tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85423671637486087232024-03-13T11:16:55.102-07:00Broken ArrowBrooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-86242222610978515842011-11-21T04:12:00.000-08:002011-11-21T04:12:56.718-08:00Beautiful Words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFQalnpZALua9eGSioCHPEvPkpOWvJJnbTZ1n95BfqhyZXqzY8l7K_kkffBhyV7qzg9ZhTxeHIsJ3eCylQAixinhrwEaBlYdL6-WJW4N37RIlN_xORfygX8wGiDNkNEDznh2-mtyaOus/s1600/FILM+2011+again.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFQalnpZALua9eGSioCHPEvPkpOWvJJnbTZ1n95BfqhyZXqzY8l7K_kkffBhyV7qzg9ZhTxeHIsJ3eCylQAixinhrwEaBlYdL6-WJW4N37RIlN_xORfygX8wGiDNkNEDznh2-mtyaOus/s640/FILM+2011+again.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px;">let me be patient</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">let me be kind</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">make me unselfish</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px;"><div style="text-align: center;">without being blind</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>(picture from Scotland last month. I love the magical things that happen with my Holga)</i></span></div>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-31507287566490934372011-11-21T03:23:00.000-08:002011-11-21T03:23:45.781-08:00Travel Rituals<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can never sleep the night before I travel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am always too excited!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I spend the entire night packing </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(because I am a massive procrastinator and always put it off till the absolute last moment!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I always do my nails</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and take a shower</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and spend far too much time trying to pick out the perfect travel outfit in my underwear.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then I triple check my computer is easily accessible to pull out of my carry on when going through security</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I check a million times to make sure I have the essentials like passport, & flight information, ect. in my purse.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(can you tell I've spent 50 hours on a plane already this year?) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then I drink a liter of water,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make sure I go to the bathroom (still to this day have never used a bathroom on a plane. Listen to your mom people! Go to the bathroom before you leave. I hate waiting on my travel buddies who always have to use the restroom during travels because they didn't go before they left... No bueno)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and fill up my tummy to avoid expensive airplane/airport food</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and also because when I have a longer layover I ALWAYS say I am going to eat then...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I ALWAYS end up having to run to my second gate to catch my plane.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You never have as much time as you think you do during layovers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">trust me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">who is this lovely creature?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh, she's just my best friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No big deal.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She writes beautiful, whimsical books and published poems.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She also is an amazing pianist, and writes beautiful compositions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">& Guess what!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Never took a music class in her life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We seldom fight, even when we lived together for six months.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because if she is hurt or thinks I am doing something wrong, she addresses it in the sweetest way possible and we work on it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yeah, a mature young lady who actually values friendship!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shocking right!?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She is a better human being than I am.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She has great taste in music and the most funkiest style that no one else could pull off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She also understand my love for triple chocolate brownies, & The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and we watch Big Fish and Benny and Joon on a regular basis.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>word.</b></span></div>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-32674051492503212812011-11-18T05:13:00.000-08:002011-11-18T05:14:54.882-08:00so maybe I'm counting down//so what<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>3 </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>DAYS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>TILL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>....</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZF6Icj9KWyJD_A9TgJFfgYFDmi2K2qGth0G7zNqtJskTqFXc969rSEx7qFxOHhZJ2Aktx0NiBeyG-o7fSCjAcAaUPifEM1nP2MwCRQ64qqU5F9zSZ9ftfzovQPrOdUIxw_-22-RWBmc/s1600/SALT+LAKE+CITY+UT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZF6Icj9KWyJD_A9TgJFfgYFDmi2K2qGth0G7zNqtJskTqFXc969rSEx7qFxOHhZJ2Aktx0NiBeyG-o7fSCjAcAaUPifEM1nP2MwCRQ64qqU5F9zSZ9ftfzovQPrOdUIxw_-22-RWBmc/s320/SALT+LAKE+CITY+UT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>with help from a few of my <a href="http://taza-and-husband.blogspot.com/">favorite</a> <a href="http://xaxtwistedxfairytalex.blogspot.com/">blogs</a></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>over the years I've had my eyes opened to how many fun things there are to do in SLC.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i> I may have started a "HAVE to do in Salt Lake" list.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>if you have any recommendations to add to the list PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE share</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>{image from google}</i></span>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-56656645593315587632011-11-17T15:58:00.000-08:002011-11-17T21:38:51.542-08:00sometimes,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You have got to stay in your comic book pajama pants all day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then you have to eat ice cream for breakfast</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and then after crying over your emotional woe's like a 14 year old girl at a Justin Bieber concert</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then you have to, have to, HAVE to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">listen to music that reminds you of the Summer of your 16th year on the planet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When you were young, free, and thought you were cooler than you actually were.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then you hug your puppy</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>this is adulthood, people.</i></span>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-20145734605034670032011-11-17T13:54:00.000-08:002011-11-17T13:55:06.895-08:00ADVENTURES// Salt Lake City, UT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OkueRkpjjdAzMoWDSQpoQvsgjMydeuTqumZ1pSmNFyigfkPZ8PuEyZOmBcLB6r_kjpAn5cfYpzHMMQECxfViQquAXYc-2z9CS0GbFw_YVe2mr8MJlwmlz9b_7RebJeGuuob25BfufUU/s1600/slcstuff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OkueRkpjjdAzMoWDSQpoQvsgjMydeuTqumZ1pSmNFyigfkPZ8PuEyZOmBcLB6r_kjpAn5cfYpzHMMQECxfViQquAXYc-2z9CS0GbFw_YVe2mr8MJlwmlz9b_7RebJeGuuob25BfufUU/s320/slcstuff.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when someone wants to pay for you to come visit a place like this,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No. I don't wanna!" isn't exactly the first thing on your mind.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have been to Utah twice,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">once for a day, and once for a month</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but both times Salt Lake City was just a place we drove through</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">neither times were during winter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">& both times, I was in love with the place from the moment I stepped off the plane.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wont lie, I've always had a romantic view of SLC ever since I was 9 and Mary-Kate and Ashley came out with "Getting There", about their first big road-trip without their parents to Salt Lake City for the Winter Olympics. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've had many dreams of a wintry getaway to this city..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and now..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am going to stay there and get to visit some family and old friends!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who knows, maybe I'll even learn to snowboard without killing myself *fingers crossed*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This time Monday I will be stepping off a plane and living it up in the City of the Great Salt Lake</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">{image from google images}</span>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-74033300381637291412011-11-17T02:26:00.000-08:002011-11-17T02:26:08.553-08:00I love Marcel<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ta9K22D0o5Q?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ta9K22D0o5Q?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">"guess why i smile alot? uh. cause it's worth it."</div>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-39085792328389353562011-11-15T05:00:00.000-08:002011-11-15T05:05:13.931-08:00What's goin on? // I'm sick<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, its probably bad mojo to start a new blog with complaints,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but after a good solid five days of sneeze coughing, and my mother pushing pills down my throat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have been home from Germany for... more than a month now!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Houston is well... still Houston.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am ready to blow this popsicle joint!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And.. I am!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next Monday I will be on a plane to visit some friends and family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'll tell ya more about it later.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ready for a snowy vacation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he he.</span></div>Brooke Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18188665885187004362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542367163748608723.post-10059361946744757782011-11-15T03:27:00.000-08:002011-11-15T04:37:57.238-08:00Once upon a time i fell in love with a song...<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hYV0Wp0MdZ4?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hYV0Wp0MdZ4?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Let me catch you up though!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>My name is Brooke Leigh</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I am 18 years old</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I left my home (Houston Texas) six months ago to travel to Germany where I did a missionaries training school and learned a lot about God, love, and people.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I have seen many places in the last six months.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>(Germany, Ethiopia, Romania, Czech, Hungary, England, Scotland, ect.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I LOVE the World I live in and I love the people who are in it.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I enjoy being a full time humanitarian and missionary.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The World is my playground, allow me to include you in my adventures.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
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