I promised Julie I would be a better blogger

So a lot of things have changed since my last blog post, and I suppose that it is about time to update. Where to even begin... Hmmm I have become a fan of bullet points so here goes.

• Location: No longer living in SLC, now located back in the great state of IDAHO. Not where I intended to be ever again but it actually has been one of the best choices I have made in a long time.
• Reason for location change: Shitty economy and job change, probably could have stuck it out and tried to make it work in Utah but reference back to bullet one.
• New Job: AMAZING!! I am working for a Web development company and couldn't be happier, it is so wonderful to be good at something again! Not going to talk much more about it so as not to jinx it.
• BAD SKIN: I have never struggled with bad skin my whole life until the last year or so. As a teenager a "bad break-out" was 2 pimples at the same time which happened maybe quarterly. Now I am teetering on looking like a leaper I HATE it. I have started weekly micro-derm abrasions (a basic sandblast of the skin) for extreme exfoliation. I have seen improvements but I might be at the point where I need a medical intervention. I am like that stupid commercial where the kid is camped out at the store and the pharmacist tells him to get a life... ANNOYING!!
• Gave up on my quest for long hair: I cut my hair short again this last weekend, it had gotten really long for me. I don't know that long hair suits me I had just longer than shoulder length and now one side is above my ear and the other is chin length. Sounds weird I know but it is really cute. I will post pics later... maybe reference bullet point above.

Well the last 2 points were very superfical I know there are more things to talk about then my head but it is what was on my mind as I sat here with a clay mask on my face thinking these short bangs are hard to pin back. I will add another post about the craziness that insued about the last 2 points.

Good weekend!

I came up to Idaho to visit the family this weekend and it has been a really fun. I have been having a rough go lately work has been really stressful and life just seems to be going to fast to enjoy. But it was such a wonderful weekend hanging out with friends and family.
Friday night I was able to spend some time at the Ziels, it was great to see their new house! I am so happy for them that they have a house with a great yard and so much room for the kids to play. It was alot of fun to see little Danica and Ashton running around in their huge family room. They are getting so big! Danica is talking alot and they both have gotten so tall. It is amazing how much they have grown.
I also got to have a day of beauty with my little sis. She is in beauty school and so I booked an appointment for micro-derm abrasion and a deep conditioning treatment for my hair. I have to say that micro-derm effing hurts! I thought it would be like a facial or something but NO you are having your face sand blasted for maximum exfoliation! YIKES!! This is a much more painful process then I expected.
Sam was laughing at me because for some reason unknown to me when ever I have like a pinch or pain on my face it makes me sneeze. Odd I know but it happens every time I pluck my eyebrows I sneeze and when she was sand-blasting my face I kept having to stop her so I could sneeze. It was really funny! Hopefully the treatment will make my face soft wonderful because that was a painful endeavor!
It has been really fun just hanging out at my parents house relaxing, watching movies with everyone, and playing with my little niece.
I am a little worried about the drive back, I wasn't able to leave today because of the snow and the 50 mph winds. My little car does not do well with wind at all! Hopefully I can make it back to SLC for work tomorrow! I hate that it is almost April and there is basically a blizzard! UGG!!

YIKES! I am a jerk!

I am feeling really terrible today that me thinking sarcasm is funny offended someone at my work. Yesterday was an extremely busy and frustrating day for me at work and I allowed that to color how I spoke to one of the people who I do truly appreciate.
I offended him so much so that he went to the CEO to discuss how much it bothered him! I feel horrible! I never meant my shortness via instant message and over use of silly emoticons to make him feel unappreciated and I am mortified that I did!
GRR!! I am so much my fathers daughter... The Roger Buchanan came out in me while I was talking to this man online. Anyone who has ever dealt with my dad in a business sense would tell you he is too harsh and not very understanding.
Rather than explaining my frustration of my day and how we were going to implement a new program I was just short via IM which came across as rude and condescending. I hate this about myself and typically catch myself when I do it and apologize in that moment, but yesterday I did not and now this man that I really admire, because he works so hard and makes my job easier thinks I am a jackass!
I sent him an email to apologize (and would make a phone call in addition to that if he wasn't in the Philippines) and hope that it will remedy the fact that I was a jackass when we spoke yesterday.
Why am I such a jerk???!!!

Peanut Butter Slices???

I learned something new today! I never knew there was such a thing as a peanut butter slice?!? But there is yes, probably freeze dried 'piece' of peanut butter, like a Kraft single but not cheese.

I can't recall exactly how this topic came up at work but it did and one of my co-workers informed me that was such a thing.

Matt decided to tell Julie and I about the peanut flavored individually wrapped cheese-esque slice and we didn't believe him that there was such a product. So he googled it to show us a picture. Which in and of itself was hilarious that 1) That peanut butter slices exist. 2) That Matt thought of them and wanted to prove to Julie and I that they were real and took time to google them and find a website that sold them. 3) The conversation that ensued after the website was pulled.

Matt: "No really they do exist come see the website"

(Julie and I go to Matt's desk to see the site)

Me: "Oh my gosh that is insane that they do really exist" (lots of laughter)

Me: "It can't taste good?!?"

Matt: "Actually it is kind of good, I have had them"

Julie: "I don't think I would want my peanut butter to have a seam in it"

Matt: "I wouldn't like my peanut butter with semen in it either..." (More laughter)

HILARIOUS!! None of us could even continue talking about the slices because we were laughing so hard!!

WHO KNEW THAT PEANUT BUTTER SLICES EXISTED? AND THAT THEY COULD CAUSE SUCH A FUNNY CONVERSATION!!

PRICELESS!!!!

Dreams of instant mermaid hair dashed...

So my little sister text me last night to let me know that she doesn't think the type of extensions that her school is teaching her how to put in will be what I want. GRR!! I am so sad! I had my hopes up that I would have instant long luscious hair and now that is not in the cards!
From my understanding is the type of extensions that they use are pretty harmful to your natural hair. I would have to have little pieces of fake hair glued... yes glued to my natural hair to achieve the long locks that I dream of. Well this is not good for your actual natural hair it causes a lot of damage. Of any type (and there are several types of extensions) this is the most harmful.
I am so sad that I have to wait the long time it will take to grow my hair to mermaid status rather than just pay my sister to put some in. I don't want to have broken fly away pieces of hair for a possible 6 weeks of it staying in before having to be redone....
I am very, very, very, sad about this...
OH well!! I guess I need to find something else to obsess about!

Weekend trips are too short!

I came to Idaho this weekend to hang out with the fam and my Idaho friends. It has been a lot of fun but too short. I decided earlier today that I would stay another full day and leave at the butt crack of dawn to make it to work on time. I am really not looking forward to the drive in the morning but I couldn't bring myself to leave. For one I was right in the middle of a Top Model marathon with my little sister, secondly because I didn't want to make that stupid drive!

I don't know that it was the best choice tomorrow is going to be an extremely long day given that I still have to work but I just couldn't force myself to make the drive today.

I have had a really good time visiting with my family. My little sister Sam started beauty college this week so we have been talking hair and practicing all weekend. I have had my hair blown out, put in curlers, curled with a curling iron only to then be then rewashed and dried to flat iron. It has been fun to let her practice the craft she is learning.

I can't wait until she gets further into her studies so she can try some of her new found talents on me. Like extensions!! I told her that I was so down with letting her (while carefully watched by her instructors of course) add extensions to my hair. I want long long long luscious hair!! Like mermaid hair, I want hair so long blond and beautiful (even if glued in) that I don't have to wear a top! My luscious locks will cover all of the bits that shouldn't be exposed just like a mermaid! haha!! So hopefully in February or early March when she studies extensions I will be the test! This all depends on how they are put in and how much it damages your existing hair. I am trying to grow my own hair out I doubt that I have the will power for mermaid hair but I am going to grow it as long as I can! But if extensions are going to damage it then I will just let my dreams of being Rapunzel fade... just like my long lost dream of being a teen model. haha! (J/K I never wanted to be a teen model)

Bad Blogger

My lack of Internet at home has made me a terrible blogger! I don't have time at work (am stealing a few minutes to write this) to blog at all. I am getting Internet at my house sometime this week. I hate not being able to have my routine of write blog, watch the Hills and Samantha Who? online, check facebook, read other peoples blogs, check Perez Hilton, look at local news, and download music in the evenings.
So I will be remedying this problem this week so my blog will be updated more often and so I can get back to my nightly routine! I miss it.