Well it's been ages since I've had time to actually sit at the computer for any length of time, but here I am at last!
Where to begin..
oh yes, the Engagement party...it was a roaring success, the album was received with many tears, everyone who attended signed the pages I had made in readiness! So many compliments and many people wanting me to make them albums ( i refused LOL).
Chris and I made absolute idiots thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, a couple of bottles of wine, some music, great food and we were off with the pixies..Dancing and singing, people were watching us probably jealous of our amazing dancing techniques left over from the 70's trying to work out what we were doing! We had a great time. I shall share pics when I collect them from my niece who was kind enough to be the paparazzi for the evening because I was to damn lazy and drunk to be bothered taking photo's lol.
Work has calmed down now the toy sale is over..all I can say about that is....THANK GOD!
I had my nails done yesterday. New acrylics. I used to get them done all the time but once again laziness got in the way and I could never be stuffed life got in the way and I never had the time. I decided I would try Professional Nails, just a few shops away from work..HMMMM...the nails look ok, not the same as when I used to get them done at the salon but that has closed down so I had best get over it so off I went and now know what it is like to be on a conveyor belt in a production line!!!
let me explain
- 3 rows of tables, with 5 chairs at each with a lady sitting on each chair. I was 2nd from the wall end, this looks interesting! Technicians wearing surgical masks..OH MY!
- along comes a young Chinese fellow..he sits down and starts to prep my nails..WHAT THE?? ok, so it's equal opportunity obviously
that would be because he is MALE not Chinese ok! lol, he files nails with what looks like a tiny grinder similar to one used in metal work..then he glues on nail tips, cuts them down to the length..asks me if the length is ok..I smile and say, perhaps a bit shorter? he says..NO, I think they ok like that..ok so I will shut-up now. - He stands up, says from behind his mask
. your nails are disgusting, I need help here don't move, someone will be right back...and off he trots.. - A young Chinese lady appears, she's the acrylic brusher, well that's what I like to call her, she brushes on the acrylic, makes my nails look almost real, then says something in what I think was Chinaustralian, I must have looked at her like some sort of stunned mullet, she starts to throw her hands around and making all sorts of gestures..ahh ok..she wants me to go wash my hands and pay before she applies the polish...why didn't she just say that??
- Off I go, wash, pay to yet another Chinese girl..you want clear polish, you want special polish?? ok you go sit now and wait ..So I sit and I wait.
- Along comes the nail polish girl, yet another Chinese lass, she applies the polish, orders me to put my fingers in the polish dryer contraption and leaves..
- Then out of nowhere appears Fellow #1 again, this time he is polish checker..polish is dry, points to door, GOODBYE..
All this in 20 minutes and not one word of welcome spoken, you've heard of battery hens? I believe these are battery technicians, no one spoke to anyone, if you looked around the room, ladies just sat and stared like they were on some sort of drug LOL the lady next to me, though, coughed and coughed and coughed, they reluctantly gave her a glass of water, I wanted to punch her but instead gave her a soother, which was met with glares from the young man operating on her, I must have broken nail protocol LOL. I did however have a breakthrough with the young man doing my nails, the aforementioned young man, had a blue-tooth in his ear, unbeknown to me, he started to say, Hello, over and over again, while sort of looking at me well he must have been cross-eyed i thought he was looking at me so i smiled and said Hello back..he got cross and started to say loudly HELLO HELLO..pulled his mask down and said HELLO once more, that was when i realized he had a hands free in his ear..and that he actually was the owner so he was allowed to talk.. The poor boy operating on me, burst out laughing and was promptly reprimanded in Chinese from Mr bossy boots, for laughing..To which the boy replied, don't blame me, blame this stupid woman whose hand's I am mutilating, she's the one who answered you.
I am still trying to work out why they wore surgical masks..do you think it's so we won't recognise our torturer? perhaps that's why they try to confuse you with so many technicians..
and what I found really, really funny was just before I finished work, my last customer was one of the technicians from the production line..I recognised her from her uniform! she told me in broken English, my nails looked lovely, where did I get them done, I told her, then she said, very beautiful, they look very natural, you very lucky lady! and acted like she had never seen fake nails in her life..
I'm not sure if I'll go back again LOL I might bribe see Monika to do my infills,
