what a shit fucking week...
bad shit always, always seems to happen to shit, annoying customers.
there is this annoying couple who run a pet motel near work... totally up themselves, walk in like they own the place, always show up late for their appointments, always want a discount and to top that off the main reason i LOATH them is that they breed their shitty, bad examples of Bichons. This time round, they had two litters of puppies... 15 puppies in total. Selling them all for $880 each. My biggest HATE in the world is puppy farmers and backyard breeders. Especially ones like these people... a quick $10k+. Maybe I am just pissed cos I can't make $10k that easily.
Anyway, their annoying male dog licks and licks when you try to hold his face to scissor around his head. so I am like holding his mouth shut tightly to stop him licking, but just when I think its safe and snip away, the fucking dog puts his tongue out.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. blood everywhere.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
I havent cut a tongue before, but I know from past salon experiences, there is nothing you can do. luckily mine was just a tiny nick, unlike some others i have heard about... but still, it just doesn't stop.
i settle him down and it seems to slow down, almost stop... so i put him in the pen to just let him chill and see if it stops. I start clipping his friend, and i turn around and the fucking dog is licking his feet and legs and now there is blood all up his legs. super. so then i grab an Elizabethan collar and stick it on him so he cant lick.
Seems to stop him. Owner shows up, I explain that there is a slight cut on his tongue but it seems to of stopped and to take the collar with them because there isn't really much you can do, it just has to heal itself.
Turns out he walked straight out, without saying anything to anyone at the front... so i was kind of freaking out cos he didnt pay, and I'm thinking shit, I am in deep shit now. So the rest of the day was just a write off, I accidentally didnt put a bag of dog food thru with someone's stuff, so there goes another $40 i just threw away for the shop, so I am even more in the shit.
so anyway on the way to work i get a call from Tye who says that just before we closed the guy with the dog called to say he took the dog to a vet and he wants free dog clipping. I'm like fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccck can this get any more shit? Tye said she didnt call me that night cos she knew i had a shit day, which was good, cos I stew and over think things, then stress out more. So now the boss is getting involved. GAH.
turns out the vet bill was only $70 (thank fuck) and he walked out on $100 worth of grooming the day before so even tho we all really wanted him to pay the difference cos the owner is such a arrogant dick, the boss said just to make him happy and let him have those 2 clips for free and nothing else.
so when the wife came in (they had another appointment for that day) she was a total bitch, and i thought about it for a sec and thought fuck it, im not apologising to you, I did everything I could to try and avoid it happening, I cant exactly read a dog's mind when its going to stick out its tongue, accidents like that happen. she should be happy its ear didn't get cut off.
I hate it when accidents happen like that, but it isnt like I wake up going, "oh yes, I feel like cutting your dogs tongue today and having to try and clean up all its blood, sounds like fun" it just makes me feel like shit. Like I am bad at my job and I should just give up... My boss spoke to me and i felt a bit better knowing he was on my side and understood accidents like that happen, and that in 2 years only having 2 accidents is a pretty good track record and that he was still happy with me because I have so many regular customers and good reports back. It's just so annoying that it happens to the annoying people, cos no doubt I will be hearing about this for ages. Sean said I can tell them I dont want to clip their dogs anymore if I want to. Not that I will tell them that yet, but if they get any worse its good to know I can tell them not to come back.
The above probably doesn't make sense, meh.
the next part wont make sense either i'm just thinking outloud...
so during this week (before the above) I thought I would see if halving my antidepressants would make a difference, and then one day I forgot to take it altogether... so when the above happened, i kind of went into this weird head space again and just couldn't get out of the spot I was. It kind of got me thinking... am I relying on these to not feel bad or do I really need them to keep me level headed so I can deal with everyday bad situations. I dont really know if that sounds right, it makes kind of sense in my head i think. meh. not that I want to stop taking them, cos I like where I am at now, I kind of wanted to lower the amount so i didnt go thru them as fast cos I hate spending money on them, but maybe now I think I am relying on them.
pfft who knows.
new lady at work asked me to cut her fringe for her. dog groomers do not make good hairdressers. and visa versa.
on the upside, i upgraded my blackberry phone's software and it seems to be running better. plus i got awesome new apps and a theme to change it to look like an iphone so i dont feel as bad for choosing blackberry over apple. shazam (one of the apps) is amazing and mindblowing. you hold your phone up to the music you are listening to (say you hear a song and want to know who its by) it listens for 15 seconds or so, then it tells you what song it is. i was jumping around my lounge room like a maniac after testing all these different songs and it got them right. FUCK YEAH.
After my weekly 'pretending to bash someone, while listening to hardstyle' class, I am helping Kate and Leo move her stuff out of storage for her move to her new house. I am pretty stoked she lives near the Musgrave Park Bowls club I used to go to all the time a few years back to play bingo. I am going to make her and Leo go there with me again whenever I am down the coast to play again. I miss playing bingo... I have no one who wants to go with me in Brisbane. boo.
I am going to my first ever Hen's night soon. and my first wedding since 1991! That will be exciting.
Then I have Fraser, my birthday, then The Airborne Toxic Event show at the Zoo. If you havent heard of them, you should look them up. they are awesome so stoked they are coming to Australia weeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I am obsessed with True Blood now...this season is soooo good. I hate waiting for new episodes.
i think that is enough now. I need to find another way to entertain myself tonight or go to bed... what an awesome life I lead, at home on a Saturday night!
peas out
bad shit always, always seems to happen to shit, annoying customers.
there is this annoying couple who run a pet motel near work... totally up themselves, walk in like they own the place, always show up late for their appointments, always want a discount and to top that off the main reason i LOATH them is that they breed their shitty, bad examples of Bichons. This time round, they had two litters of puppies... 15 puppies in total. Selling them all for $880 each. My biggest HATE in the world is puppy farmers and backyard breeders. Especially ones like these people... a quick $10k+. Maybe I am just pissed cos I can't make $10k that easily.
Anyway, their annoying male dog licks and licks when you try to hold his face to scissor around his head. so I am like holding his mouth shut tightly to stop him licking, but just when I think its safe and snip away, the fucking dog puts his tongue out.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. blood everywhere.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
I havent cut a tongue before, but I know from past salon experiences, there is nothing you can do. luckily mine was just a tiny nick, unlike some others i have heard about... but still, it just doesn't stop.
i settle him down and it seems to slow down, almost stop... so i put him in the pen to just let him chill and see if it stops. I start clipping his friend, and i turn around and the fucking dog is licking his feet and legs and now there is blood all up his legs. super. so then i grab an Elizabethan collar and stick it on him so he cant lick.
Seems to stop him. Owner shows up, I explain that there is a slight cut on his tongue but it seems to of stopped and to take the collar with them because there isn't really much you can do, it just has to heal itself.
Turns out he walked straight out, without saying anything to anyone at the front... so i was kind of freaking out cos he didnt pay, and I'm thinking shit, I am in deep shit now. So the rest of the day was just a write off, I accidentally didnt put a bag of dog food thru with someone's stuff, so there goes another $40 i just threw away for the shop, so I am even more in the shit.
so anyway on the way to work i get a call from Tye who says that just before we closed the guy with the dog called to say he took the dog to a vet and he wants free dog clipping. I'm like fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccck can this get any more shit? Tye said she didnt call me that night cos she knew i had a shit day, which was good, cos I stew and over think things, then stress out more. So now the boss is getting involved. GAH.
turns out the vet bill was only $70 (thank fuck) and he walked out on $100 worth of grooming the day before so even tho we all really wanted him to pay the difference cos the owner is such a arrogant dick, the boss said just to make him happy and let him have those 2 clips for free and nothing else.
so when the wife came in (they had another appointment for that day) she was a total bitch, and i thought about it for a sec and thought fuck it, im not apologising to you, I did everything I could to try and avoid it happening, I cant exactly read a dog's mind when its going to stick out its tongue, accidents like that happen. she should be happy its ear didn't get cut off.
I hate it when accidents happen like that, but it isnt like I wake up going, "oh yes, I feel like cutting your dogs tongue today and having to try and clean up all its blood, sounds like fun" it just makes me feel like shit. Like I am bad at my job and I should just give up... My boss spoke to me and i felt a bit better knowing he was on my side and understood accidents like that happen, and that in 2 years only having 2 accidents is a pretty good track record and that he was still happy with me because I have so many regular customers and good reports back. It's just so annoying that it happens to the annoying people, cos no doubt I will be hearing about this for ages. Sean said I can tell them I dont want to clip their dogs anymore if I want to. Not that I will tell them that yet, but if they get any worse its good to know I can tell them not to come back.
The above probably doesn't make sense, meh.
the next part wont make sense either i'm just thinking outloud...
so during this week (before the above) I thought I would see if halving my antidepressants would make a difference, and then one day I forgot to take it altogether... so when the above happened, i kind of went into this weird head space again and just couldn't get out of the spot I was. It kind of got me thinking... am I relying on these to not feel bad or do I really need them to keep me level headed so I can deal with everyday bad situations. I dont really know if that sounds right, it makes kind of sense in my head i think. meh. not that I want to stop taking them, cos I like where I am at now, I kind of wanted to lower the amount so i didnt go thru them as fast cos I hate spending money on them, but maybe now I think I am relying on them.
pfft who knows.
new lady at work asked me to cut her fringe for her. dog groomers do not make good hairdressers. and visa versa.
on the upside, i upgraded my blackberry phone's software and it seems to be running better. plus i got awesome new apps and a theme to change it to look like an iphone so i dont feel as bad for choosing blackberry over apple. shazam (one of the apps) is amazing and mindblowing. you hold your phone up to the music you are listening to (say you hear a song and want to know who its by) it listens for 15 seconds or so, then it tells you what song it is. i was jumping around my lounge room like a maniac after testing all these different songs and it got them right. FUCK YEAH.
After my weekly 'pretending to bash someone, while listening to hardstyle' class, I am helping Kate and Leo move her stuff out of storage for her move to her new house. I am pretty stoked she lives near the Musgrave Park Bowls club I used to go to all the time a few years back to play bingo. I am going to make her and Leo go there with me again whenever I am down the coast to play again. I miss playing bingo... I have no one who wants to go with me in Brisbane. boo.
I am going to my first ever Hen's night soon. and my first wedding since 1991! That will be exciting.
Then I have Fraser, my birthday, then The Airborne Toxic Event show at the Zoo. If you havent heard of them, you should look them up. they are awesome so stoked they are coming to Australia weeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I am obsessed with True Blood now...this season is soooo good. I hate waiting for new episodes.
i think that is enough now. I need to find another way to entertain myself tonight or go to bed... what an awesome life I lead, at home on a Saturday night!
peas out