So the girl I go to see is great with color, from fantasy to color correction. Currently she's out on leave so I don't know how fast you need this done. Other than her, I've gone to bombshell for my hair since like 2014 and have not been disappointed so far. They will probably want to do a consultation first and they can be expensive but for me, it's been worth it.

Could be. I'm not far from that road currently.

So I live very near 3 chopt, In a neighborhood between that and Patterson. The last like week ago I think, we've been hearing an owl super loudly during the night/morning at various times. So loud in fact that, to me, it sounded like it was coming from inside my house. My partner heard it and thought it was a person outside our house pretending to make owl noises because 1) it was that loud and 2) it almost sounded comically cartoony. Like an over the top owl noise.

Needless to say, I've been looking for it but never seen it. I wonder if this is that owl? Or maybe it's mate or something?

There was a family dollar down the street that closed up and was replaced by that vet's office that was previously across the street in a much smaller location.

Tj Max you mean? Isn't Ross literally right across the parking lot?

Edit: sorry I'm dumb, forgot that TJ is short for Trader Joe's 🤦🏼‍♀️

Good for you dude. Good for you. That was super cathartic to read, thank you.

Wow should have called the cops on that tower. 20/20 hindsight is a bitch though. Sorry that happened to you.

I'll pm you

I'm in 23229 which isn't that far outside city limits so it doesn't have to be far west end.

Gotta add to this as my son is also SPED and we are west end.

I find that because the west side is quote un quote "richer" (just know I hate saying that) they get better funding for schools over this way which means better trained staff, better staff retention and more staff to handle kids.

BUT I must say that I'm not as happy with the school this year. For context, last year, the original SPED teacher taught for a few months before going on maternity leave. Decided not to come back but the sub they had was great and I felt like did a good job. This year, they hired a new SPED teacher who literally only made it like a month total before quitting and the long term replacement sub they got has been dropping the ball. For example, we had an IEP meeting on a Thursday early this January to renew his goals and said she would make the adjustments to it and get it back to me to sign by like Monday or Tuesday of the next week. It wasn't until 2 weeks later she got it back to me. Not to mention, she didn't seem to consult the speech teacher on his speech goals because we get to the meeting and the speech teacher is like, I updated his goals and sent them to you where are they? So that didn't really instill the most confidence in me about this sub.

SPED is hard work and not easy to do. Teachers out here are still underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated for what it takes to teach the kids. So yes, while the west end is better, it still has its problems.

Unsure about that yet. Haven't gotten into the process. Gotta save up for the cost first.

The roofing company I worked with recently is branching into solar. retex roofing were nice and offered us the best price for what we wanted. We actually want to do solar as well but required a new roof which needed to happen anyway.

A margarita for celebrating a new job offer!