March 14, 2012

• Aloha

  On the phone with a hotel trying to book a room and the automated system just said "Please speak naturally.." As opposed to what? "Machine"?!?

  Then I received a call on my cell:
  lady: "It shows here that you are a diabetic. Is that correct?"
  me: "no, it isn't. I am not"
  her: "Oh, I am so sorry sweetie" *hangs up*

  So sorry i'm not a diabetic? Pshaw. I'm not. LOL. Yeah yeah, she meant for bothering me I'm sure.. unfortunately she was gone before I could ask her to remove me from the list.

  Did ya'll see that the Gentle Giant on American Idol isn't quite so gentle after all?  Tonight is my favorite night of TV.. Survivor and The Challenge. I still need to decide on whether to stick with the multi-room DVR setup or whether to switch over to having 2 separate DVR boxes (for about $10 less a month). Hrmm, choices choices. The less $ part makes it appealing for sure but I do like just taping stuff in one place. 

  In other news, I can report that I like the gel manicure. I went through a bit of hell to get it--but do think that in the end it was worth it. On Saturday a friend and I went to the nail place that I always go to. She was getting her legs waxed and a mani and I only wanted a mani but figured that the color gel mani would take longer so I'd try that. The girl who did the mani clearly was nervous and didn't seem to quite know what she was doing. The mani looked like a mess.. i had polish all over my cuticles and it looked kind of lumpy. She had my stick my hand in the drying machine and I could see the nail polish just sort of shrivel up. I showed her and she reapplied another coat and instructed me to hold my hand a certain way. It happened again and she again just sorta lathered on another coat. Because she was so nervous and therefore also shaky I felt bad getting on her case about it but she was making such a mess of things. Finally I suggested she ask someone...  and boy oh boy.. the assistant manager came over and was in shock saying things like "what did you do?" and "this is so bad" and "if you didn't know how to do it, ask!". So, the whole thing had to come off which kind of hurt since she'd also managed to irriate my cuticles by digging her nail in there to clean up the excess polish and whatever my hands were soaking in to get the gel stuff off was a bit stingy. In the mean time my friend was done with her waxing and manicure and so I let them know to take it off but that I could not sit to have it re-done. They wanted to just put a regular color on but we agreed i'd come back the next day for the gel mani and to not bother with anything else then. When I did go back on Sunday, the manager girl had to spend about 45 minutes trying to clean off the crap from the day before before she could begin the color gel mani. However, thankfully it turned out really well in the end and now, 3 days later it still looks pristine. It is supposed to last 2 weeks or so. We'll see when it comes off what kind of damage this does to my nails I guess but for now, me likey.  Note to self? Never let that girl Ellie near my nails ever again. 

  I posted this on FB too but I just love it so much:

  Also, this story really made me smile. Happy hump day, y'all.

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