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

What is it they say? The early fish catches the bird? Or was it the worm catches the early fish? Or bird...ear..ly....fish...tree... oh hell, nevermind! It is EARLY! It's an early post for once. And not my usual 'post midnight' kind of early, but a true, honest to goodness MORNING post.

I'm a little in shock with myself right now, I'm not going to lie. This coffee of mine is mocking me quietly on the desk telling me I'm a blathering idiot and to stop what I'm doing and drinkkkkk moooooreee. I swear these Tim Hortons coffees should come with little 'drink me' notes just like the potions in Alice in Wonderland.

It is one dark and moody looking Monday, complete with complimentary rain. It's better than snow though right?! Right. Oh no... I just said snow. I have jinxed us all!

ROOTS STUFF! Yesterday was our annual Fun Razor, and this year we were raising money for Jenn. I wrote about in this here bloggie earlier in the month... well I am not sure about the exact amount that was raised, but I will update this post when I find out :) I wasn't able to make it here yesterday due to feeling extremely ill and trying to get stuff done inbetween laying down. I'm not asking for cheese to go with my whine, but I did want to be here for the event and for that, I'm whining.

I'm hoping everyone took pictures and have stories to share. I'm sure I'll hear more as the day rolls on!

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

*time warp*

It's 2 hours after I started writing this post. Time flies when people want to get beautified! It's great that it's busy today, that means lots of people are telling Monday where to shove it, and doing stuff they enjoy!

I have a bit of a 'photo dump' to do, so I'll start here and post a couple of my faves from the past week. One is of Anthony and his client thugging it out, and a couple more shots of her AMAZING hair!



The other is of the beautiful Annierose with mud and seaweed on her face... I know, I know. I was super impressed with her for letting me take this photo. Not only letting me, mind you, but actually telling April to come get me to take the photo. This girl knows me... I like the compromising shots *devil grin* Thanks babes, you're the best wifey ever!

I will be updating later tonight as well with my Stumbles, and then tomorrow with more photos and some updates on the Fun Razor! I also know who I am featuring this coming Friday for my second 'Roots Personalities'. I'm not going to tell you, it's MY secret, MINE! My precciiiouuussss! You only have to wait a few more days, suck it up princesses! :D

I just realized I've been writing this post for about 3.5 hours now, and that means I'm too busy to be writing, which means I should probably make like cars at a red light and just STOP.

(would you believe I came back an hour after writing that last sentence?... apparently I didn't stop and I got a ticket for running the red light. Le sigh.)

*screeches to a halt at the next set of lights and ends post*

Thank you for calling (talk to you later tonight shhhh...)!
♥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!

WARNING! WARNING! LARGE POST AHEAD! *tosses up caution signs everywhere*

This past weekend marked the passing of yet another Halloween in the world. Technically, it's Halloween right now, and it has not passed yet, but most of us celebrated this fine and freaky holiday yesterday! Roots celebrated it yesterday, as did 5th street! There were zombies, witches, vampires, weird things, batman(s), super marios, more weird things, more zombies, a few hairy beasts, the odd Cleopatra, gnomes, pirates and all sorts of scary and wonderful creatures walking around outside. some zombie makeup that Crystal applied in the morning. He got in big trouble when he wiped it all off though! Zombies... so undisciplined. Not only was he bad with taking all his makeup off, he also could not resist the urge to come steal some candy from the front desk. I caught him in action though! I guess the chocolate tasted a lot like braaaaaaaaainnnnnssss?

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

Today was a great day of plotting future goodness at ye ol Roots Salon with Ida, Staysea and Annierose. I only worked for a couple of hours due to a massive migraine that's been plaguing me for a few days. I think Andrew spiked my coffee at work hoping that I would stay away and not be able to report his shinnanigans. Or, perhaps it was Anthony trying to keep me away for a while until he gets the perfect hair style to rawk and feels 100% film star ready.

How-de-hooooo!

It's been a great night over here! I've been having an uplifting evening of sipping warm drinks and watching news footage of the Chilean miners being rescued. It's been so inspirational, emotional and... GOOD! News that makes you feel happy? Wait... WHAT? impossible! I am having a hard time going to bed because I am so captivated by the footage, and I don't want to miss seeing one more come up safe and alive.

The happy story of the miners seems to completely overshadow anything I have to say today, just because in light of mass rescues that are complete success stories, most things seem trivial. I know they are not all rescued yet, but I know they will be!

But you don't need my reporting on the issue, I'm sure most of you have been watching as well. It's all over the place, as it should be!

I do however have my own piece of epic news to report... my eyebrows are waxed! I finally had April tame those beasts. I made the mistake of tweezing my own about a month ago, and I did a horrible job! They looked like two very misshapen, very odd, very deformed caterpillars. I kid you not. This is not comedy central, I'm dead serious. Anthony did a fantastic job of recording the entire saga of this epic eyebrow transformation, and I will have it posted for you tomorrow. I am putting myself out there for ridicule, and for a visual lesson in why you should never, never, EVER, attack your own face with metal pinchers.

April is an eyebrow master. She takes those eyebrows, whoops their arses and makes them behave and sit like a lady! She sent my eyebrows to bootcamp and they came back very obedient!

I am very overtired at the moment. It's been a great day, with a slight sleepless night trailing behind it. The combination of the two, with a side of 10+ coffees, have left me extremely hyper and yet so very tired. It's an interesting contradiction, but going to sleep soon is probably for the best... maybe?

I do want to rest up because I am working at the Comox location first thing in the morning, and I don't want to have to greet our beautiful clients with the groggy eye! In case you were just wondering, groggy eye kind of looks like this...

That would be bad, amirite?

Oh, and in case you've noticed weird words with links in my blog, they all link to my 'Sadieisms dictionary'. What the hell is that you say? Well, I tend to make up words, or use two words, mutilate them horribly and then string them together to form a completely unintelligible word that scholars all over the world would wince at. However, being that I do it regardless of said wincing, I decided to put a little dictionary up for you to reference when you don't know what I am going on about. Enjoy or mock, no extra charge!

Click me - Sadieisms

One last thing before I drag my sorry self off to beddy bye land; I took some random photos today in the salon as well, and I will share one with you. It was one of my favorites from today, and is oozing with hotness. I will leave you with this photograph of miss Annierose, Andrew and April the Eyebrow Ninja!


I promise to post a much more detailed, and slightly more embarrassing post on the morrow. You have my word. WORD!

Thank you for calling!
♥Sadie

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there in e-land!

What are you all thankful for this year? I'm thankful for a lot of things, but mainly I'm thankful for my beautiful mommy Linda, and my loving boyfriend Bryden, and my awesome uncle George and aunty Betty. I'm also, and this goes without saying, thankful to the Huska family for having faith enough in me to hire me at Roots Salon, and for providing me with every opportunity to use my talents, and to vastly improve on them. I'm now, officially doing what I love, and I can never thank them enough for that.

One second please... I'm getting faklempt... *grabs tissues*

I hope you all have a safe and love stuffed (see what I did there?) turkey day folks! Eat lots, and remember, there is no better feeling than undoing the top button of your pants directly after eating a huge Thanksgiving dinner. I even suggest doing that and laying on the floor. Groaning optional... but highly recommended!

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

It was another stormy day today! Beautiful! I love it... but then I'm an October baby, so the more violent the storms get, the happier I am. Our clients braved the pounding rain and the tantrum throwing wind and still came in to get all dolled up. It's always cozy in the salon when it's nasty outside. Kind of gives it more of an intimate setting!

We had a lady come in today by the name of Joleen, who was last week's Roots Facebook FREEBIE Friday winner.

Pro Tip: Every Friday at Roots, we give away something splendiferous and awesome through our Facebook fan page. We randomly select one person from those who have 'liked' Roots, and drape them in gold!... or you know, haircuts, products, manicures and the like. I still say those things are as good as, if not better than, gold!

Back to Joleen!!


Last Friday she won a free makeup application and a free tube of our uber sexy lip gloss by Jane Iredale. She had something special to do tonight so she decided to come in and have Crystal-Lee make her look like a movie star!

She was super cool, and had no problems with me turning in to a shutter bug and snapping a couple of pictures of her pretty face!

Here is a before and after for your viewing pleasure! (Notice Anthony creepin' in the background pretending to be concerned with a client file when he really just wanted to cam whore! ... diva ♥ )


Pretty rad huh? I hope she had fun tonight, despite the INSANE wind outside... I seriously just heard it attempt to vandalize the windows in my house. WOW! :D

Much love to all of you, eat lots, be happy, have food fights, and I'll blog to you soon!

Thank you for calling!
♥Sadie

Hello to all of you out there in 'internetz' land!

I know it's been a while since the last update, but I absolutely promise you there is a very good reason behind that! I have been busy whipping up a new layout for this blog *gently pats it*

The layout you see before your very eyes consists of 2 parts vision, 1 part sweat, 3 parts headache, 5 parts sore eyes and 10 parts determination. It is the product of me rising from the ashes of web design, where I put myself to rest five years ago. It's a whole new world out there in graphic design/coding land, so it was especially interesting creating this out of a generally basic, and slightly archaic, knowledge of how these things work.

It's not 100% awesome yet... I still have a few tweaks and adjustments to make coding wise, so please, if something is broken for you, not aligned correctly, popping out at you and waggling it's tongue, do comment and let me know so I can fix it.

Other than the above, I've also been busy at the lovely salon I call my second home. We're all crazy and happy, save for a handful of us that have come down with some sort of plague, for lack of a dramatic tone, how about we use the term 'cold'.

Save for a pretty nasty flu (See: not a cold) that I had a couple of weeks ago, I'm doing ok and I don't seem to be coming down with it. A couple of my poor fellow receptionist gals, miss Annierose and Crystal-lee, have been stricken however.

Despite the germ army invading our staff, we're all slugging through it and working as usual.

I've been collecting video footage so I can put together a little bit of a goodie bag of hilarity for you all, so that is something to look forward to! I look forward to sharing it with you so you can see what I see on a daily basis!

I did, however, steal a nice little photo of our famed and loved Anthony Hepburn, sporting a rather stylish and in your face hairdo!

In other news, there is a buzz going around the salon these days. Something about an epic photo shoot! I have to remain tight lipped about it, but I promise, if I can leak something out to you... I will. Shhhhh, don't tell!

I'm going to run and play with this layout a bit more, but I just wanted to give a shout out to all of you and let you know that the proverbial ball is rolling! And hey, you can follow this blog using the 'follow' section over yonder to your left, and there is a handy little RSS feed icon to the left and slightly up a bit.

I fail at directions for the most part, so if you just got lost... I apologize.

Until next time my lovelies!

Thank you for calling,
♥Sadie