The Prince of Peace

For some reason I have this bad habit of making friends who are older than me. Last December, almost all of my close friends graduated and left Rexburg. On top of that, I had my closest friends who were still in Rexburg completely abandon me. I had never had that experience before, and it messed me up. I couldn't (and still can't) figure out how I could just be dropped like that. I felt completely used. It was horrible. I can't tell you how many nights Jessica and I sat together and just cried. I wanted my "old" life back. During this time, I prayed that I could feel peace and reassurance that I would be ok.

At the beginning of the year, I moved into 105 with the only friends I had left. This was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. I learned so much from these girls and I love them so much! They were just what I needed and I plan on staying good friends with them for a very long time! They and the some of the best boys ever pulled me out of my misery, fear and anxiety. I had peace in my life. 

Then came July and all those friends graduated or got married too. (You see this bad habit of mine?) I decided to move back home because I literally didn't know anyone to move in with and I didn't want to go three months living with unnecessary girl drama. The difference this time was that I now had that peace that I had prayed for. I continually pray that I will be able to keep that peace and I have been so incredibly blessed that I have been able to.

Now I am graduated from BYU-Idaho and will be going out into the real world for the first time. I have watched so many of my friends that have panicked about this next step. I see how afraid they are and the anxiety that they feel. I, on the other hand, have already gone through that phase. I did it about a year ago. I have also already worked my way through it. I'm not stupid, I know it will be a big adjustment and it won't be easy, but I am not afraid. I am so ready for that change. I don't have a job, and I have no clue where my life will go from here, but I feel peace.

At graduation, I was talking to a friend and he asked how I felt about graduating and moving on with life. I told him I wasn't that worried about it. He replied "well, I guess it's different for you cause you have your parents here." I was so irritated by that! This has nothing to do with the fact that I have my parents with me or that I happen to be from Rexburg. If he wanted to, he could move back in with his parents. No one is stopping him from doing that, but he wants to have his own life. Guess what, so do I!  I am doing the same thing everyone else is doing. I feel good about graduating because this is something that I have been working on all year. Not just the homework part, the mental part - the moving on part. I've already faced it and I am ready for it. I feel peace.

At church the other day we read Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

I have been thinking about that scripture all week, especially the last four words. I have felt so blessed all year for having been given the wonderful gift of peace. It has made all the difference in my life this year. It is one of the greatest gifts that I have ever received, and I am eternally grateful for it. I still have trials and life is not perfect, but that peace gives me the reassurance that I am following God's plan for me. I hope that I am always able to live so that I can have that peace in my life.


The best part is that anyone can have this same gift. It has already been given to us, all we need to do is receive it.  


Merry Christmas!

Art Humor

I follow quite a few photography blogs. One of these is Bent Objects. He does some pretty cool stuff. I think his site is worth taking a look at.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Museum of Coffee History Art (M.O.C.H.A.)

My final project for Graphic Design is to design three posters for the Museum of Modern Art (M.O.M.A.) so this was particularly entertaining for me.

I'm turning into one of those art nerds  :)

p.s.  it's actually December 12th now.

December?

The following pictures were taken yesterday (December 10, 2011)

Yes, you saw correctly. That girl is in a tank top! In the middle of December!

And if that wasn't convincing enough, this is me, with no coat! In the middle of December! If that's not proof that we are having unusually warm weather, I don't know what is.

Don't worry, even though the weather hasn't gotten the memo that it's December, we are remembering.

We decorated our tree today!

So excited for Christmas!

Facebook

7 top posts

1.  Porter wrote me a song!

Why this is my top post, I have no idea. But it is amusing to me and makes me happy every time :)

2.  This is why I never made it to printmaking today....

I was actually really surprised that Porter's song beat this post! This is when Jessica and Kevin got engaged, so I had a million random people looking at my blog to hear how it happened. I don't usually count this post, because people weren't actually reading for me, so I don't know if it really counts.

3.  Remember the AWESOME post?

This is when I was almost a legit photographer and I took pictures for the Craze! Yeah, that was pretty cool.

4.  2 in one day!

It actually kind of irritates me that this is so high on the list. Why? Because the reason it is high is because people blew it up and decided to make it a big deal when it wasn't. I meant for this to be a little insignificant, entertaining post and for some reason it became a big deal. I actually had a whole post dedicated to this irritant, but it somehow got deleted. oh well, it's probably for the best. Lets just say that although I like to discuss controversial topics, I don't like to do it 24/7. Sometimes I just want to put a fun movie on my blog and have people say, "that was interesting." Anyway, I could go on (and on, and on...) but I won't. The bottom line, as I said before, is that this is my blog and my experiences, and they are not up for debate. That can be reserved for Us Meets World. Thank you.

5.  In Response - The Friend Zone

This is the post that started Us Meets World!

6.  It has been a particularly hard week

This was a depressing day, but a good learning and growing experience for me. I'm glad that people got something out of it.

7.  What's in your purse?

I always have really random stuff in my purse, so I decided to blog about it. I really liked this post, probably one of my favorites  :)

2 in one day!

sorry, I know I already posted today, but I just found this and it is something I have been struggling with for a long time, but particularly this semester.



my conclusion? Girls can be "just friends", but guys cannot. Because of this, it ultimately makes it impossible for guys and girls to be friends. It never turns out good! (at least for me)

I should have listened to Tyler Shotwell when we first had this discussion years ago. My life would be so much simpler!

the meaning of Christmas (kid history style)

Us Meets World

Remember this post? Well, Us Meets World is officially up and running! We currently have a heated discussion about money that I just contributed to (Money Can't Buy My Love) I'm trying to bring some peace back  :)

Anyway, if you like overly opinionated people, take a look! Feel free to comment and add your own opinion as well. Seriously, this is meant to be open to anyone.

p.s.  Dad, make sure you comment on the right blog  :)

Art

I have a love-hate relationship with art. I generally don't consider myself a creative, artsy person. I don't draw, I don't paint, and I don't dress all trendy. I tell people I'm a photography major, because I don't want to be associated with art people. However, this past week has been different. I suddenly love art and I am proud to call it my major! What caused this sudden change of heart? Graphic Design! I love it! Yes, I give my life up to it, and I'm already planninng on pulling another all-nighter tomorrow night on it's behalf, but I really do love it!

It looks simple enough, but you would not believe the amount of work that went into this.

To see my exciting photography news, please visit my photography website here. Sometimes art is so great  :)

Now I need to stop procrastinating and finish the photo book I'm making....

Thankful Thursday

Once upon a time I would do "Thankful Thursdays." Every Thursday was a gratitude day and I would think of how blessed I was, rather than all the things that were going wrong, or that I wanted to happen, etc. It was great! Why did I stop? I have no idea. But the point is that I am reinstating Thankful Thursdays and I'm inviting everyone who would like to to do it with me!

Today I am grateful for the amazing jobs I have and the people I get to work and associate with. This was my day:

8:00-11:00     Work at the orthodontist (Tenille is in Arizona, so I'm covering for her)
11:30-1:45     Graphic Design
2:00-5:30       Back to the orthodontist
6:00-10:30     Work at the photo lab

It sounds like a ridiculously long and busy day, but I love it so much! I love what I get to do at each of these places, and I love the people I get to work with at each of these places. I'm so thankful for these opportunities that I have in my life right now  :)

Saturday

Mom is redecorating both the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms. She asked for my help in hanging up our baby pictures, so I did!

Remember how I'm an art major, and how I've recently decided that I like art, and art people have this thing about things looking perfect. This is all of our measuring tools and things that we used in the process of hanging the pictures.

It might have taken a little longer than if my mom had just done it herself, but it would not be done to the precision that I accomplished! It was quite exciting for me.

The final product. Beautiful!

Meanwhile, dad was painting the downstairs bathroom and laundry room. Can you guess what color he's painting? (here's a hint: it's grey!)

And this is what I spent the rest of my weekend doing. Luckily, I really enjoy graphic design so it wasn't awful work, but it literally took over my whole weekend, and there's still more to do!

I have some pretty cool friends

Long story short - Last week's post inspired the following activity on Facebook:

Yes, you read that correctly. There were 459 comments. We completely dominated all of Facebook for the night. What did those 459 comments say? Basically that we want to start a blogging club where we all talk about a common topic (like we all did dating last week) but from our own perspectives. By popular vote, our blog will be called "Us Meets World."

Because all of us (except Izzy and me) are graduated and don't live in Rexburg anymore, we decided that we would all meet in Pocatello for dinner to discuss our blog in more detail.

 In all honestly, it was a lot more excitement about being together, laughing and reaching a noise level that ultimately cleared everyone else out of our section of the restaurant, and a lot of discussion on "goats that were genetically altered to produce milk stronger than Spider Man." Oh yeah, and our blog was in there somewhere too. It was so much fun! I wanted the night to go on forever. 

This pretty much sums up our night  :)

I decided that as long as I had made the trip to Pocatello, I might as well finish the trip off by going to Logan for the weekend. The drive to Pocatello had been slow, due to the first snow storm of the year and poor visibility. It was hard to see and I drove like an old lady all the way there. Katelyn said it was even worse coming from Logan and we considered staying the night in Blackfoot with Kandace and then seeing what the weather was like the next day to either go back to Rexburg, or finish the trip to Logan. We ultimately decided that we didn't want to stay in Blackfoot and opted to make our way slowly to Logan. I was tense the whole way, but it had largely cleared up and wasn't as bad as we had anticipated. We actually ended up making really good time!

We got to Katelyn's apartment at midnight, then we had to stay up for another two hours catching up on life. Needless to say, I slept until 1:00 in the afternoon and it felt so good! I am extremely sleep deprived these days, and my body needed some well deserved rest.

We went to a USU basketball game and the fans are so mean! I refused to do half of their cheers, and even secretly rooted for the other team a little because I felt so bad for them. I have to admit though, it was probably the most entertaining game I have been to because we were just as involved and had to pay just as much attention as the actual players did. I also really like the unity that is created by all the cheers. I guess that they actually have a little handbook type thing of all the cheers and when they are done, etc. that they give you when you are accepted to the school. That's pretty cool, I think.

Towards the end of the game, the mascot was crowd surfing up our section. Unfortunately, there was a shortage of people near the top and the surfing died right in front of us. On the bright side, we were able to get an awesome picture with Big Blue! 

That night Katelyn made an amazing dinner. We made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and did light painting for my assignment. Then we watched Charley and cried. Such a fun weekend!

This may not be the most exciting post, but this is the first time in a long time that I have even had something to write about, so it's pretty exciting for me. 

Yay for friends, blogging, and milk stronger than Spider Man!

In Response - The Friend Zone

A while ago, my friend Izzy wrote a blog post about dating. I thought he was pretty accurate and felt that I could relate. However, there is one part that I would like to clear up, on the girl end of things.

Izzy wrote:

"Girls don't understand that if you want a good husband, you gotta marry the guy who's in the friend zone. You're both comfortable with each other, you both know way more about each other than you should, you have no shame around each other (which is both a good and bad thing),  and you can disagree with each other and still get along. So basically a friend zone is everything a good spouse should be. So why does it never work? 

People are shallow. People friend zone those who they don't find attractive, and they do it on purpose. That way you can still be friend but use the "He's like my brother" .  You may not even realize that is the reason you friend zone people, but subconsciously I'd say that everyone does it. Of course this isn't the rule 100% of the time, and just like everything else in life, there are exceptions."

I see where he is coming from, and I understand why he would think this way. However, there is a little more that goes into the friend zone.

First, lets establish that I want to marry my best friend. I think most girls want to marry their best friend for the very reasons that Izzy listed above. 

Second, there is a lot more that goes into "the friend zone" than just attraction, and that is what boys don't get. If you are willing to talk to me, I will probably be your friend. I can be friends with just about anyone, but that doesn't mean that I would, or even should, date you. 

I have relatively low expectations when it comes to my friends. All I really care about is that you are a good person, and I think that most people are good. I am friends with all kinds of people. 

I am friends with boys who lack social skills. 

I am friends with boys who have no direction in life. 

I am friends with boys who swear. 

I am friends with boys who aren't active in the church. 

I am friends with boys who have anger management problems. 

I am friends with boys who are flakes.

I am friends with boys I am not attracted to.

I am friends with boys who can't commit.

I am friends with boys who still won't grow up.

I am friends with boys who lack responsibility.

Are these people good friends? Yes! They are great friends! I love spending time with them. 

But does that mean I should date these friends? No! I don't have to live with my friends for eternity. I don't have to raise my family with my friends. I DO have to do these things with my husband, which translates into who I date, which translates into having higher standards. 

What guys don't get is that girls look a lot deeper than attraction. I might find the most attractive man on earth, but if he has no motivation, he is friend zoned. Sometimes you can be initially friend zoned because of attraction, but once you get to know him more, you find yourself more attracted to him. Personality counts!

I honestly wish that the friend zone were as simple as attraction. I have a lot of friends that I would love to date, but they are lacking some very important traits. 

Basically, what I'm saying is that attraction does factor in, but usually is not the main reason for being "friend zoned"

That's my two cents. 

Thanks for reading.

Leaving Our Mark

Today, I took a girl home from church and she told me she lived in 207, which I still like to think of as "my" apartment. She told me that all her roommates have been afraid all semester that the roof was going to cave in on them because of the huge watermark on their ceiling.

I had to laugh. That is no watermark, it's CRAYON from June 2009!

I told her to look closely and she could also see the words "LOOK" on the ceiling, as well as radiating circles above the sink. 

I wish I had pictures of the ceiling and sink, but I could only find these.

Yes, we definitely left our mark on Kensington 207. 

It has been a particularly hard week.

So I prayed.

And do you know what I got?

- Friends to sit by in class
- A teacher, who has decided to teach, rather than be annoyed by our questions.

- Clothes that I like

- Two amazing photo shoots that actually make me excited to be a photographer
- An amazing family who assisted me with both photo shoots
- My dad, who is willing to get out of bed to rescue me from my dead car.
- Juliette, a friend (who I had met two hours before) who stayed with me and my dead car so that I didn't have to be alone.

- knowledge of how to build more galleries on my website

- The opportunity to help and teach others about photography

- A best friend who in willing to drop her life to talk to me as I completely freak out.

- Closure

- The Temple and workers who remember me
- Nice weather

- Jared Honsvick, a true friend with no alternative motives

- My phone, which found itself two minutes after I proclaimed it lost.

- Lab assistants who know me

- A project that isn't actually due until Tuesday when I thought it was due Monday

- Fabulous friends who answered the call for a blanket to photograph

- A late night talk with Colby who was inspired to lock himself out of his apartment.
- 6,414 pictures moved onto my external hard drive so that my computer can function normally again
- Devotional from Sister Dalton
- Memories that I will never forget
- Opportunities to grow

This week, I have much to be grateful for

Talent

I miss this...



All those top secret coordinator meetings we had? Yes, they were very serious meetings.

Our meetings were Wednesday and we'd change the Friday Song to the Talent Board Wednesday song. I suggested (as a complete joke) that we sing it at our closing social. Mallory latched onto the idea and did her best to get us to follow through on it, but with no success. Instead I will post our brainstorming session on my blog that a total of 5 people will see.

and I miss this....



This was the best Best Of show ever!

but, as much as I miss it, I'm glad I'm not doing it anymore.

I got to be stage manager for Acoustic Cafe (thanks Jess!) and I'll do I-Cover coming up.

That is just the right amount of Talent for me.

What I do at work

Yesterday at work I got someone a piece of paper and checked out a shutter release to someone else. Other that that, I listened to music, looked at blogs, read, worked on my website, facebooked, and watched this. (If you didn't click on that last link, go back and watch it cause it's worth it.)

Yes, my job is very demanding.

This is me at the USU game a few weeks ago with some friends. In case you didn't know, we killed the other team!

Ink

Meet Ink

She is our mentally handicapped bipolar cat who thinks she is a dog.

If you come visit our house, you won't see her. This is because she is afraid of people and will hide for days, even weeks at a time if someone is visiting us.

Once she warms up to you though, there is no getting rid of her. She will follow you around the house and constantly be under foot, rubbing against your legs.

She is the most skittish cat you will ever meet. At the slightest noise, she will suddenly dart out of the room to hide. Sometimes we don't even know what spooked her!

She likes to snuggle and lick you, then suddenly decide to bite and attack you. Sometimes she will chase her tail. She comes when you call, begs for food, and will eat any food. Tonight I also found out that she is well trained and very obedient.

I came home from work (at the photo lab, which I thoroughly enjoy) and I was hungry, so I decided to make myself some instant oatmeal. As I waited the 30sec. for it to heat up, Ink found me and went to work rubbing away at my legs. I almost tripped on her as I carried my oatmeal into the living room to curl up on the couch in my fleece blanket. (I have been freezing all week!)

There is nothing Ink loves better than to lay on your stomach, burry her face in fleece, and drool to her hearts content. She eagerly jumped on top of me and began to situate herself.

I don't know if you noticed in the above picture, but Ink is a big cat and she has a lot of fur that is always shedding. I didn't particularly want her fur on my blanket and I had to keep moving my bowl higher and higher to keep her tail from getting into my food. Before Ink had a chance to get situated, I decided that now, when I was trying to eat, was not the time to snuggle. I explained this to her and asked her to please get down, which she obliged to. The fleece, however was too tempting, and after eying it for a while she made a second attempt. I, again, told her no and she got down. I could see her looking longingly at the fleece and I was sure she would make another attempt, but she decided to compromise instead.

She put her front paws on the couch, found a little corner of the blanket, and promptly buried her face in it.

She stayed this way until I finished my oatmeal.

Then I let her lick the bowl.

She is one unique cat.

New Semester!

Two days into the Semester and I have already -

1. Dropped a class, which means I now only have 6 credits instead of 9 credits.

2. Found out I've had a job lined up all summer, they just forgot to contact me about it! The first thing I'm doing when I get in there is making everyone answer their emails. I've already informed them that their communication is horrible. I will be a joy to have around  :)

3. Made another blog! (It's on my photography blog list under alliekayphoto if you want to follow it for this semester, but no obligation. I already have a whole class to look at it) This blogging thing is getting out of control, but this time I used wordpress instead and it is complicated! I'll figure it out eventually. Hopefully before the semester ends......

4. Gone to Devotional! I don't get to do this often because I'm always working. I love Devotional!

5. Procrastinated way too much. I still haven't even moved into my room all the way yet!

All things considered, I'd say it's been a pretty productive semester thus far!

(This list is dedicated to Katelyn Ericson)

This is what I will miss

I know I just posted, but last time was about little kids, and this one is about college students. So it's different.

I love when we have college aged patients! They are the best, and I always have the best conversations/relationships with them. Because I have very much been living the "college life" for the past four years (and I am the only one in the office with this "college life"), I feel like I can relate to them and I love the connection that it instantly brings. You would be surprised. I especially love freshman! I love their enthusiasm for being in college and out on their own for the first time and all the crazy experiences it brings.

One particular freshman girl asked if I would add her on facebook. I don't usually add people (and especially my patients), but because she had specifically asked me and I was so flattered that she thought her orthodontics assistant was cool enough to be facebook friends, I broke my rule and added her.

Today, during my lunch break, she popped up on chat and asked if I would be working on Tuesday for her next appointment. I informed her that, unfortunately, today was my last day. She was so sad! She reminisced about me being her first assistant for her new patient consultation and told me the office would never be the same without me. When I told her that I was graduating and wasn't planning on coming back she was even more sad and said that she better see me on campus this semester! I told her I would definitely look for her.

This is what I will miss!

It sounds weird, but you really do have the opportunity to influence peoples lives. It sounds odd, but for some patients, their monthly appointments are the only stability they have in their lives. Some kids come from really sad situations. Some kids make their own really sad situations with the stupid decisions they make. We get to know these people and we care about them. We have laughed with them and cried with them. (ok, this is sounding really cheesy, but I'm telling you, it's so true!)

I think it is incredible that an orthodontics office could have such an impact! We have even had some patients who come in when they aren't even scheduled just to talk. Some come in even after they get their braces off to give us updates on their lives three years later, or to show off their new baby. In a small way, we become a part of their lives.

That is what I will miss.

..................................................

Ok, I'm done with that! Kandace informed me that my picture was not very lively on the last post, so I'm trying to make up for it here.

 The other thing I will miss is.... (in no particular order)

Office jokes

I don't know if I will miss this, but every year the whole office would dress up for Halloween and then go around to all the other dentist offices and give them baskets full of un-nutritious goodness (This year Dr Summers was the Man in the Yellow Hat, the receptionist was Curious George, and the assistants were, of course, bananas!)

March Madness! We are required to fill out a bracket every year and it gets very competitive. This was the first round, so I don't look too bad, but if you saw the final outcome, it would be a whole different story. I usually feel pretty good about myself if I can beat Kelsi (she's in moms Kindergarten class this year)

Going out to eat for peoples birthdays

The cleaning guys! (ok, they've been gone for a while now, but I still miss them so much!) We would always leave notes for each other and he was the best at pranks and especially trash talking!

The food! This is my first time trying pumpkin pie and it is so good! If you go in the back of any dentist/orthodontist, you would be amazed at the amount of junk food there is, especially during the holidays. I snack all the time when I'm at work, and just about all of it is chocolate. I will definitely miss that! (We are very hypocritical people, us dentists)

Pranks!

Rigby! (This is Analisa and me driving to Rigby in style!) Let me tell you, there are some messed up people in Rigby. I am convinced that there has to be something in the water. But, you gotta love 'em! Plus, it was always nice to catch up on my People (People magazine) when no one would show up to their appointments until the last hour before we closed.

Making our own entertainment when things got slow (like making voodoo wax people)

And most of all I will miss Tenille and Analisa! They are the best people to work with ever! We're already planning our next girls night  :)

One more day of work!

Yesterday, at work, a lady came in for a new patient consultation and she brought her two year old son. He was good, but very active. He had no interest in sitting and playing with anything, but he preferred to push anything that would move - the box the blocks went in, several different roller chairs, and the bead maze made it's way around the entire office before we could get him back to the main area. While him mom was talking to Dr. Summers, this little guy became my new job (I usually end up being the babysitter in these kinds of situations, mostly because I have a lack of responsibility and would much rather play with small children than actually do my job and work with patients.)

At one point I was kneeling on the ground, unsuccessfully trying to interest him in playing with a block that you could put your hand in. He stared at me with a little smile on his face, then he ran back into the consult room with his mom. I gave up on the block idea and looked up to talk to Brandie (receptionist) and Tenille (another assistant). Suddenly, out of nowhere, he came running and jumped on top of my back! I was so surprised that I almost lost my balance! Brandie and Tenille laughed as I tried to shake him off through my own laughter, but this kid was going nowhere! He was so pleased with himself! He had his mouth wide open in the biggest smile and he thought he was the funniest thing in the world. I decided I would at least take advantage of his attachment to me and carried him piggy-back to the waiting room where I was finally able interest him in pushing blocks back and forth with me. His mom felt bad for the "free babysitting" but it was the best part of my day!

Anyway, that was a pointless story, but I really have nothing to say these days, sorry. The point is that I love my job (especially when it involves working with kids) and I love the people I work with and (I know I've said this way too many times before, but this time is for reals) tomorrow is my last day of work!

Kind of bittersweet.

This is a picture that I took that has no point to it, other than I thought this was a boring post and this is my attempt to liven it up a bit.

I think I failed.

Stagnate

for the past year and a half (especially the past year since I got back from Europe) I have been so bored with life! I do fun things, but nothing is exciting anymore. I have no satisfaction. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut and there is nothing I can do to get myself out.

Then I realized:

- I am the longest employee at work (except Dr. Summers - He's been working for 9 years and I have 4)

- I have been in my ward longer than anyone (including the bishopric)

- I have been at Kensington longer than anyone (including the managers)

- I have also been around longer than anyone in Colonial (I'm pretty sure this also includes the managers as well)

- I have been on Talent longer than anyone

- I have been in Rexburg for the past 15 years!

No wonder I feel so stagnate!

I need a change.

why?

My top readers of this blog:

crazychucks.com
iteethwhiteningguide.com

why? I'm not sure what I think about this....

Mawiage. Mawiage is what bwings us hewe togethew, today....

For more specifics, go to Katelyn's blog at katelynannericson.blogspot.com
She is a much better writer than I am and will be much more entertaining to read.

I'm a Woman & Texas Ducks

This is who I've been spending my time with:

Yesterday we went to the duck pond to feed them our leftover bread sticks from Olive Garden. Let me tell you, these are the weirdest/saddest ducks you have ever seen and a dead frog to top it off!

 

Courtney made friends with the white duck.

 

Watching the deformed ducks hobble around

I gave into peer pressure

I have never dyed, permed, colored, highlighted, or done anything un-natural my hair. So, when the feather craze came, I thought it would just be one more fad that would pass me by. However, I am a sucker for social activities. I will do just about anything if it is in the name of a social activity. So when my sister-in-law and sisters decided they wanted feathers in their hair, I was not going to be left out.  

The feather is not actually in my hair here. This is me mentally preparing myself for this big change. It was a big deal.

The feather Haley got in her hair

Courtney's feather (I'm still preparing myself in the background)

Ashland getting her feather put in.

Goodbye virgin hair!

Now I'm all trendy. 

We are so cool! We felt so edgy with our feathers! The girl who gave them to us was joking with us about going out for a cappuccino after to celebrate. I was pushing for ice cream (no surprise there)