Hi Kids,I don't really have much to post... I just wanted to write something and say hello. I'm currently at Starbucks, just got done with my work for the day, and I'm heading to Noelle's so we can go to a Slumber Party. I'm very excited. I hope the demonstrator isn't lame like the last few I've been to! We might head to the Bayou afterwards and get our drink on... yes, I really just said that. Moving on... this weekend is going to be crazy. Party tonight. Bridal shower tomorrow morning. Bridal makeup (for someone entirely different) in the afternoon, into the evening. Dinner with the girls tomorrow night. Hopefully there will be some drinking, too. Sunday is coffee with Shmodus and then the Super Bowl is on. Jeez, I don't have time for everything. Well, here's to a great weekend. I'll have makeup befores and afters to share after tomorrow. Wish me luck!
This is Miss Rosie Marie. I did her makeup for her 40th birthday party, and her hair was styled compliments of Noelle. Doesn't she look hot??? I didn't get any before shots. She might kill me if I post them, so it's better that I don't...
A different shot so you can see her eyes
And finally, we have a picture of Natalie in the "after" shot for her bridal makeup run-through. I'm obviously really bad at remembering to get "before" shots of my models!
I absolutely LOVE the picture above. This little sassy-pants is Ryan (Lisa's daughter) and she's sporting Auri's fabulous scarf. Isn't she adorable? She was the youngest member of the girls' night party. 
About halfway through the soiree we decided we needed more beer, but none of us was in any shape to drive. Jolie tried calling her hubby, but he was MIA, so Holly suggested Lisa call her neighbors and ask them for a ride to the gas station. They ended up having a ton of beer, so they let us have it. Pretty sweet neighbors, if you ask me. 
This is Jolie and Jenny in the above picture. I met them for the first time that night and had a blast with them. They're definitley girls that fit right in with the rest of us. Hopefully we'll get together again, sometime soon. 
Noelle and Lisa... I think this is an adorable picture. 
And here is the naughty, trouble-causing Holly. A few of the girls smoke, and throughout the evening they took A LOT of smoke breaks. During one of the outings, Holly came back in the house and shut the door pretty hard, and the shelf to the right of the door fell off the wall and broke. She and Auri patched it back together, but didn't have any extra nails or glue, so Jenny offered her scarf. That's what you see tied around the box. 
The second card game we played was "Guts" and it was a ton of fun. We each put at least $5 in the pot, and a few of us continued putting in more and more as the night went on. I walked away $11 ahead. I think Holly won the most, but she also put in the most, so she may have been even. In any case, the night was a blast, and I can't wait to do it again!
After shopping, we decided to grab some dinner and thought we'd head up to Main Street to grab some food (and possibly see some celebs at Sundance). Before we did that, we drove around the Red Stone shopping center to see if any of the eating establishments in there sounded enticing. Once we got up to Main Street, parking was very limited, and the parking garage wanted $20 to park!!! We couldn't find any parking on the street, so we opted to head back to the Red Stone shopping center to eat. On our way out, we saw Squatter's Brewery (which is in the old Mt. Aire Cafe) and decided to stop in there for dinner. The food was good and the atmosphere was nice as well. 
The reason for this post is in the pictures you see here. Once we got seated, I had to tinkle, so naturally I went to the potty. After I finished my business, I stood up to flush and saw this on the top of the tank. I've seen the flusher on the top of the tank before, but this cracked me up. It's a "Waterwise Toilet" with a flusher that has two buttons. The button on the left is labled "#1" and underneath it, it says "Uses 1/2 a gallon of water." And on the right the button is labeled "#2". It took me just a second to figure out I had to "flush accordingly." 
The other thing that cracked me up was the fact that there were two mens' rooms and one ladies' room. When I looked at the first mens' room door I saw this sign that says, "Standing Room Only." I don't know why, but I was very amused by their toilettes!
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Take a look at the picture above. It kind of just looks like a smattering of grayness at the bottom of a mountain, right? Possibly taken at sunset? Well guess what? That's actually the view of downtown Salt Lake City, today. I promise, there's a city underneath all that crap. I've been there, I've seen it before. I don't think it went anywhere.... Technically, the situation is being called a "Red Air Quality Alert" but come on. You might as well be breathing exhaust strait from the tail pipe of your car at this point. There's probably a higher level of oxygen in that as compared to the air in the valley. 
This picture was taken by Odum from the 16th floor of one of the high-rise buildings downtown. 
So yes, with my lungs in the shape they're in after having pneumonia, outside is the last place I want to be. The fact that it's freezing helps me not want to go out... a lot. Well, here's to my 200th post, and a big toast to at least 200 more!
Auri, Brittany and I went to see Australia on Friday night. Let me just say this... if you want an epic, tear-jerking, absolutely fabulous movie, go see Australia. If not, then don't listen to me. We had to drive to the theater in BFE to see it because that was the only place it was playing, and I'm so glad we took the journey... totally worth it! The three of us bawled for the entire last hour. When it was over, through her sniffling, Britt said, "Yeah, that was good." I guess you had to be there.
On Sunday afternoon I went with Miss Rosie-Poo to see Last Chance Harvey. It was a movie I wanted to see, but it honestly wasn't on the top of my list. It's a really cute movie, but it moved a little too slowly for my liking. Oh well, for me, almost any movie seen in the theater is good. Seeing how I still can't get DVDs to play on my tube at home, I welcome anything I can get.
Finally, on Monday I went with Noelle to see Bride Wars. I'm a sucker for a chick-flick. At least I'm easily entertained, right? Aurs had said it wasn't a movie she'd pay to see in the theater, but I think if she had gone, she'd be pleasantly surprised. Anyway, I loved it. Totally cute. If you haven't seen it yet, go with a BFF. I went with one of mine and I know the experience would have been a bit less enjoyable had I gone with someone not as close. And, we decided, that Deb, who is played by Kristen Jonhston (she used to be on 3rd Rock) is our Rose... ha ha ha!
Here is a silly little picture of Odum and I around 2 o'clock in the morning. I think we were going on pure psychosis at this point because none of us had had more than eight or ten hours of sleep in the previous 48 hours (except for Odum b/c he had a nap while we were at "O"). 
After we were all packed, everyone had lunch at the restaurant downstairs and we headed for the airport. The traffic was a pain in the ass so we were cutting it close. After we dropped off the minivan, we checked in through the skycap with 40 minutes to spare before the plane took off. Thankfully we didn't have to wait in line at security or we would have been in big trouble. Sadly, the skycap didn't tell us that if we checked in less than 45 minutes before departure, there was no guarantee our bags would be on our plane. (Yeah, a few of us had to go back for luggage later).
While we were sitting in the boarding area waiting for the plane, we'd all burst into random fits of laughter. Everyone kept turning to look at us and then just laughed. It was great. The scene was very reminiscent of those crazy "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," commercials. The beauty was, it was our own commercial. 
