Beware of "for sale by owners"...

Good NEWS.....suppose to be closing on a home in 2 weeks!!! Not likely going to happen. Why you ask? well let me just tell you....we just happened to stumble across some of the most ignorant "for sale by owners" that you can possibly run into. If any of you are in the house hunting or saleing right now...you know that it is a buyers market, not a sellers.... a buyers...I'm the buyer they are the seller..YET they have proceeded to have their Fathers (both) call my realtor and yell at him after every addendum we have sent, they rejected our repair addendum, My poor realtor has had to drive to Stansbury Park from Layton to sit down with their whole dam fam and explain every word to them.(twice) I love this house..its exactly what we have been looking for that's why we offered 2000 grand more than they were asking AND are financing our own realtor costs...YES i know we are crazy to do that in a market such as this (I've heard it from every mortgage and realtor person since that i have talked with) BUT its got everything to a tee..of what we are looking for. even the color of paint on the walls! so you tell me..am I crazy or are these people really stupid? they must be liven in a bubble of some sort. I packed the kids up yesterday (Saturday), drove all over the place all day, pricing out stuff. (realtor is out of town) any ways..found out that we could build for 3000 less than what we are paying them..AND have no drama!! anyhow...long story short..probably going to terminate this contract, and the good part..watch this house sit on the market for at least 6 more months and sell for 20 grand less of what they are asking for. I am mean i know...but come on people.....!!! Anyways, I haven't been on here for awhile..slowly getting done with my last month of school...each week my graduation gets further and further down the road...I've skipped a few days or so...I'm just done mentally there..BUT not physically . I've got 80 hours left and that's gonna take me a little while to get..seeming as how I'm not too motivated to go right now. weird question for ya? why does the state make cosmetologist get 2000 hours and real estate agents only 90, before they will issue a licence? Even general Contractors only need a few hundred before they are out building the biggest investment of your life time...okay I'm going to go to bed..I'm on one 2 night. catch ya later..

Dusti

tissue anyone...tissue?

I have got the worst head COLD EVER!! there's nothing like a great big cough attack right in the middle of sacrament meeting. Or can you imagine being this bride...I am curling her hair for her big day and between hair sprays I sneeze, cough, and hack a few up into a tissue...eeeew I know gross. man I have missed two days in a row this week from school and 2 night I was running a fever. I am sure my client thought I had early menopause with hot flashes, cause I was burnin up and sweatin because of it. anyhow the good news is that I am done House hunting!! (kinda) I actually found a home in north salt lake (new foxboro subdivision) that I absolutly loved, at the top of our price range, but I didn't want to leave the house, I loved it so much. Nate even liked it but said it was too much for the square footage. instead of getting mad, I gave up. told him "okay i'm done" I am not house hunting anymore. I am sick, I am drained and I just can't do this anymore. sooo the responsibilty lies soley on you now. he simply said "ok" and that was that. it has taken every ounce of me to not look on ksl or the mls. but it's been nice. My realitor gets married today so he has a couple weeks off. we'll see how well nate does without him or I looking. for those of you that don't know...we live in our inlaws home in West Valley. it's kinda been nice being back in the old "hood". lots of good memories. really wouldn't mind living in westvalley, but we haven't found what we are looking for. for every house i like I pull up a sex offender website that tells me how close and how many are in/or suroundin area....haven't had the best of luck in the good ol WVC, so we are trying Sandy now just really pricy. guess you pay for the address there. anyhow, I am going to post pictures of my kids and my photo shoots next time I promise. I am horrible at posting them cuz I have to be up at my sistas to do it. My computer won't. or I just don't know how. anyhow, I gotta go my nose is becoming a waterfall and it stings!!......eeeeww gross I know!
sniffling Dusti

Definetly not Inspired....

I am sooo done with House hunting. I just want to be done!! I don't even care anymore...a little shack off to the side of the road...SOLD!! I just want a home of our own. I want my kids to beable to be a regular 3 and 1 yr old and tear apart their own home. There's nothing like living with family and having your kids draw on the wall, poop on the floor, pee on the carpet, scream resentlessly at 3:20AM in the morning for an hour!! you name it, my kids have done it. which is part of growing up..and shouldn't be a big deal. instead they have to not only deal with 4 grown ups telling them no, they have to feel the constant anxiety of their parents day in and out over things that are just natural for toddlers to do. And not to mention things that Mommy and Daddy wouldn't usually say no to in our own home with our own rules!! I'm not ungrateful for all that our family has sacrificed for us these past 8 months. I'm just done. all those who have been in my situation know exactly what I am talking about. I am so excited to do just regular things in the privacy of my own home like: walking around in my underwear, eating icecream in the living room at 12 am in the morning with the tv on and high. screaming really loud at Nate when I want to. theres nothing like getting in a fight with your husband in fromt of the inlaws. it just doesn't happen, which is ok i guess, but a really good fight means making up...and theres not much of that going on with family upstairs and to both sides of your room that you share with both children!! It's amazing how you live different when others are observing. Oh and I will really enjoy skipping a sunday here and there without feeling like a teeanager again! all of you who think im crazy, I want you to keep track just today of habits, words, eating habits, movies you watch, clothes you wear, activities you do that you wouldn't feel comfortable doing in front of in laws..or just plain anybody else other than your spouse and children. I am so blessed to have amazing In laws, cuz if they weren't I would be insane by now! We have the best Realtor EVER. he has been patiently working with us for a year now. he's helped us make 5 different offers in 5 different cities, and yet not ment to be. I know that heavenly Father is going to lead us to where we need to be. But in the mean time...AHHHH. I think what is....is and it will happen the way it should, I'm just venting.

Inspired

Inspiration...what a word. It doesn't quite explain the way I feel. However it is the closest way to describe what I felt during President Monsons talks today. I absolutly loved President Hinckley and every time he talked I would smile and sometimes cry. and of coarse I sustained him as a prophet and I believed that he was a true prophet. But I have never felt the feelings that I did today as our 16th President of the church spoke. his words peirced me to the very core of my soul and I know that President Monson is the only true prophet on this earth today. Hope is another word I am feeling. have you ever come away from a conference feeling like you can never "catch up" or do everything that is expected? I feel hope that flutters into simplicity. and I can do that. As he spoke of his ancesters and told the regular "monson stories" like he allways does, I felt something different. so much so that after I put the kids down for their naps I rewinded it back to his first talk of the day the end of the first session, I listened to that talk 3 times in a row and it's funny because at the end of the third one I'll admit I fell asleep, but in my sleep I was hearing the other talks spoken in the second session but in my dream it was the prophet speaking. I felt the spirit so strong as I cuddled in a gushy blanket on my couch in my sweats with a towel wrapped around my head. and as the tears flowed down my cheeks I thought "this is great" I can have the same feelings from heaven anywhere in this world..as long as I open my heart up to feel them and realize that I am his child and he will never forsake me..or in other words leave me alone. I am so happy right now, and its not because I have a big house(cuz i don't) and its not from just eating a huge amount of ice cream, or it's not even because I have things...its because I have been touched by something that is so familiar to my spirit that makes me feel like home. I wonder if thats why i get so depressed when i am not living up to the covenants I have made...it's not anything anti depressants or shopping sprees can take away or fix. its simply that I'm home sick. and when I am not doing whats right I don't feel the spirit that reminds me what home really feels like above. I am so thankful that I have a temple so close to me and that I can go and feel what my home is suppose to feel like. I went last saturday for the first time in two years. the jordan river temple. the temple I recieved my convenants in. as I walked through the doors the familar smell made me smile and I got warm fuzzies all inside. I allways like to look around and picture my own home looking and feeling the same. I know that this is the only place I can go and be truly safe and free from satans constant nagging. I want my home to be the same for my husband ans children. so first things first....got to get a home and second I need to clean better!!! hehehe. anyways, I love today and I just wanted to share. I hope you all were touched by our living prophets words today!! how blessed we are to live in a time where we can hear an actual prophet speak.


Love Dusti

Photo Shoot

I love doing Photo Shoots! they are my favorite part of doing hair. I am not the type of hair stylist that likes to take clientelle day in and day out same thing over and over...I like to be way more creative with my talent..! I do that with Photo Shoots. right now I am building up my portfolio with pictures of what I like to do most a variety in all shapes and colors of...beautiful, sexy, curly, spunky, a-line, long,short, hair!! it's sooo fun to have this idea in your head, find a model, pick out the clothes, do the hair, have someone do their makeup the way you want it done and create this picture that you saw in your head. you know all the pictures you see in magazines..adds that are selling jewelery, clothes, purses, etc. those are Photo Shoots...thats what i ultimatly want to be hired out to do...sooo fun, but so much work. it wouldn't seem like it but really, there is hours and hours of work on those models and then an hour or so of shooting the right angle to catch the hair just right, the body language just right and the whole over effect just right. for example: yesterday I did two photo shoots. My first model I put extensions in her hair the night before..that took 2 hours. then yesterday I got to school at 8 AM. her photo shoot was scheduled downtown at 1:45 (should be plenty of time right?) well, one thing I learned from my last photo shoots NOTHING EVER GOES AS PLANNED. So My model finally shows up at 10. I wash her hair blow dry it and get started on the curling..I set it in pin curl pins to set the curls just right and we are out the door at 12 to get her outfit at the mall! (she didn't have time the night before to get it, as planned) But I rocked it...we were in and out of the mall in a half hour with exactly the shoes, shirt, hat and shorts needed. we got back to school at 1 and my brilliant makeup artist had been waiting for 45 minutes to get started (oops) well, I decided to cancel our 1:45 shoot time and take the 3:45 open slot!! which was perfect, we finished makeup and hair at around 3 and we were off...the shoot site was AMAZING!! it was downtown off 4th south and its an old building with amazing graffiti all over it...her photo shoot was out of this world and I am very excited to see them in a few weeks (i'll post them when I get them so you can see). My next photoshoot is scheduled for 6:15, my model for that shoot showed up as I was leaving for my first, so I had my M.A.C. make up artist work on her while I was gone. I got back to school at 4:45. traffic is bad so I need to account for that going back. we were missing a white shirt for her outfit, so we run to the local Genex and can't find a small white shirt anywhere..they were all large and medium (and this model is tiny) so luckily I find one that is hidden by someone that I think was planning on coming back to buy it later (sucker, I got it first) so we end up getting back to school at 5 and i whip out a "Dusti Do" up do in 15 minutes. and we are off!!! ( I'm starving) and we get to the photo shoot where Abby (the most amazing photographer) was wrapping up with the photo shoot before us! luckily time change had happened on Saturday and the sun was still giving us something to work with!! we got done shooting around 6:45 and there you have it...started at 8AM and allmost 12 hours later I will have 2 great pictures for my portfolio!!! I stayed for the next appointment which was for Phil...He's my little brother..I've adopted him. he's my age but...I feel like I am his big sis..he calls me his mom and his conscience, cause I keep him in line !! ( just kidden) but anyways, he's soo soo talented at hair and his model looked ridiculously amazing and his shoot should be in a magazine. it was freezing at this point and we were there till 8...then we all went to my favorite..Litza Pizza downtown, and stuffed ourselves silly, then we headed back to school where I had to clean up and then helped a teacher apply color and lock up the school. I pulled into the drive way at 12AM...LONG DAY!!! but so fun. nate watched the kids in the morning and my mother in law took the day off to help ...(she's my angel). great thing about that day is I got 16 hours in at school and thats 16 hours closer to graduation!!!! ( middle of may I should hit my 2000 hours) and then Im outa there baby!!! so excited!!

Pregnancy SCARE!!

Let me take you back 3 years ago to 2004...my first pregnancy SCARE!! I was training at the Gateway Applebees and as they were training me I got really really dizzy and felt like i was going to faint...went to the bathroom and dry heaved. As I came out of the bathroom my trainer stared at my pail pail face and sent me home. I was so sick I couldn't even drive, so I called Nate, he came quickly to pick me up, as I got into the car he had a big smile on his face..."your pregnant"? the thought hadn't even passed my mind,...( i had just gotten out of a two year marriage where I never even had a pregnancy scare and lets just say..I should have) so volts of terrified electricity zoomed through my allready messed up body and I almost threw up again. Results: TAVIS MURRAY born March 2005. Hailey wasn't a scare...she was planned. this time around I had an IUD placed so that We did not have a baby till atleast 3 years after the last. well it's only been 15 months and here I am... a couple weeks ago I started to feel really really tired and even a little throwy uppy, but i put it off cuz theres no way, I have had this wonderful no period IUD in for over a year now, and that just can't happen. well, i was telling julie my friend at school about this all, and she looks at me, puts her hand on my shoulder and with a somewhat sympathetic voice says "Dusti, you know that IUDs can be knocked out of place"? the same terrifying Volts streamed through my veins faster than any blood in my body and I felt like I had to throw up again. well....here goes...Result: NOT PREGNANT!!!! (hahaha I had you all going) well now you know how I have felt the past 2 weeks of my life. Doctor says IUD is in great and I should be baby free for as long as I want. sigh of relief. cuz let me tell you, we are going to be baby free for atleast 2 years. so...today I slept all DAY, not even kidding couldn't get up and i feel throwy uppy...whats the deal? am I just over doing it? my life is really really over tooo toooo busy , and I don't take my vitamins very well...tell me thats it and that a pee test is just as good as a blood test? plus he checked my uterus out with and ultra sound and I didn't see anything..could you at 2 weeks? I'm trippen myself out here, cuz i usually don't feel this way... unless...no its not so and im going to leave it at that.

A twinkle In Time

So you are all probably wondering "Why is her heading "A Twinkle in Time"? Well...I'll tell you, you see I have had some pretty "deep" events happen to me in the past weeks that have made me realize that all this...all these pictures, posts, memories, heartaches, joy, blah blah blah its all just A TWINKLE IN TIME. We are all so much older than our bodies or our total hours put in on this earth. We are old, we are wise, Infact we have been around soooo long that time is a foriegn thing to us (thats my excuse...you know?... for my poor time management skills!)all kidding aside, I love this particular Twinkle in my time on this earth, and thats what i want to focus on...the Twinkles, not the dark spots that come and go. So thats why I named it A Twinkle in Time..because I want to share my Twinkles with you..(not to be misunderstood with tinkles) Love you all and hope you enjoy my weirdness. Thanks to Mandy...she knows why.