once again, my heart is still racing from today.
i found a buyer for my itouch, and they bought for almost twice of what i asked for. she was a cute blonde, who had just graduated hair school herself. she had passed her state boards and was already certified. i felt like i was selling electronics in the cosmetology black market when she handed me almost $300 in cash, and then left marinello. did you catch that? three hounded dollars. my mind was blown. ca-ching! so, i rewarded myself with extensions :) i love them! and this is so sad, but i feel gorgeous with them in.. i might not ever take them out even. but hey! guess who got hit on minutes after she put those bad boys in? this girl... it's all the hair baby, all the hair..
my new goal is to get my hair this long... naturally.
we totally had a relief society moment at school today. our class has been through a twelve week exercise together with the esthetician instructor, and today was the end of our little sessions. some of the girls had to give speeches, and of course it was a tear fest the entire time. we all have made fun of these speeches for weeks, thinking that they were pointless ooey gooey heart to heart talks that none of us needed. but at the end of it we were all fixing our tear stained faces and having confessions of how much we all needed each other. dardy, little miss hawaii, said in her speech that it was no "accident" or "coincidence" that we were all placed together for this entire year of school. and that was more obvious today then it has ever been before. i never thought i could get this close with strangers, but everyday i look at each of them and they all feel like old friends.our instructor becky, made it a point to tell us all that she had never been so emotionally intimate with a group of students in all her years of teaching. we could all feel what she was talking about. the air was thick, and whatever was roaming in it, most likely hairspray, was bringing all of us closer.
once everyone had wrapped up their speeches, the esthetician instructor told us a story of two men in a hospital room, who were both bed ridden. one of the men's bed was right next to the window, and the other man who was across the room couldnt see out of the window. so for days, that turned into weeks, which turned into months, the man by the window would describe what he saw out that window, to the man across the room. he would tell him about the big, strong trees, the beautiful mountains, the pond filled with lilly pads, the dozens of birds, the bright green grass, and the charming people that roamed in the scene that illuminated his window every second. then one day, the man by the window passed away. the other man asked the nurse if he could be moved to the other bed, the one by the window, so he could finally see with his own two eyes the heaven on earth that had been described to him for months. the nurse moved him no problem, and finally when the man was able to gaze out the window, he found himself in a state of sheer disappointment. the nurse listened to the mans story of how the man by the window described what he saw every day to him, and that he had done this up to the day of his death, but now as he looked out for the window for himself none of these lovely things were there. he kept begging the nurse for answers as he asked over and over again where all that beauty had disappeared to. the nurse looked back at the man and said.. "sir, that man was blind."
this story instantly taught each of us a lesson. it's true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. how many times have you driven the same path to school, seen the same people, done the same thing, and never noticed the beauty that surrounds you daily? if you haven't noticed a single thing, you might as well be blind. bailey told us a story of how she was at one of her church's christian concerts, and she saw a women dancing her heart out. the bandana that hugged her balding head made it obvious that she was fighting cancer, but as bailey watched her, this cancer ridden women was having the time of her life. and it was the most beautiful thing bailey had ever seen.
so give it a rest and just look.
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