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Special Treatment

Yesterday afternoon I went to Mirrors, my brother’s fiancé’s hair salon and got my hair cut, dyed and styled by my brother. My friend, David had sent me the money for me to get my hair done and because I only received it into my account yesterday, I made an appointment for that afternoon.

My appointment was at half past two yesterday afternoon with Alex, my brother’s fiancé but when I got there he told me that my brother will be doing my hair… I left the salon at around quarter to six o’clock that evening. My hair had to be cut first then dyed and then styled and thinned after that. Because I had thick hair I had to pay double for the amount of dye that was used. I think that he could have done all the cutting and then dyed. Then I would have had to pay less than what I had to… Anyway it came out really good; I shouldn’t have doubted my brother. He never cut my hair before so I was a little worried until I saw the final result. My hair is now thinner, shorter; definitely more manageable and black; my favorite color and I love it! The only thing that needs getting used to is my fringe. But all and all, he did a pretty fucking good job!

Woolworths gift card from my friend, DavidI had a couple hundred rand left so I bought a bottle of hair color protecting shampoo and conditioner for my hair. And a ceramic straightening brush that I can use with my hairdryer because I never have had one of those brushes before.

A little after six o’clock last night I received a big brown bag via courier. Inside that big brown bag was a credit card size Woolworths gift card; such a small thing delivered in a large bag… The lovely black gift card was sent to me by David and was to be used for grocery and necessity shopping! As Victor and I are trying to make it this month with the very little funds that we have right now, receiving this gift card was a really great gift and really made my day today…

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Drama, Drama, Joy

Victor went to get his paycheck for October on the first this month and when he got back home he told me about what happened at the office. His one coworker announced that their boss had been in a terrible car accident the night before and was in hospital…

That following Saturday Victor had taken me to the bank to get a new debit card and then do our grocery shopping for November. After I was done at the bank he told me that his pay check had not cleared yet as the bank was not able to get a hold of his boss for authorization.

His boss is stupid. He pays all of his employees with personal salary checks instead of normal paychecks because it “saves him money” to do it his way, or some bullshit.

Victor told me that the bank will take up to ten days to clear the check if they are not able to get the account holder’s authorization. So we couldn’t go to the supermarket and buy any groceries because we didn’t have any money to do so. But I bought some bread, meats and fruit with the money I had and have been doing so with whatever money I get and that Victor’s father sends us for the time being.

Since a few days after had Victor’s father been trying to get a hold of Victor’s boss but when he found out that he was in a certain hospital and was “unresponsive”, Victor’s father relaxed a little. But when he called the same hospital the following day, the hospital had “no record” of that man, Victor’s boss being admitted to that hospital. Some of the other employees also couldn’t get a hold of their boss; they too wanted the money that they had worked for…

Then that one coworker disappeared; the one that announced that their boss was admitted to hospital. No one could get a hold of her or anything. So obviously the situation became suspicious and Victor and a few of his coworkers filed a case at the police station against their boss and will be suing him not only if their pay checks don’t clear, but for the inconvenience and whatever else.

Victor has not been going to work because the police have closed down the workplace and have a couple of guards on the property to “catch” the boss or whoever tries to enter and collect anything from the boss’s house as the workplace is on the boss’s residential property.

Drama, drama, drama!

So Victor has been searching for a new job because he had been working at this DVD company as a sales rep, was working long hours, loads of hours of overtime and did not like it.

Until now because Victor just got home from a job interview… He got the job! He studied accounting and now he gets to do just that; he’s so happy. I’m happy for him too.

Things seem to be getting better!