Queen B

Well, December came and went more quickly than October and November combined. The only part of college that I hate is the feeling that Fall semester takes over and scrunches Christmas into a week. Having a whole month to focus on the birth of the Savior is pretty much the only part of not being in college next year, that I am looking forward to.

In addition to the shortened time, my attitude and my experiences over the last month put me in a position to not be in the Christmas spirit as much as I usually am. Let's just say that December was a rough month for Brittney. Anyway, I was worried that my lack of Christmas loving would make me miss out on all the things I didn't get to do. However that isn't what happened.

Even with my lack of time, and my lack of excitement for Christmas, I made a goal to make this season about the Savior, and not about the traditions, or parties, or activities. I found that since I took more time to ponder the importance behind the Savior, I felt the Christmas spirit much more stronger. Especially the week before Christmas, I made an exceeded effort to feel my Saviors love, and reflect on his magnificent life.

So even though I didn't get around to watching my favorite Christmas shows (The Santa Clause, Home Alone, The Grinch, and the Claymations) I did watch the video of the Nativity, the new movies from the Church. I got to read different accounts of the Savior's birth and his ministry on the earth. I didn't get to make christmas cookies, but I did learn about the first manger and Swaddling clothes. These experiences brought me so much more closer to the Savior, that now looking back, I have no regrets over how my Christmas season went. I enjoyed it, and it let me reflect back on the changes I need to make to bring me closer to my Savior, and my Heavenly Father.

I will share one scripture from my studies that i just loved:

Matthew 1:21

"And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins."

For some reason that scripture really struck me this season. I especially loved the phrase, for he shall save his people. . . HIS people. That brings me an immense of comfort and feeling of love from my Savior, and it helps me remember that he suffered the worst fate imaginable so I wouldn't have to. He sacrificed his life for me so that I could see my dad again, and my Heavenly Father, and the rest of my family. That is literally the greatest gift, I will ever have.

My Love Letter to Taylor Swift

12:13 PM

Dear Taylor Swift,

First, I would like to say thank you. Thank you for the beautiful words you have put into a sometimes ugly world. Thank you for being a wonderful role model for women ages 5 to 97 years. Thank you for putting so much feelings and emotions into your music. Thank you for making fifteen year old Brittney feel like she was worth something. Thank you for making me realize that love is the most important thing in life but sometimes you have to find happiness on your own, that sometimes you have to choose yourself over everybody else. Thank you for helping me define what it means to be fearless, and sad, and happy, and confused. And also making me feel like it was alright to feel all of those things at once. Thank you for showing me how to demand respect without being demanding. But most importantly, thank you for standing up and being you despite the people trying to tear you down. Thank you for teaching me to not just be okay with who I am, but to love who I am. People ask me all the time why I love you so much. I want to say that you helped me love me, and that is something I will always be grateful for.

Second, please don't ever stop making music. Your music is usually the only thing that can get me through a crappy day. I love it, and I love learning and experiencing with you as you learn and experience. I honestly don't know what I would do if you stopped making music. One, I don't think anyone needs a break from you. Two, if they do than they can go jump in the stinking lake because you are perfect, and although you do love your fans I don't think you realize how much we love you. Besides, if you disappear where am I gonna get my Swiftsperation for my Halloween costumes. Yes, I have dressed as you for the past five years now, and I have never once regretted it.

Third, your concert was literally a night I will never forget. I sang my lungs out to every single song and ugly cried pretty much the whole time. Thank you for letting me and my little sister jam out to the greatest person in the whole world. Thank you for saying what you mean. Also, thank you for not singing about sex and drugs, thanks for being a breath of fresh air.

Lastly, Taylor Swift I will love you until the day I die (and probably longer than that).

-- B

The Blessings of the Temple

11:55 AM

Trumpocalypse 2016

11:15 AM

Anyone interested in the 2016 Presidential election was probably watching the two GOP debates last night which aired on FOX News. I could write probably ten novels on all the things that happened last night, but there is one thing that stood out to me. Amid the circus show last night, there was something that I think conservatives aren't paying enough attention to. They're letting it slip by because it's new and shiny. What GOP voters don't realize is that if they continue to let this new toy be the center of attention, we will be in a lot more trouble than we have at any time in the last eight years. And that new shiny toy is,

Donald Trump

Under the guise of a fresh face and anti-political correctness, Donald Trump has stormed to the top of the polls. Not just among GOP candidates. He is the top candidate period. WHY? Well, I think Fiorina put it best when she said,

"... he has tapped into an anger that people feel. They're sick of politics as usual. . . The political class has failed you, and that is just a fact. And Donald Trump has tapped into that."

The people who I know that are supportive of Trump are sick to death of these sycophants who never show who they really are. But the problem is that just because Trump hasn't been a career politician doesn't mean he's the wide eyed innocent golden boy that he has made himself out to be.

During the election of 2012, a big problem Mitt Romney, The GOP nominee, faced was that conservatives thought he was a flip flopper. He had changed his views on some very important issue to conservatives and that made him untrustworthy to many. PEOPLE DONALD TRUMP IS THE WORST FLIP FLOPPER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

If you think Jimmy Carter was an incompetent commander and chief..... President Carter has NOTHING on how incompetent and destructive Trump would be as president.

Yes, people are sick to death of the hyper-sensitive society we have created. People are sick to death of being told that they can't stand up for their beliefs because it hurts someone's else's feelings. I think President Obama and his forceful nature of trying to make everyone accept everyone regardless of their values has created a society that want the anti-of that attitude. (ENTER TRUMP). But it is a total and complete farce.

Donald Trump is not and has never been the solution to our over sensitive society. He has obliterated all the work the GOP has done the last four years to help include the Hispanic vote and the female vote. In one night, he has estranged a huge group of votes that the GOP needs to win. He isn't being "anti-politically correct" he is banking on built up emotions and using flat out monstrous lies to do so.

The GOP and it's candidates should have put the nails in Trumps Presidential coffin the moment he said that every immigrant coming across the Mexican border was a rapist. They should have confronted him about many things.

Last night he back tracked, sort of, to save face for what he had said in his announcement speech. But where he back tracked on immigration, he went leaps and bounds in the negative direction against women.

WHY. Why did not one candidate call him out on the horrendous things he has said against women. Ya know, I am not fan of Rosie O'Donnell. I think she is an intolerant liberal and very offensive. But when Trump mentioned that she was the one he was calling a Fat Pig. Someone should have said something. Instead of letting him attack Megyn Kelly. She wasn't even there to defend herself. Is that the professional, respectful, Reagan loving Conservative we want as President? NO. He wasn't just calling O'donnell out. He has made several disparaging comments about women. This goes beyond being politically incorrect. Trump showed us last night how he really feels about women. He doesn't respect them, and doesn't treat them as equals. He made sexually dehumanizing comments. (Where are my value defending conservatives?????) Why would anyone want a president who doesn't treat half of the population like human beings? I'm am blown away that more people are not upset about what he said.

Instead of calling out Trump for his heinous remarks, conservative and even liberal media networks are asking today, was Kelly to hard on Trump last night? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Trump got his feelings hurt because the moderators were asking hard questions. Tell me this, If Trump can't handle people asking about his past and past actions that HE committed, then how do you think he is going to handle diplomatic relations with other countries? Like HELLO, Iran, China, and Russia don't mess around and were gonna send loud mouth Trump over there. Well if you like war that is who you should vote for because there is no way Trump will ever argue for peace between nations.

If you thought the last eight years with Obama was bad, you have no idea what we'll be in store for if Trump is elected.

Do NOT let Trump trick you into his horrible game. Our founding father's will really roll around in their graves if this man wins the nomination. He will really, (in all seriousness) damage this country more than it already is. He is contentious and divisive and that is the antithesis of what this nation needs right now.

-- B

What's in a name?

10:06 AM

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The stress

A look back on my 2K16

January

August

Christmas Time

Matthew 1:21

My Love Letter to Taylor Swift

The Blessings of the Temple

Trumpocalypse 2016

Donald Trump

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