Random Acts of Kindness

My stepfather sent me money to get new flooring, because my husband is in construction, it's very uncertain right now and our carpet is in really bad shape. Since we're going to lay hard flooring ourselves (pets) I might have enough left over for a new bed. ((hugs))

And I sent some bath and body products to one of the troops in Afghanistan through treatsfortroops.com, just got a thank you note back, she was thrilled. They have some nice things for men and women, including Burt's Bees. That made me feel really good.

Today I went to my hair stylist for a cut & color. I had decided I didn't want black hair anymore (after 8 months of dying it...my hair is really short so when she'd trim the sides & back my natural color would show through so i had to keep dying it). Instead, I wanted a deep brown with a red hue. Well to start off she bleached my hair to try to get all the black out that she could. OMG it looked so funny. My natural hair that had grown in was like a highlighter yellow color, & the black parts just faded a little. She put two colors in, one for my roots to darken them up, & one on the rest of my hair to give it the brown with reddish hue. It turned out AWFUL. My natural color had now turned a copper color & the rest of my hair basically stayed the same. She had to go to a party with her sister, but said that she'd come back in a couple hours & fix my hair. In the meantime, I hung out @ the mall & tried to avoid weird stares. Then I went back to the salon, & she dyed my hair one more time. It still doesn't match PERFECTLY, but it's really not that noticeable unless you're staring hard @ my hair. And, it's darker than I wanted it to be, but it still looks good.

Anyways, between the all the colorings & the cut, I spent about 6 hours @ the salon. She charged me NOTHING. Even for the cut. She said that she was chalking today up as an experiment & she was sorry for keeping me there so long. I made her charge me SOMETHING for the cut so she charged me $10, & I gave her a $20 tip. But just the fact that she was willing to do all that work for FREE, just because my hair was being finnicky really meant something to me. She's an amazing woman!