I'm so excited....
And I have to hide it!
You know, you know, you know, you know - I want to tell you, tell you!
I'M SO EXCITED....AND I HAVE TO HIDE IT!
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW - I WANT TO TELL YOU, TELL YOU!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
I love it when the world aligns!
Long time no write!
On Wednesday night after an especially long day at work I snuggled up to Alex before getting ready to go to Pilates and said "How in the world am I going to keep this up until Christmas?". He said "Just quit one place" and I said "I've made a commitment and I'm sticking to it" then I proceeded to get in a huff and go get ready for my class (knowing that's exactly what I'd like to do but also being extremely stubborn as usual).
On Thursday morning when I got into work I had an email from the girl I teach semi-privates to regarding her last session (that night). She told me that she's been sick for 3 days and didn't think she could sit up for an hour let alone get through an hour session. She then went on to say that since I'd made so many accommodations for her schedule in the past to not worry about making up our last session. I of course responded it was no problem and that we could reschedule but she was insistent. One night down - YES!
Then, on Thursday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. I open up my personal email to find this:
Hi Jenn,
As of today we offered Lindy the whole house and she accepted. I will close the studio asap and freelance between traveling to Florida.I want to thank you for all you work in trying to make the studio a success.To grow the business I would have to focus on spending money and time and with the recent change in my personal home life this couldn't be done. Thinking you should contact Lindy to see if Pilates can still be available under Eternal hot yoga. I will notify the clients and refund were needed.
Thanks
Gwen
Can you say...ummmm - WOW?!
Now, I'm not saying I wanted Your Pilates Place to close down by any means - what I wanted to do was teach 1 night a week vs. 3 times a week. I'm most surprised on Gwen's delivery, I mean she was the one who said she didn't want the business to grow rapidly and I thought she was happy. Pretty much everyone we taught bought a package and kept coming..we at least had a good retention rate!
So, now I'm down to teaching 2 times a week until Christmas and then back up to 3 times a week after that...two times over lunch and one evening. Now that's PERFECT! It'll keep me in shape, keep my teaching skills up and not make me so exhausted that I don't even want to get up in the middle of the night to pee!!
WA-FRICKIN'-HOO!!
On Wednesday night after an especially long day at work I snuggled up to Alex before getting ready to go to Pilates and said "How in the world am I going to keep this up until Christmas?". He said "Just quit one place" and I said "I've made a commitment and I'm sticking to it" then I proceeded to get in a huff and go get ready for my class (knowing that's exactly what I'd like to do but also being extremely stubborn as usual).
On Thursday morning when I got into work I had an email from the girl I teach semi-privates to regarding her last session (that night). She told me that she's been sick for 3 days and didn't think she could sit up for an hour let alone get through an hour session. She then went on to say that since I'd made so many accommodations for her schedule in the past to not worry about making up our last session. I of course responded it was no problem and that we could reschedule but she was insistent. One night down - YES!
Then, on Thursday afternoon around 2:00 p.m. I open up my personal email to find this:
Hi Jenn,
As of today we offered Lindy the whole house and she accepted. I will close the studio asap and freelance between traveling to Florida.I want to thank you for all you work in trying to make the studio a success.To grow the business I would have to focus on spending money and time and with the recent change in my personal home life this couldn't be done. Thinking you should contact Lindy to see if Pilates can still be available under Eternal hot yoga. I will notify the clients and refund were needed.
Thanks
Gwen
Can you say...ummmm - WOW?!
Now, I'm not saying I wanted Your Pilates Place to close down by any means - what I wanted to do was teach 1 night a week vs. 3 times a week. I'm most surprised on Gwen's delivery, I mean she was the one who said she didn't want the business to grow rapidly and I thought she was happy. Pretty much everyone we taught bought a package and kept coming..we at least had a good retention rate!
So, now I'm down to teaching 2 times a week until Christmas and then back up to 3 times a week after that...two times over lunch and one evening. Now that's PERFECT! It'll keep me in shape, keep my teaching skills up and not make me so exhausted that I don't even want to get up in the middle of the night to pee!!
WA-FRICKIN'-HOO!!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
frost-schmost
Seriously, frost?
The past 2 mornings I've come out of the house gone to get into my car and realized that I'm going to have to sit in my car for at least 5 minutes before I can actually go anywhere because every one of the my windows in the car are completely covered in frost.
Last year, Alex and I commuted together so he went out and started the car 5 minutes before we were going to leave, shoveled the snow off and scraped the windshield. He then waited at the window to make sure a sneaky little high school student on their way to school didn't steal our vehicle while it was warming up.
So now I've got to a) do that on my own - I am seriously dreading it or b) well there is no b.
Which in a nutshell means I need to get up at least 10 minutes earlier (boo!) and also know when I'm going to leave (usually it's an "ooops, it's 8:15 - better run!) and then have the patience to sit at the window and watch the car.
Bah.
The past 2 mornings I've come out of the house gone to get into my car and realized that I'm going to have to sit in my car for at least 5 minutes before I can actually go anywhere because every one of the my windows in the car are completely covered in frost.
Last year, Alex and I commuted together so he went out and started the car 5 minutes before we were going to leave, shoveled the snow off and scraped the windshield. He then waited at the window to make sure a sneaky little high school student on their way to school didn't steal our vehicle while it was warming up.
So now I've got to a) do that on my own - I am seriously dreading it or b) well there is no b.
Which in a nutshell means I need to get up at least 10 minutes earlier (boo!) and also know when I'm going to leave (usually it's an "ooops, it's 8:15 - better run!) and then have the patience to sit at the window and watch the car.
Bah.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)