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Sunday, October 5, 2008
A sad goodbye.
Excess Baggage - my new blog.
I don't want to leave, I don't think any of us truly do. At least, none of us want to shut the doors on a community that in it's smallest was it's greatest with tight nit "families." Here I am already becoming teary eyed.
I've watched children grow over the past five years, met amazing women and men who have changed my life for the better. Through these "silly journals" I met my best friend, and many more like him. Through these blogs I met a woman who would one day die of cancer but until the end she shared her life with us. This is not just a place to write our personal thoughts, this was a place to share our personal lives. There was drama, there was joy and there was pain. They might close the doors on my home but the windows are open and I'll crawl back in and remember the beautiful times.
Thank you to all of you, every single person who has stepped on this "ground". I've complained about the same things for five years, and smiled about the same as well. I've grown here. I was just 18 when I started a blog here. 19 When I made this one. I will turn 24 four days before AOL Journals is closed for good. I am sad but I know no matter what this was for something good, for all of us. I'll keep in contact with most of you because I have made life long friends through here (I've met three amazing AOL Journalers and plan to meet many more) and even for the ones who I don't you still mattered to me. Thank you for everything!
I love you guys and hope you find me at my "new" house. It's just a house till it becomes a home, maybe one day it will mean as much as this place as meant to me.
Brandi
We Are All The Same. - great song I think all of you will like.
brandilynneliz at 9:49:04 PM CDT
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
What?!?!
I was sitting in London, England enjoying my first trip there when my phone went off to tell me I had a new email. All I saw was my journal, my home, my place of comfort and growth from the time I was eighteen five years ago was going away. I didn't know what to do. I felt like I was going to cry.
Then I stopped. I have needed to leave this place for so long. I'll miss the comfort, I'll miss the name but I am moving forward. I'll let you all know where to find me (although I've had another journal for a bit so it wont be hard to find).
I hope we all find eachother again.
Brandi
brandilynneliz at 2:32:03 PM CDT
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Sappy As ... What's That Word Again?
It's almost October and I haven't updated?! What has the world come to?
You know going on five years of this blogging thing is kind of strange. I guarantee if you could see my original blog (started on AOL in October of 05) you would see my complaints have always been the same so I guess maybe I feel like nothing is really needed to be said here anymore.
Today one of my older roommates here in Minnesota gave me the biggest compliment. She started asking me questions about the kind of guy I like, what are things I can't get past and just things she has never asked me before. I jokingly asked her if she knew someone for me and she shied a little bit before she told me she would love to see me with her son. NOW that is a compliment. I mean, this woman lives with me.. She sees how I am day to day and she still thinks I would be kick ass for her son. I was shocked, smiled and truly happy she even thought of it.
Other then that there are two guys I've talked to a little bit on the phone that my cousin's husband has referred me to. Yes, I've come to desperate measures asking people I know to keep me in mind for people they know and meet (that includes you too ... available man you think might be good for me .. let me know!). I can't seem to help myself. I have finally decided to kick this thing into full gear. I sat back far too long hoping "fate" or something would just push my life forward and let me meet the "man of my dreams" ... I'm done waiting and making things happy. Yay!
So that's it ... Angel turns five next month as well as Nicki turns sixteen (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) and I turn twenty four (gulp). I was nineteen when I first started this journal. Nineteen. Shizz! Things change so quickly in that time. I've met some amazing people through this little peak of the Internet. Amanda, Heather, Kathi and I hope to meet many more still. Oh and lets not forget Chris and His Family. They have been amazing to me and my family. During our evacuation for Hurricane Ike they even offered their home to us. And to think Three years ago so many of you opened your hearts to me when I was evacuated (and in a shelter) for Hurricane Rita.
Thank you all for just being who you are. Many of us have come and gone but each of you touched a part of me and I'll never forget it. Here's to another five years of our memories.
Brandi
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Boring.
I fly back to Minnesota tomorrow. First thing in the morning. Blah.
I need to go to a hotel and pick up some of my stuff (ugh left it there on accident when we stayed while Mom was visiting).
Then I have to go back to the airport.
Then the apartment.
I don't want to go back.
: (
I made some silly little name tags for my sisters, cousins and self. I think we've all gotten a good giggle. I shared them above.
Brandi
brandilynneliz at 8:35:37 PM CDT
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Waiting For Something Good.
Life is life. What else is there to really say.
I feel like I need something else in life, some "thing" to keep me occupied.
Something to keep me moving forward in life and not behind.
Other then books.
Ugh. - ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.
We were expecting the rinky dinky little wanna-be Hurricane to come through this morning so Brittany stayed the night. We spent the day today doing little bits of nothing (absolutely a blast) when Brittany decided to play with Nicki's hair, then she decided to play with mine and what followed was a few hours of laughter and silliness between three sisters along with a niece, nephew, and a Mom.
I sometimes forget why I'm happy. It isn't fair to the people around me who do make me happy. I just feel an emptiness (that yes I talk about all the time) at moments.
Who knows, I just know I had fun and I wanted to share pictures.
Brittany was from the 80's, Nicki the 60's, and me of course the 40's.
Hope you enjoy and for those who have my myspace I'll post more later on there.
Brandi
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
A Box
I have an amazing family, one I hold near and dear to my heart. One that has always supported and given me the love that I have needed. My Mom has been so amazing in my life that while I miss my father I've always had so much love around me and a family so close that it was never hard to get through his death. My Mom has been an amazing rock for so many people around her and I could never ask for more.
So while I do have my father's family out there in the world growing up we were never around them after my father's death. Mom's family became the only family I knew. She never held Brittany and I back from knowing them but we just never did (kind of hard when people live on different sides of a country). Anyway my cousin contacted us recently and then her father did as well. He and Brittany have chatted far more often. He told us he had a few things he wanted to send that were our father's. Today we got the box.
Included were pictures from his childhood and early naval experience. He was a handsome man! The first thing I noticed is my nephew John looks just like him at that age! It is crazy!!! : ) Mom kept saying it but I'd never known it. - I have two photos one of my dad and one of my nephew posted. -
He also sent his naval jacket, his glasses, a knife he used often to build model airplanes (go figure!), and one of his naval pins. We are to separate it and choose who gets what between Brittany and I. So far we have decided to leave everything in the box for safe keeping except his knife which Britt is putting in a shadow box and I will keep his pin. I find something beautiful between the likeness of it and my wings (I'll share photos soon). I also love the irony that he was at the bottom of the ocean (submarine sailor) and I fly to the top of the skies.
I started out with a bad day (lets just say I was suppose to fly to both Japan and China in the next eight days but SICK) ... I can't say it got any better because of the box because really with my Mom how can a day not get better? However to have something of my father's that he touched is something beautiful and joyful.
Brandi
ps ... a huge congrats to my lovely cousin Veronica on the birth of her second child and little girl named Sophia Marie. Now my family is on a roll! Olivia and Brittany had little girls first (Angel Marie and Isabelle Marie), then had little boys (Jesse Makai and John Joseph), then Veronica had Alex now Sophia. Hopefully I'll have a girl and boy too one day! : )
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Visiting
We got back a while ago from spending another couple of days at the beach cabin (my family is a bit obsessive about summers spent at the beach ... definitely worth it!). I came in, checked some emails and was about to read all the news headlines from the past week or so and skipped it. I don't want anything to ruin or change what I got on here to say so I'll just say it and be done with it. : ) Especially since I haven't updated once again in over a month!
Nicki (younger sister), Mom and Aunt all flew up to Minneapolis to visit me. Nicki was able to get on the first plane out of Houston (she has a higher priority number), and then Mom and my aunt ... were stuck. SO they went to Detroit, and got even more stuck (stand by sucks). Needless to say they got to Minni a bit late and so Nicki and I went to the Mall of America, saw "Mamma Mia" (which totally rocked my socks) and just spent the day together doing little nothings until Mom and Aunt Tice came in exhausted, we didn't do much but get to a hotel that night and vegged out. The next day we took the light rail to downtown Minneapolis and I brought them to my favorite place to eat (Candice and I feel a wee bit Irish) at this fabulous Irish Pub! We ate outside (which we loved since we can't do that here in Texas). Then we found our way back down to the airport to rent a car and then went for a drive to Wisconsin (They had never been there) then drove back.
After a long second day we took an even longer drive to Lake Superior near Duluth. We took tons of pictures once again and even put our feet in the water. Just a relaxing day taking pictures, getting souvenirs and just enjoying ourselves. It's not often that people take a long drive (especially when gas is so expensive, not to mention I fly for a living!) but we do it and we love it! We ended up back in Minneapolis and went to the MOA for a little bit before heading out and having Ruby Tuesdays for dinner. Then back to the hotel to sleep! The next day we woke up, took all my stuff to my new apartment (which is fabulously closer to the airport ... and not underneath any flight path!!). I'm glad we got that done in one trip, otherwise it would have taken me forever. Next up we found out I got a block release! Woo, that just means I put in to have my three days on call taken off. The original plan was for me to get it off so we could get home quicker by plane (they would get a better chance of getting on with me there) but then we *gaaasp* decided to drive home!!! We rented another car (van this time, longer drive) ... and started on home! We drove strait on down for a little over eighteen hours. And it was worth every moment. : ) We drove until we hit Houston, then drove some more till we hit Winnie and then we took another turn to the beach cabin where we have been for the past few days.
Sigh! A lot went on!
And I'm not even done yet.
So I'll leave you with this and a few pictures then tell you about my little vacation at the beach. (more coming taking too long to upload all at once)
Brandi
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Nervous Breakdown
My heart was pounding as I threw clothes from bed to floor, floor to bed. While I emptied puckets, boxes, went through purses, bags and even a makeup kit. My shoes thumped all over the house as I triped and put a hole in my brand new pantyhose. I stop to think of what crew scheduling will say, my God I only have four more days of probations ... why today!? And then I saw it, the one item I could not live without in this industry ... my badge.
WHEW.
Any flight attendant would understand. Now I'm just waiting for my heart to calm down long enough not to fall down the two flights of stairs before I fly off to Cleveland.
Brandi
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Dead Ladies and Marry Me Signs
So I've been contemplating this whole "blog" thing. I've had a blog for so long now I don't know what it is not to have an actual blog out there in the world. Seriously. NO clue. Hell I even have a mini blog sorta thing on youtube where I just act like an idiot and then crazy men either find me extremely sexy or sorta kind ugly! (bastads <--- my fake "Boston" accent) Anywho yes, this blog thing. I'm not sure if I like it anymore but really I can't keep living without writing. It's just in me. I have been updating my myspace (ugh I'm one of "them") ... and for the most part it's just a serious of words of me complaining about my very existence (I'm totally kidding, although that's what they are suppose to be about right). Ok I'll shut up now. Pfft yeah right! -
 So what have I been up to? Nothing. A big ole bunch of nothing. I've been flying like a dog (although I swear I don't bark or bite as loud). The airline constantly sends me to Portland ... which is funny because being in a major airline you never expect to see anyone again and now here I am knowing the jumpseaters (flight attendants/pilots trying to go home on a jumpseat) ... wth! Seriously though me and Portland are like the Oregon lottery. Ha! You do get it right? Or will I have to explain? : )
Which brings me to my "dead lady" story ...
I was reading text on my cell phone while we were boarding when I was suppose to be serving customers in first class their on ground beverage (oh don't blame me, it was too juicy). Anywho the lead or someone told me we had a blind passenger in row whatever. I nodded my head and went back to the juicy info before we closed the door. I did a quick run through the first class and finished up all I had to do and finally we were on our way. I did a little demo where the people who were actually watching me laughed. They laughed! I didn't realize why they were laughing until I looked down at the demo card and noticed something was sticking out of it. I opened it (while trying to show the people who have never used a seatbelt since 1970 how it actually works) and saw this huge white paper taped on the inside that said 'Marry Me Fly For Free' in huge, bold, black letters. I had a few offers just so you know.
Anywho we were in the air and I was at about row six of coach asking "Drink!?" .. I was finally at a row with a young woman, empty seat, and an older lady sitting next to the window. The younger woman let me know right away what she wanted and I got it even though I was annoyed that little old lady wouldn't answer me. So I practically yelled at this woman "DRINK!?" ... still she ignores me and keeps looking forward ...
At this point a flight attendant thinks one of two things; you are an asshole or you are dead.
I thought she was dead, seriously dead. Like not breathing dead. My first thought was "oh my god I should save her" ... second thought was "Oh shit where are those blankets so I can cover her" ... and my third thought was "OH SHIT SHE IS DEAD!!!" ... followed by (yes I am cruel but this was day five, leg five of a fourteen hour work day and into my 9th hour of flight time) ... This is screwing with my time at home! Yes cruel very cruel. So I am standing in the isle looking around wondering what the hell I'm going to do so I reasonably lean over and ask once again "Would you like anything to drink Ma'am .. anything at all at all???" ... she didn't move. I'm ready to cry and not willing to touch this dead woman. At this point young lady looks at me with saucer eyes and leans over to touch the lady. SHE MOVED!! The lady moved!! WOOOOOOOOOO I keep sleep <---- yes that was my first response.
Anywho she did one of those creepy moves. Where they slowly turn to you with their eyes wide open. I finally figured out what she wanted and finished up my service with a smile. Well if grinding your teeth is coincided a smile then I succeeded! When I was through I told my lead what happened and this is where he informs me (after laughing for about four minutes) that lady in row so and so is blind. I look at him like I'm blind and just blink. I swear to God this woman looked right at me! Anywho no one mentioned to us she had a hearing problem as well. Which changes a situation completely. I get she couldn't see me, but not to hear me was harsh. I nearly had a heart attack figuring out how to cover her without using one of our dirty old blankets!!!
Hmmm now that I've written this all down, I wonder if anyone actually even cares or gets the humor of it all? I think it's funny.
Brandi/Lola
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Fizz Me!
Angel just said "Daddy is pissed off" ... I was too shocked to reprimand her. Although I did mention she should never say that word ... but only after I laughed.
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