My new hair...

Okay, here's a pic of my new hair color. It's quite a bit darker than anything I've had before, but I love it! The best part of working in a salon is knowing that my hair will always be fun and cute. Which is super, because I have no hair skills AT ALL!! Too bad I didn't have that luxury back in 2001, when I decided to go platinum blonde... man, that was not pretty.



Since I'm in the photo uploading mood, which doesn't happen often, here's a pic of the cat and dog. Aren't they the cutest two creatures you've ever seen?! I'm absolutely, positively in love with these little guys. And yes, that is a dog sweater on the cat. He is that fat. I'd love to find matching sweaters, but the dog is so big, a lot of the sweaters we've looked at just aren't big enough.

Fifty

Here I go. I was "challenged" by T to write a blog listing 50 random facts about myself. And I thought it might be fun trying to see how many I could come up with.

1. I love sports movies, especially football and basketball. Not big on baseball.
2. Friday Night Lights is one of my absolute favorite TV shows. I can't miss it!
3. I'm a vegetarian, going on 9 months now. The only animals I miss are the ones that swim.
4. I love working out... when I actually do it. Which isn't very often.
5. I was a gymnast for 7 years. I was terrible.
6. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Psychology.
7. I love what I do for a living, and I'll be really happy when it starts paying more of the bills!
8. I like really weird movies. If you want to know what I mean by weird, check out anything by Gregg Araki. Love him!
9. I love my dog more than I ever thought I could love anything. He's been there through a lot of me moving around, and he still licks my face!
10. I love to eat, but I hate to cook. I'm too impatient to cook.
11. I love to have time to myself, whether it be at home or out somewhere.
12. I absolutely love the beach.
13. I hate cold weather, especially the snow.
14. I love sleeping. I mean, I LOVE it!
15. I'm currently hooked on the Twilight book series.
16. I wish I could eat nachos everyday. Or burritos.
17. I've been dating my boyfriend a little less than two years, and it's the longest relationship I've ever been in.
18. I've had a crush on Hugh Grant since I was 17.
19. My more recent, younger celebrity crush is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
20. I have a love for Starbucks.
21. I love books by Bret Easton Ellis.
22. I have five half brothers, and I'm not really close to any of them.
23. I think most of my friends know me better than my family.
24. I've had a love for chocolate since... forever.
25. I'm very cold natured. I'm shivering right now.
26. I'm allergic to cats, but I really like them. (not as much as dogs!)
27. I love long, hot showers.
28. I wish I could get a massage every week.
29. I recycle, and it makes me happy to know I've gotten others to start doing the same.
30. I wax my own legs, underarms, bikini, and eyebrows.
31. I absolutely LOVE makeup from MAC.
32. I love my high heels, but all I ever wear are my Uggs and flip flops.
33. I am so technically, mechanically, and electrincally retarded, it's not even funny. If it's electronic, I could probably break it.
34. I grew up thinking I was the most unattractive girl in the whole world.
35. I freaking love Citizens jeans.
36. I don't think I'll ever have children.
37. I'm addicted to American Idol. Each season, I say I won't be, but it hasn't worked so far.
38. Secret wish: I wish I would've learned an instrument when I was younger, so I could've been in a chick band.
39. I'm currently growing out my hair, so I can donate it when I finally cut it.
40. I love being in the mood to clean.
41. My longest job so far has been at the Olive Garden. I worked there from '95-'02.
42. I used to be somewhat fashionable, now I think I need to be nominated for What Not To Wear. I don't know what happened.
43. My favorite musical artist of all time is Tori Amos.
44. I used to be a night person, but as I've gotten older, I've become more of a morning person.
45. I'm still friends with many of my high school friends, which I love!
46. I'm a Sex and the City fanatic.
47. I'm easily irritated with e-mail and text abbreviations. Examples... lol, rofl, r u home? I don't know what they mean half the time, and it's very difficult to read.
48. Some nights I just don't feel like washing my face.
49. I look terrible with too much blonde in my hair.
50. I love the smell of puppies.

Whoo, now it's your turn =)

Today was a new day...

Every day is a new day, actually. But I needed today to be better than yesterday after my little pity party. And... it was! I got to hang out with peeps tonight at my friend Lisa's house, which always involves good food, red wine, catching up, and in tonight's case, communicating with our friend Phoebe via Skype for over an hour.
I also heard from my little brother Daniel. I haven't talked to him in a little over a year, and haven't seen him in almost two and a half years. After a day of texting and learning he'll be in Norman for the OU-Texas Tech game, we made plans to get together and go to the game. I'm super excited about that!
And, I started reading the first book of the Twilight series. I was a little reluctant at first, because I thought they were just silly teenager books, but I kept hearing adults (my age!) talk about how fantastic these books were. Right now I've got the first book on loaner from a friend at work, but I'm most likely going to have to make a trip to the bookstore for the remainder of the series. I've only read maybe 70 pages or so, but I'm HOOKED! I can't wait to see the movie!

Where's my motivation? Maybe I left it in TN...

Ugh... I'm feeling really unmotivated right now, and I don't like it.

I think I really need to get out of Oklahoma. I made a pact with myself when I moved back from Knoxville, that I would get away a little more often. I went to Mexico last year, but so far I've not been anywhere in 2008. I feel I need to just get in the car and drive. Or, even better... just purchase a plane ticket and fly somewhere. It's really hard to explain. I feel like I'm forgetting that I ever left Oklahoma to begin with. I'm homesick for a place that was never really my home. When I lived in Tennessee, I never felt suffocated. I felt stressed at times, I was broke, I was always either at work or school, so I had very little social life, I lived in the worst apartment I've ever lived in, but I felt a sense of freedom and confidence I've never felt before. I felt like anything was possible. I'm wonering if I'll ever feel that way again.

Anyone up for a road trip?

It's out of control!

The weather, that is! We are getting some crazy rain, wind, even hail! Some of it almost golf ball size. We also discovered that our front door leaks water. It looks as though the glass pane hasn't been sealed very well. I'm sure we would've never noticed it, except that the wind is blowing the rain so hard right up against the door.

I feel somewhat productive. I took my appointment book home from work today, came home and entered in all the "plus" numbers, so I won't be terribly behind on my taxes come 2009. I try to keep up with it, but I had slacked since July. Tomorrow I'll type in my expenses, my "minus" numbers, and I'll really be up to date! Go me! Way to be productive!

I am an Anti-American Socialist...

...or so it seems, according to my family.

You see friends, I am a bit of an outcast in my family. I am a liberal. I am an agnostic, pro-choice, Micheal Moore, Bill Maher loving liberal. Apparently, that does not fare well with my family, the ultra-conservatives. It already disgraces my mother that I'm a thirty-two year old woman who is unmarried with no children (her grandchildren, get it?). Oh - and it took me seven years to get through college, as she so joyfully pointed out in front of everyone the other day. If you count the year I took off, it technically took me six years. And never mind the fact that I worked FORTY HOURS A WEEK all the way through, so I could pay my rent, bills, car payment, gas, car insurance, food, etc.

Before I went to bed last night, I changed my Facebook status to something like "I can't express how happy I am to be an American right now". I wake up this morning, check my e-mail, and it tells me I have two comments on my status. The first comment...my half-brother Brian writes "try being one". So, the second comment... I guess he felt that was in poor taste, so he changes it to something like "I wonder why it's hard for you to express that". I got one asshole comment, and one passive aggressive asshole comment. I really don't tolerate bullshit like this very well. I deleted him as a friend, which sounds so ridiculous. I'm thirty-two, for crying out loud, I'm too old to be deleting people off Facebook because they pissed me off. I wrote him a message saying I have many Christian, conservative friends, and I respect every one of them, and not one of them has ever stooped so low as to call me anti-American, blah, blah, blah. I don't think his narrow mind will really "get it".

It's very frustrating. I feel as though I was always taught to have an open mind growing up, now my family doesn't understand why I hold the beliefs that I do. I guess it all evens out, because I'll never understand how they can be the way they are.

Anyway, it was exciting watching history being made last night. No matter what party you belong to, or who you voted for, it's so amazing to be a part of it all!

I looked like a hooker...

after the TIGI makeup class I attended yesterday. It was so ghetto, it was ridiculous.

So, I've seen the TIGI makeup at the beauty supply stores, and I really just wanted to know a little more about it. Maybe if I liked it, I thought I'd buy a few things for work, when I do makeup on clients. And the stuff wasn't really that bad. I made the mistake of volunteering to be a model. I said "you can do whatever you want to me". One of the girls in the class saw a picture in the catalog of a dramatic eye done with liquid liner. Since I don't really like liquid liner, I thought it would be good to see a professional apply it. And I don't mind a dramatic look, kind of a smoky eye, even a "cat eye" kind of look. I can pull it off when it's done well. The only way I can desribe it is like this... instead of feathering the liner out, like at the outer part of the eye, she feathered it in, like the inner part of my eye. Who feathers the liner IN? And it wasn't really feathered, it was a little line done with liquid liner. And no, I did not take a picture.

I had planned on going to the big health food store after the class, since I was in OKC, but instead I went straight home and washed the crap off my eyes. And washed. And washed. And washed. It took a q-tip and three jumbo cotton balls to get most of it off. Then I used a washcloth for the rest. What's even funnier to me, is that the makeup artist is one of two girls that does the makeup for the OKC Thunder dancers. Since I believe in learning something from every experience, I learned I'm going to stick with mineral makeup. I'm good with the natural look, whether I'm doing it on myself, or someone else. I was also glad I went because they had Rusk products "Buy one, get one free". Who doesn't like a sale like that?

I just started reading The Secret. I'm hoping it will help me rid my mind of the negativity I have clouding it. I usually try to be a positive person, but lately I've been really hard on myself. And it needs to stop!

Why I love Mondays...

I know I've been missing from the world of blogging, but I'm back! I really missed blogging, but the truth is, I've hardly been on the computer at all in the last week. And anyone that knows me, should know that that is not like me at all!

The fact is, I'm exhausted and today is the first day of "me time" I've had in a litle while. Monday is usually my day to myself, and last week was the day I picked up my grandma and took my dog to the vet for shots and a bath. Which means lots of driving, and having to go here and there, and everywhere. Since then, it's been work, house stuff, friend stuff, family stuff, more work, and more friend stuff. Don't get me wrong... I love my friends and family, I love my house, I LOVE my boyfriend... but the pure quiet that I'm experiencing right now, not having to be anywhere, not having to jump in the shower right away... it's pure bliss! I am going to a TIGI makeup class later, and finish a little laundry, but other than that... I think I'll watch some TV, maybe go on a walk, play with my dog, just take it easy.

In other news... can you believe we are still moving things from the old house? We're almost finished, but I'm ready to be DONE! If we ever move again, we are hiring movers, and I will pay for them myself, because it will be SO worth it! Clint and I trying to move heavy items, with the help of his grandparents is definitely a comedy of errors. When his mom and stepdad show up, it's sitcom material. I just stand back and watch everyone argue about how to get whatever large item out the door. The new house definitely is starting to look like home, everything is pretty much where it's going to be, except the two spare bedrooms. Everything else looks good, though, and I'm glad we were able to do some fun decorating for Halloween. We strung some orange lights around a few windows and in the kitchen, put in some black lights in a few rooms, taped a skeleton in the window, and had a glowing pumpkin in another window. It looked really good, and we had a few friends over the night before Halloween to watch a scary movie and hand out candy to kids. Unfortunately, we hardly had any kids trick or treating, so we're stuck the boatloads of candy! And I'm sure I've already gained 10 pounds from the chocolate I can't stop eating.