Aaaahhhh

That my friends is the sound of a happy woman!
Yes,
me
happy!!!

Life at the moment is pretty darn good. I have a high grade average at EBC, have a few regular clients that request ME and the home life is good. Yeah I know, who am I and what have I done with the real Kathy???

Nicholas will be coming home for a visit the end of the month, we haven't seen him since January. I miss my redhead! Mama needs to cook him a few dinners, he looks a little peeked doen't he??

Doesn't he look handsome?

Zachary - sorry no new pics - is doing well. He had a rough summer, well he did something stuuuuuuuupid and didn't have a summer. He was grounded! He did the crime and did his time.

I could revert to my old self and go on and on about the drama I deal with on a daily basis, let's face it...being in a room full of women all day every day, there is gonna be drama, but I won't bore you with the details. It's juvenile, and doesn't involve me! I listen, I counsel when asked for advice and leave it all behind when I walk out the door. I come home, set the timer for 90 minutes and sit in silence. It is amazing how noisy the salon can be. It's like being in a hen house listening to the clucking, squawking and crowing. Top all that with blow dryers, and a few screaming kids now and then, you can understand why silence truly is golden!

Time to check on dinner, yes I am trying to maintain my domestic godddess status, some days I rock and some days I don't but you know what??? It's all good!

23 years ago today

I made it!

So today was my first official day on the floor. Meaning I have survived, I mean passed basic training.
Six weeks of drinking from a fire hose trying to retain all the information and pass weekly tests.

This morning @ 9:45 I had my first client. A lovely older lady for a wash and trim. No problem! She loved the style - I did have help from an instructor - but the lady booked another appointment with me in two weeks and left a tip!

I cannot begin to tell you how good that felt! I was grinning like an idiot I'm sure but dammit I have been studying hard for the last 6 weeks and this was proof positive that I have actually learned something!!!!

Now my afternoon appointment was another story...talk about a killjoy. She was surly, argumentative and down right R~U~D~E!! I did what she asked, did it well, but I swear if I am ever faced with doing her cut ever again I will either A) throw up on her feet just to avoid doing the cut or B) get her in my chair and stab her in the neck!

So aside from the biddy I had a GREAT day and am proud to call myself
A

My pick for a young Fitzwilliam Darcy

Whoaaa I'm Pooped!

Ok so I'm in beauty college, yeah go ahead and make all the Beauty School drop out jokes, get it out of your system........

So here I am going into my first full week and already we have rolled perms, done magnetic rollers, washed and styled each others hair. Today we did manicures and tomorrow we will do pedis.
On top of the salon stuff we also have book work. Now I haven't been in a classroom in over 20 years, but here I sat tonight from 7-10 doing homework and I still have a shit ton to do! I am just taking a little break, need to play around a bit before I go back to studying bacteria, fungi and viruses and disinfecting methods. This morning was the start of Chemical texture services....yeah CHEMISTRY.
Holy Shit I am going to have to develope a caffeine IV therapy just to get through that class!

Yeah Yeah I know enough whining, get back to studying....
If you haven't heard from me in a few days you might wanna call or something just to make sure I haven't OD'd on caffeine and am swinging from the ceiling fan ripping my hair out.

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Bon Appetite!

Unveiling the new Me

So I got a new "do" last week.
I love it!