Still awake

Yesterday was a day of socialising - I was like the fish in water (that's the Swedish proverb - I'm sure there is a corresponding one in english I don't know about - yet). It just means I really enjoyed it, it fit me perfect. But with that socialising, I consumed caffein in abundance. I reached what is an overdose for someone as sensitive as me. I had a half-cup at noon, half a diet coke at 3 pm, and 1.5 cups of coffe between 4.30 and 6pm. And what can I say, obviously I'm still awake, so I guess that qualifies as an overdose. Even the cat's asleep. But me, along with the other fish in the water (i.e. in my tank) we're still awake. I wonder when fish sleep. I'll just avoid getting into that.

I'm so excited. I've met a wonderful woman, who has rapidly become a role model and inspiration to me. Maria. She's a super-cool boxing chic, which recently has started getting more and more in touch with her feminine side - much like myself. She has not too long ago become a representative for Mary Kay products, and after having had two classes for her, I'm so inspired to do it myself. I love the social bit - meeting new fun people, and the way it has a potential to boost my self-esteem, and render me mounds appreciation. Not that I don't have this already, but one can never get too much!

I love the company idea and structure. It's very woman-oriented - started a few decades ago by the seemingly smart and driven woman Mary Kay Ash. It was started to help women, who often back then worked as house-wives, and might not get out so much. This was a way for them to earn some extra money, getting out meeting other women, but only using as much time as they could spare. Perhaps one or two nights a week, or maybe only once every fortnight. Much of the company profit goes to research on cancer-forms predominately affecting women, and also to organisations against home-violence. It has such a strong team-feeling between women working as individual Mary Kay representatives. By helping someone else, you help yourself. And by helping yourself forward, you help others too. In an ingenious way. And you can advance very far, work as much as you want with it and have time for, and you seem to get so much out of it. All the meetings with clients and other representatives for Mary Kay, education in various aspects of the work (the products, leadership, make-up-techniques etc.).

I'm super-excited about getting started, I have talked to friends and family about it, and for the past 2 hours laid out a very pretty (in my 5.37am-opinion at least) flyer to post and hand out whenever I go out to find clients for my very own skincare classes. I just can't wait! And as an extra bonus, this gives me a very good excuse to hang out much more with my new (as of less than 24 hours) mentor - supercool Maria!

And you who know me, knows exActly how skeptic I am for anything new, especially girly stuff, and still this is already a part of me. A given part, that I don't think I ever could or would get rid of completely.

Can you tell I'm excited? Can you tell I'm on caffein? Should I just not sleep tonight, and sleep more tomorrow night?