Too many tasks and threading
I am getting completely overwhelmed with the whole wedding planning business. Many many months ago my mother ordered me this planning softward called "Smart Wedding", but I was all like "there's no way I'm using this, it's just a scheme to make people spend money on something they don't need. I'll be perfectly fine with just using excel". But of course I realized that it can come in handy to have a program, and during my 3-hour horrendously boring night class I spent the entire time entering my guest list (from the excel spreadsheet) into the program. Manually. Because the program is not smart enough to import an excel file. Or maybe they think I should have been smart enough never to use an excel file to begin with. Anyhow. You can do all sorts of useful things on it, like see a pie chart of your guests, with what percentage of guests are the bride's, the groom's, the family, the friends, etc.
And then there's also the function that releases your stress hormones, or should I say elevates them to insanely high levels. This is the "tasks" function. According to this function, I am way overdue to complete like a gazillion tasks. Thankfully, you can change the tasks, and delete the ones that are ridiculous, such as "shop for outfits to wear on your honeymoon" and "take the time to tell all your family and friends how thankful you are to them for helping you plan this special day." As if with all the other tasks, I need to make the task list longer with these fake tasks. But even after deleting all the superfluous tasks, the list still left me totally flabbergasted at all the things I have yet to do. I thought that having hired a photographer and a videographer I was pretty much 90% there, but apparently "Smart Wedding" thinks that's nothing.
It's amazing how I have SUCH a light schedule - with only 3 days of classes and 2 days off plus a weekend, and I still feel like I need more time. Today I haven't done an iota of work, but was all busy with dumb tasks, such as waxing my legs, picking up the car from it being repaired (or should I say from having a scratch removed that only Vadim could see with a magnifying glass), doing a huge amount of laundry, and cooking myself lunch. I say cooking because we no longer eat out. Like ever. This morning Vadim cooked himself lunch. I think that's insane. By "cook" I don't mean made a sandwich, but I mean that he actually made himself pasta and chicken... around 7:30am. Just to have something to eat at lunch, instead of buying it.
It turned out that russian ladies do manicures and waxing at my newly-discovered Queens beauty salon. Russian ladies can be awfully blunt. For example, when asking if I would like to have my eyebrows threaded (much hipper than just having them waxed, I suppose), I explained that I pluck my eyebrows myself, and so I can't have them threaded right now - because there is nothing left to thread. The russian lady then proceeded to examine my eyebrows, and asked me "who did this to you"? I repeated that I, myself, did this to me. She then told me, in russian, that my eyebrows are either "horrendous" or "terrible", based on the proper translation. She said that I must not touch them for 3 weeks and then come back and she will make them beautiful. And even though I was not too thrilled with having my eyebrows insulted in such a crude manner, I WILL come back in 3 weeks and do exactly what she says. Maybe there is something to this russian way of doing business - insult your customers into paying for your services.
And then there's also the function that releases your stress hormones, or should I say elevates them to insanely high levels. This is the "tasks" function. According to this function, I am way overdue to complete like a gazillion tasks. Thankfully, you can change the tasks, and delete the ones that are ridiculous, such as "shop for outfits to wear on your honeymoon" and "take the time to tell all your family and friends how thankful you are to them for helping you plan this special day." As if with all the other tasks, I need to make the task list longer with these fake tasks. But even after deleting all the superfluous tasks, the list still left me totally flabbergasted at all the things I have yet to do. I thought that having hired a photographer and a videographer I was pretty much 90% there, but apparently "Smart Wedding" thinks that's nothing.
It's amazing how I have SUCH a light schedule - with only 3 days of classes and 2 days off plus a weekend, and I still feel like I need more time. Today I haven't done an iota of work, but was all busy with dumb tasks, such as waxing my legs, picking up the car from it being repaired (or should I say from having a scratch removed that only Vadim could see with a magnifying glass), doing a huge amount of laundry, and cooking myself lunch. I say cooking because we no longer eat out. Like ever. This morning Vadim cooked himself lunch. I think that's insane. By "cook" I don't mean made a sandwich, but I mean that he actually made himself pasta and chicken... around 7:30am. Just to have something to eat at lunch, instead of buying it.
It turned out that russian ladies do manicures and waxing at my newly-discovered Queens beauty salon. Russian ladies can be awfully blunt. For example, when asking if I would like to have my eyebrows threaded (much hipper than just having them waxed, I suppose), I explained that I pluck my eyebrows myself, and so I can't have them threaded right now - because there is nothing left to thread. The russian lady then proceeded to examine my eyebrows, and asked me "who did this to you"? I repeated that I, myself, did this to me. She then told me, in russian, that my eyebrows are either "horrendous" or "terrible", based on the proper translation. She said that I must not touch them for 3 weeks and then come back and she will make them beautiful. And even though I was not too thrilled with having my eyebrows insulted in such a crude manner, I WILL come back in 3 weeks and do exactly what she says. Maybe there is something to this russian way of doing business - insult your customers into paying for your services.
posted by SmallWonder at 2:07 PM
3 Comments:
hi alla! i have to tell you that threading HURTS LIKE NOTHING ELSE, EVER!!!!
i would not recommend that you have it done, because it hurts. a lot.
i have accidentally had my eyebrows threaded twice and after that i made sure to never, ever let it happen again. it was silly because i went in for waxing, all the signs said waxing, i said i wanted my eyebrows waxed, and then they started waxing - or so i thought. it wasn't until it felt like they were ever-so-slowly ripping the skin off my face, i realized that they were not waxing, but threading.
that's all. more later on other topics!
(oh, but if you do go in for threading, let me know if it was any less hellacious than my experiences. not that i would reconsider, i just wonder if it's like that for everyone.)
Sonsi,
Really?? I'm surprised. I figured that it wouldn't be any worse than plucking - which is what I do myself, so obviously that pain doesn't bother me. Hmm.. I am definitely not a fan of pain, so I'll have to think about this :).
I would imagine that threading is similar to electroshock therapy. At least, that's how it felt the few times I have done it. Lucky for me, I found an Uzbeki woman in Bayside who uses wax or threading depending on your preference, and loves to help me practice speaking Russian. I am always greeted by "Moya lyubimaya, kak dela?"
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