Saturday, July 31, 2010
Changing Lives, Changes Yours.
The past couple weeks have been interesting. There's a guy in our ward that, well lets just say he worries me in ways I never knew I would worry about someone other then my family or Jose. And today something amazing happened. Jose went and picked him up from his house (he doesnt have a car) and brought him by the salon for a haircut. I cut his hair and I immediately saw his confidence boost (I love that feeling, when I know I made someone feel good on the inside and out). Before we got out of the parking lot, Jose pulled up next to me and said he was hungry and pulled out some Arby's coupons from our mail, so all three of us headed to go get us some Arby's. We went and ate and this guy went on to tell us every detail of his life, like he always does, and then I got a sick feeling in my gut that I had to do something right then to help him or else I couldn't sleep or eat knowing his current situation. I called Jose (we drove separate cars) and told him to only answer yes or no. I told him what was going on and to meet me at Wal-mart when he dropped him off at his apartment. So he did and we got what we needed to help him out. We go to drop Jose's car off at home so we could drive just one car over to this guys place and we show up with all this stuff and I can tell from his facial expression he has no idea how to react. We get inside and help him put everything up and I could not help but think how blessed we really are. I knew there was a real reason as to why Jose got a ton of hours at Kohls this week, it was to help this guy out. It was quite humbling because while I would sit here and think we had it tough but then to find out I'm practically living in luxury compared to him made me sick. But his help has only just begun, and I've got somethings up my sleeve to help turn his life around, and know it's ok to accept help when its offered and to know he can ask for it as well.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Heat, Heat go away, come again another day.
June:
Jose had clinicals for school pretty much the whole month of June. He "worked" in Tyler 7 days on and 7 days off Wednesday-Tuesday. He loved it! One week he even got to see some wound care patients. I would have gotten sick but he was in awe about it all. It was really weird having to go the two Sundays without him to Church, even though we don't ride together to Church it wasn't fun not seeing him there cause he had school. It was very trying, but taught me a new kind of patience. It taught me that in May 2011 this will truly pay off, because I have my dream job and he's working towards getting his and I need to keep motivating him to do his best. Seeing him do these clinicals and come home and tell me about his day, really made me happy, because I could tell he loved helping patients with therapy.
The first Sunday he had clinicals (he had to go three Sundays) I had the opportunity to go to a haircolor class in Tyler and get continuing education as well. I hate that most classes like this are on Sundays but I can't exactly help it. :( The class was amazing. A Redken Platform Artist and Educator taught the class. His name is Patrick Fitzwater and he is a color genius. He said he barely couls pass High School chemistry but now he helps create hair color designed with low ammonia and hardly any odor, have and amazing texture to it (it's so creamy! I love it) and he basically could tell you the PH level of any hair chemical. I learned so much and got my continuing education hours to renew my license. It was awesome. I was the only one that was able to go from my salon but I just so happened to sit at a table with a group of people from another day spa in Longview and they were having a very private class taught by Patrick the next day and was invited! It was GREAT! I learned about knew tools and things they discouraged in beauty school but were really okay to do because I was able to think about what I actually was mixing up in my color bowl and not be scared to add stuff too it. For instance (I doubt any of this will make sense) if you choose the haircolor 5Br since Redken color has a blue purple base you already have 2 blues to 1 red in the bowl but since it is a 5Br which is a medium brown red you have 3 blues and 3 reds in your bowl. I've always been a little nervous to do any sort of red on clients especially if they wanted just a hint of red because I would never mix it dark enough but now I know what is really going into my bowl! :)
This month so far:
We didn't get to do anything for the 4th because I worked that Saturday and Jose had clinicals. Which was okay I guess. I got to really just sit and think about how grateful I am for this great country. I went to our ward's 4th of July breakfast they had on the 3rd. Instead of the usual pancakes they made breakfast burritos which were really good. I went on booth rent at the salon this month too which I was really scared about because I was on commision before and my boss got 40% of what I did, and now she just gets $130 flat a week plus a small fee for the use of credit cards and giftcards. But so far it has been a huge blessing. Because it has really paid off, and made me and Jose feel more secure about finances.
We bought me a small sewing machine which I love. It is nothing special but it sure did come with a crafting bug and it bit me hard. I've wanted to pretty much re-decorate our whole apartment. Especially since I've had to make a couple trips to Hobby Lobby and I've decided I need to stay away from that store for a while before I get myself into trouble. I've wanted to buy everything in site. I think I even some how collected every free little how-to project slips they had hanging around the store. My last projecr was a quilt for Ben Jr. (his name is really Jeremias, Ben and Michelle's baby boy but I like to call him Ben Jr.) It turned out so cute. I forgot to take a picture of it so next time I know I'll see them or if we go over to their house I'll have to snap a picture of it. My next project might be a new bed set for our bed. I've got a crazy idea to make a quilt with the Dallas Temple on it but it would be really big, I mean really big, and with 4 inch squares. Needless to say it would not be good for my right or left hand since they are already starting to cramp where carpel tunnel gets you. And it's no fun right now, and I know it's way too early for this too start. Atleast I'll have a wonderful Physical Therapist Assistant to give me some therapy. But I am determined to make this temple quilt even if it takes me like 5 years to finish.
My brother got engaged! My brother Ben got engaged on Wednesday to Juliana Johnson. Oddly enough they really were unofficially officially engaged because they already booked the temple for November 13th ofthis year and but money down on a place to hold the reception all before my brother acctually popped the question.
Jose had clinicals for school pretty much the whole month of June. He "worked" in Tyler 7 days on and 7 days off Wednesday-Tuesday. He loved it! One week he even got to see some wound care patients. I would have gotten sick but he was in awe about it all. It was really weird having to go the two Sundays without him to Church, even though we don't ride together to Church it wasn't fun not seeing him there cause he had school. It was very trying, but taught me a new kind of patience. It taught me that in May 2011 this will truly pay off, because I have my dream job and he's working towards getting his and I need to keep motivating him to do his best. Seeing him do these clinicals and come home and tell me about his day, really made me happy, because I could tell he loved helping patients with therapy.
The first Sunday he had clinicals (he had to go three Sundays) I had the opportunity to go to a haircolor class in Tyler and get continuing education as well. I hate that most classes like this are on Sundays but I can't exactly help it. :( The class was amazing. A Redken Platform Artist and Educator taught the class. His name is Patrick Fitzwater and he is a color genius. He said he barely couls pass High School chemistry but now he helps create hair color designed with low ammonia and hardly any odor, have and amazing texture to it (it's so creamy! I love it) and he basically could tell you the PH level of any hair chemical. I learned so much and got my continuing education hours to renew my license. It was awesome. I was the only one that was able to go from my salon but I just so happened to sit at a table with a group of people from another day spa in Longview and they were having a very private class taught by Patrick the next day and was invited! It was GREAT! I learned about knew tools and things they discouraged in beauty school but were really okay to do because I was able to think about what I actually was mixing up in my color bowl and not be scared to add stuff too it. For instance (I doubt any of this will make sense) if you choose the haircolor 5Br since Redken color has a blue purple base you already have 2 blues to 1 red in the bowl but since it is a 5Br which is a medium brown red you have 3 blues and 3 reds in your bowl. I've always been a little nervous to do any sort of red on clients especially if they wanted just a hint of red because I would never mix it dark enough but now I know what is really going into my bowl! :)
This month so far:
We didn't get to do anything for the 4th because I worked that Saturday and Jose had clinicals. Which was okay I guess. I got to really just sit and think about how grateful I am for this great country. I went to our ward's 4th of July breakfast they had on the 3rd. Instead of the usual pancakes they made breakfast burritos which were really good. I went on booth rent at the salon this month too which I was really scared about because I was on commision before and my boss got 40% of what I did, and now she just gets $130 flat a week plus a small fee for the use of credit cards and giftcards. But so far it has been a huge blessing. Because it has really paid off, and made me and Jose feel more secure about finances.
We bought me a small sewing machine which I love. It is nothing special but it sure did come with a crafting bug and it bit me hard. I've wanted to pretty much re-decorate our whole apartment. Especially since I've had to make a couple trips to Hobby Lobby and I've decided I need to stay away from that store for a while before I get myself into trouble. I've wanted to buy everything in site. I think I even some how collected every free little how-to project slips they had hanging around the store. My last projecr was a quilt for Ben Jr. (his name is really Jeremias, Ben and Michelle's baby boy but I like to call him Ben Jr.) It turned out so cute. I forgot to take a picture of it so next time I know I'll see them or if we go over to their house I'll have to snap a picture of it. My next project might be a new bed set for our bed. I've got a crazy idea to make a quilt with the Dallas Temple on it but it would be really big, I mean really big, and with 4 inch squares. Needless to say it would not be good for my right or left hand since they are already starting to cramp where carpel tunnel gets you. And it's no fun right now, and I know it's way too early for this too start. Atleast I'll have a wonderful Physical Therapist Assistant to give me some therapy. But I am determined to make this temple quilt even if it takes me like 5 years to finish.
My brother got engaged! My brother Ben got engaged on Wednesday to Juliana Johnson. Oddly enough they really were unofficially officially engaged because they already booked the temple for November 13th ofthis year and but money down on a place to hold the reception all before my brother acctually popped the question.
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