Seven for the Eighteenth

I am completely, absolutely, and unabashedly in love with these songs. 

Music is the core of my existence, and something I really love to do is hit up grooveshark or pandora to discover new, fun music (a practice I highly recommend!). And just look at all these gems I've found!

I went through all the trouble of putting them here because I want you to love them, too.  :)

Happy listening!

1. Note to the Unknown Soldier by Five for Fighting

2. Sweet Serendipity by Lee DeWyze

3. Keep Breathing by Ingrid Michaelson

4. Prove You Wrong by He is We

5. Kiss Me Slowly by Parachute

6. Love Sucks by Nathan Angelo

7. It's Gotta Be Love by Lee DeWyze

The LEGIT Bucket List

Fact: I am a list person.
Seriously, I'll make a list for everything. And that goes beyond groceries and to-do lists. Sometimes I even venture so far as to post a kissing bucket list on a semi-public blog. That incident leads to....

Further fact: If you want people to think you're normal, don't announce your first kiss in the form of a bucket list, thereby implying that all you want to do with the rest of your life is kiss people in crazy and sometimes unromantic ways. Not the brightest idea.

But, lucky for ME, all that happened a few months ago. And after enduring all those, "wow, THAT wasn't obvious," and "sssuuuubbbtttllleee, Britt" comments, I decided I would someday redeem myself by posting my for-reals bucket list. Just to prove I'm not running around kissing all day (or at all, actually. Thank goodness for that!).

So, as promised (to myself) here's my original, legitimate bucket list. The reason it's small is because it's not one of those bucket lists where you just add random funny stuff for the sake of adding random funny stuff. No, believe me, I will not rest before I accomplish the few following items. here it is.

1. Order a happy meal with extra happy :) :)
2. Take a hobo to chuck-a-rama
3. Cry while performing the saxophone
4. Win a game of ERS (aka "slap," "Egyptian Rat Race/Screw")
5. Participate in a flash mob

And that's all I want to do with my life. If I accomplish those five things, I'll die happy.
True story.

Right Now 7/12 7:52 a.m.

It doesn't make sense for me to be so... disheveled. I feel like I'm all over the place, and it's only Thursday on what's supposed to be the clearest and smoothest week of the month!

I don't know what it is. I'm quickly irritated, prone to be snappy. I'm also probably stressed and irrational. I'm not thinking the most clearly, and my whole body is filled with some sort of anxiety or fear that kept me from falling asleep last night. My only guess at what could be is either work--it is my very first week on the phones, after all--or else it could be boys. My conscience is tugging at me and I can't figure out why, all of a sudden, it's freaking out on me.

Oh, guys, guess what? I got up at 7 today. Something must be wrong........ ;P

Well, enough of my pathetic ranting. In other news, I officially have a second job! I work at Summerhays all day on Saturdays. Accssories, boo yah! :D
(and don't get all *ooooohhhhh* on me there. I'm actually really excited about Summerhays, and it's not what's got me all strung up. :P)

Also, I went and saw Snow White and the Huntsman last night with Cambry and Sabrina. It was such a blast!! The three of us need to do things together more often. :) The movie was great, too, although it wasn't my favorite. Do you know what movie IS my favorite?????

BEST. MOVIE. EVER!!!!!!

And it's NOT just because I may or may not be totally in love with this handsome man.........

okay. maybe it is. ;)

I mean, come on.  Look at him! 

Adorable.

No, but seriously. Go see it.

:D

Late for Work

It's my first day of work on the phones. No more training, I'm ready to be out tackling calls and helping our IPCs with whatever they need done! :) I have some time before work at 1, so Cambry and I are out doing something fun together.

Cambry and I drive through what looks a lot like Riverwoods. We must be in England or something, because she drives, but she's on the right side of the car. But it's no big deal because we're talking, laughing, and just having a good old time until I look at the clock and it reads 1:19.

You know that feeling of horrible dread, that just sweeps straight through your body and settles in the pit of your stomach? That feeling that makes your eyes go wide and your body start to shiver and say silly things like, "OH MY GOSH MY DAD'S GONNA KILL ME!!!"

Yep. That's what came over me just then. It was 1:19 and I was supposed to be at work 30 minutes ago. That's a problem.

So I frantically start talking to Cambry. "I have GOT to get to doterra! I am soo late, I don't know how that happened!" I scream. I have no idea what I was going to do, but next thing I know, I'm out of the car and sprinting for the doterra building.

At first when I get inside, I'm all disoriented. It looks like the inside of the Dixie Convention Center, and for some reason I have no idea where I'm going. I wander around for a bit before I realize I'm in the wrong place. I'm supposed to be at the call center, but here I am wandering around in the executives' building! I hurry and run for the exit to the building, but somehow I manage to get lost. All around me I see office memos asking everyone if they've seen me and my lipgloss. They know I didn't show for work, and now they're looking for me! I have to get to to work as fast as I can....

Finally I reach the edge of the building, where it suddenly drops off to a blackish-purple abyss. You know, like in video games and stuff, where you can jump off and the game "resets" you back to the start? Well I stared right into that blackish-purple abyss, and I thought to myself, "If I'm going to get to work, I'm going to have to jump."

Somehow I had it in my mind that I was going to reset once I jumped into an extremely strange and untrustworthy blackish-purple abyss. And as I took one last look around me, I flung myself off the edge and began screaming for my life.

Butterflies. Lots and lots of butterflies. Oh, and complete and utter darkness.

Me, jumping off the building into the abyss of certain death. Minus the Mario Suit, mustache, and protective bubble.

I fell longer than I should have. I fell until the butterflies went away and all I could feel was a cushion of air around me as I spiraled to my doom. By then I realized that I had not "resetted" like I planned, and I was instead about to crash into the ground and die. I saw a vague image to the side of me. It grew larger and brighter as I began to focus, but everything was spinning. Why was everything spinning?

Just as I was thinking, "this is it.....!" and preparing myself for the afterlife, I opened my eyes.
My bedroom walls were there to greet me, welcoming me back from the scariest dream of my life.

I think I had to check the time three times before I actually believed that it was only a dream. :P