I have a

...

Does anyone actually read this site?

I really wanna know:

A: If I am writing to absolutely no one

&

B: Who, if there is someone out there, am I writing for?

Sooooooooooo

If you read this stuff please leave a comment on this post so I know you're there.

xoxo?

You'e head looks boring...

So you should go to Cirque Du Solerin's new Etsy shop!

Its full of beautiful, hand sewn and extremely affordable headbands!

Gems like this one!:

And this one too!

So click here to partake in the wonder!

Isn't Cirque Du Solerin the most crafty and wonderful.

I sure think so.

Do me a favor please...

And go wish Cirque Du SolErin a Happy Birthday

:)

P.S. Thats her in the picture. Hott with 2 t's right?

Dear Bloggers of the World:

Jane Lynch says

write in your freaking blogs more often!

Thank you

P.S.

That is actually not true, Jane Lynch did not say that. But wasn't she COSMIC in Glee last night?!

I just miss hearing all about your lives in blog form, so please, for me?

Start writing again.

Arg!

Isn't that a cute pirate picture?

Anywho.

I recently found my cousin's blog randomly (thanks for not telling me about it Lindsey!) and through her blog I found another blog called Red Pirates.

It's not very developed but there is one little gem hiding in there.

It is a video on how to speak like a pirate.

It is BRILLIANT and I had to show it to you.

Enjoy.

OMG I have a new Blog!

SO I have had a dilemma as of late.

It may sound lame but....

I love taking pictures of funny things and then, in turn, uploading the pictures to my blog via my iPhone and sharing them with all of you.

The issue is (which you may scoff at) that I don't like the ugly sharp corners and weird format that the pictures have when I upload them that way.

And by the time I have my wonderful photoshop I am not motivated enough to upload the pics from my phone, edit them and FINALLY post them on my blog.

By that time the pic isn't that funny to me anyway and the point of mobile uploading is to upload things while you are mobile right?

So the only solution I saw was to make an entirely new blog dedicated solely to mobile uploads.

It is called Brycrasch To_Go!

So click here to go take a look.

Or you can click on my iPhone in the top right corner of this blog.

Good night my little kangaroo-bears.

xoxo?

Awwwww shucks...

I want to thank everyone for the B Day wishes...

I really want to thank Allie at flutterby for giving me a post all to my own self!

If you want to see the post (along with a really old picture of me from High School)

Click here

And once you are there you should take a look around the rest of Flutterby cause it is awesome.

One of my most favorite blogs!

peace.

I'm Sorry: Part Deux

OK guys. For real. I am sorry for 1) Not posting and 2) saying that I would post more and then not doing it.

Here is a list of excuses why I haven't posted:

1. I have been uninspired as of late
2. Overnights for Block Party Cross-Training was killing my spirit
3. I was too tired at night
4. My computer was being slow
5. Mercury was in retrograde a couple of weeks ago

So there are just a few of my many excuses. But really I am sorry. I hope you haven't lost faith in Myself in Center. It is still alive and well I promise.

Song of the Day...

So

Years and Years ago a good friend of mine, Allie, showed me this artist named Maria Mena.

She is stellar and I fell in love with here when I first heard her stuff. Then, somehow, I kinda forgot my love for her and her music was lost in the endless shuffle of music on my iPod. Well today, as I was driving home from rehearsals, suddenly her song titled "Sorry" came on.

I was suddenly reminded why I loved her so much. She is so honest and conversational in her writing. It's so simple and direct. This particular song is so heartbreaking. So I encourage you to go look her up in iTunes or your illegal music downloading software cause she acoustically rocks my world.

Thanks Allie, six years later.

"Sorry"

Vague sound of rain
pierces through my song again
but I get distracted by the way his toes move when he plays
so I let it burn

I just poured my heart out
there's bits of it on the floor
And I take what's left of it and rinse it under cold water
And call him up for more

And I say baby, yes I feel stupid to call you, but I'm lonely
And I don't think you meant it when you said you couldn't love me
And I thought maybe if I kissed the way you do, you'd feel it too

He said I'm sorry
so sorry
I'm sorry
so sorry

He grabs my wrists
as my fingers turn into angry fists
and I wisper why can't you love me, I'll change for you
I'll play the part

And I say baby, so I feel stupid to call you, but I'm lonely
And I don't think you meant it when you said you couldn't love me
And I thought maybe if I kissed the way you do, you'd feel it too

He said I'm sorry
so sorry
I'm sorry
I am sorry
[x2]

P.S.

If we are friends on facebook, this is where my status comes from. No, I'm not depressed, its just stuck in my head. Stop stressing out about it and go outside or something.

xoxo?

Serious or Not?

Tonight I was looking back at some old posts and I realized that they are really heavy compared to the ones I have been posting lately. It seems like I was always taking on some serious subject from the gays, to drinking, or even God himself! But now all I talk about is funny videos or my life falling apart because of Mercury.

So now I ask the question:

Would you (as the reader) rather read about serious issues or entertaining ones?

If you, as the reader of my blog, can go to the side bar and answer that question, it would rather help to ease my curiosity.

Thanks :)

Go to Hell Mercury!

Ok guys.

I promise that I can have my own thoughts separate from Erin's and I promise that this is the last time I steal her post ideas.

But this is an important issue that I want to address!

So the planet Mercury is in retrograde. Basically, what this means is that it is moving backwards rather than per it's usual orbit around the sun. This happens three or four times a year and it messes up the energy on Earth. We are currently in the winter retrograde from January 11 - February 1.

So if you have had all your electronic equipment break down, gone through a bad break up, gotten fired or just been in an awful mood, that might be why.

It affects everyone in different ways according to your astrological sign, but on the whole, it just makes things crappy.

For more information go to this site.

As I was researching the subject I stumbled upon this awesome list on someones blog. It is pretty awesome.

10 reasons to love (okay, love is a strong word) Mercury retrograde:

1. If your computer crashes, at least you don't have to work.
2. If the train doesn't show up, well, you can't really work either.
3. You have an instant excuse for being a raging bitch.
4. You can pretend that you "just didn't understand" annoying people.
5. You no longer have to drunk-dial an ex to hear his voice-- he'll probably call you first.
6. No need to invent elaborate stories when you run late; just blame Mercury.
7. You'll finally lose the contact information of all those toxic people you needed to ditch anyway.
8. When the Internet goes down, you'll actually go outside this summer.
9. If you're a control freak, you'll be forced to learn the art of surrender (okay, so maybe it's not so great -- but we'll blame Mercury retrograde for giving us this crappy idea).
10. Procrastination is no longer a bad habit, it's an "essential coping strategy."

P.S.

Everyone that has to deal with me right now...this is my excuse

"People born under the Aries sun sign should Beware of a tendency to leap before you look, as the mind may be too vacillating, thus inclined to avoid responsibility. Mercury in Aries gives a nervous disposition that frequently produces outbursts of temper."

sorry guys

xoxo?

Shh...

I have talked about my friend Erin's blog several times. I love it and I frequent it's...pages?

Anywho. Recently she posted a blurb titled "Praise for Post Secret"

Basically it was a plug for the Post Secret blog. She describes it as follows:

"So I'm sure a lot of you have heard of PostSecret.com, but in case you haven't, here's the rundown: People design a postcard that reveals a secret about themselves that they've never told anyone, and they anonymously send it to this guy, Frank, who runs this website and has published collections of people's secrets for the world to see. He updates his site every Sunday with new secrets and it has now become a highlight of every Sunday in my life. Why, you ask? It's completely fascinating. EVERYONE has a secret, from affairs to suicides to moral conflict to quirky habits. It's a reminder that you, no matter how much of a freak you think you are, are not alone in your freakdom. I actually save my favorites from every week on my computer. So I want to start sharing them on my blog, just to stir your thoughts. My favorite part about visiting the site is finding the secrets that I relate to and make me say "My God, did I send that in?""

So because of this post I have become obsessed with the Post Secret Blog as well. Soooooooo I want to copy Erin and show you some of the posts that struck closest to home for me. But remember:

Erin thought of this first

:)

PS

hehe

That Guy!

So as I was aimlessly wasting my life away on blogger I ran into a blog that a good friend of mine follows.

I would give you the link to my friend's blog but he never writes in it anyway...ahem...josh.

But that is for another post.

The blog that I WOULD like to share with you is called That Guy.

The entire blog is just this: There's always that one guy in the crowd, a little out of focus, doing his own thing. This blog is a panegyric to that guy, who is living the dream: just living, just dreaming.

I have a special place in my heart for this blog because Erin and I always make it our goal to get into the background of as many pictures as possible. The picture above is just one of our many conquests. So check it out and enjoy looking at that guy.

P.S.

One more

They feel fine. Do you?

Ok people. This is SO COOL!

Seriously I am actually excited about this. No sarcasm. I know it might be hard to decifer since I am usually bitter and snatchy in my posts.

But for real real this is awesome.

There is a website called We Feel Fine

According to their mission statement they define themselves as the following:

"We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved...

...The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.

At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life."

Sorry I know that is a little wordy, but I thought it was interesting. So basically for those of you whose minds turn off at the sight of long paragraphs, they search blogs and find what people's emotions are then display them in for all to see in a way that is visually stimulating to the eye. It is awesome.

So go to the website and see it for yourself.

I wonder if they have even taken anything from my blog. Well I might as well help them out

"I feel excited about my life and the fact that it's only just begun."

:)

I have a social dilema...

That picture has absolutely nothing to do with the following post. I just like it.

Would it be tactful to ask people to follow my blog publicly? I realize that it is purely superficial and ego driven...

But I like this pictures on the side.

So please excuse the social taboo and follow my blog

now?

P.S.

My dog is cuter than yours :)

Circus in a parking lot...

First of all, I have never seen this picture of Britney. I really like it.

Anywho.

Miss Spears could really use some dance lessons from these guys. Don't get me wrong I love me some Britney. But she ain't got nothin on these two.



Thanks to OMG Blog for the scoop

P.S.

Obnoxious camera girl: Stay behind the camera until you have some talent of your own. Love Bry

xoxo?

"An Empty Tube of Toothpaste"; Revisited

Back when I first moved to Florida I started a blog. Much like this one except I only wrote in it three times and that was it. Shocking right? Me not finishing something I start. Anywho.

Well I called it "The Brycrasch Blog" which I thought was so clever and I tried to make it all trendy and cool but I knew nothing about web design at the time so all I could do was what blogger allowed, which clearly stifled my creative expression. If you want to see it click here.

That story has a point, and it isn't to redirect you to my old blog with the awful color scheme. Today I was reading all three of the posts on there and one of them struck me because of my current situation. You may know, you may not, but a very dear friend of mine moved away recently. It has been really hard for myself and all of this person's friends to cope with. Well the first blog I wrote was called "An Empty Tube of Toothpaste". When I read it, it really hit close to home. Instead of explaining it, I am just going to copy and paste the parts that were really poignant to me. So here it is:

Sections from "An Empty Tube Of Toothpaste"
Originally posted on The Brycrasch Blog, April 2007

"Goodbyes are so confusing to me. Why is it is so hard to show your true feelings of sadness when someone you love leaves you? In life, especially my life, goodbyes are inevitable; goodbye to your old friends, goodbye to the day, goodbye to the carton of expired milk in the fridge. Eventually we, as human beings have to say goodbye to everything. This is what we have been taught anyway. But I have found that this theory is so much easier said than done. For example: Tomorrow is Friday, April 13th, 2007. This means, aside from the bad luck bestowed upon the superstitious, that many members of Building 25 in my complex are leaving for their reals homes in Utah, or Minnesota, or whatnot. Their contracts here at Disney officially end tomorrow. It is so strange to see them leaving. It feels like our clothes still have the wrinkles from being in our suitcases during the long trip down here four months ago. I have grown closer and farther then closer to these people throughout their stay here and I don’t want to see them go. I really love them. I have the strongest feelings inside of me concerning them. But when I come face to face with them at the time of our final goodbye...I choke. All that comes out is small talk, chopped up and separated by awkward silence. I love these people, I really do. I just can’t get the love to come out of me so I can show it to them. I feel like an old tube of toothpaste and I am unsuccessfully trying to squeeze the last smudges of goo out onto my toothbrush..."

"...It will be so weird to not have him around. I kinda wish that I could have the mentality that the Disney Corp. has sometimes. As soon as your contract is over they ship you out. No goodbyes, no waiting period, no time to grieve, just business. As soon as they don’t control your schedule you need to get the hell out of their houses. Sometimes it feels like it would be so much easier if everyone had this mentality. But then again, isn’t that what life is about? Making connections with people? Maybe that is why it is easier for me to let people go; because I feel connected to the ones I love even when we are apart. I have so much love for the people leaving me tomorrow and I want to show it to them so bad. But, like I said, that is so much easier said than done."

To see the original post click here.

I miss you

Youngme/Nowme

I came across an artsy blog called "Color Wars 2008", and with a headline reading "it's just like summer camp" then below stating "*not really", how could I resist looking around?!

They have several cool projects and things to show you on their page but by far my favorite thing (other than the headline) is a project called Youngme/Nowme.

I know that looks like Japanese but in reality it is just bad English. Read it slowly now...

"Young...Me...Now...Me..."

Basically the concept is this: they asked their readers to find a picture of them as a baby and then recreate the picture with themselves now. So their "now me" is mimicking their "young me"...is it all coming together now?

Anywho.

I think it is awesome and I encourage you to go take a look by clicking here.

Here are some of my favorite ones:























Oh and don't worry....mine is is in the works....

xoxo?

I don't think christianity is for me...

So I just saw this video on a friends mypace and at first I thought it was gonna be lame...but it is actually pretty fun.

Then I discovered that the kid who made it actually has an entire video blog...

Now you know how I feel about video blogs...

But his video blog has totally changed my mind about "vlogging" in general. This kid is hilarious! If you want more after you watch the video below click here to go to his youtube profile.


Don't watch this if you are an easily offended Christian...

Blogs I adorez...

This post that is about to happen right now is pure advertisement. I just wanted to get that off my chest before we begin.

I would like to direct your attention to the right hand side of my blog to the "Blogs I Adore" section. Now I dunno if you have ever noticed this section but it is vital in my life. Lemme explain.

As I have written about before, every morning I have a very strict routine that always includes reading the recent updates on my favorite blogs. They all make me happy in their own special way. It is a great way, in my opinion, to start the day.

So today I decided that I am going to recommend, in further detail, some of my favorite blogs to you, so you, in turn, can start your day off like a champion as well.

Bry's Favorite Blogs:
Flutterby

















I freaking LOVE this blog. Honestly, this site is the one responsible for turning me back onto blogging in the first place. Here are some reasons I love Flutterby:

1. It is SO atheistically pleasing I can't handle it
2. The pictures are always either a) Originals taken by the blog's author or b) organized and beautified in photoshop
3. Her writing is, for lack of a better word, lovely

The Jolly Porter















If you ever feel the need to laugh hysterically, please do yourself a favor and go to The Jolly. I cannot tell you how many times this blog has made me literally lol. I love this site because:

1. His wit seriously astounds me
2. He writes blogs about the most mundane life occurrences, but they are some of the funniest things I have ever heard
3. It is constantly being updated so the laughter never has to end!

That Brave, Unbalanced Woman














If sarcasm is your thing let me introduce this little jem. Here is why this blog is awesome:

1. No blog has ever been more saturated with sarcasm and contempt for stupidity
2. She loves a good list (which you know I do as well)
3. Her observations of everyday life make me actually consider wanting to live the college life...sorta
4. The author is amazing and I love her...isn't that reason enough?

Jayeefrae
















If you have any prior experience with my blog you have probably seen me reference someone named Josh, probably in contempt or an angry rage. Well this is his blog. Why do we love Jish? Lets explore:

1. His post titles never disappoint, you know it's gonna be good the second you see the title
2. It's like the male version of Brave Unbalanced, with all the amazing lists and sarcasm
3. Celebration Pam is mentioned frequently which is always good
4. On Dry humor...I give it a ten..ish :)

The Daily Casey















Want a little pop culture in your life? The Daily Casey has it for you.

1. Clever post titles
   
2. The music that comes with this blog is never one to disappoint
3. The taste in music/movies is always advice to follow

The Perfect Me















This blog is special to me. If you ever want advice on what to do with your life, if you're doing the right thing, or just need someone to make you feel better, this is the blog for you

1. It is a newer blog but the few entries are so insightful
2. It has real adive from someone who has "been there done that.."
3. It's written by someone you can actually trust...my momma :)

So there you have it kids. Go look em up! I promise its worth it!