On A Roll (or 2 for 2)

I only discovered the joy of Brazilian waxes in the last year. And wow, what a difference a year makes. But... 5 out of 6 appointments have left me a little miffed. When I planned to do a little shopping after my appointment, I instead had to return home to clean up the wax residue.

Now I've never been shy of complaining about bad service to the person responsible but its a little more difficult if you consider doing it while naked from the waist down with the person who will probably be ripping your pubes out next visit. Well its time to make another appointment but I want a better experience so I email the manager to ask if it was normal to send clients out the door still sticky down below. (Hey for all I know maybe they charge extra if you want to leave clean.)

She promptly called me to say absolutely not and thanked me for bringing it to her attention instead of just looking for another spa. She then offered to give me a free appointment with one of her more tenured employees and asked me to speak with her afterwards so she could ensure I was happy with my appointment.

That made me extremely pleased as I would be saving close to $100 and I'm pretty sure getting superior treatment.

Later today I went to the gym with Big Princess and I worked her hard. Dripping sweat and close to vomitting she begged me to stop. I made a deal with her that if she got thru the complete last set of ab exercises, I'd buy her Krystal burgers on the way home. (Krystal burgers just opened and we've never had them before.) She was in and pushed it to the finish line.

We drive over to Krystal burgers and try to figure out how to order and what to order. They were extremely busy so we figured it would be good. We got our food about 20 minutes after we ordered and immediately took the burger out and took a bite. COLD. I hit the button for the carhop to come back but after 5 min. Big Princess said, "Let's just take them home and microwave them." Ok, I was tired of waiting too. We get home and not only are the burgers cold, my drink cup is leaking, we're missing little princess' macaroni bites and the fries are soggy, limp and undercooked.

Oh hell no! I called the store and asked for the manager. He listened while I explained all that was wrong with the order and then said, "Ma'am, thank you for bringing that to my attention. That is not acceptable and if you come back, at your convenience, I'll be happy to refund your whole order or replace it for free."

I like it when bad products or services are made right without me having to do more than calmly explain the problem.

All in the same day

Dinner $15

1 bar of rock soap $10

Getting little prince to leave the house and shower in the same day...

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How did we go from this to THIS?

Yesterday we finished at the dentist at 4:30 and I looked at little princess and said "So... what do you want to do now?"

"I don't know... get a car wash?"

"You wanna do something crazy?" I asked her slyly.

"That depends," she replied warily.

"We could grab our suits and go to the lake."

"Seriously..."

I'm rarely home before 6 pm and then there's dinner to make, mail to read, chores to do but today it was just me and little princess with a good four hours of day light to kill. We ran home and changed into our suits, grabbed towels, a cooler, sunscreen, and toobs, and were back on the road in under 15 minutes. We picked up soda and snacks and arrived at the lake in 45 minutes. There was only about 5 other families and plenty of room to spread out. We lounged in the lake and talked and laughed and told stories and teased each other while eating pringles and cookies in the water. The sun was warm on our faces and the water warm on our bodies. We packed it up around 8 pm hungry and happy. We picked up burgers and ate them on the sofa before getting ready for bed. I'm not sure about little princess but I sleep great. It was truly a great day together.

Then there was today. I got home close to 6 pm and immediately started fixing dinner. I wanted to go to the gym but it was already getting late so I thought "hey, little princess and I could do an exercise video together and spend some more quality time together."

I had her help me clear the living room and popped in the video. She said she didn't want to but then again she says that about almost everything. I told her I didn't care, we were doing it. We did the warm up exercises and I looked at her and she wasn't doing anything, just standing behind me. So I said, "Come on, put your hands on your hips" and she yelled "I'm NOT DOING THIS!" and stomped off to her room. I yelled back "Well, YOU CAN STAY THERE THEN."

I'm amazed how we went from connected and fun one day to yelling at each other the next.