Today is the first day, of the rest of my life.

I haven't blogged in a long long time, but mostly because nothing much was going on with my life. I've living at home, working at the Smart Style salon inside the Walmart by my house. getting a bit over minimum wage, and pretty much just existing. But I don't want to just be. I want to excel. I want to live life and love every second of it.
I've lived back in Richland for just over two years since graduating hair school. My plan was to move straight to Seattle, but that didn't happen.
Yesterday I got a call from someone I haven't talked to in years. My high school friend Roman. He is living in Seattle, taking a break from art school, doing free lance art work for various people. Living in a crappy apartment and barely making rent each month. I woke up this morning and realized that that is exactly what I need to be doing. Roman does what he wants, when he wants. He is on his own with no safety net. Next month him and Molly are going to go to Paris and live for a month. Just for the hell of it. Neither of them speak french. After this trip they will both be beyond broke. But they will be excelling at life.
I don't want to be stuck in the tri-cities for any longer than I have to. I don't want to live, safe and warm, but utterly boring in my parents basement. I don't want to go to a job every day that I only enjoy 20% of the time.

I vow, here and now to the internet and whoever reads this blog that by my birthday next year, March 30th, 2012 I will be living in Seattle.

I want to find a job that can take me places, where I feel my skill is not only expected, but appreciated. Where no one grumbles about the price of foils, where making money is not the main objective of it, rather the goal is to make a positive influence upon the lives of those who enter the doors by way of showing them their inner beauty via hair. I want to live in a town which doesn't boast as one of the biggest events a rodeo or Cowboy Poetry reading. A town where I am not listed as one of the weirdest of residents.
I need to be around people not necessarily closer to my own age, but people who are at a similar place in their lives. I've done with school and want to be around grown ups who pay rent, buy groceries and have bigger concerns than mid-terms and essays.

From now on, the only money I will spend will be the tips I receive. 100% of my pay checks will go to paying off student loans, and saving.

A Dictionary of Sorts

These are some words that I use on a regular basis which you may or may not know.


The Cheesiest: slang; excellent - of the highest quality.
a person or thing that is wonderful, great or marvelous
synonyms: "the bomb", "the bees knees"

Kitty Width: n; unit of measurement equal to the amount a door must be opened as to allow for a cat to come and go freely.

Note; two kitty widths can refer to Kitty Width times two, or the amount needed for two cats to pass through a door

Cookie: n; an infant or very young human.
synonyms: baby, toddler, tot, newborn, babe, child

From the phrase "bun in the oven"
(a cookie is cuter than a loaf of bread, so cookie is used in it's place as they are both baked goods)

Memis: n; substance that helps cure, alleviate illness. Medicine. Usually refers to non-prescription over the counter drugs. A term usually used by small children

Nubbie: n; the yarn tassels on a handmade tied quilt resulting from tying the layers of a quilt or comforter together with yarn knots and leaving tails

Can be used to pacify small children when they rub the nubbies between their fingers

Pig-face: n; an insult for friends

Because really the only person who should take real offense at this is Penelope)

Kitten Tears: n; the ultimate solution to any difficult problem or situation.

Particularly effective in warding off and defending against zombies

The Wizard: n; the keeper and maker of all kitten tears

Your Face: slang; the ultimate comeback to anything and everything.

eg. "That's lame" "your face is lame" or "I can do a back flip" "Your face can do a back flip"
also "your mom's face" or "Harry Potters face"

Doosky: n; a planed gathering of friends unrelated to anything specific

Door Knob: n; something so random or unexplainable that it doesn't even not make sense. Beyond comprehension or explanation.

Plork: v; the action between two people of interlocking the pointer and middle fingers in a pointer middle middle pointer pattern and applying pressure and pulling apart resulting in a satisfying noise similar to the sound of snapping.

Used in greeting or bidding farewell to a friend similarly to a handshake.

Icetimpy: n; An independent nation with no contact with the outside world, it lays between North America and Europe in which the time zone is neither here nor there with no rhyme or reason. The country is shaped roughly like a puppy and is completely covered in ice.

-licious: suffix; added to nouns, verbs or adjectives to form a more intense word, adding emphasis. Also may be added to words to make them longer and sound more impressive.
Similar to the suffixes -tastic or -tacular

Instead of "that movie was way very truly indeed beyond a doubt ridiculous" try "...was ridiculicious" or "I genuinely way to gag ever time I see you" one might say"You are gagalicious" Changes the noun kilt, meaning a short, pleated skirt worn by men in the Scottish Highlands to the adjective kiltalicious, meaning having the qualities of one who wears a kilt (sexy accent and good calves)

I leave for Vegas tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn. My plane leaves from Spokane at 6 am.

I'm printing off 30 resumes and a bunch of business cards.

still have to pack


should probably get started with that soon

H E A V E N

I I found what Heaven smells like.

I was at Wal*Mart sniffing the four new scents of Axe . . . OH MY HOLY HANNA!

What I've been doing...

Black & White Stripe earrings



















Two different bracelets



















Flamingo earrings























My favorite of the bunch, black and white star earrings, I'm working on a matching necklace right now.




I have lots of other colors, I just like black the best. If you would like to buy any just let me know, either the pieces shown or custom made.
Don't know how much, but getting a custom piece made wouldn't cost more... Around $8-$15 ? IDK

A tad late...

It's been over a week since my last post, sorry about that. The real shame is that it wasn't that I was too busy too write, wasn't that my mind was too preoccupied too write, wasn't that I was relishing in having nothing to do to write... I just didn't.

I suppose there isn't much to say even since my last post. Still haven't found a job, been playing phone tag with Master Cuts for almost a week now. There are 30 days until Beacon.

I just booked my Hotel and looking into flights.



But there is one exciting thing that happened!
One of my best friends from high school, Lance Kindle came to visit me yesterday. If you know much about my past then you will undoubtedly know that him and I had a huge falling out and before last month hadn't talked in over a year and a half. But I decided to put it all behind me, I learned from the experience and am stronger for it.
It was sooo good seeing him again, I had forgotten how well the two of us get along. I didn't realize how much I missed him until I saw him again yesterday. We have been texting back and forth for around a month now and it all just makes me incredibly happy. =D

Which is just what I needed because I'm in a sort of limbo right now, done with school and finished with that part of life, but I haven't started the next part yet... I'm just kind of waiting around for Beacon. Sitting around at home with not much to do, with no one my age back from school yet, life was drab.
But last night I fell asleep smiling and I am actually looking forward to the near future!!

Tomorrow we are going to have a Star Wars marathon! All six episodes in two installments. 7 hours tomorrow evening from 5:30-midnight-thirty and then 7 1/2 hours on Saturday, not sure the time for that one yet, I think we'll wait and see how we are feeling after the first three and decide how much sleep we need before the rest.
We're going to watch them in the order they came out; IV, V, VI on Friday then I, II, III on Saturday.
I have been wanting, no needing to have this marathon since the credits of the midnight showing of episode III, years ago! But no one seemed to want to do such a thing, I don't know why. Who WOULDN'T want to see 14 1/2 hours of Star Wars!??!?!?!

So tomorrow will be filled with caramel corn making, room cleaning and epic movie watching!

expimental

so, it's 5:30 am and I've not yet been to bed.

I sit here at the computer snacking on a few powdered donuts. Me being right handed instinctively picked up the donut with my right hand, causing my right thumb and pointer finger to be covered in delicious white powder.

Not wanting to get the powder on the keyboard, or even more the key board-germs on my donut fingers I entered my screen name and password with my left hand only. This got me thinking, can I effectively type something more than a log-in with my left hand alone? How long would it take to learn to do so at a decent speed?

So, all of this has been typed with my powder-covered right hand never touching the keyboard.

I don't know if I should try to stay up until tonight and be extremely tired all day to get my sleep schedule back to a semi-normal state, or if I should try to get some sleep now and risk accidentally sleeping in until 3 in the afternoon again??