argh, I've been going to my hairdresser for 10+ years and she's basically semi-retired, on disability, but she'll still do hair for her old clients at a salon on the other side of town. She's great at my hair and we've been close at times in the past but she's kind of hard to deal with sometimes and will do things like push back the time we agreed to and she's really slow, meticulous but she also needs to take breaks due to some medical issues she has, which I understand and usually have the time to be patient with but it can be really frustrating. I made an appointment with her for 5:30 and she texts me at 4:30 saying that she has to move it to 6. And I respond that that's fine but I can't really do much later (otherwise it will swallow all of my sunday evening and I won't get to eat dinner until super late). She responds that she's got another client and usually can only do one client a day but made an exception because she knows I wanted to get my hair done before my birthday. So I ask if she can still do it at 6 and she says she'll let me know in half an hour. And after half an hour she texts and says, no, she can't do it until 6:30. And, really, I could go down there and make that work but I now she'll be extra slow and stressed at having rushed her other client and I don't want to deal. I wish she'd just said she couldn't do it today and I could have made other plans so now I'm stuck feeling and looking shitty. I just told her I don't think it will work out tonight. And now I have to figure out if and when I can get my hair cut. Not before Tuesday, my birthday, I'm sure. Bob thinks I should have cut her lose years ago but it's hard. She does do a great job and I know she needs the money she gets from her old clients like me. but, argh!!!

Oh, and our style is mid-century pet hair.

IF you were going to describe your decorating ethos in a few words, how would you?

Cat-distressed gentlman's club library. (18th century gentleman's club, not the stripper kind) There's lots of wood, comfortable upholstery in autumnal colors, bookcases, and cat hair.

Vintage stuff, with illustration art on the walls and dog hair on the floor.

Timelies all!

Back home now. Tired.

Our decorating style? Fannish.(Books, cats, sf-related artwork...)

My style: I needed someplace to keep my books and stuff.

Cat-distressed gentlman's club library.

That sounds like what I aspire to. What I actually have is Eclectic with Many Penguins. No, what I really have is Clutter and Rabbits (since the rabbits are still in the middle of the living room, they are a prominent part of the decor).

That's hard, lisah. But it sounds like she's not working out for you.

Are we discussing Outlander anywhere?

My design aesthetic includes a rug we are going to throw away once the dog dies, oil cloth covered tables, and a bunch of rolly bins with medical supplies or craft supplies in them.

So I guess it would be mostly a durable crap aesthetic.

My decorating style is "I moved and all my stuff doesn't fit so it's just sitting there in boxes until I can afford a bigger place".