Vegas Excitement and Feather Parties

So it's only 47 days until I leave for Vegas. The trip is booked and paid for. I made the last payment on and picked up my dress. Right now i'm just working on trying to make money for spending on the trip. I'll be getting $212 from my blog, decent chunk of change. And i'm still doing hair for friends to try and scrounge up money.

On Sunday i've been asked to do a birthday party and put feathers in for 7-9 girls. That's at least $70 bucks to add onto my spending money fund. Pretty exciting.

I'm worried about making enough to last the whole trip, I know when my mom and I went we had to ask to borrow some money from my dad because we went over budget, so to speak. I know my mom has told our relatives about it, because she's excited for me. I hope my grandpa and grandma will send me some birthday money, and maybe my aunt(Since her and her husband are fucking loaded). I haven't really spoken to my dad about the trip, because I have a feeling he wont be thrilled but hopefully he'll give me some amount of money for my birthday.

Watching Babes and Trying To Balance

Babysat for a friend tonight. Seven hours. She came home a little after 3am, sooooo drunk. She told me she was gonna go to the ATM to get my money and asked if I wanted something to eat. I told her "Just get me some chicken nuggets." She was sitting in a chair, and she didn't get up. I said "Are you gonna go to the ATM?" and she responds "Will you find my purse? I'll just write you a check." It took her three tries to write an acceptable check. First check she wrote "Seven hundred dollars", second "One hundred and sixty five dollars". Finally she managed to write "Thirty dollars". I got the check and I ran outta there.

Lately i've been trying to keep busy. I've been going on job interviews, I want to work so badly. I've been doing haircuts for people. I've been putting in feathers. Just any chance I get, I get out of the house. Difficult trying to balance life when I don't have a steady job.

Did an adorable cut today, the girl was in love with it. It's definitely nice to be able to make someone so excited by doing something so simple. I don't get why that's not enough to make me want to pursue a full time career doing hair, but I can't make myself want to do it. I just hope I find what i'm meant for someday soon. I'm really hoping to get this job at a tanning salon I just interviewed for. The assistant manager who interviewed me was SO SWEET, we were just laughing the whole time. I answered the questions like a pro, and I hope I get called back for another interview. :)

Glee Project Finale And Some Weird Twilight Spin-Off Book

So last night was the finale of Glee Project. After the #1 person i'd been rooting for, Hannah, was kicked off...I pretty much only had one person left I could tolerate enough to watch on my lovely GLEE  for seven episodes. Damian, the funny Irish lad, was that person. I sat through the episode, bored with the video shoot as Raise Your Glass is probably my least favorite song performed on Glee. Bored with Lindsay's same old annoying attitude and trying-too-hard performances. Bored with Alex being the same narcissistic diva. Bored with Sam's down syndrome squinty face and strictly rock-only vibe. But never bored with Damian's spunky, fun-loving, always upbeat personality.

Sam, who I saw as someone who didn't fit Glee at all. He's not an underdog, he's not a loser, he's not lost. He's just another trendy dude who wants to be a rock star. I think he just saw Glee as an opportunity to get famous and didn't care about what Glee was. And unfortunately...he was announced first as the winner.
But luckily there was a big shock. Two winners. And thank goodness, the second winner was Damian. So there's a little ray of sunshine on a mostly cloudy day. But then they added rain when they announced Lindsay and Alex would both get two episodes. Soooo the three people I possibly disliked most on the entirety of the show, I will have to see on my favorite show's third season. BOO :(

Getting away from Glee. I bought a book at the thrift store a month or two ago and it's been sitting in front of my bed. Last week I finally picked it up and started reading and was surprised to find it wasn't horrible. It's called The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Meyer (Yes, the author of the Twilight Saga) and it's an Eclipse Novella. Bree is a vampire who was turned by Riley to be part of Victoria's army, and the book is the story of her life as a vampire. It's worth the read if you had any interest in Twilight.

I may go see The Help with my mom tomorrow, so I shall blog of that if I end up going. And Wednesday night i'm going to a spa party and will have the opportunity to sell my feather extensions to people while i'm there. So hopefully that will be worth blogging about, as well.

Feathery Heads

So the big craze in the beauty industry right now is "Feather Extensions". Feathers from roosters, cleansed, dyed and then attached into the hair with a crimp bead. These feathers were more commonly used for fly tying, and now because of the popularity of using them in the hair, these fly-fishing suppliers are running out. A fly-fishing store in my city will turn away anyone they think is going to use the feathers for anything other than fly tying.

In salons, stylists are charging around $20 to put ONE little feather in a person's hair. My thoughts? Quite ridiculously outrageous. Does this mean I don't want to try and cash in on this? Absolutely not. I've already won two lots of feathers on ebay and made around $70 putting in about 10 for close friends. I've already made back twice what I spent to get the feathers I purchased, and I still have around 50+ left.

The craze I wont jump on is "hair tinsel". Yes, tinsel. Think of the shiny silver crap you throw all over your Christmas tree. Hair Tinsel can be viewed here, if you're curious. I am not quite sure what the appeal is and definitely think anyone willing to wear it in their hair might as well bleach it out, dye it green and add ornaments while they're at it. But i'm sure there are plenty of people who think that all of the "feather heads" might as well grow a beak and strap on some wings.

As long as the craze continues to make me so much money, i'll be happy to help every girl get a little closer to her dream of becoming a bird.