The Time Has Come

Tomorrow is one of two exciting things! Most importantly, tomorrow is my first day of cosmetology school! I'm so, so excited! A bit nervous, but mostly excited! There was a very long time where I thought this day would never come. I can't wait to take the first step towards my future career. The staff at the school has already been super welcoming! I have a feeling I'm going to go broke though, because there's a Panera right across the street for lunch breaks and a Starbucks in the same plaza as my school lol. But I'm going to be going to school Tuesday-Saturday 8:00-3:30. I'm a bit worried about balancing work and school, but I'm going to try my best. Anyway, I'm super excited to say the least.

The second exciting thing (but not that important) is that tomorrow is the first official day of fall! We're going to celebrate by having a fire in the fire pit with a friend or two. We're not actually celebrating fall, lol but to me we are. It will be a commemorative fire to celebrate fall and my first day of school.

I'm excited about what's to come over the next few months! Lots of exciting things to look forward to!

New Job

So I don't think I've mentioned this, but I got a new job! I'm pretty happy. I'm a server at a restaurant. It's only like my second week. But it's nice because I got close to a week off after I quit Tanner's, because I was waiting for the restaurant to open.

It's crazy, because I realized something tonight. I'm happy. I felt like something has been missing in my life for a while now, and I couldn't quit put my finger on it. I'm happy with my husband, my house (for the most part I'll get to that in a sec.), my job I obviously wasn't though. This job is so much better. I haven't quite started making "bank" yet, but overall, I'm sooooo much happier. My managers are awesome, the people are awesome for the most part, and I don't feel like a reject. At my old job, I didn't make the cut to be a server, and it got to me. I felt terrible about myself, like I wasn't good enough. I shouldn't have let it get to me like that, but it was hard not to. At this job, I was trained to be "front of house checker". Which doesn't sound like much, but basically I was the one that had to check every other servers sections and sign them off. I had to mop the entire dining room, which sucked. I enjoyed having the responsibility though.

One thing that's been stressing me out though is MOLD. So a couple weeks back. Daniel and I tore into the wall, sprayed the mold with mold killer, painted it with kilz and ran an air scrubber for 3 days. My cough seemed to get worse some how. I had a feeling there had to be more mold. (Daniel didn't believe me.) We were trying to avoid ripping out more drywall. I was so stressed, because several people who we had do estimates on the mold, told us that basically they wouldn't do it, because the job wasn't big enough. We really didn't know what our next option was. So when Daniel texted me a picture of mold at work, I actually got excited. He had torn into the wall and found more mold about as big as the first section we found. I was basically ecstatic, because that meant we could fix it without having someone come out. So he just went ahead and ripped the moldy drywall out and sprayed down everything else. We're still going to have to rent an air scrubber again. Which will suck, but it's better an spending $1000 to get someone to come out and do it. $1000 was everyones minimum to do the work. I've been feeling like a crazy person about this whole mold thing. It feels so good to finally have some closure. I've only been home like an hour, and I feel like I can already see an improvement. It will be even better once we do the other two steps.

So yeah, I just had to blog about that. Exciting things happening.

Fall Fever

Every year, way too early on, I start getting excited for fall. The weather hasn't been helping either. It's been much cooler and cloudy. Since last year, I've wanted to make a fall bunting. I couldn't decide if I wanted to do paper or fabric. I decided on card stock since I've never made one before. Also, I decided to make a Halloween themed one. I may make an actual fall one too. So I went to Michael's and bought card stock to make it. I've cut everything out, but haven't attached it yet. I'm thinking about possibly buying a skull stamp and stamping the orange ones, but I haven't decided yet. Also if you're wondering why they're shaped like that, it's because the flap gets folded over the string.

I also bought some black striped burlap, which I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that yet. In addition, I bought lots of black card stock, and fall colored card stock as well. I figured I'd start working on all the crafts/ DIY stuff I want to do for Halloween now, since I never feel like it or get too overwhelmed when Halloween is actually here. That way I can just put up whatever I made in the beginning of October. Last year I started decorating wayy too early. I literally decorated for fall on the first of September lol. I can't be that eager again lol. What I did was decorate for a fall theme, then put up Halloween stuff, and once Halloween was over, I put the fall stuff up again. As you can tell, I've never been much of a summer girl.

Our Dining Room

Daniel took this lovely panorama of our dining room today! :) We finally put our rug down that we bought a month or so ago. We still haven't got the mold cleaned out though :( We just decided that we'll sleep in my bonus room until we do. I'll get to that in a second. Anyway, I feel that this room is really coming together! I feel it needs a "bar" possibly. Maybe an accent table somewhere. But I'm really liking the way it's tying together. I never would've picked red to decorate with. However, that Stella Artois sign really inspired me and steered the design of this room. I'm so happy I found that rug. For the longest time, I couldn't think of what could possibly look good in that room and tie it all together. But I saw that rug at Target and it instantly stood out to me. 

So yeah, mold. We had ANOTHER person come out to do an estimate since the other guy stood us up. He told Daniel in a round about way what he "would do in our situation." He basically told us exactly how to remedy it, since it's not a very big area. We'll have to rent an "air scrubber" though. I'm totally fine with that though. If we do it ourselves, we can do it in every room as well. 

Just thought I'd share that.

Wasted Money

One thing I don't like to think about is the amount of money that I've lost buying things that I don't use. Namely, clothes. So I ended up taking my clothes to that store and received $19. I'm not surprised at all. They had an option to pick up the stuff that didn't sell, or donate it. I chose to donate it. There were a couple pairs of shoes in there that were a bit dusty, but worn maybe one time, and those didn't accepted because of condition. That kind of bugged me, because I know I had to at least have spent like $40, if not more. But I don't have the patience to sell all those things. I guess that's the price you pay to get something off your hands quickly.

For some reason, I've found that a lot of the time, when I buy clothes new (as opposed to used), I don't end up wearing them! I don't know why! I wear maybe about 30% of the stuff I buy "new". It usually ends up shrinking or I don't like it as much as I thought I did. It just sucks, because those are the clothes I lose the most money on. Luckily, I discovered how good H&M really is, so I'm going to have to start shopping there more.

Oh guess what? I got a new job! I haven't started yet, but I put in my two weeks at work. It's at a restaurant. I originally didn't want to work at a restaurant, but I gotta stop being so picky. Also, I know you make better money. I'm going to be a server though, so I'll make much better money on top of more hours. So I'm really excited. It'll definitely be nice to have some extra cash. However, when I start going to school (whenever that is) I may have to change my availability. Because I'm not going to be able to go to school full time as well as work full time. It was definitely time for some change.

Stuff

I spent some much needed time going through clothes today. I did this with a couple drinks in me, because I find I'm most honest with myself and more ruthless when I'm in this mindset. lol. So I'm going to go to this store tomorrow called Uptown Cheapskate, which is a place to buy and sell used name brand clothes. I've been meaning to go for a while and sell some stuff that I know I'm not going to wear. I added some stuff to that pile today without sitting on it for a while. Usually, before I get rid of stuff, I like to put it in a maybe pile for a while. But I'm honestly tired of doing that. I need to be realistic and realize that I'm not going to wear that particular item. I still have some stuff that I'm probably not going to wear, but they're more special occasion type clothes. So I'll have to think about those. Anyway, whatever doesn't sell I'm going to take to Goodwill.

Sometimes I think about how small the world really is. There have been multiple times where I've found pictures on Pinterest (that presumably came from Tumblr) that I like or "Pin", then later on end up realizing that I'm following that person on Instagram or have seen them somewhere else on the internet before. Sorry for that run on sentence. It's just crazy to me.

Anyway, I'm excited to take that stuff tomorrow. I'm ready to have less again. Even after I take this stuff, I still won't be as minimal as I once was. That's ok though. Needs change. I'm still working on dwindling though.

Cabin

I'm quite excited for the end of this week, because we'll be going on a cabin trip! We're going to Gatlinburg. I'm tempted to start packing now. Well, I've packed some already, but I had to do laundry before packing anything else. One thing I don't like about packing is the in-between time before you leave. Cause you want to pack, but you're going to either be wearing some things or washing them before you pack them. I guess I don't like that most times you can't fully be packed until right before you're about to leave. (hairdryer, make-up, etc.) But man I'm excited. I'm not really in good shape like I was last time, but that's ok. I'm just happy I can finally stop making myself feel like crap every time I don't eat healthy. It's going to be a ton of fun though, just like it always is. I wish we could go more often, but obviously our schedules aren't always allowing.