Up do mania!!

My Friend Emily got married yesterday, and I couldn't be more happy for her. Emily and her hubby Aaron make one excellent couple. My best wishes go to the newly weds!!

For her wedding gift I gave her the present of doing her bridal updo. She asked me if I would be willing to do her girls hair. (She has three beautiful daughters.) I told her that I would love to help out. I did a practice updo on her youngest daughter to show her an example of barrel curls, which she loved.

Emily wanted a french twist with everything up. She has a above the shoulder A-line cut, but somehow we got it all up. She said that she was very happy with the look but she wanted to see what it would look like all down. We made another updo practice appointment.

Upon arriving Emily said that she wanted to do a half up half down updo. I curled and pined and left the bottom of her hair down. We put in the veil and She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted it all up, but curly.

Her bridals were the coming Saturday, and luckily everything worked out just fine. She looked just like a princess!!



Later that week I heard that saying that I would do the "girls" hair meant the bridesmaids. All 6.

Ha aha haha hah ah BAH. No.

There was no way for me to do 6 bridesmaid's up dos plus the brides. I know my limits and this was quit beyond mine. Luckily I have a very great friend named Jenn. She had just stopped her Saturday job at a barber shop and offered to do three of the up dos, for only 10 bucks per girl.

(Jenn I freakin' love you and I'm so grateful for your support in everything over the past 7 years!!)

Emily wanted everyone with the same hairstyle and I think me and Jenn worked really well together. She did Emily's girls hair and I did the bride and the Bridesmaids. Even though they all looked beautiful before the up dos, and they all looked just like the princesses that they are after them.



With it being the day after the wedding; all of 470 bobby pins taken out of their hair, 7 pounds of product washed off their curls, the dresses peeled off, and the high heel stilettos wrenched off - I think everyone thought it was a magical day. I'm so glad that everything worked out.





(I'm going to blog about the reception too. London, my oldest sister, was over it and it looked absolutely perfect.)

Team wolf pack...

Yumm, how old do you have to be to become a cougar? Because I feel like one.

The official New Moon poster.

I love it. Just saying.

1 - 10

If you read this blog I challenge you to do this on yours. What to do is count 1 -10 and name random things about you. I saw this on a friends blog and I thought this looked fun. You can pick any list of favorites that you want to list.
#1 you name 1 item, #2 you name 2 things, # 3 you name 3 items, and so forth.

#1- favorite movie - Big Fish

#2- favorite color - Brown, White

#3- favorite bands - Muse, Incubus, Beatles

#4- favorite foods - Pizza, salads, sandwiches, sushi

#5- favorite animals - camels, owls, polar bears, cats, deer

#6- favorite songs- hallelujah, black bird, imagine, hey jude, pardon me, Stockholm syndrome

#7- favorite restaurants- MiMi's Cafe, La Luna, Cafe Rio, Teppan Yaki, Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, happy sumo

#8- favorite actors- Ewan Mcgregor, Johnny Depp, James Mcavoy, Will Smith, Kevin Spacey, Ian Mcklellan, Heath Ledger, George Clooney

#9- favorite places to go- Barnes and Noble, Port Angeles, Bear Lake, Out to eat, Fat Catz, Theater, Movies, Home

#10- favorite people- London, Monte, Braedo, Trevor, Davis, Lera, Greg, Palmer, Mom, Dad

Whoo. That was not as easy as I thought it would be!! Now it's your turn.

May 10th

Today I would like to focus on three very loved ladies.

The first would be my mother, Valerie. I love and miss her so much. There is nothing that I wouldn't give to be able to spend another mother's day with her.

When the Nichols' girls would celebrate mother's day we would really celebrate it. We decorated a room in the house (normally Mom's bathroom) with a fun theme. There have been the alphabet, birthday bandit, wizard of oz, and "priceless" themed mother's days amongst the many others.
I love my Mother so much and I pray that one day we can celebrate with her again.

The second loved lady is my sister London. May 10th is her birthday. I went out of town on vacation so I wasn't able to spend it with her. I'm sorry I missed it but I just wanted to wish her a very happy birthday and tell her how proud I am of the women that she is.

The third is my good bud Jenn. Her birthday is also May 10th. She was my first room mate and was a great friend in college. We've gone on some super fun trips together!! My favorite one was when we went to Washington. She is a really generous girl and one fantastic friend.

I love you all.

Naughties, Disneyland, and Mr. Spock

What do these three things have in common you ask? Well, the answer is my weekend.

On Friday I went shopping for wedding dresses with my great friend Jenn. She has the wedding day set and the location, but is still missing some very important wedding items. The dress and the ring being the top two. So we decided go shopping!

Did you know that most bridle stores close at 6 and that you need to set up an appointment to try on dresses at almost every store? Nope? Me neither.
So we set up appointments and went off in search for something almost as important as the dress for the wedding day, the honeymoon night "outfit". Out of the hours spent in search of some nice looking naughties, I was the only one to buy something. (A gift for another friend's bachelorette party.)

Saturday Jenn was going to go to Disneyland with her fiance for her birthday, he got sick and there was a non-refundable hotel room and a buddy-pass plane ticket up for grabs. What was a maid of Honor to do for her beloved friend in need?

I stole his place and made the sacrifice of a Disneyland trip.

It might not have been the romantic and magical Disneyland trip that was planned for Jenn and her sweet Billy, but it was definitely a day of wicked fun times, rides, and shopping.

We were allowed to be treated like the princesses we are...


Getting back from Disneyland left me extremely happy and very sleepy. I woke up very late today to a phone call from my Dad. He wanted to take me out to Dinner and a movie. It's been a long time since I've hung out with my Dad alone and it was a really good experience. We decided to go and see star Trek.

There never was a day in my life that I would have watched Star Trek willingly. Shocker I know, because I'm such a geek, but I am completely a Star Wars geek and I didn't want to be traitor to George Lucas.

But then I heard that this movie was the start of the old series, so I wouldn't miss out on the plot and that it was being directed by JJ Abrams, who I LOVE!! Those two points still didn't get me to the theater, then I heard that the movie also had Zachary Quinto (Mmmm), I was sold.

We went and saw the new Star Trek movie and I really loved it. I didn't understand half of the jokes that were made but the plot was good, the nerds in the theater were funny, and Mr. Spock was Sci-Fi deliciously hot. (I know that Spock isn't supposed to be "hot" but trust me you'll just have to see for yourself.)



Live long and prosper Mr. hot Spock.

You've got mail.

This is not just a cute movie with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, this is the thing that many people look forward to everyday... Their email inbox of goodies.

But not me, my friend. After working as an email jockey for almost 4 years I am tired of the inbox and it's demonic glow of black and white. I am stuck in front of a computer for 8 hours every week day and I've started to write at home too. Which means a lot of one on one time with my new HP at work and homework with my Sony Vaio.



At work alone I have 4 inboxes. That isn't including the 6 other's that I can watch when other's call in sick. At home I have 3 inboxes. Face book, My space, and Hotmail. You guys, I'm really trying my best.

Today I got a voice mail from a good friend telling me that she sent me an email and that she knew that I didn't like to go through them, and then over the phone, she said what the email was about. To me that seemed like a lot of extra work for her.

I realized that I need to get on the ball. I opened my Hotmail account and low and behold the demonic number of 983 emails in my inbox slapped me in the face. I'm really sorry but I have to say I read the one that I already heard about on the phone and then I did something I should have done forever ago. I pressed delete.

I deleted 983 emails today, and I'm pretty sure with my day at work, I can count at least an even 1,000 emails.

I'm sorry if your emails were deleted and you wanted me to read them. But it had to be done. Today was a declaration to all junk emails everywhere. You helped stop the silence to every spam, coupon, weight losing, credit card bill, ebay watch list, and face book update emails. The casualty of your email was necessary. It helped me to tell all clutter to GET LOST.

*I'm starting a new. I am going to get my email under control. I'm going to reply to my friends. The computer will not control me any longer. Today is the start of my peace treaty with inboxes across the globe.

Oh, and I'll start answering my phone too.
*If I can remember to turn it on...

Grateful for employment!!

Today I got called into my bosses office - which let's face it, that is a daily occurrence. I sat down across from him and he said "I have some news to tell you. You might think it's good or bad depending on how you feel about it."

My first thought was that I might get laid off, like so many people in the world now, but that there was going to be a severance pay. This would be bad news.

My second thought would be that we wouldn't have to cut our work day by forty five minutes any more. Which would be great news.

"OK" I said.

"We are wanting everyone to work their full forty hour work week again."



I was so happy!! Bigger paychecks, I was keeping my job, and business is picking up once more. And lets be honest, a thirty six hour work week feels as long as a forty hour work week, but you get less money.

I held my fist toward my boss and waited for him to plant a rock. Which took him a little bit to long to realize what I was doing, making my action seem quite awkward, but I don't care!!

I'm working my normal shift and business is picking up for now.

Today I am beyond grateful for my job. I'm grateful for the home I have to live in. I'm grateful for the blessings of tithing.

Where are the comments??

It's been almost 2 weeks since I've posted my blog stating that you could win stuff.
Home made stuff.
Free stuff.
Made by moi.
Just saying.
Out of shame of no one wanting the goods.
I am cutting my losses tomorrow.
And will stick with those 2 people that signed up.
sigh.
bigger sigh.

SNICKETY SNICK!!

This weekend I went and watched X-men Origins:Wolverine. Twice.
It was awesome and honestly it passed the geek test!! Not only was this a 2 hour show off of Hugh Jackman's completely deliciously beefy sweaty body the cinematography was beautiful.


I am a proud geek. I religiously watched the X-men cartoon series in the early 90's. I normally take a bowling name of X-girl. I read fan-fictional stories online. When the Wolverine Origin comic book came out when I was in my teens, I was one of the first in line to get the comic book. (I forgot my money in the hype and had to read it with a friend that bought it.) The beginning of this movie is what was in the comic book. Wolverine's father, bone claws, and overcoming sickness where all in this said wonderful comic. And it brought an awesome factor that has been missing from my X-men obsessed life.

Later I found out that x-men was going to be a movie. I practically peed my pants in the excitement but then I found out that my favorite X-men character wouldn't be in the films. Gambit, the hot Cajun speaking, thief of more than women's hearts, gambler, and able to manipulate kinetic energy,man. Gambit also has a hypnotic charm, which was never going to be shown to the masses. After the movies 1,2, and 3 came out, I was having x-men withdraw so I bought the x-men cartoon series on DVD. Every Season. Then there were rumors about an origins movie. Hugh Jackman played the lead, which meant Wolverine would be AWESOME once more. There were also rumors about Gambit being in the film!!! Yay!


But it wasn't just Gambit, it was Sabretooth (and I was glad that he wasn't sporting a lions mane and loin cloth!!), Bolt, Deadpool (played by the ultra-sexy Ryan Reynolds), the blob, Agent Zero aka Maverick, Wraith, Silverfox, Striker, Emma Frost, and every one's boy hero, Cyclops.

***Spoiler below. Don't keep reading if you don't want to!!
I don't want to ruin anything for those that haven't seen the movie, but I just have to say that Silverfox's mutant powers are not the same as in the comic series. And that her "sister" being Emma Frost, is not correct in the least. Also the guest apperance of Xavier was a little creepy! He looked a little Michael Jackson-ish with his CGI facial features while he was trying to round up the children into his jet. Just saying.