Saigo no Dansu

Wooah. I forgot all about LJ.. The internet world has been pretty small for me and I keep up with most people on facebook now. But for fun, I'll update here!!

So what has been new? I'm still at the same salon, but I'm freaking BUSY now!! Its ridiculous! My schedule is booked solid for almost 3 weeks, and I looove my clients. Thank goodness I'm still enjoying hairstyling after 6 years.. =)

The biggest change in my life has been my partner, love of my life, girlfriend, Kristina, being deployed. She left on Christmas morning 2010, at 3AM. Needless to say, it sucked. I am not an overly emotional person, and crying is just not something I often do but I was a little freaking baby and sobbed for DAYS after she left! As difficult as its been in the past to date a military service member, I had NO idea how hard this would be.

All responsibilities were left to me. The house, our 2 dogs and 2 cats. Bills, money, and everything in between! Also in the aftermath I got in a horrible fight with my mother, triggered her bipolar/whatever it is she has, and caused her to try to commit suicide 4 times. Luckily, she did not succeed and is now on stable medication and we're mending our relationship. Again. Its like a yearly thing.

Anyway, Kristina was scheduled to be gone only 4 months. Which may not sound like much compared to army (12-18 months) but OHHH MY GOD. I'm so overwhelmed, and I still have a month to go. Its been hard to schedule sleep, work, social life, puppies, and keeping Kristina happy with Skyping whenever she can. I'm so grateful we can talk on Skype, the technology is amazing, but the time difference makes it difficult.

She comes home May 5th ( subject to change ) and until then I have a big wedding to do the hair for, a few concerts to see, and a whole house to ready for her return. PHEW.

After a whole year of not posting... that is all I can think of to say. Off to read my Nook and get some blessed sleep. I hope all is well.. I just spent an hour catching up on everyone's journals. =) Byee!

Sooo.. we moved in to the house! I officially live with my significant other.. how weird. I'm the commitment-phobe here and I've been in a relationship for 17 months, and am now living with her.. Damn! I'm proud of myself.

Its been amazing so far. Keeping communication open and honest has worked wonders for us and I hope it continues! I love Kristina so much and we seem like we're on the same page and want this to work.

Back in October I went to a motivational/success seminar called PSI. It seriously changed my life and I worked on a lot of issues I had with my mom and Kristina.. It encompasses business and personal life and everything in between.. and I've been saving money, so now I'm sending Kristina to it on the 21st!

Big changes for us! New house.. Kristina also reenlisted in the Air Force Reserves for 3 more years, she might be changing jobs.. So exciting!

My job is taking off too. My year mark is coming up at the salon and I'm a proud independent contractor now. I rent space and keep all the rest.. also happy to say, I raised my prices 5% as of the new year!! ^___^

Absolutely loving life right now. <3

Just a quick update.. happy new year, lovelies!!

I had a really, really ridiculously nice Thanksgiving this year! My parents have never really celebrated Holidays but I LOVE them.. so it was wonderful to go to Kristina's parent's house and have fun with her family!! =) Her parents love me sooooo much.. its adorable, and I love them back! Her dad gave me a Colts jersey so I'm part of the fam now he says... even though I pretty much think of football as the least important thing in the world to me. Ha! Oops.

We visited my parents for dessert later on.. and by that time, randomly, Kristina started throwing up.. She got sick several times all night and is now snoring loudly behind me because my mom gave her intense drugs.. Poor baby K!!

I don't think I wrote on here yet... We bought a house!!!! Well, Kristina did, but I'll be helping with the mortgage. Its a HUGE 3,100 sq ft house.. We each get a room to ourselves upstairs in addition to the biiig master bedroom (complete with 2 sinks in the master bath and an enormous tub for moi!).. Plus a guest room on the main floor, and Tricia gets the whole basement, which has another room and its own private entrace,

Other features: Hot tub. Fenced backyard. Two car garage.

We move on Dec. 12th if all goes well. So far passed a few inspections..

I cannot wait to paint!!!!! I've been watching the Home and Garden Network like a crazy person. ;)

Hope everyone had a nice holiday.. enjoy shopping tomorrow!!!

I'm so out of touch with LJ, but I still stalk all you people a lot! Ha! ;)

Still being the workaholic that I am, mostly because my parents have cut me off from helping with my rent.. That's okay though. I have a fairly steady clientele who love me and think I'm "delightful" so I'm not too worried about money.

Things may get easier with money soon- Kristina might be moving in to my townhome around December 1st. We're trying to buy a house ( well, she is.. and I'll be helping with the mortgage! Haha. ), and to save up money we thought living together in my cheap townhome would be good. With Tricia here too, we'd each be paying only $283 a month.. CHEAP!! I likes it. I spent all weekend cleaning out the basement so Kristina can have a man-cave for her football/poker playing habits and a place to retreat. =)

Big step though.. I hope we don't fight too much. <3

That's mostly my big news.. Working a half-week and leaving on Thursday because my boss is sending me to a self-help positive-thinking/whatever seminar in Denver until Sunday.. I'm not too happy about having my usual lazy-Sunday routine messed up but she IS paying for it.. Hm.

Hope everyone's enjoying all the pumpkin tasting stuff.. I know I am! ( Try jamba juice's Pumpkin Smash!!!! )

Kristina's birthday is on Sept. 30th... and I have NO clue what to get her!! Augh! I need advice... This girl is turning 25, loves poker, zombies, and micheal jackson.. what can I get her? I want it to be creative and thoughtful..

I've been looking at poker tip books online but that seems kind of lame.. and MJ stuff is expensive right now! The ONLY thing I can think of is like a zombie make-up kit for halloween.. but is that special? Not really.. lol!

So.. suggestions! I only have 15 days.. such a procrastinator!

Me and my salon are eligible for the Indenpendent's Best Of 2009 award!

Please take 5 minutes to go to www.csindy.com and click on the " Vote Now! " link for 2009's Best Of. You must fill out 10 places ( favorite restaurants, bars, clubs, theatre, etc. ) for it to count, but be sure to type All American Nails and Beauty Lounge into best salon and best nail salon!

I really, really, reeeaaaally love anyone who does this for us!! :D

Hi everyone! Wowee, so bad at updating this!! I've been so busy with work lately.. and life!

Last week my mommy turned 55 and Kristina and I tried to drive up to her birthday party at the YMCA ranch in Winter Park.. Sadly, we drove 3 hours in the wrong direction and had to stay in Grand Lake, CO instead.. lol! Dumb. We had a nice, relaxing time though..

And on Monday I got another tattoo! I made an appointment a few months ago with Steve Baur from Premier Tattoo here in the springs because he's working on Tricia's sleeve and its sooo amazing. He also did a kickass job on Kristina's MJ tribute tattoo.

( Panda and bamboo on my foot! )

Let me just say... this tattoo fucking HURT. I usually handle pain very well but OH MY GOD, I was crushing Kristina's hands and wringing them and squirming. Ahhh!! So worth it though.. right now its swollen because I still have to stand on my poor foot for 8 hours for my job.. so healing might take awhile.

Also! My salon just expanded and lots of moving around happened.. It used to be quite a small place, and now.. its beautiful! :D

( New and improved All American Beauty Lounge! )

I love my job. :D

So I haven't really posted because I've been sooo busy lately!

I had so much fun in San Diego, I'm still in shock. We had a safe, easy trip there. Not only was it a blast, it was also extremely intimate and romantic for us. I see that California is SO much more accepting of lesbian couples holding hands. I half-expected to have weird looks or objections.. Instead all we got were smiles, friendly conversations with people, and even extended discounts to me for Kristina's military ID because we're together. It helped me think about the future because I really didn't get sick of her in 5 whole days. So living together some day may be an option. So far we've been very hesitant about it, for good reasons!

I got to see the pandas, and take billions of pictures. Plus koalas, Seaworld, and the Body Worlds museum exhibit. Got lost a few times, found a drag queen bar, and learned the San Diego trolley system VERY well. Without K, I would've gotten lost SO many times!

She went to Las Vegas two days after we got back with some work buddies. I house-sat for her to take care of her dog and cat and cleaned her house SO well so that when she got back she wouldn't be stressed out by a messy house. =) She really liked that. Aww.

Now I'm just recovering from so much fun time! I have a lot of money to save back up, but I want to buy sooo many things for work! I've been booked almost solid for the past week so I'm making good money. My salon is also doing a big charity event on the 28th for CASA. Free services for one day with a minimum $5 donation. I hope we make CASA a lot of money! =)

Things are going well.. I'm just kinda sick again. :/ Blah.

Work has been a blessed distraction. I had a huge open house that went SO well on Sunday. 50+ people came and it was so fun. I dressed up and wore heels and a dress and I felt so -pretty-! Kristina helped out with food and was there for moral support.. she also managed to slip in to my coworkers how I am the love of her life and lots of sappy things.

There's been lots of tension whenever we see eachother now. Which is hard to deal with.. and I was being SO good about not touching, not kissing.. all that. I lost it on Sunday and just NEEDED her. So I caved and we had mindblowing, emotional sex. There was lots of crying.. mostly from her. But it was good. And I do not regret it.. I just need to not lose myself in it.

So I did sleep at her house last night.. but I wanted to see if I was ABLE to without picturing Toni in her bed. And I did picture it a few times but eventually it just faded. And that is so important to me. That it is passing and I'm letting it go.

Another fight with Kristina last night.. things were going really, really well as "just friends" until she got drunk and crossed some boundries. I'm smart enough to NOT get drunk around my ridiculously attractive recently-exed girlfriend. She can be so stupid and dissapointing..

On top of it? My first dog, Milly, got sick this week. She lives with my parents and I didn't even think it was that bad.. apparently it was. We just put her down about an hour ago.

I have two finals next week on Monday, one big quiz tomorrow, and HUGE open house at work that I am 1/3 in charge of and I still have to balance work around all of this.

I swear.. if one more bad thing happens.. I will lose it. I will just SHUT OFF for awhile.

Life throws some fucking rude things.