new members to the family.

Today when I was out running some errands I bought two new fish to add to my five gallon fish tank.
Meet Guido and Louie :)

They love their new home.

Ghepetto has to get used to his new friends but I think he loves the company. :)

I love them already.

HaPpY eAsTeR!!

I love Easter I had such a good time yesterday spending time with family and friends.  My aunt Lora came over along with a couple other people from church.  I ate tons of food that I probably should have not had but enjoyed every bite of it.  My aunt Lora also made us a beautiful Easter basket for the whole family! :) She is such a good aunt!!  The basket consisted of big chocolate bunnys, pixy sticks, pop rocks, and chocolate and more and more chocolate!  We had the traditional Easter dinner with ham, cheesy potatoes and home made bread.  It was all very tasty. 

I did not get a new Easter dress this year but I ended up wearing a brand new dress so that worked out really well.  Mel got a new Easter dress and was not to excited about it so she let me wear it.  It was such a cute dress, not only was it purple (my favorite color) but it was also very very comfortable.  I loved it and will have to borrow it again sometime.

As you can tell I have not been doing that great on keeping up on my blog but I am gonna try to blog at least once a week, like a week recap.  To keep you all updated on my crazy life.  This week I worked Friday and Saturday and ended up making 100 dollars both nights!  whoo whooo I am sooo excited for next weekend for its the big WALLEYE FEST!! I have Saturday totally off for the big day!  Which will involve a birthday party, helping with my moms garage sale, and maybe helping my grandma and papa move into their new house.  Its gonna be a big day. I can not wait!!

walking zombie.

     I feel as if work has finally caught up with me.  Lately I have been sooo tired I cant even think straight.  ughhh I love my new job but I am getting spread too thin I think.  Maybe its that fact that I need to sleep more or drink more water.  Maybe its the fact that I am a workaholic and need to take a mini vacation and just spoil myself a little.  Maybe its that fact that I am trying to make sooo many people happy that I don't even have time to think about myself.  With this new job there is alot of things that I don't get to do or make up excuses not to do cuz I am too "tired".  Some are important and some or not and I guess that really depends on the person you ask which ones are important or not.  My mother would think that keeping my room clean would be an important one.  Which I have been failing at ever since I got this new job.  I don't know why it just seems that it is sooo much easier to throw my stuff all over the floor than put it away where it belongs.  NO GOOD  Another thing that bothers me or that I don't have time to do is working out at the sport zone.  As much as I hate working out I didn't just go there just to work out... I went there to spend time with my best friend Rachel, to pray/ think while running my horrible mile.  To me it was like a time where I could go and just run and nothing else was going on.  Just me and my running shoes going to town thinking and praying about different things that came to mind.  I miss it A LOT.  Maybe I am just complaining about different things that aren't really that important and I should just get over it and should be used to working about 58 hours a week.  For some reason it just seems a lot harder for me to get used to and I don't know why.   I don't know what is wrong with me lately.  Maybe its this stupid weather that cant make up its mind.  I don't know but either way I DON'T LIKE IT, NOT ONE BIT. :(

Beauty School.

Being back in a salon reminds me sooo much of beauty school and how crazy it was there.  Freeland high school gave me the opportunity to go to beauty school half the day and regular high school the other half.  So I took the opportunity and did it.  Since it is a two year program I did it my junior and senior year.  Which was such a good idea since the high school paid for the whole thing and this was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  (aka my career)  When I graduated from high school I also graduated from beauty school. 

              

Beauty school was crazy.  My class started out with about 32 students and by the end of the two years I think there were about 12 to 15 of us left.  Beauty schools are known for the huge drop out rates but I didnt know it was that big of a difference.  Three other people from freeland also did beauty school with me and I became really good friends with them. ( and still talk to them to this day)  When I started beauty school I had super long brown hair and when I finished beauty school I was bleached blonde with short hair.  Not to mention I changed my hair about every two weeks.  But I loved beauty school it was alot of fun and a great learning experience.  One of the cool things about it was not just people from freeland that were there other people from other schools also did beauty school soo I got to meet alot of other girls from other schools.  Some days I really miss that place, but at the time I remember I was sooo ready to get out of there!! :)

SWAMPED!

This is the outside view of the salon. :)

 

   UGH... I have not had the time to do anything the last few weeks it has been crazy ever since I got this new job.  But I LOVE IT!! It is such an awesome experience for me and it is the right steps towards my career.  For those of you who don't know much about Shapers I will give you a little run down about my job and what I do there.  Shapers is located on center road heading toward Gratiot.  It is a pretty up style salon and very cute inside.  It has two floors of stylist, a spa, nail section, and just recently added a makeup section.  As you can see it is kind of a big deal. Everyone hired into Shapers salon has to start off as an assistant.  So that makes me an assistant.  I happen to assist the two top stylists, Amanda and Angelo.  Both are amazing at doing hair and I happen to find myself just watching them most of the time.  As an assistant I do pretty much anything those two tell me to do for them from washing towels to getting lunch.  I love my job I still have tons to learn with being an assistant since I have been there for only a week but I am sooo excited to learn.  Most the time you can find me giving shampoos, arm and hand massages, sweeping the floor, and washing and folding towels.  As for now you can pretty much tell I am low on the totem pole.

This is a picture of inside the actual salon.  (the top floor)

  

 Not only that I have to tend classes on the Sunday's and Monday's. (not every Sunday and Monday though)   I shouldn't say "have to" I should say "I get" to.  The classes are taught by Amanda and Angelo and I just had my first one today.  It was an up-do class.   We had to draw a picture out of a pile and then copy the up-do.  I ended up doing five pictures in the time that we were there and had a blast learning and talking hair with the other stylists. I love my job!!

With a new job also comes a new schedule for the week:
Sundays and Mondays:  Are my days off unless I have class.
Tuesday-Thursday: Work at Shapers from 9 to 9.
Friday: Work at Shapers 9 to ? (depending on the last hair appointment scheduled for the day)
Saturday:  This is a kind of day off unless one of the stylists ask me to come in from 9 to 3.  I tend to say I will since they pay me 10 dollars an hour.  I work at apple mt from 5 to 10.
As you can see I still work at apple mt I am still debating if I am going to end up quitting that job or keeping it.  They already know that I can only work two days a week, and it is just extra cash to put in my pocket at the end of the week.  So as you can see I barely have time to do anything any more.  Mondays are spent on doing everything I possibly can that I wont be able to do until Saturday or Sunday.  This includes laundry, working out at the zone (which I miss horribly), hanging out with friends, and a little shopping here and there. :)

I loved the weather that we had yesterday I did not know that it was gonna be that hot BUT I did not complain one bit!! Oh and my best friend Rachel gets home tonight from her second trip to Costa Rica for the year! I can not wait to see her and talk about her trip.  I think this time she got me a present!! whooo whoo  I missed her and need her to keep me on the work out track hahha.  (I didn't end up going the whole week she was gone.) NO GOOD.  I hope to find more time this week to keep up with stuff and not get soo far behind on my blog.  But we will see I am kind of a busy girl.  But I can not disappoint my FIVE followers.  YESSS I am moving up in the blog world. :)