Catching Fire; Are you kidding me!?!?

So here I sit at 12:19am debating driving to Walmart because I have no idea if I can wait to begin reading the next book. I need to know what is going to happen, I do not want to give anything away to anyone who has not read the books but I need to know! I have to know what they are going to do who is good who is bad and why. I think that is my love/hate with books series, waiting and wanting. I wonder if I am the only one who feels this way. It makes me laugh but then I think you might think I am crazy. Jerry does not read which is hard because he does not get the passion of which I get into a book or a book series, but his brother our room-mate Dustin does, but as I sit here right now Dustin is in bed and I have no one to talk to about this "hunger" but you guys! (did you catch that pretty funny play on words there!) 

If you have not figured it out, I have finished my next book of  Catching Fire, book two of the Hunger Games Series.

I am an absolute mess. I am sad I am angry and I am scared about what could happen next in the last book. I love hate this feeling, I remember the intensity of which I experienced this feeling waiting for the last Harry Potter book to be released, the fear the want the need!!!

I am a book nerd! I saw this picture on Pinterest the other night and I could stop laughing and agreeing so I have to share it with you. 

I cannot decide if I love or hate book series. I mean the pros are that you do get longer and more invested with the characters but then again that could also be the cons of reading series because once it is over it is over and you are not completely in love or hate with the whos and whats in the stories! Never to really know what happens next for them. Plenty of authors try to give you a peek into the future so you feel a sense of completion. Like in the end of Harry Potter you know that he marries and has children, as well as that Hermonie and Ron are good and that there is happiness again in their lives but is that good enough. 

Well clearly I am a nerd, I adore reading and everything emotions and all that come with it. I just hate that I do not have the next book in my hands. This is why I need a kindle because I could have it right now if I did!  Instead I sit here in sadness seriously debating going out with the freaks at midnight, venturing to Wally World just to quench the want in my head and my heart! The crisp night air, the fact that I would have to drive Dustin  truck with the faulty breaks all weighs on my mind if I could make it to the craziness of the hour superstore, what to do what to do....

Well now that it is 1am I have decided not to go but I will have it tomorrow come rain or shine and if my intensity did not give it away you need to read this series if you have not started go get them, just be smarted than me and get all three at once.

Hunger Games

I will try to review every book I read this year to keep track of what I have read and help share the wonderful world of books with you all. 
So my first book of 2012 HUNGER GAMES!

Amazing....
I know that some of you may not be in to young adult books, or fantasy or anything like that. I am a late comer when it comes to this series but I highly recommend it. 
The author, Suzanne Collins, has a very beautiful way of writing, you can see every leaf of her trees and feel the joy and pain of the characters without trying. Not that I want to give to much away so that you will read it for yourself but I will tell you a bit. It starts in the future the whole world has changed. The main character is a female names Katniss, I think most can identify with her. She has a very strong will and love for her family while at the same time being a girl that is still trying to find herself. The government is extremely corrupt and controlling, and they have invented the Hunger Games to prove their power of the people. The pin children against the elements and each other while making the world watch. They pick 2 children from every district (a boy and a girl) and then let the games begin...
Please give it a chance I promise it is an easy read but you will love it and Thank me. I have started book 2 in the series Catching Fire and will let you know soon how it is I only hope that you have also begun the first one by that time. 


“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!”
-Effie Trinket

Secrets from the Stylist Chair; Chapter One.

I decided that I should not only use this blog to rant and rave but maybe it can be an educational tool that will allow me to share secrets with you about the salon as well as letting me express myself in a safe environment. So we shall begin the secrets from the stylist hair, I will try and add these when I fell they are relevant and hopefully you all can learn something while being thoroughly entertained! 

So lets start with the biggest secret there is. MONEY. From the TV and reality shows it look like hair stylist are rolling in the $$ but if you really pay attention to say Tabitha on Salon Take Overs most of the owners are going broke, as well as the stylist complaining about not making any money. Here is the skinny, we do not get paid to be at work. That pretty much says it all but for those of you scratching your head in confusion I will explain. Very few salons pay hourly actually only salons like Super Cuts and or Ultas pay any kind of hourly rate. Most salons are commission based or rental. 

A commission based stylist is someone who makes a % of what they do in a week. For example if your hair cut cost you $50 the salon gets $25.00 then the stylist gets $25- TAX= Pay. Make sense. Now a booth rent stylist is someone who pays the owner of the building a fee every week but they keep everything they make. Again example you may pay $50 for your haircut and the stylist keeps it but then on Friday the stylist must give the own $200. Now there are different perks to the two. In a commission based salon all the bills are paid by the owner as well as most also cover all products. In a booth rental situation you cover most of your products down to toilet paper and phone line. A commissioned salon takes your taxes out, a booth rent you take care of your own taxes. So on and so forth.

The hardest thing I think no matter what about being a stylist especially in this economy is that a lot of time is spent at work doing nothing, the waiting game. Waiting to see if a client walks in if maybe I get another appointment. Maybe someone will need something done! A large amount of my time is spent in a back room thinking about all the things I need to get done but staying at work just in case. There are days when in cost me more to come to work then I make in the day. It is really heartbreaking at times. You get use to it, but then again you really don't.

The lesson that I hope you gather for this is that no matter how your stylist is paid, when you do not show up to your appointment or you decided that you could go another week or do it at home you are hurting them. Someone friend son daughter mother fiancée is sitting at work waiting for you. As well as all of those times you love your hair but do not remember to tell anyone who did it, we do rely on word of mouth to help us a lot. I challenge all my readers to call your stylist and get a service even if it is just a blow dry on like a Tuesday or a Thursday when times are the slowest in the salon world. I promise you will feel great and you will make your stylist smile. 

Remember shhhhh this is a secret from a stylist chair

Maya Angelou: But it is not a bad thing or a good thing, it's hair. 

I am a Gamer!

I love video games. I am a huge dork or whatever you want to call me but I DO! I love playing video games. I have for a long time.  Even when I worked on board cruise ships I played video games that we had in the crew mess. At present I have a NES, a Game Cube, a WII, a PS3 and an original Xbox. Which all work. I am a big Nintendo fan though, and I am not a fan of first person shooters. Those games for those of you not hip to the lingo include titles like Call of Duty, Doom etc. Jerry said that I like RPGs. Really... Now I sound like even a bigger dork!
I decided to tell you this because in the past 2 days I have become obsessed. My amazing wonderful fiancee Jerry bought me the new Zelda game for WII. Skyward Sword. It is fantastic. The best Nintendo has come out with in a while. To properly review this game let me tell you this. It has everything that makes Zelda wonderful, you have to talk to people and you have "puzzles" of sort to figure out, you have a huge mission with a bunch of funny little ones, you are still Link and you still are in love with Zelda. Now what makes it better, you actually get to speak back to people at points with choices to be a jerk if you are so inclined, there seems to be a bit more realism in this very fantasy world, the "puzzles" are actually really hard. Now the bit of bad, Zelda is kind of annoying and you are not to sad when she does get kidnapped, I will save her because as Link that is what I do with my life but in this particular version I am was not inclined to be as concerned with her "safety" at first so to speak. But that is it it, the game is stellar.
So stellar in fact last night (the first night I had it) I played until 3am. Tonight I played for a good while and as I write this Dustin is starting his own file on the game. I am actually enjoying watching him try his hand at the game.

I am truly a Nintendo fan through and through. I play a few games on the Xbox and PS3 (Little Big Planet is amazing!) but I am a Mario and Zelda girl those are the games I live for. The games that turn me into a big gamer nerd and I am proud of it!

Anything to get away from the laundry mountain.

I hate laundry, I am sure you never imagined when you decided to read this blog that I would start with that but I am. I hate laundry. There are things I love too, my animals, cooking, my dvr, reading, doing hair, weddings, the list could go on. I needed to do something for me, my sister tells me I am funny and a friend who blog inspired me for a whole year so yes I am blogging!


To explain me I should explain what I have done to lead me here. I am 30 years old, I got engaged almost a year ago and plan (hope) to get married this year. I have traveled all over the world work on board cruise ships. Seen amazing things experienced something that people only dream about and now when now I am watching my DVR  awaiting the buzzing of the dryer. Now please do not take that the wrong way, I am incredibly happy and enjoy my life I just feel lost and need to find the part that is missing. Give me a better way then writing things down. A childhood therapist said to journal and this is a form of that I am just asking you the reading to give your opinions nice or otherwise I will take them in strides. 

Being new to this I am not quite hip to the how too, so hopefully my post will get better as I go on. I am going to try to post twice a week there may be more there may be less but I want to try to see how I can stick to this. It is one of the many new years resolutions I have. I first and for-most want to lose weight for my wedding. My fiancee (Jerry-talk more about him later) says he love me the way I am and can do what ever I feel but I really and truly want to like myself in my wedding photos. Considering how much I like pictures, I need to like the way I look the day that all photo (well most) will have me in them. The Blog is another one, step one today on that one. The third is to be more money aware (?) We are not poor by any means, I have a beautiful town home I own, beautiful animals, great things and gadgets, but we struggle to keep ahead and I am so tired of feeling like a failure for that very reason. So that would lead into the final resolution be to find out what I am really passionate about and do it, that is the big one so to speak. It sound vain when I write it down but here's the deal. I adore doing hair and I believe I am very good at and have done a lot with it in my 30 years. I have worked around the world on ocean liners, I worked for a major manufacturer as a trainer until they downsized, but ever since then with the economy or whatever it gets harder and harder to do. I started last year doing weddings on locations which I absolutely adore and do very well , but I would have to invest in it (a website, advertising, etc) to really get it off the ground considering the woman whom used to so all that with me moved to LA. The there are animals I have always thought I wanted to be a vet or a tech or a trainer or something so should I take that money to go to school and start the wedding hair business. I am so lost hence the resolutions. 


Now you just may come to the conclusion that I am out of my mind, with this economy what am I thinking, why am I lost if I love my life how can that be.... Well it is what it is take it or leave it. I love Jerry with my whole self, he is a wonderful man and I could not be happier. I cannot wait to marry him and hope I can afford too soon (another money problem). My animals are amazing could use more training on certain things, but amazing none the less. I adore cooking and trying to be healthy with it is a whole new challenge for me. Reading and movies are indeed my favourite pastime. Netflixs being my favourite and I am now seeing the reason why I really do want a kindle! But that is life thus far. That is who I am and where I am and I hope you will continue to read when I post and go along with me on this adventure. Maybe you will be inspired... I have decided to try to end every post with a book or movie quote so the one best suited for this blog that I can think of is....
"you think... what the hell. Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage... maybe there won't be sex... but, by God, there'll be dancing. " George from My Best Friends Wedding