It’s Channukah! The time of year where I can eat fried foods because I’m supposed to, then gift myself with 8 pressies and feel entirely justified (for the pressies – the food just makes me feel ill).
Here’s what I’ve given myself so far:
Eyebrow shaping at Gee Beauty
Silk sleepmask from Gee beauty
Blowdry
New perfume
Another new perfume (I found the other one i liked at WINNERS!)
Pedicure
TBD
Looking for ideas for the last one. Thinking of a flour sifter. Uber exciting.
I was happy to pay $10 more to come to you instead of my normal dealer to get my snow tires put on because you are so close to my office and will drop me off. Then your service dude quoted me a price $20 more than what I was told on the phone yesterday. I got him to match the quoted price.
Then he told me I needed my tires Aligned at the cost of $100. I asked if I needed to have the alignment done. He said yes (without even checking my car). I told him I’d go elsewhere, at which point he offered to charge me half of the cost for the alignment. No thanks. I’ll take my car to my normal place.
It was only then that he said I didn’t have to get the alignment. Wasn’t that what I had asked in the first place? Sigh.
I might not know much about cars, but I’m not an idiot. And I definitely don’t like being lied to.
Love,
jenn
P.S. It took more than an hour from when I dropped off my car to arriving at my office (a 5min drive away) so next time I’ll think extra hard about whether the time I save is worth the aggravation of being lied to!
Hailey Hacks is an innovative project by Jill Golick which is a series of web videos that show 8-13 year olds all kinds of cool things they can do with their computers. Like how to make your own lolcats
Now that my birthday is done and folks have stopped asking what I want, of course I have come up with a bunch of items that i kinda sorta wish I had thought of before. Not to worry – Hailey is to the rescue with her latest video on how to use Wish Lists! So with Hailey’s help I’ll get a head start for next year — or maybe the Channukah fairy will stop by my Menorah!
I know there are many reasons to be mad at the TTC. But right now I am particularly frustrated by one – the fact that the token machines won’t take a bill.
I can’t buy tokens from a collector. And unless I have change ($2.75 in quarters, toonies and loonies) I can’t get one from a token machine. Which means that unless I have change I can’t go to my favourite subway entrance as there’s no collector on duty. And I can’t buy a bunch of tokens at once so every time I go to the subway I have to go through the same exercise.