Chromilo Amin

It's been a few days after the day and I recount the experience leading up to the hype that is Valentine's Day. I'm glad it's over because it was a little expensive for me. I understand why some people say we should celebrate V-day everyday but it gets stressful and depletes your finances if not careful. It's very easy to get carried away in the emotion of it all and personally, I'm glad it's a once-a-year event. Here is my simplistic approach/formula for making it a successful day, i.e. Wife + Happy = Happy Life. I list 4 items I did to make this happen: 1) The present - A Gift card Talk it over with her a few weeks before and see if she would like to be surprised or if she would rather go out and buy it herself. Gift cards are easy as long as you get the correct store name for the gift card from her. This is important because you cannot refund gift cards. I didn't know about that, did you? I got one from the perfume store Sephora http://www.sephora.co...

I was at a Magicut Salon yesterday for a much needed haircut and was suprised to get a teary-eyed hair stylist. I stopped here on my way to a dentist appointment and was mildly surprised at the experience while at the salon that day. A customer and her sister were having a loud argument in the salon with another hair stylist, about the hourly rates for doing her hair. Customer said she was promised $10 an hour by my hair stylist, when in fact it should have been around $25. My hair stylist started whispering to me about the situation, how they failed to understand what she meant about the advertised reduced rate, and how she will probably get fired over this. She started to cry saying this is the last I'll be seeing of her at the salon. I felt bad for her, and worried a little about what she might do to my hair. Not sure if I have ever gotten a haircut from a crying hairstylist, so I continued to listen in. She said that she was hated at that salon by one very mean co-harstylist, w...