The motivation I need to keep going.

Due to privacy reason I had to edit this some, but I got student of the month.! I was so proud to see that. I wasn't expecting it. But I'm happy my hard work paid off. It gave me motivation to keep going..not only in hair school..but physical fitness. I'm starting to drink more water and eating subway instead of fast food. And I work out at night. And I'm gonna get my hydroxycut this weekend. :) I'm determined to do this for me. I was talking to one of my instructors tonight about how working in a salon and raising a baby would coincide. And she said that she had been a single parent for most of her children's life and she's worked at top of the line places like Hair Benders.! They're sooo demanding and so expensive. But now she works downtown. She said its all about finding a place that's willing to work with your time. And salons have a hard time finding people to work evenings. Evenings will more than likely be my schedule. Which makes it easy to find a job in the mall. At one of those salons. So we'll see what happens with that. Adam and I get a date night Friday night. Just the two of us. It's gonna be one of the last times we get to spend time together...considering he's leaving for Georgia for a month to set up a new Academy store. He'll be gone on my birthday..but I understand its a good opportunity for him. Hes getting paid good money for it. And I wasn't really planning anything for my birthday anyways..it still..it breaks my heart..to think I'll be without my other half for that long. It just hurts to even think of it..Crap..misty eyes.

Rediscovering my passion for the field.!

When I actually get to do hair..it's like everything comes naturally to me. I know how to get the hair to do what I want, and I know it will look in the end. These were my two clients from today. I actually get to start going on fridays to get more hours.! I'm really excited about that. The first client is a friend of mine. Her name is Laura. I cut and styled her hair. I put some long and short layers into it, made the bangs choppy, flat ironed, and teased the top layers to make it BIG. I LOVE BIG HAIR.! She was really pleased about it. Her mother even wants me to do her hair.!! I'm building a clientele. Heck yesss.! The next lady is a piano teacher/ waitress from around town. I did her highlights. She was so sweet. And very fun to talk to. Her highlights turned out great. She tipped me 9 dollars.! That's the most I've been tipped at school. I think my biggest tip is from my dad. He tipped me 20 dollars one time. My biggest pay was 25 dollars. It adds up after a while, and I can definitely use the money with the way gas prices and other things are going up. Tonight, I went to see Adam. I cut his grandfather's hair. It turned out great.He even tipped me ten dollars.! I wasn't expecting that at all. He's such a great person. The whole family is. I'm happy to be building my clientele. Did I mention one of my best friends Christina wants me to cut her hair too.? I'm so excited. I love doing my friend's hair. I'm really happy. I had a good day.

I seriously am impressed.

Today was Cayle's 15 month check up. He weighs 25.12 lbs. And he's 33 inches tall. Poor little man had to get four shots today..and I was crying right along with him. But I was proud of not only him but me too. I refused to be the one who held him down when the nurse stuck him..but I did it this time. And he wasn't mad at me..in fact..all he wanted was his mommy. And that made me feel really special. I feel like we're getting even closer because we've been together so much over the past couple of weeks. The doctor even said he was very advanced verbally. Considering 15 month old babies are on average say 4-6 words and Cayle can say 15-20. After we left the doctor's office, we went to the bridal shop so I could make the down payment on my dress. They didn't have my size so I got the next size down. I believe it will help me with my weight loss goal. I pay 87.25 every two weeks until the dress is paid off. Plus, I have a 50.00 off coupon I got from the bridal shows.! When all errands were ran, Cayle and I got something to eat at the Chick-Fil-A and we split it. While we were eating a lady came up and started talking to Cayle. I told her he had shots this morning and wasnt feeling very well. She left, and came back with a little bowl of ice cream and a little chick fil a cow just for Cayle, and it made him smile. It honestly made my day to see kindness like that. People are so mean nowadays. I want to call her manager and compliment on her. Its nice to know that there is still some kindness in this world. I mean..it's not like everywhere I go I'm insulted or something..but a little kindness is nice to see coming from a total stranger..I think we can all learn from that. That was another thing that impressed me today. Tonight at school was actually good. I had a client.! A lady came in with her 5 year old daughter. I gave her some highlights. They turned out great.! My instructor was even impressed which is hard to do. She even tipped me 3.00.! I know I did a good job then.! We had a test over wigs and hair pieces tonight and I only missed two which makes my grade a 90. And considering I missed all last week I was proud of myself. I'm really going to try and try to lose weight. I need it. I want my dream wedding. And I wanna be healthy. And feel better about myself. So with exercising every night and making healthier choices food wise and hydroxycut I KNOW I can do it. I'm very goal oriented and when I dream I dream big. Poor Adam..they're working him so hard..I feel so bad for him..and I think I need to think of something clever to surprise him..I'm not too sure what yet..but I can think of something. It'll take some thought. But I can do it. Not a bad day if I do say so myself. I got over a fear, set a goal, witnessed a random act of kindness, showed off my skills and got paid for it, and passed a test. Pretty sweet.

Say hello to the butterflies.!!

This is the sash that will be on my dress.!!! Dad said he would give me the money to make my down payment tonight.!!! How awesome is that.!? I'm so so so excited. In my last post the model had a veil with a colored trim..thats how mine is gonna look. But it will be dark purple. Its my dream dress. I'm so excited.!! SO SOOO excited. Now...time to compose the guest list. :)

A post before bed. :)

This is it ladies.!! This is my wedding dress. The sash will be dark purple and so will the trim in my veil. Dad has given me the ok to start paying on it.!! Today was awesome. I spent my Sunday with Kay. Cayle spent some quality time with dada. We went to the new forever 21. ITS HUGE. We're pretty much addicted to that place now. We went to eat at the great american cafe and kay is getting them to cater her wedding. Which I plan on using them too. They're amazing. They're cheesy potato soup is awesome. After we ate, we went and paid her dress off at david's bridal. She was so excited to get it. I can't imagine how excited I'll be when I finally have mine or make my payments on it. We went to gigi's cupcakes. They're amazing. She's thinking of having a cupcake tower. I can dig it. Haha. We got some starbucks and headed to the bridal show. We had to sneak away to it so her crazy mother in law to be wouldnt drive us crazy. It was cool. The guy from the ace of cakes was there. We even got FREE gigi's cupcakes. How cool is that.!? After all that we went back to the house. I was so happy to see adam and cayle. We all went to walmart. I got a storage bin to help keep all our wedding stuff together. I'm pretty excited that we're getting somewhere with all this wedding planning. Best part is...no budget.!!!!!! Thank God my daddy spoils me...that sounded really bratty..I'm truly thankful to have parents willing to help so much with my finances..and to throw me the wedding of my dreams. Adam and I are opening a savings account to try to save some money for our honeymoon/house. I'm excited. I'm such a lucky person.

What a Great Day.!!

Today Cayle and I went to hang out with Kay, my soon-to-be-but-might-as-well-be sister-in law. We went to Hobby Lobby on the search for things for our weddings. Unfortunately, the wedding merchandise wasn't on sale like we thought it would be. Afterwards we went to Amigo's. It was sooo delicious. Afterwards we went to Michaels. And we hit the jackpot.!! I found ribbon, my garter, candles, favor boxes, and center piece dishes, and pew bows. There was more that I wanted, but I can always come back for it. And it might even be on sale.! We went to starbucks too. We had a heart to heart about how it felt good to be so close and how we were becoming fast friends. I'm happy to have her in my life. After we parted, I went to see Adam. We just chilled. He gave my my valentine's day present. It was a pink puppy with hearts all over it. It was cute. :)) He gave me my big present early. It was the complete series of Daria. HIs present is coming in the mail in a few days. I got him a cd he's been after for a while. I gave him chocolates and cards on valentine's day. Cayle played and we got to cuddle for a while which was nice. I came home and took an obnoxiously long hot steamy shower. Ahhh. It was wonderful. I think I wanna work on my collage now. :)

Just call me super mom. ;)

Mom has been sick in bed all week so I've been taking care of the house and Cayle. Which means...I've been out of school all week. :/ Its not exactly good for my graduation, but it's given me some extra time to spend with Cayle which he seems to like alot. He's been attached to my hip all week. I've done the grocery shopping and most of the laundry. I even cleaned house today. I feel very productive and hopefully this wont KILL my goal to be out by the end of this year. Today, I got a photo collage frame to fill with pictures of the three of us and I'm DETERMINED to finish it..since scrapbooks havent exactly had the time they need. Hahah. I can't wait to start using it. My wedding plans are falling together very nicely. We've gotten tons of the BIG chunks planned out. It's so nice to feel like everything is falling into place. I really really really wanna start working out. And seeing the results. I'm determined to get down to a single digit size. Imagine how proud I would be. I don't have far to get there but fitting it in with my crazy schedule is gonna be a challenge. But that's where I wanna try hydroxycut. It seems pretty legit. And it'll help on the days I cant work out long or something gets in the way. Sunday is gonna be awesome. Kay and I are sneaking off to a bridal show without her crazy mother-in-law who almost got us shot. And arrested. >_< ughh. that lady is NUTS. I swear. We're gonna hit up the new forever 21 in the mall and hopefully (for once) spoil myself with some new tops. Wish me luck.