No, this post isn't about a white kitten, as the title may hint towards... it's just that am sitting here at work, it's dark out, and I am on 'leper island' again at the reception desk because everyone is busy and not visiting ME. How rude! Ya, ya... it's good that they are all busy, I know. But what about me?! What about MY needs?! Someone should give them the memo that I am a needy, high maintenace person! Actually I'm not, I'm just lonely, so I thought I would write a little fluffy post to reach out and say HELLO INTERNETZ LAND!

I got in to work at 2pm today, and found a nice, bustling and busy salon. I love it when that happens. The only thing that would have made my day even more was if we were playing Christmas tunes. Don't hate! It IS December so I'm allowed to want such things! I'm going to have to hijack the Mp3 player and hide a bunch of Christmas songs on it that will come on randomly. Music sabotage for the win! (Even though it's totally NOT sabotage, it's making it BETTER!)

I am working on extra large cup number TWO of Tim Hortens coffee. I'm badass like that... doesn't even effect me *twitches*...*convulses*... really.

I'm pretty excited about the fact we are doing 12 Days of Christmas at Roots soon, actually it's starting on the 12th! We are going to have 12 days of AWESOME sales and deals on products, services etc. It's actually bordering on epic... no jokes. Be sure to watch our Facebook page daily as that is where these things will be announced, and only those that mention it when they come in to the salon that day will get the deal!

Yeah, there is always a catch I know... but it's a pretty chill catch don't you think?

ALSO, don't forget to check here on Friday/Saturday for TWO Roots Personalities :) I will be featuring a boy and a girl stylist, not saying who! You'll have to check in for the goodies!

I'm probably going to edit this post when I get home and add some more pictures that I had taken last week, just for a sprinkle of funny and fabulous still life at the salon.

You can rest assured that I will be taking pictures at the staff Christmas party on Saturday. I'm sure I will get some Lindsy Lohan-esque shots of people 'Lohanninig' out after too much to drink.

Kind of like this photo below:



And a bit like this one too:



But HOPEFULLY not like this one! YIKES!



Now look at the top two (not the third, please god no), and put one of our faces over her face, and that's what you will probably end up seeing on Sunday!

PS: Mike just said this to his client...

'Be good, and if you can't be good, be careful... and if you can't be careful name it after me!'

I love my job hahaha.

I'll be doing a new 'Sadie's Stumbles' tonight as well once I get home from work. I feel a long night of internet surfing coming on, and I'll share the gems with you guys :) ( EDIT: Instead of internet surfing I spent time with my mom. You can't hold THAT against me! Stumbles tomorrow instead! )

ALSO, only recieved one comment on my 'please leave me feedback' begging post, so if you have some time and have an opinion on the blog do post it there. I'll give you some chocolate, cookies and a free hug. I'm a good hugger... I should charge for my hugs they are that good!

Ta ta beautiful people!

Thank you for calling,
♥Sadie

HELLO OMG HI HI! HEY! HELLO!

What's crackalakin guys? I didn't write to you beautiful people yesterday because it was a day off in Sadie land. I spent the entire day NOT being lazy. It's shocking, I know, but I actually went out and did stuff. I have to admit I stopped by work twice though, and hung out for a bit both times. Is that a bad sign? Should I be joining some sort of 'I love my job too much' support group? I have heard people asking 'what's wrong with you?!' when people go in and hang out at work on their days off before, and I have to admit I agreed with that question. However, now that I am in that boat, the one that docks at work a few times on it's day off, I don't see what is wrong with it.

Denial? or...

I had to bring the video camera in because Michael called me DEMANDING it. Seriously, he was like 'if you don't bring it in, I'm going to fire you and give horrible references to any future employer that you try to get to hire you. Bring the camera right NOW!'... ok he didn't say that, but he probably thought it (didn't you Mike!? haha). He wanted it because we had our model fittings and test runs for the photo shoot on Sunday. I am SUPER excited about the shoot by the way! Anyways, I wasn't able to stay for the trial run night as I had other lifey things to go dabble in, however apparently it was super fun!

I haven't seen the footage that was taken yet, so I have none on me to update with, but I'll work on collecting everything and showing you guys (and me!) what went down. Apparently one of our models was sent home from work because of her hair color (pink!) and she had to come back to the salon and borrow Ida-Marie's black halloween wig! Too funny, but on the other hand, how horrible! What is with all the pink hair haters!? Having pink in your hair shows a lot about who you are, and mainly it screams 'I am a fun and daring person that you want to know!'. Apparently some people hate awesome people? I don't know, but it's just silliness.

Thankfully Ida-Marie saved the day yet again!

I would post pictures from my shift today but a sneaky Anthony has kidnapped my camera and is holding it hostage somewhere over at his station... or in his pockets... or in a secret government lab somewhere. I am sure he will release it sometime before the end of our shifts, but if not, I will have to break out my inner ninja, scale his building, sneak in to his appartment and kidnap it back!

If I plan on going 'ninja-ing' tonight, I better lose this feeling in my belly. I just ate the world's largest chili and cheese hotdog, compliments of Annierose who was lovely and bought it for me before she left work today. It feels like I just ate an entire Thanksgiving dinner, I'm that full! I can't see the building scaling working out too well when I'm stuffed full and feeling like a sloth.

OH! And I still have to do my stumbles, sorry about the delay!

I'm going to go and see what kind of trouble I can get in to... maybe I'll throw stuff at Mike over the wall. Refer to latest Twitpic to see the wall I am referencing... it would be perfect for projectile pen missiles!!

Blog ya later!

Thank you for calling!
♥Sadie

So I totally had a bunch of photos I wanted to put in this post, but lo and behold my computer has decided to throw a temper tantrum and quit recognizing my camera, ergo, no photos today! I shall scold, punish and threaten my computer within an inch of its life tomorrow, then send it to the corner for ten minutes to think about what it has done, and after that we should be good to go for photos! Sorry folks, apparently computers can get hormonal too!

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe

I have something fantastic that I am going to post on Friday. Remember when I said I was going to start profiling one staff member per week? Well this is the week it starts! We have a new recruit amongst us, and his name is Jared. He is apprenticing with Roots to become a hair stylist extraordinaire! We only produce the best don't'cha know! So far he has done a lot of cleaning up behind us and getting our lunches, the poor thing. It sounds like we practice the whole college hazing thing with our new staff doesn't it? It's not true I swear! We don't give him wedgies or make him streak down 5th street naked in the snow... yet.. *cough*... I mean, no, we would neeeeeever do that!

But in all seriousness, he's going to be a great stylist, we can tell already! And that is why I have chosen him to be my first to profile :) Stay tuned for that Friday at some point, probably after dinner time. You can all get to know him a little better and start booking your appointments now, because once he hits the floor I'm sure he'll be a popular lad!

OH! And I've been struggling with my computer (yeah, yeah... more compie struggles I'm afraid) to get a nice chunk of video edited and tied together in a nifty little package for you all. (Pro Tip: Never get in to editing video with a PC. Always go MAC) I -hope- to have that up sometime very soon, maybe within the week, hoorah!

We have a reception meeting at 8am on Friday. I am not sure how productive my brain will be that early in the day though. I've never been known to function at full capacity that early on in the day, but maybe I can communicate through a series of grunts, hand gestures and eye movement (reminiscent of REM sleep perhaps?) and get my ideas across. Wish me luck! And wish those I will be in the meeting with luck as well, they will need it to intemperate my somewhat primitive form of morning communication.

That's it for today. Just a quick update on the good things to come, and an apology for my bratty computer!

Oh... and I also have a very silly video of Michael that involves booty shaking and dancing... that is coming soon too. I know, I know, you can't wait! Neither can I!

I leave you with a cell phone photo of Annierose trying to eat and/or murder Anthony. She isn't normally this homicidal I promise, just stay on her good side and you will be ok!

And remember, here at Roots we would 'curl up and dye for you'.... oh snap, bad joke for the win!

*blows kiss*

Thank you for calling!

♥Sadie

I think Thursday is not feeling well. It's sulky, drizzly and in a dark mood. I tried to talk to it to make it feel better, you know, perk it up and maybe get it a bit brighter, but nooooooo. Thursday is just being a cranky cranky day!

I, however, am NOT cranky! I am in a fantastic mood whilst sitting out here in the be-au-tiful Comox location. I was lucky enough to catch Annierose for an hour before her shift was over. She's a total cutie and she's mine! No touchie! Her hubby would beg to differ, but that's ok, I can take him!

I have added a Flickr Photostream over yonder to the left *points* I'll be uploading more and more photos to it, so be sure to stalk it because I wont always post them to the bloggie. If I did this blog would turn in to a photo stream itself! I've got sooooooooooooo *deep breath* ooooooooooo *gasp* oooooooooo many photos!

We have an awesome promotion this month here at ye ol' Roots the Salon! I might have to partake in said promotion myself! You spend $79.95 and you get to pick 3 services from a very generous little menu that the lovely Ida-Marie concocted from her fabulous and creative brain! It's a crazy buffet of self pampering deliciousness that should not be missed! I think it would make a spiffy birthday gift for someone... do I know anyone who has a birthday in November? Hmmmm... too bad I have such a ridiculously horrid memory. Time to break out my notebook, also know as my personal memory assistant.

Today marks our fire anniversary, in other words, today is the anniversary of the day a really mean and scary fire threw a tantrum and destroyed our salon. But, today, we are proof that the mystical bird called the Phoenix does exist in some way or another. For us, it exists in spirit, as we too, rose from the ashes in more ways than one.


On October 28th/2008 at 5:00am, a suspicious fire was started in the recycle bin at the back of the building, and then continued to rage its way in to our salon, scorching and burning everything inside, and making the roof collapse in to the back of the salon.

Despite all of the smoke and really bad smells, there were some laughs though! We had mannequin heads stored up in in the back of the salon which, due to the ceiling being on fire, decided to fall down and land in the sinks, and some were hanging from the remnants of the ceiling here and there. The poor Fireman had to walk in to a very dim and smokey building after the flames were gone, and see these eerie heads strewn about. They were not warned of the heads of course, because having plastic heads around is quite normal for us *wink*

One of the Firemen kept one of the heads as a souvenir and drove around with it in his truck until he was asked to return it. Further proof that positive attitudes and helping hands can make the best of any situation.

Despite finding humor in things, this fire definitely did take it's toll on the business, especially the few months directly following the fire. It was a huge stress on everyone trying to find somewhere to continue being available for our clients. Nobody wanted to be put out, as it would put our clients out, and that's just not something we are ok with!

Thanks to the HUGE support shown to us from fellow Comox Valleyites such as Leanne Boyd from Level 10 Eurospa, Dianne McPherson from Cockeye'd Optical, Karen McKinnon (to name a few) we were offered space to cut hair, places to hold meetings and so forth. However our epic rise from the ashes had a lot to do with Aimee Harrison of Salon Pure in Comox, who so heroicly offered to share her space with us until we could get back on our feet!

Months of squishing together and surviving the crisis past for the stylists. Some of our stylists had to become athletes just to get to and from work every morning. Anthony, for example, had to ride his bike from his place all the way to comox and back every day. However, he looks fabulous doesn't he?! See, something good always, ALWAYS, comes from something bad.

It has been two years since it happened, and to walk in here you would never ever know. What Ida-marie and Michael have done to rebuild this place is awe inspiring. It's bloody brilliant actually, and from what I hear, we are busier than ever. I'm personally stoked about the reception desk having deep red stone like surfaces with shiny parts. It's sexy, and I get to stare at it all day!


But seriously, it's amazing, and I did not work here then, but I remember what it used to look like, and I remember how many staff we had back then, and I've heard so many comparison stories... let me tell you, we are, well, let me allow Daft Punk to say it best; 'Harder, better, faster, stronger'

To top it all off, we even had a few very brave people stay behind and remain in Comox to push through and make our Roots mark there. Thanks to them, our Comox location is starting to really take off, so we're so grateful they flexed their muscles and braved that storm for us!


So I suppose in sum it would seem that we should thank the fire, but that would be very misplaced thanks. All thanks, all claps and highfives, should go to every single person that helped this fabulous business survive, and to those that nurtured it to be a bigger and better place overall.

Here is to another billion years! (I'm serious, one billion. Don't argue with me!)

PS: Fire sale at Roots tomorrow! All Roots brand products are on sale for 50% off! Come in and get 'yers'!

Thank you for calling,
♥Sadie