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

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!

i see you through my window, while i'm studying at my table inside.

So today's post will be everything i see happening in the parking lot while i study-

there is this hill of dirt {where they tore crap down and the blessed chicken coops!} and is over grown with pretty weeds. Anyways, i go over there to take pictures and it's actually quite pretty. I look out my kitchen window and always feel like i'm in ireland. I feel like i should play some bag pipe music now or something. lol. so it is now called the Irish hill of beauty.

There is this guy who lives rather close to me. {and i honestly don't care if he sees this because i'm moving out in 1.5 weeks} And he is known in my ward by, "the most attractive guy in the ward." i cannot tell you how many times someone will say that and then all the girls know exactly who it is that's being talked about. it's great. So today while i was doing my homework i see him pull into the parking lot on his sexy bike. {like the motorcycle kind not the peddle kind} So i stop studying for a second and just gaze into his beautiful helmet. He walks towards my apartment and goes into his. back to my studying.

10 minutes later. He walks out of his apartment with his helmet in one hand and 2 ginormica trash bags thrown over his right shoulder all manly like. He chucks them ever-so-easily into the dumpster and goes to his bike. And then rides off. :D it was a good day to gaze out the window. I touched one of the wheels of his motorcycle this one time. Yeah.... no one was home at his apartment and the UPS guy delivered it to my apartment instead. So he came by to get it and i got to roll his new wheel to him. It was a very special moment in my life let me tell you. :P

He is also sunday school pres {i believe.....} And gives really nice lessons. My sister came to visit at the beginning of the year and said, "do you think they have him teach because he's easy to look at?" haha. gotta love someone who tells it how it is.

have you ever seen a someone carrying 3 full garbage bags riding a skateboard to take out the trash?? I would have answered with a no.... before today while studying at my kitchen table. I got a kick out of it. He was doing pretty good, and then he got a little off balance and CRASH! he fell onto his garbage bags. hahahah! sad, but hilarious! poor kid. Maybe next time he'll take the extra minute to plainly walk them out.

Anyways, that was the highlight of my study time. and then i sit here wondering why i don't remember everything i studied....

it's fine. i got A's on all my other tests and paper in photo history, i can fail the final...... right?

But on a very important side note-

hulu lets me pick what commercial i watch! Here i am watching ANTM photo shoot {America's Next Top Model, duh} and it's commercial time. but then i don't hear anything.... and then 3 choices pop up! One-cat food, two-5 gum, 3-some car. hello, i wanna see the gum one! It was an exciting thing to me. What a clever idea for them to think of. If i have to watch a dumb commercial, they might as well let me pick the least dumb one, right?? High five HULU!

And.... i found a long lost can of cranberry sauce on my food shelf today! for all of those who do not know, Cranberry sauce is the reason i go to Thanksgiving dinner. so, naturally i get excited to see it and knock it off my shelf, creating a huge dent in the side. And said dent prevented me from getting it out of the can in a pretty fashion. so i took a bite and it was not cold enough so i put it in the freezer to take a lil' chill before i ate some of it. And then i ate some of it..... yeah it's gone now...... don't judge me, i just like cranberry sauce. Next time i'm going to resist and let it freeze! It'll be like a Popsicle! I'm trying this. This summer. And then i'll blog about it.

alright well i have to get up at the bum crack of dawn {6 am if we're being precise} so this is my time to tell you sleep tight and to not let the nasty bed bugs attack you in your slumber. :D

-Bri

creepers and lots of numbers.

So my friend Lauren dubbed the first week of April as "Creeper week."

What this entails-

• stalking people on Facebook and then memorizing their birthday and hometown and random info about them and then telling them you know it.
• read their life story on blogger
• follow them around campus
• text them non stop and say creepy things to them
• ask lauren for others, she could tell you.

"why is there a creeper week?" i have absolutely no idea! i still haven't done anything creepy yet.... But lauren is freakin' good at it. And she has already gotten like 5 dates out of it too! What a woman.

anyways. There is this video that her friend posted on her wall in honor of Creeper week. Lauren isn't this creepy, but she might be by the end of the week. you can view it in all of it's glory here and less of a funny one here.

here is my favorite creeper line from a movie, "I see you through your window,..... when i'm standing in a tree outside!"

name that movie!

In honor of creeper week they were giving out free pizza at the TSC. Just kidding, it wasn't in honor of creeper week. But Lauren and i decided that it should have been. It was in honor of "unpluggled" week. Which i kinda thought meant like unplugging your stuffy nose or unplug your cell phone, or even un plug your straightener or toaster week, but apparently that wasn't it. It's "unplugging" from social media {AKA facebook, blogger, twitter, and what other else things there are} I for one would prefer my choices. wouldn't it be more fun to see people with healthy noses, not talking on the phone with frizzy hair that are hungry? It'd be a whole lot funnier than not getting to read clever status updates and you guys not being able to read my blog! :D

Anyways, i'll keep you posted if i do anything creeper ish this week.

here's the count-

25 days till i am moving back to utah county for summer

14 class days.

1 test

1 final {to all you suckers who have to take finals in all your classes!! bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. okay i'm done now. the joy of being an art major}

1 poster presentation

3 paintings and a master painting

2 drawing and a master drawing

1 15 piece photography portfolio
2 days till Taylor comes!

fall class registration

find another part time job to go with the one i have/ full time job {preferable}

buy a car. {does anyone know of a good car with good gas mileage that's around 2-3000 dollars? this would be helpful} :D

I could practically be a doctor now. And also a very bad art historian.

FINALS

the word dreaded by all college students everywhere.

for me (being an art major and all) my 2 studio classes i didn't have finals in. Just a final project. which is much less stressful than studying my guts out all week long like i did for art history and biology.... but mainly art history.

this is how i feel about Art history- i cringe at the sight.

I don't think i did awful on the test though. so that's a plus.

Good news! I got an 88 on my biology final! Which means i'll have an a in the class overall! woohooo! This means that i am ready for med school..... :P

In my drawing class we have to turn in all of our work (from the entire semester! boo!) which is like a bajillion and a half papers. this is probably an understatement. It's actually more like 2.75 cajillion (this is more than a bajillion cause it starts with a c) :P

But i'm done organizing it so don't even worry about it.

So i kinda sorta have a blind date tonight. Anna set ashley and i up. i texted the kid on saturday night for a bit and good news again!!! wait for it. wait for it....

HE'S A COWBOY!

Woot!

we'll see how it goes. He seems really nice though. I've never been on a blind date before.... that i can remember at least. hmmmm.

good news #3- my bishopric (who are like the coolest people in all the world) is giving us all pizza tonight! Why? because they are cool and would rather us study than cook on finals monday night.... which i don't have to study anymore cause i'm DONE!

I just love the end of the semester

Funny fact- over the last 3 days i've lost my point and shoot camera about 15 times. But i've always found it. My name is in it so if i ever really really lose it for real i would hope it would get returned to me. So i'm losing my mind 'cause of finals and then Betsy thought it would be hilarious to hide my camera from me to make me think i lost it. I have one thing to say about this: Good One.

that's all.

Happy Finals Week everyone!