Here You Go!

So in school we aren't taking care of clients at the spa, we are in class memorizing the Latin names for everything in the body. All the systems, muscles, nerves, bones, and layers of the skin, every kind of skin lesion or disease. I think its just in case one of us wants to challenge the nursing exam later. Very thoughtful of them. But we are all baked! I wanted to share something with you but where I've been eating, sleeping and studying, this poem came to mind by Emily Dickinson;

"They might not need me; But they might.

I'll let my head be just in sight;

a smile as small as mine might be

precisely their necessity.”

My Walk to School Every Morning

If you are wondering how I handle school.This is my morning path to school from home.


Every morning and afternoon I pause here and am filled with awe.
It keeps going and is so satisfying to my soul.
It puts the rest of my day in perspective.
Like the poem about trees that I will only quote a piece of,

" I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree...
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God could make a tree."

The Rules At School

Sometimes girls come to school and get sent right to the make-up corner
Their make-up isn't...

Flashy enough.

So they all try hard to please the teacher.

And to make a good impression on clients.

Let them know that we are people who care about our appearance.

Or This?

Is this maybe the Natural Look? The End of the Week Look, after I've watched two Feel-Good movies and had a nourishing supper of popcorn and an egg and mushroom omelet. But there are no guys around so I guess we'll never know. But the movies were awesome, a Cat Stevens music DVD from 1976 and his interview in 2006 about his life and conversion to Islam. The other movie was produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. The 11th Hour - Turn Mankind's Darkest Hour Into Its Finest. And I think we will. We have the technology to be good to the earth and provide well for ourselves. My favorite part was when David Suzuki bashfully admitted that after all his research and thinking, the answer to our global crisis is love. The guy after him said that first we love ourselves and then we love where we live. And we love each other more and Things less. When we buy less Things, we work less hours and have more time for each other. And we are happy. Nothing can replace our relationships with God, nature and each other. That's why I'm glad I have you! And you know its true because you are one of the specially selected people that read this. You are in my circle of love. Thank-you for being here and being the you that I love so much!

The Natural Look

This is what we did at school today. I was Mother Earth. There was Night Sky, a black and white cat, a girl with half her face like a geisha and the other half like a man. (I also did a couple of pedicures and a waxing, but this was fun.) The best part was walking home from school and seeing the looks of envy from the women who stopped me to find out how I did my make-up, and the chuckles of the guys who came up with all kinds of funny things to say. "Looks like you got in a fight with a line-backer and ended up with some of the football field on your face!" "Hey, you should really get that checked out!" "Getting ready for Halloween!" "Looks like a bird's nest ran into your face."

I thought they were clever. I started using them as explanations to the women I passed later on. "Well, Halloween coming, etc." But they didn't even listen, they just drooled. True? If you are a girl is there a little part in you that wants some glamorous make-up with jewels and tree branches stuck to your face? And if you are a guy, did you just think of an even better comment than the ones I got on the way home from school? (Another lesson we learn from this) - and guys, stop reading, this is girl talk now - I mean it, no peeking! (Okay, what we learn here women, is that guys really do notice when you put a lot of effort into your appearance. And they really do like the Natural Look. How many times have you heard guys say that they like The Natural Look. I had moss glued to my face and guys were talking to me and making me laugh, ... Downtown Red Deer a guy practically stopped traffic to have a friendly banter. Wait! I'm sorry, I just noticed a guy reading)

Stop it! This is a private Girl Conversation!

(Okay I'm back, the point is we should really be applying natural things to our faces if we want guys to notice us. Not just notice, but play and talk and make jokes ... make jokes ... about us?

Wait, maybe I should re-think this. I'll get back to you. We will continue this conversation!)

Today we simultaneously celebrated the 80's and Thanksgiving at school.

I brought garlic mashed potatoes for the potluck and I dressed up a little. My teacher took one look at me and shook her head. "Don't worry, we'll have one of the girls do your make-up. " She was so pleased with the final outcome.
Yes, that mark on my cheek is where one of the girls kissed me. The teacher had kisses on both cheeks. The rest of us just had one. And this is how I looked for the rest of the day. This is how I looked picking up yogurt in Safeway. The sales clerk looked like she wanted me to explain myself, and didn't know how to ask. There is no explanation. I live in Girl World Gone Wild! For the potuck it was some turkey,mashed potatoes, gravy, buns and vegetables - but mostly it nacho platters and brownies. Thick moist gooey brownies with decadant fudge toppings and sprinkles. Looking at the dessert table I was surprised at all the ways a person could incorporate chocolate into food. And when we were done eating we just left and went back to playing with make-up!

The Corn Maze!

I got lost in Lacombe after school today. I thought if I followed the directions in the corn maze I would make it safely through. But it was designed for people to walk around confused yet hopeful, only to realize they guessed wrong again. And it is fun. Terrance told me.
I didn't find Terrance till it was dark out and I had resorted to telling myself over and over that no one I had heard of had ever died, forgotten and lost in a corn maze.
That at some point it would all be over. Since I was hungry and tired and nervous, I followed my instinct which was to kidnap one of the maze supervisors and make him take me out of there. I had to be tricky about it because I wasn't very strong. On top of that Terrance, the Orange Jacketed Supervisor was 6"9 and Not Scrawny.















I kept chatting with him till he had walked me out. That is the reason I am home safe right now. Not huddled up under some 7 foot tall corn stalks in Lacombe.
Talking, in that instance, may have been the thing that saved my life.


In the maze, the guys in the orange jackets appear like angels from heaven. When it was still light, every time I said, "I sure wish a guy in an orange jacket would come by," Curtis would come around the corner. (He's the one beside Terrance.) He would offer solid advice and give us encouragement and then disappear.
Sometimes I would look up and see him watching over us from the tower.
It was comforting.
So that was how I spent tonight. Getting lost and then rescued.
Thank-you Orange Jacketed Men.
I thank you and all the people that I will give amazing manicures and pedicures to in the future thank you.
Getting me out of that fun corn maze alive was the right thing to do.

Sunrise, Sunset

So I am in Red Deer going to Marvel College. This is me at about 7:30 in the morning. I have been awake for an hour. Now I have done a couple of pedicures, a manicure, watched a dance routine my classmates have put together, gotten lost several times on my way home, had dinner with the missionaries, read scriptures in Institute, and made a couple more friends. It is 9:30 p.m.
In both pictures you can see what my deepest desire is. What I long for more than anything else. What I wish I had more of in my life. Yes, you guessed it, it's sleep. How did you know? Something in the eyes, huh. Well, good deduction work my friend. Apparently sleep deprivation is a natural, normal part of the esthetician schooling. Only half a year left! Okay, I'm going to bed!