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Friday, October 27, 2006
what I did today
before (blurry. I am so awesome at self-portraits. way to move out of the focus area, Rachel.)
and
after. (yay for the single little strand of hair going across my forehead. It was windy.)
Note: Whenever possible, get your hair cut by someone whose first language is not English. Yes, there's a bit of difficulty explaining exactly what you want, but my goodness does it cut down on the uncomfortable need for small talk. My stylist today (I say that as if it has been less than eight years since a stylist touched my hair) was Natalya from Uzbekistan, and aside from telling me helpfully that "wite-amins" would help my poor thin hair to thicken up a bit, she was really nice about the not-talking. (Seriously, she was very nice, and conversed quite well -- far, far, FAR better than I would if I moved to Uzbekistan to start cutting hair, that's for absolutely sure.)
Also, I bought jeans. It was actually a little bit of an anticlimax, because I was all prepared to Lose the Mom Jeans and Go Below the Waist and all that, and it turned out that at least two of the pairs of jeans I already wear qualify as below-the-waist and therefore probably aren't Mom Jeans at all. So I'm not as unhip as I thought I was. Except I couldn't bring myself to buy stretch denim jeans because, let's face it, one awesome thing about denim is that it's kind of corsety, and it sort of shapes you, even without being super tight. It's magic. Not so much with the stretch denim; I haven't seen my thighs look that fat, like, ever. Also, there seemed to be very few options in the gap between Mom Jeans and jeans with 70's-designer-style decorations on the back pockets. I just am not ready to go there yet. However, I did buy a pair of boot-cut below-the-waist jeans, and one pair of straight-leg below-the-waist ones. Kristin, you should be proud of me.
AND I found a nice soft red boucle sweater that I really like. I'm going to hate pulling it out of the washer, with that shuddery wet-acrylic feeling, but I like it.
Also, speaking of boucle, I bought a big skein of boucle yarn. This stuff is from the devil, as it turns out. Not only is it almost impossible to work with (I think there's a stitch... there [tentative poke]. repeat), but also, I could not find the pulling end no matter how hard I tried, so I had to take the paper off and unwind the yarn from the outside, and the skein has... it has grown. It is fully round and every time I look at it it's bigger. I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight because I think I might come out front and find it absorbing stuff, Blob-style, filling my living room. It's pretty colors, though.
And I bought a knitting book that I'm going to take back because it turns out to not be very helpful. I would scan a sample so that you could see the unhelpfulness of it, but that would bend the book up and I so want that $11.95 back. I could buy yarn with that money.
AND I went to Panda Express. Mmm, yum. I wish I could go back right now. Take that, haters of the bliss that is fast Chinese-esque food combined with a buffet.
And I went to Costco but forgot to buy cat food even though it was on my list and we were already totally out and had been feeding the cats leftovers from our fridge since this morning, so when I got home I went next door and asked our tenants if we could borrow a cup of cat food. Because I am all together and with-it like that. Further evidence of my extreme tiredness near the end of my shopping trip: I was on the phone with T as I was driving home and he swears that I said I felt "much more safer" driving my parents' van while my beautiful Dart is awaiting a rebuilt brake cylinder booster (read: while my beautiful Dart doesn't want to stop once it's moving unless you ask it really forcefully and well in advance). I deny this. How could I not? But he insists.
Comments
So how long is your hair now? I can't see the end of it in the 'after' photo, so it basically just looks the same to me :-) But I have to say, that colour red looks GREAT on you!
Posted by: Maria at October 28, 2006 01:34 AM
Kiwiria, thank you. :)
My hair ends bluntly about midway between my chin and the end of my right sleeve in the After photo. Does this not show on other people's monitors? (scratches head). At any rate, it's juuust barely below my shoulders.
Posted by: Rachel at October 28, 2006 01:39 AM
Oooh, your hair looks fabulous. I really like it.
As for not seeing it, I suspect that if your monitor is dark or you have a glare, the end may blend in with the wood behind you.
Still jealous about Panda Express. Yum.
Oh, and yay for the jeans. I am with you on stretch denim. It's not a good thing, to my mind.
Posted by: mary at October 28, 2006 07:43 AM
you look great! Your hair looks so shiny and healthy. And thanks for the heads up about the boucle; I'm a beginning knitter and I need to know these things.
Posted by: Denise at October 28, 2006 01:43 PM
You look fabulous! I love your hair! I love you! You are so beautiful! I do not like Panda though so I don't envy you...I do however love boucle and I don't have a problem with it. I can't sit here and feel all good about that at all, though because I can't knit my way out of a paper bag. All I can do is crochet endless blankets and scarves. I love boucle though. So soft. It pretty much all I've ever crocheted with. Well, that and that feather boa yarn. Makes for a great scarf that boa stuff does.
Posted by: jenn at October 28, 2006 09:00 PM
Ah, got it. Because of the glare (as Mary mentioned) it just looked like a 'bend' to me. Thanks.
Posted by: Maria at October 29, 2006 12:34 AM
LOL! Much more safer? You must have been tired! hee hee
Posted by: debi at October 30, 2006 07:40 AM
VERY nice!!
Posted by: Valerie at October 30, 2006 04:56 PM
I AM very proud of you! :) And the haircut looks wonderful! I know what you mean about the small talk...it's only worse at the dentist's office, with your mouth packed full of cotton or something.
Posted by: Kristen at November 7, 2006 11:16 AM
