Hell Hath No Fury Than A Woman Scorned.

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater. Give her sperm, she will give you a baby. Give her a house, she will give you a home. Give her groceries, she will give you a meal. Give her a smile and she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if you give her crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit..."
I thought I would share this not only cause it made me laugh but because it brings a valid point to the table. Show us respect. If you don't, we as women, will find someone else that will. Don't treat us as your doormats.
As a friend, also, treat us with respect. This applies for both genders. Don't be backstabbing. Be loyal.
Last of all, show respect to you and yourself. People around you can tell if you show little or no respect for yourself. Grow a spine. Have some dignity and pride and carry yourself in a way that you can be proud of.

Life Happens.

It's been a little over a week since I wrote last. I am beginning to feel myself slipping into my old blogging habits. Since then I've been hanging out with my Auntie Jules. My appreciation for her and her expiriences has grown though I never thought it had any room to grow and expand. I love and adore her more than I probably do anyone else.
As always I've been playing with my hair and this time around it didn't quite go as planned but it turned out pretty well after we touched it up and pulled the look together. Talk about a happy accident. Other than that and the regular high school drama life has been quiet which is just the way I like it.
The countdown to the end of my junior year is just around the corner. I only pray that it will come just a little faster. I have so much to look forward to.
That's all that I can think of for right now... Bren over and out! :)

...And today was a day just like any other.

So I will try to make this as brief and as quick and painless for everybody. April 17th started with a book in front of my face that I was determined to finish before the break of dawn... Now that is a real shocker. Well I finished it around 4 this morning and it has left me hanging. You see it's the Mortal Instruments Trilogy. You read one and then it leaves you hanging and you can't help but wonder about the next book. So today I tried to settle down and pick up the 3rd book but due to my lack of sleep and the excessive reading the past 2 days I could not get myself to focus. Wish I could. I am dying to know the end. I would reccomend the books to anybody, but read at your own discretion.

Also had some time to spend with the kid brother and sister today. I was listening to Elvis' song, Burnin Love when Rachel came into my room and told me in quite the matter of fact tone "Bren, I'm just a hunka hunka burning love!" I died laughing. Ah... These kids kill me somedays.

Had the chance to get my fingers dirty in the soil this week. I got some daisies and sweet pea flowers planted and I can't wait for them to bloom. I love spring.

Earlier this week I found out that I am penciled in for the surgery to go forward in the first week of June. I can bearly contain my excitement. Ask those who know all about it. I nearly pee myself everytime I think about the outcome!

I also found out as of yesterday that going into cosmetology is finally an option. As of next year I should be doing part time education at both Timpanogos and Hair School! Again... Death by pure joy.

Happy Birthday Corrin. You're truely an angel. Save a spot for me in heaven.

Well there you go... That is the run down of my week. Hope that was brief and painless and I hope that your week has been wonderful as well! Loves!

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

My Dad.
My Mum.
Family.

Friends.
Alice in Wonderland.
Jogs in the rain.
Summer.
Flowers.
Mary Elizabeth Bonham.
Brand new make-up.
Sketching.
Music.
My keychains.
Piano.
Purple.
Brookie Kins.
Tim Tam Slams.
Blogging.

Daffodils.
ColorFest.
Sculpting.
Stephen Tullis.
Long weekends.
Yoga.
The Sun.Fishing.
Mountain View High School.
Church.
Apricots and evaporated milk.

Jello.
Bubbles.
Orange.
Bonfires.
Henna.
Glee.
Reaching a goal.
Sunflowers.
Phone calls to best friends that last hours.
Photography.
Vegemite.
Cute knickers.
Keeping my room tidy.
Chocolate.
Kickboxing.
Spring.
Daisies.
Facebooking.
New shoes.
Spending time with Auntie Jules.
Pink.
Brand new sheets.
Quotes.
Ikea.
Ice cream.
Hair.

Lady Gaga.
Gardening.
Maia Longshaw.
Painting.
Cherry Blossoms.
Playing Pool and Wii with Grandpa!
Cooking.
Flair.
Australia.
Sweatpants and sweatshirts.
Nail polish.
Playing Apples to Apples.
Going through old pictures.
Dissecting.
Showers.
Car rides with the windows rolled all the way down.
Coloring books.
Candy Canes.

Elvis Presley.
Strawbery Shortcake. (As in the cartoon.)
Football Season.
FML Blog.
When my hair cooperates.
Elle Sutton.
Watching British Sitcoms with the Parentals.
Flying kites. (I'm Pro.)
People with personality and character.
Long walks without a set destination.
Shooting with Sher.
Halloween.
Babies.
Hello Kitty.
Pillows.
Ellen.
Going up the canyon.
Chick Flicks.
Cereal.
Laughing.
California.
Dancing.
Michael Bronson.
Watching Judge Judy with Nana.
Curling up next to my kitty.
Organization.
Easter.
Pixi Stix.
Semisi. :)
Pin wheels.
Mormon Movies. (Singles Ward and such.)
Dating.
My pink Nikes.
Singing.
Baths.
House.
Fairy Bread.
Kefir.
Brand new art supplies.
Clear skin.
Vaccuming.
Books.
Bath & Body Works.
Tim Burton Movies.
Phony kareoke with the buds.
Family history.
March Madness.
Government with Olson.
My bed.
Horses.
Aussie lollies.
Pranks.
Sally Beauty Supply.
German Shepherds.
Laying in the grass, looking up at the stars, in the summertime.
Going to the park.
Rhondi Horrocks.
Solitude.
Bees.
Roller Coasters.
"That's what she said" jokes.
Wallace and Gromit.
Bagels.
Old Navy.
The Olympics.
Old Spice ads.
Inside Jokes.
Glow sticks.
Sticky Notes.
Orbit Sweet Mint Gum.
Bubble Wrap.
Glitter.
Jones Soda.
The Goodies: Gender Education.
Target.
MarioKart N64.
Sour Patch Kids.

Just Another Ordinary Day

I am beginning to remember why my previous blogs failed so epically. I am soooo boring!!!! But I did promise to stay commited to this blog!

Today was the average day of the average teen. First day back to school, coming out of the Spring Break fog, sucks. Can't wait till summer gets here. 34 school days left on the countdown. Summer promises me some change. Tomorrow will bring that confirmation. I am sure of it. Summer promises Vitamin D and a tan. Summer promises to be relaxed this year. Summer promises me some time to myself and some time with family and friends. Summer means; sunbathing, friends, lemonade, shorts and tanks, swimming, late nights, late mornings :) or early morning runs, loud music, spa parties, driving with the windows down, flip-flops, reading out in the sun, roadtrips, summer box office hits, girls night out...ect... All of this bliss is made possible by the absence of the bane of my existance, School. Dear Summer, Come faster. All my love, Bren :)

Also just have to throw this in... New Season of Glee starts tomorrow!!!!!! Call me a Gleek... I know it's true. Can't help it!

I Can't Brain Today, I Have The Dumb.

Yesterday was the day I got my wisdom teeth out. All went well. Healing seems to be coming along just fine. I couldn't have asked for a better dentist. I'm still a bit sore but the pain meds compensate for that. It also expains how dumb I've gotten.

Thanks to great family and friends recovery seems to be more bearable. Thank you all for all the visits, whether I remember you visiting or not. You are all so great! I am so blessed to have you all as family and friends! And thank you all for putting up with my random, seemingly drunk, phone calls.

Here's to a comfortable, speedy recovery!

There Is Only One Reason to Appreciate a Windy Day... Kite Flying.

Spring Break is wonderful. This fine Monday has been so kind to me. I chilled in bed until about 11:00 this morning. It was wonderful. Between waking up slow and reading my book, there was no way I would have gotten out of bed before then anyways. Wish that I could get away with doing that everyday.

By about 12:00 o'clock I was ready to be productive so I offered to take Mikey to the park and teach him how to fly the kite he got in his Easter basket yesterday. Of course, Ray is attached to Mikey at the hip so she ended up tagging along. So we packed a lunch and off to the park we went!

I got the kite up for Mikey first attempt and after Mikey had held it for about 5 mins he had had enough so he proceeded to hand it back to me to hold until he was done eating and wanted it back. He never wanted it back. I ended up holding it the whole time. It didn't take long for me to get bored of it so I shoved it in my pocket and hung myself upside down on the monkey bars, all while flying a kite right out of my pocket. Epic? I think so.



Can't wait to see what the rest of the week has in store for me!

25 + 5 things you may or may not know about me.

1. I am really OCD over things that I have control of.

2. I am meticulous when I plan. Even to the point of being ridiculous. Everything has to be planned to a T if I am the one in charge.
3. I love babies and little kids.
4. I was raised by an Australian.
5.I am very influenced by music. Music is the one thing that can manipulate me.
6. I love Alice in Wonderland; book, movie, remake movies, corny t.v. shows, you name it.
7. I hate hate hate being ignored. It's one of my biggest pet peeves.
8. If I were to be any number of the 7 Deadly Sins, I would be jealousy. I tend to get overly jealous of silly things.
9. I love watching sports but prefer to stay on the sidelines when it comes to actually playing.
10. I am not very fond of animals. I like big dogs but I have taken to not liking animals very much as I continue to grow up.
11. Despite the fact that I go to Timpanogos I am still a Bruin at heart.
12. One of my lifelong dreams has been to go into cosmetology.
13. Math is the worst. Can't do it if my life depended upon it. Math will be the death of me, I am sure of it.
14. I love art in almost every form of the word. I sculpt, I draw, I paint, I play, I shoot.
15. I am probably one of the pickiest eaters you will ever meet.
16. I hate spit. Can't handle the stuff. It's nasty.
17. Confrontation scares me to death. Arguments, yelling, fighting.... Can't stand it.

18. I hate it when people copy me. You're you for a reason.

19. My addiction is changing my hair. Color, Cut, Style... You name it.
20. I love all music except metal. Can't find one good thing about it.
21. When I wake up and before I go to bed I have to follow my routine to a T or else I get annoyed.
22. Every person is tagged with a song in my head.
23. I like to dissect dead things for the purpose of learning. My second dream job would be something in the medical field.
24. I am big on boundaries. I believe in personal space and "bubbles".
25. Sleep is hard to come by for me. It makes sense when you consider how confused I always am. Can't keep up with everything going on when I have such an enormous sleep debt.
26. I really don't mind listening to Justin Bieber but I think the world would be better without the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus.
27. I tend to be overly protective of people I love.
28. I love playing pranks. It can either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how I feel about you.
29. I am technologically handicapped.
30. ColorFest is the best thing in the world according to me. I want to get married on the same day as ColorFest so I can go in my wedding dress. I also want to die while at ColorFest and then be crowd surfed into my coffin. :) hahahaha!

Easter Happenings

It's Easter morning here in Utah. Taking it super slow waking up this morning and even slower getting up. I go through my daily morning routine and I make a list of things that have to be accomplished. I go back to my room and open the blinds to throw open my window because the furnace has been in overdrive all night leaving me feeling like I have been cooked alive. As I throw open the windows I am caught off gaurd by the 3 feet of snow covering me yard. It has "Happy Easter, Yours Truely, Utah." written all over it. Gotta love Utah weather, changes as quick and as drastically as a menopausal woman's mood.

My Easter is very quiet and undisturbed this year. Small and simple. Easter this year consists mainly of conference, baking and cooking, a family dinner with the whole fam damily, and tunnel singing later if I get the chance. I have been reflecting a lot and have come to realize how much I appreciate Easters like this. Don't get me wrong... Chocolate bunnies and Easter egg hunts were amazing while they lasted, but the reflecting and the lessons I have learned will last me a lifetime; where a chocolate bunny would only last me 5-10 minutes max. Easter has always been a comforting holiday for me and Easter, because of this year, has gained just that much more meaning to me.

I couldn't help but make parallels between Easter and the theme of coming alive to the snow slowly melting away this morning. Snow is cold. Snow after Christmas is ugly to me me. Snow belongs in winter and I believe it should stay there. Waking up to a gray sky and having the once spring green grass be covered with snow again depressed me this morning. I couldn't help but curse the sun for ditching us on Easter. The sun must have overheard me because with in a couple hours the sun decided to make her appearance and began to do her job. Everything that had been covered in a blanket of cold snow began to show through again. Beneath the surface of the cold snow was life. Green and growing still. "In Christ shall all things be made alive." I hope that makes sense and I hope you can follow my parallels drawn so it's not just ramblings of a disorganized mind. I promise it makes sense.

I hope all your Easter Sundays have been great. Love you all and I wish you a very Happy Easter!

Springtime!

I have started many blogs, spent time and energy investing myself into writing them, and then I would delete them after a few weeks of trying to keep up with it. I am resolving to follow in, my good friend, Michael's footsteps. I will attempt to keep up with it as well as I have watched my friends and family so diligently do.
As of right now I am listening to General Conference while I am writing this. Sustaining of the presidencies has always been my favorite. It's an awesome feeling taking part in the Lord's work. Still strange to me not having President Gordon B. Hinckley's talks anymore. It's going to take a lot of time to get used to. http://www.lds.org/broadcast/gc/0,5161,9080,00.html
Easter weekend is here and the Easter buns are in the oven. It's a tradition of my mother's to bake Hot Cross Buns every Easter. It's a tradition I never quite understood seeing as we are not Catholic.
Spring Break has finally come and my week is packed with interesting appointments and events. Again.... the extraction of the wisdom teeth have been pushed back... again. This next week will also predict how the rest of my summer will go. We shall see.
Festival of Colors has come and gone, unfortunately. Had an AMAZING time this year thanks to some fabulous company. The countdown till next years has begun. :)
Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. The sun comes out, the flowers bloom, and the birds begin to sing again. Take time to appreciate this time of year and remember the real reason we celebrate Easter. Have a Wonderful Easter Weekend Everybody!
Happy Easter! Happy Spring!