M.I.A (long one..sorry guys)

Just like my last several months of posts I am going to start with an apology. How busy life has been since I have started school! I have been looking at my blog and seeing the pathetic slip of posts since the month of August, I still haven't ever gotten caught up with reading everyone else's posts. Lets see, let me try to catch up a bit.

The time has been passing me more quickly this year than any year past. I feel like it should still be March and I was just leaving California. I can't believe that is has already been 5 months since moving into our home in Bozeman. I was cutting a client's hair yesterday and they asked me if I had plans for thanksgiving. I told her no that I haven't even thought about it. She quickly reminded me that it was only 2 weeks off and I should think of making a plan...Geez didn't we just start October? Yeah apparently that month slipped by me as well.

Jared is doing well. Scruffy as ever, he is now 6 months into his hair grow experiment. (YAY HALF DONE!) I wouldn't mind the beard as much if it was well manicured, but since there is absolutely no shears to touch it, it remains wild as ever. Jared is a workaholic to say the least. Since switching his job within the company in July he has worked every single saturday since. His job is to be their truck driver, but with the big hail storm back in June he has been doing incredible amounts of shingle jobs with Ryan. He did the math and he lifts over 1 ton of shingles in a single 12 hours. He is loosing weight and looks great. I am very proud of him.

I am continuing to do well in school. I am holding a personal record I set for myself, that makes me very proud. I have not missed a single day of school since I started on August 3rd. I have been on the clinic floor for over a month and can now do cut, color, and perms on the public. At first I hated cutting so very much. I thought I would like it a lot more than I did. It would frustrate me to the point that I wanted to cry every single time I got into the cut. But I later discovered that it was just cutting on a mannequin that drove me insane. I started cutting on the public and I picked it up rather fast. I think a lot of it has to do with the interaction that you get with the person. I now have a least 2 or 3 clients a day. :) I am getting pretty fierce at men's cuts lol I do a lot of those. I had my first experience with extremely thick asian hair. WOW! I cut more hair off of that guy than I had on my whole head, and he still had triple the amount than I do. After sweeping it up it looked like a small black dog chilling in the corner haha. Unfortunately I experienced my first cut during his hair cut. Everything was going quite well until the thinning process. I was using my thinning shears and when  I went to palm them they slipped off my finger just enough that they were going to fall. I went to catch them and the blades bit down on my flesh in the process. It was so fast that it wasn't painful but it was quick to bleed. The after math looked like a small shark bite haha the serrated edge looked like teeth and somehow it was curved. CRAZY. I am loving it though now that I am busy working with the public.

Winter has officially hit Bozeman. We are freezing our Southern Californian Nay Nay's off here because of it too. The bird's hate the cold and stay constantly fluffy. The day the first blizzard hit I took them to the window to look out. Tico freaked and did everything in his power to get away. The first storm decided to come the day that I had to travel to Helena to take my national nail exam for Montana. When I woke up that morning it was just a light rain but after jumping out of the shower is had turned to fluffy white flakes that accumulated so fast! I wasn't thrilled about driving in that, my poor Mazda RX-8 and I was almost in tears. :) The further away I got from Bozeman the better the weather was though. I passed my test with flying colors and I am now licensed in two states. I am happy about that! I am still trying to sell my beautiful car, I am very unsuccessful with it though at the moment. A winter area just isn't the place for such a magnificent sports car lol. I am at the point that I think we will travel to an area where snow doesn't happen and find something else to drive back. It's just too beautiful to get ruined by a winter storm.

With all of that being said, I think you all are just about caught up on our life. We have been very fortunate to have several visitors, which we love. We are still adjusting to our new life and taking all of it's up's and down's with stride. I think I am having a lot harder time doing that than Jared is though. A bit of identity crisis has been going on inside my head. :) I haven't abondoned you all though and I am sorry that I have been such a stranger. I will try to be better again.

Much Love,