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My Life Thus Far
2006-11-17 05:02:03 (UTC)

The Hair Fairy

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I've got a headache. I ordered chinese take-out from the
place down the hill, because all I've eaten today was
cookies. I shared a box of Animal crackers with Kiki for
breakfast, had a vegan cookie from the health food store
for lunch and now it's well past dinner time and I've got
a hungry headache.

Did I mention the opening of the family fitness center? I
don't think I did. Today was the grand opening of the
family fitness center on base. Even though I didn't need
to take Kiki to the gym with me today, the director of the
regular gym asked me if I would for photo ops and the
ribbon cutting. So, I did. Kiki and I will be in the
Navigator tomorrow! I'll be sure to get lots of copies of
it to send to family and friends and to save for Kiki, of
course. Anyhow, it's not extravagant, but it's definitely
better than nothing. They've got the second-hand equipment
from the main gym in there, but they sunk some money into
the children's area. Making separate enclosures for the
babies and the toddlers and even a workout area for kids 7-
10 years old. I'll take the girls on the weekends. I'll
instill a healthy lifestyle ethic in them.

Work was good. Today was day 4 of 5 and I'm feeling pretty
tired, but still LOVING my job. Which is the true test.
Credit was slow today. I only got two, but since everyone
else got zip, I'm still the favorite. We got assigned
lockers today and I got my own, because it was based on
seniority and frequency of shifts. I'm not a manager, but
I'm one of the few regular employees who got their own
locker. I'm so proud.

I did a good deed today. I'm going to play the hair fairy.
There's a girl at work who has hair just like mine. Only,
she's completely white and it's very blonde, but just as
curly. She's shared a few overlapping shifts with me and
every time she's mentioned how pretty my hair is and how
brave I am to wear it down. So, I got the brilliant idea
to buy her the products I use to wear mine down and
explain to her how to use them. I've got them in my locker
at work. The next time we work together, I'll give them to
her. Wasn't that nice of me?

I'm going to go now. Grey's Anatomy is on and I hate to
miss it! Ciao.




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