Urban Poly Princess

Last night my friend from when I was tutoring at a Korean learning center AND working as a Clarins make up counter salesperson at Liberty House played this identify the artist game. She gave me my favorite make up artist Kevyn Aucoin. I had no idea until I looked him up that he died in 2002. I was sooo into make up then. I wanted to get media make up training and work fashion shows in NY. I looove that stuff BUUUT I didn't want my brain to atrophy either and getting a graduate degree was still a priority in my head.

I used to read Vogue and Details EVERY month along with Allure sometimes. That was after my mission. Hawaii has ALL the stores with all the products that hooked me and that I love too. Moving to Utah took me away from that stuff. In some ways that's great BUUUT I still love that stuff. It's a lot easier to love those things when you are around stores and people who also appreciate those things. I'm never going to not care what I look like when I leave the house or what clothes and accessories I decide to wear. I find joy in that. I know it's superficial BUT I feel better about myself anyway when I pay attention to that.

I have enough school for now. I need to make the money so I can get the clothes, drive the car and buy and decorate the home I want. My family is my first priority and I will continue to try to have that by attending AND participating in my church activities BUUUT I need to work this real estate thing. I feel great about my academic skills and degrees now. When I have raised my children maybe I'll return to school and get a master degree in Art History. I still like law but I'm not that motivated to do it. I want a JD just so I can have it, not to work in the field or do anything with it.

Ether 5
Short chapter
4 And in the mouth of three ^awitnesses shall these things be established; and the ^btestimony of three, and this work, in the which shall be shown forth the power of God and also his word, of which the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record—and all this shall stand as a testimony against the world at the last day.

I Will Not Fail Thee nor Forsake Thee - Thomas S. Monson
When the pathway of life takes a cruel turn, there is the temptation to ask the question “Why me?” At times there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel, no sunrise to end the night’s darkness. We feel encompassed by the disappointment of shattered dreams and the despair of vanished hopes. We join in uttering the biblical plea, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”¹We feel abandoned, heartbroken, alone. We are inclined to view our own personal misfortunes through the distorted prism of pessimism. We become impatient for a solution to our problems, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.