Good morning, world! I was tired of fighting with the sleepless night, so I figured I'd wake up extra early and start writing as I haven't in a very long time.
Just a quick update for any of you far away friends or family members that like to keep tabs on what's happening in my crazy life...I am now on the salon floor at Diva! It's truly so exciting to move out of reception and onto what I'm truly passionate about. I started a few weeks ago by just taking models (haircuts are free and colours only pay product cost, which is under $30) and this serves as a chance for me to show off what I can do for my managers. Once they decide I am ready and capable, they allow me to start taking actual paying clients. I did models for 3 shifts and was then allowed to start booking women's cuts, kids cuts, and blow-dry styles. Exciting!! It's so cool to watch your books fill up with both request clients and new clients, and it's even more cool to watch those new clients become request clients. I'm seriously as giddy as a kid on Christmas, I am so ridiculously passionate about my work.
I've been busting my non-existent balls trying to get ahead on my hours in school, going in extra days trying to make up for lost time. I'm almost where I need to be to graduate on time, but that's not good enough for me as I've set a personal goal to be finished at the institute before Christmas. I adore every single person that I've met at school and I do believe that some of them will be life-long friends, but I am so ready to move on with my life. Especially now that I'm actually building a clientele outside of school. I am ready to start making money and living my life again.
Anyway, this won't be a long post as there's really nothing more to my life other than school, work, eat, sleep (sometimes) and repeat. Actually, on the topic of sleep, for the last few nights I haven't been able to, partly because I have a wicked cold, and partly because I can't turn my stupid brain off and ALL I do is dream of hair!! It's exhausting! It's the kind of sleep where you toss and turn and flop furiously around your bed trying to think of something other than work, work, work, but it's all you can do and you end up feeling like you never even got a rest at all. It's terrible. I'm not sure how to fix it, but I may need to invest an hour every night when I get home to something alternative to really shut my mind off of work. But when you immerse yourself in something so completely and there's really no other substance to your life, no time for hobbies, no time for a break...I guess it does consume you.
My poor boyfriend. He has to put up with me through these crazy sleepless nights when I often catch myself talking out loud about hair colour formulas at 3am.
Other than that, all I can say is that I continue to feel unbelievably blessed every single day with the people in my life. I have met such an incredible group of people here in Calgary, and I'm happier than I ever imagined I'd be out here. I can't believe it's almost been a full year since the day I packed my life into my little silver dodge and made the trip back to the city where I was born. But it was the best decision I've ever made and I'm happy to plant my roots here. Come to think of it, I think they've always been planted here.
It's true what they say;
"You can take the girl out of Alberta, but you can't take Alberta out of the girl."
Have a great day my friends.
xo-ac
