Saddest hair story of your life.

I have a sad story to tell you. It’s starts off in a dark quite bedroom. Last night it was 11pm, and I was already ready to hit the sack, usually I don’t close me eye balls till closer to 1pm, but I have been in a constant state of exhaustion after my week last week, which slowly is merging into this week. What day is it? When I zonked out last night, I didn’t mean to. I fell asleep in my cleaning clothes, with my hair not ready for bedtime. (I have a special bed time hair do), my teeth were not brushed, my bra still on and I wasn’t even under the covers! Whaaaa?

This morning Shia stole all of my covers. She is over 60 pounds, which is OVER half my weight, so when I am more than half asleep I cannot move her. I decided to just freeze to death for the next hour before my alarm went off. When my alarm went off, I was still being lazy, and in denial that it wasn’t Saturday. I got out of bed, and decided that it wasn’t worth doing my hair AGAIN today. I threw it up in the cutest little bun, stuck a bow in it and called it good.

Only 4 hours into the work day, and my head is throbbing. I have way too much hair, I guess it’s a good problem to have, but I dream of having days where I don’t have to do my hair, and I can just throw it up. My entire “hairs” pinterest board has up-do’s that I will most likely never partake in! I have had my hair thinned a gajillion times. It just grows back thicker, that might be a lie. I don’t know how thick it was from haircut to haircut. I do know that I have a headache right now. I can’t take the bun out or I will be fro-zilla. This is a dilemma that has taken up a lot of my thoughts today.

My other announcement….

We’re not having a baby! We’re going to LAKE POWELL!

I have the coolest in-laws. Betsy (Jared’s sister) and her hubby bought a time share for a houseboat in Lake Powell. These two are the king and queen of parities! They sent out an itinerary of things that we will be doing, and themes of nights while we’re down there. I am so excited to go hang with some solid friends and family!

What a week!

You may or may not have noticed that I was MIA last week. I had posted a couple warnings that I was going to be working our convention for my work, Perfectly Posh. I have never done this type of this before, and had no idea what to expect. I was on my feet running around like a crazy chicken without a head for most of the day.. everyday. I didn’t expect to be so busy, and to be so tired, but also to feel so valuable. It’s really cool to be part of a company that allows me to come and help, being so new, but also allows me so much responsibility within my job. I was extremely excited to meet all the consultants that I’ve been hearing about or talking to over phone or email for the past couple months. That’s always a weird feeling too. I imagine it would be like meeting a blogger that I’ve stalked for so long, and know so much about but haven’t ever really met. Leadership and Convention were really cool, it was fun to see my bosses and our CEO’s so down to earth and helping teach and learn from the consultants. We are a pretty chillaxed company, and there was lots of solid and really good energy. I may have even cried a few times during our awards, and our gala, because so much passion is in this company that isn’t even a year old yet. We, being the staff, put SO many hours and lots of work into making this happen, and it definitely didn’t go unnoticed! I loved getting all the hugs and just the verbal thank you’s. It was a great experience.

We stayed in 2 different hotels throughout the week. I didn’t even unpack either time. My suitcase stayed full and my bathroom stuff was dumped all over the counters.

This was our hotel at the UofU guest house, which some consultants looked up online, and said it was haunted. It’s possible, it was built in 1876, but I slept like a baby after a delicious dinner of beef jerky and chips.

This is where our first event was, called leadership. Here is one of the only photos I have from this whole event. A few consultants gave our CEO’s some shirts to thanks them for being awesome!

Our next hotel was Mariott at City Creek. I was on the 8th floor, and it was gorgeous! We had a big bathroom, and some of the best coffee to wake me up in the morning. Jared even went and hung out at the gym here, since he was wandering around at 3am, while I was zonked out with my swollen feet

Look how pink our general session room was, look how many bean bags there were!! It was so much fun to jump in those babies! We definitely went a less traditional route with the seating ;

Even though, I was having a good time and learning a whole heck of a lot more than I think I will remember, I MISSED my puppy so dang bad!! My mom sent me a bunch of pictures and videos throughout the week, and most of the time I’d look through all of them before bed, and wish that she was there with me. Here are a few she sent me.

Late Saturday night, we were cleaning up and getting ready to go home. I was so excited to go home, and determined to pick up my puppy that night. We got to our cars at about 11:30pm, and then there was a concert that just let out, so we were stuck in the parking garage for another 30 minutes or so. I was so irritated at this point, but when we finally got home we just flew over to my parents to grab my cuddle puppy. She was so excited and really tired from exerting all her energy over the past week. She pretty much slept as much as I did on Sunday

Now I am back to the real world, and very thankful to be in my normal routine again. I am hoping the blisters on my feet go away quickly, and I can get everything back on track! I really did miss all of you though, I felt like I had this gaping blog hole in my heart!

Hotel Husband.

I don’t’ think that I have ever been more grateful for my husband than this past 2 days. I am about an hour away from home, staying in a hotel for a convention for work, and he has been staying down here with me and driving to work in the morning from the hotel. Last night I didn’t make it back to the room until about 10, and he was patiently waiting for me. He then toted me to the store to buy me energy drink, yogurts and candy. He definitely knows his way to my heart {candy!}. After that he let me lay on his lap for a nice cuddle session while he tickled my back. After I fell asleep he set the coffee maker to make some delicious coffee for me when I had to wake up today. He is just too good to me sometimes. I am also the type of person who gets overwhelmed and the only solution is to talk everything out a million times. He has let me talk until I lose my voice, and never gets annoyed, always has helpful ideas and advice or me! I really am so grateful he’s been up here to keep me going and motivated!

Our hotel home..

Sometimes donuts and jerky for dinner is acceptable.

Wish me luck the next few days!

Home away from home.

This week is going to be the craziest work week of my life. My work is hosting two ginormous conventions in a row. One is called leadership, where consultants who are interested in fine tuning their skills come and learn. The second is called Unconventional, and this is where we are doing product releases, and it’s more of a free for all - have fun event! Our first event starts tomorrow, well we are checking into the hotel tomorrow and registration is late afternoon, but until then we will be transporting and setting up. Even though we don’t start until tomorrow, the preparing for 2 events has been out of control! My office is just full of boxes stacked to the ceiling. The ups and fedex guy must hate us. After we open every box.. we are bundling and packaging everything together, to get ready for all our consultants.

I love that I work for a company that takes this much time to pamper our consultants. It has been lots of extra hours, short lunch breaks, and tired pinkies from tying bows. BUT I am so excited to see how both events play out this upcoming week. Tuesday - Thursday we will be at one hotel, then Thursdayt - Saturday we are headed to our next hotel. I think it will be fun to stay at 2 hotels, but once again the prepping and organizing the move between the two has been chaos! It’s always hard to be away from home and try to pack things for an entire week. Especially when you are going to need to have clothes changes during the day, so I definitely need to overpack, and I haven’t packed at all yet! I need to be ready by 8am tomorrow. GEE Whiz! I need to get Shia all packed up for a week at my parents house (where she will be spoiled rotten, but I will probably need to FaceTime with her), and thankfully Jared is coming with me, so I will have a cuddle buddy. I am so grateful that he will be able to make the commute from the hotels to his work without any rough adjustments of our schedule. I have a feeling I will need a lot of strong hugs from him.

{I’m going to miss waking up to this face}

I will try my hardest to keep posts coming all week! It mostly depends on if I have energy at the end of a lonnnng work day to conjure something up. I am really terrible at scheduling posts, and I should have tried to do that, but I am an epic failure. PLUS blogger has never worked, when I schedule posts. I always have to manually do it anyway. Am I doing something wrong there? I just set the time and date and then save it, but it has NEVER worked. How annoying is that?

Also I need to apologize to some of my swapping squad. I didn’t post a Sunday Funday Swapper post yesterday. I am going to do it this week. I promise. Scouts honor. You can bite my blog head off if I don’t! Or cuss me out on twitter..

Have any of you done big work events like this? Any advice for me??

For now I plan on drinking lots of energy drinks and passing out earlier than ever before.

Separation Anxiety

i have a serious problem. I am addicted to my puppy. I only think this is a problem, because sometimes it prevents me from doing things or getting excited about things. Shia sleeps in our bed. She is my cuddle monster. Jared usually only wants to cuddle for 11 minutes and then he’s over it, plus most of the time he goes to bed later than I do, which defeats my cuddling hopes and dreams. So when we got Shia, she was not allowed to sleep in the bed for about 6 months, then she tore her ACL, and we both felt so bad for her because she won’t sleep on a dog bed, and she likes her kennel but she hates to have pillows or blankets in there. So it was just the hard ground. When she had her torn ACL we wanted her to be comfy as possible, since she pretty much had to lay down for 9 weeks! This is when the attachment began. Shia now cuddles me to sleep every single night. I wake up if she even flinches or twitches because we sleep so dang close. Jared loves it because Shia and I spoon and he gets the other side of the bed all to himself.

Now she’s been sleeping on our bed for about a year, and it’s totally her bed now too. I can’t sleep without her there. I love to cuddle up to her. Now when we have plans to go out of town or not be at home, where Shia can’t come then I have to have my parents watch her. They are good with her, and she likes to play with her cousin puppies. But I can’t sleep without her gentle soothing snores!

{Shia with the wiener cousins: Mo and Gus}

All this is because next week, I am staying about 30 minutes away from home in a hotel from Tuesday - Saturday {with Jared — thank heavens}. Of course, Shia L. Spinelly can’t come with us, and I have been excited to go to the convention, but I am for sure going to have separation anxiety, and I probably won’t sleep to well.. I am like this when Jared isn’t home too. But that’s only happened like twice, and we’ve left Shia more times than I care to remember, so that’s why this post is geared toward the pup. I can’t sleep at all without my husband, imagine if I didn’t have either. Oh boy. Heart attack.

Anyway, are any of you like this?

Am I totes being crazy? It is like a legit concern of mine.

What's on my bucket list?? Glad you asked.

My BFF’s and I decided that we are going to do a monthly vlog link up, as you may remember last month we did “what’s in your closet?”. This month over some serious tweeting and late night emailing we finally all agreed on “what’s on your bucket list?”.

I was so excited when we decided on this topic because I always think that if you get down to the bare bones and can ask a person what they want to do before they kill over then you will see a different side of them. A more vulnerable side, and the most real pieces of their lurking soul. Now that I have said that, I am a little bit nervous to reveal my inner self, and show you what the things that I want to cross off my bucket list are. It took me a while to actually sit down and start brainstorming the bucket list, and of course, narrowing it down to under a million minutes. I am pretty proud of how it turned out, because I think I have a solid list. I did put on there that I want to hold Will Smith’s hand while watching the Grammy’s though.. is that too much to ask? No… =)

I just want to warn you: I really do think everyone should help kid’s in orphanages… if that wasn’t clear in the video with my sarcastic attitude

Here we go!

I bet you can’t get enough of us right??

Link-Up and check out my spazzin’ co-hosts!

Punky

Emily

Kjerstin

Justyn

Jazmine

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Miki, Myself and I.

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One of my favorite bloggers, Kristen, is co-hosting a link-up today to help dig deep and get to know the real bloggers out there! I always love reading posts that tend to have more depth to them, and help you learn more, so I thought this was a great opportunity to open my already open doors a bit wider.

What is your biggest phobia?

Woah, we are starting right in with this one huh? I think honestly deep down my worst fear ever.. WORSE than scorpions, is that my loved ones will die. I know that sounds cliche, but my reasons are totally selfish. I am so terrified that I would spiral into a horrible depression and by losing them I would just lose everything about myself. I know you’re not the same when you lose a spouse or a parent, but I think it would destroy my life. I would probably have to become a druggie or alcoholic to deal with it. Then I would just lose EVERYTHING.

If you could relive any day of your life, what would it be and why?

Oh good, this one is a light hearted question. I think I would relive a lazy Sunday. Any lazy sunday during the summer would do. One of those days where the biggest worry is deciding which swimsuit to wear. Jared and I would sleep in until 1pm, go to the pool for a few hours, come home and nap because the sun is so exhausting. When it cools down we eat some junk food, and then watch a few movies and just cuddle without even needing to talk because we are so content and happy. Those are the days that I cherish most. There are only a handful that I remember being totally as awesome as that one I just described. That is the one I want to relive =)

If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?

For the 5 days that I have been 22 it’s been really awesome. I haven’t had a bad day yet. Nothing but cupcakes and puppy kisses. Does it get any better than that? I don’t think so. So I pick 22.

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for?

I wrote a whole post about this. I get compared to Zooey Deschanel like every other second. That may have come off sarcastic, and snotty. It wasn’t meant to be. I LOVE HER! Maybe we get compared because our giant blue eyes, or our dark hair, but I think it’s mostly just the bangs. I’ll take what I can get though! We do have similar features, but I like to think I get the comparison, because we are similar in our personalities (that’s just a conceited compliment to myself). My dad always has said I have an old soul meaning that I may be 22, but I kind of act like I was born in the 50’s. I love everything vintage and old fashioned. I believe Zooey and I have that in common as well.

What songs are included on the soundtrack to your life?

Melanie Safka - Brand New Key

The Cinema - My Blood is Full of Airplanes

Lydia - One More Day

George Strait - River of Love

Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks

Gregory and The Hawk - A Wish

Mod Sun - Happy as F**k (P.S. this one has severe profanity.. obviously)

Thanks for hanging with me during a different type of post today! You guys are my beating hearts!

Recovery.

I really want to apologize for my absence today. It’s 3:30pm, and I am barely thinking about my blog. Usually I jump out of bed just shaking, because I am ready to BLOG! Anyway this was a long weekend for all of us. Unfortunately my birthday week came to an end, honestly I am not sure if I could take one more day of birthday celebrations. When I woke up on Sunday, I had quite the task of cleaning set before me! I cleaned my heart out. So much, that I barely had time to shower, and definitely didn’t have time to blow dry my hair - or at least that’s my excuse as to why I look like a fro ball today.

Also this was a long fur mama/ daddy weekend. Shia has had this really slight limp for the past few days. Jared and I weren’t to worried, but decided to take her to the vet anyway. I made an appointment for this morning, and they don’t think it’s anything serious. Probably just a sprain, but you can’t be too careful with bulldogs. They are known for health problems, and Shia has already tore her ACL so like I said we can’t be too careful. We have puppy insurance, so the little bugger, is totally covered. It’s such a relief to know that I can take her to the vet, when I am just worried, and not have to pay a million dollars for a simple visit. The insurance covers 80% of all visits and all procedures. They are AWESOME with us.

Lastly, I still have to record my Vlog. This month we decided to do “What’s on your bucket list??” I think it will be tons of fun! I can’t wait to see what other people want to do before they kick the bucket. I think it will be a bit easier to do than our last “What’s in your closet” vlog, because it’s not embarrassing to show your bucket list, like it is your closet :) I hope you’re planning to link-up it’s always a fun vlog party!

Also, I will sit at my NEW blogging desk/home office tonight and answer all my emails. I promise. Scouts honor.

Sunday Funday Swappers!! Alli, Ivy, and Samara

Welcome back for my Sunday Funday Swapper edition numero dos! I really am loving doing this little feature for all these fun girls. It is really fun for me to get to know them better, and to have them over here, so you all can get to know them! Plus it gives me a reason to play in photoshop, since I don’t get to very much anymore. boo! Enough about me please Welcome my 3 lovely ladies:

First up, Ms. Alli!

I love this gorgeous photo of Alli. She is a beauty.

Allena Mistral

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Next up, we have the gorgeous Ivy. Seriously look at that dark hair, perfect skin and ginormous eyes.

She makes Heidi Klum look bad! (Heidi Klum is that model chick right? That’s who I was talking about.. obviously..)

With Love, Ivy

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Last but CLEARLY not least is Samara. I love reading along with Samara’s fabulous blog, and seeing what her life is like in Australia. I think everyone has a fantasy of living over there. Lucky girl.

The Secret Life of Samara

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The birthday gods!

I am pretty sure that I have had the most incredible birthday week more incredible than anyone that I’ve ever had. I LOVED all the birthday wishes via blog comments, Facebook, twitter and instagram. It really makes you feel so loved to be getting well wishes all day long! I think that might have had something to do with my non-stop birthday countdown since last week. I really got myself all pumped up for my birthday. Anica, one of the greatest blog friends of all time, sent me the CUTEST and sweetest birthday package. Which was the first present that I opened this year, and it made me incredibly excited for the next morning.

Wednesday night, Jared literally tucked me in around 11pm, and told me I had to go to sleep so he could prepare. I had no idea what he was going to do, and I stayed up most of the night listening and trying to figure out what all the noises meant. I sent him a text at 3:30 to tell him I was so excited I couldn’t sleep, and he replied with “do you need a glass of water?” ha! No! I need nyquil or something to knock me out! Anyway my alarm usually goes off at 7, and I woke up at 6 after sleeping for maybe an hour and was too excited to wait any longer. I opened our door and the whole house was decorated with balloons and ribbons, PLUS he had cleaned every inch of it. I just love my husband man. I love having a clean house, so I was already beaming from excitement.

Next I finally understood what all the weird noises were last night, Jared was putting together my wine rack! When I see wine rack’s in a house the first thought that comes to mind is classy, so I have had this irrational want for one for a long time. I think it bring such a scent of rich mahogany to our home! Isn’t it cute?

Then there was one more gift sitting on the table, but I was instructed to wait until after work to open it. I like that Jared knew I would wake up and see the other present first, so he had to specify to WAIT so he could see me open one of my present. I thought all day about what it could be and even enlisted the help of my instagram followers, their guesses were as good as mine. I had no idea. Saxon’s got cut off, he guessed lingerie.

While I was pondering what my present could be, my work decided we should do a Birthday Lunch. We went out to applebee’s and my boss required that the 4 waitress’ that were on staff sing to me. They did, and they brought me some free delicious ice cream. Free ice cream is always delicious. The whole day at work went by extremely fast, most likely because we took a 2 hour lunch break. ;)

When I got home, I was so excited for Jared to get home. I just paced back and forth thinking about my present. He finally got home and ran to him and smooched him on his lips, then ran back to my present and asked if I could open it yet, and you know what he got me!?!? That’s right the Victoria’s Secret swim suit I had been drooling over for the past few weeks! I totally scored this birthday year!

As if we hadn’t celebrated enough yet.. we had planned a big delicious dinner at Asian Star at 7pm. So my little brother wanted to hitch a ride with us, and came over at about 6 30, and he told me to go in my room and shut my eyes. I was so excited ANOTHER PRESENT!! Yeah, that’s right I have a really cool family. This present was way better than I was expecting (keep in mind one year Christiaan got me a BB gun).. I finally am allowed to come out and see what my mysterious present was. It was the most gorgeous vintage desk I have ever seen. He found it online in the classifieds. A lady was going through a divorce, and claimed she had paid a few thousand for it a long time ago. It is this to die for vintage belgium desk that is over 150 years old. Isn’t it amazing? It will be the perfect little blog work station :) I can’t wait to get home and rearrange furniture.

My brother, Brennon, also wrote me the funniest card. I wish I had taken a photo, because he drew his kitties on it and it was hilarious. He’s always been a creative gift giver. He gave me $40 gas money for my 16th birthday and wrote me a card that stayed in my first car for the entire time I had it. This year he did not disappoint! He got me THREE huge life long lasting jaw breakers. I won’t ever run out of Candy. He also got Shia a frisbee, and she loves it more than she loves to go on walks :)

We met up with a group of about 15 for dinner at Asian Star. I LOVED having everyone there to celebrate. It’s just such a great excuse to get everyone together in one spot. The whole dinner was filled with fun conversations, lots of laughing, and of course birthday wishes. It was the best birthday get together that I’ve ever had. I was so incredibly floored that everyone took time out of there night to come and celebrate with me. I really need to get better at doing group photos. I am always to embarrassed to ask strangers to do it. Anyway, my good friend Phil, took this and posted it on Instagram. It’s the only photo I have from the night.

Kind of irrelevant, but I also found this cat on my walk from the car into our home. I’m pretty sure it’s a wild cat that just lives in our neighborhood, because it’s fat and eats well but it’s the dirtiest cat alive. Anyway, Jared and I sat on the sidewalk and played with the cat for about 15 minutes and it was the perfect end to a fabulous birthday night.

I really lucked out this year, I must have done something right to please the birthday gods. I was so lucky to get the main things I really wanted off my wish list!!

Thank you for everything my blog friends!

I am officially 22 now.

CHEERS!

This day 22 years ago!

Today is my birthday! Don’t you feel like we’ve been waiting for this for so long? Lots of build - up!

Can I get a wooo hoooo!? This is my final birthday post, unless I do a follow-up… who are we kidding there will definitely be a follow-up. If you’ve been reading along I have done a post each day this week to celebrate my birthday;a list of my past year accomplishments, a present wish list, and how I celebrate my birthdays.

Now dim the lights, because we are going to take it down a few notches. My mom sent me photos of her journal about this day 22 years ago. My mom and dad were young parents, they had my brother at 19, and me at 20. They were poor. My mom was working a crappy job, and staying up all night with 3 kids (my little brother was born when they were 22), and my dad worked 2 minimum wage jobs at a gas station and an art store, as he was trying to finish up his bachelors degree at the University of Utah, so he could start his own Design Firm. My mom always says she thinks my older brother is so smart, because he attended a good majority of college classes with my dad. My parents were dedicated and they did everything they could to raise us well with what they had. They did a fabulous job.

There is a story my mom tells about me and how I was the grumpiest baby. I cried for days and days and no one could get me to stop. My parents took shifts with me and then my aunts, cousins, uncles and grandparents would alternating shift, because I just wouldn’t stop! Finally my parents took out all of their money from their accounts to buy me a bouncing swing. Luckily it worked, and it was the only thing that would calm me down, and I would stay in it for hours and hours, until the batteries ran out. Then my mom would try and keep the bouncing motion by moving the swing manually while my dad changed the batteries, otherwise I’d have a baby fit. I was apparently really good at those!

Below is my moms journal. This is so sweet for me to read, and of course, I cried the first time I read it, but I am really grateful that my mom wrote my story down, now I can keep it here for my memories, and also I can share it with you. I was going to re-write it down under the photos as a caption, but for some reason in my head that takes away the authenticity.

Please enjoy.

The cheesy montage of Miki: