While the cat's away...

[susandennis]

At one point, when I worked for IBM in Minnesota, they had this big campaign to encourage people to take time off. I was cited several times and called in for stern lectures because I was a Vacation Violator. I never took any and had a backlog that was fairly severe.

I never took any for 2 solid reasons. 1. I did a lot of traveling for my job so I was traveled out and the town was small and isolated with nothing to do and I loved my job. 2. I was afraid to leave my job for fear that while I was gone, something would happen that I hadn't planned for and they would find out about the fraud I had perpetuated - that I was a competent and valuable employee.

I was afraid of suffering what my manicurist now has...

So, I was trying a back stroke thing in the pool and my hand jammed up against the wall and part of a nail got torn. When I was getting dressed it kept snagging on stuff. I was going to hold off until next Tuesday to get my nails redone but I figured, what they hay... I don't have anything going one. I'll go get them done now. But... when I got to the manicurist, I was met by a note saying they were gone and the shop was closed from April 13 until May 2.  WTF???

You think they could have mentioned it when I was there last. May 2? That's more than 2 weeks from now! Not good.

I came home and tried to fix the nail and it didn't fix too well so then I did some deep dive Googling about removing a gel manicure. What I discovered was that it wasn't something I wanted to try.  Then I did some deep dive Yelping for options and found one that looked promising and called for an appointment. "You come right now?" Sure.

So I hopped in the car and went and got my nails done.  Not particularly handy to get to but not bad and easy parking. It's a cute shop. Their picking out of colors scheme isn't as nice as the other place but my rule whenever going someplace new is to pick a light color that won't show imperfections so I picked.

The manicure itself was WAY more detailed and thorough than the other place. Way more. She took longre but really did a much better job. And the hand/wrist/forearm massage was way better. And... it was $5 cheaper.

So I'm pretty sure that I have a new manicurist. And yeah, this polish sparkles.



Oh and check out the OH so cool ring that beadyeyedbeth made from a New York City subway token!!

Comments

It arrived!

[beadyeyedbeth.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like the ring! I was just going to check Twitter to see if you had messaged me when I got the pop-up notification that you had mentioned me in a post.

About the vacation thing -- I never took them either after an experience in 1995 when an employee of mine, whom I trained (from scratch,) as a medical transcriptionist tried to steal a client from me while I was away for 5 days! Thankfully, the client was loyal and told me about it, and I promptly fired the traitorous fiend!

I like your manicure. I've always wanted nice nails, but for most of my adult life I've seemed to have had an occupation or hobby that requires them to be short. While transcribing I couldn't stand the feeling of the tips of them hitting the keys, so I trimmed them short. Now with jewelry making and the grinding, sanding and polishing there is just no way to keep my hands and nails nice.

I'm glad you found a new, better, nail place. I'm like you in that I get comfortable with a place or a person and won't look any further until I'm forced to, which is probably why I never get my hair cut anymore - one butcher job too many after losing my long-time stylist. I'm glad it turned out well for you.

Thanks for the mention!

Re: It arrived!

[susandennis]

You might want to check your spam filter. I sent you an email yesterday early afternoon. I used the address on the business card you sent with the ring.

Then yesterday, when I got your twitter question, I responded immediately.

So I'm so sorry you didn't know until just now that the ring got here and is fabulous. I really do love it.

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

Very nice! This reminds me of an old thing we used to do. Tell someone to look at their nails. Most women will hold their hand out like you are in the picture. Most men will curl their fingers inward and tip their hand around to look at them.

What town in Minnesota did you live/work in?

[susandennis]

Had I curled my fingers inward - which would have shown the nails better - I would not have gotten the ring in the shot.

Rochester in the early 80s.

[one-raido.livejournal.com]

Good point!

Rochester has grown since you left!

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

That ring is fantastic!