikes) you can visit a different blog I recently created:

www.briannaandthemedia.blogspot.com

Anyway.

On the bad news front…school is ridiculous and I already feel like I am in the middle of a semester; crazy professors, long assignments, too much reading, and quizzes galore. Jealous?

On the good news front…

I’m going to New York tomorrow!!!!

Ah! I guess school will just have to wait :)

Pinterest (hw)

Soooo this semester I am enrolled in a class all about media. One of our assignments is to post regularly on a blog about anything media related. Rather than creating a new blog I decided I would just use this one. Lucky you, right? You get to read my homework assignments all semester! Anyway, if you see a post with an (hw) at the end of the title, you'll know it is a homework assignment.

Hopefully you will still be thoroughly entertained.

So without further ado…

Pinterest: the relatively new craze sweeping the globe one pin at a time.

It’s a pretty neat website if you think about it…pinning an eclectic collection of photos, fashion trends, recipes, and other “favorites” to a personal account on the web, to be viewed by you and others for time and all eternity. I’ve even avoided getting it for months because I recognized said "neatness". I also knew it was going to be a *time sucker and goodness knows I don’t need any more of those.

BUT about mid-December I finally caved and joined the pinners out there. I created myself an account and began trying to figure out the glorified website.

4 weeks later though, in a fit of frustration at the emails filling up my inbox, the followers I didn’t know, and the sheer lack of interest in said website, I deleted my account. Gasp!

I know I know…there are millions of girls out there weeping in my behalf for all that I will be missing out on without a pinterest account. BUT I’m feeling pretty good about this life changing decision. My views and actions in regards to pinterest are probably unique, maybe even one of a kind, but hey…I just got 2 hours a day of my life back, so I'm feeling pretty good!

*time sucker: a relatively pointless activity that is often easy to get addicted to and sucks away precious time that you don’t even have in the first place.