What I Stumbled Upon

So, the other day a friend of mine was telling me about this website that his roommate is obsessed with called Stumbleupon.com . I had heard of it but I hadn't ever tried it out.
Well a few days ago, I tried it out and I am seriously addicted to it. The premise of the website is that you hit the "stumble" button and it takes you to a random website online. Doesn't sound really fun right? Well basically when you register on the website (it's free by the way) you download this toolbar onto your web browser that pops up once you log in, this way you can continue to hit the "stumble" button as many times as you want. When you register you pick certain areas of interest and based on those it finds these random websites for you. You can even "like" or "dislike" a website it finds for you, so this way it gets a better idea of the kind of things you are interested in. Once you "like" a website it saves it for you on your account so you can go to that list and revisit the site. I know right now this doesn't sound that fun, but I seriously sat for like 2 hours at work yesterday "stumbling" as I affectionately call it. My favorite is when it shows me a cute picture or quote, there are some really cool videos that it has shown me as well.

Anyways, my work here is done, go for yourself and try it out and please let me know that you love it just as much as I!!

Happy Stumbling

He's Just Not That Into You

Seeing as most of the people I know who read this are probably female, I figured you would appreciate this topic.

The movie "He's Just Not That Into You" is the most sickingly (real word??)accurate movie ever. Just the opinions it poses are so true. If you haven't seen it these are some quotes from the movie.

Gigi (main character) "We are all programmed to believe that if a guy acts like a total jerk that means he likes you." - maybe a stretch but pretty much truth

Alex (main guy) "So trust me when I say if a guy is treating you like he doesn't give a sh-- he genuinely doesn't give a sh--. No exceptions." - EXACTLY, yet we think of every excuse we can to put our minds at ease.

"If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will." - I love this because men know when they want you, and if they do, they will come after you, you shouldn't have to chase him.

Gigi: "Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we're told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope."
- I love this last one, it's the ending montage of the movie and it makes me feel a lot better because I am such a sap, and hopeless, hopeless romantic, but it is so unrealistic, movies and tv shows make you feel like it's gonna be this beautiful moment or just sweep you off your feet experience, but the cynic I am will believe it when I see it.

I love this movie, because it helps me see how silly I am being when I overanalyze every little minute detail and twist things around to make them seem favorable, even if I am totally off. My roommate Heather also kind of talked some sense in to me and was pretty bluntly honest, which I appreciate, because I feel like a lot of times (just like in the movie) women tell their friends what they want to hear, and I have respect for the truth. It also makes me trust even more that because the Lord said he will be with me wherever I go and he has a plan for me, that I don't have to worry about every little detail, it is all in his hands, and one day I will be the exception, instead of the rule (movie reference again). I stress so much about every facet of life, and I feel here lately God has really been telling me to just let it go, to give it up to him and know that my life is all taken care of. Something I also struggle with is uncertainty, I am uncertain of the Lord's plan for my life and that makes me really anxious, I want to know now where I am going to be in 5 years, what is my life going to be like?

Anyway He's Just Not That Into You is a great movie ladies so watch for sure!!

I can't believe it is almost Halloween, and that there is legit like a month of the semester left.

CNU Homecoming & Blonde Moment of the Year

So this weekend was CNU's Homecoming. On Friday we had Midnight Madness, which is essentially a pep rally and we introduce the Basketball teams because their season is starting. I got a little nostalgic for my days as Student Body Prez at good ole Patrick Henry, I really do miss that aspect of high school for sure.Anyways, I was working Midnight Madness, little did I realize how crazy it was gonna be. I was running all over the place for a good 2 hours before I had a chance to just sit, needless to say when I got home at 1 am I was exhausted.

We had our football game on Saturday which was fun, Phi Mu put on Touchdowns for Tommy during the first half of the game. Touchdowns is an event we do every year during the Homecoming Football game in order to raise money for Cure Search, who is doing research for a cure for childrens' cancer. The event is in honor of Tommy Gosser, son of two professors here at CNU, who passed away last year due to cancer. The event was a great success. We also entered our float into the Homecoming "Parade", our float was by far the cutest. The game was awesome, it was great getting to see some Alumni friends, especially my big, Laura.

Today was just a day of rest, I don't know what is wrong with me but the past two days I have just been absolutely EXHAUSTED. I'm not sure what's wrong with me but I've been soooo tired. I'm starting to get paranoid, you know when you try to self diagnose, I do it a lot, the curse of being the daughter of a Nurse.

ANNNDDD NOW..... for the Blonde Moment of the Year.. nay Century...

Yesterday morning I woke up and took my phone off the charger. Imagine my surprise when the phone would not turn on . nothing but a blank screen. I was convinced my phone was dead. I even plugged it back into the charger with no luck. I needed a new phone. So I go all day yesterday with absolutely no phone. This afternoon I take my phone to Verizon, the lady plugs it in and it turns right on. She suggests maybe my charger is broken and that I should go get it and bring it back to see if it is in fact broken. Well, I drive back to the apartment, walk in my room and see my charger, not plugged in. Just to explain, my charger has to parts because it also serves as a USB to connect to my computer. SOOOOO this whole time, the USB port was not plugged into the charging port, which was plugged into the wall. THE PHONE WAS NEVER CHARGED PEOPLE. The best part was driving all the way back to get my phone back and explain to the lady how ditzy I was. EMMMMBARASSING..........

So if that gave you a laugh I am glad to have brought a smile to your face!

Listen to: Everything's Right - Matt Wertz (great guy p.s.)

Quotes

Okay so I don't know if any of you do this, but I have this thing where I hear a good quote, saying, what have you, and I write it down on whatever piece of scrap paper I can find. Well I know now that I get this from my Dad. He had this folder of random quotes written on receipts, scrap paper, anything really. I do this all the time and eventually the quotes make their way into my quote book, however thinking about it now, if I saved all of the random pieces of paper I could probably turn them into some awesome art project? (What do you think?)

Anyways, I just wanted to share some of my favorite quotes!

"The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." - Psalm 34:18
This is my favorite verse because my Young Life leader Jess gave this to me in a letter she wrote me after my Dad died and it's always stuck with me. Thanks Jess!

"Did you ever put your arms out and spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like." - Gillian 'Practical Magic'

"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time given to us." - The Notebook

"Either we do not know what part of ourselves to give, or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. So it is those who we live with and love and should know that elude us. But we can still reach out to them, we can love completely without complete understanding" - A River Runs Through It

Just a few...

Mom is in VA Beach for a conference this week so she came down to CNU tonight to go to the Mens Soccer game against Shenandoah (sp??) with me and to get dinner. Quick bragging moment on CNU's Mens Soccer team, they are ranked NUMBER 1 D3 mens soccer team in the nation according to the NSCAA (National Soccer Coaches Association of America)!! I haven't seen them play this season but they were amazing let me tell you! So afterwards Mom and I went to Panera for dinner and to the grocery store where we talked to this little old lady for like 10 minutes or so about rescuing animals... it was cute I won't lie. Tomorrow I get to go to VAB to hang out with mom and Homecoming is this weekend !!

What's your favorite quote?!?!?

Jerry McGuire moment.. sort of...

okay, so I have totally had a Jerry McGuire moment tonight. You ask "what is a Jerry McGuire moment?" Wellll.. It is when you just have so many thoughts and plans going on in your mind that you are just wired, WIDE AWAKE. You are thinking about all of these things you want to do, what you want your life to be, you get the gist. SO... it's about 5 am and ive been sitting at my computer for hours looking at internships abroad, summer study abroad opportunities, jobs in NYC. I am pretty much stargazing right now, I am looking at things I would LOVE to do but probably won't happen. I have been in the "Bucket List" mood lately and all I have been thinking about is all of the things I want to do in my life time. Some are pretty lofty goals, others are fairly simple. For the sake of slowing my mind down so I can get a few hours of sleep before work @ 8am, and for your entertainment pleasure of course, I have posted a few.

Bucket List:
1. Get Married & have kids (I know I'm so cliche)
2. Live in a foreign country, preferably somewhere in Eastern Europe.
3. Live in New York City - I really want to be a full time nanny or a personal assistant for a very important person, I think it'd be fun!
4. Go to the 2012 London Olympics.
5. Go to a Red Sox game.
6. Watch UVA beat Tech in football, in person, not just on TV... for all you skeptics UVA's day is coming, they are just in a rebuilding phase right now okay?!
7. Watch Patrick Henry Men's Soccer team win a VA State Title. - preferably starring Sam Dowdy in approx 14 years.
8. Do something selfless.
9. Go to a Patriots game, preferably Super Bowl.

there's much more my mind is just a whirl wind right now. Maybe this will inspire yall to think about the awesome things you want in your life time and for you to start figuring out how to make them come true!

<3 brynn

Midterms

Ah, it's that time of the semester. Midterms are upon us here at CNU. I luckily only have 2 this week, and a paper but who's counting. So here I sit in the Trible Library taking a break from 3 hours of writing so I can give my poor wrist a break. Plus I was just getting really ADD and needed a distraction for a few minutes.

Anywho, the Fall weather is finally descending upon Newport News. The good thing is that I love the smell of fall and the crisp air in the mornings. I do not however enjoy the sporadic changes in temperature. One day will be cold and the next day will be hot, it really makes getting dressed in the morning a task. You have to be prepared for anything.

Fall Break starts for me on Thursday at 1215 and I am pretty excited for a little breather. I am going home Thursday night, to Windy Gap on Friday and Saturday to wrangle again in the Sippie, home for a few hours on Sunday and then coming back to CNU Sunday afternoon. Monday and Tuesday will probably be spent doing homework and working. I can't believe that semester is almost halfway finished. I can't believe that it is already October, yay for Halloween!

I had a panic attack earlier this week when I discovered that the Schedule of Classes for next Spring was out. I immediately started stressing over what classes to take. I am very excited to say that, while registration is about a month away, I know my schedule for next semester. I have one class on Mondays (Theater 100), and 5 classes on Tuesday/Thursdays. You may be thinking "Brynn is INSANE" but I will have 5 out of 7 days off from classes a week. While Wednesdays will be crammed with homework, I think it is well worth the sacrifice. The exciting news is that I am taking (fingers crossed) Ceramics I and Photography I next semester. I am really pumped for these classes because I will get to expel some of my creative energy in a fun way. I took ceramics in high school and I really enjoyed it so I am really looking forward to that class. I LOVE pictures so I am very excited for photography and being able to develop my own pictures. My other classes are History of Psych, Social Psychology and Contemporary Mathematics (eek, boo for Math Requirements).

Welp, that's all for now.. back to the books.