4 1/2 months ago

Reach into the deep depths of your memory and try to remember 4 1/2 months ago. Need a refresher? Yes, if I dare go there, I'm dredging up the experience that I tried so hard to forget. Only it isn't that easy to forget since I see the repercussions everyday in the mirror. What I didn't tell you all is that I went back to the original hair salon and asked for my money back. Then I drove 30 min. to go to another lady who has a salon in her home. She was very sympathetic of my bad hair cut and tried her best to fix it, necessarily cutting it even shorter. But the damage was already done and it just needed time to grow out.

As the weeks and months went by, the upside down pineapple evolved into a pyramid with a duck tail...no really, those are the official technical words! I waited as long as I could to let the little dividing, then dying cells build up and build up until I couldn't stand it any longer. Plus, we leave to go visit family in Denver next week and we are taking a family photo, thus the whole motivation to get it cut. Here are the results:

(The back view is what really went through transformation. The front pretty much looks the same.)

You might be saying that it would be helpful to see the before picture. Well, I'll just tell you that it was too bad to document and you'll just have to trust me on this one. I'm happy with this cut. Phew!

Gotta share these!

Neglect

Well, this blog has officially been neglected. I hope that isn't some sign of how well I'm taking care of myself. I'm afraid it may be.

Just wondering...

I have always been fascinated by sleepwalking/sleepwalkers. First of all, I haven't ever seen anyone sleepwalk before. Do they really walk with their arms stretched out like a zombie? And can they really not remember or have any control over what they are doing? That's just scary to me. I think my cousin, Tyler, used to or still does sleepwalk.

Especially, with those sleeping pills these days, where the commercials say, "if you experience sleepwalking, driving while asleep, or eating while you are asleep, contact your doctor." How are you supposed to know if you are doing these things if you are asleep??

On the other hand, I have experienced a good share of sleep talking. Now, that is funny! Especially, when you can interject and carry on a conversation and they respond. They totally can't remember what they said. Back in my college days, my roommate's mom came to visit and she was taking a nap on the couch. Tiff had told me about her mom and how much fun they had had growing up, getting her to talk in her sleep. Hee hee hee, we got such a good laugh outta that one. I kind of felt bad, but then what is the harm if they don't remember anything?

I want to know if I know any closet sleepwalkers out there. Show yourself, you! Apparently, about 10% of the population will experience it at least once in their lifetime.

WOW, so WEIRD!

Okay, it has been a little bit but I have most definitely found something cool to share with ya'll. (I live in Maryland now, where people actually do speak with southern accents and that gives me leave to use the word, "ya'll".)
You know those 3-D pictures that are computer generated where you concentrate and use some not-used-very-often muscles in your eyes and you see the "hidden" pictures? Well, THIS gives a similar "rush" once you figure it out.
I started out seeing it spin counterclockwise which would lean me towards left brained. But now I can change the direction whenever I want. Focus on the spinning foot or try to look at it through your peripheral vision. More than trying to determine which way it spins for me, it is cooler to me to be able to change the direction at will. Let me know if you can do it! SO WEIRD!

Nicknames...they stick with ya

My roommate in college gave me the nickname, "Eggshell" along with any other word that had "shell" in it: "Magicshell, Turtleshell." I suppose it is fitting that these pictures find their way to me.

Worst haircut in the history of women

I'm literally crying right now. Don't you think that if you bring in a nice specific picture with views of front and back of a cute haircut that they could at least get it anywhere close to the picture??? I look like a pineapple...upside down! I'm just sick about it. What do you do when the hair cutter person is arguing with you that THIS piece is supposed to be longer? All I could say was, "It looks good," halfheartedly. I'm not an "in the moment" kind of person. I always react after the fact, when it is too late. Sure, now I have plenty of things to say!

I mean, these women who take us under the cutting scissor's knife really have NO idea what they put us through. For me, getting a haircut is so nerve wracking that I always come home with a tension headache because every muscle is flexed while I'm getting cut. I get flushed, have to remind myself to breathe, find myself making weird twitching shapes with my fingers.

You know, usually, after a haircut, it takes a washing and a styling yourself to really see if it is an okay haircut? Well, I did give it that chance and it is literally the worst haircut I've ever seen. Holes and unevenness all over the place. I can't go out in public looking like this. I have a pit in my stomach.

What else can I say...There is just nothing worse.