I am sick. Really sick. It almost never happens. Quite frankly, since I started taking Propolis on a daily basis I haven’t gotten sick in a year and a half. I can only chalk up this horrible illness to being lame enough to forget to add the stuff to my water bottle on Sunday. So here I am nastily ill two weeks before I go on vacation, working double shifts to fit all my clients in, and training. Can I just tell you all how bad this is?
You see, when I go on vacation it’s a little different than when most people go. Sure I have to work longer days to fit everyone in, but lots of people have to do this. No, what’s different about my vacations is that they always revolve around massive educational events. Events that I need to be fully functional to get the most out of.
Take for example this month. I have freaked out all my clients and employers (but I gave them all 3 months warning!) by requesting 19 days off. But all those days are for educational events. This should be a wonderous thing because I am only as good as my knowledge you know. And yet not as many people as you think understand it when I have to take that many days off in the same month. The thing is, I don’t plan when the trainings and educational events occur. I just make sure I can go to them, and shell out the cash for them. I have an Jane Iredale Master Class Makeup Training, a Bioelements Sensitive Skin and Microtreatment training, a Medical Esthetics Conference, a La Roche product knowledge and advanced medical facial seminar, an Epicuren product knowledge class, a Kobido Japanese facial workshop (which was just moved to January thank GOD), and two courses on new esthetic technology. So it’s not like I am slacking for 19 days!
But this damn plague has thrown me off my game. I have moved some clients around and have thanked each and every one who let me cancel on them. I even jumped for joy … well maybe it was more of a hop since I am feeling pretty crap … when Master Shogo called telling me they were moving my Japanese facial class to January. Nothing sucks more than having to learn while sick. I did okay in my Iredale class yesterday, but that is something I already know a lot about. The Japanese facial class is my first one on one training session. Damn do I need to kick this cold!
So as I type cocooned in a heating blanket, the smell of disinfectant floating around me (I have to smother myself and all my equipment in it between every facial so I don’t spread the plague), I pray the Day Quill will kick in before my next client arrives. I’m proud to have written this weeks entry considering how miserable I feel. Hopefully you can all find some deep hidden message in this post because while writing it I was just praying for clarity. 🙂
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