Purses!

At work we are trying some new things to help bring in some more money during these times when business is down a bit. One of the things we are trying is setting up a boutique. This woman who had a store in Romeo with all these really cute purses and jewlery and stuff came in just as we were talking about doing this and we took her coming in as an omen.

She just set up a cute display of her purses. They are really cute ,unique and not badly priced.They remind me of stuff you sometimes see in hospital boutiques,different. She is trying the purses first and we will see how it goes. I am looking forward to seeing her jewlery also. When I figgure how to download pics on here,I will take some and show everyone.

Anyway if any of you are in the area of Dodge Park and 15 mile stop in for a spa treatment and check out her stuff. Or just stop in and check out her stuff.

OK with the snow already! Bunch more snow dumped on us early this morning . My boss lives quite a bit north of the salon so I made sure I got going to open the salon just in case she didn't make it there in time. Good thing! As it took her 2 hours to get there. Well I had only one client on the books and I knew she would be coming in. She is a die hard client,nothing stops her.
So after that I leave about mid day and much to my disapointment there had not been a plow guy on any of the streets I needed to travel on...sigh. Slip sliding my way around town. I think all the citys are just plain broke and the plow guys are not going around as much this year. And of course it would happen during one of the hardest winters in YEARS!

Anyway I am trying to vamp up my working out like everyone else. So today is the day I do Cardio and a yoga session both. I have come to really depend on Yoga to keep my body from absolutly freezing up. I will start a session and just start to feel my body loosen as I go. My yoga teacher was kind enough to give me a video of several 30 minute sessions he recorded for a local TV station. This is great becouse just his voice has me conditioned to start relaxing. Not as great as an actual class with him,but close! so off to get started.

Productive day!

Well finally I felt good enough to get some things done today. I started out with an hour of yoga. Then I splurged on a breakfast of bisquits and gravy. I told myself that since I was getting things done I could afford to eat something that was strictly comfort food. A kinda stick to your ribs and waistline type of food. It had been maybe 2 years since I had eaten that type of breakfast .

Anyway then I returned all the bottles that had accumulated from the party and all the holiday events. And guess what? NOONE was at the recycle area of the store!. I had all the machines to myself! Now when was the last time that has happened to you? I can safely say that I can't remember the last time. So I took it as an omen that this was indeed going to be a productive day.
Then I went grocery shopping and even brought my reusable grocery sacks. I am being so good this year. Got home put all the stuff away,started some laundry and then settled into a job I had been dreading... Putting together one of those bookshelfs that come in a box. Yea you know the type. A million little screws and nails and parts that have to be put on perfectly square or your screwed. Well I managed to do it with a minimal amount of cussing and sweat. Hour later I was arranging my photo albums in it in the spare room. I am reorganizing my workroom upstairs. The one where I do massages and facial stuff at home. So I wanted all the personal family photo albums out of there. Well it is completely FULL! I am going to have to get another bookshelf. We take tons of pictures I guess :-)

Spent the rest of the afternoon finishing some of the tax stuff and the housework. All in all a very productive day and I felt pretty good too. Goodbye virus!!

Taxes! Let them eat Cake!

I hate this time of year mainly becouse I have to weed through all the receipts and bank statements and put it into some kind of order for my accountant. It is tedious to say the least. But I LOVE my accountant. I have had her since I owned my Video Store and she has saved me Tons of money. She is one of the smartest people I know. I could do my own I'm sure now that I don't own my own business ,but she is up on all the latest info,rules ,changes ect, and has still made it worth it to bring my stuff to her .Plus if god forbid I ever get audited she would be right by my side helping me out. She has given me such invaluble advice over the years that if she ever retires I will be one sad puppy.
Hoping to get money back this year. Fingers crossed

Ugh Its caught up to me!!

Well I have been giving this cold the fight of its life all week ,and just when I thought I had it beat...It snuck up and is kicking my ass again. My nose is so itchy I want to rub it off my face and my head has that wierd cotton candy feel to it. UGH! I hate being sick. I am usually fairly healthy and when a couple times a year I do get something it really irritates the hell out of me.

Anyway I have some good news today . Michigan has finally passed a new Massage bill that will Grandfather me in and I should be able to start doing Massage again! Yea!! I had to stop when Sterling Heights passed a stupid ordinance that treated all Massage thereapists like hookers and wouldn't grandfather people like me in. So far the new bill seems like they have a way for me to do it. I haven't seen the whole Bill yet,but what I have seen looks promising. After doing massage for 12 years and then having to quit ,it will be good to have that option once again. Plus I really do enjoy it. So YAY!!

Honest Scrap

I was reading the ten things from Rachel L and her friend Lori and some of them had me laughing pretty hard. I thought it was great fun reading some of the stuff about each of them .Who knew my daughter talks to herself..ALOT..LOL and that Lori loves to cram lots of bubblegum balls into her mouth at once! My god this is really important stuff. :-) anyway figured I would get in on the fun and list some of my own "things" Oh I don't have the logo thingy that they have becouse I am still pretty computor illiterate and couldn't figgure out how to downlowd it. Ok here goes!

1. I have had several careers in my life. Bookstore Buyer/manager. Video store owner and now Permanent Make up Artist/skin Care specialist. Liked all of them pretty well but my current job lets me connect with people better. More fullfilling.
2. I always wanted 2 children. Having a pretty high strung child for my first gave me pause about having another but after a few years I was willing to give it a go. Didn't happen for a year and then the marraige went bad..hmm maybe thats why it didn't happen.
3. Always wanted to write a book. I hear that many people have this ambition..
4. I drive a different way into work each day. Well it's a series of 4 ways to get there that I alternate. Don't know why I do this,it started out fo boredom and now I just do it out of habit.
5. I sing to the radio really loud sometimes in the car. And feel really stupid when I stop at a light and forget that someone might see me..
6. I have to eat something sweet every single day. I feel cheated if I don't and its usually chocolate of some kind.
7. I hate liars . There is a new show on that says the average person lies like 4 times in the course of a 10-15 min conversation. OMG!! I found myself watching what I was saying all the time after hearing this..just to see if I was doing the very thing that I hate. Jesus!
8. I have a pretty serious crush on Hugh Jackman. I feel he is the perfect man in just about every way. Handsome,manly,love his wife and children,great provider,humble,talented. Yet can somehow play a gay man on broadway and be equally convincing. Unreal.
9.I can not leave the house without some type of make up on. I feel like I haven't gotten cleaned up and am somehow not presentable without some type of stuff on my face. I have been totally brainwashed into believing that my face is not good enough for the world to see just bare assed. Sad I guess
10. I still at my age feel that I have something to accomplish that I haven't yet. I am pretty sure its in the line of charity though. I also feel I will figgure it out withen the next year or so.

The choices we make can change everything......

Well the week started off aweful with Lin going back into the Hospital. He has been in so many times that for awile you just thought ,well,its another time. This time feels different to me. Acute renal failure (Kidney Failure). I don't know ,but pulling back from this sounds really hard. I know he has pulled through the imposible many times before ,but he just looks really beat this time .It is making me so sad for him and for all he has gone through. For all of the trouble he can be ,and HAS been,he is the type of person that gets under your skin and stays there. He is a character to say the least ,and you can't fault his determination to want to live thats for sure!. When I look at my daughter she is such a combination of the two of us. She has his spunk ,tempered by my common sense and level headedness. I find myself just getting teary thinking about how one lousy choice can change your whole damn life. Think about the choices you make every day. How you react to the people around you can set the tone of the day,but it really can set the tone of the rest of your life also.

Lin made the choice one day to argue with the wrong person. It changed so many lives not just his. His daughter,me,my husband ,his mom,his siblings,and on and on. I guess we really need to think about that long and hard. Is it worth it? Someone pisses you off and you react....Think about how.

Getting Ready to Go

Packing my small suit case for Chicago this weekend. Mainly going to see my new Great Nephew(actually hes already 10 months old!) and my nephew Tony and his wonderful wife Ann. Usually in the past when we have gone to see them we had some great nights and days on the town. Great restaurants great night life. Chicago is an awesome city. How I wish it were my home town. Detroit is slowly trying to become a great city ,but it is miles behind Chicago.
This visit however is sure to be different. Plus the fact that its freakin cold ! We will most likely hang around thier very cool home and get to know little Samuel,catch up with them and just veg. Thats fine with me. I look forward to going places with my daughter and going with her to visit some of my favorite relatives is something I'm excited about. The thing I am NOT looking forward to is the airport and flying. I have come to loath flying. It's not just the hassle of how to pack with all the restrictions its that I am mainly kinda fearful of flying these days. I know,I know,its safer than driving. And I am absolutly sure this is true. BUT if I get in a car accident chances are good that I will survive. Flying and accidents,chances not so good on the survival thingy. So anyway I am stressing a bit about it. But I will be fine. Deep breath..good in ,bad out...

The Jan 2009 Par-Tay!

Had several friends over for a Party Saturday the 10th. Great fun! It was a kinda combo Birthday party/ Get together with friends party. My husband turned 39 on the 8th . He used to love just having his friends over for his birthday so I decided that it would be a good time to do it. Had not had a real party in awile. Have to say it was a really fun one. Everyone took the effort to get babysitters and to come out and let loose for the evening. We played games and just cought up with each other. I made lots of different snacks and people brought drinks. It was so much fun that it reminded me how much I miss these people that I just don't see enough of.

The new Artichoke/cheese Dip I made was a big hit! Very yummy.
Unfortunatly I came down with some type of stomach virus the next day of which I am slowly recovering from. Can't seem to get warm brrrr! That should only get worse this week as it is only reaching a high of like 5 by Wed! good god. Its gonna be really cold in Chicago thats for sure! Pack warm.

Winter slams us again ! WOOT!

Well we are getting hit with another big bunch of snow. I'm almost blase' about it now ,its happened so often this winter. I did say almost... I am having a few people over this eve and hope that the weather doesn't mess it up. I just hope next Friday when I want to take off for Chicago the weather cooperates.

What a wierd day at work today. A man came in earlier this week and paid for his wife to have a spa day. Massage,Facial,Pedicure and Manicure. Well she comes in and is like "I need to cancell ,there is no way I can do this today" We're like,umm why not? what happened" she looks distraught and says ."I just drove here all the way from 23 mile and I didn't bring my pedicure shoes and besides my skin is sensitive and I can't do the facial and blah blah blah." We are kinda stunned a bit and we say ,hey you drove all the way here ,how bout you at least stay for the massage and then see how you feel..It takes the boss about 15 minutes to convince her to just settle down and get the services. She seemed all upset with the fact her husband had done this for her.
Well some women would KILL for this type of surprise from thier husbands. But believe it or not this is not the first time this has happened . In the 15 years I have worked in a spa I have seen this or something similar happen maybe 5 or 6 times. I think for one,some people just do not like surprises at all. I have to admit I am not real comfortable with em. I would rather wrap my mind around it first. Not a big fan of surprise partys either. Don't get me wrong,buy me a spa day!! But just give me the gift certificate and let me make the appointment when I want to go. Think that is what threw this gift off. He came in made the appointment and paid for it. He also planned to watch thier new 4 month old baby and just sent her off to the spa. Sounds nice ,yes. Now she is thinking he should know her well enough that she would not have any control that way... I know .But being a BIT of a control freak I kinda get where she is coming from.
Oh well,she stayed and I hope had a great time. I also hope she just goes home ,kisses her husband and thanks him . But I have a feeling it won't end that way ...

Lets try this..

I have been having a great time reading other peoples blogs that I thought I might try it. I used to love keeping a diary and I love to write. So I'll see how this goes.