standing in a line for bags of nails
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serynI don't think I like the most recent salon.
First, my shellac manicure peeled after a week, which, after quite of bit of online investigation, suggests they don't know what they're doing.
Second, my toenails are breaking. I don't know what it is because they don't have corner snags and haven't grown out to the unengineered cantilever point. I removed the polish last night and there's nothing obviously wrong, but on one foot, every nail had either broken or needed to be clipped before it imminently broke.
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I read somewhere about a woman who is involved in a lot of activities and who has a different bag for each one. So she has her girl scout leader things in one tote bag, her PTA things in another bag, her soccer coaching stuff in a bag, or whatever the list was. And when she works on things at home, they go right back in the bag.
I personally like this method. But tote bags don't cut it. Tote bag for knitting stuff, fine, sure, but if you're in a meeting with professionals, you want to look more professional than crumpled papers from an unsupported tote bag really enables you to look. I'm having trouble keeping track of what bag I need though. And I'm having problems because I want to replicate some of the purse functionality in each bag... I'm still keeping keys and wallet and phone in my pockets, but I'd like to have hand wipes, and aspirin, and kleenex, and a notepad & pen, in every bag that leaves the house. I have a giant ziplock I use for my main professional bag and for a while I would transfer it. But now I'm thinking I should replicate a miniature version for each bag. So if I do end up somewhere with the wrong bag, I can at least not look completely screwed up.
I'd kind of like a bag rack.
Also, why do builders make closets without lights? It's just this dark hole where stuff functionally disappears but still exists.
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I don't like Whole Foods. For a while I disliked them because they were really far away and hadn't bothered to put in parking. (If you're a chain store and there's only one for a hundred miles, do not assume most people are going to walk or bus. Duh.) Fast forward a decade or more and there is on that is walking-ish distance from me. (It's walking distance except I wouldn't want to carry anything back.) But what really bugs me is that the door is in one corner of a square building and the milk is in the diagonal corner. Even in a normal grocery store with the standard aisles, that would be the maximal walking. But Whole Foods has taken that "shop the edges of the store" philosophy to a whole ridiculous extreme. The center of the store has kitchens or storage or break rooms or something. It's not for shopping. They put service counters around the center area and aisles outside of that, but fully 75% of the store, dead center, where all the sugared cereal and insta food would live in a regular store, is closed off. The Whole Foods still has all that crap fake food though, but by putting it on the edges of the store, people who live by that "shop the edges to stay healthy" philosophy are being coerced into poor habits. Plus their food service counters are extremely expensive and JAMMED with people. There isn't a proper queue and they don't call out numbers so you can miss your turn easily. Plus there's a different queue for each kind of food. It's just like going to the food court at the mall was 20 years ago. If you want a slice of pizza and a taco, you have to wait in two lines. Except the food court had tables in the middle so you could see where the shorter lines were while you wait in comfort. Whole Foods has done everything they can to make their store require as much standing and walking as possible.
First, my shellac manicure peeled after a week, which, after quite of bit of online investigation, suggests they don't know what they're doing.
Second, my toenails are breaking. I don't know what it is because they don't have corner snags and haven't grown out to the unengineered cantilever point. I removed the polish last night and there's nothing obviously wrong, but on one foot, every nail had either broken or needed to be clipped before it imminently broke.
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I read somewhere about a woman who is involved in a lot of activities and who has a different bag for each one. So she has her girl scout leader things in one tote bag, her PTA things in another bag, her soccer coaching stuff in a bag, or whatever the list was. And when she works on things at home, they go right back in the bag.
I personally like this method. But tote bags don't cut it. Tote bag for knitting stuff, fine, sure, but if you're in a meeting with professionals, you want to look more professional than crumpled papers from an unsupported tote bag really enables you to look. I'm having trouble keeping track of what bag I need though. And I'm having problems because I want to replicate some of the purse functionality in each bag... I'm still keeping keys and wallet and phone in my pockets, but I'd like to have hand wipes, and aspirin, and kleenex, and a notepad & pen, in every bag that leaves the house. I have a giant ziplock I use for my main professional bag and for a while I would transfer it. But now I'm thinking I should replicate a miniature version for each bag. So if I do end up somewhere with the wrong bag, I can at least not look completely screwed up.
I'd kind of like a bag rack.
Also, why do builders make closets without lights? It's just this dark hole where stuff functionally disappears but still exists.
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I don't like Whole Foods. For a while I disliked them because they were really far away and hadn't bothered to put in parking. (If you're a chain store and there's only one for a hundred miles, do not assume most people are going to walk or bus. Duh.) Fast forward a decade or more and there is on that is walking-ish distance from me. (It's walking distance except I wouldn't want to carry anything back.) But what really bugs me is that the door is in one corner of a square building and the milk is in the diagonal corner. Even in a normal grocery store with the standard aisles, that would be the maximal walking. But Whole Foods has taken that "shop the edges of the store" philosophy to a whole ridiculous extreme. The center of the store has kitchens or storage or break rooms or something. It's not for shopping. They put service counters around the center area and aisles outside of that, but fully 75% of the store, dead center, where all the sugared cereal and insta food would live in a regular store, is closed off. The Whole Foods still has all that crap fake food though, but by putting it on the edges of the store, people who live by that "shop the edges to stay healthy" philosophy are being coerced into poor habits. Plus their food service counters are extremely expensive and JAMMED with people. There isn't a proper queue and they don't call out numbers so you can miss your turn easily. Plus there's a different queue for each kind of food. It's just like going to the food court at the mall was 20 years ago. If you want a slice of pizza and a taco, you have to wait in two lines. Except the food court had tables in the middle so you could see where the shorter lines were while you wait in comfort. Whole Foods has done everything they can to make their store require as much standing and walking as possible.
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Date: 2012-05-29 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-29 09:10 pm (UTC)It's got my urban survival supplies, no matter where I am, or what I need, that bag (the rest of the bag has pens and notepads and various folders of information) has it.
But, when I'm just going to knitting group, I don't usually remember to move the ziplock... and sort of don't want to because it needs to live where it lives. But I do want to have headache tabs when I'm going to be away from home for 3+ hours and it really sucks to go out and be social with people and not be able to write down their phone numbers if I manage to make friends.
So it seems like I could be good with something less than a gallon size ziplock, and I might prefer more privacy. But I want to take the effort to put one in each tote bag.
You are right that the folder thingy might have saved me from needing to buy a whole bag, but I love the bag, so it's not a loss.
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Date: 2012-05-30 04:01 am (UTC)My mother did similar to what you want to do, but she always carried a purse so each purse had a set of "must haves" for her in the inside zippered pocket.