Karma

One of my worst fears came true today.

One time, when I was in college, there was this girl walking through one of the buildings, obviously late for a class and hurrying to get there – and as she darted past me, I saw her skirt was tucked into her underwear.

I wanted to tell her, but she darted past me so quickly, and I was shy to tell her.

This was back in the day when I was unfunctionally shy.  I’m still shy, but I’ve come A LONG ways from where I was.

I still remember that moment, wanting to tell her but feeling too shy, to uncomfortable, and she was past me so quickly I’d have to run after her, which made it harder for me to get the courage to do it.

I’ve always felt so badly about not telling her. How humiliating that moment must have been for her, and I could have helped alleviate it. I still to this day feel guilty over it.

A couple of weeks ago, (well August 1, if you must know… it was our 1 month anniversary, and Trevor being the stud that he is, took me to a surprise sushi dinner to celebrate) Trevor and I were at a restaurant. A lady got up at the table over, and as she did I noticed she had a blood spot on the back of her skirt. As she walked by, I told her.

Having that happen is one of my worst fears. She hustled to the bathroom, holding her purse behind her. I was pretty proud of myself for getting the courage to tell her. I was shy to do it, but knew she had to know. How humiliating for her. I told Trev the regret I had, not telling the underwear girl her situation.

I kind of felt like I’d made peace. I’d cancelled out that regret with a good deed. Booya!!!

So today I stopped by my favorite restaurant, also the place Trev took me to dinner the day he proposed.  I was grabbing lunch for me and lunch for us tomorrow. I had to pee, as I always do. So upon entering, I ran to the bathroom. I then walked to the front of the restaurant, and stood there at the counter waiting for someone to come help me.

I’ve been standing there at least 3 minutes, and a waitress walks behind me and kind of mumbles something and points to my skirt. I think she’s complimenting my skirt and feel all cool.

I grab it to reaffirm – yeah it’s cute! And lo and behold – the back is missing. Basically it is TUCKED INTO MY UNDERWEAR. The whole back. All of it. I’ve just walked through the whole restaurant and am standing at the counter with a giant white butt exposed to the whole establishment.

There are people sitting right behind me, I can see them. I stare ahead, un-tuck it.

As luck would have it, my order isn’t ready. So I have to sit at a table and wait. Surrounded by all these people who have seen me practically naked. Then the waitress who had also witnessed my great white booty gave me my food, and I bolted.

I’ve been waiting for this day to finally catch up with me. Sigh.

So moral of the story is, help your fellow women out! If you don’t, one day, even if it is 6 years later, you will suffer the same fate.

You know what they say about karma….

Love,

Brittney

PS- 

Also if we’re talking about karma… I’m not sure I ever captured on my blog the time Camree made me staple my finger.

One time, Camree stapled her finger and called to tell me. I told her she was a moron. Who staples their finger? Honestly. The way she did it didn’t help… she had a little mini stapler attached to her backpack, and was swinging it/playing with it on her way to class and stapled her finger.

I had no pity, only giggles about the situation.

THE NEXT DAY I STAPLED MY FINGER.

I kid you not. I’ve never in my life stapled my finger. Or any other part of my body. My stapler at work ran out of staples, and I added more but it got jammed. As I was trying to get it to work, I stapled my finger. And it HURT.

I’ve NEVER stapled my finger before. The day after Camree staples her finger and I mock her for it, I staple mine.

OH KARMA. YOU FICKLE FRIEND.

Pop-tarts and Gummy Bears

Camree and I did a colon cleanse 2 summers ago (summer of 2011).

Camree has chronic… weirdness… in her stomach region. I told this to a colleague and she and some other colleagues swore by this hydrotherapy colon cleanse. Caused miracles in their lives.

So, we did it.

For 5 weeks we didn’t eat a thing. 3 times a day we drank this juice from fresh veggies (can’t remember all the ingredients, but some were – cilantro, dandelion leaves, ginger, kale, beets, lemon). We’d juice the veggies and drink the mixture three times a day. Most the time I’d rather go hungry than drink it. At first it wasn’t so bad, but by the 4^th week I couldn’t handle it. Honestly, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Doesn’t sound like it should be that hard, but it was really difficult. I didn’t cheat once and neither did Camree.

We did have some lows though…

At my lowest, I was babysitting for a friend. I fed her kids dinner, which I couldn't have, and I was so hungry and exhausted I wanted to cry and go to sleep. Instead, I took a Pop-tart out of her cupboard and chewed it and spit it out. One bite at a time.

At her lowest, Camree stuffed gummy bears up her nose so she could smell them and wouldn’t taste the veggie drink.

Love,

Brittney

Taz Jammies

I made these jammie bottoms, for who knows what reason. If I remember right, Camree picked out the fabric (she made shorts) and I used the excess to make bottoms for me. I’ve never been into cartoons, let alone Taz, so I’m really not sure why I used the material. But I did. And I wore them, ever day for years. Until the holes in the knees were so bad it was quite embarrassing to be seen in public (still didn’t stop me from wearing them for a while though). These bottoms lasted me every day for 2 years of boarding school. Yes, I wore these in boarding school, for the entire school to see.

Oh, how I loved them.

 

Notice the huge hole in the knee?



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A Night In Pictures...

Halloween 2010

This has been, undoubtedly, the best Halloween ever.

Took the Sudanese kids to the Red Butte Gardens Halloween Carnival thing. It was so much fun! They got paint in my beautiful Tim - I still need to scrub him clean. I also carved the first pumpkin of the season - a skeleton, and went to a corn maze under a perfect moon. :)

10/28 : Spent the whole day prepping for Halloween at work. We did a “haunted hallway” in the hallway infront of mine and Julie’s desks. The rules were you can’t hang anything from the walls or ceiling. So we went to Home Depot and bought PVC pipes, and created a 10 foot frame that fit perfectly into the hallway, so we could hang black plastic from the top of the hallway to the bottom, blocking out all light. We filled the hallway/doorframes with all types of fun stuff, and filled the hallway with balloons. It turned out really well.

That night, we carved pumpkins. Highlights - I carved the sandman. Ramzi carved ET. Tara carved a bumkin. Aaron carved a really creepy teethy thing.

10/29 : Had a Halloween extravaganza at work. Everyone dressed up, and families were invited to come trick-or-treat. In a building with something around 700 employees, that means it was a zoo. It was ridiculously fun.

Brittney and her darling girls, Katie Marie and Belinda, came to see me and trick-or-treat. It was so fun to see them.

There were 3 “spook alleys” on my floor. The one my co-workers and I made, and 2 others. One was very well done, it was truly scary.

Brittany and I dressed up like twins. Since we have the same name, and there are hardly any girls at the office, all the guys make fun of us all the time. They call us The Brittney’s, or just Brittney, Brittney Squared, and tease us about our all exclusive Brittney club. So to be funny, we came to work dressed the exact same. It was actually pretty fun.

After, Ramzi and I went to a theatrical rendition of Dracula! It was awesome. It was put on by the Mortal Fools Theatre Project, in the Provo Castle.

I told Ramz we needed to leave an hour early, getting enough time to get there, since I am fully aware how directionally challenged I am.  I couldn’t get an actual address for the Provo Castle,  just generic directions. I put Castle into my GPS, and it came up with Castle Rock, and the address was very close to that of the directions I had. So I figured it must be it, right? Took half an hour to get there – turns out it was the right address, only in Orem, not Provo.  Woops. We turned around and got there pretty easy after that, actually following the directions I had.We got there 5 minutes late, but it hadn't started yet. Success!

Turns out, the Provo Castle is right next to the mental asylum. Creeeeepy! We got lost in the complex area, never having been to the castle, compounded by the darkness. That was fun.

The show was intense and good, I enjoyed it. Especially the whole, being in a castle part.

10/30 : I decided, last minute, I wanted to make a haunted dinner! It ended up being so much fun. Ramzi and Aaron came and helped me cook.

We made hand meatloaf

and finger cookies

Highlight of the whole evening:

Me (to Grams): Look! What do you think?

Grams: Cute!

Me: Cute??

Grams: Yeah, it’s cute.

Me: Bunnies are cute. Babies are cute. This is supposed to be gross!

(Grams giving a confused face)

*Ramzi, Aaron and I are laughing*

Me (to Gramps): What do you think?

Gramps: Cute!

(We all burst out laughing)

Me: No, it’s gross!

Gramps: Oh, it’s a finger? I thought it was Anne with a beard (Anne is my Grandma).

Hahahahahahaaaa.

Afterwards, I got to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, which I have never done. When I was young, I was always out trick-or-treating. Since I’ve been in the States, I’ve always gone out to parties with friends. I decided this year to forgo the parties and watch Halloween movies and hand candy out to kids. It was fun!

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