Tuesday . June 03 . 2003 . 8:36pm aggro Have you ever been in the middle of getting a haircut when you realize the hairdresser is just doing the shoddiest job ever? Like not even cutting in an organized way, section by section, rather just grabbing random chunks of hair and hacking at them, machete style? I could have gotten a better haircut by Flowbee. And by the time I noticed what a hack job (heh) she was doing to my hair, she had already cut half of it, so what was I to do? Tell her to stop and have half of a fluffed out 80's power ballad 'do on my head? Also, I didn't have the energy to protest. I wear my hair up almost all the time anyway, so unless it's really short, my hair looks no different regardless of haircut. But I'm definitely not going to stick with her for the color job. HAIRDRESSER You want to get your highlights touched up? MICHELLE Nah. I'm kind of bored of them anyway, so I'll just probably just grow them out or just dye them back to their regular color. HAIRDRESSER I think you should touch them up. And get some highlights and lowlights. I could do it for you. I'm just learning how, so I need the practice. MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE Wow, what a great sales pitch. MICHELLE No thanks, not today. I'm kind of in a rush. HAIRDRESSER I could do it really fast! MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE Just what I need. Yeah, could you just slap on a bunch of highlights real fast? Just anywhere. I'm in a rush. MICHELLE No thanks. Maybe some other time. HAIRDRESSER You should do it. It would really make your face look less tired. MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE You die now. * * * It seems like today was just the day of annoying encounters. We had to bring The Coop back to the vet, because she's still having incontinence issues. If you didn't hear the earlier part of the story, she's basically started dribbling pee while she's asleep. She's not doing it on purpose, and she's not having accidents in the classical sense of taking a big pee in the middle of the floor. It's just that oftentimes now, when she gets up from resting or sleeping, she'll have a big wet patch over her butt and back legs. We've been going through a lot of paper towels around here. The vet initially assumed UTI and gave her an antibiotic shot, but it really didn't help that much. Joe and I are becoming more and more convinced that she has "spaying incontinence," but our vet seems more intent on prescribing more and more expensive tests and treatments for her that really aren't helping the problem. First, he wanted to give her two additional weeks of antibiotics, even though her urine dip today was completely negative and I'm almost certain that the urinalysis will come back negative tomorrow too. Dude, I could have told you she didn't have a UTI just from looking at the urine. His charge for giving me the same information? $92. Then he suggested that we have her estrogen levels checked. Hello, she's SPAYED, of course she's going to have low estrogen. What's that going to prove? Also, he suggested that "if her estrogen levels are low" (um...if?) that he would put her on hormone replacement therapy, which is not only expensive, harmful in the long term, and not at all the first-line treatment for spay incontinence (I believe phenylproanolamine is), but it would make our dog start to menstruate. Uh, we have enough problems, thanks. But then the real kicker was this. VET Have you considered the possibility that your dog simply isn't housebroken? MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE You die now. We're switching vets tomorrow. We have an appointment for 11:30 with a new clinic, and we're hoping that they'll at least be a little more critical with their thought process instead of just suggesting medications and tests willy-nilly. Man, what a racket to be a vet. Almost no one has health insurance for their animals, so everyone pays out of pocket. Between the spa, the vet bills, and the guilt presents, I think we've spent more money on Cooper this month than we've spent on ourselves. * * * Now let me think of something not aggravating to talk about. Oh, yes. This just shows how pathetically suggestible I am, but after a few days of seeing how much fun Joe was having with his new Pocket PC, I decided to get one too. No, wait, hear me out. I was considering getting an MP3 player even before, but when I saw how cool the Pocket PC was and how relatively inexpensive they were getting, I decided, why not just get a Pocket PC and play MP3s off of that? (See how I rationalize my purchase.) I decided to get this one from Dell because they're offering 10% off and free delivery, and everyone says good things about this unit. In fact, the only bad thing that I've heard is the it's a tad bigger than, let's say, a Palm Pilot, but since I'm a lady and I don't usually have pockets in my work clothes anyway, there's no real need for my Pocket PC to be truly pocketable. Yay! New toy! This more than makes up for our pee-soaked house and my new bad haircut. xo Michelle |
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Tuesday . June 03 . 2003 . 8:36pm aggro Have you ever been in the middle of getting a haircut when you realize the hairdresser is just doing the shoddiest job ever? Like not even cutting in an organized way, section by section, rather just grabbing random chunks of hair and hacking at them, machete style? I could have gotten a better haircut by Flowbee. And by the time I noticed what a hack job (heh) she was doing to my hair, she had already cut half of it, so what was I to do? Tell her to stop and have half of a fluffed out 80's power ballad 'do on my head? Also, I didn't have the energy to protest. I wear my hair up almost all the time anyway, so unless it's really short, my hair looks no different regardless of haircut. But I'm definitely not going to stick with her for the color job. HAIRDRESSER You want to get your highlights touched up? MICHELLE Nah. I'm kind of bored of them anyway, so I'll just probably just grow them out or just dye them back to their regular color. HAIRDRESSER I think you should touch them up. And get some highlights and lowlights. I could do it for you. I'm just learning how, so I need the practice. MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE Wow, what a great sales pitch. MICHELLE No thanks, not today. I'm kind of in a rush. HAIRDRESSER I could do it really fast! MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE Just what I need. Yeah, could you just slap on a bunch of highlights real fast? Just anywhere. I'm in a rush. MICHELLE No thanks. Maybe some other time. HAIRDRESSER You should do it. It would really make your face look less tired. MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE You die now. * * * It seems like today was just the day of annoying encounters. We had to bring The Coop back to the vet, because she's still having incontinence issues. If you didn't hear the earlier part of the story, she's basically started dribbling pee while she's asleep. She's not doing it on purpose, and she's not having accidents in the classical sense of taking a big pee in the middle of the floor. It's just that oftentimes now, when she gets up from resting or sleeping, she'll have a big wet patch over her butt and back legs. We've been going through a lot of paper towels around here. The vet initially assumed UTI and gave her an antibiotic shot, but it really didn't help that much. Joe and I are becoming more and more convinced that she has "spaying incontinence," but our vet seems more intent on prescribing more and more expensive tests and treatments for her that really aren't helping the problem. First, he wanted to give her two additional weeks of antibiotics, even though her urine dip today was completely negative and I'm almost certain that the urinalysis will come back negative tomorrow too. Dude, I could have told you she didn't have a UTI just from looking at the urine. His charge for giving me the same information? $92. Then he suggested that we have her estrogen levels checked. Hello, she's SPAYED, of course she's going to have low estrogen. What's that going to prove? Also, he suggested that "if her estrogen levels are low" (um...if?) that he would put her on hormone replacement therapy, which is not only expensive, harmful in the long term, and not at all the first-line treatment for spay incontinence (I believe phenylproanolamine is), but it would make our dog start to menstruate. Uh, we have enough problems, thanks. But then the real kicker was this. VET Have you considered the possibility that your dog simply isn't housebroken? MICHELLE'S INNER MONOLOGUE You die now. We're switching vets tomorrow. We have an appointment for 11:30 with a new clinic, and we're hoping that they'll at least be a little more critical with their thought process instead of just suggesting medications and tests willy-nilly. Man, what a racket to be a vet. Almost no one has health insurance for their animals, so everyone pays out of pocket. Between the spa, the vet bills, and the guilt presents, I think we've spent more money on Cooper this month than we've spent on ourselves. * * * Now let me think of something not aggravating to talk about. Oh, yes. This just shows how pathetically suggestible I am, but after a few days of seeing how much fun Joe was having with his new Pocket PC, I decided to get one too. No, wait, hear me out. I was considering getting an MP3 player even before, but when I saw how cool the Pocket PC was and how relatively inexpensive they were getting, I decided, why not just get a Pocket PC and play MP3s off of that? (See how I rationalize my purchase.) I decided to get this one from Dell because they're offering 10% off and free delivery, and everyone says good things about this unit. In fact, the only bad thing that I've heard is the it's a tad bigger than, let's say, a Palm Pilot, but since I'm a lady and I don't usually have pockets in my work clothes anyway, there's no real need for my Pocket PC to be truly pocketable. Yay! New toy! This more than makes up for our pee-soaked house and my new bad haircut. xo Michelle |
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