GOOD: Kissing

So cute!

And the winner is...

This car! After so much looking and stress, we finally found one. I kinda feel like there should be car seats and soccer balls in the back, but I like it :) It was kind of crazy because I never actually got to see the car before it was bought. Yikes! Mama did good though.

Stalker.

I love blog stalking. They're all so great! I hope someday mine will be worth gawking at. Sigh...a girl can dream. Someone teach me how to be so amazing.

P.S. Today I got the boots I've been wanting SO bad for $25! Best day ever!

I'm a terrible blogger.

sigh...I really am. To the two people that have ever read this, I greatly apologize. A few of us girls were talking about it today at school and I decided it was going to be a new years resolution to blog more. So much has happened so far at school I don't know how I haven't been dying to come on here and go on and on about it...hm..oh well. Long story short, school's been really fun and I've really learned a lot so far. Don't get me wrong, I want to poke myself in the eye sometimes with my combs, but it's all a part of the process. I really feel like I'm investing in my future and hope that it all is worth it in the end. I've had some struggles with friends and life in general, but I figure everything happens for a reason and everything will work itself out eventually.

Next time I post it really needs to be something super happy. This is kind of a venting one. Actually I think they all have been so far actually. ACK. Anyway, I'm an extremely blessed person, don't get me wrong. I have way more than I deserve. I got so much help financially for school, I have great friends, a great family, my boyfriend that is so amazing, I have a happy home to live in, I'm not severely ill, you get it, a lot of good things. Lately though, I'm basically in a constant state of frustration. It started right before christmas when my car got totalled, and while I'm really glad we're fine, dealing with the aftermath is one of the most stressful experiences of my life. I'm trying to get a new car with all the money we don't have and there's pushy salesmen and I kinda feel like I'm signing my soul away or something. It's fine. I'm extremely indecisive so something like this is beyond overwhelming. I've also gotten kinda burnt out on school lately. I really love to do hair but I rarely ever get to actually do it. I'm halfway done and we were warned this would happen but I really wasn't planning on it being this bad. It's a huge effort to get out of bed and get ready to go in the morning. I need to find something that will re-motivate me, I'm just not entirely sure what that is yet. I know I'll get past this, I just really hope it's sooner than later.

On the plus side, I'm moving up to creative next week, so I'll be a little higher up on the totem pole. I will be getting a new car soon, so that'll be fun. One of my very dear friends is getting married in march and I couldn't be happier for her. Life is ok, and it'll be good again soon. I'm definately ready for some fun. :)

Catching up

Hoookay. So it's only been about 200 years since I've posted on here. Alright, so maybe that's a slight exagerration, but honestly, I kinda completely forgot about it. My good friend Courtney Cook reminded me about it, so here I am.

To catch up, as this post is titled, I'm currently living in Provo going to the Paul Mitchell School. I'm loving every minute of it. It's kinda stressful sometimes but it's really something I love to do. I've done a little bit of everything now, although I'm already bored with long hair and layers. Apparently it's the official Utah hair style. I guess I shouldn't judge, it's only the hair style I had for oh i don't know...5 years? Ya, no room to talk. I got to do a super cute long A-line with blunt bangs on a cute pregnant girl the other day though and I loved it! It was fun to do something different. The school is amazing, anyone thinking about this industry should really consider it. We have amazing teachers (ahem..learning leaders) that are so helpful. One of them, Brittany, gave a theory class the other day that made me BAWL. Like a baby. Those who know me, know that doesn't happen often. She shared a really touching story about losing a dear friend. She went on to tell us to appreciate the little things in life, not to let the little petty things bother you, and making sure the people you love know it. It really touched me and reminded me of a lot of things people forget pretty often. She showed a video at the end and one of the quotes was "Life isn't fair, but it is good." I've had to remind myself of that a lot beacause it has been one hell of a week. Everything that probably could go wrong has. Fights with family and friends, money stresses, and then to top it all off, I locked myself out of my room yesterday. Yes, I'm an idiot. Yes, I tried for about 5 hours to pick the lock myself. Someone please explain to me why there are CHILDREN on Youtube that can figure this out, but I for some reason, can not. Yes, it costs $50 dollars to have a locksmith come to your apartment when it takes him all of 5 seconds to open it. Thank sweet heaven that I have a wonderful father to was willing to calm me down when I called him crying tears of frustration by offering to pay for his moronic child's smart move. And yes, in case you were all wondering, my roommate's door key would have opened my door the whole time. Talk about an angry me. It's a good thing my wonderful boyfriend is willing to deal with me and attempt to cheer me up by feeding me strawberries and bananas (my favorite) and chocolate ice cream. I plan on keeping him around. He knows what's up. Hopefully things will start getting a little better, although a little part of me is nervously looking around when I'm outside hoping I don't get hit by a meteor or something. (I kid, I kid...sort of..)

Random fact, I'm super excited that I am now living next to a couple cousins, the only ones I have close to my age, who I've never been able to spend much time with because they've always lived in Cedar City. There's Ashley, who's recently married to Joe, and they're really fun. Then Jameson, who's moving here tomorrow, who was called "funny guy" by my little sister when we were little. Ashley came into the school the past week and we colored her hair a really pretty coppery auburn and cut it cute, luckily her husband was pleased and I'm allowed to do her hair from now on. Hooray! It's going to be really fun to spend time with them.

Anyway, I'm loving my life with school, friends, and my boy, struggles and all. This blog will consist of my life and school stories, pictures of random stuff and hopefully some to showcase my growing skills.

Have a lovely day :)

Wanting Better

I don't know if anyone has ever gone on the blogspot "Le Love", but it's one I really like. People can go on there and post love stories and/or pictures. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, sometimes it's about a significant other, or family member, or friend. Basically anything. I saw a post on there today that made me feel good, so I'll copy a link onto here so anyone who reads this can see it, and so I can look back on it when it's something i need to remember.

http://http//leloveimage.blogspot.com/2010/02/optimistic.html

I decided the last line, "I'm going to live. I'm going to have a love for life. and I'm going to be happy." is going to be my own personal little mantra for a while, because I think sometimes we forget those things. I've been really stressed about about school lately, mostly money issues because I wonder how on earth after working for 9 or 10 months, part time, for min. wage, I think i have any right to move out of state and pay $13,500 for school plus rent, food, and whatever else I end up spending money on. i just have to keep telling myself that it's what I want to do and it's the right thing for me, and it will work out, because I honestly don't know what else to do. Hopefully all goes well with student loans and what not, or someone really rich decides that they want to be really generous to a random person (ha, right). A girl can hope, right?

Other than that life's pretty boring at the moment. The most exciting thing that's happened in the last week is that I got a new phone. Oh, and I cut my hair. A good 4 inches or so. It seems extremely short to me, and I know I'm being completely ridiculous, I just need to get used to it and then I'm sure I'll like having something different. That's it for now though.

Growing Up

ok, first post. I'm pleased to announce (probably to myself) that I finally know for sure what I'm doing for school. I figured it was something exciting enough to finally post about. I'll be moving down to Utah early or mid June to hopefully find a job, and then start at the Paul Mitchell in July. We got some exciting news that if you start in July you automatically get $2,000 dollars off your tuition. I guess they don't have very many people sign up for the summer classes so they do it as an incentive. I don't know about anyone else, but it sure worked for me. I also found out my good friend I grew up with in California is going there too, so we're going to get an apartment together. I'm pretty excited, although I'm hoping we won't want to kill each other after going to school together all day and then going home living with each other. I think it will be ok though, we have a lot of fun together. We're close enough to where we can tell each other just about anything and get over it pretty quick. So hopefully all goes well. I'm so unbelievebly excited and nervous and all that other stuff that goes on inside my brain. I just want it to be July. Now. Not happening? Oh well, I suppose it will be here fast enough. I'm just going to keep working to keep myself busy, maybe find a second job to fill my time. So fun :)