Thursday, November 16, 2006
I have a dog that snores…........ and other random thoughts
I have a dog that snores. The little furballs (they aren’t really ‘little’, they weigh around 40lbs) sleep in their crate sort of kitty corner, behind me when I sit at the computer. One of them snores!! She sounds like a human - I swear. If you didn’t know that there was a dog there you would be looking for a person. If she has been around something that she is allergic to, she snores almost as deeply as sweet hubby and also wheezes. Totally freaked me out the first time that I heard it.
The other day while driving sweet hubby around to an appointment I said, “The Me Generation is alive and well on Long Island. And is more than one generation big.“ Perhaps not the best use of English, but it got the point across. He told me that it sounded like I was writing a blog.
When I came home I did start a blog with that as the title, but it got so damn depressing that I deleted it. I really hate thinking that I am living somewhere that people do not know how to neighbor (it is really getting to be a lost art folks!), think that no matter what the situation that they are the ONLY one around who has somewhere to go, things to do and that entitles them to push their way to the front of every situation. (People wonder why I don’t like to go out much nor care much to go shopping around here) It also shows in how they drive, how they act, how they talk - yech!!!
I got my hair done this last weekend. I have a perm and the top was going flat so the lady who cuts my hair here (and honey she ain’t cheap) said to find out what size rollers the lady who cuts my hair in MI (better service, better stylist, better price) uses and she would also give me a ‘partial perm’ just like I can get in MI. Oh yeah!! I am so looking forward to the end of flat top hair. I have my MI stylist give me the info, I bring it with me, I am happy. I should know that it won’t be done right - but I try to give her the benefit of the doubt. First, they don’t have the perm solution that has been used on me with great success; then I get an argument about the size of the perm rod.
I tell her that we use white on top because I don’t want to look like a poodle when I am done. She plays with my hair a bit and then says, “Yeah, but I think that I will use grey.“ (For those of you who don’t have any experience with perms, white makes a bigger curl than grey) I say, “I don’t want grey used, I want white.“ She comes back with “as much as you are spending for this perm, you want something that will last. I’m using grey.“
So there I sit getting the rods put in my hair and fuming. The perm solution goes on, and under the dryer I go. Time is up and out I come so that they can check the curl. The perm is not working well on my hair; it is not giving a good curl. It gets left on a bit longer. They rinsed the hair and then put on the solution to neutralize the perm solution and I sat with the rods still in my hair. Rods come out, hair is rinsed, trimmed and blown dry.
I make a comment that it is awfully curly. “Oh, that will loosen up in a week or so.“
So far it hasn’t loosened up and I look like a frizzy poodle on top. The rest of my old perm is still on the sides and has nice curls.
For all of that I paid more than I paid to have a full perm done in MI. (Oh, just another reason I can’t wait to move back!!)
