Some of my favorite salon pictures

So I finally was found my disposable camera I would keep at school. So I some pictures to post!?! Yeah! Most of these are either favorite haircuts and colors or updos. I would forget to take pictures!?! But once in a great grand while I would remember....


...This is of a maniquin at school. Every week we would have to do 5 to 6 updos on maniquins. One day the teachers decided to have a contest of the most creative/best. I was one of the winner!! It was a lot of fun to do. Personally I like doing real people, it's a lot easier. But I was pleased with how it turned out. I did a weave along the sides, twisted ropes along with the curls. I love the cascade...


Summer of 2007

...This is of a lady that came in to have her hair done for her wedding. I had a Hairstylist as a friend who would refer brides to come to me. I wish I had a more pictures...oh well. I loved doing updos, they were one of my favorite things to do...


Summer of 2007

...We had "regulars" that would come in every week. They were cute ladies that had a hard time doing their hair and wanted to look beautiful. For the life of me, I can't remember her name!? But she was my favorite at school. I loved her to death...

September of 2007


...So I decided to go back to being auburn. Keep in mind that I had gone the same color the previous year and then back to blonde!! But this time, we tried a different line, and WOW! Can you say PINK? My friend, Kristin and I couldn't tell who had the pinkest hair? Can you?

Summer of 2007

...So at school, we were slow and I had another friend, Ellynn, wash my hair out with a "stipper"....



...Can you see how pink the suds were!?! That is from the color, not the shampoo, coming out of my hair!! Needless to say, it took a few processes before I had my auburn hair back...



...This is me and my manager (and great friend) Jenzy. I worked at Smart Styles from Oct. 2007 to April of 2008. It was a great learning experience. I had a lot of fun doing a variety of hair. (Notice that mine is a normal color!?!)...



...I came to work one Saturday at noon, after working 12 hours the previous night at the hospital. I was able to get about 4 hours of sleep. Needless to say I was EXHAUSTED!! As soon as I walked in, Jenzy told me I have a customer waiting. The girl wants jet black hair with red steaks...Always a fun thing to do something extreme, however I was so tired I couldn't think. The last thing I wanted was do something difficult. But after it was all done, I actually really liked how it turned out, and she absolutely LOVED it!!



Spring of 2008

...This is an updo for Prom. My friend from work asked me to do her daughter's hair. She had so much!?! She just wanted curls everywhere. It is beautiful though...

Spring of 2008

...This girl came in and was heading to BYU-Idaho for school. She wanted to have her hair cut and warmer color...

Spring of 2008

Evan's Hairstyling Video Contest

Video

When I went to school, we had a commercial contest. This one won! It is too cute. One of my friends is the "Capelli" girl/villain. I thought I would post it here for me to remember. Watch if you want to get a good laugh!

High School

So I got this email from a friend and it was so fun to read hers, that I wanted to put it here, and then tell all of you to do the same. It's kind of fun...I am going to have to post some pics of high school. My friend Ashley blogged hers, and it was too much fun. When I go home for November I will get some pics.




Did you marry someone from your high school? No, was that what I was suppose to do? I didn't get the memo. Dang, no wonder I am still single!? ;0)

Did you carpool? Sometimes with the Robynn Redford from sporting games, but I rode the bus when I didn't have extra curricular activites.

What kind of car did you have? Chevrolet Caprice (I drove the family car), Mazda Hunchback, Ford Bronco (mostly these last two were with my brother and sister)

What kind of car do you have now? Chevrolet Cavilier

It's Friday night...what are you doing? To a game, either playing or supporting the guys....always GAMES!!! Sometimes a group of us would go to Logan or Pocatello

Its Saturday Night...what are you doing? The same thing!! I rarely did anything else.

What kind of job did you have in high school? No job, again SPORTS only!! But actually I loved it. They became my life.

What do you do now? I work full time as a critical care tech. and partime going to school to become a rad. tech.

Were you a party animal? No, I was pretty much the opposite, a low key girl. My parents let me do whatever cause they knew I would never do anything bad...its true. In fact, other kids parents would let them come because they knew I was there!! Isn't that funny... It taught me alot about responsibility

Were you considered a flirt? No, just good friends with the guys.

Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir my Freshman year-lots of fun. I loved the whole group. Remember Melissa! The trip to Bountiful and Kim and Whitney pushing us into the swimming pool completely dressed. Ahhh, the memories. And Choir and Band (flute) my Senior year-not so fun. Also, I took private violin lessons my Junior and Senoir High school (one of the reasons why I didn't do Basketball those last two years)

Can you sing the fight song? yes-believe it or not, my senior year I was a cheerleader, so we had to dance and practice and dance some more to that song!! Of coarse I do. In fact, here we go:

"Dear Old North Gem High School,
We'll fight for you!
We'll fight for North Gem,
We're up to stuff (swear those are the words, but they make no sense!!)
We never, never, never bluff.

Against the men of North Gem,
None can progress!
Three cheers for North Gem High
Our N! G! H! Rah, Rah, Rah!
Fight! Fight! Fight team! Fight!"
(I think I could even remember the dance!!)

Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? Mr. Rindlisbaker newspaper/yearbook and computers. (I ended up his TA my senior year). He helped me alot that year.

Where did you sit during lunch? Cafeteria

What was your school's full name? North Gem High School

When did you graduate? 1999 We were all so proud of that fact, last year of the CENTURY!! How cool was that?!

What was your school mascot? Cowboys

If you could go back and do it again, would you? Yes, I would not have gone skiing my junior year for a BOY and tore up my ACL.

What do you remember most about graduation? I had to speak because I was the Salutatorian...being completely and totally nervous! Afterwards I spent time with my family. Bless my sister and mom for hanging out with me!!

Who did you go with to senior prom? Brandon Wistisen

Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with? I use to see him and his wife when I got back from my mission, but I haven't seen them since I moved to Utah. He was a fun friend all throughout school.

Are you planning on going to your 50 year reunion? Heck no!! I haven't gone to any since. In fact, I don't think that we have had any either. Sad to say but I wasn't friends with too many in my class, just a few guys...All of my friends graduated, went to Grace High School, or were younger then me.

Do you still see people from school? No, but we email, blog, or chat on facebook

Now, I tag everyone (yes Andrea and Rachel, that especially includes you!?!) because it's way too fun to read.

8 things tagged

8 Things I am PASSIONATE About...

1. The gospel

2. Spending time with my family

3. Going to the Temple, trying to go weekly...I haven't gone for awhile since I have been sick, not wanting to get others sick...but I am going on 2 months now, and so maybe that is something I need to get back to!

4. Working...I hate the idea of not working somewhere, it scares me.

5. Getting at least a "B" in Anatomy

6. Getting in to the Radiology program

7. Trying to get into a better financial situation to buy a home!

8. Reading


8 "words" or "phrases" I say way too often...

1. according to my sister, "impractical" love ya Steph!!

2. when I am playing nintendo with my friend and can't help but say "oh boy!" I blame that one on my brother!!

3. "nummy" to my nieces and nephew, even though it's not a real word ;0)

4. "crappy"

5. "no worries"

6. "anyways"

7. "freak"

8. ....I don't know, you tell me!?!!

8 Things I want to do before I die...

1. Make money

2. Then support my parents, and help my siblings out

3. Work in the Temple

4. I can't think of any more, except those that are too personal....

5.

6.

7.

8.

8 Things I have learned from my past...

1. "Be flexible so you won't be bent out of shape" quote from my Grandpa Neibaur. I have made so many plans and goals, but sometimes they aren't what my Heavenly Father has planned.

2. Loving my family. They are always there.

3. Knowing that God loves us so incredibly much!! That He hasn't given up on me, then why should I?

4. Anything worth much requires hard work to obtain it.

5. Laugh, even if you want to cry.

6. Remembering that everyone is a Child of God...sometimes I forget that, but than I am reminded, especially at work =0)

7. Follow the Spirit, cause if you don't you'll always regret it! And if you do, you may not know what might have happened, but you always know you followed the promptings.

8. Saying "I love you" to those special people in my life. They need to know it.

8 Places I would love to see...

1. EUROPE!! Anywhere in Europe, especially the Mediterranean

2. Oregon

3. Mesa-America

4. New Zealand

5. Somewhere to see WICKED!

6. San Diego/Disneyland, I went when I was eight, and would love to go back!?!

7. The Holy Land

8. Egypt

8 Things I Currently Need or Want...

1. Money, you can always use more money, right!?!

2. An "A" in Anatomy

3. Get into the Radiology program

4. A home

5. A family of my own

6. (I feel that I am being redundant, so I will stop!)

7.

8. oh yeah, health!! I want to be healthy

8 More People I Tag! Anyone who wants to , especially Rachel

I have a HOME!!

I finally have a home now!! YEAH! It is really close to where I am now, and in Pleasant Grove. I am so excited! It was a crazy ordeal to get it. Granted, I know that it's a big deal to rent things out, but I had to go once to see it, then again to meet the other roommate (which was basically like an interview) and then waited and waited before they made their decision. Talk about stress! But yet it's nice because we already have a feel for each other. I remember moving into places before even seeing it or meeting the roommates. Ricks College, heck, I was just happy to find a place with an ok price! And in Logan, I just had to find something while I was still in Rexburg trying to graduate early. I never really had much of an idea of what I was getting myself into. SO, I think that it will be good. It is still just a month by month contract, but I told her that I wanted to live there for a while, and I mean AWHILE. I just think, due to some comments, that they probably had some bad experiences in the past. Hopefully they like me, and I like them, and everything is fabuloso!! The owner is a dental hygienist and over 30. The other girl is 27 like me!! And she is a 3rd grade teacher. I am just excited to have someone to go to church with! I haven't had a roommate to go to church with since Pocatello right after my mission (ok when I lived at home I had my mom! That was nice!!). They both seem to be down to earth, nice, and successful people. It's always fun to see people's faces when they hear my schedule. Then I am reminded of how abnormal I really am!!

Anyways, I got my test back, and got a 80%. SO I am totally bummed about it, and am determined to study like there's no tomorrow. I have been pretty consistent, but not daily. SO here I go! I will eat, drink, live and sleep the Nervous, Circulatory systems, and whatever else we will accomplish by Nov. 5th!! And as for lab, well, lets just say, I have to do soooo much better!

Tagged: Quirks

Tagged...I tag anyone who isn't afraid of their weaknesses!! Teeheehee!
After all, Ether 12: 27
27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.


My Quirks:


1. I have a bad habit of staying up to read or watch movies. Even if I am tired, I get selfish about my time, and stay up!! Hence a good reason why I get run down. It's hillarious! I will sometimes close one eye, then after a few minutes, rotate eyes closed. Tsk, tsk, I know! When did I come up with this? I remember staying up late when I lived at home, and putting a blanket along the bottom of the door, and a sock through the hole where the doorknob was suppose to go...just so that my parents would think I was sleeping. Pathetic I know!

2. I decide to be healthy, I clean up my nutrition, get more active, and feel so much better. But then the old me comes back, and bam! I slack off again. Even when I know perfectly well that I feel better and am less sick when I am healthy! Ding ding! You would think I could just change...

3. I start projects and then don't finish them! I remember doing Young Women's projects, and as soon as the hours where finished, I was finished too! I have a hard time sticking to it. One time, my sister finished a cross-stitch for me that I had worked on FOREVER, and it took her only a few days (keep in mind I had the bottom part of the stem finished on a rose). I have a sack full of projects. But I am happy to say that I have finished all of my old projects, and have only my new recently acquired ones. By recent, I mean within a year! Hey, that's good for me!!

4. I have a hard time making a budget and then sticking to that budget. I have made so many of them, that I have given up. Pretty much, I set a number in my head, and that is all that I allow myself to spend,and when it is out, I am done. But could I save more, I sure could! And I could be more practical too! Someday...

5. If I don't write things down, I forget them! Seriously! I lost my little pocket sized planner for a few weeks, and I kept forgetting appointments I made, and meetings I should have gone too. Pretty much I stuck to the basics, and just held on. It took me a while to find a new planner, but once I did, as long as it was written in, I was good to go. Before my mission, I never had a planner. Now, it is a definate must have!?!

6. I get into reading the scriptures/doctrine books. I can read them, and just soak it up and think "Wow, I need to do this every day! I love this! Look at how much I have learned!" but then, it will be days before I have another binge. What a lukewarm servant I am!

So, there are mine, now what are yours?

For Good

I don't know why, but I wanted to post the lyrics to a song that I absolutely love from the play "Wicked"!! I have it on my playlist, but it has something wrong with it, so it won't play!?! Maybe that is why I was thinking about it. Or maybe because of the last few months, I have been in touch with many that I've lost contact with. Some have been amazing friends, relatives, and even some who hurt me. But because there is Someone else in control of my life, Someone who loves me and knows me better than myself, Who wants the best for me, has chosen to reconnect those contacts. And because of them, memories have been shared, wounds have healed, and differences have been made for the better...

(Glinda):
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

(Glinda):
Because I knew you

(Both):
I have been changed for good

(Elphaba):
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for

(Glinda):
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

(Both):
And none of it seems to matter anymore

(Glinda):
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood

(Elphaba):
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood

(Both):
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

(Glinda):
And because I knew you...

(Elphaba):
Because I knew you...

(Both):
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good...

I thank my Heavenly Father for all of them!

My two pregnant friends...

I just think they look so incredibly cute!! They are two friends from Cosmo school and this was taken just in August. We try to get together for lunch every month. Anyways, the blonde is Missie, and she had her baby in September, oh so cute!! And the red head is Kristin, the girl I used to rent from. She is due around Christmas...

Excited and nervous all at once

Due to a so little sleep as of late, I hope that I make somewhat sense!?! So I am studying my tooshie off for my Anatomy Lab =O) Ya, I know, what am I complaining about with that being my only class? But still, a little bit overwhelming!! However, I am kindof excited to get it over with and move on to something else!! Who knew there was so much to know about our bodies, and I am only about half way through!?! But it is exciting to learn more, and humbling to understand a little bit more, the magnitude of how wise our Father is! Truly amazing! And so, Monday will be my lab test, and then the next Monday will be my Anatomy class test.

Some great news though is that I am getting so much better! YeeHaa! Wow, it is amazing how awesome it feels to not itch! And to swallow! And to not ache! Thank goodness for health. I will try to be more aware of how blessed I am...But a funny story to add. So my friend Andrea and I went to "Nights of Rodanthe" (not a favorite of mine, I liked to book, but they always have to slut it up!!). I had a huge headache and it wasn't going away. SO I pop a couple of Excedrin. Mind you I am too cheap to buy drinks at the theater, and therefore had nothing to help swallow them down. I feel a "thunk" and lo and behold, it is stuck on top of my epiglottis (the flap that covers your trachea to prevent food and drink entering your lungs).


I am sure you all have had things stuck in your throat, and it's annoying right? So I try to swallow, and decide to leave to get a drink from the water fountain. It is still there! Ok, so I get some candy from my friend hoping it will push it down, nothing. But I begin to wonder if my throat is just irritated and the pill has really gone down. So I watch the moving, and minutes go by and I can fill my throat burning from the acid in the aspirin! Crap! So I try to throw up, hoping that would get it out. Long story short, I am still hoarse from the burning, and continue to cough like a banshee! I am sure that the patients here at work are thinking "Great, as if I am not feeling bad enough, I get a nurse who is hacking all over the place! Thanks alot!" So too funny, weird, and just plain crazy!

Also, I am looking for more places to live...and that is always scary. I hate change and yet, ironically enough, my life is always full of changes. Is there something that I am suppose to be learning??? And why am I not getting it!! Ha, but I am thinking that there was a reason for me moving into my new place, and that, in the end things have got to work out, right? So I will be superly excited to have a place to call "home". I just looked at a really nice place for only $320 a month, whereas now I pay $375 a month. So that would be awesome. However, I got the feeling that she didn't like me too much.....ya know how you just get that feeling. Well, I am hoping it will work out. Who knows! This is a picture of the place I live in now...I love it! It's way too nice, but it is so cozy...


And another thing that makes me a little bit annoyed and frustrated and sick to my stomach is the economy! Wow, can we not have a bit of success to hear about? Seriously, I feel doom and gloom, and just have gotten to the point that I don't want to hear about it!! Niave I know, but I can only handle so many stresses in my life, and there is only so much that I can do, so I guess I will just keep GOING! And deal with things as they come my way. However you would be proud of me to know that I have been really good about not buying a lot of DVDs. Yeah that is progress for me! I did buy "Emma Smith: My Story" but I haven't seen it yet, heard good things, and wanted to add it to my collection. After all, it is always nice to learn from someone who was so courageous and faithful. So those of you who haven't seen it, definately try renting it! I think it is well worth it.


And finally, conference is here!! Wahoo! I just hope I can keep my eyes open. I am totally exhausted and am looking at another 10 hours before I can rest...

Anyways, hoping the very best to all of you!

Homeless! There is no place like home!

Remember that song from the Forgotten Carols? Yeah, that is how I fell as of late. I know, I know, I just moved into a new place the end of August, but she moved her wedding date up to November, so once again I am HOMELESS!! and sick to death of looking for apartments. Is it just me, or do I seem doomed for constant moving... So today is my pessimistic blog, sorry.

Too funny, so these past few weeks have been, as one of my old mission companion and I dub times like these, the week from H*^#!! I got step throat and ear infections Wed the 10th, finally broke down and went the the instacare on Saturday morning to get antibiotics. Almost immediately I start feeling better! But oh no, I start with the sinus infection, and Wed. the 17th I break out into hives everywhere!! So I start taking Benedryl. By Friday, my face, feet, and hands are so swollen, that even the Male Respiratory Therapist at work commented on it. So you know it is bad right!! So again, I leave work to go to the instacare (beats the ER with $) and get another perscription and I stop my antibiotics. K, so today is Thurs. the 25th, and I still have hives (but they are under control with a constant consumption of Benedryl, try staying awake with that) sinus crap going on, and a horrendous cough!?! So I ask ya, can things get worse!? Oh yeah they can...

...Before I moved into my new place, a girl ran into my bumper. Long story short, I get everything arranged to get it fixed, but I have no car. In order to save $ by not renting a car, I decide to ride my bike, which is just got tuned up and is ready to go yeah!! But no, my pedal falls off and I can't get it to stay on. So, luckily my brother in law is awesome and picked me up, dropped me off at my house, and fixed my bike for me. And my sister Stephanie helped me out by being my taxi driver. I had no idea how much I relied on my car! I had arranged previously with the girl from my class that I commute with, to have her drive, since I had my car in the shop. She texted me that morning, having a migraine! SO once again, crap. But Stephanie lets me borrow her van to drive to school. So I am driving, not realizing that she had put the emergency brake on....yeah, well, I look down to make sure I have enough gas and bam, I see the light. My car won't even let me drive with my emergency brake on!?! So I had noooo idea that this was happening. So needless to say, I keep praying to this moment that their van is fine. Seriously, the Bare's are saints and they deserve a hundred blessings over and over again! I come home after my class, and the shop can't get a hold of the lady to pay for my car. I can't get my car unless it is paid for!! They close at 5 pm, but luckily I got a hold of her at 4:56 pm, and things finally worked out!

So, hopefully things will continue to look up, and I can find a place to call "home" soon. But my car is back and beautiful!! It just needs a car wash so the rest of it can shine like my bumper. My bike is beautiful and working, I even got to ride it today to work. I forgot how much fun it is to bike! I definately need to do it regularly.....it is awesome! So, all in all, I am grateful that everything finally worked out, the van is still running (at least I continue to pray everything is fine), and I just read that they are coming out with a Pirates 4, which I am so incredibly excited about. And of course, the Relief Society General Conference is this weekend to be followed soon by General Conference. Yes, I definately sense a positive change ahead.