Confessions

This is a list of recent confessions of mine.

1. When David and I were in St. George I tried on a little girls swimsuit. It was really cute and only $3. Obviously if it had actually fit right I would have bought it but it was just a little off. As it turns out little girls don't have boobs or hips haha, I searched everywhere in St. George for a swimsuit and had absolutely NO luck, the little girls suit was my last option. It's really too bad to.

It's cute right? If it had fit it would have made me look so tan!

2. I ate at Taco Bell twice this week. David and I had tacos Saturday night, Sunday for lunch and on Monday night. I think we like them.

3. I've become addicted to Drop7 and Facebook on my ipod. It's all I do between appointments at the salon.

4. The other day I sent out a letter with my address in the wrong place, (again) so I sent it to myself, psh waste of a stamp, I hate regular mail.

I could have used one of these

5. David and I only watch geek shows, haha but they are so funny. Here is our list The Office, Eureka, The IT Crowd, The Big Bang Theory, and the new Dr. Who. I HIGHLY recommend the IT Crowd you can watch it instantly on Netflix, just be forewarned it is British so it's different. Oh yea and we got the first disc of The Red Green Show from Netflix yesterday, yup we're geeks.

"Four! I mean Five! I mean fire!" Trust me you just have to watch it.

I Love Moss

We watched seasons 1-4, it isn't really going the way we hoped it would now, but the first couple seasons were really good. 

I LOVE this show! I mostly love Sheldon he reminds me of my dad in a lot of random ways. I get really tired of Howard (maybe because he reminds me of another person I dislike?) but the rest of the show is worth watching.

6. My Husband is Hook. Ok not really but since we have gotten married I have found out that he really hates clocks with second hands that tick. Case in point.

I will go into the kitchen and realize the clock is not there, then I have to listen for the ticking. At least he puts it in the same cabinet, haha it's so annoying and yet it makes me laugh every time! At first he would just pull out the battery but he quickly found out that I was not a fan of resetting our clock EVERY time he studied in the kitchen. 

It really isn't that big of a deal but it still kind of makes me crazy. Also he's got me doing it now. Our bathroom has a clock that ticks and David always wants the door closed so he can't hear it. The ticking never used to bother me (it did when I was younger) but now I think about it and it bothers me. Now we are both clock ticking crazy.

7.  David and I have completed a box (a rather large one) of toaster strudel without a toaster, and I had never had toaster strudel until about two months ago.

8. I can get a computer virus on anything that isn't a mac. Apparently I had two trojans on the PC laptop I was using and didn't even know it. I wish I got paid to do it too because our laptop is in a computer-catatonic like state and I still don't even know how.

Ohio Boards

I had to drive to Columbus without David. That is the equivilant of driving to Layton from Idaho Falls (I think, about 2 hours and 30 min). I don't know what it is about taking boards tests but I always end up going by myself! In Idaho Lauren did get to go with me though so that was fun but here in Ohio I didn't know anyone to hit up for a mini road trip. The test was really stressful and I had to get up SUPER early after going to bed late and not sleeping very well. I found out later that David didn't sleep well either, that made me feel better.

The most diffucult parts about taking this test was #1. It has been 2 years since I took Idaho's State Board test. #2. I was taught to the Idaho test, so I only knew what Idaho wanted to see. AND #3. I'll admit I was rusty on the thermal curl and perm. I have curled MANY a persons hair since then but not the way Ohio wanted me to (which was slightly diff then the way I learned for Idaho) and I hadn't rolled a basic perm since my Idaho test.

The test center definitly beat Idaho's

My scores in order of best to worst were as follows-
Written Exam 95%!
Hair lightener/ re-touch 94% (I was really happy about this becuase  I hadn't preformed it on my doll since my last boards test)
Chemical Relaxer
Facial
Manager's Exam
Manicure
Thermal Curl
Haircut
Perm
Client Protection and Setup

I took a doll whose hair I dyed back to brown before going to the test. Her hair had originally been very multicolored, like blue, green, red, purple multicolored. My salon let me use her for the hair cute because they said Tess's (my original test doll, get it Tess the Test doll hehe ok anyways) hair was too short to cut it again, which might have been true. So I took theirs. Initially I didn't mind her, but after I tell you what happened during my hair cut I think you will be able to understand why I now refer to her as Ugly.

This is the doll. Ugly!

About half way through my haircut one of the Examiners came up to me and took out my sections (while I was still cutting the dolls hair) and started looking at the dolls scalp. At these tests you are not allowed to have dolls that are pre-sectioned, colored coded  hair or anything else that could aide in your test time. To ensure this doesn't happen they had the Examiners walk around the stations and check all the dolls before the test started. At that point if you had a doll with sections or notches they would make you leave. Apparently Ugly had a dyed scalp that was green, blue, red, purple etc. The Examiner must have thought she was color coded because she left (after messing up my partings) to go get the other Examiner. Then both of them continued to look through her hair to see her dyed scalp. Meanwhile I am FREAKING out. Are they going to throw me out? Am I in trouble? Both ladies leave and bring yet another test Examiner to look at my doll. Remember all of this is happening while I am supposed to be cutting the dolls hair and I only had 30 min to start with. By then I was so nervous I was shaking and  my mind was no longer focused. Even with all this I feel like I really didn't do too bad on the haircut but I only got a C on it. Lets just say I'm still extremly irritated about how they went about that, it totally ruined my grade.

The only other thing I have to complain about is the Client set up and protection (I got an F, I was so angry!). I don't know how they figure I did so awful, you would have thought I never cleaned a thing, dropped my doll head and picked her up by her hair. I cleaned my whole space between every test section, redraped my doll, no blood spills and sanitized my hands just about every minute. I had so much hand sanitzer on my hands it was rolling off- sick! I never dropped anything that came in direct contact with the doll and the one thing I did drop was a bottle of cleaner and I cleaned it immediatly after I picked it up. I still don't know how I failed but oh well, I still passed and that's all that matters to me!

This is what my license looks like. It's really cool because they have to show your picture in the salon with it. Originally I had a really ghetto passport picture but then I saw that everyone uses glam photos of themselves haha so I did too! It feels so great to have two licenses, I don't know why but it's like having more power lol, I know, I know I'm a nerd.

Pre-Re-Boards Life

Basically from October 26th to the 3rd of November David and I's lives were nothing but eating, watching TV and sleeping at home. Both of us were preparing for our tests! Mine was to get my license and his was the BioChem final. The house was a sham, hah and I'm still behind on laundry. The older I have gotten the more I realize that I don't realize how stressed I am until something is over. I had no clue I was freaking out over my test until it was over, BUT now, I feel great :D I studied the most Monday and Tuesday before my test. I bought a test helper thing online (which of course was $50 give or take). My head was like an overflowing bucket of water. Everytime I thought I got one fact in my head the previous fact was dripping out the other side.

This is David, helping me make my fake hand for the maicure portion of my test. In the letter the state sent, they said we could fill up a glove with bird seed, small beads etc, but David came up with the idea to fill it up with cornstarch and water; it was awesome! Haha he looks like he's been eating powdered doughnuts.

This is the smallest glimpse of what our house looked like, uhg, that powder was every where and things were piled on our kithen table and counters, it was all I could do to just leave it long enough to study for my test.

This is my idea, to dye the cornstarch so it looked fleshy colored :) it was fun.

David was so sweet to help my last week and he sacrificed some of his own studying time to do so! I am so thankful for him. I debated on whether or not to share this picture because our house was embrarassingly messy but the story that goes with it is so sweet I decided to let go of my pride. Tuesday morning I finished laundry and I dumped the big basket of it onto our bed. When I came in our room that evening to pack, all of his clothes were folded and put away AND he had sorted mine for me! Ahhh, Husband of the year award for sure. I'm not trying to make anyone jealous BUT you probably should be ;) Basically last week was me losing it and David finding it haha. It was sad.

Halloween

David and  I did very little for Halloween, because our condo has a main door that is locked we didn't even hand out candy. I was kinda sad, I will be really glad when we have our own kids that is going to make the holidays lots of fun again, but we did go to our ward's trunk-or-treat/ chilli cook off, yum. Here is us having fun.

 Our two little buddies. I tried to get their Mom in there too but she hid behind them haha I'll get you next time Liz!

 Peter the lumberjack and David the.... tattooed guy :P it was a last minute thing.

This is my nursery buddy, she is so cute, Haha but she was not about to smile for me. I think it was the second week I was in nursery she decided she liked me. She likes to sit on my lap and she hates it when other children decide they like me, it makes me feel special :D

She cracks me up. Her family sat in front of us a couple of Sunday's ago and she had us laughing all the way through Sacrament. I was trying my best not to but David and I both were nearly to tears she was such a hoot!

David and Me being weird

Annnddd David being weird.

Here kids, want some candy!?!?!

Lucky for us Toledo has been really warm this fall and we are enjoying it!

It's True

I just wanted to let you all know that I have the best husband ever, and I love him so much! Also I'm hoping to post some stuff tonight, maybe? Maybe? I wouldn't want to let the millions of people who read my blog to have to wait too long without a new post! Haha ;)