Freedom!

Thought of The Day:

"There is time for everything"

  - Thomas A. Edison

School is finally over! Well, the semester is at least. So far, I know that I have two A's...let's hope all my hard work has paid off and my 4.0 GPA will not be ruined! How shall I reward myself for all my dedication to education? I've made a list.

1. Read, read, and read some more!
2. Catch up on Friday Night Lights.
3. Catch up on my REM sleep.
4. Get back into "workout mode".
5. Clean my room, and KEEP it clean.
6. Update myself on all the music blogs I follow.
7. Get better (I've had this nasty cold (?) thing since like September..)
8. Oh ya, maybe I'd better become social again! :)

The list can get pretty long, so I'll stop there.

I have learned so much this semester. I feel pretty awesome when working with DAW's..and heck of a lot better with technical stuff! I'm no longer super scared of recording consoles...well, maybe a I'm still a little scared. I feel pretty darn sexy when speaking français. Paris, here I come! Although psychology definitely isn't my thing, I really appreciate it (maybe not honors psychology!). Plus, without that class I would have never known that I have a INFJ personality!

Vampire-Zombie Apocalypse

Thought of the Day:

Warning: The contents of this blog may be considered violent/and or disturbing. Read at your own risk.

I have always been known to have crazy "Picasso" dreams, meaning they never make sense or are completely random, like one time it was the zombie apocalypse and I was able to save my friends and family from them..it was totally like Zombieland. Kinda. Usually, in my dreams I am able to fly... kinda. It's more like swimming, but in the air..? I can't really explain it, but if you get it..you've earned your gold wings and 25 house points for Gryffindor. ANYWAYS..The other night I had the CRAZIEST dream!
I was just flying around the city at night, no biggie, when I noticed some guys fighting in the alley. So, I went to check it out, and me being in a dream, I decided to help this one (attractive) guy fight off these 3 men...and we ended up killing them, no biggie. Me and the attractive man were talking and I learned that he was a vampire and we were battling some other vamps. He noticed that I got bit by one of the guys during the fight, and before I knew it... I was a VAMPIRE! (Ya, totally painless, unlike Stephanie Meyers' vamps!) Since I was a vampire, I had to run away from my family and live with this sexy vampire man, who became my new hot boyfriend :) Let's call him Jace (it may or may not have something to do with Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instrument series..).
Me and Jace were just chillin' in the room he was renting from this lady, when this said lady appeared in the room all creepy-like. Jace said 'She's a vampire, if we don't kill her, she will kill us!" She wasn't just a vampire, she was a ZOMBIE-VAMP! So he kills her, and we had to bash in her skull, otherwise she would just keep on "living". Jace and I thought it was really weird that our landlord turned all zombie-vamp on us, we've never seen that before!
We spent most of our time hanging out in his room. It was up on the upper level of the house and it was the highest room, so we were able to just walk out onto the roof from our window. I noticed there was a little boy waiting on the roof, looking in the window. I go over to talk to the boy and he starts trying to recruit me and Jace into his vampire team to fight off the "others", we thought he was talking gibberish and made him go away.
Later, my brother Alex came to visit us (so much for running away from my family), keep in mind that he still doesn't know that we are vamps. We were in our room, when I notice that there were like 10 zombie-vamps on the roof! Jace went out to "take care of them", I tried to distract Alex from seeing Jace go all "Sweeney Todd" on these people. But it was in vain, one of the zombie-vamps broke through our window, I told Alex to close his eyes and started to fight off this guy. Then another zombie-vamp came in and started to attack Alex, I told him that he could open his eyes and help me kill these guys! Don't worry, everything ended OK, the zombie-vamps had broken necks and bashed in skulls, Alex was alive. Of course, since he helped me I kinda had to tell him what we were, and all he said was "OK," he was strangely cool about it! Only in dreams, right? As we were talking, we discovered that Alex had a scratch/bite mark on his arm! Unfortunately, he turned into a vamp. But he was a good one, like us! And guess what? He was cool about it!
Alex, Jace and I just happened to be turned into normal vampires and we were ALL able to fly/swim in the air! The zombie-vamp population was increasing rapidly, and there were very little humans left. The streets were full of the zombie-vamps, just waiting to kill us. So we flew around town, attacking them from above.
We found a human shelter that promised safety from the zombie-vamps, so we decided to try it out. In order to be in the shelter, we had to pretend to be humans. Otherwise, the humans would kill us or leave us to the zombie-vamps! But there was a problem, upon entering the shelter it was mandatory that everyone get their blood tested to ensure that they were free of the zombie-vamp virus. They handed us needles to prick our fingers with, and were waiting in line to give them our BLOOD. Oh no! I started praying that we wouldn't be discovered (only I would pray in a dream...while I was a vampire, no less). It was time to give them our needles, and somehow they overlooked us! We were walking away from the table when I heard "Brittany!" I slowly turned around, bracing myself for the worst, and the nurse that called me said "you forgot your papers". Relief filled me, I grabbed the papers and made my way towards Jace and Alex.


After that I woke up. Who ever said that dreams only last a few seconds? If only I were able to finish that dream! Maybe, I'll write a book about it. Oh wait, somebody already wrote a book about vampires that she happened to dream of. Dang it.

Religion

Thought of the Day:

"Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, or thoughts, adn our actions wheter we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable."

- Ezra Taft Benson

Yes, I am writing a post about religion. If I come off as self-righteous, trust me, that is not my intention.

I am LDS because I chose to be LDS. Yes, I was born into the church and was raised by the LDS standards, but there comes a time where you must find your own faith because you can't depend on your parents faith forever. When I came to that fork in the road (everyone does), I chose to be a member of the church. I didn't do it for my family, parents, friends, peers. I did it for me. Even if I chose the opposite, those said people wouldn't care... Yes they would be sad, but they would still love me.

A few people I've had to talk to are convinced that religious people such as myself are brainwashed and ignorant because we've believed in something for our whole lives. I'm sorry they think such awful things about religious people. I'm sorry they choose not to listen. I'm sorry they wont know the feeling I get when I pray, read my scriptures, play music, or when I bear my testimony. I hope that one day, they might feel that passion... even if they don't feel it in the LDS church, I hope they feel it with any church, or with God! 

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Thought of the Day:

"Magic is Might"

- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

First of all, yes, I did just do an HP quote..deal with it! Second of all, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was so good! I was seriously on edge throughout the whole movie. I don't think a 2.5 (ish) hour movie has ever held my attention for that long! With that being said, I am seriously thinking about re-reading the whole series.. after I buy a new set of course. Books 1-4 are so beat up and old that I can barely open up the books without pages falling out! I guess that's what you get when that's all you would read when you were little. :)

I love the HP books so much! I think it may be because I had this everlasting thirst to fight for what is right. To overcome whatever evil there is in the world and to change things for the better!! I think it's because I feel this way that I love books/movies such as HP, 1984, Hunger Games, V for Vendetta, Lord of the Rings, etc.

There were so many parts of the movie that reminded me of 1984 (Ministry of Magic... HELLO!!). After reading the series over again, 1984 is next! But only after I finish reading Fahrenheit 451 of course. :)

New subject: Judging

Seriously, it's bad.

Don't do it.

It's not fair to judge others before you even know them or their life story. Growing up, I've always had a difficult time fitting in with the Mormons in my school...or anywhere! Haha. Not just my peers, but even seminary teachers! Anyways, just be nice to everyone. Nobody deserves to be judged unfairly.

Things I Love

Thought of the Day:
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live"
- Elbert Hubbard



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Boston
London
Music
Pro Tools
Recording awesome music at school!
Getting a 98% on my French test
Discovering new music
Weekends
Books
French films, such as Amélie
Laughing till I cry
Sleeping in
Hott guys with hott English/French accents
Cooler weather (obviously that's not happening yet)
Gift cards (especially to Barns and Noble)
Free movies (movie theater jobs have its advantages)
Right now, I am feeling so good about what I am doing in school. Music. Recording. Editing. Mixing. All of it!!

C'est La Vie

Thought of the Day:
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
- Aristotle


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So, school this semester is actually going well! I love it actually, haha! I am taking a super awesome music editing class, I think that I found my purpose in life :) Studio Recording is also very fun, even though it is kinda tough. I am one of two girls in my class, let's just say that us girls have to work extra hard to be better than the guys AND to be respected as recording engineers! But I love it. :) Mes amies et moi are taking French together, I love it so much. I'm thinking about moving to France right this very moment! Even if I have to play my cello on the streets for money! I just can't get enough of it!

A few weeks ago, EVMCO (the organization I play cello in) premiered Rob Gardner's "Lamb of God". It was such a wonderful experience, I loved every moment of it. I honestly don't think I can ever be in another orchestra and be this happy. I am so grateful to be a part of this organization. When I first heard about EVMCO, I had less than a day to put together some pieces to play for my audition. I kid you not, during my audition it wasn't me playing. I was playing the cello, but it sounded so gorgeous and romantic! I am positive that I had divine help. For awhile, I was feeling unsure and didn't feel like I was good enough to be a part of such an amazing thing. I was talking to my dad about this before a concert and he said that because I had that extra help during my audition, it goes to show how much I needed to be a part of this organization and this is where the Lord wants me to be at this moment. Here's an extra little present. :)

One of my really good friends just left for the MTC almost two weeks ago. I am so happy for him, and so excited to hear all about his mission! In fact, I got a letter from him today! It's kind of crazy. I've had older friends all leave for their missions already and some are already back, but now it's the people my age that are leaving!

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Thought of the Day:

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers"
-Oscar Wilde



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Let's take a moment and review Newton's third law:

"For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction."

Now, I know his laws pertain to motion, but I think we can apply them to our lives as well.

Por ejemplo:

Two weeks ago I was assigned to play the organ for sacrament meeting. I was freaking out because I was out of town and wasn't able to get much practicing in. Fortunately, the hymns given to me were extremely easy.

The following week I was assigned to play organ, again. But this time the hymns were insanely hard! Ahem - hymn 254!! Anyways, I totally made a fool out of myself and messed up ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!

Another example:

This summer has been fairly decent.
Reading a lot of books...and I mean A LOT!
Working - I mean hardly working!
Going off to California for good times, famous people and Disney Land.
Going for our midnight adventures that include grocery shopping (seriously), swimming, spooning people's houses (OK, that wasn't THIS summer...or last..But it was fun and I miss it.)

Will this semester punish me for having such a carefree summer and make my classes super unbearable and time consuming? Probably. I already have to study for a test, and school starts next week... I'm not joking.

Oh well.
Summer, it was great while it lasted but I think it's time that we went our separate ways. Maybe, in the future we can be together again.

Blarg.

Thought of the Day:

Life sucks...



and then you get over it.

Freshman Be Gone!

Thought of the Day:
"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another has it for 30 days, but is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."
-Edward B. Butler


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This past school year has been hectic and as a result I have not been able to do much blogging. But don't worry, it wasn't all in vain.. I got good marks in school :)

Let's do a recap of it all.

My internship with the Symphony was great! I learned so much and it was a great experience.. I especially loved the free tickets! It's a shame that that had to come to an end, where did this school year go?!


Speaking of school years, my first year as a college student was great. I love it sooooo much more than high school. Enough said. It may be a little bit harder, but it's nothing that I can't do. :) Also, I have since changed my major. I'm thinking audio production? I would just LOVE to be the recording engineer for Mimi's amazing films in the future!

I've been a ward organist for almost a whole year! I was reluctant to accept my calling at first, but I grew to love it. The nerves of playing for a congregation were dulled, my playing got better (not in just the organ, but piano and cello as well.. and I'm not complaining about that!). But I am really grateful for this opprotunity to share and develop those talents. :)


I've been apart of the East Valley Mormon Choral Organization (EVMCO) as a cellist in the orchestra. My mom first told me about this group in September, she had heard about it from one of her patients. I Googled them and requested some information on them, I got an email back the next day asking if I would go and audition that night! Long story short, I threw together some audition pieces and made the orchestra! I absolutely LOVE it! Each rehearsal is the equivalent to going to church, I get musically fed as well as spiritually fed! I am incredibaly lucky to be a part of such a good organization, my thirst of changing the world through music is starting to be made possible!
If you need something to do this Friday... we have a spectacular concert happening at Gammage that you MUST see!
http://www.evmco.org/


All in all, this year was a good year. Not at all like I was expecting, it had it's up's and down's but I am grateful for all the knowledge that I had gained this year.

It's time the fat cats had a heart attack

Thought of the Day:
"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
- J.K. Rowling



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Lately I've been reading quite a good selection of books which include:
- "Hunger Games/Catching Fire" by Suzanne Colins
- "Uglies/Pretties/Specials" by Scott Westerfeld
- "1984" by George Orwell (Accompanied by Muse's new album "The Resistance")

After much thought, I've come to a conclusion. We must rebel..

I feel an uprising coming on.


Who's with me?