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Day 68, Friday August 7th, Noonish



Been up since oh I dunno 6or 7 in the morning. Didn't sleep well. So to fill in time I set everything up and danced around and changed my clothes about five times. Finally settled on a  short black tank with fishnet armwarmers that shows off my tats and  a short red-black kilt skirt with more fishnet and my steel toed knee hight lace up boots. Figured people better get used to me as I am cuz i ain't about ta change for anybody. Not sure if it was cuz I'm excited bout opening up today or if It's cuz i'm lonely an miss my family.  That apartment upstairs, is maybe too big, I rattled around in it last night  like a single pea in a pod. But it's all mine!

As is the Salon. Well, kinda. I rent it from the town. Took all my money for the deposit but I reckon I only have to have a few steady customers to do ok. I hope it works out! I look round me,checking everything's ready. Yup. Still is. Me n Will did the redecoratin' over the last two days, after I brought over my small sack of stuff.  Looks good. i kept most the same floorplan as the lady who had the place before me, I just changed one of the hairdresser stations inta a place fer me to do tats or piercings.  The one near the washroom so's I can more easily go an wash my hands before an after.

What we really changed was the decor. I put up a few a those big rock posters from the late twentieth century, guys in leather and long hair with big electric guitars. And girls too. Gotta couple of pics of girls with swords as well. Also put up a wall of flash. Line drawings of tatoos that customers can choose from.  Most are my own work but some I've collected from other tatoo artists. On one corner of the reception desk is a thick book  with similar drawings of all the piercings i can do.  But the biggest change is the ghettoblaster i've propped up just inside the kitchen.  Right now it's playing Gun's N ' Roses Paradise City

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh won't you please take me home
yeah yeah

I bob my head up and down in time to beat for a bit and then I look up again towards the doors. Where i've hung the sign announcing the store hours. Noon to 6pm on week days. Weekends by appointment only.

I lounge around leaning on the reception desk wondering if I should go have  a cig now or wati til I have a better idea if anybody but Will is gonna show up.

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