Introduction

Hey my name is Briana, I am dual majoring in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies and I also have an associates degree in Graphic Design.  I currently am working at as a florist at Uptown Grocery and I know what you're thinking, flowers suck at grocery stores right? That's a big WRONG. Just to let you know, we have several florists that have worked as florists all their lives and we get flowers internationally from several different sellers which means we can get pretty much anything in a cut flower.  We also do weddings, parties and blow up a lot of balloons.

Sorry for the spiel but I had to set everyone straight.

(personal photo of a wedding bouquet)

I have a lot of hobbies these days because I tend to "dabble" which means I have to tendency to skip from hobby to hobby.  Right now my current hobbies are MMA fighting, gardening, and spending countless hours catching up on my favorite television shows on Netflix.

(personal photo of my garden)

My favorite television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock, Dowton Abby, , New Girl, The Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones, Grey's Anatomy, America's Next Top Model, Bones, NCIS, and Criminal Minds. I won't include any more because I feel to include all my favorites would take up completely too  much time.  Though I have to say I am a very big fan of BBC television shows.

I have a thirteen year old dog named Dexter, he is a pit bull terrier and he likes to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning to let him outside and to fill his food bowl, as if he were starving.  He likes to sleep in my bed and prefers to be covered up with his own very soft wool blanket.  He has bad table manners, will hop into random cars if he thinks the owner will take him for a sonic cheeseburger, and absolutely loves men.

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(Personal photo of Dexter, 3 years ago, he's much older now.)

Just for fun heres some more of the things I like or have made!

(personal photo of Dexter)

(Personal photo of flower arrangement)

So something I've recently picked back up is weightlifting and boy am I sore!! I know it's probably not a whole lot but I bench pressed 95 pounds yesterday and I'm very proud of that because that means I benched ten pounds more than I did two weeks ago! Yay!  Now I know a lot of women think that weightlifting will make them ugly and overly muscled, but honestly, our bodies don't have enough testosterone to do that naturally!!

weightlifting meme

Yes I"m walking like that.