Woot! I just finished up all my tax stuff, too. Things will be tight for me, personally, but all will be well. (Other half doing well... hate him.)

Now... time to go watch some random movie and enjoy the rest of this weekend.

Oh, and I will be out in California for about a week instead of the half-a-week I'd estimated earlier - Sooo... I will have a lot of people to see. I'm so excited!

Signed,

Missing her Cali friends

I'm having fun in Vegas - I just saw an AWESOME pedestrian/taxicab incident that ended with a cabbie and pedestrian both in cuffs, and a K9 officer helped, too.

Today was a very nice day. Nickolas did seem to get a bit bored towards the end of the tour, but asked if we could go back to take a different tour. After Hearst, we ended up in Cayucous. We got there when the tide was just coming back in. He played with hermit crabs in the tidal pools and then had a blast playing in the waves. We ended our day with a late lunch/early dinner in Morro Bay. He then surprised me by NOT sleeping on the ride home and did his best to drive me insane. Traffic wasn't too bad, although we did watch a few people trying to show us why Highway 46 is also known as Blood Alley.

Morro Bay amuses me. When we got there it was around 2pm. There was very little parking to be had. When we left around 3:30 there was parking everywhere. That town really does roll up their sidewalks by the late afternoon.

The weather was wonderful. The entire day was exactly what I needed.

Be carfull there, you don't want to handicap your team now...

Good luck!!

Still have taxes to do, and I need to remember to call in for Jury Duty tomorrow to see if I serve on Monday

Stress: the emotion that results from not kicking the ever-lovin cr@p out of someone who sorely deserves it.

In other news... the park was busy tonight.

I had a similar day- very busy, and I wanted to beat my head against a concrete floor in frustration after dealing with a very high-maintenance client that I am about to fire. She's a friend, or was, but she stresses me out more than words can say as a client and I think today I finally hit the wall. Here's a small example of our conversation:

Me: You want a change of color, but you keep changing your mind about what color. First it's auburn, then strawberry blonde, then that's too red and maybe it's golden tones that you're thinking of.....I need some guidance here. Clip out some pics and bring them in to me so I can get an idea of what your trying to verbalize.

Client/friend: Well, maybe you could pick out some colors for me and tell me what I want.

Me: We tried that on Thursday, for two hours. Myself and a team of other stylists could not figure out what you wanted, and I told you that I wasn't comfortable proceeding until you stopped giving me conflicting information and settled on something that I could go on. You were the one who insisted I do something, so I went ahead with a semi-permanent golden blonde. Now you think that's too dark, yet the first color you said you wanted was permanent auburn, which is red-brown and stays until you cut it out. Good thing I didn't do that, eh?

C/f: Well, I think I'd almost prefer that to this color- it's too dark.

(Sound of me banging my head on the desk)

Me: Uhm, you do realize that auburn is about 4 levels darker than what you now have, don't you? Well, fine- come in and I'll just slap some of that on then.

C/f: Well, I don't want to do that if you can't take it out if I don't like it. ....



.....and the conversation went on for a frustratingly long 20 minutes until I got so irritated I told her she was responsible for her own homework and I would be very happy to do whatever the **** she wanted, provided she figured out what that was. What she really wants is to be 20 years younger and there's not a lot I can do about that. My co-workers all say that no friend would be such a consistent PITA and that I should tell her to go elsewhere, but I just don't have the heart to- yet, anyway. Maybe I'll get lucky and she'll go elsewhere- I told her I was booked solid for quite some time (true) so she may move on to someone else.

Anybody want Jello shots?

Thanks NA!

And while we are in the giving mood, anyone want a working gas clothes dryer?

And for all of those in So. Cal. suffering from the 90-95* heat, you can blame it on MousePlanet. They are holding their simi-annual MouseAdventure today and that almost always spikes the temps! ;)

The highs next weekend, low 60s......