Just a little update

I figured I would write and let you all know what's going on. I feel like none of the outward appearances of life have changed, I'm still going to school, I'm just chillen in the Burg...nothing has changed that an outsider could see just by looking. However, I feel like as a person my life is changing dramatically. Isn't it funny when we want something so bad we will do anything not to lose it, but when it slips away you realize even though this is extremely hard there is something out there better, you just have to find it.
I'm starting to understand that what I want for my life and what's best for my life isn't always the same thing. I've learned that I can't control how others feel about me. I can't change the things people think, or the lies they tell. I can only change how I react to their actions, and the person I want to become because of their influence. I've learned that there is a reason why people enter and leave your life, they are there to help you grow. I've learned that a broken heart isn't always a bad thing. It may hurt so bad you can't breath but it's giving you the opportunity to meet someone who will mend it back together. I've learned you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince, and although you may be scared each time you go to choose a new one your that much closer to finding the guy who will sweep you off your feet...and not drop you. I've learned that family and friends will always be there when you've been knocked flat on your back. However, the most important thing I've learned is that when I feel so alone there is always somewhere there to help me out. When life gets to hard to stand...Kneel. It's the quote I've come to live by and I don't think I've ever spent so much time on my knees. It may not even be asking for help, but saying thank you for giving me this opportunity to be here, now. I hope I can grow to be a good enough person that I make my Father proud in every aspect of my life and that I can become the person he sent me here to be.
So as far as my life plan goes...it's yet to be decided. Can you believe I'm already 1/4 of the way done with school!! I want to be the best I can be, meaning I want to go far in the hair industry. So I'm giving it my all, putting forth a lot more effort and saying yes to a lot more things. Going back to college? I really don't know. I love what I'm doing, I love making people feel beautiful. I've thought about moving back to good old Blackfoot and buying a house....working at a killer salon there and doing everything I can to become bigger and better. I guess I'll just wait and see what happens, but as for now, I just want to live...and continue to learn. About everything life has to offer!

Son of a! I've been tagged!!!

Alright Sarah Sue this one is for you! So Sarah tagged me...meaning I have to list ten quirks about myself for everyone and their dog to read! So here they are! 1) I can't sleep in an unmade bed. Even if I don't make it in the morning I have to make it before I get in it at night...being busy in the morning now days I usually make it at night just to get right back in it I can't stand sleeping in a bed that hasn't been made...weird I know. 2) I can't use public restrooms. Sick. And if there is a time where it is a must I'll drive around until I find one clean enough to use. 3) I carry anti-bacterial hand soap everywhere I go and I use it after I touch anything that sick nasty germs could get on. 4) When I wash my hands I sing the ABC's out loud twice...it doesn't matter where I am, be prepared to hear a song. 5) Before doing a hair cut at school I have to have all my stuff set out in a certain order or I won't go get my guest...the scissors have a place the brush has a place...everything has to go in the order I like it or I can't give the haircut. 6) When I get really excited about something I put my hands by my face and wiggle my fingers. 7) I hate wearing shoes in the house and it drives me crazy when other people come in my apartment and walk on the carpet without taking their shoes off. 8) I hate being lactose and tolerant so....I pretend I'm not thinking it will change...it doesn't and I get sick every time. 9) When I want something I'll do anything to get it no matter if everyone tells me it's a bad idea. I have to learn my own way I can't just not do it because people tell me not to. 10) I say ouch when it doesn't even hurt me at all...and I do it a lot. I don't know why, but I do. haha and there they are! Enjoy! Now time for me to tag....I choose....Kalie, Melissa, and Me Madre :)

Yo What Up?!

Alright my dear readers. I thought I would write you a little message about my life...seeing as it's changed so much! (that was sarcasm just so you know)
ANYWHO! Life in the big R-Burg at the bad PM is just magnifico. I'm on the floor taking appointments and I love it. The tips I get are freaking awesome it makes my day...hint hint if you ever get your hair done by me. The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that hair dye turns my finger nails black making me look emo...and I wear gloves. I just don't understand why, but it does and it sucks. Other then that it's just wonderful and I love school.
I moved like a month ago. I don't know if I wrote about that before...if I did...now you know twice! I live with some pretty sweet girls we have fun and do some very interesting things. Gotta love the roommates.
Living with 3 other girls from places other then Blackfoot brings some very interesting people into our apartment. All I have to say is BYU-I people are freaking crazy (most of them...not all of them...but most) I've decided that RM's going to BYU-I just want to get married. That's why they are there....BYU-I do for sure. Some kid told me I was his soul mate and that he could see me as his eternal companion. Weird thing is...I haven't even gone on a date with him...he came to my apartment with some crazy boys and I asked him about his mission and told him about Blackfoot...then he watched What Happens in Vegas with us...and I didn't even sit by him so I don't know where in the H-E- double hockey sticks he is getting this soulmatesness from. I am not down for that he is a creeper. And not only that but my roommates say I'm shallow anyways because I look for way too much in a guy and they think it is unrealistic. I however know it's not unrealistic in fact I know someone will meet almost everything on my unrealistic list. However, their out of this world freakishness does give me some laughs and crazy journal entries and just makes the time go by faster until prince charming himself finds me ;). And that's my life. Livin the dream for sure. I'm trying to make my life seem like the song off the Goofy Movie, you know Stand Out....haha it's awesome and I can totally see me in the music video. haha jokes so I'll let you know how my life changes in hopes of being more like that song. That's all for now. Peace out home skillets. Word to your mother.

I passed!!!!!!!!

So last week was my floor and written test to get out of core and....I passed!!! I'm no longer in core! Wahoo! It's been the coolest feeling ever. It was the longest most stressful 6 weeks of my life. Don't get me wrong I loved it but it was dang hard and there was a lot of information to obtain. I'm now on the floor! I have to protege for 2 weeks and then I'm on my own taking appointments. I'm so excited to finally start doing what I came here for! The girl I was helping today was amazing and it got me really excited to do what I'm doing. I can't wait to make people feel beautiful! It's awesome to think I can play a part in that!!! I'm so happy!!!!!!!!

There is a possibility I have a deathly contagious disease...

Ok ok...maybe I don't have a disease. But I could. Today was the worst day of my life! The most horrible thing that could ever happen to me did. I gave someone a pedicure today!! It is very possible that I could have died of repulsiveness.
I know you might be thinking I'm making a big deal out of nothing at all. But it is a big deal. I HATE feet! Pretty much more than anything else ever. This isn't just something I find slightly irritating. It's something that makes me sick to even think about. Some people hate spiders or snakes maybe even getting old. Nope not me. I'm afraid of feet. And it was a horrible experience.
So about this nasty procedure I had to take part in. Everyone in my class knows I've been dreading this day. Trust me I've talked about it. So no one wanted to be my partner in fear that I would throw up on them once I saw their nasty feet. Which isn't exactly a stretch I really did want to. Anyways, there were 10 sighs of relief when the names were called about who was to be paired up with who. The 11th girl had the look of death on her face knowing I would have to be her partner. I want you to know I tried to be positive and forward focused but it is freaking hard when you have someones foot in your face and you have to massage it for ten freaking minutes each foot! And to make it worse this girl has been a swimmer all her life! Have you ever seen a swimmers foot?! I hadn't until today and it's not something I would ever like to experience again. No bueno. Her toes were webbed together, her heals were coarse and flaking off, and her toe nails stained yellow from all the chlorine. I'm sure the bright orange toe nail polish that I used made everything look tons better.
I better get used to feet seeing as most girls have AT LEAST 5 pedicures a week while at school.

All I can say is....I will never look at Michael Phelps the same way again.

And being at Paul Mitchell finally sets in!

So I've been in school for a month now. 12 more to go! Wahoo!! I'm really starting to like it. I learned how to cut hair this week. It was crazy! I was way nervous but it actually ended up being pretty good. I can't wait to do it on a real person and not a doll head. This next week is going to be spa week, which includes pedicures. I think I might just gag. I hate feet...even my feet make me sick...blah. Not excited but I'll have to get over it sometime so why not have it be now.
Anyways. This week was crazy awesome. Doing hair finally set in and I got mine done!!! I cut off 6 inches of hair! It's way short but I love it. It takes 10 minutes to get ready everyday and it even looks good haha. I colored it as well. No more blonde for me. I'm back to brown with a little bit of red. I love the color too. It's just wonderful. I'll have to post pictures when I take some. From what the chickas tell me at school I look a lot older which is awesome seeing as I'm the youngest person there and they all make jokes about it. haha oh good good times!!!

Paul Mitchell paper

So I had to write a paper for school the other day. I thought I would post it. I know i'm horrible at writing but I try so don't laugh too hard.


Kelsey Allen #1097
First I would like to say I’m grateful for all my family and friends, that’s how these papers are suppose to start out, right? Being thankful for all the obvious things like our house, car, friends, pets, family, and who can forget The Paul Mitchell Hair Academy, you know, loving every moment and being so very grateful for the things that make you most happy. But what about that boy who first broke your heart and made you feel like you would never be happy again, or that one time you were stuck in the hospital for 2 weeks with appendicitis and meningitis at the same time. Do you remember the classes you failed and the fights you got in with your mom? Or even when the boy you loved moved away to a different state to go to college? Why can’t we all be grateful for those moments. The moments that can be summed up as the hardest points in our life.

We have all had trials in our lives, and times where it seems like it would be easier if that blow that put us flat on our backs would keep us down on the ground. It takes everything we have to get back up and try it all over again, knowing there is that chance we will end up right back where we started. It seems everyone around us is always saying ‘press forward, it gets so much better,’ but how do you know it ever will. At times you might think life is just a series of failure lined up one right after the other, and it would be easier to let it all pass you by and not continue to be that person you set out to be. Is it even possible to be grateful for heartache and disappointment?

So as this amazing boy moves away from you and you feel like you might not ever smile the same way again, can you really say thank you? Thank you for all the good times we have had together and the laughs that carried over for days to come. Thanks for sending me flowers when I moved away from my mom, thanks for making me want to be better so that when people looked at us together, they understood maybe what you were thinking when you chose to be with me. Thank you for making me grow and understand just what this life is about.

Because of this heartache I understand what it means to smile when I see my family, and laugh until my sides hurt with my friends. I’m thankful for having money tight so I know how much it means to be at an amazing school. Thanks for that boy who broke my heart so I know exactly what I don’t want, and exactly what I need. Thank you for making me better, stronger, and happier because I’ve been low, and I know being low gives us an amazing view to look up at.

So here is to my first time blogging. We will see how good I am at it!
Wel...I moved to Rexburg the first part of July and started Paul Mitchell later that month. It's going pretty sweet. I have to say that being in a classroom for 6 weeks isn't my favorite thing but i'm half way done with core and then I'm out on the floor doing hair on something other then a doll head. I love the new challenges life is bringing me and can't wait to see what else is in store for my life. It's crazy how different life is from living at home but I do love it. However, I do miss my moms cooking! Cup-of-Soups are getting really old, really fast. I need to get on the cooking thing. ;)
I'm staying busy and living life to the fullest. I never know what tomorrow will bring or if I will even get to see it so I want to always be happy. Some people dance in the rain and some people just get wet. I'll be dancing my way through life!