Adventures of finals week

gee whilackers there's been A LOT going on! yesterday night was quite possibly the funniest night of my life.

tara played with my hairs. and did some pretty sweet stuff with it!

then betsy decided she wanted to take dexter on a walk. so she made him a leesh. Tara held him while she tried to put it on him and he just slipped right out of it and then he threw up!!!! it was so so so gross! and his up chuck was whole pieces of his food! That kid needs to learn how to chew. here is a picture of it.

can you believe that tiny sexy dexy could throw that much up!??

Taco tuesday was soo good.

"they're both men." "well.... sorta." hahaha.

after this Betsy and Melissa decided they wanted to go to walmart and buy hair dye. So now, they both have darker hair. Our walmart adventure was great.

lauren- "where the heck is fred!!? i just need some big cereal boxes! ***pace pace pace pace**** jordans here!!"

Betsy- "I don't care if they're the sport kind! i just need them small!!!"

Melissa- "don't tell them it's your stuff! it's mine i get a discount!!!!"

me-"Why the heck did we not get a basket? my arms are going to fall off!"

the way home was the most epic part of the whole night though! i called shot gun, and then betsy stole it so i sat on her lap. And then Lauren thought she was missing out and so she climbed in on top. so here we are, 3 full grown girls, all piled into the little front seat. And so of course there wasn't anything better to do than take pictures. haha here are some of them-

the roof of cars isn't high enough to get good above pictures. but there is one left eye one right eye and a nose and mouth. so together we have a whole face here.

and then lauren dyed Melissa's hair and i did Betsy's.

here is Melissa's before

and Betsy's before-

isn't she a babe??

and here is their after

aren't they hot sexy mama's??

then today, i had my final critique!!! and good news! i had the best critique of my life! I haven't really had an awful awful one before, but mine today was crazy! I had no idea that they would think my nature work was "strong". i told them that most of my work is portrait and i was in new territory with the things i did this semester and that i wanted to go back to portrait work. they asked me why i did because my work was really good from landscape/nature/stuff. I was SO worried about the critique because i've seen everyone else's work in the class and they are ALL so amazing! I guess i was being a little harsh on myself??..... It's still like this daze 'cause i had no idea anyone thought it was that good. Especially my dark room stuff.

Then i came home and packed. And all my pictures and decorations are off my walls. :'( it's so sad!! I'm nearly done packing now too. so that's good.

And then I decided i'd finally suck it up and get the hair cut i've been wanting to try for a year. And so i cut my hair off!!

before. my hair!!!

I once was a mermaid club member. no longer.

at this point i think i was scared for my life. remember- i have a terrible phobia of getting my hair cut!!

i LOVE my bangs. but i wish my hair was just a little longer. But it'll grow. her tis. i'm in a tshirt cause i was packing so i'm not really that pretty in it, but i'm fine with it.

and this is the pile of my hair. RIDICULOUS!! haha.

and here i am.

i really like it. it'll take time to get used to though that's for sure!

hopefully tonight we are going to howl at the library. i'll let you know what that is tomorrow. stay tuned. :D

exciting stuffs are hapnin'

Last night makes my top five bravest things i've ever done list. probably makes the #1 actually!

I went to my last monday night of country sing dancing and i FINALLY! asked a cowboy to dance. :D It was my goal all year and i finally did it. The thing is, he was a REAL cowboy. not the fake kind that go there, a real real real one. His family owns a dairy farm. :D And he was sooo nice too! Like the kind that make me really like cowboys. Anyways, he asked me if i knew what i was doing and i said no. {cause i'm not really that good at dancing} and he said, "good, cause neither do i." that was the biggest fib of all time! he was waay good. And the thing was, he was good at having a conversation while dancing. Normally when swing dancing the guy i'm dancing with will ask a question and i can never hear it properly or he won't be able to understand my answer because for one, it's loud and also you're not really ever face to face. When he'd ask me a question, he'd pause in the middle of a move and just wait for me to finish my answer. This may sound like it'd be awkward, but it was not. I'm doing a bad job at describing this but it was a fun dance. And after i was over we stood and just talked for a few minutes. And he is a really awesome cowboy. :D

anyways then at the end of the dance Melissa and Betsy, and Gregory Peck made me give him my phone number. I was sooo not going to do. i was ridiculously nervous. I've never just walked up to a guy and handed him a piece of paper with my name and number on it before but i did it! and i probably sounded ridiculous because i might have said something like, "so this is kinda odd but i had fun talking to you tonight you should call me sometime." but then after i freaked out in the parking lot and nearly hugged greg i thought back to what i said and it might have gone more like this--, "so this is kinda odd but i had fun sometime you should give me a call tonight." yeah, he probably thinks i'm a skank. i really don't remember exactly what i said, but i hope it wasn't the second one. All i know is that i am proud of myself for asking him to dance and for giving him my number. :)

today has been pretty good so far too!

i woke up today and went to the institute for "Cram and Jam" aka free food. i was helping betsy and melissa study for their "energy in the environment" class final that was in a few minutes and when we were walking out i jokingly said, i should take the test with you! and they thought it was a good idea. So i went to their class and took the test. There were like tons of questions right off the study guide. I'm now hoping that they will send me my results!! it would be the most awesome thing ever if i just passed it! haha. it was definitely the first time i've ever taken a test as a joke and probably the last. It was kinda nice because i didn't have to worry about doing well and wasn't stressed at all! :D

Last taco tuesday of the semester tonight at cafe rio!! :D

quote of yesterday-

" But hopefully he'll have better aim than i do!"-Betsy

hahahahhaha. don't kill me Betsy... i wish i could post pictures. but i can't.

i saw this on a friends page on facebook and thought it was hilarious.

and because i forgot to do my normal monday count here they are-

0 finals

0 paintings

0 drawings

0 darkroom prints

0 classes

1 final critique

1 taco tuesday

30 clean check items

15,382,679.04 items to pack

4 days :'(

fast sunday, Ryder, Photo, and some good cookin'

Yesterday was so excellent!! {even though i had a sore throat!} I am going to try to start being better about Sundays. I hear everyone saying how wonderful their weeks are going by not doing anything they normally would do on Sundays like homework and the computer etc. I don't think i do anything necessarily bad on Sunday, i just am thinking i could be better.

So, yesterday i did some really good things. I read my scriptures, i read like a third of my favorite book, i cooked a nice meal with Betsy, i went to church, and went to ward prayer. It was the perfect Sunday!

My favorite book- Dusty Britches, by Marcia Lynn McClure. I would definitely recommend it to you. I find that i become a big sap after i read it though. I hate it when i am done because i just want to read about Ryder and Dusty a lot longer. I find that I wanting to talk to myself while i read this book. I probably look like a lunatic but it's not a big deal. :D

this is me nearly 3 years ago with Marcia. Love her.

I'm done with my photo portfolio!! woohoo! so now, the only thing standing between me and being done with my first year is my final critique on wednesday morning! :D

Betsy told me that i should do the Julie and julia blog thing because i cook so much lately. Too bad duck and all those other things are ridiculously expensive! Maybe i'll do my own version. I think next school year i will try to make a new recipe once a week. {not this summer because i'll be home and am going to take full advantage of having mommy cooking for me again. :P}

this is Garlic and lime chicken fajitas.

see the back left burner?? yeah that is enough rice to feed africa.

this is salmon. YUM!! it tasted soooo good! :D

I got a card from my grandma on saturday. It was for finals week. :D my grandma is the cutest thing ever! I guess my mom told her that i had a sore throat yesterday and i get a cute email from her too. here 'tis-

i just love her. She always types in all caps. these are the ways i can tell if it is from grandma- if we get a package in the mail and it is taped together with duct tape it's from grandma, if i get an email in it's all caps, it's from grandma, if i get a letter and her "a's look like this-

{that is the best one i can do but it's not exact}, it's from grandma. if there are american flag stickers on the envelope, it's from grandma. If it has cute little inspirational stories and quotes in it, it's from grandma, if it's a forwarded email, it's from grandPa! haha.

well, "i'm going to go.......shave". haha. name that movie.

-Brianna

funny lookin hats

Alright, so today {after i finished the rest of my dark room prints that i will need for the semester!!!!!!} i was bored after making some fried rice and decided to watch some of the royal wedding. And the best part of the whole thing was looking for funny hats in the audience!

and i must say, the wedding was kind of boring! they sung so many songs! Can't they just say their i do's and get on with life?? We're not singing songs at my wedding. just sayin'.

so after fast forwarding through all the songs i google image searched for some of the hats. i got some screen shots of them but they weren't great so here are some-

if i had to wear one of those things it'd totally be a hot pink one too! :D

the flowers are like 3 times as large as her head!

the unicorns are back!!

this hat reminds me of streamers and confetti

this one isn't as bad actually! i really like the color and the flowers, i am just not diggin' the other part.

it was falling off so she was holding it on.

this one is the best! someone would have to pay me to wear this. it looks clownish. Only it is a dull color. someone should tie-die it! haha.

the princess sisters. {cousins of harry and william}

so with all these hats, how could anyone see what was going on during the wedding!? it'd be worse than sitting behind a really tall person!

I wish them a happy 10-15 years or so together.

1 week from today i will be back in orem. I'm going to miss college and logan SO much! :'(

pretty pictures and captions

I finished my painting today! and i finished my final in drawing! { This means the only class i have stuff left in is Photo 2!!} here they are-

i'm pretty sure i want to make wallpaper out of this. I'm pretty stoked about how it turned out.

this is a close up of the design i made for the background on each color of square.

color palette for the sunflower painting.

final painting.

close up so you can see how thick the paint is.

This is how i paint. i take over the whole table and have to get in the zone. And then i paint so much i lose track of time. It's bizarre. i never thought that would happen to me with painting. I mean when i go on photo shoots i always lose track of the time, but it's weird that it happened with painting too. Never has happened with drawing. I am hyper aware of time with drawing. i HATE drawing.

this is my first drawing, first day of college.

this person {who i am still unsure if it was a guy or girl... but leaning toward guy...} knew every song of sean's and recorded himself singing ever song. I had more fun watching him than the actual concert. It was pretty darn entertaining. haha. and lauren was crepin' on him.

those two ladies were my favorite. it was hilarious! they were waaaay older than the average person there and they were borderline obsessed with mr k.

pet peeve- when people try to be funny in the picture you're taking.

I really like this one of us. {ash, me, betsy, tara}

and then there were random fireworks..... sorry for the cruddy picture.

i don't think that the concert was worth the money that the university paid for it. the only part that was good was the "fire burnin" song.

i'm sorry i am on the dull side today.

someone please press the play button on the hallelujah chorus!

I have moved up in the world! I no longer will ever have to go to a drawing or painting class again! I am on to much bigger and better things {i.e. photography and graphics} :D :D This is where it's at. I had no idea that i had it in me to get through them, but i did it! Who knew that i cold draw like Degas and paint like Van Gogh???..... well sorta.... i could barely draw a stick figure in a dress before and now i can draw/paint things that look normal to life! if i can dig up my drawing from my first day of college i will post it so you can see how cruddy i was compared to my "averageness" now.

this is my Van Gogh painting. {i'm not done, but pretty close}

i think it resembles the original-

remember that i'm not done yet....

i have to move in 9 days... :'( i am going to miss school and logan and my apartment and friends SOOOOO much! i want August to be here already.....and May hasn't even started yet.... this is worse than my senioritis was last year.

so i was going to put the title of my blog as "Idgit" {or a simpler definition would be-boys} in honor of Melissa. haha. We decided that each of the roommates have things that we always say and we kind of have stolen from each other. Mine is "Rude" {betsy says that i say it uhRUDE! [or i guess aaaarude] with a little uh or something like that before it haha} and Betsy's is "seriously" or "it's fine". and Ashley's is "i like it!" {but she says it, "iiiiiiaaaaalikeit!" all in one syllable. haha} and since Anna was a roommate too hers was, "i'm in a weird mood". we're kind of legit roomies. I'm gonna miss them.....like a dog. haha. we have a note on the fridge that anna left that says, "i miss you! (like a dog)" inside joke :)

here is a fabulous picture that lauren put up on FB today that was from forever ago. and i think we are all babes in it

they were war head pops so they were sour! I'm currently debating whether to put this as my profile picture or not.......yeah? no? i love these two. I have the world's best friends.

So i've noticed that my journal entries have gotten seriously shorter in length since i started blogging more often..... This is not good. My journal probably thinks i hate it. So i A-need to stop blogging so i can write better in my journal for my posterity or something like that, or B-need to print out my blog posts and tape them into my journal with a cool color of duct tape because my grandma taught me that there was no other tape than duct tape. i'll let you know how my endeavors go.

Annnnnyways. i'm going to bed. gotta get me some more dark room time in tomorrow morning before the sean kingston concert here at USU. be jealous, cause i know ya'll are. :D

your favorite Brianna,

Brianna.

making a man fat, and library adventures.

this semester i have really enjoyed cooking. This is probably not the best thing for me, but it'll be a good thing for the future. I'll make a man fat one day with my mad cooking skills. yesterday morning i made biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast.

and i would have to say that it was really really good! :D

and tonight i made up a recipe and it turned out waaaaaaay good. honestly have no idea how i lived with out it. Anyways. i am calling it Brianna Lasagna. want the recipe? leave me a comment and i'll give it to you. :D

looks good huh??!

today i printed my first 16x20 print. it was huge!! and a pain in the rear-end but it's pretty!

here is a diagram of how much i've moved up in the printing of photographs world.

9 months from today is my birthday!!! i am now 19 1/4 years old. It's a good day.

So earlier today i went to the library to study for my photo history final- and i fell asleep.... my phone was on my text book and my head was on them both. yeah, to say the least when i got a text and my phone vibrated i jumped like 3 feet. Good thing that i didn't know anyone that saw it. Although at least then i could have laughed about it.

today was the best day in institute all year. It was exactly what i needed to hear and it helped me a lot.

then i went back to the library. And i did not fall asleep! but i do have a piece of advice-when choosing a snack to eat at the library, do not choose a crispy green apple. It makes way too much noise and everyone will be staring at you. Bad idea.

while at the library {the second time of the day} i saw a cowboy on the side walk riding a bike. And then i thought about how cool it would have been if he was riding a horse instead of a bike. I think i'm going to suggest getting some hitching posts and take out some of the bike racks. I'm sure if i get enough signatures it'll work.... right??

So the library is ridiculously busy this time of year. I've decided that when i want to cross off "kiss passionately in the library", it will not be during dead week or finals week.

My photo history final was wonderful! I knew every single answer and feel more confident than i ever have on a test before! it was amazing! The power of saying a prayer before a test is amazing!

while reading in my textbook i came across this quote and I liked it a lot.

"The contemplation of things as they are, without substituition or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention." -Willard Van Dyke.

Now i'm watching "Life as we know it" with attractive Josh Duhamel. It's a cute movie. I would recommend it to you.

i am now done with these classes-

Planet Earth, photo history, and {second half of Book of Mormon} institute.

to go-

photo 2, drawing 2, painting 1. all three studio art classes. joy. to. the. world.

happy wednesday!