Tagging along

Since I decided to drive to South Carolina instead of fly...
I decided I'd ask a friend to come with me.

This trip would be the last time I see him before he goes to
New York for school. Nate would be a bit happy to see him too.
It's been a while since they saw each other.

Today I skipped out of work early. I just didn't feel good.
I was exhausted.

I ended up going to Ikea and getting some stuff.
A new duvet, comforter for the duvet, and a side unit for my bed.
I'm hoping the unit will look okay. If so, I'm going to go buy a 2nd one.
Unfortunately, the comforter is a queen and doesn't fit my duvet
which is a king. And I can't return it since I already opened the package!
I'm hoping I can sell it on this swaps page.

It's now 847 and my head is killing me.
Time to go to bed.
Fun.

47 days to go

Yesterday was awful.
I pretty much got beat up by 2 of my teachers.
They were really awful.

Long story short:
It took me way too long to do my clients partial foil + color in between.
We were unable to do her haircut since the cut off time was 830.
It had taken me 2 hours to do her foils and slap on the other color.
She still had to process for 30 minutes so there wouldn't be any uneven color spots.
Haircut just wasn't going to happen.
She was really mad. Understandable.
My teacher told her that it should've taken me only 1hr to do.
I felt horrible.

It all went downhill from there. Her and another teacher yelled at me about
not using a timer. (I was looking at the clock instead.)
Then yelled about not combing her hair prior to putting her under a dryer.
And they even talked about me in the hallway.

It was not a good night.
I understand that you have to teach someone somehow, but verbally bullying
a student and ganging up on said student isn't the way to do it.

Other then that...
Today I'm getting parts to fix the brakes on my car.
A neighbor is going to do it for 150$ + cost of parts.
A grand total of 310$! Not bad seeing that all the auto shops wanted 800$+.

I've also decided that I will be driving to South Carolina instead of flying.
I should be getting my tax return in the next week.
With the help of some math I've figured it will take about 300$ in gas total.
(Has about 50$ extra for in case. May even be less since gas drops about 30cents
outside of Illinois!)

So far today has been a good day.
And I plan on keeping it that way.

I sold a dress and am getting about 5$ for it, which I will give to my school.
A 5$ donation lets to wear jeans for the day. And it helps the Ronald Mc Donald Foundation.
Yay!

Excitement!

2 posts in 1 day?
OHMY.
haha.

So I decided to skip school tonight, which starts at 530, because I didn't
feel like learning an old school method of straightening hair via lesson.
(I'll read about it later, my teacher is a wee bit nutty so gets side tracked easily.)

Boy am I glad I did!
At about 510, we checked the mail and I had a letter!
Now normally, I would've already been gone for 10 minutes.
So I wouldn't of gotten the letter until about 1015pm. And I wouldn't
of had time to write back since I have to be up for work at 5am!

The letter was from my boyfriend and it was the first letter!
I cried.
I've been waiting for this letter since he left.
Haha.

I was able to write back. =)

And, on another good note.
A swaps page I am on for my area....
A lady posted that she was putting a bag of ladies dress pants on her porch.
FREE.
Well, guess who is in need of dress pants? And they just so happen to be my size.
I was able to snag those! So now, I am a really happy camper.
=)

Good night is good!

I'm bad at this.

I said back in October a post overload was coming.
And that never came.

However, I have good reason.
My computer went kaput and I lost everything.
And being the smart person I am.. I didn't keep my pictures on my SD cards.
So they're quite literally gone.

I will be re-taking pictures and whatnot when I have free time.
And since I got a new job, I have about 3hrs free time Monday-Friday.
Which is nice!

I'm going to start posting about how I'm doing couple times a week.
Reason being... my boyfriend is currently in Army Bootcamp.
I've been feeling ugh and a friend of mine said I should post about things
so nothing is bottled up.
I thought it was a good idea. So now I'm going to try to do a post a day or every few
days about my days.

Currently, he's been gone 12 days.
There are 51 days until I see him.
I feel like I need constant distractions or else.
When I'm alone or have time to think I just want to cry.
So I've been TRYING to stay as busy or distracted as possible.
Sometimes, it's hard to find something to be distracted by.
I've wanted to post on facebook asking people to call me or send me videos...
SOMETHING so I can't think.

It's awful.
So far, I haven't received any letters from him.
And I've told him all phone calls he's to call his family.
He got to call them Friday.
When his mother told me he called, I felt like I deserved to be slapped.
I was mad that they've gotten to talk to him and I haven't.
Even though I told him to call them. So I felt like a horrid person all day.

To help keep myself distracted for another 2 hours I've decided to polish my nails.
Might even do some laundry afterwards.
Or read the book I bought recently.
Hmm.