Everything you need to know about me

I am a born again believer in Jesus Christ my Lord. He saved me when I was about 13. I love the LORD and I'm not afraid to say such a thing. I will strive to live for Him, because He loved me so much to die for me. I know that I will fall, and I have already stumbled too many times to count. I need Him, because I am a horrible sinner just like everyone else. I believe that, I am no better than everyone else, and no one's sin is more grievous than my own. Why? Because in the Lord's eyes, Sin is sin is sin is sin. Even something as simple as a little lie or a stealing a pencil; It is a sin, it says right in His word. We are all the same; sinners in need of His grace, His love, His gift of payment by his shedding of His own blood for the punishment of these sins though He was and is pure, spotless, perfect, and completely without any sin. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"Romans 3:23KJV “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23KJV Like in a courtroom, receiving my prison sentence for killing a man or not paying a simple parking ticket, He comes in, pays the fine, and I am free to go. I am free, because he paid for me. I am free in Him by His blood. "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.KJV" Isaiah 53:5 I will continue to sin as my evil flesh loves to do so, but I will make sure that when I see sin, I will turn from it that I might be in fellowship with Him because I love that more than anything. Fellowship, feeling just so clean, pure, peaceful, and happy in the Lord is the best feeling ever. Not that life with the Lord is any easier, no Jesus warns us that people will hate us for following Him, because they don't understand His word, they don't understand Him. But I would rather die serving Him and just simply die than to not care and go on doing whatever I please only to find that He is real. I don't want to take that risk, do you? -Also to be clear. Jesus said to love EVERYONE. Regardless of what they have done or do. When he died on the cross, he didn't die for a select few, he died for EVERYONE. When he died on the cross he was thinking of you, nothing can change His love for you. And since He loves you, I love you too. To be more clear, I do fully believe in sin, but is it really my place to judge? No, the Lord said that is His work; I am only to love everyone as He loves and follow Him. You may private message me if you by any chance you want to talk about anything having to do with my relationship with Christ. Notice, I said relationship, not religion. The two are surprisingly different because having a relationship with someone was a lot better than blindly following a bunch of set rules. : )








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First off about me will deal more primarily with my Gaiaonline account. My name obviously isn't Br1ttana(Who would put a number in their child's name?), but it also isn't anything similar to it and you're not going to find out my real name ever. Only a very select few in this wonderful world we call "Gaiaonline" have somehow managed to push their way past that wall. As for you, you may call me Br1ttana or Br1t for short. At this point, the amount of people that like to stick with "Br1t" cause me to think that I should possibly do an official name change/shorten. ; ) My username story is quite frankly...stupid. xD But it was originally going to be BrAtanna which is the nickname we gave my baby sister Anna when she's being a brat(Brat-Anna). Why I would name myself after a nick name of her's? I have no idea, but anyway Gaia said "It is too close to another name." So I changed the A to the #1. It worked and it looked cooler. Though I have thought many times of changing it, I can't think of anything good, and at this point, It's fun going by "Br1t." ; )

In my posts you might see me use a large variety of text emoticons a LOT. That is because here on the internet, things are harder to interpret than being able to hear them talking to that person offline. So I like to try to make it as clear as possible as to how I am saying each thing. I like to stick with text emoticons, because most website or app based smileys are "ugly." >.< But on Gaia, I might at times use the emoticon, the emoticon, and rarely the emoticon. The list of text emoticons that you might see from me are: : D >_> D : >_< : ) ^_^ ) : >: D >: O <3 : O T _ T o_o O_O o_O


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Second part for about me, will deal more with..... the me behind the avatar I guess? If you care about it, that is. ; ) I'm random, weird, fun, and pretty easy to get along with. : D I will admit that I can also be a bit of a ditz, so watch out for that. >.< I love variety of peoples, music, EVERYTHING. My favorite place to be probably is at church, listening to the Lord's Word. I also like being with friends('IRL' and internet), family, my pets, and the Lord. The Lord I love most of all and is the most important in my life. After the Lord, my family is the most important in my life. If anybody insults any of my friends or family I will get very upset. If you do this, chances are you'll probably never hear from me ever again. I know it's not much of a threat, but I have a very sensitive guilt conscience, so I can't do anything too serious. ><

PLEASE do not use the words "Fa****" or "Re******" around me. As I mentioned, I have an Autistic sister and volunteer with those who have mental disabilities. The "R" word is offensive to them and myself. I find the "F" word offensive as well especially in the contexts it is so much used in. I also ask that you do not call me any 'Pet names.' Why? Just PLEASE DON'T. Normally I won't say anything offline because I'm too reserved, but online I will most likely tell people to stop. Basically, pet names just disgust me whether they are used on me or anyone else. I hate all the 'isms' (racism, sexism, etc.), and school uniforms. I don't care what kind of uniform, whether it is a pre-determined outfit by the school, or just a blouse with skirt below the knees, this is also something that disgusts me. I feel that your clothing is an expression of who you are, an outpouring of your personality, and sometimes creativity for the eccentrically dressed. : D The car I would love to have would be a Toyota Prius Hybrid (light green or blue, even after the recall) or a Ford Fiesta(Have you seen the gas mileage!?). My favorite candy is 3 Musketeers or Butterfinger. I love history and learning about past things, I just don't like sitting in a history class at school or doing the school/home work. When I was younger, I used to read through some of my grandfather's encyclopedias. I love basically all sports and music except for songs that don't seem to have any other words than swear words. But all time favorite music would be Christian rock. I love video games, and specifically here in Gaia, I love zOMG. My Xbox is so beautiful to me and the Wii is alright. ; )


I have two sisters, one who is 7 yr. old and another who is 17 yr. old , but autistic. Because of my autistic sister, I've kind of grown up as an only child in a sense. I always wanted an older sibling, specifically an older brother or a twin. Just that close friend who you share or talk about anything with even though 90% of the time you want to pull their hair out. That person when, no one else is around, or you're just stuck in the house, they're there to hang out with. You can't really have that with an autistic child or an 7yr old. I know that once the younger one gets older, we'll be able to talk about things other than how Fluttershy barged out of her window in the best way possible causing us to laugh for a whole minute. But for now, talking MLP definitely works for me. : D

I have a 8 year old calico/tabby cat Abigail, and a 3 yr. old Rhodesian Ridgeback (90%) "puppy" named Brandon. Their pictures are in the post below this big huge long rambling "About Me" post. I got Abby from a friend, who also gave us the other cat(Scooter) you'll see below, to help us with our mouse problem as well as cause me to stop begging my parents for a cat. We got Scooter when our friend moved into an apartment that would only let him have one cat when he currently had two. But then Scooter was needed back for a mouse problem, so we no longer have him as our own kitty.

I was public schooled until 8th grade, then for 9th to 12th I was homeschooled, because I specifically said that I wanted to see how it was. But as of right now, I am a 20yr old striving to follow the Lord's awesome plan for me which I feel is so much and that over joys me. Without Him, I am completely lost, nothing, and have no direction in my life. I know this because I have seen and felt that feeling. So turning away from the Lord for that reasons and so many others is something I'd rather not do. : ) I plan on going to a Bible institute to be stronger in the Lord, help me get in to "college mode", and to learn more about His word. I have studied and learned about His word a lot over the years, but I have found that you can never stop learning new things about ANYTHING especially His holy word. After the Bible institute, or perhaps during that (depending on if it keeps me super busy or not), I would like to study to become a social worker as my minor and a counselor for those in the foster system as my major. I currently volunteer at a farm that works with disabled kids with a paying job on the side. I would like to possibly in the future help out at places like Teen Challenge and The Children Evangelism Foundation, but I have to see what happens. ; )

I highly respect my heritage and always want to learn more especially in regards to Germany. My dad was in the Air Force, (not anymore) having me be born in Germany where I stayed for 3 months. So because of this, as they tell me, I am a double citizen of Germany and America. I am also part German via my mother's side of the family ancestry. I love Germany and want to visit it one day. Though my parents say that the German's were mean to them because most of them don't like anybody with an american accent. I have only heard wonderful things about Germans who have come to visit the USA and either way I want to see it, I want to be there. I only know a little German, but I want to learn more.

Over the summer of 2007, I got in a ATV accident. I had a few spinal disks crushed, my wrists sprained for several weeks, and now a permanent glue scar on my chin(which thankfully, you can't actually really see because of where it is positioned) because it would NOT stop bleeding otherwise. I did not experience back pain for the longest time, even at the time of the accident. I was very fortunate, however as of Summer 2012, I have started to get some back problems from that accident. Someone who suffered a VERY similar accident around that same time, did not have such light injuries, but died from this accident. I suppose the Lord is looking out for me because He has something planned to use me for. If you're thinking of hopping on one, I just ask that you keep in mind these few things. 1. Listen to your supervisor. 2A. Don't go super fast if you are 150 or less pounds. 2B. If the ATV has two speed settings, keep to the first/lowest setting. 3. Watch out for rocks and small hills. 1st question everyone asks is "Was it scary?" No, but I was annoyed, especially when they put the stupid neck brace on, IV in, and took until 5 A.m. to send me home. I'll just say that hospital is not #1 on most people in my family's list. : (