I was out for 5 hours today, though it felt like I was gone for a full 8. It FEELS like it, too. My back kinda hurts, my feet kinda hurt, and I'm hungry. I say "kinda", because it's not like it something I would really complain about it. It's just kinda there. I need to figure out how to survive more than 2 facials with my poor aching back though! It's though when there's no wall to lean up against ( like at school ).
Today went well.
I had not only one client, but two! Two! Yay!
So I make 50% commission on the stuff that I do. The two clients I had had a special offer price of $50 for their facial instead of $80. They each gave me ten dollars. 10 + 10 = 20, obviously...then $25 and $25...so all together, I made $70 today. For just being away for 5 hours. That just blows my mind because I've never had a big girl job before. Just stupid minimum wage crappy jobs. Like I said before, the place is really nice. I had a chance to get down to the Unique Boutique (which reminds me of that one episode of Beetlejuice on Nickelodean, where they opened up the Unique Boutique, LOL), which is really cool. My boss' fiance is cool, and very indie rock-ish. The whole place was. Lots of local artist stuff on sale, DIY shirts and hats, bags, quotable magnets brand stuff. He even plays WoW! Which is so funny.
Sooo this is a good kind of tired. Tomrrow I have a client again! At 1:15...'nother facial. I think I'm doing a pretty good job so far.
Here's an important question for everyone though. This has to do with me trying my hardest with meeting our goal of getting people to rebook same day, and me having good client retention so whatever feedback you all could give me would be GREATLY appreciated, it's only going to help me!
So...if you were my client, and assuming you enjoyed your service, what could I possibly do, if anything, to persuade you to rebook for another service (at a later date, of course) that same day?!
This post is unlocked because I want Jim's mom to see this.
The wedding has officially been set in motion. I called the Disney Weddings people today, and I got a very enegetic, sweet guy on the other line. He basically just took down my information and projected wedding date, and is now setting me up with my own wedding coordinator. I was so nervous making the call, but he was so nice and very helpful. My mother is going to be the second main point of contact, but he (his name was Don) said he could get everyone involved with the process if they would like. So if all goes well and we get the wedding date we want, we're looking at the end of October, early November for the wedding!
Due to the fact that I wish to continue doing whatever I want to do with my journal, and not having to answer to anybody or getting stalkers, haters; or just plain rude people commenting, I'm going to have to close my journal to the outside. Please comment if you wish to be friends!
And now I'm even MORE disturbed that the owner of the website I had posted about found my entry in less than 24 hours. LESS than 24. That's seriously a record. I do believe sometimes people just sit there and goggle themselves to see if they come up.
I'm not a mean person at heart, but I have to say...there are better ways to spend one's time. (And no, sir, they were not syrian hamsters, just to answer the questions, they were dwarves). I'm feeling icky all over now that google is the perfect stalking tool in the world. I'm fortunate I'm not a complete asshat and write about how much I hate _______ insert religion/race/whatever you want there. Mostly whatever I'm writing is just my humble opinion. The people who go to his website, they love that website, and I respect that, so it's not like I'm going to go on there and start up stupid arguments like, "this is crazy" or whatever. But oh. my. goodness. LESS than 24 hours? Come on. If you do that, just don't comment. I honestly don't want to know who stalked me in less than 24 hours. More than 24 hours? Okay.
Sometimes I really DO think I should just make this journal friends only.
I hope everyone had a really nice Christmas and Hannukah. Whatever you celebrate, I hope it was good/still is good. Jim and I got pretty much everything we wanted, and then some, but I think the best part of Christmas was playing Wii sports with my entire family. Actually, it was kinda hard getting my parents to get OFF of my Wii. My dad was even slightly considering getting one himself, but he's in denial about it. My mom asked, "Should we get one for home?" and he said no, haha. Mom said we'll have to just bring it over at least once a week though for "Family Wii Night". Now I'm not just buying games for myself, I'm buying games I know my parents will want to play too. It was a lot of fun. My grandparents even got excited about watching us bowl and play tennis. My one grandfather, the technological savvy one, came into the living room and the second he saw it sitting on the floor, he said "A wii! Can you turn it on?" Haha. It only took 5 minutes for each family member to learn how to use the wii remote.
The party is tomorrow night and I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of people. Well, hopefully people show up. A lot of people haven't even mentioned they were coming, so I'm actually a little concern this is gonna suck. I'm going to call everyone today and check in to see if anyone needs directions, because I'm more than happy to give them. Google Maps is a lot more accurate than mapquest or yahoo maps, by the way, in case you wanted to get a map from the intarwebs.
I am in LOVE with this terracotta oil burner Jim bought me for Christmas. I love, love, love it. They are so much better than candles, actually. I've never owned an oil burner before, but the scent gets through the WHOLE room very quickly. Hooray for oils! He got it from The Body Shop, which is fast becoming my new favorite store. I got a gift card for the body shop, so I can't wait to buy a whole lot of new oils for my new burner.
OH and I got Dance Dance Revolution Super Nova! Yay!
So, hope everyone had a nice holiday, once again. I'll be calling everyone today since I finally found my phone charger, and check in with everyone!
I'm really excited about this time of the year. Later on tonight, and I mean much later, my sister will finally be home for 2 whole weeks. I haven't seen her in like, a year, so this will be pretty exciting and very fun to see her. It also probably means I'll be getting out of the house more, since she's pretty social and likes to do stuff. Yay! Can't wait for Christmas Eve...Jim and I are going over to Grandma's to help her with the dinner. Since we're Italian, we do that whole seafood thing, but we could never get 7 fishes on the dinner table...there's just not enough people. I'm sure back in the day, when there was 20 people, grandma did the 7 fishes thing, but usually we just have 2. Our traditional Christmas Eve feast included fried Smelts (little, little fishies with tiny bones) and linguini with crab sauce. Her linguini and crab sauce is my faaaavorite...but Jim is going to be making those stuffed mushrooms again because everyone loved them. Then we might go to church that night...it all depends on how the night goes. I need to stop at the liquor store and pick up those Kahlua pre-made white russians and stuff. We had those last year at Christmas and I want to turn that into a tradition, too. Another tradition we have is playing a board game later in the evening when everyone is tired and stuffed. It's usually just me, my sister, my mom and my aunt who play because my aunt is the one who buys a new damn game every single year for the family. We're going to run out of room for all these games. She gets really obscure ones, too. There's a really cool board game called Library. You DO move around a board, with dice and crap like that but the rules are really odd. You are given pieces of paper, and cards. Whoever is the book keeper (it alternates on turns) tells the rest of the players the title of the book, and gives them pencils and paper, and the players have to write whatever they think is the first sentence of the book. If they know it word for word, they get bonus points. Then each player has to guess which title was the best opening line, and whoever gets the most points, gets to move ahead on the board. Whoever voted for the person who won, also gets to move ahead a space or two. So it gives more incentive to players to not always vote for themselves, you see? Maybe we'll just play that game again. It's really good. I don't even know where she got that game.
And anyways, my party is on the 27th and I'm already getting a lot of RSVPS from people saying they're coming. It's a good sign. I don't need a million people there but it makes me happy to hear people want to go. My mom went out this afternoon searching for a "giant martini glass" to put the shrimp cocktail in. 'kay.
I love Christmas. I get to see my family and we'll get to play the wii, which I know will be a crowd pleaser and foooooooood and alcohol. I haven't had any alcohol since Halloween night, and I'm being honest. Heh.
Since I know several people on lj who play WoW, I went and made this community for my friends... you can look it up under the name "wowfriends" and it should come up. I forget the lj specific tag to directly link the community here. Oops. I gave moderation rights to pretty much everyone I invited, which is just three people, just in case they wanted to invite people to join too. It's not open membership, and I'd like to keep it that way. I just want it to be a simple network of friends.
I don't know why I made it, but maybe it could turn into something...I don't know, interesting. I'm spread across three servers now. Scilla, Firetree, and Misha. Sigh. I'll make the community pretty later on, when I feel like it, unless someone beats me to the punch, since they now have moderation rights.
Yesterday at work, it was a very World of Warcraft day. I say this, because we sold more World of Warcraft merchandise than anything else in the store.
We sold:
1 Dungeon Guide 1 Atlas 1 Strategy Guide 1 Game Card 3 Burning Crusade Pre-order 1 World of Warcraft game
All different people. It was nuts. So of course Phil and I had a good time talking to these people, asking them what server they were on (I wanted to see if I may have ever been ganked by any of these people) and what faction and class. Most people were horde.
I volunteered to work the Burning Crusade midnight launch, because I decided to keep my collectors edition pre-order and give it a go. I'm looking at the site right now, for the BC, and it actually gets me much more interested in the game again. I like the new cities, the new world (Outland is huge!), the new mounts and just about everything except for the Draeni lore (it's a fantasy game, with sorcery and dragons, yet these draeni crash landed into what the devs named 'Area 52'...this kinda left a bad taste in my mouth).
I plan on rolling a Blood Elf with Rhea, even though it's on Korgath and I would just rather not be on the same server as DnT. Amanda plays now (*waves at Amanda*), but I'm waiting for her to play on a REAL SERVER (c'mon woman!), and when she does, I think she needs to come play with me. Amanda, get the expansion, we can roll one of the new races together. :P
I actually have a few friends who play the game, yet we're all on different servers and I'm like...this is stupid. I want to play with my friends.
Eragon was so unbelievably bad. SO bad. SO SO SO bad. It reminded me exactly of that Dungeons and Dragons film that came out in like, 1999 or something that had one of the Wayne's Brothers in it. It was just terrible. It had this clumsy narrative in the beginning which was unbearably cheesy, and just sorta dropped off suddenly. The actors weren't so hot, either. The only redeeming factor about this movie was the special effects. The dragon looked cool. But she talked. TELEPATHICALLY. *Stabs self in the eye* I give the movie a D-, on the account that some parts WEREN'T so terrible. They were just lousy.
As soon as I got home last night, I checked the ratings for Eragon on Rottentomatos.com, and they gave it a 13%. Out of 100%. Ouches. They said most of the same stuff that I did. I loved the quote that read, "I liked this so much better when it was called Star Wars."
Spoilers:
During the part where Eragon was racing home to tell his Uncle about the soldiers coming to look for him, and found him dead instead while his dragon pleaded "No, don't go! It's too dangerous!", I wanted to shout out "No! Uncle Own! Aunt Beru!"...but then realized that it was the wrong film.
