Last night a group of friends and I went to dinner. Right in the middle of dinner, one of my friends noticed [and promptly pointed out to the rest of us] a girl with the most ridiculous hairstyle I have ever seen. It was almost identical to Cameron Diaz's notorious "There's Something About Mary" 'do. Two of us being hairdressers made it into a game to figure out a ridiculous explaination for such a retarded style.


Here are a few of the things we came up with:

• She was just in a theatrical adaptation of There's Something About Mary and was out to dinner celebrating her acurate interpretation
• She was a sailboat Transformer and had transformed into her human alter ego and moved to the desert.
• Her hair was caught in an anti-gravity field
• She was grumpy and her hair was desperately trying to get away from her.
• Her hair was warping into a swirly ice cream cone.
• A hairspray can exploded in her face.
• She was blind.
• She was trying to make a bad impression on her blind date / get out of a date early.
• She hated herself.
• She was performing a social experiment.
• She got in a fight with her boyfriend and he said in order to pay him back for the awful things she said to him, they had to go out into public with her looking like an idiot. / She wanted to embarrass her boyfriend by making him go into public with her.
  
  The funniest thing was, she was (presumably) on a date. Who ever the boy was that was with her didn't find it necessary to let her in on the fact that she was terribly embarrassing herself. I find it really hard to believe she didn't know she looked that way, because there had to be TONS of product in her hair. I kept trying to get a picture of her with my phone, but it was too conspicuous. So instead I drew this picture on "Paint"

23rd birthday eve

Today is my birthday eve, and I have had an amazing day!



I woke up and got a visit from my Grandma and Grandpa Averett. Gma and Gpa A. are my grandparents on my fathers side. They live in SLC, and I haven't seen them in about a year and a half. They were on their way down to AZ to see my dad and stopped by to hand deliver my birthday card!

Me, gma A. and Cali about 15 years ago.

So after going to lunch and having a chat with my Gma & Gpa A. I came home and worked out to my Carmen Electra Strip to Fit Aerobics dvd [my favorite workout in the whole world] and went tanning. I got all ready for the day and went down to check my mail. I was very excited to see that I got a package!! It was from Cali! It was the best birthday package I've ever gotten! It had in it 3 very awesome presents and an adorable card. in the package was:

1. A roll of quarters - Cali and I talk on the phone several times a week. almost everytime we talk, i am doing 1 of 2 things. driving home from work, or walking to the laundry room. So when Cali asked what I wanted for my birthday, all I could think of was "quarters to do laundry"!






2. Homemade beef Jerky. Almost every birthday, I have asked Cali to make me a batch of her famous homemade beef jerky. This year I didn't even have to ask! She just put it right in the package!





3. The most freaking adorable necklace I have ever seen! I saw this online [http://www.modcloth.com/] a few months ago, but it has been out of stock forever. When it finally became available again, Cali [best big sister ever] snatched it up and sent it my way!!

Needless to say, I am very freaking stoked for tomorrow!!!!

Ready, Set, Fence!

Lately, I've been feeling pretty stagnant. I go to work, I come home. Don't get me wrong, my life is incredible. I feel secure and loved and like the possibilities are endless. I think I just feel like I haven't been learning anything new for a while [I've been out of beauty school almost 2 years now]. So to remedy this, I've decided to take a class...

and that class is....

FENCING!

You totally didn't see that coming, did you? My clients think I'm psycho, but here are my many reasons for wanting to take a fencing class.

1. I've had a hidden desire to learn "the way of the sword" since the first time I watched The Princess Bride, when I was like, 6 months old.

2. I am getting board with treadmill-ing and strip aerobics-ing. Fencing is a great way to stay active

3. It was one of the only community ed classes I wouldn't have to change my work schedule for

4. I will be learning something new!

5. I hope, one day, I'll be cool enough to sport all-white and the sweet bee-keeper protective mask.

6. I can totally challenge people to duels now, and be for-reals about it!

7. It's a lost art.

8. It's probably the closest thing to a "dance class" I'd be comfortable with

9. The class lasts 4 whole months, and was only $50! Most of the other community ed classes were only a few weeks and some cost way more than that!

10. The instructor of the class has trained 12 people for the Fencing event in the freakin Olympics! Uhh... Sweet!

11. [and probably the most important to me]. How cool is it going to be to casually say in conversation "yea, I know how to fence..."

So there you have it. 11 very logical reasons for my choice in community education classes!

top 5 tuesday

So, I have been terrible about blogging lately, and I figured no one would notice since I didn't think anyone read it.However, Mrs. Emily Chapman brought it to my attention that I have at least one reader. Since I haven't been doing anything out of the norm, I couldn't think of anything to write about, but since I made the New Years resolution to be a bit more positive, I decided I'll write about 5 things I'm all about [and one thing I can't stand]...





1: Sushi. Anyone who knows anything about me knows about my [fairly] new found love of sushi. Brady and I have attempted to order a new roll every time we go, [usually once a week] but lately we have been getting stuck on the same old... Las Vegas, Philly, Winter, and Tempura rolls.

2. Ruffled Shirts: I am usually not girly enough to go for a trend that includes ruffles, lace, or shiny things... but lately I have been picking up button-up ruffly shirts left and right! They look great with jeans or slacks or skirts, and they have a subtle pirate appeal...

3. How I Met Your Mother: It's nothing new, I love sitcoms. Who doesn't? But HIMYM is so involving and real, it makes you want to move to NYC and become the character's friend. The cast includes, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, and Neil Patrick Harris, among others. and is absolutely hilarious.

4. Gin & Tonics: It stands true as my favorite drink. refreshing, comforting, and easy to make, I don't see this G&T's jumping out of my top 5 in a long, long time

5. Forgive Durden's "Razia's Shadow": This album is awesome. A musical about love and death, [although it's really much deeper than that] it isn't your typical Romeo & Juliet emo cry-your-self-to-sleep-cuz-your-boyfriend-broke-your-heart bull crap. It's beautiful and incorporates the sounds of the likes of Say Anything, Panic @ the Disco, Saves the Day, Gatspy's American Dream, Portugal the Man, The Hush Sound and lots more...

And to conclude this blog, 1 thing I can't stand: People complaining about the cold weather in December. It's December... It's cold. I personally love the rain...

Your Coffin or Mine?

Today i had a conversation with one of my favorite clients about cremation vs. getting stuffed in a hole 6 feet under...

I think I want to be cremated. Here's why:

A] I don't want to take up anymore space than I have to [I mean, as it is I'm always underfoot already!]

B] Cremation is cheaper

C] I won't really care what my haggard ol bones are doing, I'll be dead.

D] My family won't have to toil over what to bury me in. they can just leave me in what I'm already wearing...

E] I'd be free to float around for all eternity. Or at least until it rains and I get stuck to someones shoe, or maybe a picnic bench.

F] I won't make someone keep me in an urn. I'll have them throw my ashes somewhere rad like out of a helicopter over the golden gate bridge. or maybe in my grandmas backyard...



There are some benefits to getting buried though:

A] If somehow they bury me and I'm undead then I can just bust out and start raising hell again, no prob.

B] Maybe someone will come visit my grave and leave me stuff, so all the other dead people get jealous and start haunting their families...

C] I'd get a sweet headstone with something rad written on it like "I was too awesome for my own good" [yea... we'll have to work on that some.]

D] No one will confuse me for ultrafine unscented cat litter.

Still, the pros of cremation still far outweigh those of burial... Hopefully I have quite a while to figure it out.

til then,

tobi.

First and Foremost

I used to blog constantly. I always had this weird "creative juices" thing going for me. It seems though, since I got out of school, that my inspiration has left me. I no longer have a million [even remotely relevant] things to say. In fact, I feel like the majority of the things that come out of my mouth are completely trivial. I've lost that spark. This is my attempt to find it again.

Since the whole "new years resolution" thing fails most people, and I didn't really feel like dieting this year, I decided to just promise myself I'd try as many new things as I could this year, as long as I feel like it somehow benefits me.

So far, so good. I am attempting to learn Spanish [by podcast. It's surprisingly helpful!]. I'm not super at it of course, but I'm a pretty quick learner and am gaining confidence daily. I've always loved the language and the culture, but the majority of the reason I feel it important for me to gain a better grasp on the language is so that I can better communicate with my clients at work. We have a fairly large Mexican demographic, and that would expand exponentially if there were someone in the salon that was bilingual. My paycheck would expand exponentially if that person were me.

I'm also trying other new things, such as grocery shopping and preparing my own food [if you know me at all, you know this is no small feat.], drinking more water and less pop [which by the end of the day really never happens], and moving to a new apartment [which really had very little to do with this whole "making better life choices" thing, and more to do with my lease being up at a good time. But it worked out fantastic either way.] I figure every little thing I can do to feel better, I will.

I am really stoked with my life is right now. I have my career started, I have an awesome part time job on the side. I have my family right down the road, I have the most amazing boyfriend, an adorable apartment, and more loyal friends than you can shake a stick at. The problem with being content is that I'm afraid if I stay content I won't grow. That's where this blog [hopefully] will help.

I don't think that I'll necessarily post regularly, just when something comes to mind. It won't really have a regular topic either. I just think it'll be good to get things out. Maybe read more so I can write more. I don't want a fashion blog and I don't want this to be Brittany Spears Daily Chronicle. I tend to think better and deeper when I write... and maybe since I'll have somewhere to spew all my empty thoughts, I won't have to spew them on anyone that's not wishing to be spewed on...

plus I just got a new laptop, and I'm an insomniac, so what else am I going to do?

hasta luego

tobi