Long overdue

As the title says, this post is sooooo long overdue.

It's been, what, 3 months ?
I can't claim to have been THAT busy for 3 whole months that I haven't had time to write a few lines in this crummy blog of mine!

Last time I wrote a very short and confusing post about my mental state, my self-employment project and my boring life. This time I'll try to be a bit more clearer and elaborate in my writings...

So, my project has been launched !
I officially had my first REAL client last Saturday ! (meaning I don't know her thru someone and she found me thanks to a post I left in a forum that led her to my website (check it oooout).
Lash extensions à domicile (in HER home).
I was really badly installed for the extensions because she didn't have anything where she could actually lie down on (she did say she has a massaging chair that can go down into a horizontal position but it turned out you could just get in to lean a bit. I ruined my back, but she was nice and I gave her a discount).

I'm also going to work WITH a beauty salon not far from where we live, even tho I'm sure it'll not work out.
It's a big salon with like 10 rooms, but they are only 2 workers, which means it's not working.
And the boss lady wants to handle my appointments, which I do not appreciate. Oh well, we'll see if it works out of not.
Other than that, I have friends as clients, for lashes and permanent make-up.

In the mean time, I work 3 days a week in a beauty salon in Paris. Still as a freelancer, meaning I get paid maybe a wee bit more that I would had I a real contract.
It's really nice, very haut de gamme and the people I work with are suuuper nice.
The bosslady is nothing like my old one, mon dieu, there is no comparaison other than night and day !
So freaking nice.
I work with her daughter and 2 other girls, one of which will leave before this fall. I think I'm the oldest of the bunch :D
One girl only does permanent make-up and the others lash extensions. I do both, even if I haven't done much since I started there.
I have gone on business trips with BossLady to St Quentin to do permanent make-up for 2 days. So that's really cool ! I'm the only one who agrees to move around, the other dermograph not wanting to do it.
I really enjoy the business trips even tho the owner of the salon we go to is unbearable. She is everything I do not appreciate.
Loud, brusque, touchy, repeats everything 5 times, unorganized and heavily overweight. She had a vein pop in her head last fall, but from what I hear, she hasn't changed much since. She just repeats things MORE than before. Argh.

So at the salon, that is in the very chic area of Paris, in the 1st arrondissement and right next to Place Vendôme, is actually a private one and hidden from the client lambda. It's one the second floor and has a special entrance. You really need to know it's there to find it. You can't stumble upon it.
It's owned by this hair extension specialist, Mr K who works with the lovely colorist that kinda makes me think of Eva Mendez (with bigger, sulfurous eyes). We also have 2 nails specialists working with us.
So it's really fun because a client might come just for a brushing and decide to do lash extensions or nail stuff on a whim.

And nobody thinks it's weird I don't eat certain stuff. They just kinda feel sorry for me, but they UNDERSTAND, unlike my ex-colleagues that really hurt my feelings.
(In a nutshell :
We had decided on my going away party, and had found a restaurant that worked out for everyone, except that at the last minute the restaurant was changed, and I got to hear that the fact that I didn't eat certain stuff was stupid, complicated and frustrating and that if the restaurant they had booked didn't suit me, I'd just have to plan my going away party for another date.
I burned those bridges.)

Other than that, this year is filled with trips !
I've already done 3 of them. First one was in Suisse, visiting friends of Olivier, the second in Finlande, attending my grandma's funeral (yup...) and the third in Berlin, celebrating my brother's 30th birthday !!
He's moving to San Francisco btw, not cool :(
The next trip will be with my friend Lucie, to SRI LANKAAAAAA !!!
2 weeks just the 2 of us ! Nothing too sporty, we both just want to take it eeeeaaasyy and let loose.

The following trip is a combined one.
To Finland with Oliv in October for my cousin's wedding (complete with lash extensions and make-up) and from there to Stuttgart, Germany for the beer festival with Anja !!
After that I have no more trips..
Maybe for Christmas ? :D

And the Eminem concert is in LESS THAN A MONTH!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!
Must lose weight fast to seduce him !! ;D

So that's pretty much it.
Today we did a huuuge clean-up, I emptied my drawers of all the clothes I no longer use and never will (Oliv did the same) and just rearranged stuff and cleaned. So nice now.
(And yes, it's 6a.m. and I'm writing my blog. Either I was too impressed with Les Misérables (the film) or that last glass of Coca Zero killed all my hopes for sleep tonight, but I just can't seem to doze off.)

I really do commend the film, it was amazing. I'm sure it was even more so on the big screen, we just bought the Bluray. It made me cry and WANT to cry so many times. Some amazing voices and performances (I wouldn't necessarily say Miss Hathaway deserved an oscar for her performance, she was on-screen for what, 20 minutes? but she was very good. Freddie Redmayne made me cry. Such power.)

Oh well.
Until next time people ! :)
Won't make any promises, that'll just end up in waiting...