Jack Squat

Here's the thing.
I don't know how to name blogs. Generally, I leave it blank, empty my mind and then just stick something random in the title bar and hit publish. I always think I could write a book, since I have all these awesome ideas and brilliant inspiration all around me. Then I realize two things, writing is hard and I would have to think of a title.
I mean, sure, I could have a select few read it and give me ideas for a title, but what's the point? It's going to have my name underneath it. It'll have my combination of words between the covers. So, I would be narcissistic and insist on finding my own title, nestled somewhere amongst my pages.
But that brings us back to writing is hard.

However, I have decided what to write about today.
I had a dream last week. I've told one or two people about it, so I can remember it well enough, or at least the details I remembered to tell them. It was a really strange, one of those dreams you kind of know you are dreaming in, but at the same time it all feels so real? Allow me to elaborate on my personal life before diving into the depths of my subconscious.
There's a boy, and he's cute and I kind of like him, but not enough to do anything about it. Right? Right. We've all been there, whether we admit it or not. We will call him Jack, for kicks and giggles, but if you're on a semi regular talking basis with me, you can guess.
SO. I am getting ready for my wedding, kay? and I'm wearing this really interesting wedding dress, right? And I am going down the aisle and there's Jack, looking handsome in a tux (which really bewildered me because I can noooooot picture "Jack" wearing a tux ever in his whole life. He was wearing chucks though, so that made me a little more comfortable.) And I notice that my maid(matron?) of honor was Leslie (whaaaa?) and his best man was Reed(double whaaaaaaaa?) and I found it sad that the only person "Jack" could find to be his best man was Reed, and then I said it was probably because "Jack" is super cranky and has no friends. Which is wrong wrong wrong, because he totally has friends. Like, two, maybe, but definitely enough that Reed wouldn't have to be his best man.
SO. Then we were magically at the reception, and it was awesome, except this crazy, and I mean certifiably, chick I used to work with was there as the DJ (which would never ever happen, she's bonkers, he and I are entirely too picky about music, PLUS I know for a fact that "Jack" had an encounter with her before she went nutzo, so there is just so much NOPE in that one detail, I knew it couldn't be real.) and it's all beautiful and perfect and just right, and then I realize that none of my family was there. My kids weren't even in the ceremony. Weird. My friends weren't there either, which was also incredibly wrong, because my friends are the kind of people that would karate chop a bouncer to get into my wedding. For real, though. So I start kinda looking at them, and I am starting to recognize some of these faces, and check it out - they are all brides and grooms that have used Boyd's Events for their weddings. No joke. Every single person that was at my reception were married, using the company I work for. Creepy.
And since they were all married, no one was there to catch my bouquet, which was sad for dream Brittany. So when we were exiting (we used cake sprinkles, btw. Totally okay for the environment, biodegradable and realllly pretty in pictures) and guess what?
The car we rode away in was a '67 Impala.
Driven by Dean Winchester.
But it didn't matter to Dream Brittany, because I had "Jack" and "Jack" was the sexiest man on earth and I didn't need a sexy Dean Winchester.

...
That specific moment was when I knew I was dreaming.

Dean>>>>>>"Jack"
True story, bro. Well, kind of.

Anywho, the prodigal ginger brother has at long last returned to the house (aka Kyle, who moved out and I've only seen at family functions since, is here and has decided we are having a movie night) so I must bid you adieu, my loves.
Stay brilliant.
-B.

Face in a Bag

Hey y'all!
So, my mom didn't use much make up and neither did her mom, which basically means that little Brittany watched a youtube video on how to put eyeliner on correctly back in the 9th grade, and that was the extent of my make up regime, until about three years ago when I discovered mascara, and my miraculous break through about a year ago, when I fell in love with bright red lipstick.
So, since I have great friends, Shelly has been slowly teaching me about all the things.
AKA, when we have a moms night out and head to Rockin' or Grahams, I sit in her bathroom and she makes me pretty while I pay attention to what's going on.
The result is...
Well, I now have a large pencil bag full of make up, and my 20 second make up routine increased exponentially.
So, today class, I will be sharing with you the things that I found that work best with my facial area.

First. I want to tell you that I have tried the whole dry shampoo thing, while being extremely skeptical and I have got to say, OMG ITS BRILLIANT. I have really fine hair, but I have a lot of it. So much hair. And if I go more than 18 hours without a shower, I start getting super shiny and pretty stringy. Not a good look. So, I went to the Walmart and grabbed the first one I saw (uh, because I was super eager to escape Walmart. I should have gone to Target, but I was on the wrong side of town and in a hurry)

I bought the Pantene Dry Shampoo 

I felt a little weird, because I seriously couldn't dismiss the image of me spraying the spray deodorant on my noggin.but hey, it worked brilliantly, I am a firm believer in dry shampoo, however, I will continue actually washing my hair on a triweekly basis.

Next, we're going to go rapid fire.
I picked up all the stuffs at Target during my lunch break after having a brief discussion with a random lady who looked like she knew what she was doing way more than I did.

Revlon photo ready perfecting Primer

it was like, 15 bucks, but it is so worth it. I like not sweating my makeup off my face, so I forked over the money until I can find a suitable DIY version at home.

Hard Candy Glamoflauge concealer

It's a pretty great concealer. Especially with me stressin' and awesome zits poppin up all over the place. It's nice. I use my hands for everything so I just kind of dab and smear... I haven't been taught about brushes yet. Stop judging me.

Revlon photo ready airbrush mousse make up (base)
OMG I LOVE IT. It's a mousse. As I'm sure you can infer from the title, but still. I can squirt it into my hand and spead that foamy greatness all over my face and it is evenly distributed. SO EASY.

Rimmel Eyebrow pencil

So good. It comes with the brush and everything. For whatever reason, that fact alone pleases me. Usually I just use brown eyeliner. I feel like they're the same thing.

Wet N Wild Eyeshadow Primer

It does a great job of keeping my shadow stuck to my eyelids! Like all day! It's never stayed all day before! YAY for eyeshadow primer. Kind of expensive, though, so I'm also on the hunt for a gooooood DIY replacement.

Maybelline Eye Shadow

Purple does good things for my brown eyes. Really does. This is perfeeeeect. It also has a picture on the back that tells me what goes where. Go Maybelline and the awesome diagrams teaching idiots like me how to correctly layer different shades of eye shadow.

I've already told you about my eyeliner :) So search for it yourself within my bloggy blog blog archives. They're to your right, if you haven't read all of them yet. You should. I'm quite brilliant.

L'Oreal Power Volume (24 hour)(Black) mascara

It makes me have longer and fuller lashes. And Let me tell you, It stays stuck on there for 24+ hours. It's good stuff.

 

Revlon's Love That Red Lipstick

My current love of my life. It's so pretty! I am wearing it in my facebook profile, and for those who are creepy and are following my blog from somewhere other than my facebook friends list here I am!

 

I know. Tres cute. And slightly ghosty. I should tan, but I actually hate the sun. Maybe I can pull off the porcelain doll thing... Hm.
(note: this is before I bought all my new makeups. This is actually just eyeliner, mascara and lipstick. all other products will be on my face and posted soon, so you can see me and all my makeupy learny glory. and stuff.)

 

Okay, I don't wear blush, mostly because I am very good at blushing myself. And I can't contour for nothing, so I gave up. I should watch more Jeffree Star. That guy is fabulous.

I could go into detail about my face cleansing routine, but I'm just too lazy to go find pictures and links to everything. Maybe another day.

Stay beautiful, loves!
Brittanyyyy

PS. I just want to point out that I am a saint. Today was Shayneypoo's birthday and I had the kids sing happy birthday to him, recorded it and sent it to him. I am a good person. Also, he cried, so that made me feel better about being a good person, because usually, I want to ship the father of my children to Guatemala or something.
I don't know why I picked Guatemala. But it sounds good, right?
Anyway, happy birthday to my ex husband, and happy Hump day to everyone else :)

Mummuh.

Well, I had a wonderful wonderful weekend :) I hope all of yours went swimmingly as well.
I know, it's Tuesday, but my Monday was a letdown after my Friday Saturday Sunday.
Let's just say that my Saturday looked a lot like this

mommy and I got tattoos for mother's day.
I'm very pleased.
also, no tears, no cussing and minimal berating of the tattoo artist.

Saturday night looked a lot like this. LEE PROM.
I must say again, I love my job. Even though I was up super late and my legs are STILL sore from dancing with these kids, I had a blast.

Cody came over after prom and pickups were done and forced me to stay mostly conscious until 5 am.

Why? He had to work at 7:30 AM and didn't want to sleep through his alarm. His mentality? Just don't sleep. My mentality? I HAVE THREE CHILDREN.
So, when I woke up at 11 and pleasantly realized that I received the best mother's day present ever: I got to sleep in. Momma took the heathens to church and I ate cereal and watched Supernatural until they got home.

Yeah... yum. Eye of the Tiger was the best thing ever. Actually that whole episode was perfection.
(I finished season 4 last night. (and started season 5) Just gotta say. WAHHHHH :'( I'm addicted and sad)

Anywho.
mom came home with my kiddos and we went to Cici's, with my Mema & Papa, my Nana, my brothers, mom, Aunts, cousins and an uncle type person.
Then we went and hung out and took naps.
Yes, I do believe the entire house took a nap at one time or another.

Then this happened. HOW CUTE ARE WE?
Ps, I totally id have tons of pictures of Kam smiling, but this was my favorite. He told me he didn't want to take a picture.
Then I tickled him and all was well.
I cannot say the same for Rhyssie girl, this was the only semihappy picture I could get out of her, because she loves her Mema more than me :'(
But I secretly know its because Mema doesn't ever make her drink water. It's always good stuff with sugar. Also, she feeds her brownies. True story.

So that was my weekend.
Yesterday no good things happened and I'm over it, so I won't bore you with the details.

HOWEVER I went to a new food place, because Shelly and I have decided to eat at a new place every Tuesday, and dubbed it Adventure Time Tuesday.
This week it was Pizzeria Venti, and while I hated my salad, my pasta thingys were delicious.
but not as good as my gelato. Nom nom nom.
Apparently it's been there for 10 years and I just fail at life.
Next week: Cafe Unique. Time for some Venezuelan food. ARIPAS!!!
;)

Til next time, guys.
B.

Favorite Friday

I'm just going to say that today has been a long day for me and I'm going to leave it at that. I have been feeling rather hermit-y lately, but with three children, I very rarely go out by myself. I'd love to take them to the drive in, but what happens when Xiaden needs to pee, and Rhys is asleep?
See? These are the only times I miss having a spouse. Not miss Shayne, necessarily, but miss having someone who loves me enough to sit through a kid movie and watch various kids while I am running in and out for the toilet.
I went to the drive in by myself once, and I made Xia and Kam both use the bathroom before the movie. Xiaden is a freak of nature and can apparently hold her urine in for 6+ hours, and I think it's fantastic bladder control for a four year old. Kamden, however, must have a bladder the size of a pea because he needs to pea constantly.
That was the night I forced my OCD son to pee in a bottle. I think it was the scariest time of his whole life and it may have scarred him forever, that's how incredibly nervous and petrified he was. But the baby was sleeping and we were at the screen furthest away from the toilets, so I improvised.
I don't want to do that to him again. However, Mom has some graduation to go to, Ty has to work, Kyle has abandoned me as his sister for all intensive purposes, and Steffie and Shelly are hiding from work because they're both liars. (love you!)
On that note, I am not going to be going to the drive in tonight. I will probably live dangerously and order pizza and let the kids eat in the living room while we all watch episodes of My Little Pony on Netflix (for the third time, may I add. Netflix really needs to add more, I am just saying. I need to know what happens to Twilight now that she has her princess wings. mkayyyyy?) while I sit on Tumblr and Pinterest.
(my tumblr & my pinterest, if you care.) Which you probably don't, because it's full of Fandom stuff.

So that's gonna be fun.
...

Not really, but I have a small stack of books I could read. and When I say small, I mean Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy that Cody lent me weeks ago, and Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle (AKA Eragon) that I bought two weeks ago. I have just been hooked on Supernatural and if I find any spare time, I watch my boys instead of reading

Because I just hit season 4 & met Cas.
even if he comes off like a shady politician from the planet Vulcan
;)

And really, there's nothing better than those three men.
Except for maybe Bobby, cause he's hilarious.

And I am getting the feeling that bobby may not be around for too much longer, and if you watch it, and you love me, you will shut your piehole!!!

Love me some pie ;)

Anywho, it's time to collect children and pizza and ponies.

lalalalauve you!
Brittany

Thanks a MILLION ;)

So, my boss is really crazy, kay? We have an excess of brochures and flyers and he wants us to go to venues and pass them out, meet people, look at the rooms, and leave an impression.
Not, Reed, btw, just Leslie and I. So we say okay, and we make a list of venues to go see.
Then Reed says we need to put together a little something for the venues that refer people to us the most. I came up with a smaller list of like 8 venues.
Then I got paid do do the Pinterest.
I made a thing.

hahahahahaha. It was quite like this.

do you get it?
It's a pun.
it's ten 100 grand candy bars.
100,000 x 10 = 1,000,000
Thanks a million?
Shut up, I'm hilarious.

So, I'm going to have lunch with the beautiful and smelly Shelly at some Italian place we've never tried at 11, then Leslie and I are going to hop into Quasi and hit the town. Among our places to go?

Midland Country Club

Greentree Country Club

Petroleum Club

Shack in the Back

Kessler's Hall

DoubleTree Midland

Cuthbert Mansion

MCM FunDome

and probably a gazillion other places.

I'm pumped!

So, I'm going to go do a little work before I run around most of midland and parts of Odessa

ttfn ;)

-B

Past Tense.

A light went out in the world yesterday.
And it always hurts when a teenager dies.
But it's hurting me personally this time.

I know it's selfish of me to grieve him, but it's something my heart has to do.
Because he had a brilliant smile. He was a huge flirt. He made everyone around him happy.

and now... well, I know Jesus has his arms around him. I hope he found the peace that eluded him while he was here. And I pray that his family can find peace.

B

Ynattirb

There's ups and downs to this bloggy thing. I love it, I love getting emotions and feelings and options out there, for people to read and contemplate. But there are some boundaries I don't know whether to push or not. Like boys. Or sex. Or child rearing. I guess it's hard to know your boundaries when you don't have a specific area in which your blog resides. I follow a make up blog, and a mom blog, and a blog about clothes. My little baby blog is about me. And I have weird boundaries, and I'm generally open with people who ask anything about me.
I suppose I should spend some time figuring me out.
BUT since I haven't blogged in a week, and I've gotten very inconsistent, I'm going to write about random things I like. (My cousin does this. I like it. I'm stealing it. Kind of. Love you Icky.)

1. This video. I like it almost as much as the Pocket full of Sunshine scene in Easy A. I have a big celebrity crush on Emma Stone. Her voice makes me happy.

2. This album. The whole thing. Angel with a Shotgun & Endlessly are my favorites right now. I am going to listen to it until I hate it.

3. My Job. I mean, I love what I do. Sometimes the people drive me absolutely bonkers, but I love doing what I do. (Photo by Eternal Bliss Photography)

4. This restaurant. I am on a sweet tea binge and Taco Villa seems to be the only place that can get it right. The chicken quesadillas aren't bad either.

5.  The idea of this tattoo. I can't stop thinking about how awesome I'd be, and geektastic. Because, let me clue you in, it's Doctor Who Stuff.  Just... Respect the Thing.

6. This man. Just everything about him.  Jensen Ackles. Aka. Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

He's just so pretty and I think I'm in LOVE.

& Last and certainly not least.

7. This Book Trilogy. I will admit that I was slightly disappointed in the totally predictable ending, though. But the entire idea behind the book? BRILLIANT.

Til next time-
Brittany :)

PS. Ynattirb is my name spelled backwards, if you haven't figured it out.
&& 7 is my favorite number :)