my list for Santa

First off i would die and go to heaven if I could have this camera- the Nikon d700. no big deal. it's just like thousands of dollars.

second i want a couple new lenses. like these two....



once again no big deal.

and then i would like this jeep. only in orange.


okay since i know i won't be getting any of the above here is my reasonable list....

a can of shortening. so i don't have to use my roommate Melissa's.


some nice snow gear.



some oil paints for my painting class.


maybe some cute earmuffs.


BOOTS. these are a must! i wear my ugly boots everyday even though they match absolutely nothing.


and maybe a couple romance books. but then again, i have no time to read.

anyways. i'm not really sure what i want. i just don't need or want much.
:D

Thanksgiving!!!!

I LOVE being home! :D

so for the past few days my mom has been cooking like a mad women. And I've been doing dishes like cinderella. But, it is completely worth it when you get all the goodness of the meal.


i contributed this to the meal. it's a delish mint pie.


but.... my most favorite part is this-- CRANBERRY SAUCE! :D


Ash and I set the table like this--

pretty huh!?

and then ash left me because apparently she's in love and had to go visit his family for dessert. LAME! but she wanted a few pics of them together. you can find the rest on my photo blog. briannanicholephotography.blogspot.com


well after we cleaned up and stuff we went to the mod bod sale (3rd year in a row) i spent too much money. but not as much ash. :P


I'm grateful for:

my siblings!!!

look how little and cute we were!

my padres


my grand padres



and my friends and my roomies (who are also my friends) and my ward. and the boys next door who play music, and America, and USU, and my NIKON!, and so so so so so sososososoos much more!

Trying to figure out my emotions.

Life is tricky. Honestly.

Sunday i gave a talk in church. I honestly (not to be un-humble) feel like i did a good job. I didn't read it, only the quotes and the scriptures. I liked the topic. i talked on the Holy Ghost. Here's a paragraph from it- "I am so grateful for the Holy Ghost in my life. Because I am a baptized member of the church I have the great privilege of having the Holy Ghost as my companion through all things. Most people in the world do not have what we have. The knowledge of how the Holy Ghost can help me in my life is an amazing thing. I can’t fathom how hard it would be to make all of the decisions I have to make in my lifetime without the Holy Ghost to help me know what path to take. I can’t comprehend going through the difficult times in life without the Holy Ghost comforting me and helping me get through them. "

AND THEN!!!! i came home! woohooo! the roads weren't bad but i'm glad i got home when i did, because now the weather is not so good. HOME! i just love it. except some things i don't love so much.

It's weird to have things start to happen that you've thought about and talked about your entire life. Things like remembering way back when i was a kid thinking about what college would be like. and now i'm here! things like this only much bigger now!.... but this subject will have to wait for a while. And i don't know how to feel or act about said situation i can't blog about yet. It's making me so confused. I feel like i'm losing a part of me and i'm scared. I always knew this day would come though. i didn't imagine it like this though.

I'm excited for thanksgiving! For cranberry sauce especially. yum! I wish we were having deep fried turkey instead of baked. it's the southern girl in me.
BUT! we did have crawfish etoufe for dinner tonight! I will be eating this in heaven. Pretty dang sure. I love it that Walmart sells southernized cawfish. :D It makes for a good time home.

Anyone else excited for blackfriday????

Cookie sheets are useful for more than just making cookies.

SNOW IS HERE!!!
last night Betsy and Josh and Mckenna, and Hope and her boyfriend and Roman went to Old Main Hill and we went sledding! only we don't own sleds cause we're poor college kids! so...... We used cookie sheets instead!!!!! I was leery at first cause i've never had good luck on sleds but actually, they were less dangerous than a sled. It was awesome! :D Mckenna had a garbage bag and she made a "diaper" out of it.

She went down the hill in just that too!

When i tried going down on a bag it didn't work. But i liked the big cookie sheet.


Betsy and josh had a cute snow ball fight. They're funny peoples.



After we got adequately freezing and wet, we came home and made cookies on the same cookie sheets. :D

and then all three of them decided to use the oven as a rear end warmer.

It was a great night. :D

7 couples, 1 great dance, and a whole lot of leftovers!

A week ago my roommate Melissa got a bee in her bonnet to go to the institute dance. I was indifferent to the idea. sounded fun but i kinda lack in the department of how many guys i know and lack even more in the area of asking them out. Well one thing led to another and baddabing baddaboom we all got dates. I went with a guy in my ward named Andrew. He lives in the same building right behind me. He and his roommates all play musical instruments and we get serenaded and free concerts all the time. it's great! And i'm not even being sarcastic. I didn't really know him that well, but i don't really know any guys that well up here so it was fine.
(me making pies)

After we all had a date lined up we came up with what we wanted to make for dinner. We went to Walmart and spent 2 hours shopping for food. But we got a new fruit- a pear apple. so it was fine.


and we got to try on freakin' awesome christmas sweaters!

yesterday at around 4 we started cooking. I was nearly done with the mint pie filling and i was stirring it on the stove in a plastic bowl. no one was using the stove so i thought it was no big deal. But Betsy decided to start cooking the chicken and turned on the stove. needless to say..... the bowl didn't make it. and the pie filling barely survived. it was actually hilarious. good thing i have cat like reflexes and grabbed the bowl and held it over a different bowl before it all leaked out. cooking took FOREVER! i've never cooked for 14 people before. we all had different jobs and then everyone but melissa and i went to get our dates.... but we still had a lot to do. so dinner started a half an hour later but it actually worked out just fine. I think everyone liked dinner. i thought it tasted magnificent. We kinda over estimated how much guys eat. All i know is that my one brother can shovel it down like none other and figured all other guys could too.... but no one ate that much last night..... so now we have like a good 1/3 of the food left in our fridge. But at least we don't have to cook for the next week. lol. :P

Dinner was really fun. We all talked and i got to know all of the people there better. Andrew is really funny! I could kinda tell from the previous conversations i had but i didn't get the full effect.

you know how i can't dance?.... like how i am so uncoordinated in dancing. Well good news! i'm getting better! Not kidding either! I still probably look ridiculous.... but i am not as awkward looking. the dance was fun. i learned how to cha cha, and a disco dance too! It was the best dance i've been to. the music and the people.
couple awards-

Betsy and josh (above) tied with Ashley and Nate (below)for cutest couple! :D :D :D :D :D they seriously looked like they were having a ball! It was fun to watch them.




lauren and trevor win the funniest couple. I just love them. :D



anna and brian get the "most accident prone" award. surprisingly anna didn't get hurt but i think Brian broke his face off trying to do a backflip. poor kid.



Mike and McKenna win the newest friends/ blind date success award. p.s. aren't they adorable together?



Blake and Melissa get the all around cool award. Cause they were good at everything.



I'm not sure what we would get. we'd get best dancers if i could dance... but i can't. so he wins that. Any ideas? I had fun! it was great!

after the dance we played a good game of BS. i won second place. :D
Last night was so awesome!

Logan Electricity

Since moving up here strange things have been happening with Betsy and I with the street lights here. O my heavens it is CRAZY! we walk home from places at night together a lot and without fail every time we do, at least 3 street lights will go out when we're walking directly under them. or ones that are out will turn on when we're under them. It sounds like no big deal right. WRONG! mega wrong! it is so freaky! i seriously cannot understand it. why us? it makes me feel like someone who is in control of the power is watching me and thinks it hilarious to creep us out. NOT FUNNY logan electricity street light people. I'm not happy with you. so if you are reading this, please STOP!

that's all. :D

love, Brianna.

Bane

signing up for classes and being a freshmen=Bane

Bane-a person or thing that ruins or spoils. why yes, this definition fits! s'more things that work would be sounding like a smoker cause i have a cold, and the fact that the dishwasher here in P4 sounds like it's gonna combust real soon.

now back to the original bane. Art classes are the worst to get into. o my cow. they are harder to get into than it is to get into Walmart on Black friday! So since i'm at the bottom of the food chain in college right now i had to bide my time till tonight to register. so now half of the classes i needed to take are FULL! boo! so now i might get stuck with taking Queer Musicology, Cyberfeminism, Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism, philosophy and Star Trek, or European Witchcraft. believe it or not, those are all real college classes. not at USU... but probably at other places.... And I'd rather be taking a drawing class. and that's saying something.

I sound like a smoker. My cold is practically gone, and now my voice decides to go away. gee whilakers! But it's fine. i can sound creepy not on purpose now! haha. I'm grateful for getting over sicknesses. THANK YOU immune system!

My dishwasher might have an evil monster living in it... it sounds like it a- will either combust, b- blowup, or c- spray hot water all over tarnation or d-all of the above. i'm sitting here at the table next to it feeling like Buddy the Elf calling his dad because of the sounds the vent was making. I have a new found understanding. I hope my dishwasher makes it. It sure does make doing the dishes easier.

my favorite quote of the day- So i blogstalk one of my sister's friend's mission blog. he said "And it flowed like a teenagers hormones!" on it. hahaha. you should go read it. he's in Zimbabwe. http://seakrate.blogspot.com/ it's good readin'

good news of the decade! My apartment officially has a waffle iron. i did not know this. and this means it's waffle time sometime soon. :D It's a good day indeed.

alright well it's now almost midnight so i'll go try to get on the usu website before it's bombarded by a bajillion students who can register tonight.


hugs, Bri

Aggie Basketball- there should be a holiday to celebrate it

Never. in all my life. Have i ever liked basketball. Not when i was on a team called the "hot shots" (we had cool t shirts of a basketball that was on fire :D that was the best part) not when i was growing up. i liked it twice a year in high school when we played Mt view. I came to USU. and everyone told me i was pretty much a sinner for not liking basketball....


and I have realized that i was!!! golly! They are like the best thing ever. except for the "you you yo yo you you you youuuuu SUCK!" and the "stupid stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid" chants that are done. but other than that they are magnificent.


i went to my first game last week. against Grand canyon University. PSH. JOKE! we beat them by like a million and a half points. but the game yesterday was LEGIT! seriously! we were losing to Weber state university. but then they must have had a rough half time chat with Stew cause we dominated the second half and won by 12 points! :D my future husband Matt did well too. :D it was the best game ever! i already had a small voice cause i am sick... but it was practically inexistent after this game. but it was completely worth it!

this is matt. isn't he a babe!?!?!
well if things don't work out between us i always have tai. :D basketball is great! and front row seats are too!

can't wait till the next one! :D

Romance, goldfish, nyquil,... oh yeah, and naked men too

this week was exciting....... that is one way to put it.....

so on tuesday i started reading a new romance novel. it is entitled "Romantic Vignettes". There are 3 little novellas in it. :D just the perfect length to read in one sitting. They really make me feel better. And the hero's always end up stripping their shirts off revealing very nice abs. yep. Isn't that romantic?!?!.... okay, well, i thought it was..... anyways, i'm done with 2 of the three.

wednesday- umm..... OOOhhh! Melissa bought fishies! and we got to name them! they are such cute little fishies too! here are the names i remember- Rothbart Jr. (in honor of Betsy's strep throat fish that died about a month ago), Brian J Larson III.... because that's brian's name... except he's the first.... BigMackeesha (just because it's a cool name!), and my favorite.... drummrrollllll!!!!..............

obamaniqua!!!!! Isn't that an awesome name!?!?! ha hah ah

but bad news. Brian J. Larson III and Rothbart Jr died yesterday. :'( so they got flushed to fish heaven. ha ha.

thursday. is. the. day. that. changed. my. life. in a not-so-good way. I had to draw a male model. but wait, he was NUDE! GAH! i didn't want to draw naked men in the first place but it was even more awkward than i thought it would be. my professor said "it is such a beautiful thing! You will learn more by drawing a nude figure than by a non nude figure." she was right. i learned that i'm disgusted by them. drawing nude men falls under the dictionary definition of gross, nasty, eww, ah!!!, up chuck, sick, and scarred for life.

The most awkward was when he was facing directly toward me and kept making eye contact. forreal? you disgust me as it is and the last thing i want you to do is look at me! so for that drawing i looked at my paper the entire time and made up what i drew. my professor told me to look more at the model than my paper. i said "okay" while thinking to myself "yeah freakin' right!" and every drawing i had to do i did from the waste up. ha hah. i worked the system! and i got told "try doing a full body" i said "okay" and thought to myself "heeeeeeeck nooo!" :D i'm pretty cool like that. :P

i felt like lena from sisterhood of the traveling pants 2. except it was less awkward in the fact that i didn't know the nude model personally but more awkward in the sense that i'm pretty sure naked men freak me out more than they did her. but either way, i feel for you lena.

This pretty much sums up yesterday. except i started getting sick yesterday too. :(

dumb winter colds. (or fall colds...)

which brings me to my new best friends- NyQuil, DayQuil, cough drops, and Kleenex.

i went to bed EARLY last night. like 12 am is my normal bedtime. and i went to bed at 9. yeah. but i didn't fall asleep till like 1. cause my throat felt like someone was scratching sand paper on it, my nose was clogged, and the two fishes died and my roommates were holding funeral services with them so it was pretty loud.

today. um. i went to a review session for my test. and my professor said this. "and this will cause you to have diarrhea that could win gold medals!" it was pretty funny.

Life is great. Winter has hit. And i'm going to read the last novella. :D

-Brianna

Feeling better about all things life

Have you ever had a dream where you woke up with tears rolling down your face?! I experienced it for the first time this morning. it was weird. I am not sharing said dream but i will tell you almost this exact even happened today and i am so grateful that i had this experience because it prepared me for what exactly i needed to do today. Boy am i glad i did. I finally let my feelings out today and let everything go and i now know i will be able to get over this fully.
I am SO glad that i had this experience even though it was super hard for me. I have learned a lot about myself and even more about how i want to live my life and the type of person i want to share it with. I am surprisingly not upset anymore. i don't know why but i honestly feel by saying everything i've been wanting to say has allowed me to move on.
I feel free of heartache now and honestly don't have hard feelings for him anymore. I know i will get through this.
Prayer is my best friend and i am so grateful for the gospel in my life.
I love Logan. I love fall and the leaves that are changing colors! I can't wait to (in a way) start fresh up here and to have said situation from a couple posts ago off my mind.
I hope there aren't hard feelings from the other side because that wasn't my plan. i doubt you read my blog, but if you do, i'm sorry. thank you for the experience and the great person you were in my life. :D

story time- it's a funny story time. I haven't told you much about my roommates but my roommate Anna is completely accident prone. she has more problems staying safe and unscathed than anyone i have ever met in my life. she has had an iron fall on her foot, knocked the fire extinguisher off the wall (even the HUGE screw holding it to the wall), fallen over simply walking across the street, falling into a swimming pool, being chucked into cement, and tonight she got punched in the face/eye during FHE.... i wasn't in the same game group as her so i didn't see it happen but i wish i would have been! they were playing spoons. SPOONS! how the heck does that happen?! ah ha! anyway some kid punched her in the face grabbing a spoon.... poor girl. she has a nice black eye and acted loopy tonight after it. i hope she didn't get a concussion from it....

Loves and hugs,
-Brianna

1100 people on 21 elementary school buses

today ROCKED my little socks right off. (actually they are pantyhose. black ones with cute designs actually.) :D
i went to sacrament meeting at 9:30 today instead of the normal 12:45. It was muy bien because there were new faces and cute guys. um... but that's not really the point.
we had to go early because we were headed to PROVO to sing in the CES fireside. That Elder Ballard was speaking at. yes ma'am i did.
so we meet and we get on our busses and the seats seemed to be placed closer together than i remembered from my days of riding the bus to school..... like 3 times closer than i remember. like my knees couldn't be straight out, close together. so instead i had to sit like a man (in a dress....) and got charlie horses and cramps. But looking on the bright side.... at least i'm not 6'6" like the guy in front of me. i think his knees were in his chest. poor guy.
We sang really good. It was fun. it was cool. and i got to see my familia. i even saw them in the audience. they were the size of an ant cause of how far away they were. and my mommy made me a good sandwich. It's weird that even a sandwich tastes better made from home than at my apartment. i talked to them for like 10 minutes and then we made our adventure home.
the tall guy in front of me gave Betsy and I some enjoyment. ah ahaha. he reminded me of Collins on the mormon pride and prejudice. he could not stop talking about how cool he was and how he wants to teach institute so people will tell him their secrets..... uhh.... anyways. i don't think he'll be an institute teacher anytime soon...

i did betsy's hair really cute on the way home. and then she played with mine. and i decided that my future husband is going to play with my hair all the time. cause it is SO relaxing! :D i'm so tired now cause of the long day.

i need to stretch my legs.
and i don't want to go to my drawing class this week. cause i don't wanna see naked people. Let alone draw them. :(
loves and hugs.
(sorry my last post was depressing....)
-Bri