Update On My Life

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I won't lie, I don't even know where to begin. Life has been sort of crazy lately.

So first off, my phone got stolen and I had to wait almost a week to get a new one. It was so crazy trying to get a hold of my clients and keeping my work active. You don't realize how much of your life is on a phone until you don't have it. (Luckily, I have a paper copy of my salon book, and my phone was backed up to the computer so I didn't lose anything.)

For the most part, I work a lot. Between keeping my home life as normal as possible (I have a small health scare going on. I'm not going into details because, whatever, I don't have to, but just know that the blog will be business as usual), working at the salon, and then picking up a new blogging job- I'm feeling pretty stretched.

And it's not anything I can't deal with, but for the first time in a long time- my success is based on other people. And that is a genuinely scary thing.

I do my best to keep on top of everything, but I'm finding a lot of my morning are taken up by phone calls and emails, and when I get in the salon, it's at weird times of the day. My coworkers are confused by my schedule, but my boss knows what's up. She gave me my own set of keys so I could keep the schedule going.

AND SPEAKING OF THE SALON, my boss has been so amazing to me. 

There is a room upstairs that basically hasn't been touched in years. Originally someone was doing nails up there and it just never worked out. I went up there a couple weeks ago and the place is perfect for waxing and facials. So in a moment of bravery, I drafted a business proposal and a budget and went to my boss.

And you know what? 

It's my room now.

And I get to rennovate it all I want, and put whatever I want in there!

I'm so excited. I haven't really been able to do anything in the salon quite yet other than rent my booth, and to know that my boss has trust in me... it means everything.

Carol has been my friend and has been cutting my hair since I was a baby. She knows I follow through and that I have the drive.

I'm really hoping one day when she wants to retire, she'll let me be the manager. PIPE DREAMS, BUT THEY MAY HAPPEN. I'm just gonna put it out there, like the Secret. Like Oprah taught me.

And speaking of work, I've been doing a lot of nails lately. And not even fancy acrylic nails, just nail art.

And it's been really fun. 

The wheel I have in the picture is a whole Disney thing I was tinkering around with. I have 2 other sets of wheels with designs and more Disney stuff. I texted this picture to my mom and she immediately flipped.

"I'M SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE."

I love my mom. I think she's just happy I finally have a use for my talent of cartooning.

It's also prom week in my town- which means my makeup is packed up in a giant suitcase and girls are flooding my phone with calls and texts. The work is good, but oh man... teenagers are kind of the worst when it comes to decisions. I had a girl change her mind mid-consultation/mid-hair style. Talk about frustrating.

I also finally bought some new clothes for summer. It had hit me, when the 90 degree weather came and I realized I had lived 2 summers in all black. All my summer clothes are black. I don't even know how that worked out, but it was all black. So I decided to get some summer work clothes. I think I look pretty cute.

I even lost a couple pounds. Boom. Nailed it.

But for the most part, I stare at my inbox with my iced coffee and work on my lesson plans.

Yeah that's right, I'm going to be a guest artist at Paul Mitchell soon and I have to make a lesson plan. 

It's honestly going to test my skills as a teacher. I'd been considering teaching for a long time and this is probably the first time I'll be teaching 200 adults. Uhhhhh.... should be interesting to say the least.

You learn a lot about yourself when you're busy. You discover where your priorities lie very quickly and I was surprised that what fell away was my anxiety. Being busy has kept me tired and uncaring for things that keep me from working. I kept saying, "I don't have time for this, I'll deal with the pressure later", but later never came. It just kind of went away. 

Don't get me wrong, it finds it's way into my life- like 3am, when I'm sleeping. 

It's not nearly as bad as it used to be though.

And I'm finding a lot of people are beginning to come to me asking for advice, asking to know what happens when you're successful.

And I just kind of laugh, because I'm not successful- not traditionally anyway.

I'm successful in that I work hard and things fall into place for people who try.

So yeah, life is crazy right now- but it's falling into place,

-SamanthaK