Right now I’m working on planning on redoing our spare room to make it more like an office instead of just a plain room.

I made an inspiration notebook for each room in the house. Most of the images are from the Ikea & West Elm catalogs. I wish I could figure out why Ikea refuses to build a store here I mean, it’s Las Vegas! We should have at least 2 of them! Hahaha. I guess I’ll just have to use…eBay or…something…

This weekend was my friend’s/coworker’s daughter’s birthday! I told her I would make Hello Kitty cupcakes, and so I did.

Tadaaa!! The one with the “J” is a full Hello Kitty for the birthday girl! It was a lot of work but definitely worth the happy smiles!

In other life news, I started my new job at the wax center on Monday (part time so I can work at the salon still~). Before we started working on people, we had to get Brazilians.

Yeah, it’s pretty much as painful as you think it is, only 1000x worse. But only after the first 4 seconds when the hair is removed. If you can withstand that, you’re good. I’m still a bit sore but it’s really mild. Honestly? I’ll probably have it done again. Maaayybeee…

Brazilians were the majority of what I did today (actually, that’s the majority of all my appointments). I never knew that so many people got them done, maybe we just don’t talk about it as much? Or maybe it’s just my age group? Perhaps we’re just still weirded out sometimes by vagina and booty talk. “Spread your cheeks” just got a whole new meaning for me.

Hahaha! Seriously, though. We make them spread their cheeks. Fun stuff guys, I’m telling you. Everyone should be a waxer.

And that never happens, so I was pretty miserable.

Photo by Vktr Mmxll

That’s me working. Well, that’s my hand. After all the glamor work was finished we headed to the event/rave. It was held at this place called Coconuts at Town Square. I’ve never been to a rave before, but it was pretty fun. I even got Nik to dance a bit! Haha.

The first planner I ever bought was some kind of generic brand (I’m not really sure what it was…), the second a Paperchase, and third a Moleskine. The Moleskine is great, but I did really like the Paperchase because it used the rings instead of the glue binding. The one I’m waiting on is a Moleskine, too, it’s just taking it’s sweet time to get here~

In my spare time I actually made a home decor inspiration notebook, which I managed to finish in absolutely no time and didn’t manage to curb my need for organization. I can’t help it! I feel like a crazy person.

Things I am excited about putting in the planner:

• Recipes
• Budget
• Appointments
• Stuff I need for work
• Stuff I need for life
• Groceries
• Food I ate
• Plans with people
• Inspiration
• Memories

See! Always with the lists! I am making a list about the things I’m going to make lists for!

If anyone is curious about what my planner kind of looks like/what I do to it, there’s a livejournal community with tons of cool stuff.

To be honest, the only reason I want a polaroid camera is to put the pictures in my planner. I know, I know…

Oh! I don’t think I mentioned this, but I applied at a wax center to work as a part time waxer. I got the job! I’m so excited! Having a steady income will be a huge relief, especially after the last few months I’ve been having. I believe I’ll be starting at the end of this month. Wish me luck everyone!

So I did. Someone tell me why I always want to raise my eyebrows when I take pictures of myself?!

If anyone is wondering:

Eyeshadow

• Surf by Stila
• A light blue shadow from one of Victoria’s Secret’s palettes
• Virgin by Urban Decay
• Indian Aires MAC Pigment

Shoes are from H&M

For some reason I’ve been into really strong colors (like royal blue and marigold/yellow). Spring is already here for me I guess.

We left Vegas at about 5am and got there a little after 9am. I got a couple photos from the show and I meant to take pictures of the stuff I bought but I totally forgot about it before I brought it into work today! That’s probably boring for most people anyway…

So here’s a bit of a photo dump from the show. It’s almost like a giant swap meet for beauty stuff (only with some demos, classes, and REALLY LOUD MUSIC). I only brought 80$ to spend at the show but next year I’ll probably take more since I’ll probably want a pair of new shears or something.

Anytime you start a new job you try to get a feel for people, read them you know? I’m still going through that. They’re all really fun to be with but I’m still getting used to them. So there’s that.

Also, when you’re a “beginner” you seem to feel like the biggest piece of crap in the world, LOL. But seriously. They’re teaching me all of these techniques and I’m asking questions all the freaking time…I kinda feel like, “Do I even know anything?! What the hell is wrong with me!” I can’t compare with 20 years of collective experience but oh my LORD. Talk about frustrating. It’s hard to beam with confidence when you have all of these amazing people around you. I just really hope I’m not irritating them with asking about so much…

I had to ask my mom for sage advice because my mother knows EVERYTHING. Not even joking. She even knows how to get the smell of garlic off your fingers! Anyway, I asked her how she did it…getting people in to see her and all that (she did nails for ~20 years) and she gave me little tidbits of what to do, say, all that. Then she told me how she spent an hour looking for “cute but comfortable” shoes for me! My mother is a saint I tell you.

I’m going to try and go shopping tomorrow so I can look more trendy. I feel so underdressed all the time. I can’t go on looking like a highschooler for the rest of my life I guess.

So maybe this week I’ll attempt at some pictures or something! I felt so busy this week. I even wrote a half-assed post after my first day but fell asleep before I could post it. Probably for the best, really.

But I digress…we redid the spare bathroom and made a “game room”, a place to hoard all of our nerdy gamer stuff. So now I would like to redo our bedroom a little bit, just repaint mostly and add a few useful touches here and there. Nothing crazy (was jobless, hellooo) but I really wanted to feel like an “ADULT”. So I’m thinking – what can I do first that really needs an upgrade? Hey look, our closet! So I went through all of my clothes and put about 20% in a large garbage bag to donate (soon, I swear). So now that the depressing part was over, I hopped online (HAHA who am I kidding…I’m always online) to look up some ~*inspirational*~ pictures of closets. Would you like to know what I found?

Who are these people? Mariah Carey? I mean some of them even look like stores! I live in a house but I think my closet could barely fit a chair let alone a sofa! So for now I’m just going through my catalog collection to find some organizational help and some color ideas. We’ll see what I actually come up with. In the meantime, I’m just gonna keep scrolling through the Ikea website and dreaming of “what could be”, LOL.

Edit: I found out that a lot of the real people giant closets weren’t really “closets”, people morphed an extra room or space into a massive closet! Wish I would have thought of that before redoing the spare room, eheheh.

It made me realize I haven’t worked since freaking June. It was nice for the first 2 months or so but then panic mode set in. I absolutely hated my old job…it made me such a miserable person, and I was so worn out on people I could barely muster to hang out with friends. I’m hoping now that I’ll be doing something I at least enjoy I won’t dread going to work everyday. I still want to go to school for web design/development but right now I just need to start making money!

Did I mention I made some cupcakes this weekend? Those are lemon with lemon cream cheese frosting topped with coconut flakes. We have a lemon tree in our backyard and I figured I’d try to use them before they went bad.  I can’t tell you how amazingly delicious they are but if anyone wants to come over and grab a few be my guest. If you can’t come over then I guess you can always bake them yourself, hahaha.

I wanted to talk about home decor a little bit (now I REALLY feel old) but I feel like 3 topics in one post is a bit much. I hope everyone had a fun and amazing holiday and new year!