Update: Day 3

     omg, yikes. Is it really only 3 days? [well, now 2 since its practically midnight -again.] I am really starting to panic. In fact after an entire day of running errands and having professional interactions, my mother informed me that my shirt was on inside out. Its been one of those days.

A funny little doodle found on one of the deliveries. Someone must've been giving them directions to our salon.

This was literally all the space we had to work in today. I am not kidding. In the whole building. All of it.

    
​       I arrived at the salon at 8a; spoke with the contractor, started building furniture and taking more and more deliveries. We we're working downstairs; Carly, Thy, Alisa, Caitlin and I, with Jd tackling that hallway of doom when a tractor trailer stops by to deliver - MORE BOXES. We start unpacking and building -Before I knew it, it was 1p and time to leave. I had a holiday party to gift shop and party supply shop for, among a million other errands [i.e. making a deposit at the bank, picking up fabric for the curtains, etc.] You see, each holiday season we host a brunch holiday party for our team. Its my little way of saying thank you for a kick-ass season. This year, these girls deserve all expense paid vacations -but we're on a target kind of budget. Every year I purchase enough gifts for each person on my team; we place them in the middle of the room and have a white elephant. Its like my favorite thing since I'm heavily competitive, but these polite women barely steal each others gifts. So its basically its an hour of me egging them on; repeatedly asking them "Are you sure you like your gift? Really sure? You know can steal someone else's gift. Caitlin has a real nice candle over there." ::Nudge:: Never works. Regardless, we all deserve an afternoon off and some eggnog.

I've got my ugly sweater on standby.

     Anyhow back to business. I spent all of Sunday wrestling with the branding items. I was supposed to design all of our website, etc. [Ambitious, I know. Practically a full redesign in one day]. I also wasn't feeling too hot. I have a pretty sensitive tummy and I haven't been taking super good care of it. [Seriously, we've eaten out way too much.] I did learn a very valuable lesson. It is extremely challenging to be both stressed out and creative. I nearly threw my brand new laptop off the balcony. At about 7p I decided to take a break and stalk the aisles of Barnes & Noble listening to Jay-z on my headphones.  It worked and I came back a bit inspired, but it was also almost midnight. Which means, you guessed it. I have a lot of design work to squeeze in somewhere.

Statistically speaking, I should definitely have Ecoli at this point. December 18th, juice cleanse.

We also had our alarm & heating all fixed up today. We feel so high tech. Also, yes we have been without heating or AC for 3 months.

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​       Construction wise, the upstairs floor was completed today. It has to dry until tomorrow morning. We have a lot to do in the upstairs once the floor is completed. The lighting fixtures have to be installed, a wall needs to be built, carpet needs to be laid, shampoo bowls need to be installed, curtain rods need to be hung. -You name it. I don't think I've ever felt this stressed before. I am hopeful though, knock on wood -things seem to be going well. I'm really just learning to hold on tight. I've got to hang it up for the night, I still have a menu to design, in order to place the order in time for Thursday -it has to be submitted tomorrow am. Then its up and at em' to set up for our brunch party and another very packed day.
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