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.