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I cut myself shaving this morning. Right on the edge of my bottom lip. This is one of those things that is just a part of life: every once in a while, you cut yourself shaving. I mean, unless you just let your beard grow and don't even bother shaving your neck. Maybe I should do that. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, I kill me!
The most frustrating thing is how preventable it is. It's inevitable that you'll cut yourself shaving again at some point, even though it's always preventable. It only happened this morning because I was rushing through it and not being as careful as usual. And then I had this tiny hole on my lip, producing this small bubble of blood. Very annoying. Shaving is the last thing I do before I get in the shower, so putting a little tuft of toilet paper on it wasn't going to help.
Somehow, the shower itself seemed to solve the problem. I got a couple small smears of blood on my fingers at first, but by the time my shower was done, I had just the tiny little visible cut/scab already forming. At least it wasn't this little blob of blood anymore. That was worrying me for a second.
Anyway! Speaking of trying to keep my face beautiful, I had my semiannual haircut last night. Again I went to the Rudy's on 12th and Pike. My booking confirmation said I would be with a Wendy Y., which was the same name on my receipt from my cut in April. The woman who cut my hair yesterday was not the same one who cut my hair in April, though. I don't know if this had to do with
the amusing gender confusion that happened last time or what. Did my receipt in April say Wendy because that's who I had booked with but someone else cut my hair? Did Wendy actually cut my hair in April but for some reason a different lady cut my hair this time? I could have solved this mystery by just asking my hairdresser yesterday what her name was, but for some reason I never did. She was not super chatty and all we ever discussed was what I wanted done with my hair, which I actually kind of appreciated. Not that I would have minded being chattier either, really.
In any case, I'm very happy with the haircut, which is
much shorter than it was in April—as desired. It really was what was desired in April, but I put so much stress on not wanting it to grow out like a mullet that the cut in April was left longer than I thought it would be. I decided to let it go because I wasn't giving it a chance to see how it grew over the next six months. Well, it grew well, all things considered. It was much left
much longer than I wanted it to be after six months.
I need to get a better shot now that I've washed and set it the way I like, but I
did take a selfie while walking home yesterday. My usual curls were turned into a big sort of whoosh that made me feel like a citizen of Whoville. I'm happier with how it looks today, so far.
My stylist yesterday charged me a great price: I was so happy wit the cut that I left a 25% tip, and the total was still under what I budgeted, as it came to $60.51. In April I paid $62.40, and that one had been with a 20% tip.
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After my haircut, Shobhit and I had dinner. We had chai before the haircut, after he came to pick me up at work, to make it easier to carry home the box of samples a broker recently left me, along with a couple of other things I had been waiting for weeks to take home. I only had a few minutes after the chai was done and so I took mine in a to-go cup with a coozie on it because it was so hot, and I drank it both while walking to Rudy's and while waiting by the front desk.
Dinner was after I got back, which was a kind of soup made from leftovers Shobhit had made, along with
a bread sample I got at work just yesterday morning. It had kalamata olives in it and was delicious and we ate the whole thing between the two of us. So much for that "1/6 bread" serving! (Which would have been impossible to measure from that bread shape anyway.)
We then did a bit of shopping. Zevia sodas are on sale for $1 off in October, but we waited until this week to stock up because this week is the best of the four one-week offers for Member Month, $10 off $50. I thought about buying some blueberries but those were bonkers expensive.
We passed by the deli case, and noticed my favorite PCC dish, Smoked Mozzarella Pasta, was on sale for $2 off. I bought a whole pint of that, which came to about $8 before my staff discount; I brought half to have at work today and will bring the other half tomorrow. I've run out of granola bars to pilfer from the Merchandising pantry anyway. Otherwise, I bought eight six-packs of five flavors of Zevia soda: Orange (2 six-packs); Dr. Zevia (2 six-packs); Creamy Root Beer (2 six-packs); Cherry Cola (1 six-pack); and Grape (1 six-pack).
I usually also buy Cream Soda, but they no longer had that one on the shelf. Well, shit. I just checked our system and see no record of that flavor ever having been put on clearance pricing there (or anywhere), so I don't know what the deal is. It also shows no movement there since May! We must have gotten Zevia at another store when it was last on sale. I should make a note of this. They
do carry this flavor at both Greenlake Village and Columbia City. I'm going to note this on my PCC shopping list. This is very important!
Not that it's a huge deal, really. I like Cream Soda but it's not one of the ones I get most excited to drink lately. These days my top flavors are Cherry Cola and, oddly, the Orange flavor. I do still really like Dr. Zevia. I like the others too—otherwise I wouldn't buy them—but just like these a bit better. I'd have gotten a second six-pack of the Cherry Cola, which I also love to have with rum and coconut liqueur, but they had only one left on the shelf. We even asked for staff to look in the back but they had no more.
Anyway, Shobhit was confused as to what the difference is between Cream Soda and Creamy Root Beer. They're very different, but I struggled to explain it. He's never drank either kind of soda. He doesn't even like carbonated drinks as a rule (though he will drink a vodka tonic, or even a Zevia Cherry Cola and rum; I guess booze changes the calculus for him). What exactly
is the flavor in a Cream Soda, anyway? *Googles*—oh! It's
vanilla. Duh. That was a pretty simple answer that I wish I could have answered readily when he asked the question.
What of Root Beer, then? Turns out it's flavored from the root bark of the sassafras tree. Without ever having tasted it, Shobhit wouldn't know what the hell that means. He'd have to taste it to know. Suffice it to say, it's not vanilla. I guess most commercial producers use an artifical version of sassafras flavoring, but the basic gist is the same.
Now, there is further clarification to be made with Zevia, as they now have two Root Beer flavors: Ginger Root Beer, which was what I used to get all the time; and Creamy Root Beer, which is the one I now prefer and is my a wide margin my favorite of any new flavor they have introduced in the past twenty years. What of those ingredients, then? Well, the
Ginger Root Beer ingredients list only "Natural Flavors" when it comes to the flavoring—it must be a proprietary thing. The description does say it has an "extra kick of ginger."
Creamy Root Beer lists the exact same ingredients. It just has a creamier profile to its flavor, is all I can say, I guess. It probably has some added vanilla flavor itself, which, admittedly, would give it a similarity to Cream Soda. But, Cream Soda would not have the sassafras root flavor element.
Well, if Shobhit reads this then maybe that clears it up a bit for him. We all learned something here today.
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