Guess What You're Getting for Christmas...

So Thursday was a weird and wonderful day.  Work was blegh as usual, but after work I went to get my hair cut.  She was running late (as usual) so while I waited I wandered the mall helping people pick out shoes and having conversations with hip old ladies in teal suede boot/sandals over the sale racks (why yes, sale racks ARE dangerous...).

When I got back to the salon she still wasn't ready for me so I watched two other stylists try to talk a woman out of a perm.  They were unsuccessful.  I didn't see the aftermath, but I'm sure it was a bloodbath.  Wailing and gnashing and tearing of sackcloth and all that. 

An hour after my scheduled appointment she was finally ready for me -- come to find out their entire credit/debit card system had gone down and the files were having to be rebuilt.  I knew she hadn't had a smoke break and because I'm nice (and because I didn't want her stressed out AND noccotine deprived with sharp objects near my face) we went out for a smoke break and I really got to know what she thought of things...whoohoo!

So, because I had to wait so long and she couldn't take my money right then anyway she gave me the haircut for free!  Totally worth the wait -- I saved myself $50!  They actually charge more for long hair, which I don't understand since long or short when you're just getting a trim it's the same amount of work.  I digress.

Then when I went to the grocery store the lady in the produce department sold me a whole box of peaches for $15!  It felt a little like a black market deal, "Excuse me, what are you going to do with those peaches?"  "Uh, I'm going to eat them like apples..."  "What if I told you I could sell you these peaches AND a whole mess like them for $15."  "Sold!"  She wasn't wearing a trench coat, but I still felt a little dirty.  And the "whole mess" part IS a direct quote.

So tomorrow I'm going over to Tamara's and we're making jam.  Woohoo!  I gotta get jars and such tomorrow after church.  My apartment smells like peaches -- it's pretty great.  Pictures and details to follow.