55 posts tagged “heike” (page 2)
I think I have a pretty good attitude on {getting bad} haircuts, that I attribute to recovering from that delightful encounter I had in fifth grade when my mom convinced me to chop off all of my haif and I learned the important lesson that "it can always grow back". Boy have I had some doozies since then....
One of my all-time worst haircuts was shortly after I got my legit Philly job (where I am now, again). Everyone knows, that the only way to fix a bad haircut (I ended up with a scary mullet!) is to cut more off. So, I interviewed with long hair, but showed up to work with very short hair... In typical corporate-world protocol, one of the first things you do during your first week is get your photo taken for your work ID. So for years, I had this truely horrendous photo of my mangled pixy-do on my ID. I was so thankful when I came back to the company (after my NYC stint) and learned that my old photo wasn't {freakishly} on file anywhere and I would take a new photo.
I got a haircut today.
The color is darker, and looks great, and I decided to get bangs. I dabbled in bangs the last time, but they were still so sweepy (because I wasn't emotionally ready for full bangs) that it didn't really change my look that much. I was more brave today and got "real" bangs. It looked good when she was done, but it didn't really look like me. With the new color and the bangs across my face and the blown out straight hair, I swear, it looked like I was wearing a wig. I learned long ago, that you don't really know how much you like a haircut until you get home and do your hair yourself. Well, its not looking good.
Here's the funny part (for others, less so for me): My passport expires in September. I need to get passport photos taken soon so I can get it renewed. Yup, this haircut is going to be my passport photo FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
Although I thought it would be a nice quiet morning, so I could catch-up on my "exam" studying, this morning is proving to be pretty busy. One of our little companies is based in the Grand Cayman - not a great place to be on a day like today.... My boss was actually supposed to be down there today visiting with the management team (I'm jealous - this is the third analyst that I've worked with following this stock - when is it my turn to visit??? Now, this is what I call due diligence!!!) as part of her mini-vacation with her family, but they were rerouted to Turks & Caicos instead.
I'm actually enjoying that she is MIA during this "developement" as it gives me a chance to be the point-"wo"man on this news flow when ordinarily our salesforce/clients would be asking her opinion/directly, whether or not I was educated on the topic or not... While in many cases, I don't mind when they defer to her without even attempting to ask me, in this case, they should be asking me FIRST, since I was following the stock when Hurrican Ivan struck in September 2004, so I actually have the knowledge/experience about how the company handles this more so than she does. This is a nice chance for me to flex some Analyst-Muscle.
Tonight, I got home from a busy day of work at 6pm; caught up with email, played on the computer (uploaded photos - finally!), and futzted around the house until dinner. After about an hour of TV with Adam, we "hit the books" for about an hour (should have been longer)..... and then I spent the next HOUR getting ready for the next couple of days....
I made myself two lunches (tmrw & Wed), bfast & dinner for tomorrow, and fruit snacks to last me the week.... then, I got outfits ready for the next few days, packed up my toiletries, and got my workout clothes laid out ..... what a lot of planning!!!!
Tomorrow, I plan on attending a SPIN (stationary bike) class at the gym before work - it starts at 6:45am, so I'll be a zombie leaving the apartment in the morning and want to be able to "grab & go" without much thinking.... I'll go straight to the office from there, and then straight from work to my "exam" class, which won't let out until 9:30pm, if I'm lucky. I prepped some for Wed so I wouldn't have to do it tomorrow night....
I'm a big Sunday night prepper... I like getting clothes ironed for the week and some food-prep done to make things go smoother when we get home and are in a rush to cook. I can only imagine how much more prep will come with kids. Yikes! It looks like some form of tonight's routine is going to become a weekly staple as I try to juggle a busy work schedule and regular exercise around this study regime. Ugh. Is it December yet?
Had a thoroughly enjoyable birthday weekend. Two nights of drinking and a fabulous afternoon/evening at my mom's..... been so busy, barely have had time to Vox -- still having that problem with the webpage at work... such a bummer... I'm working from home on Wednesday, so I hope to do some catching up then.
Thanks to all of you that sent me birthday wishes!!! Big fan of MySpace this week - got bday wishes from friends who otherwise (and why would they) have known that it was my birthday.
About a week ago, I answered a QOTD about bad haircuts and promised to post photos of my misfortune....
I also mentioned a very scary wardrobe/hair choice for my first dance - Hey, it was 1988! Do I look cool with that side ponytail? How about the grey/pink sadal shoes? And you can't miss my bangle bracelet!!
I couldn't post ALL embarassing photos --- so here's one of my favorite photos of me when I was little... this was taken in April 1980 - so I was about 20 months old. How cute am I?
I continue to be crazy-busy with earnings season. Yesterday and today I have been particularly busy because my boss has been on a poorly planned business trip to Boston and I have been left to handle our two most icky companies solo. Last night I didn't shut off the computer until 11:30pm and this morning I was in the office by 6:30am -- needless to say, I'm exhausted.
This morning we downgraded one of our companies. {The stock reached what we believed is a fair value, so we downgraded to HOLD from BUY - in case you care}. Since my boss had an 8am meeting, I was the one that had to speak at the morning meeting and inform the salesforce & traders about our "call". My former boss, (from a long, long time ago that I had not been very fond of because he tried to have me fired duing my first year working here), came and told me this morning that he thought that today was the best morning comment that I had ever done. That was very cool to hear!
AND, someone else in my department, listened to my blurb on the Weekly TV show, that I had taped yesterday, and thought I had done very well. Both of these people are extremely helpful at giving constructive criticism, so it was nice to hear two unsolicited compliements regarding my public speaking abilities. Yeah ME!
Back to earnings..... MUST... GET.... CAFFEINE!!!!
On a whim this morning I decided I would try and get my haircut. I'm not one of those people that makes an appointment well in advance. On a day like today, when I can't take the length of my hair anymore and I think I have time to sneak off for 45min-1hr I will call and see if my hairdresser, M, is available. I called today shortly after 11am and told them I wanted a cut and was thinking about getting some highlights. They said they would be able to squeeze me in for a cut & highlights if I came at 11:30. I pretty much hopped out of my seat and went to the salon.
My hairdresser was so surprised that I wanted highlights. She's been cutting my hair for 4+ years and we've never done highlights for me, just a single-process (?? - whatever its called when they color your whole head the same color). I had no idea what I was getting myself into - its been at least 6-7 years since I've had highlights, and now that I think about it, I've never had it done to my entire head before, just a couple of strans here and there, which explains a lot.
Turns out, it TAKES FOREVER to get highlights done - I'm apparently the last woman/girl on earth to learn this. Everyone else seems to know how long it takes AND how expensive it is -- $180 for the cut & highlights, and that's before the $35+ tips. Yikes!
So, I didn't get back to the office until after 2pm! And I had left the office around 11:20. OOOPS! At least there was no crisis going on. And besides, my hair looks phenomenal!
Its Earnings Season time... never fun. I've been working like crazy the last few days - coming in the office before 7am and not shutting off the computer until after 11pm - granted I am taking an hour two to enjoy Adam's company after he gets home from work and eat some dinner, but still.....
Today should be the last real crazy day and then there is some lingering earnings season stuff in the first half of next week..... How the heck am I going to do this when we have kids? Actually, it will be better when we have an Associate working on our team... that's a whole other story for another day.
I have been very impressed with my Spring Intern and was thrilled when he asked if he could stay on through the summer.... (Its a ten week program and our interns always leave right when we get them to the point where they are actually helpful). He had approached me before I started the massive project of interviewing (25 candidates for 3 openings) and I told him I would be happy to have him stay for the summer, IF he PROMISED to stop looking for summer positions elsewhere -- I couldn't have him find something else after we had finished selecting our candidates and then I was stuck with noone. (DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?). Today, he informed that he is taking a summer position in NYC. ARGH!!!
We are about to fire the useless Associate on our team and I was counting on my Intern to pick up a fair amount of slack. Because I knew he was staying with us longer than normal, I have been going out of my way to train him.... now it seems, it was all for nothing - a complete drain on my time. In the meantime, I found terrific interns for the other research teams -- one of them would have been my intern had I been looking (I get first dibs because I do all the leg work -- very time consuming responsibility). Now I'm stuck scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not only are the top candidates taken, but since so much time has gone by, our B list students have found positions as well.
I'M FUMING!!!
Wednesday is Adminstrative Appreciation Day (formerly known as Secretary's Day). I mentioned something to my boss on Friday so we could coordinate a small gift. She works in another office, so it needs to be a little bit more planned that if we were sitting next to one another. Realizing that the Men/Analysts in my office were unlikley to do anything for their Admin I mentioned something to the two Analysts that I really like. I figure its not fair to the Admin that they have clueless bosses. While I was at it, I decided to clue in the Director of my department, since the past the department has usually treated the Admin to lunch.
How do I get rewarded for clueing in the Director? By being responsible for ordering the Admin their lunch!!!!
