I am so sorry to hear this. You are a good person and such a horrible person as your nail tech. didn't really deserve such a lovely kitten. I do feel horrible that you lost your money, though. I'm a college student so I know how it feels to look in your fridge and see if there's a way to fill it up on the $2.50 in your bank account. I hope there's a way you can get it back.

About cancelling the appointments....maybe I'm a mean, vidictive person but if they aren't the kind of place that charges you for missing appointments, I would so make tons of appointments and not even break them. I simply wouldn't show up! My mom is a beautian and nothing gets to a person like waiting on someone who didn't bother to call. If she had to wait around for you (especially if you were her last person of the day) maybe that would teach her some respect for other people and that no one will respect her if she continues to treat people like she does and be so careless with her friends.