"Home after an overnight trip to Auckland. Exhausted. I am a small town girl!"
Often times there is no better way to talk about someone or describe who they are than by the person being able to do it themselves. @brig_be is exactly one of those people. If I can apply the old cliche of "you can't put her in a box" (metaphorically - not literally) then that is certainly the case.
@brig_be is a mum, a runner, a creative sewing person and someone whose smile can light up a room. She has an infectious enthusiasm for life and is an inspiration of others. She is open and attentive to the needs of others and goes about living life in her own driven self determined way. Not that you could tell this is if you met her in real life because she is sooooo sweet.
Over the last month or so her life (and tweets) were taken over by one thing - the Tarawera Ultra Marathon. If you look through her tweets from February and March you will be able to get a better understanding of how much emotional time goes into preparation for an event as big as the one she completed. And now having knocked off what rally was a huge effort in anyone's book (approx 50 miles) @brig_be is looking for what next?
A lot of how she tweets is influenced by both where she grew up: the King Country and where she lives now: Wellington. Location based tweets are always interesting because they give the reader both a sense of belonging as well as giving them an insiders view to what is happening in that part of the world:
"Washing's on the line, now getting wet.@#*^&%&^ Wellington weather."
"Wellington - loving you today! #wgtnwx"
"I got propositioned by a walking banana on Lambton Quay today. Ah, the sevens!"
"Donated plasma this morning. What a treat - lying still for an hour while sipping tea and reading magazines, and doing a wee bit of good :)"
As always (and like most of twitter) she has a great outlook on life and sees the cup as being half full with room for possibilities. She Brigbee isn't afraid to pursue her dreams - "Dream job on @TradeMe: retail at the Gibbston Valley cheese shop in Queenstown. Oh all right, if I have to." She goes after her dreams and goals at her own pace, in her own way but always with the wise advice of others to guide her.
Did I mention she can cook? All FABULOUS women can bake! "Advice please! Baking for fundraising - which baked treat would you most likely shell out for? Tx :)"
If you take the time you can view her blog here - runbrigbee.blogspot.co.nz/. Hopefully she will add some more content to it as she embarks on her next great goal. (And I may even get a wee mention in that blog somewhere along the way). I would like to say that I do have one disappointment and that is having not made the acquaintance of @brig_be sooner. Be it in real life or on twitter. But life has a way of ensuring you meet the right people at the right time in the right places. (And that right there is a whole story in itself).
The last word goes to the lady herself, with a tweet that describes her perfectly in so many ways -
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