loooooong update

I find it funny that I always seem to put off blogging because I "have nothing to blog about" but when I actually DO have stuff to talk about I still don't blog.

So here goes....

First let's talk Thanksgiving. We had a good one all be it a little dull but still a nice day of family and food. I pretty much cooked for 2 days straight. Which if you know me you know is perfectly fine with me. While cooking stresses most people out I find it to be really relaxing and enjoyable. I made all my pies and things the day before (pumpkin bars, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, spiced apple cobbler, and cranberry sauce) and made all the other things like stuffing, casseroles, mashed potatoes, yams, ham, sweet potato soup, turkey of course and probably a lot more that I can't remember on the day. Everything turned out well and of course we still have a lot of it left! haha

In other news Nathan and I have put a plan in motion to be able to move out of my parents house in about 6 months. It's just been too long and not that we don't have a good time because we do but it's just time to move on. We don't know if we'll be able to buy a house so we'll probably just rent which is fine with me. No more apartments though... they suck! When we moved out of our last apartment I made a promise to Nathan that we'd never live in another one again.

We're pretty much giving ourselves about 3 months to build up our income. and 3 months of preparation and saving after that. So by June we should be ready to go. I'm pretty excited.

Oh and in case you've been living under a big huge rock you should know that I am a huuuuuge Britney Spears fan. Tuesday her new album came out and I went to go get it that morning. I tried to go at midnight to Wal-Mart but they wouldn't give it to me even though I knew they had it! haha

It's really good, at least to me, lots of dancy fun songs. It's like her last album only better, again at least in my opinion.

Still on the Britney tip I also bought tickets to go see her in concert on March 31st!!! Could NOT be more excited! I've only seen her "live" once before. I put live in quotes because let's face it... it's Britney and she really hasn't sung live since like 2000 which with any other artist would annoy me to death but you just deal with it with Britney... it's her thing I guess lol

Also, Nathan bought me a new phone! It's my Christmas present but I'm using it now. It's a red Blackberry Curve 8310 and it's AWESOME! I had a silver razr before and I hated it. Maybe I'll actually start carrying my phone more often now that I have an awesome one.

Well I guess that's about it... I'm sure there is more but I'm sleepy and I should probably save something for the NEXT blog even though I have no idea when that will be haha

later gater,
Brittany

UGH! Must get better at blogging!

So I have no idea how I blogged every day on Xanga back in the day because apparently it's impossible for me to do it now...

I promise...

I really will try to be better...

So let's see, there are about a million things going on right now but seriously when it comes time to blog it just gets hard to think of them.

Things with Nathan and I are good. One of the things God has been working with me on is being happy and finding joy in the now. I can get in the habit of thinking... well when we move or well when we get out own place or well when we have kids or well when we have money.... we'll do X, Y or Z.

I'm constantly trying to remind myself that by doing that I'm missing out on a lot of the great things happening NOW rather than later. and actually... It's been working pretty well. I feel much more content lately. Yes, there are still lots of things I want but not so much that I spend all day dreaming and not enough time living.

I've also been working on being happier for people when they have the things that I want. In the past I would maybe be like 90% happy for them and 10% jealous... ok maybe 70% / 30% haha but lately I've been blocking out the jealousy and just working on being 100% happy for them and know that the blessings are coming for Nathan and I.

well I guess that's all for now.... see you tomorrow.... maybe... ok maybe not tomorrow.... uh.... see you....sometime

I warned you.....

So I warned you guys that I probably wouldn't update regularly.... and here we have it.

It's so funny how at any given moment I can have 9 million things rolling around in my head and I never put it in the blog and then when I DO blog I can't seem to think of anything to write about.

I've been wanting to make a blog about the things I'm loving as of right now so here goes....

1. Papi Jump - Nathan has this INCREDIBLY addictive game on his iPhone and it's AWESOME! I can't seem to get enough of it it's very very simple (the way I like my games haha) but I swear I could spend 2 - 3 hours a day playing it if I allowed myself to. If you have an iPhone... GET IT! It's amazing

2. New fall TV!!!!! - I must admit... I LOVE TV! Yes it is a waste of time and YES I could be doing more productive things but I seriously don't care, dancing with the stars, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Prison Break, Private Practice, desperate housewives UGH! I just love it

3. The Stand by Stephen King - I'm a horror/ thriller junkie and for some odd reason unknown to me I've never read a Stephen King book so this week I started reading 'The Stand' and it's AMAZING and might I add... over 1,100 pages and yeah I'm on like page 30 haha but still it's great.

4. The new Britney song! - Why oh why do I love pop music so much? I seriously have no idea but first it was my girl Christina who came out with a new song and now Britney! 'Womanizer' is sooooooo good. like old school Britney good. long live cheesy, dancy pop!

5. Cooler weather - Can I get an AMEN! I hate summers in Texas I'm soooo happy for my favorite time of year to start!

ok that's all for now! I'll TRY to blog more regularly for anyone who might actually be reading this :)

xoxo
Brit

Is it our fault?

So, sorry for making my first blog post so serious but here goes...

I was reading this blog post from a famous comedian (Margaret Cho, but it's not really important) and she was just ranting and raving and dropping f bombs about how she is a Christian but she hates other Christians because they judge other people and they basically aren't filled with the love of Christ and that God wants us to be who we are and if that's gay or bisexual or if you don't want to be a mother and want an abortion it's all ok with God because he's "all about us"

First of all um... NO. While I believe that God loves us in a way that is so insanely big that we can't even understand it. I don't believe for one second that God "just wants us to be who we are"

This seems to be a common theme in the world right now... particularly with people who want to be "spiritual" not "religious"

First of all God is God is God... my God is the same as your God is the same as everyone's God. Our goal shouldn't be to be "true to ourselves" but to be the most like God that we possibly can be and in doing that we should become a lot LESS of ourselves because everyone's true nature is sinful and worldly anyway...

(I know a lot of people hate it when Christians say things like that, as if the church tells people we're sinful to make us feel bad and keep us so low that we are forced to cling to God or religion and I'm sure in some cases that does happen and that sucks... but it's still the truth.)

So with all that being said and yes I know I've rambled a bit... here's my thing... is it our fault?

I will take a HUGE part of the blame in my own life... I am worldly, I do gossip, I do lie, I am at times a huge hypocrite... so is it my/ our fault that the world thinks so badly of Christians?

Why should the people who claim to know the one true God the most be the ones that in some cases lead people AWAY from Christ?

Sometimes it's hard to know what God would really want me to do...

Even I as a Christian have been overwhelmed be feeling judged by the "churchy" set. So I can only imagine what people must think if they don't know God at all.

I'm pretty sure I'm NOT articulating my point well... so I'm going to stop rambling...

but ok one last thing haha....

people throw around the term "God is love" a lot. I've heard a lot of people say that and use it as an excuse to do whatever they want. So what does God REALLY want us to do when we see something not right in the world? It seems like I can't win sometimes. When you accept people for who they are is that the same as saying their lifestyle is ok.... or should you say something and risk being the judgemental holy roller that the world seems to hate?

Following God is confusing lol

Oy With The Poodles Already!

So here I am.... with a blogger blog... I put it off for forever because like I said I really don't need one more place to just talk about myself. BUT, I was looking over my old Xanga before Myspace and facebook and it made me miss just BLOGGING. All the applications and the layouts and the graphic distract from me ever posting a real blog so here I am.

I warn you... I might not blog every day.

But at the same time I might blog 50 times a day...

you just never know

xoxo
Brittany