the rest is still unwritten...

...not by Jack Handy, but by me.

Funny how life works out. How from a scary car accident can come a tradition that I very much enjoy. I just had dinner with the guy involved in my car accident from 4 years ago. Instead of filing insurance claims and going on our seperate ways, we celebrate our Day of Luck each year. The day that could have turned out much much worse for both of us is annually spent eating steak, drinking wine, and discussing life. Funny how everything is put in perspective when reflecting back on and trying to summarize an entire year of your life. Time flies when you learn to enjoy where you are...

In other good news, certain doctors that shouldn't be allowed to work in ER's got their come-upins, which includes a verdict of inappropriate procedures, a manditory tutorial (I hope it's the "for dummies" version), and a homework assignment turned into the board of medical practice.

Life is sweet. : )

....for those of you that missed it. (You know who you are).

1. Beecher drinking beer out of a pot.
2. Realizing that the dixie cups disintegrate after a while, which motivated people to sing for a plastic cup.
3. Waking up in the morning to find the bottle of tequila unopened (thank god, that would have been a really really bad idea).
4. Andy Walterman's rendition of Bootylicious, which earned him a ginormous cup and, of course, street cred.
5. One of Katie's co-workers humping the floor to earn a red cup.
6. Rocking out to Weezer on the bass!! (and then giving myself a red cup)
7. The hooker from next door giving us props for having the keg on the porch and wondering if we were all of age.
8. Realizing that our next door neighbor is indeed a hooker.
9. Jon mixing himself a dixie-cup size long island.
And finally,
10. Getting drunk at home!!! I love that! At 4:00 AM, my bed is so very close....

....getting to work at 8:30 feels really late. I got up at 7:30 and wasn't tired or groggy, WTF?!?! If I lose the ability to sleep until noon on the weekends, you might as well just put me in a retirement home right now. I'll put on a crocheted sweater, some orthopedic loafers, stock up on cat knick-knacks, and call it a day.

I'm embarrassed to say that I have, up until this point, been a Netflix virgin. I'm not home all that much so I've just never felt the need for it. But I finally caved and now I'm seeing all these movies for the first time and want to talk to people about them. The problem is, they are all at least 3 or 4 years old and nobody wants to talk about them anymore! They've already had these conversations...

Anyhoo, that being said, here goes, internet:

The Devil Wears Prada - Maryl Streep is perhaps the best female bad guy and best female good guy ever. Kind of like John Travolta. Who else can go from Pulp Fiction, the epitome of bad-ass, to Hairspray??

Employee of the Month - absolutely freaking terrible but I had to watch it because Dane Cook is my boyfriend. He was the only tolerable part of that movie.

Brokeback Mountain - Ummm, wow. The kiss between Heath Ledger and what's his face when they reunite after 4 years is perhaps the hottest Hollywood kiss ever in history. Damn my attraction to gay men. Maybe it's an attraction to straight men playing gay men. Or gay straight men?

Well, the WILD are off to a good start! A 1-0 win against Chicago is a good way to start the season, but I think we'll have to step things up a notch or three to actually win games against other (better) teams. But, overall, it was a good game! It included a rather confused few moments in which a WILD player took a shot on goal that bounces off the cross-pipe and then down on to the crease, but not actually in the net. No goal light and no stoppage of play, so play continued for a second until the ref saw the shooter pointing at the goal and assumed that he had missed something! Oops!! Mass confusion, but still 1-0 (bad press meal). Also, Boobs McGee and her ex-North Star hubby were back in the alumni room and I haven't seen them in years!! It's quite the sight. Just.....can't.....look......away.......

Last night I bowled a 193!!!!! I think the mid-game turkey happened only because I wasn't paying attention and didn't know what was on the line. Of course, my game went down hill once I realized I was playing so well. But 193?? I'll take it. Way to go Helen 2!

Tonight was the kick off of the WILD season, well pre-season anyway. And although we got our asses handed to us by the Yankees of hockey (damn yankees), it still feels like the start of another great season of a lot of hockey! Free snacks, beer, wine, and pub height seats on club level is not a bad way to watch a hockey game, even a losing one. I also saw the goalie from the 1980 Olympic gold medal team and Chelios of the Red Wings. Isn't he approximately 70 years old by now??? Classic Detroit, you gotta love it. Throw in some Boogard smack, one of the the Hanson brothers in a sweater vest, and you have yourself a season!

Wa hoo!!

You know what is a great way to start a work week?? A job. Pending an interview (which will hopefully be just a formality), I will be able to continue my job AND get a raise!!! Thank you Universe Karma!! I just have to say to the internet world that I am so proud that I had a goal of my program (and job) continuing, and I freaking got RESULTS!!!!! Take that U of M. U of M = 0 Brienne = 1.

What a great way to cap off a great weekend that included Comedy Sportz, dinner at Figlio's, quality cabin time, and Spamalot!! If only typing could convey giddiness!!!!!!!!!!!! Wa hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Universe Karma,

stop.

please.

I don't know how much more shittiness I can take, so please please please don't try.

enough is enough.

I'm 27 today!!! Eeeeeep!!!

...oh how I have missed you. My new job as a therapist (which is awesome by the way) and current home dial-up status (not so fabulous) has left me little time to bond with you.

But at the moment, I am in St. Cloud with the most undivided high-speed internet access time that I have had in quite some time. I am sitting in a friend's basement, along with about 20 other people, competing in a wickedly-intense trivia competition. I've heard many legends of this weekend but this is the first time I have participated. All I can say is that the legends are true, people!! Computers and cell phones everywhere, IV's filled with concentrated caffeine, and some very intense trivia junkies. There's no time for sleep, only time for smoke breaks and coffee refills. yikes.

Anyway, I have missed you, dear internet. Now off to read all that is new. Hooray!!!

bree_enn out.

I win. I have done it. I have finally opened a Wells Fargo checking account so that I can escape from the ghettoness that is TCF. TCF, I hate you in the classless, cheap face. I now have multiple free banking services that you have either a. never heard of or b. charge for.

AND, I got a pony out of the deal!! I pony!!! I never got that at TCF. People, I am moving up in the world.

Carry on. I am off to pet my pony.

I am in the process of processing the fact that I will be leaving my current job. I will miss most of my co-workers, but hope that we can still get together for happy hours and such. I will also miss getting free stuff. Over the three years I have worked at this marketing company, I have gotten countless Snickers Crunchers, M&M's Amazing bars, Tul pens, Hershey's cookies, Old Dutch potato chips, Schick razors, Heluva Good cheese, Dial soap, and Schmacko's dog treats. Not only that, but I have also gotten GAP jeans, shirts, and hoodies. The jackpot of all jackpots, however, was my free I-Joy massage chair. I will miss free-loading so much....

The good news is that I am about to become a University of Minnesota employee, which means free education!! Which will not make my hands clean, stomach full, or back less knotty, but WILL in fact make me smarter! (perhaps)

Shall I take guitar lessons? The History of Rock Music from 1970 to the present?? Get my doctorate in psychology?? An MBA??? So many possibilities, all of which are free!!! Yipee!! I'm just realizing that I may be a masochist for even thinking of more school.

I cannot motivate myself to do ANY work right now. For some reason I didn't know that once you quit a job and put in your 2-week notice, you really have no desire to actually work for those 2 weeks. Why bother?? To feel like I'm not wasting company time and money for the next 10 business days? eh well.

You never realize how blind you really are until you rip a contact AND forget your glasses. My face is like 6 inches from my computer screen right now and my eyeballs hurt from trying so hard to make things less blurry. Is everything in this post spelled correctly?? I can't tell...

My life feels so surreal right now that I had to post about it. So, I got this job offer, see, and I'm 99.999999% sure that I will be officially accepting it tomorrow. Which means that there is a 99.999999% chance I will be quitting my current job as soon as my boss is back in the office on Monday. It is such a weird feeling. I'm going about my day, business as usual, carrying around this secret mix of glee and fear that I won't be doing this job at this place much longer. And nobody knows about it. That's the weirdest part. Oh yeah, I can work on that program in January - oh, wait - no because I won't be here. I will be doing something completely different, more challenging, and not nearly as comfortable. Eeeeek!! It's so hard to leave the familiar for the unknown...

I fear change....

But for now, I'm off to a meeting where I will further pretend that I am a dedicated employee....if they only knew......

I hate you in the face. You make me want to put my head in a vice just to distract me from the pounding. And also, you make me want to put on my pirate eye patch from National Talk Like a Pirate Day, just so that office lighting doesn't seem so bright and so that I can take a nap with one eye open so as to look like I'm working.

I'm now strictly a miller girl...

#1 Reason my job is cool today: I have to learn about Rosh Hashanah to make sure that there are no religious sanctions against eating chips and dip on this day. I also have to learn about the tailgating situation for Vikings games.

#1 Reason my job is NOT cool today: My company is not sending me into said Vikings game. I just have to walk around and chat with drunken tailgaters. Oh and also, I don't like trucking/shipping which I feel is a big part of my job lately. I work for a marketing agency, not a trucking company. Hello, UPS? Are you hiring and how much do you pay?? Cuz apparently I rock at shipping and receiving shit.

Last Thursday marked the last day of my practicum, which means I am officially done!! Done seeing clients, done working 60+ hours a week, done doing 1/2 of that work for free, done with homework, and even done with all my paperwork! Completely done. whew. Some people don't believe me (you know who you are), but I am now on a quest to prove to them (and to the world, dammit) that I am not an insane person who works every minute of every day.

I am filled with glee as I imagine all the things I shall do in all my free time now! It might actually take me a while to realize that it is truly free time and not time that I should be spending doing work of some sort or another. Shall I look into bowling leagues? Shall I read a book that has absolutely no academic value whatsoever? Shall I go shopping at a store that is not open until 11pm? Shall I watch prime time television? Shall I bake cookies? Who knows? Who knows how much time I'll have?

But I need help - I have no idea what is on prime time TV, nor what is good to watch over the summer, nor what I should be anxiously awaiting to watch in the fall. I'd love suggestions on that and on any books that I absolutely have to read because they are so flippin fantastic that I would want to read another book instead of burning it in an act bitterness toward school. Or I might just nap. That sounds fun too.

I think mother nature is trying to kill me. I feel like one of those people in an allergy commercial being chased by giant grains of pollen in a field of flowers.