EEEEEEEEEEE!

Just read on Stephenie Meyers' website that they are making

a movie of the book

NEW MOON!!!!!!!

Twilight!!!

OMG I just got home from seeing the midnight showing of Twilight and I loved it! So good, it had it's not so good/totally cheesy moments but it stayed very true to the book and I totally want to see it again. If you haven't read the books you won't like it as much as the readers but I had fun and it was totally worth getting no sleep tonight. Can't wait to go again!

UNDER ATTACK!

So I don't know what is going on but there are these very loud booms outside and my house is shaking with each one... It's getting pretty annoying. I think it might be the military at Camp Williams doing something. Don't you think they would give some sort of warning to the public before they start exploding things, or whatever they are doing!!!!? Well, hopefully it stops soon. My new house is going to rattle to the ground!

PS, I have a recurring dream of living during a war and having to hide as the Jews did during WWII and in one of them a bomber like in the picture was flying overhead bombing my house. Isn't that strange!?

Blog Safety

I decided to read this article I found on www.ksl.com and I already knew the dangers of blogging, friends of mine have experienced it in their own lives, but this reinforces to me the need to be careful. There is a part where they talk about a slide show of the inside of someones house, and that the address is fully visible... GULP! Were they talking about me!? I totally did that! Anyhow, just want us all to be safe... LOVE YOU!

A growing number of Utahns are discovering serious drawbacks to a popular pastime: blogging. But we found some cases that may change the way you blog.

Lainie Ottley
Blogs help families share memories, but they can also make families a target for harassment, even stalking. But there's little law enforcement officers can do. It's simply post at your own peril.
A crazy birthday haircut documented on a family blog. His mom never dreamed their Mohawk memory would end up making him look like a member of the Hitler Youth on someone else's blog.
"We were really upset," blogger Lainie Ottley said. "For me, it's a huge offense."
She not only felt violated, but afraid of the association with neo-Nazis.
"Given the verbiage with the picture, we felt like it had created a pretty dangerous situation," Ottley said.
But when she called police, she learned there's not a thing they can do.
"That's some of the frustration, almost daily, when I take these calls," said Rhett McQuist, with Utah's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. "Right now, the laws haven't caught up with technology."

For another blogger, who did not want to be identified, the peril came not from pictures, but postings. "We had had no idea who it was," she said.
Degrading comments turned into more than a dozen threats and insults a day posted to her family's blog. "We just felt harassed and started to feel unsafe because of what was written," she said.
She and her husband eventually hired an attorney, filed a lawsuit, subpoenaed Google and were shocked to discover their stalker was a close family member. "It wrecked my trust in people, still does. And it makes you question everything," she said.
Those tough experiences get at the heart of what appeals to most bloggers: posting pictures of your children and making them accessible for family and friends. But how much information is too much?
We surfed blogs and found first and last names, birth dates for an entire, a countdown to the family Disneyland vacation, information on a husband's deployment to Iraq and a slide show of the inside of someone's house.

All this makes it easy, in many cases, for us to go from blogsite to blogger's doorstep in a few computer clicks.
It's just not worth the risk for these bloggers. "If you're going to do it, just know there's no way to keep it completely safe," Ottley said.
Criminal investigators say to Stay Safe, bottom line, don't post pictures of children online. You should also protect your blogsite with a password.
They also say guard information like your address. We saw pictures where the house address was visible.
Finally, adjust settings on your blog that protect your identity and make you unsearchable.
For more safety tips, and for help in tracking who visits your blog, click the related links to the right of the story.

Blessed...

but not grateful for it... What do you do about that?! I have such a wonderful career doing hair. I feel talented and that I continue to grow every year in that area. I am very busy and this is where I lose any positive feelings towards hair. I work almost 50 hours a week. It's good, there are people that would give anything to be as busy as me, I know this. But I have times when it really makes me mad. I'm tired. I'm tired of working 10 hour days, I'm tired of listening to what everyone else has to say, I'm tired of the unwanted advice, I'm tired of squeezing people in cuz they just can't wait another day, I'm tired of it. What more can I do!!! I hate hair. I hate how vain so many people are. SO YOU HAVE GREY HAIR, SO YOU HAVE REGROWTH, guess what! you are NOT going to die, and if the people around you really care so much about your hair that you feel distraught about it maybe you should reconsider who you surround yourself with. SIGH. Now I feel guilty. It is a blessing to have this talent, it is a blessing to have people paying me to do their hair, it is a blessing that people are practically pounding down my door to have ME do their hair. ME!! I'm no different than the next person. It's humbling and amazing and frustrating all at the same time. I am grateful, I guess just needing to vent. I'm stretched too thin right now. Sorry to throw it on you. I feel like an ungrateful little brat now...

Broke (part 2)

Ok, so last time I posted a blog about something I wanted but didn't want to spend the money my sister in law bought it for me! YAY!!!! I'm hoping it will happen again. This is just a little more expensive. Oh I'd say around $360.00. Only a few more dollars than the earrings I wanted! LOL! =) It is an Amazon Kindle. It's an electronic book and you can buy the books for cheaper than at the store. It's all wireless... It's great. Check it out:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FI73MA/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=2466176081&ref=pd_sl_907ba0ydu2_e


(I don't really expect anyone to buy it for me but I'm hoping that I'll be able to save up for one or that the prices go down soon. Shay got an Xbox 360 for a few hundred so I should be able to get this right?!!!!)

Best site ever...

I'm not sure how many of you know that I am a member of this website. It is a fabulous website that has taught me extremely valuable lessons. How to eat healthy, better ways to work out, self esteem, pride in the good things I do... I could go on and on. It's not just a diet website, it's a healthy lifestyle website. You get to have a page (kind of like facebook or myspace) with friends that are also members of the site. You can join teams that have people that enjoy the same things as you. It tracks calories eaten and burned, I have it plan my meals but it also allows me to change them to meet my desires more.... I could sing it's praises for hours and I'm sure some of you have heard me sing them for hours.... so sorry! It's an amazing site and I love it. If you join look for me, my user name is iloveblankies. XOXO Stay healthy this winter!

My new favorite!

7 random things about me Tag...

My cousin Kimber tagged me. I don't know if I can really list 7 random things about me but I'll try... If it's made up though, don't blame me, blame, ummm, yourself! =)


Here are the rules of this one:I tell 7 weird/interesting things about myself and then tell 7 other people to do it.

1. I'm not a huge fan of movies. If you know me you already knew this but someone out there doesn't. I just don't care to go pay 20 bucks to sit in a germy theater with lots of people I don't know with civilian clothing on. (see number 2 for explanation on the clothing comment.) I agree, the sound is awesome and so is the big screen but not awesome enough for me to go on a regular basis.

2. I HATE wearing real clothes. I prefer to be in jammies (pajamas). The second I get home I go straight to our bedroom and put on my jammies. It really takes a lot for me to take them off and put regular clothes on but every now and then I will do it. Just for Shay.

3. I have a blankie. The thing goes everywhere I go while I'm home and there was a point when I was having numerous panic attacks every day for a month and sometimes my blankie was in the car while I was working, just knowing it was there was nice. Shay hates this blanket thing of mine. (He teases me enough to make me think he hates it, I know he doesn't though) He teases me about it being filthy, how he can't understand that I of all people need a security blanket, and that I love it more than him. Little does he know....

4. I can "pop" every joint in my body, and then some.

5. I love the humidity. I went to Hawaii in 2007 and I have never felt better in my entire adult life. My body didn't ache, I slept good, my lungs didn't feel tight... It was heaven.

6. OOH! #5 will lead into this one. I am slowly overcoming my paralyzing fear of travel. I started getting panic attacks in my early 20's and I ALWAYS got them while driving and doing things I've never done before. Let me give you a couple examples of this problem of mine. I was at a water park and decided to go down a water slide (I was 24) and so I got brave and did it. BUT when I got the the bottom of it my chest hurt so bad I had to go lay down! Also, I managed to turn an 6 hour drive into a 10 hour drive because of my panic attacks. That's when it got so bad the doctors sedated me for 3 days because my blood pressure was dangerously high. Since then I've done a program (thanks to Ken and Karen for buying it for me. You saved my life) and I have learned to overcome the panics and have made valiant efforts to travel. Like to HAWAII!

7. I loved the movie The Last Unicorn when I was little. I want to watch it again but I'm afraid being an adult will ruin it for the fond childlike memories I have of it.

Sweet, I didn't have to make anything up. You're off the hook! LOL!

I tag: Tiffany Cody, Meaja, Mindy, Nabby, Audra, Liza, and Kelly LaFranca. LOVES!

My Birthday

It was my birthday last Sunday (Oct. 12) and I turned 28. WOO HOO! It was a good birthday, in fact, one of the best in YEARS! I hate my birthday. I get all excited about it and then the day comes and I get really embarrassed from all the attention and wish no one knew it was my birthday. I don't think singing a song and praises is really necessary, especially past 21. Anyhow, this year was fine. Shay was so sweet and romantic!!! It was the best! He got me a number of presents and started giving them to me one at a time. So on Wednesday I got a CD I've been wanting (Goldfrapp; The Seventh Tree), Thursday he bought me a book we thought sounded good (The Book of Lies), Friday he got me flowers, Saturday he took me to dinner, and Sunday he wrote me this wonderful letter telling me how he feels about me and our relationship. It was perfect. (sigh/swoon...) He's a great husband I love him very much.

We had planned on going to my in-laws for dinner but the day before mother and father in-law became quite ill so sister in-law saved the day! We went over to Kelly and Jared's to eat pizza and play Wii. It was lots of fun and they got me the earrings I wanted. (See post titled "Broke") =) (THANKS KELLY, JARED AND GRIFFY!) I got a frame from Jared's mom and sister (Thanks!) and my parents sent me a card with some kick ass money in it to spend on myself. (THANKS!) and then the owner of my salon bought me and the girls cheesecake (yummy!) and earlier this week we all went out to dinner. It was a good birthday and the celebration continues this Sunday as the in-laws finally freakin feed me!!! ;) J/K!

Anyways, thank you to everyone who made my birthday wonderful and I'm grateful that I have so many people that love me. I LOVE YOU TOO!

First for laughs, here's Shay being weird!

My earrings!

Shay called me "Triangle Girl"

Me eating at Archibald's in Gardner Village.