Kicking off Season 2 with an update from Brey | Episode #23

In this episode, Brey gives a life update and fills you in on everything coming up in season 2 of the podcast and some news and events with the PRRF!

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  • Hello, everybody. My name is Breyanna and welcome to 2024. For what? I literally cannot believe that it is 2024 already. 

    This, especially the last month, like December completely flew by and I feel really bad for people who have things like birthdays in December. I'm so sorry. I have two sisters and a nephew that were born in December and your birthday month is just here and gone. Sorry, but I feel like just the time from like Thanksgiving on was so wild for everybody. 

    My family is huge and my fiancé Matt also has a very large family, so holiday season for us is just go, go, go, go, go. And we don't really get it to just chill. Unfortunately, which is fun because it's a lot of fun. 

    But we also have New Years as of right now. New Year's is tonight because I'm recording this on New Year's Eve. But by the time this goes up, I hope your New Year's Eve is very safe. I hope you had so much fun. But New Years, it's not really my thing. Which is fine. I just feel like I'm getting old or I am just not fun anymore. But I feel like you have all this anticipation for, like, 10 seconds, and then it's just kind of over. But if it's your thing, I hope you had fun. I hope. Yeah.  

    But as far as what's going on in my life, I have so many things to look forward to in this new year. And starting off, my cousin is getting married in February. Jade, congratulations. I'm so happy for you. Unfortunately, we won't be able to attend just because she's down in Florida and we're up here in New York, and ticket prices right now are insane. But I'm so happy for her. And then my sister Lauren, she is also getting married. She's getting married in July. So I'm so happy for that. I'm so excited for that, that what should be so much fun. But I think the biggest thing for me this year is I'm getting married in October.  

    My stress level right now. okay. I guess I am less stressed out than I was before. We have all of the big things done, and mostly it's just like little fun things now. More, you know, designs and picking out flowers and stuff like that. So, I'm so excited. I'm nervous. I hope everything goes well. I mean, it's obviously going to go well, right? Because that's what happens on weddings. Nothing bad ever happens. That's what we're going to put out in the universe. Right? Right. That's what I'm I keep telling myself nothing bad is going to happen. 

    But yeah. So besides my wedding, I have also decided to take, you know, just a little break from school for right now. I'll be going back in January of 2025. I just really this last month, kind of right before holiday season kicked off. I just really didn't like who I was. I was just so stressed out in school. I feel like that time, especially for school, is a very stressful time for everybody, just with finals and everything. But trying to work and plan a wedding and go to school and look for a house and like do all these other things, it was just way too much. So, I decided to take that this a little break. I have like a semester and a half left. 

    So January, that's when we're going back. But just I was. I know I am. I'm glad I did because I am so much happier now already. And, you know, 2024 hasn't even happened yet. 

    The biggest some of the big things are I am brushing up on my Spanish. I you know, between high school and college, I have about sixish years of Spanish. I'm definitely not fluent in it. I like to tell people that if you were to drop me in, you know, a Spanish speaking country, I could probably be fine. I should hold simple conversations and stuff and please, nobody actually drop me off in a Spanish speaking country because I don't want to put it to the test. But I wanted to just kind of work on that because it's been a while. So I was doing some research and I found out Duolingo actually is very accessible with voiceover and not a sponsor. But if they want to sponsor us, I mean that would be awesome. But I was very surprised with how accessible it was. I feel like 95% of the content on Duolingo is accessible and for the other, you know, little stuff that isn't accessible. I have enough vision where I can kind of say, I would say fake my way through it, but I can get through it. It's fine. 

    But yeah, so if you want to learn Spanish with me or something like Russian or Chinese or Klingon, they have it on Duolingo. So and it's accessible, which is huge. But 

    I've also tried knitting. I used to crochet a lot when I was younger and I just really wanted something to do that wasn't on my phone. Now I feel like I spend so much of my time during the day looking at screens between my phone and my laptop and stuff that I needed to give myself a break. And so I, I really, really tried my beautiful grandmother, I feel so bad. She really, really attempted to try to help me brush up on my crocheting skills. And I don't know if it's just me or if it's a blind thing or what it is, but crocheting is not it. It's not the way to go for me. So I decided to try knitting and I was actually just looking at my little scarf that I got going. It's not perfect, you know, obviously there's a stitch that's dropped here or something, but I have to be better with not giving up after I try something the first time and it doesn't work out. That's something I need to work on myself because obviously, you know, practice makes perfect and that's always what they say. And I got to get better about practicing and just learning how to do it, which is fun. And I hope I stick with it because so far it's pretty relaxing. It's nice to just kind of throw whatever on the TV or something, you know, and just knit and not think about life too much. Wow. Yeah. So I think the biggest thing is that I'm happy. 

    I am probably the happiest I've been in a long time, which is exciting. 

    Yeah. So before I'm trying to think when this episode will go out and I'll probably be one of the first episodes. So I just wanted to talk about our annual Family Connections conference coming up on January 20th. It will be so much fun. It will be in Rochester, Michigan, at and it's either in-person or we're doing a virtual one online at the same time. So make sure you get your spot saved if you click on the register. And then we will also have the hotel information link down below as well. We're going to keep you guys can come is it should be so much fun. We have some guest speakers. We are doing a tour of the Pearl Lab, which is the research facility that the foundation uses, which I so I feel like so special to go and walk through. And it should be so much fun. And there's just something special about having people who have, you know, some connection to each other, you know, whether that be yourself as a blind person or, you know, you're related to someone or know somebody who's blind and visually impaired, or if you're just curious too, or should be, you know, great conversation. 

    And I'm hoping... I'm excited to meet all of you guys that come and there are so many people working behind the scenes to make this a reality. And I just wanted to thank them. And yeah, I'm excited to see you guys there. Yeah, I'm trying to think of anything else that's really happening in my life right now. I don't think so. 

    Thanks for listening to this random babbly episode and we will see you in the next one. Description text goes here

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