who wants to name the title? "Not I says the dog"

go watch these you tube videos. you won't regret it.

kid history episode 5

Craig's hair cut

{can someone please let me know how to get the video to just connect

to your blog post instead of having to click on the link??}

haha. Gotta love people who have too much time on their hands. :D

i wish i could make a funny movie.

well i did. this one time me betsy and sara made a music video to billy joels "up town girl". and it was the bestest thing of life. only i don't have possession of it. it's on papa's computer and we can't get it off. but just rest assured it would win an oscar or grammy or emmy or whatever those things are called. Some really cool award that everyone would be jealous of. :D

this is all. oh, and melissa Q was in town tonight and we got ice creams the size of alaska. :D here we are. Such babes.

{i need my bangs cut. yet again. you never quite realize how fast your hair really does grow untill you get bangs. oy. }

it was a much needed IHBN {aka i hate boys night} or also IHFSN. {i hate fuzzy socks night}

and in closing, "Do we even need plates??" :D

funny work stories, poems, καλός, & ikke bra.

in case you need a translator for the last couple words- καλός in greek means good. ikke bra Norwegian means not good. how fitting. ikke "icky" bra. haha. thank you google translate.

my favorite part of work today goes as follows {i was doing a ridiculous 30 minute survey about Floridian [the inhabitants of Florida, hellloooo....] politics} -

"hi, this is Brianna from opinioinology, a national research company. Is so-in-so-there?"-me.

"are you an under cover cop?!"-them.

"....no"-me.

"so-in-so has a warrant for her arrest. They're looking for her! I bet you're an under cover cop!"-them

"i'm just calling to do a political survey...."-me

"WELL SHE'S NOT HERE YOU COP!"

"khaveanicedaybyebye!" **puts on do not call list real fast**-me

seriously. it does not get better than this.

The first week i worked there, this is a conversation i had-

"using a scale from 1-10 where 1 is the crappiest and 10 is the most celestial, how would you rate your experience"-me {obviously it was worded slightly differently}

"-18"

"using a scale from 1-10 where 1 is the least likely and 10 is absolutely positively, how likely are you to recommend FedEx Office to a friend or colleague?" -me

"I'd recommend it to my ex-wife."

*tries not to laugh* "so what would that be on a scale?"

"well can you make my ex wife take the survey next?"

people are so wonderful. :D

if any of you want jobs at this wonderful place, everyone gets the job who applies. you should apply real soon. here is the link. Because this job is so wonderful that i'm putting my two weeks notice in relatively soon. :D I love it that much. here are the reasons why-

• i only can work nights. leaving me between Harmons and this place with zero nights a week of freedom and fun
• i hate making people do surveys
• i don't think half of the surveys i do are all that honest and are worded in ways to get the result that the people paying us to do them want to get.
• it's not worth minimum wage
• i'm getting more hours at the better of the two jobs i have
• they always want me to stay longer and pretty much say you have to "or else" which is kinda scary...
• they will cancel shifts and not tell you until you are already there. do they realize that gas is a ridiculous 3.50 a gallon???? No. Did i until i bought a car? No. but regardless.
• i think there is some serious reverse discrimination going on. not kidding either.

some one please ask to see my hand. i should not complain this much.

so i came home from the lonestar concert and have a back ache from Caitlin. She decided that i was her personal jungle gym. here's what we did-

• i taught her a couple briannaized country swing moves
• we swung around in circles like 16 bajillion times.
• i tried to teach her a line dance
• we raced {well... }
• we did air plane acrobatics.
• she jumped all over me
• attached herself to my foot and made me walk around
• played horse
• then wrestled
• and then Brianna was done in and Caitlin still had enough energy for 15 adults to last a whole week. So then Ash and i made her run back and forth across the field 3 times for 5 M&M's.
• which gave her more energy to start this whole list over again.

to self: Candy is NOT for already active 8 year olds.

and now i'm going to write you my favorite poem-

there once was a boy named mutt

who sat on a railroad rutt

a big wooden splinter

did break off and enter

his soft little baby smooth butt

that was the pattern of aabba. fyi

and here is a free verse that papa anne {aka sara} wrote me-

The sun shines dappled light through

Crayons paint the colors of my sad, sad eggbeater

The trees

Good lighting, this makes

Goo-oo-oo-d lighting.

Brianna has.

A camera and she

Summer rain falls on the unhappy

Clown-fairy

Wants to take a

Picture of the lighting

And the tree.

isn't she the most talented girl ever??

anyways, i have some excellent news-

• school starts in less than 2 months. i'm going to get a little countdown thingamajig to put on the side next to my counter thing.
• i finished another book. it was called "a modest proposal" better than the other one i read, but not nearly as funny. i
• i am going to lagoon in one week. {ashleigh, email me the plan!!!} :D
• i got a calling at church. i'm the woman FHE group leader. not the mom. cause we're "not a real family."....
• my beta fish is still alive after more than a month!! his name is whisk. the next one i get will be named, "spaghetti getter"
• i asked my brother in law a really random question that resulted in a slightly awkward yet still very interesting conversation that Ashleigh though was hilarious.
• there is a baby cradle in my living room....... and a baby bath tub thing too. mom, do you need to tell me something?? :P
• i finally remembered to pay my tithing! That money has been sitting in my wallet for like 2 months getting larger.
• Betsy's mom still loves me. :D :D :D :D
• Quinton made the all star baseball team! :D
• i shot another wedding on saturday! you can see some pictures on my photo blog.

and here is the bad news-

• that book i read, yeah, t's a dumb trilogy. which means i have to read the next to or else i won't know what to do with myself.
• my nail polish is all chipped again.
• i have apx. 1500 RAW pictures to sort through and edit
• my bank account is at an all time low since i was probably a sophomore in high school.
• i'm nearly out of eye liner.
• no one recorded the bachelorette for me tonight so i have to watch it tomorrow on Hulu instead of tonight which is why i'm writing this here blog.
• i miss the dark room and smelling like rotten eggs and having dry crackling alligator looking hand skin.
• Quinton's friend Brigham enjoys spitting spit wads at me when i take him to Trafalga. Oy vey.
• quinton wants to grow a mullet. ew

okay, i'm going to hit the hay to get some beauty sleep.... as Grandpa Cobb would say.

loves and snuggles,

Turtles & Cheetahs

how can one week go by so slow, yet so fast at the same time?

how it's gone by slow {we'll call these guys the turtles}-

• betsy is coming tomorrow and so time has drug on and on.
• work has been ridiculously slow. like so slow that i drew two sketches and painted my nails! and i even did THREE coats on my nails! so, i guess it was rather productive.....?

i drew this from memory of a painting i did a while back. :D

i was lucky i had nail polish in my purse. :D

okay, that weird thing with buttons is the "dialer" at my call center job. and it looks similar.... ya know, only with about double the keys.... i got lazy, give me a break.

• waiting to get my cars windshield replaced made time go by slow

getting the windshield replaced

• then waiting for the safety and emmissions testing done was not fun either.
• THEN waiting at the DMV is insane. i'm pretty sure with how many people get crammed into one room with random numbers being announced over the intercom in a robotic voice could send someone to the insane asylum. just sayin. And then the lady had the nerve to tell me that i shouldn't get my Aggie license plate. psh! She was a Ute fan, what do they even know?? :P

isn't this the most attractive license plate of life?? {i thought it wouldn't be smart to put my real plate number up. but i left the two c's cause i thought that was pretty lucky. sorry for the horrid editing job. i just didn't want to spend too much time on it}

• i haven't done anything except work and sleep, oh and i did read a book in four hours {see bullet point in the cheetah section}
• time goes by really slowly when you're waiting for a text from that one person you kinda sorta maybe might have a little itty bitty tiny itsy teeny crush on.
• and then, time goes by even slower after he may have invited you to do something, but you can't go cause you have to work.
• and then, even slower when he sends a text that is totally confusing and thus makes you go into a position where the only option is to over analyze every word.
• thus making you text your sister, ash, to get advice
• where you then wait for a text from her that says, "oh, man!" but no good advice.
• yeah, i think that's about it. :D

how it has gone by fast {the cheetahs}

• i read a romance novel. *big cheesy smiles inserted here* and it was kinda on the ridiculously funny side of romance novels. i literally thought i was going to wake Emilie up from laughing so hard at 3am. it's called, "previously engaged." it's not extremely well written and is pretty cliche but the author was really hilarious and it was definitely good for a laugh.
• when you sleep till noon cause you stay up reading all night, generally your day feels like it goes by faster.
• when you're always in a hurry to get things done it generally goes by too fast too.
• For instance- if you get off work at nine {even though NO ONE was in the store and your boss won't let you start counting out till 9:07} and your brother's baseball game started at 8 and ends at about 9:30 and he's in the beginning of his last inning of pitching, and you are speeding in your new car, and you're praying that there's a parking space next to the field he's playing at {which there wasn't} and you're still wearing your hideous work outfit {that makes you look like shamoo} hoping no one you know sees you, time goes by waaaay too fast. But don't even worry about it. i got his last 3-4 pitches photographed! :D and i only saw a few people i knew. :D

sorry about the bad pictures compared to the ones i took of his last game. i didn't have time to get the perfect settings {i mean, i was sorta pressed for time.} you can see the other ones here.

• time goes by fast when you have too much to do before work. then when you get home, you don't feel like doing your laundry you didn't have time to do before work. So then it still sits in it's cute little gray basket.
• when you're trying to think of new ideas for the wedding you're shooting this saturday and no new good ideas are flowing through your head.

so i have some news-

my blog has now reached 11,000 hits. :D cool beans, no?

and, my brother could probably be on some pretty successful advertisements.

i'm sure he'd want me to point out his awesome new shoes. they are blue and gold. :D

i'm surprised Costco didn't kick us out. for this and his ability to down way too many samples at once.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Finding "X" is sorta like finding Waldo.

So i could have put "pictures worth a thousand words", but some of these aren't really worth that much. so how about "pictures worth "x" words" you can decide what "x" equals for each of these pictures.

Anyways, here's the story of my last few days in pictures {and maybe a few words}

here is emilie reading. {she reads like 5 books a day, no kidding. you should see the stack of library books in our house!} kandi loves it when we sit down and will pet her. haha.

to quote ash from her facebook- "This pretty much describes Quinton's entire life. Sleeping in odd places and positions. Apparently he was too tired to move the laundry basket so he snuggled with it instead."

jo was telling my mom where to set things up while kandi was beggin caitlin for her lunch that she didn't want but was eating because grandma told grandpa and her no milkshake till she was done. haha.
she cracked the egg and it spilt out on the counter instead of in the bowl. so then she dropped the shell in the bowl instead. haha.
i love this little girl! we're pretty much BFFFF's now.
quinton was having a cow about this bruise on the apple. "WE HAVE NIKE BANANAS! you HAVE to take a picture of this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!x10000000"
sign i saw at work
hey look at me! top agent at work!
hehe. :D
yeeeeeeahhhhh booooy! :D
when ash has a baby, i'm getting this bib for my niece/nephew..... i guess i could have caitlin wear them...
lauren did my hair. what a little gazelle she is.
okay, honestly! if i don't own one of these soon i might die. SLAP WATCHES!?!?!?!??! ingenious idea. i think the 90's are coming back. flarp came through my line at work too. oh, and those weird jeans are coming back too. AND belly shirts. our poor country.
clearly i was bored at work, because i made a snowflake out of a baby wipe. and the best news- i hung it up and no one has taken it down yet. :D if you go to harmons, i think it is hung up at check register 8 or 9. :D
apparently glen beck is having a yard sale......
i bought me the best drink of life-TEXAS TWISTER

so i bring a lunch to work. well i brought some fruit snacks and they were put in the fridge with the rest of my bag. so i go to eat them and they were hard as rocks, so naturally i put them in the microwave and forgot about them.... so they were in their for 30 seconds.... and this is what melted fruit snacks look like. i do not recommend this because a- it will burn your tongue. b-it is very stringy and will be all over your face. it hardens as soon as it touches something cool. so when trying to not burn your fingers you use a spoon, it sticks and then you have to gnaw at the utensil as to not waste the food because of the starving children in Africa. that was quite an adventure.

I hope i have some real adventures to write about next week. and ya know, other things too.... like M&M's would be niice. :P

exciting title inserted here.

So, i haven't really blogged about life lately. Here's why. Summer makes me work a ton to make money for the next school year. I work nearly every night/evening and that is when i usually blog the best. I'm just not very into morning blogging. No idea why. But, this is a morning right now.

also, there's been a lot more going on. I met some kids that i've been doing some things with so that's good. And i took my brother and 4 of his friends to the movies.... yeah, that was an experience. They're really funny kids. During the the "main" kiss of the movie, they all stood up and were cheering! haha. The guy that was accross the aisle from us was pretty consistently ticked about the loudness of us. I wasn't exactly being quiet either. My friend, Kraig, and his bro and some friends came too. And no, Melissa Q. W. III, I wasn't "talking" haha. you wish... no actually, I wish. {it's so funny to me that I still use our quote wall quotes. :D}

My niece got baptized too. I gave her a journal and she's been writing in it. She's going to follow in her aunts everyday writing habit. *crosses fingers* she's such a cutie! I love having her here for the summer.

Ummm, oh! i went on an adventure with Lauren and Charlie. We saw a movie and then went to Target until they kicked us out. Because they were closing. what did you think it was for? it's not like we do dumb things....

ooh! and summer fest was fun! i got 7 cute headbands. Is it weird to say i think now that i have bangs, that i look good in those big bow headbands?? Well, either way, i just said it. I watched the parade through my camera. I hadn't gotten my DSLR out in about a week and i was having photography withdrawals. So i took a bunch of random pictures. I was trying for a more journalistic perspective this time. It was fun. here's a few of the ones i got-

I tagged along with Kraig and a few others for the fireworks. i shot a few of them in front of the ferris wheel. it was pretty fun. here's two-

and i'm calling this good enough for now. :D