Relay For Life

Hey readers, how are ya? So over the past week, the lovely ladies in my family have decided that we are going to participate in The Relay For Life, for cancer research. I am super excited about participating and can't wait until June 25th! There's 10 of us on the team and I hope we reach our team goal of $1, 000!

First member is my mom Linda, she lost her father, her sister, her grandfather and 2 aunts to cancer and has already made $200 towards our goal! Then there's my mom's sister's Susan, and Maureen. My aunt Sue did it last year and made over $200 herself and raised over $1000 for her team, who she ditched because she loves us more ;). My aunt Maureen is joining aswell, and bringing her daughter Miranda along to beat the cure.

My mom's 3 closest cousins are joining to beat the terrible disease, they lost an uncle, an aunt and their own mother (at a young age). Auntie Chris is kicking butt and has also beat her personal goal. My aunt Judy is coming and bringing her daughter Melissa (21) to conquer, and are half way to their personal goal. Finally, my God mother/aunt Carol, she just celebrated her birthday on Mon and got a ton of money already lol.

I am more than confident that we'll beat the Team Goal and beat our personal goals and raise money. I lost the greatest people I know to cancer and wish that they were still here. I'm dedicating my walk to my aunt Karen, who passed of stomch cancer 1 week after my birthday. I'm also dedicating it to my grandpa, who battled cancer for 8-9 years! (I found out when they couldn't do anything to help him).

Right now I know 2 amazing ladies who are battling breast cancer at the moment. Their not in the best of shape and I'm hoping that they beat it! One I've known for maybe 12 years and the other I met a few months ago but have grown so close to her. Can't imagine what your going through ladies, and want nothing but the best for you. Your a great insparation to me and to a bunch of others.

If you are interseted in joing with a team of 10, google relay for life-sorry I don't have the link. You know, I'll just post the link next time lol. My bad. It's time for me to go reflecton my games over the past few days, I'll blog about em later-coach says, but might not happen. Love ya lots!!!

Brittany, #5

Blessed

Over the past week, I have had a milion emotions running through my mind. On Tuesday, I received some very sad news, and I'm not gonna blog about it, sorry guys. I was crushed to hear the news, but all things happen for a reason, and it might be for the best (though I hate to say it). I spent the beginning of the week crying, and sobbing about the little things.

Not only was Tuesday emotional, I had a huge rivalry game that night, and we HAD to win. (I'm competitive and hate losing lol.) Usually before a game-I gotta be in the zone kinda, and I was a wreck. Being a rivalry game, I was already upset about seeing some people I already dont like, thankfully we kicked butt and won!! A huge pick-me-up!!

As the week got better and better, so did my attitude about everything. Having to tell my loved one's, and close friends was very hard. It wasn't until hearing the nice, kind, caring, strengthining, and heart warming words people had to tell me, I really knew how many people cared.

There was the countless amount of hugs and kisses, and amazing sayings. The number one thing that every single person told me was: everything happens for a reason. And I believe in that. It was a week of overwelming love and I thank every single person that had helped me and showed me love this week, I love you.

You guys are amazing people and I love you so much! You guys helped out a ton and truley made me feel blessed to have people in my life as great as you! I'm welting up in tears okay. Your support has been amazing, just like our talks together. I hope we can always stay this close!!

Anyway, gotta get started on something else, blog again soon, love you and thanks,

Brittany, #5

Random Things

Sup readers! Ok so this morning I was reading my emails and I had one that was about your interests or your personality. Much better than the stupid Playtex Spot Tampon emails I get...ugh. So anyway....I'm very bored and I'm gonna post my answers, just because I want to lol.
Okay so yeah, have fun reading about me-again.

When are you.....Ugly: Depends on my day/Quiet: not a lot-but when I’m tired/Loud: all the time!!/Shy: never/Weird: most of the time/Selfish: never/Crazy: always ;)/Hot: whenever you think I am sexy ;)/Cute: I don’t know/Pretty: I don’t know/Sexy: always ;) (nope)/Nice: always/Mean: rub me the wrong way or give me attitude and say hello to other Brittany lol./Immature: sometimes/Rude: never/Cool: always :)/Brat: nope/Stupid: all the time!!/Caring: All the time/Mature: most the time/A Friend: always./More than a friend: to the one guy I’m with/

Talkative: HAVE YOU MET ME? Lol./Boring: depends on your personality/Beauitful: depends/Smart: At times, when I’m well educated in that subject lol/A Flirt: I don’t know/Fun to hang out with: ask the people I hang out with/Phyco: nope/Athletic: I guess so (my profession should answer that)/Confusing: sometimes /Sweet: most of the time/Gets Mood Swings: yup- especially at practice lol/Attractive: depends on who you are/Annoying: sometimes-when I’m hyper or tired/Funny: People say I am. /Hyper: YES/Laid Back: totally/Perfect: HA-NO!! Nobody’s perfect!

So then, I get an email that I always get called the Friends Survey. Personally, I always find the responses by everyone else so much fun to read, so I love this email. It just gets annoying when you get it a million times. So this is my reponse:



What's your full -name? Brittany Joanna C…. (It's a greek last name) What are you afraid of? A lot of things lol What is the most recent movie that you have seen? Dear John Place of birth? Ajax/Pickering Hospital-moved to downtown later on in life. Favorite food? PASTA!!! whats your natural hair colour? Reddish brown with Black underneath and blonde highlights

Ever been a Neat Freak? With some things lol What colour are your eyes? Blue! Ever been skinny dipping? Does being a baby count? lol How tall are you? 5’4 and a bit :D Love someone so much it made you cry? ….. If you could ask God a question, what would it be? Can you please bring my loved one’s that passed to life again?

Been in a car accident? Yupp-on my way back to York U Weird topping? Cheese and Ketchup on my pasta!! Croutons or bacon bits? croutons Biggest idiot you know? ME!! Favorite Day of the Week? Friday or Saturday Favorite Restaurant? Moose Wonooskies Favorite Flower? red rose. Weirdest crush? Dane Cook or this druggie that went to my highschool. What’s your take on alcohol? It’s yucky!! But does seem to help people look fancy and look like idiots.

Favorite drink? Milk Favorite Ice Cream? Triple chocolate Brownie Fudge (am I spacific or what?) If you could switch bodies with one person, who would it be? The wife of one of my famous celeb crushes lol! Warner Brothers or Disney? Disney-need you ask? lol Ever been on a ship? Yupp-even tho I hate them Coolest person you met? My mom!! What color is your bedroom carpet? Shades of Brown in stripes If you were a re-incarnation of somebody, who would you be? My aunt Karen, everybody says so

How many times did you fail your driver's test? Never!! Thank God!! lol Something you will never do? DRUGS!! Never ever! Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail? My coach asking about my next doctors app. A goal that won’t be beaten? To live forever What do you do when you are bored ? Computer & workout Bedtime? Uhh …when I’m tired-or 10 pm when I have a game the next day Favorite Television Shows? Friends, 2 and A Half Men, Entourage, TMZ-(I’m a loser) lol. And more!!

Last person you went to lunch with? Sabrina and Krysten Park or Zoo? Both :P Favorite color? Red, green or yellow How many tattoos do you have? 0!! I'm too chicken to get one! How many pets do you have? 1 puppy and a ton of fish lol Then Ryan has a cat who I dispise! Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Why must you ask again? What do you want to do before you die? Become a mommy Have you ever been to Hawaii? Nope I want to tho!!

Have you been to countries outside the U.S.? Yes-I live in one!! lol Ever in the Armed Services? Nope but some family is. If you could name your child any name, what would it be? I love the name Trevor or Jordan for a boy. For a girl, Kailey Elizabeth or Ella Rae Karen (Karen, after my aunt) Fan of rollercoasters? YES!! Scary movies? NO!! Do you like your job? Love it!!

Well thanks for putting up with my bordom, and terrible spelling. I'll blog soon, promise. But now I gotta go prepare for a party I'm throwing for my cousin, who's visiting from Newfoundland with her hubby and new baby. So all my family is coming over, and Ryan is sick, getting germs everywhere. So he's on bedrest, and is sleeping (and snoring!) Poor guy has a stuffy nose. Lol. I'm leaving you with a pic of Chloe. Later readers.





Brittany, #5

Ryan/Wedding

Sup readers, what’s up? What’s poppin? What’s crackalackin? Okay, I know what your thinking, ‘I get, go on with the blog’, so now I am. So today, I’m going to tell you about the person who means the most to me, as of right now, Ryan. See, I wasn’t lying when I said in my last blog about the, “I’ll tell you next blog” thing. I’m smarticles at remembering the little stuff.

So I met Ryan way back in 2002, when I was at the tender age of 17 and he was 19. I was still playing volleyball and about to graduate when our rep coach needed a ‘player trainer’. What that is, is someone who practices and trains a player individually, mainly a player who is at a higher level. They do warm up’s with you, they stretch you, they train you in skills, and they basically do what you need to do to get better. So he was mine.

I go to know him very well through-out that season, I really got to know him. He was in University for teaching, specializing in phys. Ed and English. So he took his spare time to help me out. Not gonna lie, I did kinda like him at that point, typical teenager. He also looked like Joey McIntyre, which did help a bit, but not too much. *Wink*. I think that he thought that I was some kind of little kid who he had no interest in, like those typical older men. By the end of the season we had gained a great relationship as friends, then came his girlfriend.

I was crushed when they started to date, especially when he would come and bring her along to practice and get distracted looking at her. Made me so mad. I’ll never forget at one practice where we were working on our Cardio, and we were taking a run. Usually we wore our sports bra’s when running, and put a shirt on when we’d play. So we were running side by side and his girlfriend was getting pissed. We were talking, as we usually did, and what not. By the time we finished she came up to him and had a lovely chat. She asked him why he was constantly looking at my chest as I ran, making my spit out my water a bit, and blush like crazy. It felt good to know that he liked something about me other then me as a person. (I was 17 and hormones had the best of me okay?)

Let’s just say that it didn’t end well, and my coach got a little nervous. The last time I saw him was at the ‘End of Year Banquet’. We sat at the table together with the team, we congratulated each other and thanked each other, and I didn’t see him since. The next year I went to University, with a new life, and didn’t really know anyone there. That summer I entered the beach league with my partner, Laura, one of my good friends by the way. So we’re at Q Beach in downtown Toronto for this tournament, and I saw him at the beach with his friend, checking out the game.

It was weird seeing him, since I hadn’t seen him in a year, and it was so random. The next night we went to dinner, chilled just as friends. I learned about how much his life had changed since I had seen him last. Then, in the beginning of my second year of University, we realized we both went to the same school, so we hung out a lot more. Finally we started dating in 2006. Then in October 2009, he asked me to marry him at dinner one night.


At that point he had been hanging out with one of my friends that he had actually liked a few years back, and he said he wanted to go to dinner to talk. So here I’m thinking that he’s gonna break up with me, boy was I off. So we’re at the restaurant and he gets talking about my grandpa, since he had passed in June, 2008. So we went to visit him, and at the place he’s buried at has a little pond full of fish, it’s called the memory garden. So we’re sitting on a bench we dedicated to him, and he spills his heart out to me. Then he asked me to marry him-that’s when I bawled.

The best part was that my grandpa really liked him and said that he could see us together, and that he was the one. He was right. And when he passed away, I was a wreck and lost with out him, because we were so close. He had battled cancer for 7-8 years, and he really wanted to live my life with me, and dance with me at my wedding. It was very fitting for him to ask me there infront of him and on a bench we dedicated to him. Ryan knew how much it meant to me, and I’m glad that he understands that. (Wow, I’m crying now).

I have a big family, with all the aunts and uncles, but he really does, and they mean the world to him. He’s the youngest of 9 kids, to Thomas and Ellen. He has his sister Judy, her husband Ken and their daughters Kayla (9) and Jamie (6). His sister Jean, her husband Paul, and their son Josh (8). Sister Megan, husband Andrew, their kids Nick (7) and Jenna (4). Sister Carol, and husband Dwayne, their twins Isabella and Macey (5). His sister Kate, and husband Matt, their kids Hunter (6) and Hailey (3). Mary, and Mike, they are expecting a baby any day now actually!! And his brother Tommy and his new wife Kelsey, who got married in July. See what I’m marrying into? Lol, no offense, I love you guys!!

So I can tell that we’re gonna have a good life together full of family and friends. While I’m on that note… I’m just gonna talk about the Bridal Party for a sec. His groomsmen are his friend’s Steve, Ryan, Sean, and groomsman is his brother Tommy. My maid’s are my sister Nicole, my friends Lesley and Kally, my maid of honor is Katie, my soul sister! Known her since grade 4. Love her to death. Our ring barer is his nephew Hunter and flower girl is my cousin Emma. (I’ll explain how that works later).

Well, my hands are sore and I’m pretty much done. Ryan Is now a English/male phys ed teacher, he actually has my cousin in an English class. That is too funny and awkward. So that’s really it for now, can’t wait until the wedding-MAY 15th!!! Letting you know now, so you know. Didn’t make any sense-whatever! So I’m gonna go, and leave you now. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!!

Brittany (#5)

Hi

Hi readers, my name is Brittany. I'm from Toronto, Ontario Canada, and I play pro volleyball. The whole purpose of this blog is just for anyone who wants to know about who I am, and what I'm like. So in this blog-my very first one (might I add), I'll be telling you about my background. Me personally, I'd like to know about the person who's life I'm reading about before I learn More about them. So here is goes: Um, I am 24 years old, born on October 29th, 1985. I am the oldest of three kids, Nicole, 13, and Alex, 10. My mom had my little sister Nicole when I was 11, and my brother was born when I was 14. I was very mature for my age, my guessing is because I was already into boys when I was 3 or 4. Convinced that I would marry Donnie Wahlberg, I still am. (All thanks to my older cousin Ashley).

I started playing on a volleyball team in grade 5, where I had the best coach in the world. He taught me everything I needed to know in volleyball, and in life. He is one great guy, and I still talk to him to this day. I give big props to Mr. Krane. Then I met my role model in grade 6, she was my teacher and new vball coach, love her to death. Honestly, she was the one who kept me a good person for my rough years. (I was a total Tom boy and rebelled a lot). So if it wasn't for her, I would've been suspended a lot for fights. (Did I mention I idolized bad boy Mark Wahlberg too)?When I was in 11 years old, I tried out for my first rep volleyball team, and made starting line. Granted, I turned 12 the next month, and was playing 13U. I continued to play throughout high school, and rep. Making team captain for both teams.

As I got to age 17, I was finally in grade 12, and ready for a change. During that rep/school season, I was scouted for a university team. (Scholarship baby!!) There, I played power hitter, still being super short, and moved to Libero. I played with them for all 4 years, majoring in Broadcasting. It is one of m dreams to be a talk show host, or to have my own radio station show. Everyone can tell you that I talk too much, I have the gift of the gab. After university, I was unable to move up in my volleyball level, due to my height. Hey-when your 5'4 and you play volleyball, thing's don't always work out. Not gonna lie, but I was crushed when they told me that I was too short, there's nothing you can do to change that. Right before graduation, all my 6 foot tall friends were getting ready for the National Team tryouts, lucky tall people. (The National team is one step below the Olympic level).

Instead of National team tryouts I had planned on trying out for a professional team. So I did, and actually made it! The team was so talented and tall, but none of them could really jump (sorry girls) so the coach took me, I have a good 8 inch vertical jump. I resume playing power or libero, and took the spot of team captain again. (I seriously don't know why I'm always selected). I'm also starting my second season this year. Now I'm playing with 9 of the most amazing ladies in the world! I love you: Kim, Shrimpy, Kally, Alycia, Nicole, Stacey, Piage, Stephanie and Megan!! I call them my old farts, cuz their all older than me too. HAHA! Right now I'm super busy planning my wedding with Ryan, (next blog). So that's really what you need to know, if you have any questions for me, you can tweet me, I'm known as @TotalBlocksicle. Or you can talk to me-I'm good with that, remember? I'm a twitterholic so you'll be sure to reach me there. lol. Thanks for reading, I'll post again soon.

Peace, Love & Rock 'n' Roll,

Brittany #5