Well this is the last blog I have to make form this class and I’ve come to realize that I kind of like making blogs because it’s like having a diary or a written record of what I thought or did throughout this time I think it’s very cool and this is something I would have never done. With That being said I i’m still in quarantine still not working I think I’m on like 7 or 8 weeks and I’m rounding off this semester and i’m not gonna lie my mental health is not great I don’t feel motivated to do anything and it’s very hard to focus but I don’t know if that’s just because I’m just mentally drained or what’s going on I’m ready for this semester to be done with just so I don’t have to think about it anymore I want to thank Tom for being such a great teacher . he’s a very funny guy. It’s crazy to think when we started this semester in January that we would be ending it in a pandemic where everything is closed and everybody’s lives have changed. if I was thinking i should have taken a photo the beginning of this semester how I looked to the end of the semester how I looked because it would have been dramatically different I would get ready every single day makeup hair look nice and now I’m sitting here with my hair up no makeup sweatpants and a sweater it’s just crazy how things have changed back I wanna say thank you to everybody who has read these throughout the time And I wish you all the best .
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pandemic. salon closed. continues
Today I couldn’t focus on anything except for the fact that our governor was giving a speech about when he will open my salon not my salon specifically but salons in Minnesota And I couldn’t concentrate on anything other than waiting for him to talk about this I was supposed to open on May 4th and as of right now after this speech I am unclear of when I will open I on the map of openings I am after churches which I don’t understand but it is what it is and this was towards the bottom of the chart which would put me closer to the end of May beginning of June now to say it sucks that I haven’t worked since March is an understatement but I was hopeful that it wouldn’t be push back too much further but he said we will continue our conversation closer to the 17th of May And I will know more then. I thought I would take the news a little better than I did I feel like I’ve been disappointed multiple times since this journey of pandemic-ness happened but it still hurts knowing that you can’t provide for yourself because the government says no but it is what it is. This just gives me time to finish things and little projects that I want to get done before I open because once I do I will be working nonstop I have a list of people a very long list that would like to get in and I just keep adding people to that list this is just another day of hopefulness me being closed is saving someone’s life not their appearance but their life .
Quarantine Projects
in my time of quarantine I have been working on projects I have done a complete makeover on my salon. I started with the dispensary which is a room that we keep our product in and I make colors there’s a sink in the washer and dryer this room was poorly laid out and I haven’t had a chance to change it since I’ve gotten the salon. I started by removing everything from the room and we place new flooring down because there was carpet and carpet and hair don’t mix. i put down sticks linoleum squares something that was cheaper because i’m not working and that will still work fine for no one really to see them .then we painted the entire room and we placed all new cupboards in it and that took forever because I needed to stain and varnish all the cupboards then we put back the washer and dryer and we installed a sink .after that we added a sliding barn door because the room is so small that the door would take up so much space and be a nuisance .the next room we did was the bathroom which we had water damage so we needed to Patch some separations on the wall and along with that we replaced the floor in there as well to match the dispensary we also needed to replace all the floorboards like the trim because there was a lot of broken Ness with the water damage we also repainted the wall after fixing the water damage and now the room has really come together .after that was done we took down the old stations and put up new ones where i found really cute brackets and we hung up shelves everywhere and made a more efficient way of doing things in the salon and now it’s a decorated very cute .I also painted a wall that I took pictures on to display my work because I feel like I need to have some type of branding in my photos and what best way to do that with a myrold wall so this probably took the longest and I love how it turned out it is a honeycomb wall that has broken pieces in it and taping and everything else just took forever .I would like to post some pictures but they will have to go up not today because I can’t get to the salon because my car is being worked on ha ha ha so this is a preemptive too showing you all of my work And I will post that in next post or I’ll try to edit it and put it on here
Dreaming of Better Days
What quarantine has done for me. I have now been laid off of work since March 17th and in this time I’ve gotten a couple projects done I’ve cleaned my house 100 times and I’ve been pretty much pinteresting my entire waking second. so I dream of building a home one day either on the countryside or on the side of the Lake maybe having a small acreage spot. I recently got into tiny homes but i already live in a tiny home so I’m thinking more of like a she shed or something a little bit bigger than what I live in currently but that has amazing benefits too relaxation. I have recently looked at triangle homes I don’t know if that’s what they’re really called but that’s what I’ve been looking at and I am obsessed with a bedroom in the loft or an area to read with giant windows on the ceiling where I could lay there and watch the stars at night or watch the Thunder and lightning in the middle of a thunderstorm. I also would like to have a small balcony that comes out of the loft where I can sit and have a cup of coffee in the morning. I’ve been looking at a lot of different options for a library or an office somewhere I could get away but still be at home. Being quarantined has really made me open my eyes to the reality of being stuck in a home and the Accessibility of relaxation in the home you live in. In my house I have very square rooms not a lot of lighting and it’s not very accessible. I love being able to look out into the world and just cozy up on a little tiny loveseat with my giant blanket and drink my coffee or read a book and just have the sunshine beam down on me. It’s very difficult right now too be stuck at home and can’t enjoy the sunshine because it is still too cold. I always thought being an adult that I would be able to afford to have this luxury but I’m realizing now that that is a luxury and you need to work hard for it and save for it so in my future I would love to be able to provide myself with something like that. But for now I guess I will just have this dream that one day I could make it possible.
COVID-19 is effecting me…
Hello everyone time for a little life update. My life has changed dramatically in the last month. As many of you know I opened a salon and September 2019 and as of March 17th I have been closed with no real knowledge of When I’ll get to be open again. I have had a hard time writing this because I care far too much. I am a single lady this is my only income. Earlier this month I had to do some remodeling that costed a lot of money and now not having an income is very. Difficult. I have cried a lot; I completely understand why the government has done this and I’m grateful that they care enough not to keep spreading the illness. But the compensation the government is giving only benefits people who’ve been working for over a year and their business. I found out today that I do not qualify for some of the government relief Which is terrifying. I don’t know how I’m going to support myself I don’t have a lot of money currently… I Feel hurt that I’m seeing so many people comment or make fun of the situation saying things like “remember who’s the essential business when the world comes to an end” “Kids pick your jobs based on who’s the essential”. I’m an essential Business but I’m also a luxury. I’m just in a business that can spread the illness from human to human contact easily. this doesn’t make me nonessential it just means I’m at a higher risk of spreading this disease. It’s probably the craziest thing to happen in my lifetime. I know it’s the craziest thing that’s happened in my parents’. I can tell you one thing the 1st week of me being laid off or quarantined was very difficult because the weather is nice I am physically well and there is literally no reason I can’t not work and I’ve struggled with the anxiety of feeling like I’m missing or forgetting something but in reality I can’t do anything about it. I was telling my dad that I feel like if we had a really bad snowstorm I would be more OK with the fact I can’t do anything or go anywhere because the shelter in place/ stay home act it’s kind of like being in a blizzard. When the weather reporters are representing the government and the blizzard warning is the quarantine. And the covid-19 is the snow. Weather reporters are saying to stay home because it will keep you safe from the snow. Plus, who wants to get stuck in the snow? Who wants to get covid-19? NO ONE! these are just very trying times and I don’t know what I’m going to do or where to go with it or how mentally stable I will be at the end of it but as of right now I don’t work till may 1st or more and the way the talk is the peak of COVID won’t happen for 45 more days which means I probably won’t-work until June or even July. I’m sorry if this was a bunch of rambles but I just have so many thoughts and they’re just so hard for me to put together. Everyone Please just be safe stay home and be well. Do a puzzle! I love puzzles!! if anybody want to send me a puzzle I will gladly take them. I prefer Disney with lots of pieces! We will get through this!
what a WEEK!
This week has just been full of up’s and down’s. I recently had some water problems in my salon. I have to get them fixed because by the law of Minnesota you can’t have visible water damage. so I had called my contractor to come look at my building and he said we need to replace the roof ASAP. So on Monday we had a whole to put a roof on the salon. which is awesome but also a lot of money that I wasn’t expected to spend. With that I had to replace all the ceiling tiles that had water damage. so there was are round 20 or so tiles. Which that’s on a big deal. Then my father who loves to help with everything decided we are going to clean out the basement of the salon. I bought the salon in August and the basement had to be cleaned but it never happened. So we gathered about 6 people and we clean the basement out. We found a brick in the basement that said the year the building was built. The brick said 1882. That is just insane because that makes it one of the 1st buildings in the town. Also when it was built someone lived in the basement so there is a full bathroom and kitchen and it’s about 4:00 ft².
so then i had the cleaning bug so i was going through things cleaning up stuff. my father kept saying that it just smells funny in here and I just can’t figure out what it is. We figured out what it was…… I have a small storage Room that had a fridge in it and the Refrigerator burned out. And when I say burned out I literally mean it burned what it was Sitting on. It wasn’t a large fridge it was more of like a dorm style fridge. But I had some milk like products in the refrigerator because I do milk baths for some of my special clients hair. And the milk had rotted in exploded in the fridge because I have no idea how long it was out. And I have a horrible time smelling more faint smells so that’s probably why I never noticed it.
But all in all this weekend’s really turn around and I’m so happy that tomorrow is Friday and I have to work a wedding this weekend and our churches hosting its annual beef dinner.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and upcoming week!
Salon Promo
for class i need to make a video. I made one for the salon with some of my work! I think it turned out pretty cool! I hope every one enjoys it!
College. Why I Went Back
A couple years ago i was freaking out about what i was going to do with my life. Yes i had already graduated college in 2013 and was working full time at a salon. BUT i wasn’t making much. when i say not much i mean like less than 15,000 a year. which how does one live on that? the answer. they don’t…. I started looking for part time jobs with no luck. I’m not sure if i was looking in all the wrong places or what. but i couldn’t get past the interview part. the most common response i got was, why would someone like you want a job like this? and that kinda caught me off guard. i was so confused why everyone thought i was high maintenance or a girly girl? yes i have a cosmetologist degree but i was raised on a farm and i know how to pull my weight. shoot i can drive a semi, I know how to back up a pickup with a fully loaded goose-neck trailer of round bails in between to sheds. but based on my resume i was a cosmetologist and in the eyes of many people that’s really not a career. which is wrong. because its a hard job. and its not easy. BUT since the job hunt wasn’t working out i decided that i should really do something to beef up my resume.
so i decided that i was going to open my own salon. but i didn’t want to go into it not knowing any kind of business or marketing things. which let me to my be i should go back to college and work my way up. well i applied and had to go though a bunch of hoops. Did you know that going back to college at 26 years old that even if you have a college degree they still want your high school grades?! super weird. also your ACT scores expire?! never knew that!! but i took all the tests and i got in to a really great college. LAKE AREA TECH! so far i really have enjoyed the college. Its so hard doing every thing online. that is something very new for me.
well in the long run i did end up buying a salon. I opened in September. so far its going very well. i love being my own boss!!! But i still get asked all the time. why do you still go to college? you already own a business? well the answer is…. I would like a back up plan in the long run and i love knowledge. my entire business is based off the use of my hands. what if something happens that i cant use them. my entire life’s work is gone. so have a second degree is a prefect way for people to look at my resume and be like wow two degrees? that dedication. so that is why i went back to college at 26 now 27 years old.
Myers Briggs Personality
Recently I have been struggling with feeling like I’m misunderstood. a friend told me i should take the test because it really helped her understand herself. so i did and i found out that i am an INFJ personality type.
they say that INFJ is the rarest of the personality types. they said that there is about 1-2% of the overall population. females slightly more likely to be over a male. INFJ tend to be called “The Mystic,” “The Counselor,” and “Empath”. They are described as original, gentle, caring, and highly intuitive. which is pretty cool.
After reading into what i am personality i am. it really shed a light on how i’m feeling. It helps me validate what i’m feeling. and that i’m not crazy.
I definitely recommend every one taking the test. it might change your life!!
About Me
Hey Nancy here…
A little bit about me, I grew up on a farm south of a small town called Ivanhoe, Minnesota. I grew up there with my parents and little sister. Through out the years we raised cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, and pheasants. We had went though phases with what we would raise have but chickens were consent. I had a love/hate relationship with the chickens. We raised anywhere from 250-500 broiler chickens a year. We would butcher them and sell them to the locals. All that money would go back into getting more chickens the next year. When i was in high school i tried my hand in layer hens. I had 17 birds. I would spend hours with them, I loved when I would walk in to fresh eggs. Now living in town i miss having them. Being a farm girl was very interesting. we learned a lot of things very young. Mowing lawn, shooting guns, gardening, driving, baling hay, raising animals, and their death… there’s so much more i cant think of right now. I value all life lessons i was taught.
I went to school in Ivanhoe at Lincoln High. I graduated in 2011. My class was small about 26 students. I would say i was pretty involved in high school. I was in Choir, cheer, and FFA. In choir I did things like musicals, plays, concerts, vocal competitions, and a madrigal. I was in choir from kindergarten till senior year. that’s 40+ concerts, 7 plays, 4 musicals, 6 vocal competitions, and 1 madrigal. I was in cheer for 4 years. I was on the football cheer team. I also was in FFA, I was apart of this organization form 7th grade to senior year. I was apart of the poultry team. as a team we always did fairly well. One year we placed 2nd in state. which placed us on a trip to nationals. we were alternates if 1st place if they didn’t show up. they showed up and we got to enjoy everything nationals had to offer.
Where i am now is just crazy. after graduating high school, I had planned to go to Ridgewater college in Wilmar, MN. I took one semester and hated it. I moved home after my last final. I just didn’t know what i wanted to do. I wanted to do something that would help others, i came across Cosmetology. I started applying all over. I got accepted to Black Hills Beauty college. I began my journey in September of 2012. I graduated in October 2013, I was second in my class. I ended up loving it so much. I worked at a salon for 5.5 years and decided to open my own salon this fall. I now own a salon, called The Hive. In that five years i also bough a house and remolded it head to toe. I live here with my fur child Oliver (7.5). I have also joined a couple organizations in the area. I’m head of the Polish Days parade, I also volunteer at church on the alter-gild. I bowl on 2 different leagues, I also try to golf and fish as much i can.
Its absolute insane thinking at 27 years old i would have owned a home for almost 5 year and now own a salon. On top of all of that i deiced to go back to college?!
Lets see where my life story takes me next…
Life is Art 