Thursday, September 30, 2004
gone away
Well this is going to be a quick one because Im at school. The computer hasnt been working at home lately, thus I havent been able to write. But all is not lost-for I am going to conference. Itll be my FIRST! Im excited. There is many a love in my heart rejoicing on the matter. Yesterday I did Katherine Louise's hair. Colour. Red, supposed to be red brown but looked quite red. I like it. I also straightened her hair. It was my first time to see it straight. It looked really pretty. Im sure Brent had a crazy reation to it all though. All that matters is that Katie liked it though. I hope she realizes the gem that she is. Thats the word to describe Katie-gem. Oh Im soooo excited, I have been giddy all day. Hopefully Ill get to see Naomi! Yay! Ok well tootidoodileedoo! (in the words of Amay)
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Sarahstottle posted @ 3:54 PM
Sunday, September 26, 2004
I bore my testimony today. It was long over due but I dont like talking in front of people. Today was the day to bite the bullet. Actually after yesterday's broadcast I couldnt hold in my gratitude any longer. Yesterday was fun. Jordan and I spent the day working on the video for Doug and Dad's birthday today. Then broadcast. Wow. The spirit was soooo strong and my heart felt truly grateful to be a woman and to know that Im a daughter of God. Interesting how things you know your whole life can cause fireworks inside even though you already knew it, and were grateful... I dont know, it just seem so simple a thing and yet it means so much. Then after the broadcast, I left with Kyle to go to my friend Aya's house for a "curry party". Apparently a curry party is when you eat curry. Anyway, they invited a few other people who had been to Japan, or who were Japanese and it was good fun. We played games and it turns out Kyle gets along well with Aya's husband which is good because I just love Aya. Im sorry but it was bound to come out sometime. She's so funny and fun to be around and one of the few people in my class who doesnt go drinking and stuff. Yesterday while we were playing games and we had two different games going on at the same time. The girls were all playing something and the boys were playing something else. The boys got these crunchie cheezie things out and were eating them and suddently Aya said that she wanted to hurry and finish the game because Kyle's mouth made a nice sound eating the snack and it made her want some too. Its funny the way she expresses herself sometimes. Today I made marshmellow animals in my class with big marshamellows and small ones and toothpicks. It was fun. Also, Beetnick comes to my primary now to play the piano and her presence is greatly enjoyed. Oh yes, and how could I forget-Bethany is to blame for this lovely blog-skin...Im not through with her yet.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 3:36 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Garlic, yuck
Well last night was date night. Thats supposed to be a good thing. We went to Beefeaters. Its this place thats right next to where we embark in our canoes when we go to newcastle island. Its ritzy, way too expensive and the food takes FOREVER to come. We left to go there at around seven, we came home at nine. Kyle and I ordered the cheapest appetizer which was pita and hummus. Well it was almost pure garlic. I didnt really mind as in I ate it anyway because I was hungry. Then I ordered this chicken and mushroom pasta for my dinner and it tricked me. There were whole cloves of garlic in it and I thought it was a mushroom and I ATE it! Thats just a bit much for me. Kyle ordered steak, claiming it would be the last time in a long time that we would be able to eat at such an expensive restaurant. He ordered it medium well done. Im not exaggerating, it was purely uncooked in the center. He didnt seem to care that much, but if it were me, and I was paying 22$ for a steak, I wouldnt settle for raw. That dinner ended up giving me one of the worst tummy aches I have ever had in my life. I thought I would just sleep it off, but that was impossible. Every time I moved and tried a new position in bed sharp pains would hit me from every angle. I was up half the night. I finally resorted to sleeping flat on my back and not moving one bit. Now, I STILL have garlic taste strongly in my mouth and I dont know if Ill ever be able to get rid of it!!!! AHHHH! Its sooo yucky to me now. I cut Kyle's hair yesterday. And I must say that I like it. WE were out on the balcone and this lady walked by and was like "hey how much for a haircut?" I said 10$ (which is cheap but I thought while Im a student I shouldnt be able to charge too much, especially if the person doesnt know Im a student) she asked "are you a hairdresser?" and i said yes because according to our instructors we ARE. So she said that she might stop by sometime. I hope she doesnt. Its not like I want to invite some random lady who walks around downtown and I dont know into my house. That would be weird.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 9:31 AM
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
sicky wicky
The time has come for me to be sick. I suppose I should have seen it coming, seeing as I havent been sick since the cold I had when I got back from Japan. But that was as it should have been because I got sick almost every month in Japan. I needed some freeing up time. Actually, the problem is that KYLE got sick and although I tried desperately not to catch it came none the less. School is a lot less fun for me when Im sick. I hate not being able to control the random powerful sneezes and the itchy dry throat that makes my eyes water. Well I wish I had a lot to share about my life since I last wrote, which was almost a week ago...but there's nothing. Or maybe Im just lazy. Yes thats it. Im lazy. Things that are remotely interesting arent always worth writing about all the time. Today I ate lunch in the cafeteria. Not really for any reason, just because I hadnt been there since the school year started and I wanted to see what it was like when it was busy. Didnt even buy lunch there. Brought my own. Colored my hair, by the way. Nope cant stay away. Actually I just semi-permanently coloured it and it hardly looks different at that. Its was supposed to be a soft subtle brown that would wash out, well its not. Its basically my natural hair colour (oh and the red is still visible from before) only a little more golden, and my guess is- itll be gone in a week. Thats ok though, because then I can do something else. Maybe be successful at the soft brown. It was a rich reddy brown. For some reason I cant seem to steer myself away from the warm colours. Ash doesnt appeal to me much. Some of the level threes were trying to get me to put black chunks underneath so that they came out in my layers at the bottom. No way hosea. Im not THAT daring yet. Get me to talk about hair and I could go on and on forever.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 6:11 PM
Thursday, September 16, 2004
ok for some reason some thing weird happened. Start reading the previous blog first and then read this. anyway, so I got sucked into auditioning in a yucky groggy state. I had to read a really really corny part, and then sing a song in front of a video camera and a panel of people, all of whom were good singers. (audrey, sis patterson, sis ballegeer, and some other lady) I sang and sang quite horribly, 'As the dew from heaven distilling' What a stupid choice of song. As always no matter what, if I have to sing something by myself Im nervous. When Im nervous I cant breathe properly, and that song needs long breaths and wow, I was just so horrible. I cant believe it. And the worst part about it is...ok well there's two worst things...they got it all on tape to watch again if they so choose, and I dont even know if I want to be in the play, if its all as corny as the parts that I had to read. Ugh. Its things like that that make me never want to sing infront of people ever ever ever again. In a group, fine, but I am NOT a soloist.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 5:05 PM
Embarrassed thorougly
Do you ever do something and then everytime you think about it, you cringe and think "how in the world did I not realize how dumb I would look if I did that?" Well, yesterday I had one of those experiences. Tanis called me up and despite how tired I was I was talked into going to enrichment, something I dont do very often (because we used to play soccer on Wednesdays). I decided to have a 20 min nappy before they came to pick me up. My nap turned out to be longer than that though because they were 20 mins late and it went from being a power nap to a groggy, not all together, somewhat grumpy nap. When we arrived at the church they were having audtions for the enchanted forest musical. Tanis was supposed to audition and in a weak, not fully awake moment I somehow got sucked into it too. Ohhhhh man. Its almost too painful to write about. and Ill have to continue it later...
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Sarahstottle posted @ 4:12 PM
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Sleepy sleepy sleepy
Oh man am I tired. Cant really say why. Just didnt get enough sleep. I guess that would be pretty obvious. I went to put my overalls on this afternoon and found that when they were washed the thing that clips on the the button thing on the front was all broken and twisted as though it had been through a dreadfully traumatizing experience. I seem to get the impression that washing machines have a bully side and pick on clothes sometimes. They do that to make themselves feel better, push themselves up. It wrecks the self esteem of my clothes. Now my overalls are under the impression that they are good for nothing. However, I proved them wrong. I took that twisted metal that is now missing an important part, and I forced the ends to join. There, close to as good as new...except I was smaller when I bought these overalls and well, good thing they're stretch.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 5:49 PM
Monday, September 13, 2004
Im actually wearing a sweater. That makes me feel sad. Why does summer go by so fast? I hate waking up and when its dark out side. Well guess what we did today? We got a cell phone. I wasnt totally pro cell phone for numerous reasons. #1. we had to go on a three year contract- I dont like doing that. #2 Cell phones here will NEVER compare to the ones in Japan and that annoys me. #3 you are never guarenteed good reception and you always have to be conscious of whether or not the battery is charged. However, Kyle insists that it's cheaper than a regular phone line, and maybe it is, plus one can get a hold of us even when we arent at home. So we are supposed to be canselling our land line. That for some reason makes me feel less secure. A good thing is that phoning vancouver and parksville is considered local, so I can phone laura without extra charge, and that's always a plus right laura? Even if she DID have the nerve to post my white thigh on the net. Today at school was a blah day. You see, Monday is only for our level, no other levels come on monday. And thats fine, but today Matrix was doing a hair colour show and the majority of my class were either models for it or just plain went. Being a model is free, but I didnt want to have them hack and colour all my hair. Otherwise, to just plain go was $53! Im certainly in no position to pay that, so no special colour knowledge for me. The good news is that Goldwell, the colour line we use at school is doing a colour show next week for two days, and its only 25$ and they give you thirty dollars worth of free products (goldwell and kms are together) So that I can go to and I AM going. Fwuff brought the bunnies over today. They were sooooo cute! Especially the baby-thumper. Adorable.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 7:01 PM
Sunday, September 12, 2004
I dont know if anyone has noticed, but Kyle has blue streaks in his hair. That was my doing. I mean, it was on purpose. I suggested it and he wanted it. I dont want to give the impression that Im the experimenting hairdresser that he has to put up with and be my guinea pig. Nope, I give freedom, hence why he hasnt had his hair cut yet. Its so long! One doesnt realize this because it has a curl to it, but stretch those strands out and they're at least 3 1/2". Mmmmm we had curry tonight. It was good. Kyle made it and we put broccoli in it and I enjoyed it. Tanis and Jos came over for dinner and we played that "president's" game that we played on the houseboat. It was fun except that Tanis and I were scum almost the WHOLE time, and then finally at the end I made it to vice president and everyone wanted to quit. And of course the whole time the boys were making comments like "notice how the men are in power?" That just makes you want to put them in their place and prove them wrong which is what they were probably trying to do. But that is the wrong sort of spark to ignite with me. I cant really think of anything else to write. Except that I realize that whinnie the pooh is appreciated by many and most, it was just an example of Kyle wanting everyone to like what he likes. Not the best example because most people do, including myself, not thrilled about it, but you know. Maybe a better example would be mayonnaise on curry. yuck.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 9:10 PM
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Im back
The computer has been fixed and so here I am. Dont have a whole lot to do today because Kyle is now plagued with homework. I have to go to a birthday party. Let me express my frustration. Ok, so Ann has this friend Aimee who is 26 years old. She got married last month. Now its her daughters birthday. I think Aimee is nice, I like her. However I feel like Ann is forcing me to be her friend. And I feel like Ann is forcing her to be my friend. Like she pressures us. Cant really explain it, and I probably sound silly, like Ann would be pushy. But what if I just dont feel like going today? What if I just dont want to put on a fake smile and not know anyone there but Aimee and Ann? Would that be reasonable? Ann would be so disappointed in me. *sigh* I dont want to waist a precious day off on something I dont want to do. We bought the present yesterday and i made Kyle pick it out because he knows them better. And what did he pick? A whinnie the pooh fleece blanket. Yes, he likes whinnie the pooh but that doesnt mean he should push in on everyone else. Oh well guess I married into a pushy family who expects everyone to love what they love. My throat cancer hasnt left yet. Yesterday we went to the hartfords for Jos' (? is that correct apostrophe placement?) discussion. It went well I think. Have another one on Monday. We have a new elder fresh on the field. His name is Bailey. And when he found out that Im taking hairdressing he blurted "my girlfriend's taking that right now." And then acted sheepish and said he wasnt sure if he was allowed to say that all awkwardly and no one said yes he was or no he wasnt. Personally Im not sure. Bethany brought delicious brownies to my house late wednesday night. They were soooooooo good. actually they still are. It was becuase I guessed the movie that the qoute came from in her blog.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 8:27 AM
Monday, September 06, 2004
"Yes Indeelelidoo!"
Thats a quote from Amay. Well I must apoogize for my lack of writing but it's because our computer isnt working properly but Bob's looking at it today so hopefully that will be taken care of. I washed Amay's hair today. Two shampoos and conditioner on the ends only. And what but one hour later her hair smells like campfire. Amays hair is not a force to be reckoned with. It will NOT be compromised. My WHOLE weekend, the long weekend, has been spent helping kyle paint. Not exactly fun. However on Saturday afternoon he went to Bobs to put the hardwood floor in (which he's also doing today) and I went and spent the day and evening with Tami. It was lots of fun getting to know her. We went for an evening walk around all these gorgeous new houses in the Dover area. She also makes the best spaghetti sauce I've ever had. And I've had good sauce. Yesterday Caleb said that my legs (from the knee down) look kinda fat. That made me feel good. He's lucky he's so cute and charming other times. Im at mom and dads for those who were wondering. Tanis is back from Hawaii and Kathy left for Montreal last week, so its kinda like a friend swap. As long as I have a friend Im happy. No, I miss Kathy already. Ann and I went to see Tamara's play- Jesus Christ Superstar. I didnt like it that much. I dont like the way they portray Christ and act as though he was just a regular man who was just popular and had a lot of followers. Kinda like he was just a phase. Not that I was expecting it to be accurate. But still. Oh well. Tamara was still a good chorus member. I miss being in musical theatre. So fun.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 1:52 PM
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
cancer of the throat
Suddenly I just have to cough and its a weazy cough. I decided that maybe its from my hairspray, it makes me cough when I use it. Then I also decided that I'm getting cancer from it. Not true. Not true at all, turns out this sickness is going around at school so what have you? Well I havent written in here in a while. Not a lot has happened. Today is a grumpy day. Im grumpy. And the fwuffs ditched as usual. No Im kidding, but I DID ask Bethany to do something for me and she didnt. hmph. Today I did a 14 year old's hair who looked like she was going into grade seven when she was going into grade 10. I put highlights in it. She looked so cute when I was done I was proud of myself. Then her mother who was also having her hair done didnt tip me. Maybe she was mad that I made her daughter actually look her age. No, I dont know why. I quite enjoy Aya in my class. We have been laughing at so many things lately and our friendship keeps growing. I wish she didnt wany to go back to Japan eventually. Its nice having Japanese friends here. I miss Japan. No soccer tonight. The brothers are too occupied with hockey. I dont think we'll play again this year.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 8:35 PM