Big Change

So I have been working for the same company as a receptionist/secretary for about 2 years now. I enjoy it a lot. It's very laid back, and i can pretty much do whatever i want whenever i want. I am now spoiled because of it. ha. But i graduated from UCMT as you all know by now, about 7 months ago. I worked at a spa for about 2 months and though i loved doing massage, i didn't quite fit it at that specific spa. So i quit. Before i start on the "big change" story i will give you some background on how i was offered this opportunity. So this company i work for RSI. They do stainless steel fabrication and installation, and we had placed a bid on doing all of the Stainless steel work for the new property of St. Regis Resort in deer valley, ut. We got the bid. And as soon as i saw the blue prints come in and saw the spa attached to it, i knew it was destiney. So while i was still attending school i made contact with the spa director in hopes i could get an "in" when they start hiring. So she told me to keep looking for an email, and at there job site to see when the job was available. So i did, and months went by and by and by and by. And last week i recieved an email asking me to come to an open interview in park city. So of course i was up there bright and early (2nd person there) and interviewed with a very nice lady, that i hit it off with quite well i thought. So she asked me to come do a hands on the spa director the next day!!!eeekkkk! Of course i accepted that offer and came the next day to do my hands on. I was so nervous, but felt quite comfortable. (sounds weird i know). So i arrive at the hotel to do my hands on and the room is completley empty except for to draped off areas and 2 ladies sitting at a table between the draped areas and a girl sitting next to the door. whom i was assuming was there for a hands on as well. So on of the ladies greets a girl that came in the door and brings her back to recieve a facial. And the other lady decides to come over and entertain me. I didn't know who she was, but i just started talking to her about massage and this job opportunity and at the end i shake her hand and she introduces herself as the assistant to the spa director, and at that moment i froze for a second and got a little scared. Then i felt a hand on my shoulder and this little blonde lady asks me if im ready to do the hands on. I stand up and say "of course". She introduces herself as the spa diretor of Remede' spa in the st.regis resort. She walks me back to the draped area and says you have about 15 min to do the massage and i would like work done on my pecks, shoulders, and neck. SWEET!!! So we begin and i give her the massage. I thought it was ok on my end, i wasn't quite satisfied with it. But she seemed to really enjoy it. I let her dress and she came out and shook my hand, and said she would call me in a couple hours to let me know if i had the job or not. My jaw dropped a couple hours, that is quick. I was relieved but nervous too. A couple hours went by and i was literally sitting on my couch at home with the phone on my lap. haha. the call finally comes. Me " hello", Nicole "Hey is angelika available", me "this is she", "hey angelika this is Nicole Miller from St.Regis you came in and gave me a massage a couple hours ago", Me " yeah, yeah i did" (so nervous), Nicole " well i was extremely impressed with your touch, and think you have an amazing talent, and i would love for you to share it with my team at st. regis, So i would like to extend this job opportunity as a full-time massage therapist, would you like to except?", me " YES!!!!!, seriously, youre not joking me?", Nicole "hahaha, no im not joking you". Me " yes i accept".
So people that is how it went, and i have now quit my other job i have been at for 2 years and am on my way to become a full-time massage therapist at the St. Regis Resort at the Remede Spa in Deer Valley, Ut. I stat training this week, and start at the hotel on November 29,2009. So wish me luck. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work for a spa like this, so i hope i do well, and i hope this is the right choice.

Momma Tip

You know when you get the rings on you tables from everyone that doesnt use a coaster. Gah that pisses me off. But i called my momma the other day and asked if she knew anyway to get them out and of course she had a nifty idea. Are you ready, it's completley odd. Cigarette ashes and mayonaise. WHAT!?!? Yup it WORKS!!! totally random, but it pulls that white ring right off the table.

Rylans 2nd Birthday Party :)

Momma Tip

If you want to clean your carpets and dont have time to go get a carpet cleaner and then let them dry this will be your new best friend.
Whenever i deep clean which is 4 times a year, but i actually do this once a month.
If you take resolve carpet cleaner (the spray, not foam) and mist it all over carpet then get your box of baking soda and scatter it all over the carpet. Let it sit for up to an hour. Then the vacuum and vacuum it all up. The baking soda will pull any smell or stain color out of the carpet. I love doing this before i switch out my scentys, it makes them stronger, at least to me anyways. Also when you move your furniture off the carpet to do this and there are indents in the carpet, put an ice cube there and it will make it go back to normal. :) Thanks momma!

Nie Nie <3

I <3 this blog and this woman and her family. I don't know if you'll ever read this. But you changed my life and i don't know you but i love you.

This is from one of her posts. and i thought it was beautiful.

There are moments in my life when I feel like my spirit is tapping my heart to remind me just why I still mortally exist.

Isn't that so true! I love that.

Bakerella

Monday, December 10, 2007

Brownie Candy Cups
You just can’t beat chocolate and peanut butter. These are some treats I made for work. Hope they like them… I did!

Brownie Candy Cups

1 package Duncan Hines Chocolate Lovers Double Fudge Brownie Mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
30 mini Reeses cups unwrapped
1 Box Reynolds 2-inch aluminum foil mini cups for muffins

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Place 30 foil liners on baking sheet
3. Combine brownie mix, contents from fudge packet in mix, eggs, water and oil.
4. Stir with spoon until well blended. (about 50 strokes)
5. Fill each liner with 2 tablespoons of batter
6. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes and remove from oven
7. Push 1 Reeses in center of each “brownie cupcake” until even with surface of the batter.
8. Bake 5-7 minutes longer.
9. Cool 5-10 minutes in pan and then move to cooling rack to cool completely.

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Portabella!!!

Last night i made a delicious portabella mushroom burger. For all the vegetarians out there that are veggies because of health reasons but miss the taste of meat, this is an awesome substitute well........for now anyway.
This whole 2 weeks i have been doing really good. I can actually already see and feel a difference in my body. It's pretty incredible actually. I have also come to quite enjoy rice milk, but i won't lie i still use 1% milk for my homemade hot chocolate and baking. I am actually craving healthier foods, like fruit and veggies, i like it. :) Hopefully this will last, and i will keep enjoying it as much as i have been. Happy Fall. :)

Short, OVERLY packed Weekend!!!

This weekend....Friday night i had my first vegetarian cafe experience. I was quite pleased. It was a quaint little spot in SLC called Sage Cafe. I wont lie i'm still going to miss a big huge juicy cheeseburger, but my heart thinks otherwise. ha. Saturday, i picked my momma up and miss rylan and picked up all her stuff for her birthday party. I can't believe she is already 2. She was completely convinced that we were celebrating elmos birthday. ha. I will have pictures up later today of her bday. Sunday was the big birthday day. We had some slight draw backs, because my grandma nor my brother had a car at the moment so i had to play taxi cab, but i didnt mind. While everyone feasted on my mommas famous chilli, i had my sweet awesome steamed broccoli and baked potato. thanks mom :). OHHHH not to mention, on friday all day, i fall cleaned my house (still in the works). But i made a big no no. I have a couple scentys around my house and one of them sits on my kitchen counter. So i moved the scentsy to the corner of the wall so i could wipe down the counter and move the microwave. I placed it SECURLY in the corner and moved on to cleaning. As i unplug the microwave to move it off the counter, it gets tangled with the scentsy plug and what goes flying, none other than my scentsy ALL OVER my walls, tile floor and everywhere you can imagine. That was the biggest mess ever to clean up. Wax is the crappiest, hardest stuff to clean up. GAHHHH! Anyways my house it squeeky clean and thats all that really matters right? i guess. have a GREAT MONDAY!!!

MOMMA SANDY TIP

So i figured my momma is pretty much a genius and gives me the best tips ever to get rid of smells, stains, decorating, cooking, baking, and they are amazing. So im going to start posting them, because im sure (hoping) that everyone else has these issues too. So hopefully they will help you as much as they help me. :)
So i have 2 scentsys in my house, and they are amazing, but i wanted an even stronger smell, especially for the holidays. I love having my whole house smell like cinnamon, pumpkin, anything that is holiday like. So here s my momma tip

Momma tip #1- For a strong smell of yummyness (angelika word) in your home. Go to wal-mart, smiths, micheals, roberts, anywhere really, go down there candle isle and find the liquid poppuri (spelling?). Then instead of buying a poppuri (again?) burner go home put you stove on simmer and pour a good amount of the liquid in there, then add things like clove, or cinnamon, like the seasonings you cook with and let it simmer. OMG it works so good. and the liquid poppuri is only like $3. so its perfect and it lasts quite awhile too. And if it starts running low i just add a little water too it instead of more of the liquid.
-don't forget to check it every once in awhile ;)

Pretty Friggin Excited

too go see this movie <3

Rainy Day

Today i wish i was home with my sweetheart, sipping hot chocolate with cinnamon, watching a cute movie, and cuddling the day away with laughs and kisses. And then maybe some puddle jumping later. ha. Have a GREAT day!!! :)

Should I or Shouldn't I???

So i have been having some minor health problems that could lead into big ones if i am not careful. I have extremely high cholesterol for my age, and i need to lose some weight as well. I realize that this is a big deal, and i am going to try really hard to change my lifestyle to become more healthy. Diabetes and heart disease run very strong thought both sides of my family, so i am at even higher risk to develop those at a younger age. So pretty much i'm horrified. So after a lot of research and reading, i am going vegetarian. The health benefits alone are a good enough reason to do it. Not to mention that i really am discusted by the way animals are treated and killed. So stating this week i will be a vegetarian. I am also starting to jog a couple times a week and on the days i dont i would love to start doing yoga again. This sounds so easy to say but i know it's going to be so hard for me. Cause anyone who knows me knows i love my prime rib rare and i love cheese and butter, and steak, chicken, fish, all of it. yummy. But i know in the long run i will not regret my decision. Let me know what you think, advice, recipies, anything!

Apple Cider Vinager

I mentioned a couple posts ago about my friend ashley's wedding. Well me and my sister audrey and ashley as well all wanted to be tan for the pictures! Of course! So audy has been tanning for a couple weeks now, and is friggin dark, ashley has gone a couple times and is pretty brown nothing like audy. So i needed to get dark fast so all of us went to get spray tans. They always tell you to tan before you get the spray tan, it makes it look better. So that is precisley what me and audy did. EXCEPT there were new lights put into the bed...BIG PROBLEM....we both also chose not to cover our faces....ANOTHER BIG PROBLEM!!! So, i already have pretty dark skin naturally so i rarely rarely get burned. Well my friends.... me and audy GOT FRIED!!! Especially on our faces!!! and to make it better we both went to get the spray tan after, before we knew we were burned. So lets add this up ...bed with new lights + spray tan = oompa loompa!!! WTF. So with that in mind! we both exfoliated ourselves to death and ended up looking quite nice for the wedding. But only thanks to apple cider vinager!!! We all stayed in a hotel the night before the wedding and pretty much drenched ourselves with this stuff!!! And it totally worked. We went from tomatos to yummy browness!!! So if you ever get fried and need a quick fix for your redness... get a pretty warm to hot wash cloth and drench it in apple cider vinager for as long as you can. Keep in mind it stings your eyes. It has the same effect on your eyes as cutting an onion does. So beware!!!

Early Christmas List (pics from anthropologie)

Happily Ever After <3

So this past Saturday (September 19, 2009) my best friend Ashley Bret Mcquivey (aka my sister)go married to the love of her life. And oh let me tell you when i saw her walking down the isle, i teared up. I have never had my breath taken away by beauty. It was quite the experience. The whole ceremony was really just beautiful. Apart from the preacher having a friggin lisp, it was perfect! The whole night was a party, seeing old friends, reminissing, and laughing. It was amazing! I just havent been able to quit thinking about ashy and how much i love her, and how it really hit me at the ceremony that after all these years of being so close, i understand now how much she means to me. She literally took mine and everyones breath away with her beauty and poise. I will post pictures and you will know exactly what i am talking about! i promise! anyways hope you all have a beautiful monday. today is the first day you can feel fall in the air!!! yay!!!

Was its das?

Furture refrence for all therapists that want a job at a spa. Don't let it be the Primrose Retreat! It's a beautiful spa, but the owner is the worst employer i have ever been hired by. THE WORST!!! can i make it any clearer. She is so unfriendly and rude. I was going to be quitting there this weekend, but got "let go" aka the owner for some reason didnt like me. I was actually really happy, but oh well. ha. I dont mean to sound conceded or anything but i have never not been liked, by an employer and i have had a lot of jobs. Im an extremely hard worker and pretty friendly i think, but this lady is crazy. Even my school said that i should probably not work there. I mean that means a lot when a huge massage school known around the U.S. says dont work there the owner is terrible. Anyways i have never been fired before so that was a first but i dont even consider it being fired, ha. anyways, have a great thrusday!!!

MMMMMM GOOD!!!

I think i am going to make this for dinner tonight! it is going to be a chilly evening. I love fall weather. its so cozy. dont you think?

Stress Control

This week is going to be INSANE!!! My best friend Ashley is getting married on Saturday!! Yay finally. I am so excited the wedding is going to be gorgeous!!! But how about we add on what else is going on this week starting with monday (yesterday). Monday- Me and Nic spent ALL weekend studing and doing homework. I had a presentation that i had to do on monday and it had to last a half an hour. which pretty much feels like forever!!! I also had 2 english reports due as well as a technical report due with my presentation. WTF MAN! Nic had, biology, chemisty, english, and philosophy homework that he need to finish as well. So Monday night consisted of me and nic going to school, turning in all our homework and coming home around 8ish. I made dinner and we were off to bed. Tuesday- Nic has school again tonight, I am trying to do my homework at work today so i can help my ashy do her favors tonight. Then on wednesday nic and i have school again, with another english report due, and a baby paper for psychology. Thursday- Nic has school once again, i work then go get shoes for my bridesmaid dress (i hope i find some) then go get a spay tan, then drive back up to slc to pick nic up from school. Friday- Bring nic to school in the morning and wait for him to get done. Drive home and meet ash and aud at the mall to get our mani pedis. Then drive draper from there to check into our hotel for the night, and go to eat. come back to the hotel and sleeeeepppp. The SATURDAY!!! wake up at 6 get ready, be in lindon by 10 set up for the ceremony, finish getting ready at audys house! then drive back to lindon for the ceremony by 3, then the rest of that wedding stuff, stay and clean up. SUNDAY!!! Finish our homework that is due the next day, and go to omis for dinner!!! Well hope you all have a nice week!!!!! love you!

HORRAY!!!

My hubby just called me to tell me some big news!!!! HE got the JOB!!! He has been wanting this job for sometime now and he got it! I'm so stinkin proud of him!!! I love you baby!!! muah

It's Here.....Finally

So now that summer has come to a close, this only means ONE thing.........FALL IS HERE!!! I love me some hot weather, with ice cream, swimming and summer nights, but i must say nothing compares to the cool fresh crisp air of FALL. Especially in Utah with the mountains and watching how the leaves turn colors, its just beautiful. And better yet Fall Cleaning! I love taking the whole house apart and scrubbing down and washing everything, putting away summer decor and exchanging it for those beautiful auburn, brown, and yellow colors that instanly warm up the house. I love putting out my pumpkin cinnamon spice scentsy and having the house smell of autumn!. My parents always did fall cleaning and all of this when we were growing up, so i guess its kind of tradition, but man oh man do i get excited, even nic is excited to clean and get ready. The only downfall of fall is that it leads into winter which i completly hate. mew. Anyways im going to get started on my fall cleaning list. HAPPY TUESDAY!!!

Happy Belated :)

To this guy.......Kainoa. one of my very best friends. i love him so much!!! Happy birthday yesterday....can't wait to celebrate with you this weekend. thanks for all you do. love you lots.

The Time Has Come

It's SEPTEMBER!!!!!
This means i can start cooking pumpkin bread!!!mmmm! one of my most favorite memories that i always think of this time of year, is when i would come home from school and my mom had cinnamon and apples cooking on the stove and the whole house would be spotless and all the windows were open for the fresh cool air. And the best smell ever would be coming through the window as i walked up the driveway. She would have the pumpkin bread baking in the oven and coffee brewing. And she always plays the same tape every year around this time. it's called autum in new england , its a piano tape. i love it. and i would walk in and she would be pouring the coffee and cutting the bread for all of us to eat and drink coffee with. oh how i miss those days. I even remember the feeling i would get coming into the house to her doing this. i love her! muah mommy. and i love my pumpkin bread. :) Happy Baking!

I <3 this little girl

Tamarind Springs

So my major dream for the future is to open a spa, and not just a get pampered spa, i want to create a full on wellness spa. One that teaches you about health and wellness as well as massage and day spa like things. I have been told by so many people that if i want to be amazing at massage i need to go to thailand or china, somewhere eastern, and after thinking about it for the last couple weeks, i decided thats exactly what i am going to do. I want to goto thailand!!!! This picture below is one of the many types of massage that is taught at the Tamarind Springs. Google that and check it out. After looking at this site, this is something i would love to bring to the US. I teaches you all about zen and finding yourself. It is incredible. What do you think? I would go there for probably 4-5 months and get trained. Oh if i didnt say earlier this is a spa as well as a school. So i would actually stay at the spa and be taught there. cool huh.