My friend Robb made these awesome mock comic covers of my Spider-girl shoot with Michael Rivera. My jaw dropped when I got this in my inbox. How cool is this?! Definitely keeping this as a bit of self-motivation when I’m feeling down about post-accident setbacks. A hero always gets back up, right?
My friends make me seem way too cool. Don’t let the swanky photos fool you. I’m just a goofball from Atlanta with a penchant for entirely too cups of tea and lazy daily cat naps. But I’m totally down for looking like I’m going to take down a lizard crime boss on the weekends! (Do lizard mutants count? If so, then maybe during the week too for my day-job. Hm, maybe I do have an alter ego…)
While I’m currently in search of a new staple due to weight gain, my previous go-to LBD for years was a sleek little number I bought in New Zealand. I loved the mix of business and cocktail dress that it exuded. I would wear it as-is for a night on the town or throw a business blazer over it for a client meeting.
Recently, my cosplay and modeling have been on hold for a myriad of reasons (work, money, weight gain, depression, etc.) So I thought, rather than wallow in frustrations of the present, that perhaps it would be a better idea to showcase some fun from the past. Some of you are new to my little spot of the blog-o-sphere, so here’s a lesser known photoshoot of mine from days gone by.
Exhibit A here showcases just how ridiculously long my torso actually is! Finding tops and dresses long enough is a real joy, lemme tell you. I thought gaining weight from a size 00 to a size 4 would help with that somewhat. Oh sweet naive Briana…
I love this thing! A couple years ago I went looking for a glass water bottle. I bought a few different ones, but found they leaked a bunch or were breakable (because it’s well…glass. Shocking, I know). While searching glass water bottles on Amazon, the Embrava water bottle came up in the results. It didn’t look like glass so why was it in my search results? I read down into the description to see this claim, “We offer the same pure taste that those glass water bottles do, but with the added benefit of shatter resistant durability.”
I decided to order one to see if it was it claimed. I can happily say that it lives up to the hype! It features BPA-free materials and comes in a large 32 oz. size (so it’s easy for me to drink my daily 64 oz. of water). Not only that, but I love the drink spout design. As weird as it sounds, it quickly delivers water in a way that fits my tiny child-sized mouth. This has been an odd problem I’ve had with water bottles in the past where it seemed like only a small amount of water would flow through the spout whereas the Embrava’s lid has a fast-flowing design.
I own two of them and have gotten numerous friends hooked on it to the point that we keep throwing accusations of having each other’s water bottles! So to say I recommend this bottle is an understatement. In case you missed it above, click this link to grab one for your daily water intake! – 
I have a love affair with climbing trees. Back in college, it was quite common that if friends were looking for me, I could be found in one of three trees around campus. There was the grove of trees by the administration building, my favourite prayer tree by the school cafeteria, and the Anime Club tree – a perfect climbing tree so large, five of us could fit up there at once! We used to joke that there was a homing beacon inside the tree. If one member of the Club showed up and stood in the tree, within 5 minutes, at least one more Club Member would show up. If was foolproof until some school administrator got the bright idea to cut half of the tree off. I still climbed what was left of the tree, but it wasn’t the same. I couldn’t stand on the farthest thick branch (that’s right, STAND. And stand I would!) like a guardian and watch the people passing below me. Which was always amusing because if a group ever passed by, inevitably the last person in the group would do a double take. Oh the looks were priceless!
