As I’ve mentioned before, I finished my “beauty school” hours to become a licensed aesthetician on Dec 15th; and I finished my seasonal job on Dec 24th. I passed my written exam with the state on Dec 29, and my practical exam is next week on the 7th. After that, I will be done. (Well, I have to submit paperwork to the state and my license fee.) Then, the real job hunting will begin with license in hand! (wheeeeeeeeee)
So, I’ve been a free woman for the holidays… Now that the season is past – I find myself with a lot of free time. The first day was quite enjoyable; however , it’s starting to get a little – I dunno – too quiet?!? Is that possible? Perhaps a quiet before the storm. It just feels a bit out of whack…and I haven’t really gotten used to having time for myself or a life again.
Queue rambling…Great day yesterday! The Man and I traveled to my parents house to have New Year’s lunch. It was quite tasty!!! Ham, dressing, black eyed peas, cabbage, broccoli rice casserole…YUM! Then my brother, his girlfriend, and my dad left for the hunting lease. Mom, The Man, and I watched a bit of tv then hit up Starbucks and did a little shopping.
In my recent Starbucks trips, I have not received a red cup! I guess they will be gone til next Christmas!!! Waaaaaaah! Also, the Christmas/Holiday blend coffee will be gone soon…
I snagged a mug in red for $4.99 – hahaha now I can have a red cup all year! (Ok, really not that big of a deal.) I did also snag 2 pounds of the Christmas blend (and today 2 half pounds…) Stocking up!
The Man and I went shopping BRIEFLY on the day after Thanksgiving (I can’t really bring myself to call it ‘Black Friday’).
At first, we thought we wanted to see all the craziness…we got into a Best Buy parking lot…there were shennanigans about a parking space…we left to see a movie without going into any stores. We figured some crazy chick wagging her finger at us over a space that wasn’t “hers” and that we weren’t going to park in was “crazy” enough. After the movie, we went to a more remote Best Buy and checked out some of the specials.
That was when I first laid eyes on the Insignia® – 5.0MP High-Definition Digital Camcorder with 3″ Swivel LCD Screen for $99. Since The Man is so in the know regarding nearly everything technology, I asked him to take a look at the camera. He hadn’t heard anything about it except that it was Best Buy’s house brand. He did some cursory searching on the internet in the the store, but didn’t find much. We left without purchasing the camcorder, but that’s the moment I started wanting the camcorder. My digital camera can capture video…but it’s kind of cumbersome and certainly not up to 720p high definition. I had been thinking about the Flip Video MinoHD Camcorder, but was really turned off by the only memory being internal. So, this Insignia really peeked my interest b/c of the internal memory AND secure digital high capacity memory card slot. Unfortunately, the Insginia camera went back up to $149 after “Black Friday”. For a few weeks I pined…then I finally caved and purchased. Interestingly enough, a few days after I caved the price went down again. The Man noticed this when we were shopping for a SDHC card. Fortunately, Best Buy has a price matching/price guarantee policy and they were happy to pull up my original receipt and refund me the price difference (we didn’t have the receipt on hand b/c we didn’t go into the store knowing that the camera was now on sale…I think generally they ask you to bring in your original receipt). We also got a great price on a SanDisk Ultra 8GB Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card for $34.99.
Here’s my first “HD” video with the new toy –
EXCITING HUH?!?!
I was inspired to record us walking into to Target by iJustine’s tweet about getting kicked out of target for filming…but I didn’t actually take any video IN Target.
So far, I’m pretty impressed with this toy. (Especially considering the price!) I will have to post an actual “interesting” video…but I have yet to captured one – being busy with finishing beauty school, work, holidays, etc. OH, and it’s probably important to note that it wasn’t exactly “plug and play” with my Mac. I did some research and this guy’s review really helped me a lot – and now I can edit the files in iMovie HD.
I am getting so close to finishing my 750 hours in ‘beauty’ school – I can taste it.
I also start my holiday job on Monday…I’ve only been gone from my previous post like 6 work days…I haven’t noticed absence making my heart grow fonder. Actually, I have been quite pleased with my time away!!
Nevertheless, with holidays, old/new jobs, finishing school, scheduling and taking state boards…I have the climax of transition going on. So, I will try to update with more interesting beer and beauty notes as soon as I can…
I saw my first red/holiday Starbucks cup yesterday, but I had my very own first one today! I even had the Thanksgiving Blend (is that new? hmm guess so check out this article)
aren’t we the people that blog all narcissists?? believing that we’re interesting enough that someone somehwere is reading our rambling…
yup…
anyway, a list of all the things I want? why not?
we’ll start this category off with something really obscene…mind you I took a picture of this in a magazine yesterday with my camera phone and sent it to my boyfriend…
yeah I know…normally, doing that or posting this would be perceived (justifiably so) as psycho girl hinting to boyfriend it’s time to give in and buy the ring…but yeah that’s so not me…plus we have a long running joke of doing outrageous and stupid things and saying stupid things to “play” annoy each other…
so really it’s just that I saw this and thought “ooooh purty!”
