This time, I'm no beauty queen...just beautiful me

After all the preparation, long nights rhinestoning, making sure my wardrobe was perfect & practicing interview the day has come & gone.  I decided to come out of retirement from pageantry...my last title was Miss San Francisco Bay Area and it was a great way to end my pageant career, but after moving to San Diego I decided to compete one last time, and I was going for the title of Miss San Diego USA 2012.  Besides, what better way to make friends and meet some girls with the same thoughts I do and who ACTUALLY want world peace!!! 

The result of the night was I didn't walk away with a crown on my head, but I did meet some great women, had a fabulous time competing again, and had an experience of a lifetime.  I ended up placing TOP 5 for the night, which is good, and got to wear my favorite gold gown :)   ahhhhh  if I could sleep in that dress, I totally would haha. 

 See what I mean!  Gorgeous huh?!

I have to send a HUGE thank you to A Robert Cromeans Salon & Mary Cuomo for sponsoring me for the pageant.  They sponsored me in FULL & Mary did the most beautiful cut and color for me & ROBERT CROMEANS also helped!  Ahhh when he touched my hair, I was speechless.  He is a legend and I look up to him so incredibly much.  The Paul Mitchell Family is SO amazing & I cannot wait until I am actually working along side these amazing men and women.  (totally starstruck)  I start school one week from today and will finish up my program @ San Diego Paul Mitchell School....yippee!  I will stay on board at M.A.C. Cosmetics and go to school part time, so should be done in about a year or so.  Here's to another great adventure in my life....

women.

                         WOMEN. 
    We are so powerful.  Our brains are able to conjure up ideas & our minds usually dream big & can get us into trouble sometimes...for example, when we over exaggerate a situation and over analyze EVERYTHING!  Not all women are like this, but I know that I am, and sometimes, I have little arguments with myself. 
     This morning I was thinking about all of the media & how much of an impact it plays on our lives & even our relationships.  My point that I want to get to, without dragging this out for a while, is that women are amazing! Really, I'm so glad God made me a woman...I get the many joys of being a friend, caretaker, girlfriend, and so much more.  Sometimes I get a little jealous, or PMS-y, or I cry, and just need a girlfriend to lean on.  Men probably think we are crazy and emotional, and the truth is, I think we are.  To them, we are a completely different species, and we sometimes think the same of them.  Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus.  Enough said.  
     I'm challenging myself to stand strong & tall as a woman and not let jealousy take over my emotions.  Realistically, I should be proud of who I am and not let all of the (ahem) men in my past who have hurt me, affect who I am in a negative way today.  I am very fortunate to have a wonderful man in my life who treats me very well, and sometimes...I take my jealousy out on him, or say the wrong things, or just ....I dunno.  You know what I mean??  So, this is my vow to myself and I'm going to get a reminder that I can look @ everyday.  I'm going to tattoo 1 Corinthians 13:4 on my right wrist.  (something along the lines of...Love is Patient, Love is Kind)  I need to remember not to lash out and think irrationally.  so...I shall keep you all updated on how my tattoo looks :)   
       

Sea Bound

As you all may or may not know, I have taken another leap and move, yet this time, somewhere beachy.  Destination=SAN DIEGO!!! I'm starting to get all settled in to this cozy beach town called Pacific Beach, and things are really great.  My man & I found jobs right away, a cute little studio only 4 blocks from the water, and live directly across the street from Trader Joes.  It is so nice to walk across the street and grab whatever needed lol. Anyhoo...I shall keep this one short. But wanted to keep u all updated!  Hopefully next time, I will be writing of my surfing experiences and discoveries of this beautiful town

All About Hair

        Paul Mitchell is my new home for the next 11 months!  What a LONG journey it has been for me to get to this place.  It's so interesting to me how many times I have "planned" to start cosmetology school, and have even started school in Kansas, but now in hindsight, I realize I was "meant" to be at The California Academy, Paul Mitchell, at this very point in my life.  So thankful for every life situation that has brought me HERE; this is EXACTLY where I know I want and am meant to be. 

       My new Paul Mitchell Family is amazing and I am ALREADY growing as a woman, just 3 weeks into school!  I am surrounded by NICE people, who want to make a difference in life.  It's FABULOUS!!!!

         Okay, now to the *SUPER* exciting news...I'm GOING TO CAPER!!!!!!!!!
Caper is a 3 day long seminar held in Las Vegas, put on by "the big guys" for Paul Mitchell.  John Paul Dejoria, Robert Crommings, Winn Claybaugh, Angus Mitchell...which includes lots of motivational speaking, hands on workshops, meet and greets, and SOO much more.  Out of the 150,000 Future Professionals within the PM Family, only about 2,000 get to attend :)
                                        I will leave early February following my 25th birthday, so it will be an amazing way to kick off my 25th year!  Don't worry guys...I will make sure to fill you in with ALL the details and pictures of my time there :)  Until then, stay tuned....

         

            

Through the looking glass

                                                     Through the looking glass, looking back in time
                                             I never would have imagined where life would take me.  Through the
                                                looking glass, I know that I was meant to go to Kansas for so 
                                       many reasons.  My relationships with friends have blossomed immensely, and then
                                            there are those relationships that fizzled their way out of my life. It's okay      
                                    though...because through the looking glass, taking a peek at this year 2010, it brings
                                             me to a place that rests in peace in me, and I know this is exactly where
                                                             I'm supposed to be.

                                                     

The Human Heart

Without a driving force, like love, the human heart cannot force itself to push through a really tough circumstance, before giving up.  It's as if one day you are hanging on, supporting each other, trying to get through to make it to the finish line, and then, one day you hit rock bottom.  This was me yesterday.  What a hard day.  But, I made it...I had to set my emotions aside and lean on my rock for his support and encouraging words telling me we will make it through.  I know we will.  It's just that some days, it's harder to see that light than others.  Faith.  That's the thing I need to grasp on too.  Love.  Love can conquer all;  I know ours will.  I just need to hang on for the rest of the ride...we are so close.  December 15th, here we come.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  ⁸Love never fails.

Thank you Father for my beautiful life.  Tonight has given me time to reflect and be thankful for all I have.  You lead me to the place where I find peace, again.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDojEOiMcE