Good evening lambs!
Welcome to the other side of daylight savings time where pitch black occurs at 5pm sharp in SoCo. Can I tell you how crazy it is for me to be doing hair at 5pm, look out all the windows in my salon and feel like it's 9pm? Seriously. Scary shit.. I'm seriously always searching out the boogie man on the way home. (haha)
As I type this, I'm sipping a cup of coffee and am waiting for laundry to finishing drying. How glamorous! There's a business located on the bottom street level floor of my building and it recently changed hands this past Friday (three days ago). I was sitting at the bar eating a salmon salad and drinking some red wine when I met this guy earlier and four hours later as I was taking my laundry downstairs, I ran into this same man and he introduced himself as the new owner.... wowzers! When business goes up for grabs, it goes fast!
He told me, "I've seen you everywhere! You do hair right?"
-Yep
"you have ads all over... I mean everywhere."
-mmmhmmm
"I keep thinking I've seen you in a bunch of papers"
-I'm a writer. Have had a couple columns run simultaneously.
"That's right! Josh something... the Rockstar something."
-That's me. says I.
"Wow! I didn't know there was a celebrity living upstairs"
In my most "coy" way I reply, "yep... that would be me." LOL
Let me just tell you: I have been BUSY! Thank you baby Jesus! November is looking BLESSED at Rockstars + Lambs! Guest count is very high once again and we are getting ready for a toy drive, new casting call for interns and preparing room for new retail items just in time for the holidays!
As I woke yesterday morning, the announcement came from Joico that they are redoing all their styling products and repackaging their line for 2013. As you may have read last week, I am joining the team in January 2013and their official re-launch happens the same month!
For my favorite company and I to be going through so many transitions at the same time is serendipity. I keep saying that word knowing a great change is coming for all... and for the great good of my life and my family and clients.
My life has been so busy lately and as I try to describe to friends what it's like, I keep getting fucked up replies like "why?"
Why am I busy?
Because I choose to be.
I want to ask: "how come when I text YOU, I never get a reply back?"
I can answer that: Because they choose NOT to! I've been made to feel second best, once again. Maybe even third best. Good or a drink, not good enough to talk to or reply to.
My parents (who happen to be restaurant rockstars) are in Vegas this week and I am missing them greatly. They had reservations at Bobby Flay's restaurant tonight and as I text them, they didn't reply... much like the people I hold close to me.
For me, lambs, planning toy drives and ordering product is the tip of the iceberg. It's pretty evident that my endevours are important to ME. Reaching out doesn't matter. My sister and I have recently been talking more and my favorite person and best friend are there for me no matter what. It just gets lonely...
Vague answers from people that once seemed so close just seem like short uninterested responses from vague uninteresting people.
Sometimes I wonder if my journey to Napa in January is showing me that we are all changing. As 2012 ends and 2013 begins, I begin to wonder...
Will I enter the year with as many people in my address book as I have now?
I'm thinking not. The end of many of my connections is near. It's not 2012 that's ending, it's the thread of friendships I see drifting away.
xox,
Josh
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