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Ok. Confession.

I have no idea what to do with a blog.  I dont know the meaning of the word “blog” and haven’t understood ever since I saw it on Myspace like 5 years ago.  I have no idea what a “Tag” is, and dont know how random people i havent seen in years have found my blog.  I couldn’t make a new layout for my blog on my own if my life depended on it.  I thought I could just dive right in and it would come naturally.  Help anyone?    Should I just move to Blogger?  Everyone seems to have cute blogs and if its easier to use i am THERE.

California Road Trip – Labor Day Weekend

I know…two posts in one night? I’ve lost my mind.

But my trip to California to visit my sister Jana, brother in law Lee, and niece Carmen is definitely blog-worthy. I got to sit next to this hunk the whole 9 hours there, and back:

And got to go to this place a few times:

And went here two days in a row:

Which led me to look like this:

And of course little Carmen playing dress-up courtesy of Grandma

She was so cute. Grandma wishes she could see Carmen more often but since she cant she likes to send little gifts so she’ll remember her. Carmen kept saying “I have berrry long hair. berry berry long!” And kept saying “Grandma got me new flip cwops”. She is a dollface.

One of the best parts of the trip was finishing “The Host” !!!!

I guess I have a gift since I am able to read while riding in a car, but this book was so awesome. I would say I like it JUST AS much as a twilight book. They were both so different but I appreciate Stephenie Meyer now so much more after reading it.

Stephenie Meyer has put “Midnight Sun” (Twilight in Edwards point of view) on hold indefinitely. Someone (whom she knows, but has remained nameless) has posted 200 pages of it online illegally. She thought she could trust them but i guess she was wrong. She wrote a page on her website with more detail. I’m bummed out about it. i was looking forward to that book!

How do I have this much time to blog? Josh went to bed very early : ) He was tired.

On the way home from the store tonight the sunset was breath-taking, so I wanted to take a picture with him in front of it.

This is his “This picture is pointless because of the ugly objects in front of the sunset” look.

Nails

Um, so… I can do nails I discovered tonight. I have never tried to use acrylics before but i have had my nails done for years by a lady who does them out of her house. I have always thought it was so awesome that she could stay home with her kids and make her own schedule. In the last two months I have been getting my nails done at a nail school down the road from my work, and pretty much interrogating the girl doing my nails on how it is to see if i want to do it. I was telling my beauty school graduate friend Kenzie about my plans to go and she just said to teach myself and save my $3000. She bought me some OPI acrylics and tonight, I thought I’d try it out to see how I did. I don’t know what it was; the mental preparation that went into watching students do my nails and try to mimick their moves in my head, or if I have exceptional hand-eye coordination, or beginners luck…but i thought i did really well! Yes I’m boasting but I am so proud of myself.

Here I would have put the tip a little further away, but it would not stay glued. i finally had to push it up so it covered more area.  I think plastic works different than a natural nail, though.

I’m up for givin a few people a full set.. It’d be free of course.