WEEKEND

This weekend was so fun!!!! Let me try to sum it up....

We got everything ready for the party, baking cakes and making playlists and such, then took everything over to the house to get set up. We got cute, then we went to the Institute party to move everyone to our house! We took some sharpies and wrote the address on cute boys' hands all over that place, including the band. So the party that we thought was going to be a FLOP ended up with a lot of people there! There was music and dancing, balloon fairytales, conga lines, cake, and much MUCH more. Then of course one second after midnight the cops showed up because of the noise ordinance... so we kicked pretty much everyone out and the rest of us went up the mountain to a bonfire. Then we became... ADVENTURE HEROES! We crossed the lava and the coyote infested desert, then the evil jaws of the broken tv and the slippery slope of death. We were justly rewarded for our tribulations by the beautiful top of the world. A few more trickled off as we went back home and played the Skittle game, had headstand competitions, and me and the roommies fell asleep watching a dumb movie. Then in the morning we went garage sale-ing!! Yes Grandma and Grandpa, I did do some great bargaining :)

Oh man describing it just doesn't do the night justice!

After garage sales (we got a sweet mattress for super cheap!) and some homework time we went to the relief society meeting--so good! Pres. Monson was in a silly mood and the message was food for the soul :D
On Sunday, church was great too! Sadly, I had to study for a test a lot of the day, but it was testimony meeting which I always love, the lesson was great--of course it was, Stetson taught it ;) haha--then it was our first time conducting as a relief society presidency and it went so smoothly! After church I made some stroganoff, yum, then had eclair cake at Christy's and everyone made fun of me, as usual! Apparently I'm a good target for that. We headed to the fireside and it was a Lamanite guy speaking... it was um... interesting. Then at ward prayer we met these two new awesome guys in our ward, Danny and Batman-I mean Kyle. We invited them, Mike,Connie, and Sarah to our house for games and cake. The cake was gone thanks to Alecia and Helen! But we played Extreme Spoons and Would You Rather. Turns out that me and Danny are soul mates. Who woulda guessed! And we got a new pet named Ralphie, or something...It was a praying mantis.
Suddenly I remembered all that studying I was supposed to be doing, kicked everyone out and got to it for the next two hours, hopefully not to have bombed the test on Monday. Luckily, we learned a lot of Central Nervous system basics back in Psychology. But now I just have to try to forget about boys and a social life and everything to move on to studying for the next test... Anatomy.

Oh college, I love you.

Britter OUT.

Mother Culture

First things first... If you have never read the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn go on Amazon and order it now or read it at your local public library. It is a book about how our culture blinds us and misleads us into mediocrity. Just be sure to read it with an open mind without letting it trample on your religious beliefs. 

Anyways, so I have been thinking a lot about how we live our lives in a certain way and are around certain kinds of people with certain ideals so that we are conditioned to believe certain things and think a certain way. It is so hard to overcome a pattern of thinking--whether it is correct or unethical or whatever the case may be. So hard in fact that it is rarely done. 

Then there is this little thing called inspiration. It is that feeling you get when you always wanted to be a ballerina and you see that dancer up there on stage; or when an idea is sparked in your mind to create something new and beautiful. Inspiration is a desire to step outside of that box you've lived in all your life. Now after all that good feeling you're pretty sure you can go out and rule the world now right? WRONG. 

It takes ACTION.

Action is one of the biggest obstacles that I have to overcome in my life.Action takes courage, I must not have that courage. Yes, I want to be an extraordinary person, but how do I do that when I am surrounded by people content with their lives, content with what I see as not enough? If you have an answer. please share it with me. 

It is so hard to stay inspired daily. I would love to talk to Ben Franklin or Martin Luther King and see how they did it, how they broke free from that social norm and took hold of opportunity. I have been inspired by some along the way... Kathy Headlee, Christy Blodgett, and Kyle Bateman, just to name a few. And with some of those people it took only minutes for them to climb their way up my list to "Inspiring". They made me want to be better. I desire to have more people like that in my life. People who think outside the box, who take hold of their ideas and turn them into something amazing. 

Wow all of that stemmed from a thought about boys... haha. I got on here thinking I was going to blog about how, well... 

How all my life I have been scared of boys. Call it daddy issues, call it bashfulness, or whatever you want, but bottom line--they scare me. I have never spent much time around guys, never been friends with them, never understood them, never been able to even act normal around them. Most of the guys I've ever dated have been because they liked me so I just went along with it. But the guys I am attracted to and who I admire and would love to be a part of their lives are the ones I have trouble with. They seem like aliens to me; unreachable, incredible, and so intimidating. I don't feel like I'm good enough for them or believe they would recognize my worth. How do I become that kind of person that I would want to befriend or be attracted to?

Oh man its so hard and confusing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :)

Your Dimension of Greatness

No one can know the potential
Of a life that is committed to win.
With courage - the challenge it faces,
To achieve great success in the end!

So, EXPLORE the Dimension of Greatness,
And believe that the world CAN be won;
By a mind that is fully committed,
KNOWING the task can be done!

Your world has no place for the skeptic,
No room for the DOUBTER to stand,
To weaken your firm resolution
That you CAN EXCEL in this land!

We must have VISION TO SEE our potential,
And FAITH TO BELIEVE that we can;
Then COURAGE TO ACT with conviction,
To become what GOD MEANT us to be!

So, possess the strength and the courage,
To conquer WHATEVER you choose;
It's the person WHO NEVER GETS STARTED,
That is destined FOREVER to lose!

Britter OUT.

Side note

I love men with style. 

And men in suits... Yummo.

Britter OUT.

Fall 2010 at SUU

Okay so I want to express my feelings about going to school before school and then compare them to how I feel after I've experienced it all.

I'm really excited to have an apartment this year with a kitchen and everything instead of yucky dorms! I may have gone a little overboard on buying fun things for it, but we'll see. I'm not going to know any of my roommates again this year so I am praying that they are good LDS girls. At first I was scared about this, but now I know that the Lord will bless me with people whom I can learn from and that even if we don't get along I can always make other friends.

I'm really excited for my classes. I am not looking forward to selling my right arm for all of my books I'll have to buy-medical books are the most expensive. I seem to have quite a bit of free time in my schedule, but I know I will be working really hard because they will all be very challenging. I have been considering getting a job though... I mean I love planning my schedule around school, its so much fun to have that be my life, but I know I do need to save money for future years (who knows when I'll need money for a wedding!) and jobs are good for me and for society. I am prepared to have no social life if needs be. But I have been spoiled with that lately anyways! Everyone tells me that once I get my braces off (TOMORROW!!!) the boys will be all over me. We'll see about that. I wouldn't mind ;)

I want to get really involved this year. I want to join a service club of some kind. I also want to start a club. I think I want it to be a study club. Me and my dear friend Zania decided we will call it AIC (opposite of CIA lol) which will stand for "Acquiring Intelligence Club"-- doesn't that sound much more official than study club? We will all meet once a week and talk about effective ways we've learned how to study whether it was through research or a class or a teacher or fellow student. We could also work on getting speakers to come teach us come studying tricks. I think it would be great! I need to work on getting funding from the student board to see if we can really get it rolling.

I will be sad to leave my family. Growing up is sad because I feel like I should pull away from my family and be dependent, but I don't at the same time. I think I will do it gradually and not necessarily pull away from them, just that our relationships will change because we're further away and such. I think sometimes its easy for my family to pull away from me because they seem so caught up in their own things a lot... I don't understand this because I'm not that way-- family is very important to me. 

Hmm... what else? 

I don't know, but overall I know it will be a great semester. As of now I will not be going back for spring, but we'll see what happens. I just want to follow the path the Lord wants me to follow. Pray that I may have his guidance please :)

And I am praying for all of you, my loved ones.

Britter OUT.

Life Elevated

Goal: To live each day to the fullest.
Reward: Experience a level of life more extreme, more wonderful, more exhilarating than anyone has every experienced before.
Process: Pending... Just kidding! The process is to; find out what makes me happy, add in a little progression, some time management, a pinch of good attitude,and a sprinkle of support.

Wish me luck!

Britter OUT.

ZUMMM

So the other night I'm laying there in my bed thinking... "I would like to write in my blog more. What could I write about? Hmm..." Now remember, it was pretty late at night. One of those nights where you have a million things on your mind so you can't fall asleep. And then I think... "ZUM! Yeah I'll write about zum. Zum changed my life. Its like the greatest thing!" Yeah... weird I know. The only reason I remember that is because I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget it, but I didn't write down what it means! It was something really philisophical and intelligent. I wish I could remember what I meant by zum. It would probably change the world. They say when you're asleep you use a much larger percentage of your brain than you do when you're awake so I'm thinking it was one of those moments. Well, I guess I'll have to wait for the next great idea and remember to write it all down next time. 

Britter OUT.

:) :D :() ;) 8)

 Why are smiles such an attractive thing? 

Everyone says that one of the main things they notice when checking out a guy/girl/man/woman/girl/boy/lady/gentleman/human is their smile. I paid like $6000 and 5 years having braces... twice! We whiten, clean, pull, straighten, plump, gloss, color, and who knows what else to get these mouths looking beautiful! There are eye crinkling smiles, huge smiles, sparkly smiles, shy smiles, dimpled smiles, grim smiles, cheesy smiles, sexy smiles... and oh so many more. A smile lights up the face and makes a person more beautiful. They say just a smile is a service and you could make someone's day just by smiling at someone. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight; whenever I have a bad day I put a sloppy fake smile on and force it to stay until it becomes real.

There are a million quotes about smiles. Here's a few......

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.  ~Charles Gordy

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.  ~Mark Twain

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home. ~Anonymous

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.  ~Andy Rooney

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.  ~Author Unknown

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.  ~Author Unknown

Everyone smiles in the same language.  ~Author Unknown 

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.  ~Author Unknown

  Or my personal favorite: "I have a tickle in my brain.  And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens."  ~Jeb Dickerson

The truth is... no one really knows why smiles are so attractive or who started it or why we do it. But one thing is for sure, its a sign of joy, friendship and confidence. 

I personally am a fan of huge, eye crinkling, laughing smiles.

What is it that attracts YOU to a smile? Please share with the class.

And say CHEEEEEESE!! :D

Britter OUT.

P.S.... Sometime we will have to discuss where kissing came from. I mean what's up with lip smacking that is so pleasing???