Happy, Happy day

Pictures are working on blogger again...


That makes me happy.

When I open my blog and our feet aren't there at the top, I get sad because I...

EffInG LOVE tHaT pIcTUrE

!

I am in such a good mood today, its a little bit ridiculous. I'm sure its because I realized we are in the home stretch for this wedding and I can barley contain the squealing!!

Just wanted to share it with you all!

Mesquite

Here's a taste of what I was up against this weekend!


I was the official team photographer for All Day Softball, well, I like to think I was anyway :) And I got over a hundred pictures for the team's website...All Day Softball

I'm pretty proud of myself actually....they turned out pretty good for the most part.



It was cold.

It was wet.

But they played anyway.

The first game I was at was fairly dry, the second and third games however...well, that's what the pictures are from. It was pouring rain for both of them! It stopped in between of course. But let me just say, it is hard to take pictures and hold an umbrella, effectively, all by yourself!

It was a good weekend, I had a lot of fun (maybe too much fun on Saturday night!), and I sincerely hope those boys don't mind me tagging along for their games because I always have a good time when I do!

Thanks for a good time boys...I'll post some more pictures later on tonight!

Slow Dancin'

I'm sitting here, "Swayin' to the Music" of Johnny Rivers, waiting for the clock to tick over to 3 so I can head to Mesquite with my guy.

This day is taking forever...

I already ate my lunch...

My apple and caramel dip is gone...

And it is a super slow work day...

Super bad combo.

We are heading to Mesquite this afternoon for a softball tournament that starts bright and early tomorrow morning. We went down last year as well, but I was so so sick and didn't really care about anything except sleeping and not coughing my lungs up.

That was gross...I'm sorry.

Anyway...not much is happening right now...just excited for this trip and just counting down the days to March 15....there are 38 by the way.

I can't WAIT!

I am ready for it to be over with for many many reasons. There is one big, fat, ginormous reason...but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

That is all for now...just wanted to say hey. Well, I wanted to say that I was swayin' to the music. I was on hold with a pharmacy and that was the song that was playing. I felt inspired.

Inspired to do what...I just don't know.

Shhh...Don't tell Kevin!

(From Here!)

Here is a little look-see at what Me, Stacy, and Sister did today.

Stacy posted a few more on her blog at http://stacymariephotography.blogspot.com/

Check it out!!!

Thank you Stacy...You're amazing!!!

Ideas...Thoughts...Ramblings

So some of you may know, some of you may not, that I went to school to become an esthetician awhile back. I only did the basic course (600 hours) because I was moving to California at the time and didn't see the point in getting a Master Esthetician license in a state where it didn't exist. Anyway, I finished my hours, moved to California, took my test in LA, and didn't pass the writeen exam.

That was the end of it. I never scheduled my re-test, I lost sight of my goal, and haven't really though much about it until recently. I even had myself convinced that that wasn't what I wanted to do with my life. I have a sneaking suspicion it had something to do with certain people things in my life at the time, but they have since been upgraded :)

Like I said, I have recently started thinking about it again. I re-evaluated, and realized that me hating my job is never going to change unless I do something to change it. If I don't go to college, I'm never going to get a job that I love.

So, I decided that I am going to start over.

I have decided that I am going to go back to esthetics school.

Last time, I didn't really do any research as far as what schools there were and what they offered...I kind of just picked one and went. That was a bad idea, and because the school I went to wasn't amazing, I feel that may have contributed to me not loving it. There wasn't a lot of structure, the instructors weren't awesome, and it was in a basement of a random building.

I have been looking into Elase Academy, and so far I'm loving what I see...and hear. A girl I work with started there in December I think, and she said that she loves it and only had good things to say about it.

My favorite part of that school is that Elase is a medical spa, meaning lasers, botox, things like that. So at Elase Academy, that stuff is a part of the curriculum. It isn't extra, it isn't a special course, its just a part of it. That means that the opportunities for work don't stop at a day spa, you can work in Dr.'s offices, medical spas, things like that.

That's what I'm talking about!

I've looked into the tuition, the scheduling. I can go part time Monday through Thursday from 5:30-9:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9-5 a.m. and it should only take about 15 months. Which means I can still work full time, and just over a year is not that long. Plus, because I have done it before, I won't be nearly as lost.

There is a girl that I went to high school with, who is married to a guy a went to high school with, and I read her blog. She started in January at Elase and she has been posting weekly updates with pictures and everything...that's when I really started to miss it. The last post she did was them doing manicures and pedicures and I wanted to cry because it want to do that again.

Because its been so long since I was at school, I will be starting over. But I am okay with it. I definitely won't be starting until after the wedding. They have a course starting May 4, so I might look into that one. Or wait until the summer is over.

Once the absolute decision has been made, I will let you all know...but, in the mean time, wish me luck!

Happy 2010!

I know this is a little late. Everyone's new year posts have come and gone.



I guess I'm just a slacker like that.



2009 was the absolute worst year of my life. I've gone through some crappy things in my life, but never as much or as often as in 2009. It started crappy, it kept getting crappier.



Crap.



2009 was the absolute best year of my life. I have never felt more loved or needed or appreciated in my life. I've had the best times of my life with the person who I know I'm supposed to be with, and he has put up with a lot of residual crap from the crappy side of 2009.



Oh, how I love him for that!





As a general rule, I don't do the whole resolution thing. Mostly because I don't want to let myself down when I don't stick to them. Yes, I said when. And because I feel like I should be striving to be a better version of myself all the time. Not just on January 1st.



This year is a bit different. There are things coming up, (in 70 days BTW...*gulp*) that I need to be ready for. Meaning, I want to look good in my dress. Its completely backless and I want to look good in a completely backless dress.



My "resolution" started on December 26th. I started Shredding!



I now feel completely lame that I just called it that...but, oh well :)



I asked Kevin to get me Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred for Christmas. And he did. And I love it.


I am on Level 1, Day 7...and I can actually keep up now. I did miss 2 days, which is why I'm not on day 9, but I had valid reasons. Not excuses. I'm feeling good about it. I'm not doing it to lose weight so much as to tone up. And its working. I like my body (for the most part), and do I wish that I was back in my size 6, 120 lb. body? OF COURSE! But I was in high school when that was a reality and I just don't have the will power or the want to do what it takes to get back there...Let alone stay there.


I'm also doing this because, after wearing said backless dress, I will be in Hawaii for a week. I will be in a bikini on the beach in Hawaii for as much of that week as I can manage, and I want to look good doing it.


Conceited? Probably.
Do I care? Not so much.


I took some before pictures, and if I make good progress, with a noticable difference, I may let people see them.


But probably not. I will just let the wedding pictures and honeymoon snapshots speak for themselves :)


Now, I just need to get the rest of our engagement photos back so that we can get the invites sent out.

Engagements

So me and Kevin had our engagement photos taken last week and she said to give her 3 weeks to get them back to us.

But...

She gave us a little sneak peek on her blog!

Our few pics are at the bottom of that post.


Go see!!!

Thanks Stacy for these great shots...I can't wait to see the rest of them!

Sister

This is for you!!



Hello!

And...

I have just fallen in love...with a song.

Snowfall-Ingrid Michaelson

I want a snowfall kind of love,
the kind of love that quiets the world.
I want a snowfall kind of love,
'cause I'm a snowfall kind of girl

I want the snowfall kind of love,
that lights up the sky from below.
I want the snowfall kind of love,
that brings people to their windows.

Won't you bury me in your quiet love?
Oh, bury me in your quiet love.
Bury me in your quiet love,
and we will blow away.

I want a snowfall kind of love,
the kind of love that keeps you
in bed, all day.
Oh, I want to look through with you,
and watch it all melt away.

Won't you bury me in your quiet love?
Oh, bury me in your quiet love
Bury me in your quiet love,
And we will blow away.

A New Favorite

I was just reading an article about President Obama accepting the Nobel Peace prize, and with all the flack that he is getting (and the commitee is getting for choosing him), I think the speech he made was amazing...And I'm happy that he let everyone know what is up!

Here are a couple of my favorites from the article-

The head of the Nobel Committee, defending their decision:

In the past, the Nobel Peace Prize had "not just been used to honor specific achievements but also to give momentum to a set of causes. The prize can thus represent a call to action."

Bits from the President's speech (that I loved!):

"I ... cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: evil does exist in the world,"

"To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason,"



Now, I'm not into politics, at all...I don't vote, and I have my own reasons for that...And I'm not telling anyone what they should think about the President.

But...in my opinion...

The President is the President. I don't have to like him, or like the decisions he makes, but he is the President, and that demands a certain amount of RESPECT.

I'm not a fan of war...I've seen first hand what it does to the people who fight it, but I do feel that war is sometimes necessary. I think until we all heed Jimi's words: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace...We are just going to have to accept that war (sometimes) is a horrible part of life.

I will leave you with the best thing that I have read in awhile, and will probably be up at the top where my quotes go (and that I just realized doesn't have my Jimi Hendrix quote over from my other blog) in just a bit.


"Let us reach for the world that ought to be. We can understand that there will be war, and still strive for peace."


It's going to be a good day.