And so it begins - the new year with a new way of working, a new way of living and a little new way of thinking as well. Here we go :)
Premiere for the new salon!
It feels so strange to say nya the salon, for me it is the old salon because that was where I started working with Annika 4 years ago now :) Anyway, we opened the doors to our new old salon this Wednesday!
What a hell of a mess it was before we got everything in place! Furniture, drawers and sacks with gadgets. It felt almost hopeless there for a while :)
Vi tog dom sista kunderna i gamla lokalen på nyårsafton så det var först på nyårsdagen som vi kunde flytta “på riktigt” och då körde jag och Miska från tidig morgon till sen kväll för att få det sista på plats. Pjuh!
Så skönt när vi äntligen kunde sätta upp denna lapp och ändra alla kunders boknings-sms till “VI HAR FLYTTAT” :)
Very good not to move so far, if any customer goes to the wrong place, it is just further down the same street. Google says 2 minutes, but it takes about 30 seconds if you do not get caught in a red light.
Kl. 08.00 on the 2nd of January we finally opened and even though there was still a lot of work left, we had come far enough to be able to take customers :) Here I am, picking up eye shadows for sale.
I will take pictures of what the salon looks like and show you, but I want to get a little more stuff in place first. The walls are completely impossible to screw in (although we have a percussion drill) so we have to borrow a real worsting drill from a carpenter to get the last one up. So there are a lot now that are different types of emergency solutions :) More fun to show pictures when everything is ready!
One of the things that has not been finished yet is to put up a logo and stuff in our shop windows. All other companies also have holidays over Christmas so it takes some time. So we have put up some makeshift signs just for people to see what kind of business is in there.
But I fixed this screen in the shop window this week and it turned out great! Sitting right next to the door.
In the shop window next to it, you can see our screen in the waiting corner as well :) So you can see some pictures of our treatments.
Waking up from the police & luck in bad luck
Natten till den 2 januari vaknade vi runt tre-tiden av att Annikas mamma ringde och sa “polisen har varit hos er och knackat på, men Annika öppnar inte”.
Annika slept with earplugs because it was a storm outside and we sleep in the guesthouse.
On January 1, we moved everything important from the old premises, the cash register, the computers and sales products. That same night, just hours later, the storm shattered one of our large shop windows, which broke completely!
We did not have to unlock when we arrived late in the morning, just to crawl straight into the waiting room haha.
We do not know exactly how it happened but the glass windows are very leaky and rattle as soon as a bus passes by so we think that the storm simply caused it to burst.
Had this happened a day earlier, it would have been extremely much harder, because then we would have had greater concern about the valuables in there and had to go in immediately. Now we could fall asleep again and grab it the next day instead. Had it happened two or more days earlier, we would have had a lot of problems because then we would have customers in there and it was as cold inside as outside!
Vi är tacksamma över att det skedde “rätt datum”, hur stora är oddsen att vi flyttar the day before? But this is still something we really do not need right now when we have double rents, increased employees' working hours (higher wage costs) and renovation costs with the new premises. In addition, January is not the most booked month either if you say so…
We rent this room until March 14 (due to such a long notice period) so it is still us who have to fix a new window.
But there is not much to do about it! :) The insurance company has been accommodating and hopefully we only need to pay deductible, but we do not know that to 100% yet.
The sign on me that sat in the shop window went in several pieces and blew around the streets. What a brutal sight haha!
“Nyårslöften” 2019
I have no definite New Year's promises, but the two things that I feel I should think extra hard about in the coming year are:
1. I have never been a person who has had a hard time trusting people, on the contrary, I usually am for gullible and blue-eyed. But being gullible is a quality that more often does good than harm and me wants vara en person som litar på folk. Men dom senaste 2,5 åren så har ett flertal personer fått mig att behöva tänka tanken “jaha, så mycket var vår relation värd för dig…” och nu känns det som att inget kommer chockera mig längre, folk kommer fortsätta att byta personlighet på en handvändning och fast jag bara ger och ger och ger så är det inte värt någonting i slutänden. Jag kanske skulle må bättre av att bli egoist jag också och aldrig ta skit igen, sluta bita ihop för att slippa bråk, bara tänka på mitt eget och aldrig lita fullt ut på någon. MEN jag vill verkligen inte tänka så! 2019 ska jag verkligen kämpa för att känna tillit för folk igen :)
2. My health. It is partly about things that make me feel good inside, hang out with people who make me laugh, have an inner peace and feel free. But also physically to take care of my body, I have been sick so much in 2018. It sounds cliché to have a health theme as a New Year's resolution but it is the first year that it really feels relevant to me :)
Here I melt tin on New Year's Eve to predict what 2019 will be like!
LOTS of computer jobs, reports and numbers
This Thursday + all weekend, I work from home with all the work I am behind with now that I have spent all my time on the move.
We have lots to change on the website and booking system, many treatments and products to remove. We will set new key figures and budget for 2019 because there are so many changes now and all statistics for 2018 will be checked.
My to-do list is so long that it no longer fits in my calendar (which is my regular system) but I can have a list on the side as well :)
I end the week with a warm feeling in my body. Two of the makeup artists have had a holiday this week as well, but the other two have run on Wednesday-Saturday and they are so happy with the new salon! It makes me so heavenly happy!
Zahra som slutade kl 14 på sin första arbetsdag på nya stället hängde kvar i 20 min till och sa “I do not want to go home it is so cozy here !!”Haha :) That's exactly how you want a workplace to feel!
Next week I will get my long to-do list in order and get to the last thing at the salon, then there will be a little more peace of mind :)
Wish you a fantastic Sunday and hope you have a good start to the new year ♥
Hug!
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