HI

The H I am grateful for is my Hairdresser. Last summer I stopped drinking diet coke--well not total cold turkey, I still drink it at restraurants, but not at home or the office any more. That had to save me at least $15 to $30 per week. Yes, I drank way too much diet coke. Now I drink water, but it has to be ice cold. Anyway, I wanted to reward myself for sticking with it, but not with food. What did I want that I wouldn't allow myself that wasn't food? Someone else to wash and blow dry my hair. What a frivolous expense I've always thought. I love it. She puts something on my hair that makes it silky smooth. She's divorced, but has no children. She has three nephews--the oldest is 40, still not married. She just doesn't understand young people. (My hair takes a long time to blow dry and she likes to talk.)

My I that I am grateful for is ice. Cast Away was on tv last night and the shipwrecked character was observing that he never thought he would be sitting in a house with ice in his glass again. When we went to Europe, getting ice was such a luxury. I have to make ice manually at the office, but I am so thankful that we have a freezer at all. At home I have an ice maker, but every once in a while it goes on the fritz and that is a sad, sad time until more ice is made. What would I do without ice. P.S. I like ice cream a lot too.