The Sanborns

So Monday was my birthday and for the first time in a few years I am able to spend my birthday money on myself instead of bills. I lay next to Gray yesterday afternoon and ranted to him about how I couldn’t part with the money. I had gone through a list in my head of things to purchase and nothing was sounding worth the money, well except for an eyebrow wax because it’s the one thing I get “done” by professionals.

I suggested we go get the eyebrow wax done at JC Penny’s because I’d been there before and trust them to do a good job. One hour later I left satisfied and decided, “Hey let’s go to Forever 21 and I can get a headband!” I left the store with a headband AND a new purse. My old one was showing wear and tear and it was a cheap, Target purse.

This morning I got an e-mail from Groupon stating that today’s deal was pay $20 but get $40 worth of nail services at a spa in Green Hills (an uppity Nashville suburb). I had wanted a pedicure for ages and well, a mani-pedi with them is $40 so I just went ahead and bought it. I’m rather nervous about going to Green Hills to get it done because they are uppity, so I’ll have to not look like the cat drug me in, but I’ll go… because I am worth it.

So yes I have spent about half of my birthday money now, but I feel like my choices have been good ones and I don’t indulge that often so it’s nice to treat myself once in a while… thanks mom and dad and Cathy and Grady (for the money and the earrings!)…

While I was getting my eyebrows waxed the woman kept complimenting them and saying how pretty they were. I was just agreeing with her and then she asked if I’d ever gotten them threaded. The brochure they have said that certain salons may offer threading and inquired about it but it was not available. Well, the woman who asked me told me not to get it done because it was awful, hurt a lot, and she was still growing back her eyebrows! It was so weird because Gray’s cousin Rachel (in Florida) was talking about it at the reunion last month and she loves the threading process and says it doesn’t hurt, compared to waxing. So totally opposite viewpoints. I’m wondering if this woman had a bad experience but overall threading is good? I don’t know, but I’m OK with waxing, it doesn’t really bother me for more than five-minutes after.

I did notice they offer other waxing options. I’ve considered waxing certain areas but they didn’t offer that there and well, I didn’t figure they would. There is a full body wax shop near the Rutherford Wal-mart in town that I might visit, but not anytime soon. They problem with waxing is that it doesn’t last long and I don’t want to continually fork over money for something I can shave for a cheaper price. It would be nice before a vacation, but other than that, not a necessity.

In other news, my social life is starting to pick up again. We’re going to Memphis for the weekend, followed by a Harry Potter movie night, a community group gathering, and then Teresa’s wedding. There is more to come after the wedding, but that’s more than I have been used to doing this summer.

We also decided to cancel our cable. The price is going up in September and although I do love my dvr and watching these shows, I can watch them online for free, I already do that for True Blood. Plus, with the fall coming soon it will mean that I won’t have time to watch TV live with school stuff going on. I haven’t been watching many of my shows live and so it really seems pointless to pay for cable that I can watch online the next day. We will still keep our netflix and some shows are on there under watch instantly. I have at least ten seasons of shows queued and I figure those will keep me busy, plus Gray and I want to catch up on Mad Men and maybe Dexter.

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