These are more after pictures of our home. ENJOY

I bought a Nikon camera. It's one of those photography cameras. Since I'm not a professional photographer i decided to go with a Nikon instead of a Canon. It is such an amazing camera! I love it soo much!! It's 12 mega pixels too. I took a picture of Dolce and it is so clear!

Totally needed this cup of coffee that I just had. Last night Dolce was crying and whimpering all night and my boyfriend wouldn't let me try to get her to fall asleep. He kept saying she has to learn she has to learn. Well when the t.v. is on she thinks that it's not bed time yet. I just petted her a bit and then she fell asleep. Thank goodness too because he's the one that has to wake up early in the morning not me. From her psycho-ness I was woken up at 6:45 am to her whimpering again. Now she is sleeping and has been for the last half hour. Puppies are weird! I guess they are just like babies. Yes they say you shouldn't come to your child every time they cry or they'll get into the habit of crying when they want your attention, but its hard, even though we're talking about a puppy here. She does better every day so that's all that matters.

I've decided to go blonde and it has worked out pretty well. I did it myself and couldn't reach as far back on my head to do foils like I thought i could but it actually looks really good!! Here's a picture of Elio and I the other day with me and my BLONDE hair!

I need a nap. I've been awake since 6am and woke up quite a few times during the night because of the pup. We had an inservice at work today and we had to swim 50 yds in full clothes. Don't say it's easy until you try it. Try saving a life in full clothes instead of just a bathing suit, it's hard. After work I had to take Dolce to get her first shots. We go in the doctor's room and they vet comes in and tells us that she'll give her her shots in the other room. She takes her away and all of a sudden we hear a huge yelp and I teared up a bit. It feels like she's literally my child because we're together every second when I'm home. After she brought her back to us she was shaking and so happy to see us. We have about 2 or 3 more sets of shots that she has to get until she is 100% well.

This morning I was awakened by our smoke detectors going off. With the puppy sleeping next to me and the two other dogs (a chihuahua and a shitzu-pug) barking, I could no longer fall back asleep. The alarms would go off, all of them, then they would stop. I jumped out of bed to check it out and they had stopped. This happened about 3 times until I finally got up and called my boyfriend. He said to look up on line what detectors can detect and if it may be something else. So I do this and it says that spiders and dust could get into the system and set it off, or any bit of humidity it detects it could set it off. So I closed the windows and turn a ceiling fan on and they haven't gone off again since.

Today is going to be a very productive day! I can feel it!
-clean the dishes
-clean up the house
-pay the Direct T.V. bill
-take Dolce to Petsmart to explore
-Watch some HGTV
-Work from 6:15pm-8:15pm
-Relax and wake up early for an inservice tomorrow

Sounds pretty productive to me. Oh and yesterday I finally took my practical State Board exam for Cosmetology. After a 6 weeks you'd think they would send me a letter telling me when I test. Funny, because on the paper after you take your written it says, " 7-14 business days until you get a letter for your practical". Mine took almost 7 weeks. It's just so frustrating when everyone that I went to school with already has their license and I took the written right when they did, and I'm the only one actually with a salon job lined up and none of them have one. Oh and by the way, this girl I went to school with also will be at the salon I'll be working at unfortunately and she even colored her hair brown, LIKE MINE! Good thing I'm going lighter now! haha the jokes on her!

I really don't mean to sound this way but the reason I haven't talked to people from school is because it felt like high school all over again with the talking behind people's backs and the "who should I sit with at lunch" deal. It just annoys me that I found a job all by myself and someone had to try and steal my thunder by working at the same place. Then I have another girl telling me to "hook it up" and get her a chair there also. And my response was hey I did this on my own and you (remember I'm 20 and this lady is like in her mid thirties) can do it on your own too. She was trying to convince me that she doesn't know what to say or what to do and I', like hey then maybe you shouldn't be in this industry if you can't be outgoing and find your way.

We need a nice quote to finish it off:
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar

Here are a few AFTER pictures of our home!

We received a new puppy!!!!! Her name is Dolce. She's a chihuahua mix, we don't know what she's mixed with but she literally looks like a hyena!

Sorry it has been so long that I have written anything! We are FINALLY in our new home! These are all our before pictures. We have done so much to this house it's unbelievable. Soon I'll put up the after pictures. We have come a very long way in two weeks. This whole process has been such an adventure.

So we have our home now!! We are not currently sleeping in it but we are priming it and getting it ready to move into it this Friday!! Here are a few pictures!!!

We have gotten word that tomorrow we are getting keys to the house at 11 a.m!!!!! I don't believe that this is actually happening! We were suppose to get the keys next Friday on the 15th but I guess we get them earlier! Sunday we are going to prime the entire house so we can paint and clean it during the week. Next weekend we are going to actually start moving things in and then start living there. We are getting all the power and water and gas all turned on next Friday so it would be a perfect day to move everything in. Plus it's actually getting nice out here in Vegas so having no A.C for now isn't bad at all!!

I have finished a book that I've been reading for about 2 months now, on and off. I love the feeling of accomplishing something like reading. I love reading. When I go to the book store I end up with three to five books.
I had an early morning today. I worked at 4:30 a.m and it was quite early. After work I plan on going to my prego friends house. Her baby is due this Saturday but hopefully she'll want to come early like today! Then I can drive her to the hospital and the whole 9 yards. I'm doing her sisters highlights for homecoming on Saturday. I have a pretty sweet gig going on. Ya know like doing hair and getting better and better and building a clientle while I'm not in school nor in my actual salon yet.
Well I need to be saving more and more money forthis house and everything. Yeserday I decided that I was going to make my last Pier 1 and Ross stop until we actually move in. It's sad because I love buying things for our home!!

Today I took a Schwarzkopf color class. My new manager for the salon let me take the class for free, free because she's the one who taught it. It started off being some what confusing with all the different lines within the one. But after a while I actually got it. I can't wait to start this job! Soon I should be getting my letter in the mail to take me practical portion of the state board exam.

Bears are playing today against the Giants. We are currently at our friends new apartment watching the game. They are paying $750 for a one bedroom apartment. Almost two more weeks until we're in our home! Ahh I am seriously so excited !! We are going to finally be on our own,

Today is the UNLV v. UNR game and all of our friends have bailed out on us for the tailgate so it's going to be me, Elio, and his sister Nadia. Thanks guys! LAME!
GO UNLV! We always loose but I support!
Even Khloe supports!

Had a great cup of coffee this morning! Talked to my future mother-in-law (Elio's mom) all morning. Right now she's going through a divorce and her husband (soon to be ex husband) is a total idiot. He is now trying to make her and her kids feel bad for him because he's been sad and sick of the crap that's been going on, but yet he's the one that put all of this on himself! I hate people like that. Anyways, Nadia, Elio's little sister, is coming tomorrow from Reno to come see the UNLV v. UNR game on Saturday. I can't wait to see her! She will be attending UNLV in the spring because she hates Reno so much. Her roommate is super messy and people in her dorm don't respect the quiet hours so she can barley sleep. Hopefully after she gets here she doesn't decide that she wants to go back to Reno.
About 2 more weeks until we get the keys to the house!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED! My mother, unfortunately, is sad and is going to miss me. I cant wait to decorate and everything!

I just had one of the most amazing dreams ever! In my first dream my pregnant friend Alex was in it, fortunately her water broke. She is due next Saturday October 9th and she wants baby Audriana out! My second dream was, by far, the most amazing dream ever! My friend Kourtney and I were at a UNLV football game and we sat down in our seats, my boyfriend was calling me so I answered my phone then all of a sudden we're front row on the field. For the pre-show there was going to be a Vera Wang fashion show. We had a cabana that was like a bed to watch the show from. Some reason I received a bunch of free clothes for attending the show and I was folding them and putting them away. Literally 10 feet in front of us was Vera Wang's personal assistant and needed 2 more people for the "Still life, fashion show." Basically the back drop was men and women models posing for a long period of time and they need 2 more women. The assistant whispered something to her friend and it was, see that tan latino girl over there (they thought I was latino because I'm a tan Italian ha!) I want her in Wang's show. The next second I was back stage in hair and makeup. I had this corset type outfit on that was black with a million rhinestones with black tights and mile high black pumps. They took a million photos and I did a great job. The next day my boyfriend and I showed my family on the internet what I did and how I literally became famous over night! There was even a barbie doll that looked exactly like me!
How crazy can our dreams get? Weird how I remember every inch of them but I can't remember what I had for dinner 3 nights ago. I have always been told that I can remember my dreams very vividly, hopefully that's a good thing.
About 2 more weeks until we get the keys to the house! Everyone is trying to talk me out of a red wall in the kitchen. I have wanted this red wall for so long, longer then I can remember. Yes it's a small kitchen but there will be only 1 tiny red wall. The wall that I want to do wall will widen the space because it will be surrounded by two very light colored walls. I have started packing up my room. I thought it would be such a challenge but I do not have that much stuff. I've ended up throwing many things away already because I will literally not die without them.
One more person left at work! Soon they will be looking for another lead to fill the position. Everyone is hoping that I get it again. I have a great availability and even while working in the salon I will push myself so hard just so Elio and I will have extra money for ourselves. I really hope I get it, if I were to I would put 150% into the position. The best part is that they are starting to make things more professional by dressing professionally to work and making the City seem more professional and less lazy and we make the Aquatics seem.

Good morning to everyone! You know it's a great morning when you wake up at 8:30 a.m, there's just enough coffee left in the maker to make a cup of joe and Designed to Sell is on HGTV! There are so many things I have been learning from watching all these home shows. Once we move in our home is going to be fully furnished and move in ready. All we really need to do is get a bedroom window, like I've said before, paint the house, and buy some wood for the family room floor. The best thing about this house is that we'll get to put a little bit of ourselves to make it "OUR" home.
Last night we worked out and I am so sore today. The best feeling about working out is the great feeling of knowing that you're body is working hard.

I passed my written part of my State Board Exam! Some of the questions were weird and worded funny but I passed with a 90%. Guess who was also there taking their test? Eden, ewwwww. The girl that screwed me over! She went behind my back to hook up with my brother while she was "supposedly" my best friend. I think that is just wrong! I don't care about what my brother did because she's the one who went out of her way to get ahold of him and everything. Of course there were about 4 of us that were waiting for the doors to unlock and every few minutes another person would come. Eden was the last person to arrive and there she was pulling on the locked door and making a fool out of herself. She asked about 4 times, "Are the open? Why is it locked?!" All you could here were her fat feet shuffling down the hall and making a big commotion. Once she left to some of the other ladies that were there were like wow what was her problem. Once the doors opened all of us who were there first ended up at the end of the line and guess who was first? Eden, the one who came late and last! The rest of us were pissed and like, why do the people who came later get to go first. Anyways, I finished the test in 30 minutes and passed!
Hopefully within the next 2 weeks I'll have a date to take my practical exam and I pray that no one from school is in the testing room with me this time.
House update: the appraisal was finished. The house was $85,000 and we offered $84,900 on it. I hope all goes well and within the next week we should be given our closing date, then we can get this show on the road!

I worked at 4:30 a.m. this morning. It was pretty early, but it felt nice to get up early and start the day. I'm getting my hair colored here in a bit. Ever since Jen decided to befriend me I haven't colored my hair and when she did it last she messed up. Long story short, I need my re-growth covered badly! You know what's sad? Lately I haven't had any inspiration to write at all!! I know it's been a while since I have written too. The day after next I'm taking my written state board test, hopefully I pass!

Today the Bears play their first game of the season! GO BEARS!

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I recommend not drinking a full glass of 1% milk before bed. I had the craziest, weirdest, saddest, dream about my boyfriend last night. I woke up and I totally thought it was real. The crazy part was that the dream took place within two days, so when I woke up it felt like day 3.
I had a theory last night. Supposedly every time I eat too much dairy or drink too much dairy I get a stomach ache. I decided, last night, that I would devour an entire glass of milk. That's probably why I had the weird dream, but I slept the entire night and woke up totally fine.
Sorry I haven' written in so long. There has been so much stuff going on between the house, work, and just everything. Last saturday I worked a 10 hour shift. While I was working my 10 hour shift Elio got to go have fun at a tailgate and get completely wasted. Who knows if he was flirting with other girls, or how I like to put it "making yourself look and seem available". He doesn't notice but once he's passed the slightly drunk stage he goes right into the belligerent stage and starts being super nice to everyone including women. He literally drank from 4:30p.m. until 9:00p.m. Once I made it to his friends house to pick him up, since he wasn't in the state of mind to drive, he had the nerve to tell me that he wasn't that drunk. Please, he was slurring his words, he could barely walk straight, and he was talking about the most ridiculous stuff with his friend. I have a feeling one day, while he's still going through his "I have to be super drunk to only have fun" phase that he won't end up doing something like that to me. The main reason is because we're about to own this home together and he's acting more as a single bachelor that want to party with his friends then a future husband too me. At this rate, we will not be engage for at least 5 more years.
Speaking of the house, last Friday I went to the inspection for it. Of course there were a few things that needed to be fixed, just minor things. We found out that the plumbing that was laid out throughout the house isn't very good. It's called Kitec. In 2008 people started filing lawsuits to the company because their plumbing was either eroding or bursting completely. It's because the pipes are cheap and once water hits them they make little pieces of bacteria build up. First the flow of water goes down then once it has completely eroded the burst. There was a class action lawsuit on it promising Nevada that they would fix 1,000 homes out of the 30,000 that were built with the plumbing. Thank you God that our house is part of the 1,000 homes. Once we purchase the house we can file the claim, oh and there was a claim number already, and within 2-3 months a plumber should head out to fix the issue. The was the deal breaker to us buying that house. My mom called the lawyers for the Kitec problem and wanted to double check that we wouldn't have to pay out of pocket for their mistake. So now that we have told our lender to move on with the appraisal, it should happen within the next 10 days. Either they're going to tell us that the house is worth more then the asking price or it is worth less. If it's worth less then we ask the bank to lower the asking price then change our offer tot hat asking price. Hopefully we'll be in this house by the middle of October.

Wanna hear a dirty joke? A pig fell in the mud!

I spent all day with my mother. Have you ever had a dream that you've had before? A reoccurring dream? Well last night I had a weird dream and once I woke up it freaked me out. I don't really want to go much into it but it was not good. Have you ever heard of someone being obsessed with death? There is someone, very close to me, who use to utterly be obsessed with death. Every waking moment she was thinking of death. You can't explain something like this. Just ideas and feelings of what would happen to my loved ones and where would they go if I were dead. No, the person was not suicidal and no they did not hate themselves. They were in debt and not in a great relationship at the time. But for 2 years straight, this person I know, was obsessed with death. And then, one day, it was all gone, they all of a sudden felt this feeling of relief. It wasn't there anymore, they would try and think about it and it just didn't affect her life anymore.
Why are so many things in this world unexplainable?

I N S P E R A T I O N A L

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

-Corinthians

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Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, or as many know her as, Coco Chanel, was born August 19th, 1883 in Saumur, a small city in France.

She was born in a poorhouse to traveling salesman Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle.

When Coco was just twelve years old her mother died, leaving her father to care for the six children. He left a short time latter, and for the next seven years, Coco was in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine. Here she learned the trade of a seamstress.

While working as a cafe and concert singer, Chanel adopted the name, Coco.

Coco Chanel did not always dream of becoming a famous fashion designer. She danced, attempted to be an actress, sold hosiery, rode horses, dispensed mineral water, and worked as a cabaret singer.

Maybe there was something special in the number 5 - enough to have Coco Chanel superstitious and in awe of it. Chanel No. 5 was introduced on 5th May 1921

Coco also brought out the little black dress in 1926

Coco Chanel died in 1971

It's 11:11 make a wish! We are currently in escrow and we are arranged to have the inspector come friday at 9 a.m. I am so excited about this house!! So far everything is going to plan. Yesterday I did splurge a little on new things for the house. When we move in a I do not want to be living in an empty area! Yes, we have a bunch of furniture already, so we don't need anymore. All I bought were little things to decorate the place, put a little lipstick on this pig, ya know? Once we move in all we're doing to the house is buying a window for the master bedroom and putting wood flooring in the 2nd living room.
There's this new store that just opened down the street and it's called "Hobby Lobby". Think of a Jo Ann Fabrics and a Michael's mixed, then times the area by fifty! It was such an amazing store! First of all, everything was either 50% or 40% off. How wonderful could that be?! I bought a few things for fall and Halloween. I couldn't resist myself and I also bought a few decorations for Christmas. Once we are actually living in the house, this store, will be my sanctuary.
I just wanted to share this. That time of the month has not come yet and to my discretion it is because I have stopped talking my oral contraceptive. Why did I stop? Because it was making me psycho! My hormones were always ranging and I was very emotional. Now that I haven't taken it for a few weeks I feel like myself again. I haven't felt nauseous or have any random headaches since. I feel great, it's just more risky now if an accident happens. Yes we're being safe, I don't feel the need to get into that because, well, you know what I mean. I just hope my present from mother nature comes sooner instead of later.

THEY ACCEPTED OUR OFFER!

Yes we did it! Yesterday on my way home from work Elio called me. He told me that the bank has accepted our offer, so today he is going to finish up some paper work and find out when we get the keys. Honestly, it hasn't been that long since we started looking at houses. I believe it was since June, so for about 2 or 3 months. I am so happy with this house too. It needs a little bit of work but it going to be a place of our own!

I had the weirdest dream last night. It went on for a long time, it felt like hours, but in reality it was probably 40 minutes or so. I stayed at Elio's house last night and we had a long conversation with his mom last night. Mostly talking about the divorce with her and her husband. Crap of a husband if you ask me. He has four ex wives and about to have the fifth one. At the beginning Luisa was really sad and upset, but now she's been strong as ever. She moved out of the room and staying in her daughters room, since she's gone off to college. Cross your fingers we get this house, if we do that we'll be out by September 30th, God it feels like I've said this a million times, then we can move in. Luisa has a surgery that is in about 3 weeks, after that she plans on going to New Jersey to visit her family then come live with us for as long as she needs too. Basically, we're not going to charge her rent or anything but most likely she will offer. We want her to save up enough money so she can move out to New Jersey to live with her mom and dad.
I just really hope we get this house, honestly, that's all I'm worried about, all I've been thinking about, and anything I think about!

I wish I could crawl back into bed right now and not have to go back to work. It was 108 degrees here in Henderson, NV, and the sun has sucked the life out of me. I was planning on working out on my hour break but once this massive headache occurred, the idea was shut out.
I've decided that I'm going to start Weight Watchers. It's a program to help people loose weight and by counting points with each item of food eaten. For example, a whole banana is about 2 points.

I N S P E R A T I O N A L

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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I've decided that every Tuesday I'm going to post random facts. Why not learn a little something when you're reading?


Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

It took 3 tries last night for me to go to sleep. I don't know what it was, but I kept tossing and turning. Finally, I took a benedryl and passed out. My alarm woke me up at 5:20 a.m. I forgot that my boyfriend was dropping my cell phone off because, forgetful me, left it with him last night.
I received my 2011 Ikea catalog yesterday in the mail. That thing is my bible. I scanned through it, marked pages, and wrote lists of what we're going to need in this new house if we get it. If you've never been to Ikea, you need to go! It is a 4 story building with everything from shelves, utensils, curtains, and couches; an interior designer's paradise. I've only been twice in my life, once in Chicago and one in Los Angeles. They are both amazing, but the L.A. one is quite larger.
I really hope we get this house, because all this planning and saving money can not be for nothing.
Today I have work. Lets just say, it's going to be a long day. Last week we had a thunderstorm at work, we had to close down the pool and call all the swimming lessons that were happening for the rest of the night. Of course I had one private lesson too. I rescheduled them for today at 7:00 p.m. and I get off 2 hours earlier. OOPS! Hopefully they will let me stay the extra 2 hours so I can have a much nicer paycheck then I was receiving.

And this is what I see every morning I wake up in my bed. Just thought I'd share that with everyone. Soon enough that will change once we get into a house!

House update: We have put an offer on a house. Just received an email from our realtor that the sellers have received our offer. In 5-7 days we'll know if they accepted, rejected, or countered our offer!

Finally laying in my own bed. We came back from Reno last night. E's sister is there for college now. It was so nice just to get away from Las Vegas and be in cooler weather. We left Thursday morning at 4:30 a.m. and arrived at the hotel at 12:30p.m. Let's just say that it was a long drive! I slept most of the way anyways, and we watched movies on the way up there too. The first day we helped Nadia move in to her dorm and that took a few hours of unpacking and placing. Then we went back to the hotel and met up with Elio's, mom's friend. We decided to go to the Waldrof's Saloon and hangout for a bit. They had $2 shots, $5 pitchers, and $3 drinks. Now I know why people love Reno so much. Let's just say at the end of the night we ended up getting in this huge fight and went to sleep angry at each other. (I was more upset about the situation than he was) The next morning I had a cold; my nose was stuffy, my eyes were watery, my throat hurt and I had a massive headache. We laid in the hotel room all morning and afternoon, then finally around dinner time we went to our friend's home to eat this amazing meal!

Overall, it was a trip that was well needed, for all 4 of us. Except that 4 of us went up to Reno and only 3 came back. Good Luck Nadia! I know you'll do great!

Had a 2 hour inservice today at work. It was about drowning. Towards the end of the summer all lifeguards tend to get lazy. By lazy I mean but daydreaming on stand, not paying attention to their water, and not scanning their areas accurately. I'll admit it, I tend to get lazy too, but once I can tell that I start slacking off I get myself together and go back to work mode. Last summer we had 3 accidents at work within a two week period at my pool alone; it was also the middle of August when these occurrences happen. One 4 year old had a seizure and his parents weren't around, another autistic man had fallen on his way up the stairs to the slides and split his head open, and a 10 year old girl passed out while waiting with her family to enter our pool; I was actively rescuing her on that last one. If most of our staff were to be put in any situation like that in real life, honestly, I don't think they could handle it. Good thing there are always veteran guards working so they could take over in any situation and also managers on duty too. Let's pray and hope that these last few weeks we stay lucky and nothing happens, and also today on friday the 13th. KNOCK ON WOOD

Day one of house and dog sitting. I arrived to feed the dog and the family was still here, it was quite awkward. It's always so nice house sitting and just getting away from it all. It give me good practice for when we have our own house one day. I clean and water their flowers, just about any and everything you can imagine.

I asked a girl at work today how her day was going and she said just by me asking how she was doing made her day better. Are we programmed to feel good and be happy what people actually seem to care about us? Or when someone compliments something we're wearing or how nice we look? We have be having the worst day then all of a sudden someone says, "Wow you look so thin! What have you been doing?" Then all of a sudden our spirits are lifted and we feel better.
I started taking up yoga again and I'm sore as ever! I've decided I'm buying a kindle as soon as my credit card limit goes back up. I've also decided that I'm back on a diet, or basically trying to eat better. No, the nachos that I ate for lunch were not that good but at least I made them and didn't buy them pre-made. I have received the worst tan lines and a pretty bad sun burn.

Clouds in the desert

It finally rained here in Vegas yesterday and today. I was at work all day outside and it rained right when we closed the pool, of course. August and September are usually our thunderstorm months and we're always closing early because of it. The only thing that is morally wrong about closing the pools early is the parents that get pissed off. Okay it's either you can swim in the pool and get struck by lightening or get out of the pool and be safe? I hate when parents are so hard headed especially when we give them free passes for the next time they come in.

Miscommunication

This morning I received a missed call from my work. Supposedly I had a private lesson to teach at 8:30 a.m. , but I wasn't scheduled until 10:45 a.m. I stayed at E's house last night. I had to rush home to change then drive to work. On my way home I receive another phone call saying that they found a cover and that I do not need to come in until the time I was suppose to.
Now I understand that my supervisor is pregnant and is about to pop in 2 months, but I shouldn't be getting in trouble for not showing up for my private lesson right? It's not an excuse, no, but I understand that all her hormones are going crazy and she has a million things on her plate right now that I hope she doesn't get in trouble either.
Oh and by the way, I'm going to her baby shower this weekend. She is actually one of my good friends. We've known each other since high school. When I was a manager, we were managers together. I'm just debating on what to get her for her shower. Basically I wish it was next weekend after pay day! I have money but I'd rather be saving it for the house. Dollar store here I come! They actually have some quality things there!!
Well wish me luck today at work, hopefully I'm not the one getting in trouble.

"Love sees with the heart and not with mind."

It's almost been 18 months since we've been together. That's almost a milestone to me. The longest relationship that I had was 19 months, after that it was 13, then 9, then 6. So basically they kept getting less and less, I wasn't able to trust as much as I use to, even though I was being the monogamist. I've had a guy tell me "Once a cheater, always a cheater". You could imagine how that made me feel. All throughout high school I had a boyfriend then had one on the side "just in case". I had that feeling that I never wanted to be alone or end up alone. I didn't care about studying or doing homework, it was all about boys. I've told so many guys that I've loved them but ever since this one has been here, it feels like I actually mean it. We're doing things that a real couple would do.
All throughout high school I didn't drive and neither did any of my boyfriends at the time. So it was up to our mothers to drive us back and forth, and trust me that got old quick. A month before college started I received my license. Now when I was dating it was much more efficient and I would actually drive myself.
Almost 2 years ago when E and I started dating, it was so easy. I knew all he wanted to do was to just sleep with me, but I'm great at playing hard to get. It didn't just start 2 years ago when we dated, but in 2008 my grad night from high school we hung out. I stayed the night at his place and we made out for hours. We met about 6 years ago in high school. I was a freshman and he was a senior. I dated one of his good friends, so from now and then we'd see each other at parties and bonfires. He would aimlessly flirt with me and I did the same. Back then he wasn't into the greatest things as in over drinking and the occasional drugs, so I kept my distance. A few years later after his friend and I went our separate ways he would call and ask to pick me up, or tell me to meet him at a party. Of course I was dating someone.
At one time I was dating someone that I was on and off again with for 4 years, I really liked him but he never wanted to go out. I love when guys want to show you off to their friends, but this one didn't. Yeah his best friend knew we were together but no one else. One night I was going to the boyfriend's house at the time and before I came over I went to go hangout with E. He knew I was dating someone, but they all knew I was dating someone but it never stopped a flirt, and wanted to take me out. I said what the hell, he's hot, italian and I was ready to go out that night. I don't quite remember what we did or where we went but all I remember was he dropped me off at the condo, where I was living at with my mother, we both got out of the car, he offered to walk me up to the door but I had told him it was fine, I remembered him saying "God I wish I could kiss you right now" in response I told him he could but I had a boyfriend.
Next thing you know there, we were in the middle of the night, a taken girl was being kissed but this sweet yet playboy of a guy. Now I don't remember if I ended up going to the boyfriend's house or not but I do remember the next night. He text me and said that last night was great and he wanted to see me again. I told him I was at the guys house and he blew up at me when he found out I hung out with E the other night. Why I told him? I don't know, it was to make him jealous and maybe then he'd want to show to me off but after that it was over. Thank god.
E had started a long time ago, but we never made an effort to go through with dating or being together. It was just hooking up and dating. Now after my graduation was when it became obvious that we liked each other. We started randomly hanging out and seeing each other. One night we were in the park drinking a few beers and playing a card game. Another night he took me to a porn store cause I never went to one, that is how random it was. Soon enough I started to come over to his house, I would eat dinner with his family and we'd kiss and laugh all night long until our lips and stomaches hurt from kissing and laughing too much. It was fun, I don't want to say we were casually dating, but neither one of us was seeing anyone else and we both had our full attention on each other.
This was a first for me but I had asked him to be my boyfriend. Well I actually texted him and said "I'm telling being that I have a boyfriend now, how do you feel about that" and his response was "Woah that's a little too fast for me". Of course I didn't talk to him for a few days after that and let him respond to me first. And of course he did, we actually talked about it. It was close to Valentine's Day and I wanted him to be my valentine. I asked him if he was doing anything on the 14th and he said no, we ended up going to sushi and seeing Friday the 13th in theaters. Pretty romantic huh? It was great, just being in his company, I even splurged on a $90 Juicy Couture dress from Nordstrom's Rack, then felt guilty after and returned it. A few weeks later I had told him I loved him. We were joking around about something then all of a sudden I said "I think I'm starting to fall for you". He had gotten quiet after that. He explained to me how much he's been hurt in the past with ex girlfriends cheating on him and everything and I told him that I wouldn't do that, and to this day I have never and will never hurt him. I told him how I was hurt in the past too, it even came out that I had cheated on every single one of my boyfriends. Let me tell you, that was not a good idea to tell him that. Never tell any man that no matter what. I know he's the one because I haven't cheated on him or have ever even thought of the idea. He means too much to me, then he did and now he does even more. He is my sweetheart and I'm his.
A few weeks later he told me that he loved me too. After that I knew everything would come into place. Yes we've had our crazy, outrageous fights, but we've also have had some pretty romantic evenings and days together. I love him with all my heart.

Graduation!

Today is my last day at cosmetology school. I honestly don't know how I feel. I am so happy to be done. I've waited 11 months for this and it's finally came! I want to cry because I'll be leaving a bunch of friends and they're all going to cry as I clock out, I hate crying! It has been such a rollercoaster. I stuck it out and I had my good friend Jen with me the whole time. I can't believe I did it!

Dilemma

I'm having a dilemma, I don't know if I want a house or a condo. The program that was suppose to be tripling our down payment has run out of funds. Supposdily next week they're trying to get more funds. Then my mom and step dad asked me how I felt about getting a condo. They said that all 3 of our names could be on the morgage so I could get credit for it so then once Elio want to get a house both of us can be on the loan and we'll get more money to spend on a house. So I don't know if we should do it.
My friend Jen from school just colored this girls hair here at school. Ok so first let me tell you about this girl, she is a total neat freak. She is anal about everything, where she buys her food, she is crazy about her hair too. She'd rather spend $200 on her highlights and cut than have someone who is really good. So my friend did her highlights and she also toned her. It looks great but of course the girl complained about it. Eden, that's the girls name, even called her stylist and made an appointment to fix it! Jen did such a great job, there were no bleed marks which is impossible to avoid, straight perfect foils, and yet she still keeps complaining about it to everyone. Now it makes Jen look bad like she doesn't know what she's doing.
I have 2 more days of this hell then I will never have to see these people again. Ever since I came to this school I have become more of a rude person than I use to. I use to be a quiet shy happy girl and now I'm loud happy and bitchy.

Salon Day

Today the countdown is 3 more days. Currently I'm getting a bleach wash on my hair to get it to a level four. Which means I'm lightening it all over. I did a grey streak right in the front like Stacy from "What Not to Wear". That was my inspiration. It looks really good now. I bought some Manic Panic from Sallys and tinted it to "virgin snow" that's the name of the color haha. It looks a whole lot more white now!

4 days left

Today is our mock boards. I'm currently dressed in all white scrubs. (Which I bought a size too small because I have a horrible stomache ache) we've ran through everything that we were to do if it was our actual state board test. On my written I received a 94% and so far I've been doing great on all the practical work.

Over Dramatic

My friend came to me this morning and asked if she was being over dramatic. I asked why? She said that before her and her boyfriend were together that he was with another girl. And the reason why they had broken up was to be with my friend. Supposidly the ex called my friends boyfriend 96 times yesterday! 96 times! That's insane! Anyways, my friend had gotten upset and wants him to stop talking to her. She told him if he doesn't stop then she'll settle it her way by leaving him. I don't believe he's doing it intentionally but come on, us girls drop guys for new ones in 2 seconds why can't a guy do that? Weird that's usually the other way around. I guess the cell phone that her boyfriend uses, the ex's father owns the plan, so basically his phone.
Why do guys always have that "extra baggage" that they never tell us about? Oh by the way my exes dad is my boss, I'm lending my car from him. Stupid things like that can be avoided in the man or woman is really into the other.

New Ideas

I have decided that I am going to invest in a photography camera. It is $500 but I've wanted one for so long and it would be so fun to take pictures and being artistic! I also what to start painting. I'm not a painter but I do want to do abstract paint!!

mock mock

Today we did a mock mock of state board. I only had a minus 5 points or it could've been less. I did really well though! Its official I have 10 more days left of school!! July 31st at 11:11am! I'm going to make everyone make a wish as I'm graduating! Soon enough I'll be done and we'll fine a house!
Oh and epic fail; we lost the house. Someone made an offer and it's not available anymore and I was so mad when my boyfriend told me! I did find the exact same model, cheaper, and in the same neighborhood!! Wish us luck!

It's so close, I can taste it!

We are so close to getting this house! I knew once we walked inb to look at it that I wanted it! Everything is so perfect aboutit. I want a red kitchen. I know you may not be able to picture it but it will look so comfy and cozy. And the living room is going to be a sandy color to reflect our black leather couches and dark brown end tables. Have I mentioned the huge closet??? I just can't get over how huge it is! It could be another whole little room :) I hope we get it and put an offer on it soon!

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

The good: we found a house!!! It's a 2 story, 3 bed and 2 1/2 baths. Huge masterbedroom, and huge closet !!! The other two rooms have a jack and jill bathroom, the kitchen is big and the living room is perfect! Two car garage and a nice big backyard. $81,900! The only problem is that the taxes are a lot and the HOA fee is $84 a month and honestly I don't care if I need to work another job but that house is amazing! I can picture us living there for years and starting a family there. It's a gated community and a quiet neighborhood.
The Bad: my boyfriend talked to his Dad and he told him that anywhere with a HOA fee may go up every 6 months. And honestly I could care less because in 6 months I'll be making more money anyways. So now he is saying that we should find a place without an HOA fee. The great thing about one is the gated community and the security which makes me feel safe.
The Ugly: yes, I am a jealous person. This girl with a stripper name emailed my boyfriend and all this stuff and yes I got upset. She has fake boobs and looks and seems slutty. I don't go out of my way to talk to guys so it pissed me off that he haaaas to write a comment on her status. Immature I know but if we're going to live together then I don't want him talking to any slutty girls!

18 more days of this

Three study guides, 100-300 questions each, one day of mock mocks, and one day of mock boards. Then I'm officially done with school! I don't believe that it went by so fast.
We are getting our kits ready for state boardand I spent $60 total on everything including my white scrubs. Hopefully this day will be over soon!!

Recycling is sometimes a bad thing

Have you ever recycled a boyfriend? Yes, no, maybe? Or what is it? Recycling a boyfriend is dating them more then once between any given time, or not being able to move on because you always go back to that same ex boyfriend. My friend has done this many times and she ends up getting hurt all over again. It is hard to move on from someone treating you bad over and over and thinking that they're going to change, but guess what?? THEY'RE NOT!! They claim they will but it's programmed into their brains how they're going to act and they won't change. All you have to do is find someone else.
Take a few weeks or months to go out, flirt, mingle, hang out with your girls and watch some favorite movies, go on some walks, do yoga, meditate, go exercise; go do something that you barely had time for when you were with that person. Once you're back on track, go get 'em!
First of all, you can go searching for Mr. Right, they may have been there this whole time (if you're me and are marrying someone you've known since high school) or they could be the next man you bump your cart into at the grocery store.
All my life, until now, I've been searching for love and I'm pretty sure every single woman out there has either found it or is still looking.
Second, you can't settle!! No one should ever settle for something less than what they want o r expect. If you're searching for a soul mate they need to meet all your requirements. Also, don't ever think that a new man in your life can change. Some men need that girl who pushes them to do better and change, either from being a workaholic to an alcholic! Us women change for men all the time. But don't throw this in their face either! Which leads me to the third thing:
ALWAYS be the better man! Not literally, but hypothetically. Don't try and get even with them because their facebook status says "Wow had a crazy insane time last night" because you have no clue what they did or where they went. Instead tell him that you had a great time watching reruns of Sex and the City wearing your Fredricks silky nightgown drinking a glass of wine. Soon enough going out and being with his guy friends will get boring and he'll want to be there with you, half naked of course! But don't let him get off that easy!
Now fourth, the phrase "Sex Sells" may be alright in magazines and t.v. shows but when you're dressing all skanky, you're in your mid thirties and your boobs, belly, butt or all three are hanging out, a man may; no re-phrase, WILL get the wrong impression. If you're going out to the bar with your friends or a clubs with your girlfriends, all guys mostly go there for are either, guy nights out where they want any girl in groping range, or they've had a long day of work and want to unwind and have a beer. Or if you're lucky and it's football season you'll find they finatics there watching the game a scoping out women. Anyways, you never need to up-play the outfit, go casual but sexy. For example, skinny jeans, hot pumps, and an off the shoulder top. Guys love collarbones and want to see them, that outfit screams, I'm not a slut but I am sexy. Or go for a cute dress, mid-thigh, with some cute boots. Don't do the short shorts and ity bity top that may be in your size but should not be wearing it!!
Lastly, get a pen and paper out, sit in a quiet and relaxed room, or to make it comfy grab a bunch of pillows and a blanket and make a relaxation area. Write down everything you want in a man, characteristics, be presise. Make a column for looks. It shouldn't be too long cause if you're that picky about your 6'2, tanned skinned, dark brown hair, blue eyed, 6-pack boyfriend then you've already failed! Make a list of solutions to solve why you think relationships end up ending in your life. Yes be hard on yourself and if you're not then this will not work! Lastly write 3 wishes. These aren't just any ordinary wishes but they need to be in depth. For exampl; I wish that I could find a man who choses me as his first priority other than working out, hanging out with his buddies on the weekend etc. Once all 3 wishes are complete, light a candle. Sit and think of the 3 wishes in your head. Crumble up the piece of paper and burn it until it is ash. Warning: don't burn the house down, we're pretty intelligent women and know how to prevent this so think of options before.
This has helped my friend and I hope it will help many!

When you're in India, don't touch anything but yourself

So for the past week I have been reading the book eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's a story and her journey to the three I's; Italy, India, and Indonesia. It has been such a great book and such a great inspiration about God and journey. Being able to leave everything and have nothing to living in 3 places for 4 months each to find pleasure, and God. It has made to think about so many things in my life.
Usually, I am such a rude person, it's because of school. I have developed such a hatred for so many people at school that when they say something I saw a rude remark about them which is horrible and I do know this. For the past couple days I have been trying to work on this and not get road raged when the car behind decides not to go the speed limit and speed past me and I take back the curse I put on them and hoping that they'll get a ticket. What's wrong with me? Why in the past 11 months has changed so much to being someone who cuses ever other second, has comments to say to people in not a nice way, and gets upset so easily.
What happen just today is that my close friend that's here at school with me just decided to start being friends again with this one girl, wHY? I have no clue. They started going to the gym again together and everything. And today she comes up to the two of us and asks "Hey sorry I missed your call jen, did you call Lauren?" It just gets me upset and yes I know it is quite selfish of me to think that and be so incredibly angry about it but I will have to admit that I do get possessive over my friends/close friends.
I've decided that soon I'm going to start going to church again. I remember when I was younger in Chicago, we would go every Sunday and I would go to CCSD (which is Catholic school, one day a week) I just miss the structure of going to church and feeling good about praying to God and asking forgiveness for yelling at my Mom or being mean to my brother or not studying as much as I should in school. Every night I try and pray in my bed before I go to sleep, asking to bless my family and being thankful for everything that God has given me. I just want to pay my respects like when I was younger.
Now straying away from that, my boyfriend and I finally started looking at some houses! We saw our first two houses. The first one was beautiful from the outside then once you walked in there was an awful smell of cat pee. There were stains every inch of carpet in the house, even on the stairs, the got every single stair!! It came with all the appliances which was nice. The backyard was about 2 feet out and as wide as the house! That was the worst part. House number two was beat up and crappy from the outside but looking through the windows to the inside it was gorgeous! The walls were a pretty warm yellow and the kitchen was redone and there was wood floors. Our realtor didn't know that they changed the locks so we couldn't get in and yet again the backyard was tiny. Today after my boyfriend gets off work him and the realtor are going to look at 3 more houses and they're the ones that I picked out! I wish we could move out tomorrow. For how impatiencent that I am its killing me having to wait to long to put in an offer, get it accepted then just everything.
Why do the slightest things irritate me?

Sun and Summer

Honestly I would have to say that being able to leave work early (I'm a lifeguard) and go to my boyfriend's father's house and lay at the pool is such an amazing thing!! 4 glasses of white and 80spf!!! Where do you go wrong? It has been, seriously, such a great time here!! Soon I'm going to get out and watch the first twiligjt movie! Call me crazy, I know, but I have never read the books nor watch the movies so, you know what? I think it's time to at least watch the movies cause I don't have $50 buy all the books and all this endless time to read them!!

It's either yes or no

My friend is having major guy issues with her boyfriend. He's leaving to go to Colorado with his mom and the last night that she was in town boy didn't even invite my friend to dinner with them. He has been neglecting her, not to sound like a puppy or anything, but has his priotities all wrong. He has been wanting to hangout with his male roomate more than his beautiful girlfriend, I think he's gay. So my friend made a propasition to him, while he's away they shouldn't talk or anything and he should think about what he wants from their relationship, the man that would want to be wit her would have said no I love you and I want to be with you, but his response was alright I will and you do the same. How can someone just say that after begging for this girl back after 6 years? Why do men do that? Can't you men ever make up your minds?

Extended

At school from 730am-2pm. Almost done but it has been a busy but boring day; if that even makes sense? I lost my nose ring this morning, I don't know if I blew it out or if it's in my brain haha. My best friend in the entire universe came to visit me at school with her boyfriend, they live in portland, oregon now. One of these days we'll go out to visit them onc.e we save enough money up. Hopefully we can meet up with them tonight that would be so great! Tomorrow is my last day of being a senior B here at school and I'm turning into a senior A which means 5 more weeks of school!!! Wish me luck on my final tomorrow!!

Realing us in

Why do men say at the beginning of a relationship that you'll move in with them or you will get an apartment together but when the deadline is near and then all of a sudden they change their minds. Men and women, it's not just us but 90% of the time it's the men. What are they thinking? Are they just trying to real us in at the beginning by saying all these things then once they have us (or they think they have us) they become an entire new person?

Forcing it on them?

So you've been dating the same person for over 2 years and all of a sudden you get bored with them. MY friend said that after these 2 endless years him and his girlfriend broke up. None the less the woman's parents didn't like that she was dating a white man since her and her family are korean. Of course over the 2 years they snuck around and dated, had sleepovers, and saw each other. But at the very end of the relationship SHE started picking out his flaws. Why can't people notice flaws at the beginning of the relationship and just get right to the point? Does it really need to take months to years when finding out things that you don't enjoy about the opposite sex? Or maybe pointing out all these flaws were leading to a mutual breakup? When there's no hope left for the relationship does the man or the woman decide that they get mad at everything little thing that he or she does? If so then why be together in the first place?

Just not interested anymore

The other day as I was putting my purse in my locker at work my friend told me that her and her boyfriend broke up. I use to cut her boyfriends hair and she's the one who brought him into see me before. I had asked her why they broke up and she said that he "wasn't interested" anymore. What the hell does that mean? Are we all in a relationship where all of a sudden your partner just stops being interested? What makes us all interesting to them in the first place anyways? And how can it be that all of a sudden they've lost interest?

Cleaning the school

Today we received an email from the school saying that next tuesday June 8th everyone has to wear jeans and at 10:00am everyone in the school; students and faculty have to be assigned to an area in our school and clean for the entire day. Then they're going to buy lunch for everyone. honestly think it's a waste of time because we're suppose to be doing our makeup lesson, so now we get to skip that and clelean? It's ridiculous! How would you feel if you paid $16,400 to get schooling and they made you clean for an entire day?

The smell of acrylic....all day

All day it has been the smell of acrylic. I received a 100% on my Trichology test today. Thank god because I didn't even study until I got to class. The one thing I've noticed since I've been in Cosmetology school is that I don't have to study for a test and just go over the study guide a few times and I'll get a perfect score, if only it was like that in high school and college! School felt like a total bore today, once we were done with our test we went right to doing an outline as usual and I read the new Shape magazine.

food poisoning

So last night I ate my left over Olive Garden that has been in the fridge since saturday. I at it and at 4:00am this morning my stomache and my back hurt so bad. It was a feeling like my insides were cramping up and I couldn't fall back asleep. Once my alarm went off I woke up and it all goes down hill from there. Now I'm at school because I have to be here and if I wasn't I would fail my project and get a 0. I feel like crap and every two seconds I'm going to the bathroom. Its horrible I wish I could go home!!!

Georgina of the Jungle

These pictures are from a floor contest that we did at school and I won. The theme was to choose something from your rollabout and make an updo with it and I had my "good luck monkey" that my step dads brother gave to me and made a jungle theme updo with him as the star, ENJOY =]

it goes on and on

So I have been house sitting for the past 2 days. It feels nice to not be living at home and to just be on my own with my man. School has been going prety well. I will be missing 3 days coming up but will make them up fast. While I'm house sitting my best gave me the first season for sex and the city and I'm going to watch all the seasons until the new movie comes out!!! My best and I plan on going to the premire when it opens up which will be amazing! We're even dressing up like wearing bright dresses and everything! I can't wait to see it and after the first movie I'm so excited that they made a second one. So summer is just aroubd the corner and so is my birthday. I'll be the big 2-0 and I'm excited that I won't be a teenager anymore and excited that soon I'll be on my own, living in my own place, making my own dinner, buying my own groceries. It will be the best feeling ever! But yet the days seem to be going by faster and faster and my graduation date is coming sooner and sooner

yet another day

It was yes another day of being a senior here at Euphoria institute. We haven't learned much these past two weeks but at least we have a salon say coming up soon. I graduate july 30th! Its so near I can't bare it! It would be nice if it could come a lot sooner. So much stuff have occured since I've written last, my boyfriend and I plan on moving out quite soon. Most of the girls at school are total backstabbers, immature, and complete !#*@$'s. :) so I have stopped talking to most of them and just focusing on school. I have no clue where I want to work after I get out of school but it'll be somewhere amazing of course!! Soon enough I'm going to post all my pictures from being in school. The best thing about school is that I'm going to be the first person to graduate in my class. So basically I get to leave this hell hole faster than anyone else! Anyways back to my boyfriend and I, we have been together now for almost 15 months! It literally just hit me that its been a long time. Long time as in dating, seeing each other almost everyday, and still being inlove with each other this whole time. He makes me so happy and we always have the best time together. Right now the lights have gone out at school because it is so windy here in vegas its horrible! Hopefully tomorrow goes better and I have a full book so the day will go by faster.

2010

This is going to be such a great year.I spent the new year with my man and ate 12 grapes for good luck, I graduate in july and we plan on moving out after that. What more could anyone ask for?