My blog is getting so big...*tear*

Awesome weekend to say the least! Worked Saturday at the salon and made $55 before noon in tips and this is lil ol' me without any clientele.  Sunday, I found myself at church with the grandparents and then to Sunday dinner.  My contribution this week to the meal was chocolate chip cookies.  Quite a big hit, if I do say so myself!  What I wouldn't give for one of those cookies now!  I'm sooooo hungry and just too lazy to fix anything at the moment.

After Sunday dinner my mom and I took off for Charleston, WV to NPR's Mountain Stage concert.  Stellar musicians were there; Bela Fleck, Dar Williams (woot, woot!!), and my newest favorite musical influence, The David Wax Museum.  Very- VERY- cool music.  Spontaneous dancing may ensue and I can't be held accountable.  You were forewarned!

My very first musical youtube clip, my blog has officially blossomed into an adolescent now. Anyway, I bought their CD!  I haven't purchased one of those since I went out and got another copy of The Chieftains  when I was 12 years old.  (Wore the first one all out by playing it over and over).  Maybe I'll share them with you too! One of my favorite songs of all time!

Okay, little fact about Craftytwin...I recently came out to Nerd Girl that I am a giant nerd and a half... Now here is the proof.  After discovering this band (from my mom's vast musical collection), I listened to it over and over until I learned all of the words to this song.  Then, I begged my mom for tapes to learn Gaelic.  Got them for Christmas and listened to them all of the time.  Alas, the Gaelic is a ridiculously hard language to learn!  So, years later, I still have the tapes and hope to learn it before the language is extinct.  Probably already is, as far as I know.  I want to go to Ireland one of these days and I will!


I made a new friend on that couch surfing website I've mentioned.  He is a world traveler for sure.  He's done it all through couch surfing.  I really think we will be good friends; he works in some government job that transferred him here, and he is originally from Cali.  Big city guy.  He told me that my accent was the least hickish he's heard from around here.  Woo hoo! Go me! Least hickish sounding! Now ladies, that is a giant praise from around these here parts, now I'm a-tellin' you! (<--- hehe)  In all actuality, I do have an accent, but I don't say, "ain't." I just draw out my i's... I don't have that E sound on them.  Ice, nice, bye, eye,  etc....Guess it's a southern thingy.  


Anyway,  today held very little appeal to me.  I just got back from Columbus, OH (yeah, I'm apparently a state capitol traveler this week) from touring state board for the whole cosmetology test deal.  My teacher is ri-gosh-darn-diculous! She picks on me for the morning and then has a switch of mood and is nice as peach pie.  EVIL.  I am so ready to be done with school and her crazy mood swings.  Counting down one week! YES!!!

Happy Monday! :) I hope all of you bloggers have had a wonderful day and have a lovely evening as well.

I'm back!

I feel like I haven't blogged in ages! Oh, wait! I haven't. Well I'm back and better than ever. These past weeks I've been MIA have been time well spent. I officially left AT&T and am now interning with all my spare time. I'll have school completed next week! Also, I did my first dermabrasion clients today and they loved it!

I'm running into some animosity and cattiness with some of the older ladies but I think they feel intimidated by my intelligence. This seems like a bitchy thing to say but it's true. She keeps questioning me and trying to catch me doing things wrong, when in all actuality, she is a dirty slob and practices terrible hygiene. Scary! Ugh, my apologies for the rant. I'm done now. Anyway, I continue to kill with kindness and hope that my classiness shows through and makes her feel small, petty, and childish. Not worth my energy to confront her.
Moving on, I am super excited about the three days of warm weather in the 70s but now it's ready to snow again. I feel like summer will never get here! Ohhhh, I've officially decided I'm growing this mane out! This is my inspiration! I look at it daily to remind myself :)




I really think I've made a good choice in salons to work at, the two girls that own it are absolutely the sweetest girls in the world. I'm not exaggerating either. They are wonderful. I think I'll finally get some friends to hang out with :)

Tonight, for the first time in a long time I am not dreading Friday morning and going to work! Going to the salon seems like play time. It's corny but I love to do hair and make transformations in people. Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to be the librarian one of these days, just one who does hair on the weekends! ;)

I am sooooooo missing Starbucks right now. I'm missing the smooth taste of the vanilla latte and how it makes me pleasantly warm from the inside out. Oh, I better stop there. Almost seems like I'm addicted hehe. Who knows, after Easter I might just give it up for good. Ha! Probably not, I'm dreaming.

I miss my nephew, he's the funniest lil guy; he makes you happy just being around him. He's quite the wise guy. I'm amazed at his wit. My gran decided to cut his skater bangs and "get them out of his pretty blue eyes". He now resembles one of the kids from the partridge family. Adorable. My sis (who is also a hairdresser) was fit to be tied. Hehe. Still gives me a chuckle to think about it.

Someone please motivate me to work out! I bought a gym membership for the fun workout classes they offer a month ago and I still haven't been! That is something I hate about myself! My procrastination powers astound me! I can make putting anything off sound reasonable in my mind. Tisk, tisk. I know.

So, have you checked out couchsurfing.com yet? Become a member, I'll travel and stay with you! I met the coolest people who surfed my mom's guest bedroom. The woman was an alternative medicine healer and massage therapist. The guy was a radio broadcast exec. Cool peeps! We had a bonfire and had a good ol' time!







It's such a great way to learn about new things and make awesome friends! I strongly recommend it to everyone!

Wow! This blog has been a hodgepodge of stuff. Guess that's what I get for not blogging for so long.
I'll try not to stay away so long next time.
Have a good weekend friends!

No Starbucks, WHAT?!

I'm not feeling very witty today, the only reason I'm only blogging today is so that tomorrow will be easier.  Actually, nothing is easy right now.  I've given up Starbucks and anything resembling it for Lent.  I tried to think of the one thing I would miss for over a month and it was the first thing that popped into my mind.  I'm wishing I would have said Pepsi now. But nooooooo, had to pick the one thing that gets me going.  I am saving money though.  That shit ain't cheap!  



Moving on, my internship papers finally arrived at school and I start work on Tuesday.  I can't wait! I am super excited to start building clientele and finishing up this school once and for all.   Thursday I got certified in microderm abrasion and also chemical peels.  I also got sucked into buying the super nice equipment and product line that was being demonstrated.  I'm not regretting it yet, I just need to start using it as soon as it comes in, so as to make back the large bit of cashola I dropped on it!

I can't wait until warm weather! Our area is insane in the weather department...Flooding is a major issue as of lately... They've started closing some of the flood walls along the city limits. It snowed last night.  I am so ready for summer.  I want a suntan, a fruity blended drink complete with bendy straw, a pool float--hmmm, guess I'd need a pool then too...a good book, sunglasses, the fluffiest towel on the market, really cute bikini to show off the 6-pack I'm going to have if I can drag my rear end to the gym! Oh, and I'll need one of these too...

 So that my fruity drink and book can float!

I just wanted to share, this has been the most rewarding day I've had at work in a long time! Every one of my customers have been sweethearts! I had a man tell me he'd adopt me on the spot if he could :) Another man told me that I was the best sales person he'd ever met and he'd now be coming back to me for all of his phone needs. 

Now it's almost 6 o'clock and I feel happy; the sun is setting and it looks just like a cheerful evening should outside!  I'm looking forward to putting my comfy flannel pjs on and my plaid robe over them and hanging out with my good book and some hot chocolate.  Oh how I wish my fireplace were a working one at times like these. 

Well, I guess I'll leave this sad and tortured blog alone for now, maybe tomorrow I'll have found my bloggish ways back again...

Crazy dreams and awesome ideas

I'm a terrible slacker, I know.  Please forgive this long lapse in posting, I have no excuse for it.  I am currently at work and it is raining, so I thought, "Eh, why not post?" So here I am, with nothing to retell because I can't remember what I did yesterday, let alone what I've done in the ten days I've been absent.

I will tell you this though, I might get an amazing job in the upcoming months...I would say, "Wish me luck..." but I wouldn't want anyone to feel obligated (cough, cough..Nerd Girl) hehe

This job would be working at a college about 45 minutes away and comes with amazing benefits!  I would get to go back to school for my master's and have it completely paid for!!! Woohoo! I could be a professional student and get paid! (Just Another, I have found the ultimate elusive job we were talking about, finally! My real job would be to assist in planning and developing this existing program that integrates high school students with high potential into the college scene.

Moving on, yesterday I purchased a new cellular device and am slowing drifting away from my exclusive relationship I had with my iPhone and falling head over hills for this new one.  I'll show you her picture if you promise not to tell her.  Wouldn't want her thinking she didn't have to try as hard to please me ;)

 

ohhhhh so pretty, blogs like a champ, and allows me to play words with friends!

Anyway, I read a couple of books within the past couple of weeks that I blogged about earlier and I was blown away at how amazing they both were.  If you haven't read these, and actually like to read, I highly recommend them!

                             

You know after a really good book when you feel sad that you have just read the last page and there isn't anything else to read about the character, and the bond that you have built over the last 300 pages is so strong and then all at once is severed by "The End"? Yep, that is how I feel about both of these books.

I had a bad dream that I got a new dream truck.  Background info: A few days ago in the local paper, my sister and I read that someone had stolen a 2002 Toyota Tacoma by test driving it off the lot and not bringing it back. I guess this tid bit somehow lodged into my brain.  I own a 2006 Tacoma a.k.a. Dream Truck.  Dream Truck isn't in my good graces at the moment because I cringe when her payment is due.  When she is paid off, I will love her forever.  Anyway, I dreamt that I had went to the car lot and was talked into test driving a brand new Tacoma.  I ended up driving it around and realized that I didn't want to increase my payments by tacking on another $9,000.  This is where the dream got scary.  I guess in my ADD moments, I hadn't realized that I wasn't driving my truck and that I was, in fact, driving the new truck.  I freaked out because I hadn't driven it back to the lot and it was the next day! Shew! Scary part is I was more freaked when I thought of the $9,000 more I'd owe, than the actual realization that I hadn't returned the new one. Silly brain.

This is Dream Truck...Well it's really her twin, she isn't very photogenic at the moment, as she needs a bath in a BAD way!  I'm a bad mom, I know. Tisk, tisk. 

Okay, so I am bound and determined to get into shape, not lose weight, just to tone my neglected muscles.  I signed up for a Y card.  I hate the thought of working out but my momma and twin decided that we should all take fun classes and exercise too. So, I will be taking Zumba, Yoga, Pilates, Spinning, Kickboxing, etc.  You get the idea, I'm sure.  I will be screaming in agony the next couple of weeks for making this healthy choice and also rubbing kryoderm all over my body for my poor muscles. I need a live in massage therapist!  She has to work for free though.  Or maybe we could trade services. I can do hair, manicures, pedicures, facials. Enticing eh? 

 Doesn't that look relaxing???

Well, I'd better get back to work I guess ;)

Have a good weekend, blogging buddies!  I'll post again soon.