What should the title of this post be?! Don't know.

Well, it is safe to say that I am not a great blogger. Hell all I have really posted is videos and how easy is that?! Haha. But I am trying to be inspired by Shawnte and her regular posting and I am going to try to be a little more pro-post.
I don't really know what it is that I am supposed to write right now, but I do feel the need to be in here and doing this, so I guess I am just going to ramble. I have recently become a member of Twitter (thanks a lot Shawnte) and while it is pretty useless as a webpage goes, I am already a little addicted to it! Just one more thing for me to check on. And I only have 3 followers so I really don't know what there is to check. HAhaha. Oh well.
I also feel the need to post about what I saw last night. I got to go on a date last night. It is very rare that K and I actually dress up and leave our valley for the bright lights of C'town, but last night we did! Whoo hoo!
We went to see the Feist concert. Man oh man it had to have been the most visually compelling concert I have even been to. I would have to say that I spent 85% of my time NOT watching Feist herself. You see, she was her whole show set up with shadows and projections and other such things lit up on the back syc of the stage. It was absolutely beautiful! 3 VERY talented people were runnign around the stage with mini spot lights and figures on wodden sticks and so on to make this beautiful light and shadow show that ran the enitre concert. They didn't stop. And when they weren't shadow-ing they had a little hand held camera that projected in black and white and they would focus on things like the strings of the piano, or the striker for the bass drum. It was amazing. It just goes to prove that music really is art and when the artist wants you to focus on something else rather than just looking at her, you can tell that she really wants you to HEAR hear music and not LOOK at what she is doing. She was projecting the images that she sees when she sings the songs. At least that's what I took from it and that was amazing.
I would tell you if you got the chance to see her concert in person, that you should definately go, unfortunately we in C'town had the rare opportunity to see the last show on what she called her 6 year tour. It had tears and laughter and she was a real person.
It was amazing.
I loved it.
Inspired.

Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

OKay, I'm sorry....I have to post this one too. This is to those of us who are or used to be a "big girl". Love this guy.

Mika - Grace Kelly

This is my new favorite singer. His songs are all happy and he sounds like the guys from Flight of the Concords!! It's all so good!!!!! CHeck out Lollipop!

yael naim new soul clip

This is the cutest video ever!

Reclaiming Myself...The Demise of the Little Pink Pill.

I have have recently made a huge decision in my life. I have decided to reclaim who I am and stop taking the little pink pill that I have been taking daily for about 10+ years of my life. That's about 2850 pills I have swallowed (give or take a few) to dictate when my body is going to go through what is supposed to be a natural cycle.
Now let's not get all excited. I am NOT trying to get myself in the "bun in the oven" situation so neither of you are going to be aunts in the near future. Yes indeed I will become a slave to a neatly and sometime colorful foiled packed containg a lubricated, spermacide coated, latex condom.....Ugh. The Shoppers Drugmart people will still be getting money out of me in that department.
You may ask why I am making such a drastic life altering move. Well I will tell you because I think that just maybe you should know.

About 2 years ago I was watching a show about Cancer Causing agents. It was a Dateline thing... On that, along with Tide sticks and Mr. Clean counter wipes, the birth control pill used long term is a cancer causer. I know I know. Everything in the world causes cancer these days and if you drink too much ornage juice it will rot your teeth just as fast as Coke (true fact).
Anywas, I saw that show, thought about it a little bit and then never really thought about it again. Lately however, I have noticed some really big changes in my mood and my sex drive and in the back of my head I kept coming back to the pill as the deep underlying of these issues. So the other night ( a sleepless one), I got online and decided to research the side effects of long term use birth control.....(What the doctor doesn't tell you). There are all the ones that we do know about.....Blood Clots, Weight Gain, Acne and so on. Then way down there were these side effects. Severe depression and mood swings and loss of sexual drive and all sexual thoughts. And the loss of sexual drive is PERMANENT. Yep that's what it said. You don't regain it. Ever. (And it actually said EVER).

So there you go. I'm getting the hell out of Birth Control Dodge. And do you know what? I feel really good about it. So along with the condoms and the inevetable cramps what will take over my body every month I say, "Let me be free"!

Hahaha.

This has been a service announcement from you Kind Friend Sharon. Shoud there be a real emergency this message will be followed by detailed instructions on.....( I can't think of anything else whitty to say here).

Later!!

Rich Girl - Hall and Oates

So, I now love this song and while it is sung by Hall and Oats, it's much more enjoyable watching this guy lip-syncing it. (And he's a little more hot than those old other folks). Now if only Michael buble would sing it...or Harry Conick... Mmmmmm Harry.

Logdriver's Waltz

This one is for you Shawnte. I loved it on the CD and thought I should let us all have a watch.

My work is like a graveyard of broken hopes....or so I thought.

Okay, I shall start with today and then do a flash back. I will tell you what has been going on. I am sitting in the back of my salon right now in the boutique side. I am wearing my hat my scarf and my puffy winter jacket...it is 10 degrees. No the oil didn't run out and we didn't loose power. Here is how this story goes....
Now that it is getting warmer in the afternoons here my salon gets very hot. The whole front section is windows in which the sun pours in with wonderful warmth. I personally love it. If I get too hot I like to open the front door for a few minutes and cool it down and then we start all over again and let it warm up.
I love the warmth.
However, my co-worker (whom I love very much) likes to turn the "air exchanger" on. (That would be the air conditioner). Last night instead of flicking the A/C over to heat, she accidentally turned the whole thing OFF!! So here I am in here wondering why the HELL it is so damn cold and I have found the source of the reason. It's a little switch that is pointing to the off position. Needless to say I have the heat back on and turned up to 25 degrees. I wonder when I will be able to take off my coat?

What else is going on with my salon??
Ah yes. Jolene has flown the coop. Not a bad thing at all, except now I am swamped and Natasha is getting busy and we have no one to answer the phones!!! AAAAhahahahahaha. Doesn't irony kick you in the ass?!

So here I am busy to boot and Nat and I both have OJT students. Mine is a dream. I love her. She is awesome. Nat on the other hand...I'll be surpirised if she doesn't wind up in unit 9 by the end of the two weeks. For more information on that situation you will have to call me. Back to Emily...my little dream girl. She is so eager to learn and I think she will be a great hairdresser. I can't wait to get her working in here as much as she can....only problem. She is about 6 months preggo and she will be having her baby when I need her the most.....PROM SEASON!! Oh well, I shall survive.

So, in recaping the title of this little blog....My work life was seeming like a perfect graveyard of broken hopes, can't keep a 2nd stylist, no money, and so on...but now I have Little Miss Emily (for at least 2 months) and I have all of Jo's clients! Whoo hoo!

Things are looking up. Now if I can only get a receptionist so the frigging phone stops ringing off the hook!

Sorry for the jumbled post...I try to be witty like the two of you but it just doesn't work for me all the time. But I know you are still reading it and for that....I thank you.

Sitting... and waiting... and pacing... and hoping!

Just sitting her impatiently waiting for updates from my two girls on how the date-ies are going. Sending good thoughts out to you both and LOVING YOU BIG!!!!!!!!

Summer, Oh Summer. Where for art thou Summer??

I want it, I crave it, I'm in need of it.

All I want to feel right now is the heat of the sun pounding down on me while I sit in my back yard drinking wine and eating hamburgers fresh off the barbecue. I want to walk around outside in bare feet (provided Coco hasn't left something unpleasant in the grass) and, believe it or not, I want to cut the grass. For once I don't think that going down south would work and the tanning bed definately doesn't do it for me. I can stand in it for only a few minutes before I go crazy with boredom.

I guess in the long run I have come to the fact that I definatly suffer from Seasonal Depression. I think a large population of the world does...but I know for sure that I do. I am nothing more than lethargic on my days off. I don't want to do anything. All I have to do is think.....2 more months-ish 2 more months-ish. Dear Lord let it only be 2 more months.


On another note. I feel lately that I am working so hard to reach certain goals in my life but I can't seem to make the hit. I love my job and I have so much fun doing it but I definately need a break....problem being, I work so hard but I don't make enough money to take a week off!!! I know that the two people reading this would agree with me. You are in the same boat too.
I know I am appreciated at work but lately I constantly feel that I'm not quite doing enough all the time. On top of that, a certain person that I work with just doesn't pull her load and I can't stand that. I work my butt off for a 50% comission and she gets paid a wage (for the time being), and I feel bad if I want to take a lunch break. Meanwhile....she likes to take one hour lunch breaks on Saturdays when we only work a 6 hour shift!!! HONEST TO GOD!!!!! Argh.

I have had 2 AG classes booked, both with good 'ole Brucie....both cancelled. I just can't get ahead. That's all......it's exhausting.

Okay, I'm done ranting. Sorry for the excrutiatingly long post.

AND by the way.......loved the dress on the chick who won for Best Actress last night on the Oscars. She lookes like a mermaid!!! Beautiful.

Sincerely,
The girl who needs a little sunshine in her life.
Me

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I met these people!!!

What would make me cool??

I have no idea what to write on here, but I thought that for the two people who actually look at this page (on not so regular a basis now), I would write something.
Do you remember when you were young and going through life how you would see people doing their day to day things and think....."they are cool. I want to do that"?
Well there have been a few times in my life that I have done that. Here are the things that I though were "cool" when I was young.
1. The people who came to your school and got you out of class so you could go to the gym (or other performance space) and watch them perform skits about not doing drugs or drinking or the importance of being in school. They were cool.
2. People who worked on boardwalks. They always had those cool name tags that hung on lanyards around thier necks and their keys were always attached to their arms by those neon telephone chord thingys. They were cool.
3. Anyone who worked in a theatre. At all. They were and still are cool.
4. Cheerleaders. Come on....they throw each other in the air and make pyramids with their bodies...the outfits....not so cool. But Cheerleaders. They are cool.
5. And not so long ago I thought educators for hair companies were cool. They always had cool hair, cool clothes and no matter who they are, you always think they know more than you do about your industry...even though they may not....they appear to. They are way cool.

So looking back on my life, I guess I have been a pretty cool person. (Funny the things that I thought were cool when I look back on them). Here is what makes me cool from my childhood eyes.

1.In 1997ish I did a school tour with a show called "The Word Monster". There were 4 of us and it was a tedious 4 weeks. We would do 2 shows a day all across PEI. Usually leaving our houses at around 6 am to make the schools that were far away. So....4 people stuck in a small van packed with gear that stinks, who are slowly plotting how to kill each other by the end of it. (Not you Laura).....Not so cool.

But the kids thought I rocked!

2. For 2 years of my life I worked at the best store in the wold. It was the Fila outlet and yes.... it was on a boardwalk. Not a cool boardwalk like Cavendish...it was the North River Causway, and it sometimes smelled bad when the water wasn't moving properly.... and the store was never busy regardless of how cool it was. I did have a lanyard nametag...but no key on a phone cord.

I thought I was pretty cool.

3. Theatre. Well for those of you who are reading this. You know that because of that I'm cool. And for that fact!!! So are the two of you!!! YAY!

4. Hahaha. Yes. As sad as it is, I was a cheerleader. For like 4 whole months. I didn't make the Nationals Team (deservedly so, I never went to the gym). So I stopped cheerleading....but I still teach the lifts to almost EVERY high school production I SM.

Those kids think I'm cool. (Actually they used to. I think I'm too old now to be considered cool of hot by those guys now. Sorry Shawnte.....I think that goes for you too).

5. Now this is what truly makes me cool.
I am now an educator for the coolest hair product company in the world. AG hair cosmetics. I teach my first class in a week or so, and I know that those people are going to listen to me and learn from me and that's truly cool.

I guess this is a pre-lifter for my birthday. I will be 29 this month and I actually feel good about it. I think I am doing okay in my life and looking back.....if anyone thought the thing were cool that I did....then I have been considered cool by a lot of people. So, when I get bummed on the 20th, (which may well happen for a few seconds), I can read this post and think. Hey... I'm WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And then I will think, I need to go back to school to learn proper spelling and grammar.
Sorry for all the mistakes Ali.