Blog # 2

Hello, and welcome back if you're a regular, and hi if it's your first visit! I'm Valerie. Hairstylist and content creator. I live in Ontario, Canada and news have struck that we will be continuing our provincial lockdown for another month roughly and my industry has been hit hard. I've only worked 6 weeks this year and we're in May. Like what?!

That's just crazy to me, I love my job and I can't see myself doing anything different. Even if my videos on YouTube were to get viral or something I would still go to the salon and happily work away there. I don't want to fully complain though, I do see why I can't go back to work. I can't socially distance while working. I have to be near a person to do their hair. I'm even in people's faces when highlighting around the face! Like I understand. So it's frustrating to see other hairstylists being all rude and mean about it! Like can you do hair 6 feet away from a person? NO! You can't! So I fully understand, it's just hard and weird to not be working. Especially with summer approaching. I just hope I can go back in July like the provincial government says.

Enough about that, let's get into another topic that's been on my mind lately: cleaning.

Yes we all clean, because it's needed. But I love cleaning, but I like to dedicate a time and day to clean. I can't just see something is dirty and clean it right away (other than a stain on me, I'll change shirts or try my best to get it off and dishes, I clean after I eat the meal I just cooked). But I don't know why I can't do that for everything else. An example would be this past week I had my period, a normal thing, but I stained my bedsheets with blood. I haven't cleaned them yet, I just covered that part of the bed with a towel so it didn't get worse. I need to do them. I need to get better bc what if I am in a relationship eventually and we're sharing the bed? I would understand why they would want to clean the sheets right away! So I'm trying to change my ways to be better for myself, aka my health and sanity to be my best version of me. I know it's just about cleaning, but even for other things I want to be a better version of myself. I want to eat healthy (most of the time, obviously have a life lol), I want to be a person who works out again (I know pandemic hasn't helped with that, I love going to the gym), and I want to be the best version of myself.

I'm ready to be the best version of myself for myself.

It's taken me a hard and long time to do this and to start living like this. I hope this can inspire you or even just remind you to be the best version of yourself! We all are, just for me I have such a clear vision of what I want to be.

I want to wake up at 8-9 (right now during lockdown at least lol), workout, eat a good breakfast, and work on something during the day, then relax at night. I have such a hard time shutting off from this webiste, YouTube videos, or instagram content (reels, photo posts, etc). So I'm trying to force myself do work during the day so at night I can watch tv, or a marvel movie. A lil r&r if you catch my drift.

Anyways that's it for the post, love you all so freaking much.