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Friday, June 12, 2009
Union Station Photo Shoot Extended
Here are some of the pics I took of my friend Heidi. Isn't she a natural? Beautiful friend! Love ya!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
It Only Took Five Years!
As many of you know I went to cosmetology school while I was in high school. I started my sophmore summer and went into my senior summer. Two weeks before I graduated from West Jordan High School I graduated from SLCC with my Applied Associates Degree of Science (provided through the school I was taking cosmo, JATC). Then only a few weeks after graduating from high school I finished my 2000 hours for cosmetology. It took me two full years, but I did it.
Five years later.......STILL HADN'T TAKEN MY TEST!!! I know, I know. What was I thinking?! As I thought about how much time I had put into cosmo school I decided to see if they would still let me take my test. I figured there had to be some kind of a time limit on these kinds of things. Well, I called the state and they said that as far as the rules go now there was no limit. So, it got me thinking. I thought, what the heck. Lets get it done! I called my old instructor from the sandy campus at the JATC and told her my situation. She told me that she was just starting up a stateboards prep class that next week that would go for a month and a half. She was going to be teaching the girls each procedure for stateboards every Monday and Tuesday from May to the beginning of June. Classes were held from 7:30am-8:30am in Sandy!!! Yes, that is a 45 minute drive for me. Yikes! She told me that I could come sit in on these classes to get a refresher so I would feel more prepared. I figured that I might as well take advantage of her offer because she was going to let me do it for free. So, I went back to beauty school. It was crazy going back. There are only a few instructors there that were there when I went to school, but it was fun to see the few that were. Most of the girls there were juniors or seniors in high school so it was funny to have a flash back at what all us girls must have been like. I ended up going to all the classes but two because we were out of town. All along the way my instructor was a HUGE help to me. She let me know what I needed for my kit (supplies for the practical exam) and even supplied me with lots of stuff for it. The last Monday I was there she told me that the stateboards were going to be requiring two extra procedures for people who take their test after June 15th. The two extra procedures were going to be a facial and acrylic nail! :-Z I wasn't even sure I could do the stuff I already had to do let alone do two things I really hadn't done for 5 years! lol So, I got on PSI to see if by any chance they had any openings for the practical exam before the 15th. There are three testing centers for the exam and the only one that came up with anything before the 15th happened to be the closest one to me. But, it happened to be WAY sooner than I was expecting. It was two days from that day!!! I ended up taking the rest of that day off to study and then prepared myself the next day as much as I could after work. I didn't end up getting to bed until about 1:30am and woke up at 5:30 because I was so nervous I couldn't sleep. I got to the testing center early and studied as much as I could then headed in to put my skills to the test. There were 5 other girls there that day. They had us all sit in a room and wait for about 15 mins until they finally came and got us. They took us in one by one to let us know where our set ups would be. There were two ladies in the room with us. One was the speaker who would explain each procedure before we did them and the other lady, the one who was grading us, didn't say a word or even break a smile the whole time. She would just walk around and look at what you were doing through each procedure. The exam was 4 long, hot, nerve racking hours! None of us were aloud to talk either so you can only imagine how you could cut the tension with a knife! lol After we were all done they had us go back to the same room to wait for our final scores. They brought us each in a piece of paper that, under the fold, would say if we passed or failed. Each of us opened ours up one by one. I was honestly thinking that I had messed up too many times to have actually passed it. And the whole time I was thinking, "If I don't pass it this time I just won't take it again". I opened my paper and saw the best word of my day PASS. I did it!!! I passed it even though it had been five years! I can't even tell you how excited and proud I was that I was able to get over my test anxiouty and actually pass one of the hardest tests I have ever taken. It felt pretty dang good. :-) So now I just need to take my written exam, which compared to the practical will be a cake walk. After that I will be a licensed Cosmetologist. I didn't realize how much I have missed it until all this. I have done it off and on throughout the years, but never felt like I wanted to put full effort into it knowing I still needed to take my test. I will still stay working at Verizon of course because it really is a great place to work. But, I may start doing this on the side more now. Maybe I'll get a part time job in a salon to build some clientelle and then maybe after I have kids I can continue that part time. It just makes so much more sense to have all this finally behind me. Yay for passing tests!!! See you all for those new do's! ;-)
Five years later.......STILL HADN'T TAKEN MY TEST!!! I know, I know. What was I thinking?! As I thought about how much time I had put into cosmo school I decided to see if they would still let me take my test. I figured there had to be some kind of a time limit on these kinds of things. Well, I called the state and they said that as far as the rules go now there was no limit. So, it got me thinking. I thought, what the heck. Lets get it done! I called my old instructor from the sandy campus at the JATC and told her my situation. She told me that she was just starting up a stateboards prep class that next week that would go for a month and a half. She was going to be teaching the girls each procedure for stateboards every Monday and Tuesday from May to the beginning of June. Classes were held from 7:30am-8:30am in Sandy!!! Yes, that is a 45 minute drive for me. Yikes! She told me that I could come sit in on these classes to get a refresher so I would feel more prepared. I figured that I might as well take advantage of her offer because she was going to let me do it for free. So, I went back to beauty school. It was crazy going back. There are only a few instructors there that were there when I went to school, but it was fun to see the few that were. Most of the girls there were juniors or seniors in high school so it was funny to have a flash back at what all us girls must have been like. I ended up going to all the classes but two because we were out of town. All along the way my instructor was a HUGE help to me. She let me know what I needed for my kit (supplies for the practical exam) and even supplied me with lots of stuff for it. The last Monday I was there she told me that the stateboards were going to be requiring two extra procedures for people who take their test after June 15th. The two extra procedures were going to be a facial and acrylic nail! :-Z I wasn't even sure I could do the stuff I already had to do let alone do two things I really hadn't done for 5 years! lol So, I got on PSI to see if by any chance they had any openings for the practical exam before the 15th. There are three testing centers for the exam and the only one that came up with anything before the 15th happened to be the closest one to me. But, it happened to be WAY sooner than I was expecting. It was two days from that day!!! I ended up taking the rest of that day off to study and then prepared myself the next day as much as I could after work. I didn't end up getting to bed until about 1:30am and woke up at 5:30 because I was so nervous I couldn't sleep. I got to the testing center early and studied as much as I could then headed in to put my skills to the test. There were 5 other girls there that day. They had us all sit in a room and wait for about 15 mins until they finally came and got us. They took us in one by one to let us know where our set ups would be. There were two ladies in the room with us. One was the speaker who would explain each procedure before we did them and the other lady, the one who was grading us, didn't say a word or even break a smile the whole time. She would just walk around and look at what you were doing through each procedure. The exam was 4 long, hot, nerve racking hours! None of us were aloud to talk either so you can only imagine how you could cut the tension with a knife! lol After we were all done they had us go back to the same room to wait for our final scores. They brought us each in a piece of paper that, under the fold, would say if we passed or failed. Each of us opened ours up one by one. I was honestly thinking that I had messed up too many times to have actually passed it. And the whole time I was thinking, "If I don't pass it this time I just won't take it again". I opened my paper and saw the best word of my day PASS. I did it!!! I passed it even though it had been five years! I can't even tell you how excited and proud I was that I was able to get over my test anxiouty and actually pass one of the hardest tests I have ever taken. It felt pretty dang good. :-) So now I just need to take my written exam, which compared to the practical will be a cake walk. After that I will be a licensed Cosmetologist. I didn't realize how much I have missed it until all this. I have done it off and on throughout the years, but never felt like I wanted to put full effort into it knowing I still needed to take my test. I will still stay working at Verizon of course because it really is a great place to work. But, I may start doing this on the side more now. Maybe I'll get a part time job in a salon to build some clientelle and then maybe after I have kids I can continue that part time. It just makes so much more sense to have all this finally behind me. Yay for passing tests!!! See you all for those new do's! ;-)
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