Showing off my hair

First things first.  I did a henna last night. 

This is what I did.  One package Reshma henna (It was either original or natural).  I mixed it with the juice of 2 lemons, and very strong brewed tea. 

I applied it to my hair and let it sit for 4 hours.  Then I rinsed it out and "washed" it with conditioner. 

I woke up to this: 

A driver took this photo.  She did a good job! 

It's a little tangled because I was out in the wind, frequently. 

It's great to know henna is a conditioning and protective treatment as well as a coloring one.  I had leftover so I plan to use that in a few weeks, then do another "proper" treatment a few weeks later, about 10 days before Mom and Dad come to visit. 

I didn't sleep well.  I woke up with a sore throat and the sniffles, and I've been sneezing. 

Great. 

I knew I'd be shorted on sleep duration so I had already taken my shower the night before.  I did my God Time before I got on the computer.  The girls (cats) didn't mind.

I like calling them the girls. 

We went to work, first.  We needed money to buy supplies and I got it.  We also did an inventory. 

We went to the warehouse, and got the supplies.  We came back to work and put bottled drinks in the fridge.  Then we stocked the snack items and canned soda. 

You should see me tagging stuff with my (Sell by date) label gun.  I am ruthless and "shoot" all the perishable merchandise! 

One of my machines was being a butt.  Basically it comes preset.  The setting says: if the change is less than half the price of the lowest priced item, it will keep it as a "credit" to force another sale.  As far as I can determine, there is no way around it...

My customers like to put in 75 cents to buy a bag of 65 cent chips.  They get shorted.  That's very bad. 

Today, after praying about it, I decided to set an unused coil for 5 cents!  Ha!  I tested it and they get their change now.  No one will get 2 cents coming back to them, so it will always give proper change.  Other than that horrible setting, it is a fine machine. 

Every machine has it's own glitch.  Soda 3 can only be filled halfway.  Soda 1 has a funny coin acceptor.  Soda 2 has a condensation tray that gets out of alignment if moved. 

The bottled vendor has so many glitches we call it "The Beast" - yet it's our best producer.   Snack 1 went out of order if you hit it too hard (I fixed that problem).  Snack 2 has a bad validator, and Snack 3 had the "rip off" issue. 

I made sure to post the "fix" to my business page so the customers will know I've got their backs.  That would be a good slogan: "Business Name - We've got your back!" 

You can tell I like my job.  Ron finds my passion amusing. 

My uterus decided to prove it wasn't dead after all.  Wracking cramps and the usual hemmorhage have ensued, a week late.  Along with the sniffles. 

I took my herbal stuff for immunity. 

My question, though: is it allergies?  Or am I coming down with a cold.  I just have the sniffles and a little post nasal drip. 

The "good new" allergy drugs cause horrific mental issues for me; so I can't use them.  I can only use benadryl.  That and OTC pain meds.  That is pretty much it when I'm sick.  If things are very bad I can take a mucinex (plain kind no decongestant) but carefully, because it raises lithium levels. 

If I am sick, I'll stick to vitamin C, liquids, and my very favorite: the wet handtowel in the microwave.  Oh, it's so soothing. 

When we finally got home (I skipped a lot of transportation drama) I took a nap for about 4 hours. 

Something's going on. 

We have tomorrow off, so I plan to rest up.  I don't want to have a day out and infect people if I am sick, even though I am DYING to go to the import store and show off my hair. 

Unfortunately Baby Girl has taken over my hand towel.  I'll need to get another.