Monthly Archives: January 2012

First week!

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My first week at the salon was filled with a lot of nerves and anxiety. I don’t think I slept more than 4-5 hours a night. The first day I had absolutely nothing to do. I managed to text a shitload of people to try and get them in along with TWO whole status updates about finally working somewhere. I had a few people come in and yesterday I had 3 walk-ins.

Anytime you start a new job you try to get a feel for people, read them you know? I’m still going through that. They’re all really fun to be with but I’m still getting used to them. So there’s that.

Also, when you’re a “beginner” you seem to feel like the biggest piece of crap in the world, LOL. But seriously. They’re teaching me all of these techniques and I’m asking questions all the freaking time…I kinda feel like, “Do I even know anything?! What the hell is wrong with me!” I can’t compare with 20 years of collective experience but oh my LORD. Talk about frustrating. It’s hard to beam with confidence when you have all of these amazing people around you. I just really hope I’m not irritating them with asking about so much…

I had to ask my mom for sage advice because my mother knows EVERYTHING. Not even joking. She even knows how to get the smell of garlic off your fingers! Anyway, I asked her how she did it…getting people in to see her and all that (she did nails for ~20 years) and she gave me little tidbits of what to do, say, all that. Then she told me how she spent an hour looking for “cute but comfortable” shoes for me! My mother is a saint I tell you.

I’m going to try and go shopping tomorrow so I can look more trendy. I feel so underdressed all the time. I can’t go on looking like a highschooler for the rest of my life I guess.

So maybe this week I’ll attempt at some pictures or something! I felt so busy this week. I even wrote a half-assed post after my first day but fell asleep before I could post it. Probably for the best, really.

All I want is a pretty closet!

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When you sit around in a house for so long, you start wanting to change everything about it. It doesn’t help that, before I moved in with my boyfriend, 2 other guys (friends, haha) lived here. Right now I’m still living in a pseudo bachelor pad. We have Rat Pack posters, mafia movie posters (a la Casino and Goodfellas), random graffiti art, and so on. I was trying to morph the house – slowly but surely – into a normal home. We painted the spare room a nice, minty green color and shoved a bed, my old dresser and nightstand in there. Along with some branches and giraffe paraphernalia (my mom usually sends me giraffe stuff…including an enormous giraffe stuffed animal), it was coming along pretty well until it became our massive storage room full of stuff we don’t really want but can’t seem to get rid of.

But I digress…we redid the spare bathroom and made a “game room”, a place to hoard all of our nerdy gamer stuff. So now I would like to redo our bedroom a little bit, just repaint mostly and add a few useful touches here and there. Nothing crazy (was jobless, hellooo) but I really wanted to feel like an “ADULT”. So I’m thinking – what can I do first that really needs an upgrade? Hey look, our closet! So I went through all of my clothes and put about 20% in a large garbage bag to donate (soon, I swear). So now that the depressing part was over, I hopped online (HAHA who am I kidding…I’m always online) to look up some ~*inspirational*~ pictures of closets. Would you like to know what I found?

Who are these people? Mariah Carey? I mean some of them even look like stores! I live in a house but I think my closet could barely fit a chair let alone a sofa! So for now I’m just going through my catalog collection to find some organizational help and some color ideas. We’ll see what I actually come up with. In the meantime, I’m just gonna keep scrolling through the Ikea website and dreaming of “what could be”, LOL.

Edit: I found out that a lot of the real people giant closets weren’t really “closets”, people morphed an extra room or space into a massive closet! Wish I would have thought of that before redoing the spare room, eheheh.

New years schmew years

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Well, the holidays are “officially” over! It’s already starting out to be a pretty okay year. Why, you ask? I FOUND A JOB :D ! The salon is about 10 minutes away so the commute is really great. I won’t start until next week but I’m sure I’ll post about it later.

It made me realize I haven’t worked since freaking June. It was nice for the first 2 months or so but then panic mode set in. I absolutely hated my old job…it made me such a miserable person, and I was so worn out on people I could barely muster to hang out with friends. I’m hoping now that I’ll be doing something I at least enjoy I won’t dread going to work everyday. I still want to go to school for web design/development but right now I just need to start making money!

Did I mention I made some cupcakes this weekend? Those are lemon with lemon cream cheese frosting topped with coconut flakes. We have a lemon tree in our backyard and I figured I’d try to use them before they went bad.  I can’t tell you how amazingly delicious they are but if anyone wants to come over and grab a few be my guest. If you can’t come over then I guess you can always bake them yourself, hahaha.

I wanted to talk about home decor a little bit (now I REALLY feel old) but I feel like 3 topics in one post is a bit much. I hope everyone had a fun and amazing holiday and new year!