Thursday, May 14, 2009
Going Mobile
This past week a friend of mine purchased a salon. She does hair and has been really pushing at me to groom again. I must admit I very much miss doing it, but there is just no way I can go back to grooming for somebody again. I'm tired of losing my hard earned clients.
I also don't want to leave T-Mobile. I have GREAT benefits and I do enjoy what I do there.
I did some home grooming today and the thought really hit me, what if I just start grooming in homes? I did it as a student, and if I had a few things it really wouldn't be too hard to get that off and going.
And so it begins, I went home, got on craigslist and typed in "grooming table' The first add that popped up was a portable table with arm for $40!! I emailed and BAM! Its mine!! I then went for a search for an easier way to wash a dog in a bath tub. Using a cup is pretty hard. BAM!! I found a curly water hose that will connect to the shower!! I also found a clip on lamp for extra light. Its like in a matter of 3 hours everything started coming together.
I'm planning to have a small very part time business up and running my next month. I will next week to get my business name registered so no one can use it and I am off to a great start. I've wanted to do this for a long time now, I just couldn't find the will or want to do it.
My plan is to do one dog everyday after work, and work full time on Mondays. That's about 4-5 dogs. I figured if I have an average charge of $40 per dog I can bring in a little over $800 extra a month. How awesome is that!!
All I would need from the client is a bathtub with removable shower head, a place with light and a few outlets. I would also ask the owner to not "help" the groomer of coarse.
I also don't want to leave T-Mobile. I have GREAT benefits and I do enjoy what I do there.
I did some home grooming today and the thought really hit me, what if I just start grooming in homes? I did it as a student, and if I had a few things it really wouldn't be too hard to get that off and going.
And so it begins, I went home, got on craigslist and typed in "grooming table' The first add that popped up was a portable table with arm for $40!! I emailed and BAM! Its mine!! I then went for a search for an easier way to wash a dog in a bath tub. Using a cup is pretty hard. BAM!! I found a curly water hose that will connect to the shower!! I also found a clip on lamp for extra light. Its like in a matter of 3 hours everything started coming together.
I'm planning to have a small very part time business up and running my next month. I will next week to get my business name registered so no one can use it and I am off to a great start. I've wanted to do this for a long time now, I just couldn't find the will or want to do it.
My plan is to do one dog everyday after work, and work full time on Mondays. That's about 4-5 dogs. I figured if I have an average charge of $40 per dog I can bring in a little over $800 extra a month. How awesome is that!!
All I would need from the client is a bathtub with removable shower head, a place with light and a few outlets. I would also ask the owner to not "help" the groomer of coarse.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Smiles for all!!
Hey Guys!! Here are the 5 boys we get to pic from! They are already 2 weeks old now! Smile at the cuteness of it all!!!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Offical News
Well I would like to finally put a bit of an official blog out there about life stuff. I've been pretty much waiting to make it all "OFFICIAL".
We will be moving to a HOUSE in Fountain the first week of June! We got the approval today. We have been looking for a house for some time now and we finally had one pretty much fall into our laps just a few days ago. Its been hard to find one for a pretty big reason.
We are expecting to bring home our baby boy malamute by about the 27th of June. Finding a home that will take large breed puppies is hard.
My beautiful fish tank has been sold off piece for piece and I'm just waiting for a few last things to be picked up and we will be turning the tank into a terrarium once we are all settled. I decided to go for something that will require a little less of me. The puppy is going to take up enough time and the tank was already starting to suffer my lack of interest.
And most importantly, Aiden will be coming home full time. After 2 years of having him sometimes less than half the week.
Be prepared for more blogs, life is about to take an interesting turn for me.
We will be moving to a HOUSE in Fountain the first week of June! We got the approval today. We have been looking for a house for some time now and we finally had one pretty much fall into our laps just a few days ago. Its been hard to find one for a pretty big reason.
We are expecting to bring home our baby boy malamute by about the 27th of June. Finding a home that will take large breed puppies is hard.
My beautiful fish tank has been sold off piece for piece and I'm just waiting for a few last things to be picked up and we will be turning the tank into a terrarium once we are all settled. I decided to go for something that will require a little less of me. The puppy is going to take up enough time and the tank was already starting to suffer my lack of interest.
And most importantly, Aiden will be coming home full time. After 2 years of having him sometimes less than half the week.
Be prepared for more blogs, life is about to take an interesting turn for me.
Here is a picture of our puppy's Mommy, Godiva.
Monday, May 4, 2009
This is gonna come off bad, but I don't care!
I am not going to take the time to get numbers and statistics for this blog, but I KNOW if you absolutely need them the Internet can provide you with all the information you need. And you know it's always right.
I will start by saying that I haven't always been the kind of person that didn't want to help anybody. I always thought everyone should be given the same rights as we have here in America. However as I have become a wiser adult(or so I think I have) my views have changed quite dramatically. I bring this all up because Skip and I have been watching every documentary NetFlix Instant Play has to offer!!
We started watching one last night about two 9/11 widows. I give them kudos for finding each other and helping to over come grief. I cannot imagine what they have been thru nor do I ever want to have to. My issue with these women is this: They want to send money(AMERICAN MONEY) to the widows of Afghanistan. Now the widows of Afghanistan aren't just widows of THIS "WAR" mind you. These people have been dealing with this problem for MANY MANY years and its simply ingrained in their culture. It's their way of life.
I have a HUGE problem with America trying to change the culture of other peoples. I don't think we have the right to go in there and force a change, which is all we try to do anyways. It never works anyways. My opinion is this, If they wanted change that badly, they would strand up and have it. We as Americans did that and got our own country doing so.
WE have enough starving/malnourished children in THIS country. WE have enough war widows in THIS country they can reach out to. I just hate hearing about AMERICAN DOLLARS going to help other countries when we can't even help our own.
Call me insensitive, but until we can successfully care for EVERYONE here I don't want to see a single cent of any AMERICAN DOLLAR used on anyone but an American. PERIOD!
I will start by saying that I haven't always been the kind of person that didn't want to help anybody. I always thought everyone should be given the same rights as we have here in America. However as I have become a wiser adult(or so I think I have) my views have changed quite dramatically. I bring this all up because Skip and I have been watching every documentary NetFlix Instant Play has to offer!!
We started watching one last night about two 9/11 widows. I give them kudos for finding each other and helping to over come grief. I cannot imagine what they have been thru nor do I ever want to have to. My issue with these women is this: They want to send money(AMERICAN MONEY) to the widows of Afghanistan. Now the widows of Afghanistan aren't just widows of THIS "WAR" mind you. These people have been dealing with this problem for MANY MANY years and its simply ingrained in their culture. It's their way of life.
I have a HUGE problem with America trying to change the culture of other peoples. I don't think we have the right to go in there and force a change, which is all we try to do anyways. It never works anyways. My opinion is this, If they wanted change that badly, they would strand up and have it. We as Americans did that and got our own country doing so.
WE have enough starving/malnourished children in THIS country. WE have enough war widows in THIS country they can reach out to. I just hate hearing about AMERICAN DOLLARS going to help other countries when we can't even help our own.
Call me insensitive, but until we can successfully care for EVERYONE here I don't want to see a single cent of any AMERICAN DOLLAR used on anyone but an American. PERIOD!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Remembering how HARD it is!!!
I got out of work early today and decided to help my friend Christy groom at her shop. She had mentioned yesterday she was going to be swamped, so it was only the right thing to do!!
Well after grooming 4 dogs and helping to dry a few others I'm whiped. I forgot how hard my job was!! How terrible is that. I was still able to lift the fatty golden outta the tub. It was ice to know I still have my strength.
I'm going to work n trying to groom a couple days after work wit her, you know just so I dont forget how. Altho Christy says, " Grooming is like sex, just because you haven't done it in a while doesn't mean you forget what its about."
Well after grooming 4 dogs and helping to dry a few others I'm whiped. I forgot how hard my job was!! How terrible is that. I was still able to lift the fatty golden outta the tub. It was ice to know I still have my strength.
I'm going to work n trying to groom a couple days after work wit her, you know just so I dont forget how. Altho Christy says, " Grooming is like sex, just because you haven't done it in a while doesn't mean you forget what its about."
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Cheerios
We have a theory at work about cell phones and the brains one needs to have to operate one. We decided every customer should have to take an IQ test. After the results have been calculated a sticker shaped like a circle is sized up. This will become their IQ sticker. It would have to be as big as or bigger than the IQ circle located on the box of the phone they would like to have. If their circle is smaller, well they would need to get smarter before they could own the phone.
Here is a story of a women that would benefit from such a program. She called me yesterday complaining her Motorola RAZR was having a memory problem with the text message inbox. She claimed she used to be able to get about 80 messages in there before the phone would say it was full. Then as time went along that number has been getting smaller and smaller. Please remember the Motorola RAZR is about the simplest cell phone one could own. Very minimal menu options and pretty basic technology for a cell phone. Does the basic text and picture messaging and of coarse makes calls. That's it.
I started asking my usual questions, "How many are in the inbox now,how many in the outbox. Do you have lots if ring tones/games that could compromise the memory" ect ect. Well I find out shes been saving all her picture messages in the inbox because she didn't know how to save the attachment. When I explained to her that because she had so many picture messages the memory was compamised, she continued to argue with me about the phone losing memory. She insisted it should store more than 59 messages. I explained that picture messages take up MUCH more space than a regular text and if she kept the messages in the inbox her memory would still deplete even tho she had been deleting text messages. She just couldn't get what I was saying. Thank goodness for my quick thinking and ability to explain things to retarded people.
"Ma'am, lets pretend your inbox is a box of Cheerios."
"ok"
"Ok, One text message is ONE hand full of Cheerios and a picture message is TWO hand fulls of Cheerios."
"Ok, got it"
"Now you just deleted ONE message, that's ONE hand full of Cheerios."
"Uh huh"
"Now receive a picture, that's TWO hand fulls of Cheerios."
This was followed by a moment of silence and then this Ah Ha moment,
"OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get it."
I then showed her how to save her photos to a separate folder so her inbox could receive more than 59 messages. This women should just stick to a land line, she would get a circle smaller than any circle on any box.
Here is a story of a women that would benefit from such a program. She called me yesterday complaining her Motorola RAZR was having a memory problem with the text message inbox. She claimed she used to be able to get about 80 messages in there before the phone would say it was full. Then as time went along that number has been getting smaller and smaller. Please remember the Motorola RAZR is about the simplest cell phone one could own. Very minimal menu options and pretty basic technology for a cell phone. Does the basic text and picture messaging and of coarse makes calls. That's it.
I started asking my usual questions, "How many are in the inbox now,how many in the outbox. Do you have lots if ring tones/games that could compromise the memory" ect ect. Well I find out shes been saving all her picture messages in the inbox because she didn't know how to save the attachment. When I explained to her that because she had so many picture messages the memory was compamised, she continued to argue with me about the phone losing memory. She insisted it should store more than 59 messages. I explained that picture messages take up MUCH more space than a regular text and if she kept the messages in the inbox her memory would still deplete even tho she had been deleting text messages. She just couldn't get what I was saying. Thank goodness for my quick thinking and ability to explain things to retarded people.
"Ma'am, lets pretend your inbox is a box of Cheerios."
"ok"
"Ok, One text message is ONE hand full of Cheerios and a picture message is TWO hand fulls of Cheerios."
"Ok, got it"
"Now you just deleted ONE message, that's ONE hand full of Cheerios."
"Uh huh"
"Now receive a picture, that's TWO hand fulls of Cheerios."
This was followed by a moment of silence and then this Ah Ha moment,
"OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get it."
I then showed her how to save her photos to a separate folder so her inbox could receive more than 59 messages. This women should just stick to a land line, she would get a circle smaller than any circle on any box.
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