Miss Ashlee has a lot to say

we needs furniture!!

2009-10-08T03:57:56Z

anyone know of a good cheap furniture store?
y'know, besides salvation army. we're not that desperate.

we're in need of a bar table and bar stools, rly modern looking.
couch, love seat, end tables...
tv stand. a few tables to throw here and there so we can sit our pretty things on...

we also need a desk, vacuum... umm.. toaster!!
coffee pot, blender, and tea pot.
iron and ironing board...

ummmm oh and a headboard.
not a rockin' one. we got that covered ;)

looking sunny...ish

2009-10-07T18:11:29Z

today looks to be a bit better... after a depressing day in bed with a headache yesterday. my jaw seems to be back in its 'i'm not going to open today' phase.. today, better. yesterday, not so much. i tried my damndest to eat a corndog to no avail. it hurt so bad just trying to squeeze the damn thing in my mouth far enough to actually get a bite to swallow..

the lady seems to have realized what went wrong on my birthday and has been trying to do better. i sent her a text saying something about 'my jaw is locked, i can't eat' so she picked up spaghetti ingredients after school. it was good to be able to eat. we had a chat about my birthday, to which she responded that she knew she fucked it up and was going to make it up to me.

maybe it was just my depressed mood yesterday, but nothing really cheered me up.
and it sucks i have to use the only birthday presents i got for bills... i was considering starting my alice in wonderland tattoo. or one of my tattoos. i dunno, though. maybe i'll just. use the money for bills.

oh and its probably going to rain again. wee.

my 21st birthday...

2009-10-06T16:46:12Z

it sure was a blast...

i woke up at 6, when lili left for school.
went back to sleep til 8, when my dad called.
went back to sleep after talking to him and eventually got out of bed at noon.

lili text and said she'd be home after 1, because she switched class times at school and her new teacher was making her stay for a bit of his class.

lili got home at 130 and decided we needed to go across houston to meet her friend for something. we were in the car and didn't get home til 5.

she then told me i needed to go to walmart and pick up some tea for her, and get some water and toilet paper.

i got home after 545 expecting my dinner...

but she hadn't done anything.

she finally put it in around 730.

i ate a cornish hen. and water.

then i went to bed at 1030.

she spent 120 dollars on herself yesterday, and 6 on OUR dinner. that she didn't even eat when i did...

problem solved

2009-09-25T15:14:29Z

i bought kyndle a DrinkWell kitty fountain at Petsmart and SHE LOVES IT. She has hopped up on the counter to drink once, and i picked her up and sat her directly in front of the fountain. she has had a few drinks out of it, but i think she's still getting used to it.

a friend from EFA suggested keeping a spray bottle by the bed and spraying at her when she meows or paws at me to wake me up. she knows the spray bottle.,.. we keep her off the counter tops and from under the bed (she loves to shred the boxes under there).

we shall see.

someone please leave some advice...

2009-09-24T13:17:41Z

I posted this on a cat expert website... Didn't feel like typing it again. Please leave some advice, if you have any. Lili and I are both sick of this behavior Kyndle has adopted lately...

I have a year old cat named Kyndle. I rescued her from abandonment; she was found with her litter without a mother when they were very young. I have done everything the vet recommended health-wise. She's up to date on every vaccine and check up. Since I got her, Kyndle has proved to be more like a human child than a kitten. She responds when anyone speaks to her with different kinds of meows. I think she feels lonely without my partner or I around. Lately, however, she's been driving us both beyond crazy. She absolutely refuses to drink out of a bowl. I change the water and wash the slimeys out of her bowl daily. She only wants to drink from a tap. Kyndle also has a very annoying habit of waking me up EVERY morning at least twice. Lately it has been around five am and seven am. I don't need to be up that early, but she will not calm down until someone gets up and puts more food in her bowl (usually she has plenty) or turns the water on for her. Some days I'm ready to put a 'cat for sale' ad up. Other days are better. But I can't keep doing the early morning thing. Any advice?

Also know that I've tried putting her out of our room and shutting the door. She will meow outside of the door and paw at it aggressively, causing much banging noises that don't allow sleep. We have a cage for her that we use for time out purposes and taking her to the vet. It's very small (thanks to my mother; we had a larger one that was hers and she took it back and bought the teeny tiny one). I don't feel very humane by leaving her in there all night long without food/water/litter box. I desperately need advice.

leaving for houston

2009-08-21T20:34:55Z

i'll be in houston from august 22nd to august 28th. i'm going to secure the apartment, get our stuff moved, and see my lady! :) anyone still interested in hair cuts, please let me know and i'll get in touch when i get back!

waiting...

2009-08-20T00:49:03Z

is the hardest game to play.

Lantern Village

2009-08-19T16:40:53Z

We've decided on Lantern Village.

All bills paid! Wee! Our only hold back will be if they don't let Lili's mom cosign without being present. She's going to cosign for her, but the application will have to be faxed to her. Cross your fingers.

Take a look at the reviews here.

It seems this place is pretty okay; the main concern with people renting here are the stringent rules. It seems some of the renters that are unhappy are younger - a young woman said not to rent there because the security guard wouldn't let her friend in without her ID. Well duh, stupid. He's only doing his job. I could get used to strict rules if it meant my safety. :)

SIGH wish us luck...

So Basically...

2009-08-19T06:45:21Z

none of those apartments have a short term lease option, so they're all out. we've now decided that a short term lease will be a good opportunity to look for a better place and get out of the bad neighborhood. tanglewood at voss is our starting point for the long term living arrangement. we just need something starting in september, for three months. or less, if available.

tanglewood features covered parking, wireless internet, an alarm system, washer/dryer in unit, island kitchens, and three miles from the art institute. less in rent that what we'd thought too :)

sigh. i'm still anxious about the first couple of months. all i need is for our things to be stolen AGAIN...

anxiety

2009-08-19T04:13:32Z

i cannot wait until june of 2011 rolls around.
please, god, get me through the next twenty two months.

list of potential apartments

2009-08-18T23:48:43Z

This is a list of all the apartments I've found that match our criteria (close to school, good rating, price range).

Verde Chateaux Dijon - 1.35 miles from Art Institute
5331 Beverlyhill St. Houston, TX 77056

1 BR/1 BA $525/mo
510 sq ft
78% recommended

The Crest - 7.13 miles from A.I.
2300 Wilcrest Dr. Houston, TX 77042

Efficiency: $475/mo
550 sq ft
79% recommended

Belmont Place - La Fontaine - 7.63 miles from A.I.
10500 Valley Forge Dr. Houston, TX 77042

1 BR/1 BA $530/mo
870 sq ft
66% recommended

Ascot Court - 16.93 miles from A.I.
10910 West Rd. Houston, TX 77064

1 BR/1 BA $535/mo
583 sq ft
86% recommended

Orchard Park at Willowbrook - 21.20 miles from A.I.
13350 Perry Rd. Houston, TX

1 BR/1 BA $519/mo
691 sq ft
new - not yet rated

The Orchard Park apartment is MY FAVORITE. It's brand new, and very modern looking. However this is the farthest from school. I like Ascot Court quite a lot too.

Mina! If you see anything that screams "DON'T MOVE HERE!!!" about any of these places, please let me know!

Busy Bee

2009-08-15T21:17:25Z

I just got my temporary license in the mail!

Lili checked out the Lakeside Place apartments today and said it looked pretty nice; nice people around, big rooms, clean. I still can't get over that 22% rating, though. I wish we could find something better, but the prices skyrocket for all the good places. I know I won't have a problem when I get a job, but that's the problem. I can't until after I take my boards, which is still a month away. And Lili can't be expected to drive the distance she will have to every day. It's too far, and there's too much traffic.

I found Lantern Village. All bills paid for $590/month. 60% recommended. Good part of town.

Oh, and I emailed salons asking for information about employment. Maybe I can get a job lined up before I even move.

Cleaning / Packing

2009-08-15T06:31:29Z

I'm in the middle of sorting through my stuff. I've managed to get through my entire room, bathroom, and other belongings and only have 2 laundry baskets, 2 bags, and a box to sort through. I'm proud of myself for getting it done so quickly.

I am scheduled to take my state board on september 14th. I packed my bag for the test today. It's the practical exam, meaning I have to perform basic services on the mannequin head and hand. Cutting, styling, perms, etc. Blah. We're required to bring our own materials and it all has to be put in seperate bags just so. They're so damn picky, so I made sure to get everything carefully labeled so I don't have any problems when I get there. That's out of the way and I don't have to worry about it for another month. Wee!

I'll be sitting around on my ass, sorting through the rest of my stuff tomorrow. My step mom and step brother have hair cuts Sunday, a lady that used to come to me for cuts at school is getting a cut Monday night, and Wednesday I'm getting my god-awful roots done. Sheesh.
I'm doing Ashley's hair that night too. Oh, and during the day I'll be getting my car inspected for hail damage from July. My insurance guy says most people are getting LOTS (i.e. 2 grand or more) of money for repair costs, so that's good news for me. If I can at least swindle 925 dollars out of them, I can pay off my car!! Any more and I'll probably just sit on it, so I have a cushion for the pending apartment Lili is getting.

Its a big messy situation, if there ever was one. I personally think we rushed into moving, but maybe I just feel rushed because there's so much to do. I finished school June 20 and we left Kansas on July 13. I was in the Houston/Beaumont area until August 12, doing absolutely nothing but worry about my state board. OH and that's another story completely. Turns out the woman in the office I'd been having problems with the majority of my time in school sent in the wrong paperwork for Ashley and myself. Just us two. The entire rest of my class didn't have any problems. I guess state board issued new forms that needed to be notarized before being sent in, and they issued them back in APRIL. This woman admitted to messing up once before, but "its ok" she said, "because state board will be lenient and process our forms faster due to the mix up".
Well they didn't.

In fact, they didn't do much of anything. I had to call them to find out what had happened. No one called me to let me know that, hey, my paperwork wasn't in and it wouldn't be til I went back to the school and signed new forms. I wasn't about to drive 10 and a half hours just so I could sign a piece of paper. So the office lady instructed me on how to get the forms myself, and I was in charge of getting them filled out, notarized, and faxed in (at a costly price, I'll tell you what..). In the middle of all of this, I'm calling state board to make sure I'm doing it right. Of course, I'm not, and I was told I couldn't fax anything in. The lady in the office at school told me she had spoken with someone personally and they said I could fax it in to save time. I was getting two stories, back and forth, in the middle of the process, yada yada. It pissed me off to no end, mostly because the office lady wouldn't admit that she'd done anything wrong and didn't apologize.

Long story short, it took me three weeks to get it all settled. My temporary license is en route, and I should have it by Monday. For all the good it's going to do me...

So anyway, back to Texas.

Lili starts school the 20th and I knew she had to be down there (duh) but I didn't realize she was going to school at 8 in the morning. She's staying with a friend quite a distance from the school and will probably end up waking up at 5 just so she can get there by 8. We are both on unemployment from the post office, and hers runs out this month. She can get a job at the school, but probably not enough to cover all the bills she has. I'm just hoping she can hold off on the apartment, at least for another couple of weeks, because once September 14th rolls around and I pass my test...

OH and I WILL

I can go back, get a job, and all will be well. Transferring licenses is easy, I just have to make a phone call and fill out a form (by MYSELF, no help needed from Office Lady, thank you).
So.
Wee.

If you need a haircut, I'm charging 20 dollars. I'll come to you :)
I need to save up some cash, so hit me the FUCK UP.

missxashlee @ 2009-08-13T23:57:00

2009-08-14T04:58:37Z

in the process of moving to houston!! i'll post when i can.

back from tay-has

2009-03-28T03:22:55Z

well. texas was pretty cool. it was a terrible drive down there - we left at 10 at night, right after i got done with my last day at work. i took A LOT of NyQuil so I could sleep on the way there... to no effect. I had to listen to lili's mom and step dad bitch at each other the entire 10 hours to the dirty south. good lord have mercy.

i spent most of the time meeting lili's family and close friends. We went to her friends' whom she considers her family. It was an honor to meet the people I did - they have my girlfriends' back for ANYTHING, and now they have mine. I met her dad which was... weird... but very nice at the same time. I wasn't nervous about meeting her mom but I want her parents to like me. I was on my best behavior at his house. She said that he and her step mom enjoyed my company and like me a lot. :)

Sigh. The rest of the days were kind of lost in a foggy haze and mashed together in a blur. I remember it rained A WHOLE FUCKING LOT wednesday... and there were lots of lizards every fucking where that my cat enjoyed. oh and I love beaumont. It was a pretty cool place. I think i'll enjoy living there... just not during the months of april through september.
I might get heat stroke or something : 0

now i must get back to reality.. i need to apply for unemployment.. apply for jobs... color my sisters' hair for the fashion show... cut 3 people's hair tomorrow... sigh.
i just want to disappear for a month and not have to worry about anything.

Gone for a Bit

2009-03-20T06:01:10Z

I'll be leaving this time tomorrow (friday) night for texas. i plan on staying a few nights with lili. she's anxious for me to meet her dad and some friends. i need to visit a salon in houston, and i plan on having a good time with my lady.

it's been nearly a month since i saw her.

i'm so happy :)

missxashlee @ 2009-03-18T22:00:00

2009-03-19T03:12:02Z

I was told once there are no dumb questions. There are probably a lot of dumb questions-that-require-stories-to-actually-ask-them.. and this would be one of them...

So. My girlie and I both worked at the same job. That job is stupid and is going under, so they are letting go of people right and left. My girl and I are both jobless now, and I'm wondering exactly what to do.

I'm three months, maybe three and a half months, away from graduating cosmetology school, at which point Lili and I are moving to Texas. I'll worry about the job situation when I get there, right now I'm concerned with the three to possibly four months I'll be here. I just found out tonight that i don't have a job, but Lili has known for over 2 weeks... She suggests maybe a restaurant? Tips would be good I suppose but I've never waitressed and I'm kinda nervous about going head first into it, then quitting because I'm out of school. Lili suggested Hooters.

now. come on.
Her logic is that she's got the charisma, which she does, and I have the body, which I don't. I'm just concerned with the GUYS that swarm Hooters - I really don't care for half drunk college guys OR nicely dressed business men hitting on me and personally I don't want to know that they're doing it to my girlfriend either.. I told her I wasn't going to apply, and she used the Ol' Rocky line 'well if you can dance around in your panties...'

I'm over that stage in my life. And I don't want anyone to take that the wrong way, I simply mean I don't do Rocky anymore, so lets stop bringing it up to make me feel guilty, mmkay? I am not applying Hooters or any restaurant with scantily-clad servers, and here's why:
I have a serious girlfriend that I love. We've been together over a year and we're both set on continuing our great relationship. I feel that dressing in a tight tank top and 80's running shorts so I can get good tips from men is kind of misleading. Also, I believe if I remember correctly, Lili got ..somewhat upset... that an instructor at school even SUGGESTED showing a bit more cleavage to a male client to get a better tip. She fucking blew up, ok? Explain to me the logic in how wearing less to work that what I wear to bed is better than showing the top of your breasts to a client in a salon.

Basically what I'm getting at here is that when I did Rocky Horror, I was coming out of my shell - getting used to myself and my body and everything else that is me. I've now found who and what I want to be, and I'm working hard to get to that point in my life. I need a job to support me through a few more months, and if I don't make as much as the thin girl at Hooters, well ok.
I don't think guys... want to stare at a woman taller than most of them, with hair shorter than most of theirs... however they probably would love Lili and I think there may be a bit of jealousy.
Why should dirty old men get to look at her goodies when they're all mine??

on that note, send me links or applications to jobs that are hiring. Preferrably not to Hooters. Kthx.

All Going Better

2009-03-12T13:24:12Z

I'm going to the doctor again today. I went Tuesday for the same thing, and I don't feel I was able to get what I needed. I was diagnosed with early stages of bronchitis and a sinus infection. She gave me antibiotics for the infection but nothing to help me get over the nasty cough of the bronchitis. Last night at work I was hardly able to stand without getting dizzy and seeing spots... and I noticed it was hard to catch my breath. So. I'm going back today. I'm sleepy alot of the time, too. Yesterday I slept from 10 pm on Tuesday night til 4 pm Wednesday evening.
I got my tax money!! I paid my laptop ALMOST off ( just 65 dollars left on that) and I paid my car ALMOST off!! (Just 900 dollars left!!) I'm pretty happy. I can have my car paid off in no time.

Well. Wish me luck. Maybe I'll get some good meds.

GRRRR!!

2008-12-23T17:38:07Z

lisa and i came home saturday night and saw that alot of christmas decorations were knocked off the window sill. We also noticed that it was FREEZING, and the heat was on yet it was still under 50 degrees in the apartment. Ok... so we fiddled with the thermostat for a bit. I noticed then that there was a stick of men's deoderant by our bedroom door THAT WAS SUDDENLY OPEN, when we always close it to keep kyndle out.

We fucking got robbed.

They broke in our window, which knocked all the stuff off. We're missing my 900 dollar laptop, lisa's 2,500 dollar laptop, lisa's playstation 2, about 150 horror dvd's of lisa's (40-some we found at walmart, and THOSE total over 500 dollars...). OH and a damn cell phone charger. They went through everything, and could have taken much more, but this was bad enough. The cops showed up an hour after i called them and dusted for fingerprints. There was nothing. Of course not; it was -11 that night.

I called the emergency maintenance at the apt complex and the motherfucker informs me he can't get to our place to repair the window because "he doesn't live on the premisis". So the fuck what. You're called an "emergency repair man" for a goddamn reason. On top of al of this, we discovered 3 patches of mold growing in our apartment. One rather large spot under the bed, and two in the hall closet that the maintenance supposedly "fixed" the last time it leaked...

We moved out promptly on Sunday. My new address will not be disclosed to a soul. Fuck the ass hole that did this.

The apartment complex won't let us out of our lease. Even though my car got broken into 6 months ago. Even though we've had 2 leaks and they are not fixed still. Even though there's potentially hazardous mold growing where we sleep. Even though an asshole broke our window and EVEN THOUGH THE REPAIR MAN DIDN'T SHOW UP TIL 10 AM THE NEXT DAY AND EVEN THOUGH WE SLEPT IN A 40 DEGREE APARTMENT.

grrrrraaaaaaahhhhh
DONT RENT FROM THE CLUB AT CHERRY HILLS ON PAWNEE AND ROCK.

kyndle haz interwebz

2008-12-16T10:46:12Z

you should see this on icanhascheezburger.com soon... :)

she's so cute.

party pics!!

2008-12-02T06:47:06Z

Here are the photos from our party we had at our apartment last night...

looks like someone had a little too much fun :)

Perfection

2008-11-12T02:49:46Z

Everyone, please meet Kyndle :]

Things are going perfectly. I [or should I say my step dad] got my laptop up and running. He hooked the battery and laptop up to an ohm meter and found that they both had charge, so they could make power. Turns out the battery was just in sideways or something. I kind of feel like an idiot :)

School is amazing. I only have 14 days left before my leave, and thats really only 8 days on the floor! At least three of my clients are returning, and I really haven't had a bad client yet. A few crazies, but no one has been upset with me and I haven't been upset with anyone. I love doin color and I LOVE playing around with different styles and finding things that make people beautiful. We have these sheets that have lists of things to complete on our mannequins for the month. Its all stuff that we won't have much practice doing on the floor because no one comes in for it. Like. Perms and pin curls :) I'm done with November, and I have 6 stamps for Decembers' already :)

Oh, and my girlfriend and I have been together 9 months tomorrow!

eh.

2008-10-28T06:21:13Z

So after a fall out with the lady, we patched things up. I didn't really talk about what happened between us because she likes to keep her private life private. I'll suffice it with this: she's been angry for a while, popping off about silly things that shouldn't bother anyone. It came down to me actually calling my mom to bring the suburban so I could move out. Lili knew then I was done bullshitting, and she got her act together and has taken steps to fix her anger issues. It really is her business, so I'll leave it at that. My mom still thinks I should leave her. I think my mom is crazy and she can just stfu.

I've been having problems with my jaw on the left side. It locks up. Alot. My dad has TMJ, and my sister has the beginning stages of it. I did as well before getting braces, but I think its back. My mom told me the other day that I'm not getting put back in braces or any other appliances because "she can't afford it". I really don't feel the need to go any further into how fucking mad I am at her. She spends money like they grow it on the tree out back. Every time I have a medical problem, it seems, she ignores it. But her cosmetic reason for getting braces far surpasses my medical issue with my jaw. Take, for example, my gallbladder. How long did I complain about that? At least a year to a year and a half. She dismissed it as me being a hypochondriac who wanted to get out of school. I was just her daughter "that liked to waste money at the doctor". But what did I become when they told me the size of the calcium-deposit-stone floating around in my organ was fatal? Oh, I was suddenly in desperate need of surgery, and she wanted me under the knife A.S.A.P. It doesn't bother her that now I'm back to eating rice and mashed potatoes every day because I can't chew anything harder. -shrug-

Which brings me to another point...

She flat out told me my girlfriend was lying to me.

Here's the story I heard from my girlfriend who has never lied to me about anything in the past:
Apparently while I was under anesthesia for my surgery, my mom told Lili about my dad's alcoholism, why they divorced, where my dad works and why he'll never make anything out of himself. She told me this moments after waking up from surgery. Talk about a way to come out of it...
My mom refused to admit any of that ever happened. She said Lili was lying and that she would NEVER IN HER LIFE tell such things to someone.
Well, back to Lili's story: She says my mom said most of this when they were walking down to the gift shop to buy me a stuffed animal. Lili said my dad walked in soon after they'd left the gift shop and was talking to my mom about "some trophies". When my mom found out my dad couldn't stay to see me, she got pissy and continued her rant.
My mom yelled at me in the kitchen, just the other night, that she didn't go anywhere with Lili and she didn't say anything about my dad being lousy.

...

Honestly not knowing who to believe, I called up my dad. A completely unknowing, neutral person. His story?
"Yeah, I walked in to the hospital and saw your mom with your skinny girlfriend. They had a bag, probably from the gift shop. I asked your mom for my tae kwan do trophies, she said she had no idea what I was talking about, then she started bitching at me for not wanting to stay and see you."

WHAT THE FUCK, MOM.
And let me just say this: I never told Lili anything about my dad further than he was an alcoholic and that's why I refused to drink. She suddently knew how long he'd been drinking, why my parents got divorced, the name of his place of business, and what was going on at his job to make him want to leave, but couldn't.

Lili swears now that she's psychic and is planning on opening up one of those phone lines.
Y'know. For a little extra cash.

ho hum.

2008-10-16T06:07:56Z

Nothing new and exciting going on.
School's just dandy. I've been getting good clients (i.e ones that don't yell, cry, or bitch about things) and i'm actually getting nervous. The time will come when that one grouchy lady sits in my chair and makes me feel insignificant because she can't get over her own irrational fear of looking like shit.
I'm not mean, people. I can cut hair.

Things are just kind of floating along for now. I put in for my leave of absense from school during December, and I've been counting down the days til I get out of school and can spend the days with my girlfriend. And.. at work of course.

I started birth control again, for the hormone therapy (obviously). So far, so good. Not too much to complain about. I've had a few times where I felt sick, but nothing, NOTHING, like the last prescription. Goddamn.

However I'm breaking out like a pubescent teenager.
Pimples. Everywhere.

I just hope the weight gain doesn't come next. I was just starting to feel good in my own skin. Right before it started the renovating with the "General Plague Theme"...

I'm going to fail a test tomorrow. Whoopee.

RIP Wee Bonnie Lass

2008-10-06T21:11:57Z

January 12, 1998 - October 6, 2008

You'll be missed, Bonnie Sue.