Words on My Mind

Lawrence pretty much looks worried like this most of the time.  It's his classic face

After making a complete fool of myself  to get him to smile this is about as good as it got.  

So Christmas break is over, and I'm trying to cope with it.  I pretty much hate New Years, the whole holiday.  It probably started in Elementary school and when I realized that New Years meant going back to school.  Yes I realize that you have to go back to school and real life, and that life isn't meant to be a holiday all the time but it's still not easy to go back.

These are the highlights from my break
1. Seeing the family
2. Playing the niece and nephew
3. Extreme Gingerbread house making
4. Going to temple square
5. All you can eat hot chocolate, tea, and cinnamon rolls.
6. Christmas Dinner at the Claytons
7. Watching holiday reels of the years past photos
8. Getting school free quality time with Jord
9. Sleeping in on a week day
10. Getting to spend lots of time with my baby sisters.  They're growing up so fast!

Nicole and Clayton came out before Christmas with little Lawrence.  It's always so nice to see them.  This trans-american family thing kinda sucks but since so many of my goals revolve around moving out of state I have get used to this arrangement.  When they left a few days ago my mom and I moaned around the house for a full day.  I'll miss them!

Although I won't miss his continual night screams or puking.

Which reminds me of my least favorite memory from the break.  Lawrence gets continually teased and tossed around as we try and turn him into a circus performer.  One afternoon we had been implementing spinning, rocket blasting, and all sorts of circus tricks on him. And to his defense he was probably a little dizzy.  Well I lifted him up to tease him and he puked right on my neck and all down my shirt.  It was in my hair and smelled well awful.  I was so shocked, all I could think of is yeah, that just happened.

Anyways, this has turned out to be way to random which I don't like.  So I hope everyone has a great semester and that I can survive another semester of not so much fun! Here's looking forward to SPRING BREAK!

The magic balancing baby, just one example of the many circus tricks Lawrence is capable of preforming.  

Ahhhh School's back in Session

Remember when I talked about how much I miss being Summer BriAnne? Well I'm thinking I miss Christmas Break BriAnne too.  Its such a hard transition from total freedom back to total mayhem!  Luckily this semester I got to keep 3 of my good study buddies and I get to make a few more.  Hmmm well today was interesting to say the least I guess I could say I just dove right back into school as if I hadn't missed a step.  I already finished my homework assignment for tomorrow and I'm about to start my reading assignments.  What a hectic life we students live! Anyways I hope all of my fellow students are having a nicer transition than me.  Happy Studying!

It only takes one bad line to kill a series!

After watching Harry Potter in the theater the sadness crept up on me.  It's really OVER? I really hate that I have to come to terms with it.  When the books ended I used to movie premieres to help adjust to the closing of the magical wizarding world, but now I have to deal with it!  Its OVER! Sad day!  The cherry on top will be turning 20 in a few short months.  Is my childhood really over? That is one really hard adult pill to swallow!  Well I guess there is always Harry Potter world that I'm dying to go to and help relive my childhood memories again!

Edward vs. Peeta (I do love his bow tie =] )

Anyways, in my grieving I hesitantly decided to give the Hunger Games a try.  In the end I really got caught up in the whole Peeta/Katniss/Gale action but these books didn't have a new spark of energy.  Its just a slightly modified version of twilight to me.  Overall the book had too many parallels to Twilight for it to make my top ten book list, but it was a fun read and now I have 3 movies to look forward to.  Here is the new countdown poster they're using.  Hopefully this is where the book stops resembling twilight.  If the movies are half as awkie as twilight I'll have look for a new fun movie series to through myself into.  I do have to say I'm a little worried about the casting of Peeta that's not at all how I imagined him. If he's the new awkward Edward I just don't think I can take it!  It only takes one really bad line...example: "climb on my back spider monkey"....to kill a series!  (I am in no way trying to insinuate that Harry Potter was free of cheesy lines, the fan base was just strong enough to see past it)



What I'm Listening To

 The Girl-City and Colour
Chicago-Sufjan Stevens

Impending DOOM

Do you ever have that feeling that there is a rain cloud of impending doom over your head.  Like there is no possible way that you can finish all that your professors have assigned to you in a week? Yeah thats me right now.  I'm not sure how to crawl out of this fox hole, but I'm stressed out of my mind! I have a stats test this Friday and I'm pretty sure I get about 0% of the material.  Better yet I have a quiz in the Trunchbull's class that has my stomach doing summersaults! I'd like to say I am "loving" school and "loving" my major, but lets face it school SUCKS!

Breaking Up is Fun to Do!

So I've been thinking about breaking up with facebook for a while now.  Its not that I don't love being socially connected and all of that but often times it makes me feel depressed, because my college situation is less than hollywood perfect right now.  I do not belong to a sorority or get invited to wild college parties, although one time I was invited to a mixer! ha Okay so that crap about partying in college is pretty much all false especially in my life.  Anyways the point is I log onto a world filled with my friends and their extremely attractive boyfriends, new roommates and far off adventures and I just feel a little left out.  It may say that I have 200 and something friends but in reality my only true friends I talk to most days and I don't have to look at a virtual profile to see if they are engaged/dating/ or enjoying their college experience.  Its just that all my life consists of right now is work and family which doesn't really require a social network to update.  So I'm taking a break from facebook and I think we are just going to be friends for a while.  Hopefully when I get back on I have something better to report for my status other than I hate the weather....or I am bored/tired/hungry.  PS My fingers are healing I was able to take notes in class today with little discomfort!

I hate HOT GLUE GUNS

For the longest time I've had the worst fear of ovens, curling irons, hot glue guns, candles etc.  I hope you can see the correlation here.  Basically anything that is hot and/or can burn you I hate.  For the last few years I have tried to overcome this fear by beginning to take things out of the oven and attempting craft projects that require using liquid molten glue, but today was the last and final craft that I will be using the hot torture gun.  I would stop using the oven but I see that more of a necessity to life.  Anyways I am probably the reason why they come with warning on the tag, because improper use of the gun will lead to extreme burns and pain trust me.  We had ran out of glue and decided to use a wooden skewer to force the last drops of glue out.  It worked fine for about thirty seconds but soon after the glue spilled out of the back of the gun covering two of my fingers.  While many expletives ran through my head I darted to the sink and ran cold water over my blistering fingers.  I had a horrible idea to remove the glue which then peeled a few layers of skin off of them.  OUCH! Lucky for me my cute sister attended to me bringing over a bag of ice and sponge-bob band-aids.  Currently I am sporting 4 of them and my second bag of ice.  I typed this whole entry with my left hand, and am starting to worry that my new injury will hold me back in school.  Anyways the point of this entry is that from now on I am reverting back to my old ways and shying away from anything hot hopefully it will  remind me of that! And sorry I won't be posting pictures of my murdered hands, I am afraid it might make someone nauseous!