Laziest dilemma ever!

I was talking to my friend Nicole about how I was feeling super lazy and didn't feel like going upstairs to get ready for bed...here's how the conversation went:

Me: So I have this dilemma...where I want to go to bed, but don't want to go upstairs and get ready for bed. LAZY LAZY LAZY.

Nicole: Well, this sounds serious.

Me: Doesn't it, though?

Nicole: We need to figure out a way for you to work through it...

Me: Counsel me Nicole...

Nicole: I think your best bet would be to stand up. Lol...I'm not good at this.

Me: LOL

Nicole: Just suck it up and walk up those stairs!

Later on...

Nicole: BRITTTANY! Man up and get your butt upstairs! Brush your teeth and wash your face!...Did it work?

I love friends who are so honest...and hilarious!

The Voice

So I'm sitting here in the office watching The Voice with Lindsay and I thought that I should record some of our thoughts from the performances.

Brittany:

• "Frenchie always picks songs that I like...that's probably the only reason I like her."
• I love Dia. So much. If I could transplant a voice to my vocal chords it would be hers. Really, it would be Javier's, but it might freak people out if I started singing like a man.
• Dia kicked some ask! (yes...I meant what I typed...see youtube video)
  
• I don't know what I feel about Casey yet. I don't think we'd be friends in real life but she's got some talent.
• Casey looked like an angel in her little dress...and her little shoes. (Actually...the cowboy boots were really strange with that dress...not a fan).
• I just keep hoping Adam will ask me to marry him.
• "It's a Fancy Feast commercial...which makes it awesome."
• I wasn't a fan of Blake Shelton before this show...but he absolutely melted my heart with how he cares for his team! Oh my goodness gracious...
• "Good thing you can't vote, Lindsay." (regarding her desire to vote for Xenia over Dia...)
  

Lindsay:

• "Please don't do another sex song!" (referring to Nakia)
• "I just wish you would cut your hair and shave some of your beard...that would make me happy" (even though this is about the VOICE....hmmm)
• Lindsay wasn't so sure that Dia's song was a good choice...she changed her mind.
• "You just think she's hot!" (referring to Adam referring to Casey)
• "Barf" (referring to Casey saying she's been in love at 18)
• "Does he love Jesus?" (referring to my love for Adam)
• "Eww! I do not want to be taken by the tongue! K thanks bye!" (talking about the song Adam and Christina sang)
• Lindsay did not like the Fancy Feast commercial. hahahahaha
• "I want to be hugged by Blake Shelton"
• "Brittany...you need to go on The Voice so that Blake can be your papa bear...don't make it weird."
  

Lindsay's choice to win: "Oh my gosh...Javier!"
Brittany's choice to win: Javier...duh.

Lindsay's choice to win (excluding Javier...which would be tragic): Xenia
Brittany's choice to win (excluding Javier...which would be tragic): Dia!!! Holla!

Life...

So I was downstairs in my house and a book on the table by the door grabbed my attention: Abba's Child. I think it might be Erika's book, but I was bored and had heard really great things so I grabbed it and went upstairs to read a little bit of it. After reading the first chapter, I have no doubt that it was Jesus that moved my eye to that table and had me pick up this book.

I've been struggling lately with the concept of giving myself grace when my heart just doesn't follow what my head knows is right. Sometimes I find myself dealing with some emotional stuff that I used to scoff at when I was younger and I just refuse to allow myself to be where I am in the journey of healing from it. I'm not sure if you ever feel that way, but I decided that I needed to share this passage from the book, just in case...

"To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart and feel liked and accepted...not having to hide anymore and distract myself with books, television, movies, ice cream, shallow conversation...staying in the present moment and not escaping into the past or projecting into the future, alert and attentive to the now...feeling relaxed and not nervous or jittery...no need to impress or dazzle others or draw attention to myself...Unself-conscious, a new way of bieng with myself, a new way of being in the world...calm, unafriad, no anxiety about what's going to happen next...loved and valued...just being together as an end in itself."

I'm praying that I might be able to live out what the passage talks about...learning to accept myself with all of my weird quirks and struggles, not in spite of them. You know...like Jesus does.

Love you guys...