Wednesday night, I came home early from work because my eye was starting to get really irritated. I took my contacts out as soon as I got home, but it only seemed to get worse, and by morning, my eye was completely red, irritated, and watering like crazy. I called in sick to work and was miserable pretty much all day. I went to the doctor in the afternoon and he said I had pink eye...and that I'd have to miss another day of work. Friday night, our friends invited us over, but I was reluctant to go because the doctor had told me to cover my eye and try to keep it shut as much as possible (which I have never heard of with pink eye, but I think he was just covering all of his bases incase there was a scratch, also), so I had been wearing gauze patches over my eye. But they were like "don't worry about it, we'll just have a pirate party!" And sure enough, we got there and they were both all dressed up, they had old cigar boxes with jewelry hanging out of them like treasure chests, and they had pirate signs on their door! They even printed out a picture of a parrot and put a straw on the back of it to make it stand up and taped it to Jesse's arm...we didn't think they were THAT serious, but it was really fun!!!
So when I finally went back to work on Saturday, I got in and there were balloons and streamers all over the mirror at my station, and I thought "Awww, they put get well signs on my station", but when I went over, they had written on my mirror in dry erase markerr "Congratulations on your promotion"!!! I was really confused because I was under the impression that I still had to get my numbers up and I also thought I had to go in for an official interview with our DL. My boss called a little while later and confirmed that I had gotten the promotion, and she wanted to surprise me with the balloons and everything! Jesse and I are really excited about it, thank you all for your prayers!!!
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
adventure of a lifetime
On Saturday, February 24, 2007, two young men set out on an expedition in search of ... some amazing guitar music. And that is exactly what they found.
Michael and I took the T-Bird out to Trinity Seminary on Saturday to see my instructor and one of his former students, who now teaches guitar at University level, put on guitar concert. It was a grand time; Norm (my instructor) is an amazing guitarist. He talked about being in Spain at Pepe Romero's house (Romero is one of the most famous classical guitarists alive), and being invited to visit Joaquin Rodrigo, probably the best composer of the 20th century, at least as far as the guitar is concerned. The music that they played ranged from Bach to Rodrigo to Castelnuevo-Tedesco, and on, and it was all spectacular.
Michael had the privilege of holding Norm's guitar for him while he made a trip in between pieces to the restroom (he is getting to the age when he has to do that quite often). I made sure to nudge Michael and let him know that he was holding a $6,000 guitar. He seemed to hold it a little more cautiously after that. I only know that it is worth that because Norm told me that when he let me play it last semester. ;-)
They played a Sonata at the end that was a Canon, and it was incredible. One would play a melody, then the other would play it, or a variation of it, back while the other moved on to the next phrase. You would just have to hear it.
The roads were starting to get nasty on the way out (it's about a 45 minute drive north of here), and on the way back, I am amazed that we made it in one piece; well, two pieces, actually. It was quite treacherous, but due to my impressive driving-in-blizzard-like-though-more-like-heavy-ice-flake-conditions skills, we barreled down the highway unscathed. Well, we might not have been barreling (I don't think we got above 25 mph), but at least we didn't get stuck! If we had known what it would be like, we probably wouldn't have gone ... wait a minute, yes we would have! It's guitar, for crying out loud! It would have been better if it wasn't so nasty out, though. My hands have, however, regained their normal shape and color. No more white knuckles.
By the way, Stephanie and I are on Facebook now (we have succumbed to social pressure), so look us up if you're on there. That is all, and don't worry, we'll keep sending you our weather as soon as we're done with it! Have fun, until next time.
Jesse
Michael and I took the T-Bird out to Trinity Seminary on Saturday to see my instructor and one of his former students, who now teaches guitar at University level, put on guitar concert. It was a grand time; Norm (my instructor) is an amazing guitarist. He talked about being in Spain at Pepe Romero's house (Romero is one of the most famous classical guitarists alive), and being invited to visit Joaquin Rodrigo, probably the best composer of the 20th century, at least as far as the guitar is concerned. The music that they played ranged from Bach to Rodrigo to Castelnuevo-Tedesco, and on, and it was all spectacular.
Michael had the privilege of holding Norm's guitar for him while he made a trip in between pieces to the restroom (he is getting to the age when he has to do that quite often). I made sure to nudge Michael and let him know that he was holding a $6,000 guitar. He seemed to hold it a little more cautiously after that. I only know that it is worth that because Norm told me that when he let me play it last semester. ;-)
They played a Sonata at the end that was a Canon, and it was incredible. One would play a melody, then the other would play it, or a variation of it, back while the other moved on to the next phrase. You would just have to hear it.
The roads were starting to get nasty on the way out (it's about a 45 minute drive north of here), and on the way back, I am amazed that we made it in one piece; well, two pieces, actually. It was quite treacherous, but due to my impressive driving-in-blizzard-like-though-more-like-heavy-ice-flake-conditions skills, we barreled down the highway unscathed. Well, we might not have been barreling (I don't think we got above 25 mph), but at least we didn't get stuck! If we had known what it would be like, we probably wouldn't have gone ... wait a minute, yes we would have! It's guitar, for crying out loud! It would have been better if it wasn't so nasty out, though. My hands have, however, regained their normal shape and color. No more white knuckles.
By the way, Stephanie and I are on Facebook now (we have succumbed to social pressure), so look us up if you're on there. That is all, and don't worry, we'll keep sending you our weather as soon as we're done with it! Have fun, until next time.
Jesse
Thursday, February 15, 2007
My district leader came in today to go over a few things, and while I haven't officially been promoted yet, I am well on my way! I needed to get my request rate up to an average of 15 per week (basically, having people who liked how I cut their hair come back and request me), and I was averaging 6-point something a week in January when she came in and now I am averaging almost 10 a week! She was really impressed with how much that number had gone up! She is also having me attend a meeting for Assistant Salon Leaders (ASLs) next Tuesday at her house and wants me to go on some retreat later next month for new salon leaders and assistant salon leaders, so...pretty much as soon as I get my request rate up to an average of 15 per week, I am promoted! One of my concerns was that she would move me to another salon, but she told me today that for now, I am going to stay where I am because her plans kinda fell through...I am just hoping that after my promotion, I can motivate the other girls to work hard and get the numbers up for the salon as a whole and she'll let me just stay there...thank you all so much for your prayers, and please continue to pray!
Friday, February 09, 2007
Sorry it has been so long since we last posted...I was waiting for Jesse to write something about his friends coming to town, but I guess he's been too busy with school and work, so I will!
The weekend after Andy and Laura came, we had the privelege of hosting four of our guy friends at our house! Wahli, Eric, Jono, and Steve all came for the weekend! They got in on Saturday at some point (I was working) and pretty much left right away and were gone all day, literally ALL OVER town! When they finally got home close to 10:00, I asked them where all they had gone, and they were like "where DIDN'T we go is the question!" Needless to say, they were all worn out and just hung out and watched some crazy kung fu movie...I went to bed about halfway through! They went to church with us the next morning and they decided that pizza sounded good for lunch, so we took them downtown to Giordano's and then to Ghirardelli for dessert. We hung out in town for a little longer and then came back to our apartment, where they packed up and left. I had a meeting at work that evening, and while that didn't sound like much fun, the prospect of being around some more estrogen sounded heavenly...don't get me wrong, these are all awesome guys, but I was to the point where if I had heard one more joke about farting or pooping, I would have about gone crazy! I guess Jesse would have felt the same way if I would have had four of my girl friends up to visit, so...I know they all had fun, and that's what counts!
We had a Super Bowl party at our house last Sunday, it was so much fun! GO COLTS!!! We had two other couples over (Craig and Danielle, Michael and Leeanne) and we all just hung out and watched the game and ate lots of food! We enjoyed most of the commercials, but I have to say that we laughed hardest at the one with Kevin Federline...It was so funny to watch the news here after the game was over because they were at all these Bears parties and everyone's just like "there's always next year!" and "we'll win next year!"...
This past Monday, our company held a regional awards banquet out in the suburbs. It was a fancy dinner (everyone was wearing fancy dresses and had their hair all done up) along with the presenting of some awards for the best salons in the area. Danielle and I were just excited to get all dressed up! It was a really fun evening, there were over 1,200 people at the event, all employees of Hair Cuttery in the Chicagoland area, so the energy in the place was awesome! My DL still hasn't come for a follow-up, so I will definitely post when she does!
Kurtis and Aimee will be in town next weekend and my grandparents possibly the next, so our weekends have been pretty full lately! We're having fun having people at our house, though, so we aren't complaining at all! Have a great weekend, everyone!
The weekend after Andy and Laura came, we had the privelege of hosting four of our guy friends at our house! Wahli, Eric, Jono, and Steve all came for the weekend! They got in on Saturday at some point (I was working) and pretty much left right away and were gone all day, literally ALL OVER town! When they finally got home close to 10:00, I asked them where all they had gone, and they were like "where DIDN'T we go is the question!" Needless to say, they were all worn out and just hung out and watched some crazy kung fu movie...I went to bed about halfway through! They went to church with us the next morning and they decided that pizza sounded good for lunch, so we took them downtown to Giordano's and then to Ghirardelli for dessert. We hung out in town for a little longer and then came back to our apartment, where they packed up and left. I had a meeting at work that evening, and while that didn't sound like much fun, the prospect of being around some more estrogen sounded heavenly...don't get me wrong, these are all awesome guys, but I was to the point where if I had heard one more joke about farting or pooping, I would have about gone crazy! I guess Jesse would have felt the same way if I would have had four of my girl friends up to visit, so...I know they all had fun, and that's what counts!
We had a Super Bowl party at our house last Sunday, it was so much fun! GO COLTS!!! We had two other couples over (Craig and Danielle, Michael and Leeanne) and we all just hung out and watched the game and ate lots of food! We enjoyed most of the commercials, but I have to say that we laughed hardest at the one with Kevin Federline...It was so funny to watch the news here after the game was over because they were at all these Bears parties and everyone's just like "there's always next year!" and "we'll win next year!"...
This past Monday, our company held a regional awards banquet out in the suburbs. It was a fancy dinner (everyone was wearing fancy dresses and had their hair all done up) along with the presenting of some awards for the best salons in the area. Danielle and I were just excited to get all dressed up! It was a really fun evening, there were over 1,200 people at the event, all employees of Hair Cuttery in the Chicagoland area, so the energy in the place was awesome! My DL still hasn't come for a follow-up, so I will definitely post when she does!
Kurtis and Aimee will be in town next weekend and my grandparents possibly the next, so our weekends have been pretty full lately! We're having fun having people at our house, though, so we aren't complaining at all! Have a great weekend, everyone!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
A little update...
We had some guests in town this weekend! Andy and Laura were in town to see a friend, so they came over and spent the night last night and came to church with us this morning. After church, we went out to eat at a Thai restaurant over by Moody and drove around a little bit and came home. They left soon after we got home, but it was so fun to have guests overnight! We just relaxed this afternoon and watched most of both football games that were on (how ironic that the Bears and the Colts are going to the Super Bowl?!?) and I baked some incredible chocolate chip cookies...yum!!! :) Next weekend, Eric, Wahli, and Jono are going to come for the weekend, so we have more guests to look forward to, and we are really excited!
Things are still going well at work...last week was pretty slow, as I guess January usually is in the salon, but yesterday more than made up for it...we were SO busy and I was SO tired by the time the night was over! As an assignment from my district leader, I am supposed to challenge the girls in the salon to surpass our goal for retail sales this week, so hopefully, that goes well! She should be back at the beginning of February for a follow-up to see how my numbers are. Thank you all so much for your prayers and I will do my best to keep you all updated! My friend, Danielle, is going to start at my salon tomorrow, so I am really excited about that, she is such a sweetheart! Well, that's all I have for now, have a great week!
Things are still going well at work...last week was pretty slow, as I guess January usually is in the salon, but yesterday more than made up for it...we were SO busy and I was SO tired by the time the night was over! As an assignment from my district leader, I am supposed to challenge the girls in the salon to surpass our goal for retail sales this week, so hopefully, that goes well! She should be back at the beginning of February for a follow-up to see how my numbers are. Thank you all so much for your prayers and I will do my best to keep you all updated! My friend, Danielle, is going to start at my salon tomorrow, so I am really excited about that, she is such a sweetheart! Well, that's all I have for now, have a great week!
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