Reunited and it feels so good...

I'm back at Biola!!

It seems like only yesterday I was in my room at home, writing about how I wanted to get back and how I was afraid that everything that I learned would go flying out the window.

Well it didn't!

I'm back and it's lovely. It's great to finally be in a room with roommates I love and adore. We get along, and our room is very well set up considering how much crap we all brought with us.

I didn't bring so much this year though! It all packed into the car nicely


So we got here, met up with Jojo and Kenny after much rejoicing.

And we got to work! It took a while for all of us to move the furniture around and figure out a configuration that worked for all our needs/personal space requirements.
It was a lot like Tetris

Well we got that settled, and then started moving in. We had to do it in shifts in order to get a decent spot for the cars to park and then also so we all didn't move everything into our room at once.

I'm quite happy with my space. It's in its own little corner where I can be an art major and not drive my roommates crazy.



Isn't it lovely?
And of course I have my trusty map of Middle Earth with me, it fit right above my bed so I can have fantastical dreams of hobbits and elves



And I also have some windowsill space where I can keep my alarm clock, gnome, what's still alive of my cactus, and a bottle that I'm hoping will be a vase if I can ever find some flowers to put in it.



That's really all I have time to write right now. It's very late and I just got back from a walk/ tossing the frizz/meeting random people and slacklining. And on top of all that I have to get up at 6am tomorrow to go with Kenny to dive her mom to the airport.
So, have fun sleeping in Jojo! I think it's so ridiculously early that we'll just go in our Pj's.

Bonne nuit!
-Brenna

Couldn't I skip once upon a time, and go straight to happily ever after?

Sometimes I feel as if life has accidentally hit the pause button.

And not the good kind, like "I wish this moment could last forever"

I mean like when you go to pause a video, and it stops at that exact moment when the actor happens to have the most ridiculous look on their face. One eye is half closed and their mouth is shaped like they just smelled something rechid.

Why is it that life slows down when it's the worst most boring time of your life?

And it just speeds up all jolly like once it starts to look up again.

True, at this moment I could be busying myself with moving preparations and packing for school. But because my life seems so dull right now, I can't perk myself up enough to do it.

Now that I think about it, I feel like I did when I first came home from school. My life had always been on the go and so busy and full of people and adventures. That once I got home it all just came crashing down around me. That is until I got busy with work and everything.

And now I'll be back at the place I so longed to be in a mere 3 days. And it's as if my life decided to slow itself down just before I'm to go back to the hustle bustle of it all.

And it's not just while I'm on break that I feel it. I feel a different kind when I'm at Biola. True, I have many things to do and lots of people to be with, but there is a sense of annoyance at all the things I have to go through to know who I'm going to be.

I want to know what God has in store for my life now! I want to know what I'll do. Who I'll marry. Where I will live.

I know that my future is the part of my life at which I am the least patient. But my future is exactly what is taking so long to discover.

Don't I have enough patience not to be tested any longer? Are there not other, less patient people out there in the world who could use the lesson more?

I suppose my thinking that proves that I need it.

Blast.

I saw Ninjas on the subway!!!!!

.... not really.

I was just reading my darling roommate's blog
(please visit my lovely roommates blog Despite Concrete here, I promise you she's a thousand times better than I am at writing)

And I have to say. I quite agree!!! As a matter of fact, I was just thinking about something very similar.
True, the media is waaay out of control and too much for even a young adult like myself to handle. And I'm all for books and playing with cardboard and rocks (growing up in a not so wealthy artist home, that was pretty much the norm for me).
But let's face it. The media isn't going anywhere anytime soon. People are addicted to it. Heck, I'm addicted to it! I can't go a day without my ipod, computer, or phone at my side.
So I think we should clean up the media. Or at least try to.

My thoughts on this subject are centered on one particular company that has it's finger in every sense of technology and marketing.

Disney.

Now I love Disney, don't get me wrong. But my goodness, they have so much going on out in the world and it all needs to stop before my mind explodes!!

They need to clean up their act and get back to what it was supposed to be about. I'm pretty sure that Walt wouldn't have been too keen on the whole Hannah-High School musical gig.
I say, Disney. You have enough money!!!! You have the most amazing theme parks in the world! the best animated movies and the best beginnings!!!

In times like these where everything is going down the tubes and the economy isn't great, we need to fix what we've done. We need to go back to what the Disney company was meant to be.
We need to bring back the classics!!

Stop all this horrible nauseating acting you have plastered all over the Disney Channel. What happened to Timon and Pumba? Goof Troop?! The Little Mermaid series? Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers?! The Gummy Bears!?!
Those were good stories. And they've been replaced with been-there-done-that laugh track shows.
I can't even find those old cartoons on Toon Disney!
Which apparently is now some weird Disney/Sports collaboration.

Remember Silly Symphonies?! I do!!!
And I wasn't even around when they first came out. But Disney kept playing them! And those are some of the best memories I have as a child.

You ask the kids today about any of that and they'll give you a blank stare before they go back to doing the hoedown throwdown.

Bring back the classics Disney! Please! Start making good entertainment again, instead on focusing on making good money.

Think about why you wanted to work with the Disney company. What was that first magical moment that made you want to bring that magic to everyone else in the world? Think about why Walt did it. Are you doing all these things for the same reason?

I hope so. He was a great man. A true living example of staying young at heart, and never-ever letting go of the magic and imagination you had as a child.

Yes Please!!!

If any body is out there taking notes.......



This would most definitely get extra points.

Sort of on the same topic as good looking guys in awesome coats.

I just finished Pride and Prejudice again for the billionth time :]
I actually realized that I'd only read it about 4 times, and I thought that was a problem.
I really should read all of Jane Austen's works all the time, as they tend to make me sound very refined in my head.
I love that the language gets stuck in your mind and you continue to use it for the rest of the day.

this time next week I'll be up in LA at school!! I also still haven't started packing yet, but I did get some plastic boxes things to help organize all my art stuff. And a dry erase calendar thing, so I can write down important things and remember them.

I'll have to have Kenns and Joj remind me to mind it. :]

until later,
Brenna Kathleen

Random but funny....

I've watched this video several times today......

Watch me!!your mum did

I just love it. It's by Natalie over on the Community Channel on youtube. Check out the rest of her videos too! She's amazing.

I usually end up laughing or nodding me head and saying "that's so true!" or "I use random Lord of The Rings quotes that my friends don't understand too!"

yeah.....

Travels and The Mess

I got back from my trip to Santa Rosa to visit Kenny!
I had lots and lots of fun.

We went to this awesome place called Powell's Sweet Shoppe. And oh man!!! they had every kind of candy you ever want! Even the hard to find ones like Jelly Babies, Wine Gums, and Violet Mints! It was truely a magical place.
There was also a kind of soda called Green River that tastes like the color green! It was weird.

And I met all of Kenny's high school friends, which was fun and interesting. Considering I've heard very entertaining stories about pretty much all of them. The best part was that I don tknow if they all knew that I knew everything. Muahaha!

It was fun though, they were all really cool and lovely people. Some of them greeted me like they already knew me, because Kenns had told them about me.

And I got ride a horse! the most lovely Arabian named Cody. I've never ridden on e before, and I think I did pretty well. It wasn't scary at all. In fact I felt pretty comfortable on a horse.... that is until I got off of it.

It was 3 days ago and I'm still saddle sore!

We also went to see Harry Potter 6 for the second time for both of us! But we wanted to see it together, and we found Chocolate Frogs and Blood Pops and Powell's Sweets #2 up in Healdsburg. (fyi.... Kenns.... there's a Powell's in Long Beach!)
Anyways, they had these awesome signs in the Cinema's bathroom!


And now that I'm back I only have 2 weeks until I move back to Biola!! I thought the day would never come, and now it seems to be running at me full speed! I'll be glad to be back. And Certainly glad to have two amazing roommates. But all that work. Meh.

So I have to clean my room and pack..... I haven't started yet. I probably will next week, much to the annoyance of my parents.

I'm 2 vids into my vlog!
Hopefully I'll be starting a collaboration channel with my older bro and my cousin. So that will be fun.
That's really it for now.
Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I'll write again before I leave for school, probably amidst the chaos :]

I Just Noticed....

out side my window there is an odd looking stone thing. It looks like a bird bath. There is a basin in the top, but there is a hole in the middle of it and I don't know how far it goes down....
let's inquire further....
I guess it is a birdbath! Apparently my neighbors are planning on taking out the hedges that separate our side yard from theirs, so we're trying to come up with ways to make our side look better, because we never care for it and it looks ugly.

I'm off to look after Scotland now (the baby girl, not the country). And I will have to finish this update upon my return....


......
Okay! I'm back. And boy, am I tired! I woke up this morning with a headache, and caring for a 9 month old doesn't help.
But I love her so much



So.... my show is closed. I've been babysitting and helping out my gran around her house for some extra change to use upon my arrival at school later this month.... Can you believe it, it's August!!! Yay!
This time next week I'll be up in Santa Rosa to celebrate Kenny's birthday.
We're both very excited.
I got a sheet to use for my Modern Alice dress too! So I only need about 2 more things and hen I can make it. Huzzah!

Remember way back when, and I posted a vlog? I think I'm going to start that up again. I've was watching the fiveawesomeguys and it pulled me back into this whole world of vlogging, and I can't help it. I'm starting one!
I don't know when though.
I want to clean my room first, so it may take a while!

That's it for now. My head is killing me, so I think I'll take a nap or zone out while watching What The Buck

<3
Brenna