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With all the recent political and religious controversies, not to mention continual violence around the world, all I can think about is myself. My own personal tragedies:
1. The discontinuation of my haircolor line. I have been a loyal L'Oreal Open user since its conception (totally in denial about their animal testing practices...I promise I'll be more careful once I select a new line), and then they go and cancel it on me!! I'll never be able to find as nice and flattering a blonde color as Lunar 9N (which won me many compliments, I must say...I am only revealing my secret color now because my joy is OVER!). I called my L'Oreal color consultant this morning and bought up enough of the deadstock boxes to last me until the middle of the summer (my own personal hoard). I figure by then I should be able to choose something new. But nothing that will smell as fresh, or that I can use as often and still have hair of cornsilk... I am so pissed off, it's embarassing.
But anyway, I have been in great need for a touchup, so I hastily chose a new color last night, dyed it, and ended up with the most horrendous BEIGE BLONDE color (with a puce tint to it, mind you) that ever existed in this world. People are going to think I did this to myself on purpose. I can only comfort myself in thinking that it could be called a "mousey blonde", and that just sounds adorable. (dont look it though..) Anyway, if you've used some low ammonia dye like Clairol Herbal Essences to lighten your hair, please recommend something to me. (I doubt I'll go to a salon for coloring, because I've done it before and they've hurt my hair.)
2. My recurrent sinus infection (since October '02) that is BACK yet again, with a vegence, and my pre-senile doctor has no appointments available until next week. So I cried this morning (hahaha I am pathetic) because I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE and now I get to sit at a walk-in clinic for a few hours tomorrow morning until a tiny Indian doctor comes and gives me some cipro-based antibiotic (because I can't take Zithromax) which will keep me awake all might for the next few weeks, which is really poor timing considering all that i have to do for the move next week...not to mention actually being energetic enough TO MOVE THE DAMN FURNITURE. SADDY FACE!!!
3. I FINISHED MY DISH OF BROWNIES TODAY THAT I WAS HOARDING FOR THE WEEK :(. NONE FOR TOMORROW!!
4. I couldn't get an accordian folder last night that I need to organize my hoard of old bills, bank statements, and tax forms because I spent 2 hours in LANE BRYANT while my friend tried on the whole store (I tried to be creepy and look at the bra section the whole time, but it was really disconcerting when I realized some of the bras there could fit two of my heads in one cup...my own bra cup can fit a single head, and I thought that was bad enough). I can't even convey the desperation that comes from being in a small clothes store for two hours where you cannot fit into anything.
5. Two kids who used to live down the block when I was growing up visited my parents last night apparently, and I think made my mom cry because she was reminiscing about the old days, when us kids was young, adorable, and compliant. This just breaks my heart!! I still cannot stomach the tears of my parents.
Also I keep thinking about getting old, and how now when some type of injury happens to me, I think "Oh...well I guess this is forever." Like how my back hurts now if I spend too long on my floor bending over a project...it never did this BEFORE but now it's going to hurt everytime I do this, FOREVER. Or if I fall and sprain my ankle...it will hurt a little FOREVER. Or if I get a pimple (a cruel joke to those of us in our mid to late 20's), it scars and that pockmark IS THERE FOREVER!!! (unless I am laser-resurfaced of course)
I know all of this is very shallow, but I have many political views that I do not write about here because I change my mind a lot and also I get frustrated with politics, because I feel like many people are naive in their views (I am sort of egotistical). Also I feel that livejournal is an inappropriate forum for many of them. Though I will thank whoever supplied the link to the ACLU yesterday, I wrote and complained to my congressmen and senators about marriage in general (and not just the lack of gay marriage, nosirreee).
1. The discontinuation of my haircolor line. I have been a loyal L'Oreal Open user since its conception (totally in denial about their animal testing practices...I promise I'll be more careful once I select a new line), and then they go and cancel it on me!! I'll never be able to find as nice and flattering a blonde color as Lunar 9N (which won me many compliments, I must say...I am only revealing my secret color now because my joy is OVER!). I called my L'Oreal color consultant this morning and bought up enough of the deadstock boxes to last me until the middle of the summer (my own personal hoard). I figure by then I should be able to choose something new. But nothing that will smell as fresh, or that I can use as often and still have hair of cornsilk... I am so pissed off, it's embarassing.
But anyway, I have been in great need for a touchup, so I hastily chose a new color last night, dyed it, and ended up with the most horrendous BEIGE BLONDE color (with a puce tint to it, mind you) that ever existed in this world. People are going to think I did this to myself on purpose. I can only comfort myself in thinking that it could be called a "mousey blonde", and that just sounds adorable. (dont look it though..) Anyway, if you've used some low ammonia dye like Clairol Herbal Essences to lighten your hair, please recommend something to me. (I doubt I'll go to a salon for coloring, because I've done it before and they've hurt my hair.)
2. My recurrent sinus infection (since October '02) that is BACK yet again, with a vegence, and my pre-senile doctor has no appointments available until next week. So I cried this morning (hahaha I am pathetic) because I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE and now I get to sit at a walk-in clinic for a few hours tomorrow morning until a tiny Indian doctor comes and gives me some cipro-based antibiotic (because I can't take Zithromax) which will keep me awake all might for the next few weeks, which is really poor timing considering all that i have to do for the move next week...not to mention actually being energetic enough TO MOVE THE DAMN FURNITURE. SADDY FACE!!!
3. I FINISHED MY DISH OF BROWNIES TODAY THAT I WAS HOARDING FOR THE WEEK :(. NONE FOR TOMORROW!!
4. I couldn't get an accordian folder last night that I need to organize my hoard of old bills, bank statements, and tax forms because I spent 2 hours in LANE BRYANT while my friend tried on the whole store (I tried to be creepy and look at the bra section the whole time, but it was really disconcerting when I realized some of the bras there could fit two of my heads in one cup...my own bra cup can fit a single head, and I thought that was bad enough). I can't even convey the desperation that comes from being in a small clothes store for two hours where you cannot fit into anything.
5. Two kids who used to live down the block when I was growing up visited my parents last night apparently, and I think made my mom cry because she was reminiscing about the old days, when us kids was young, adorable, and compliant. This just breaks my heart!! I still cannot stomach the tears of my parents.
Also I keep thinking about getting old, and how now when some type of injury happens to me, I think "Oh...well I guess this is forever." Like how my back hurts now if I spend too long on my floor bending over a project...it never did this BEFORE but now it's going to hurt everytime I do this, FOREVER. Or if I fall and sprain my ankle...it will hurt a little FOREVER. Or if I get a pimple (a cruel joke to those of us in our mid to late 20's), it scars and that pockmark IS THERE FOREVER!!! (unless I am laser-resurfaced of course)
I know all of this is very shallow, but I have many political views that I do not write about here because I change my mind a lot and also I get frustrated with politics, because I feel like many people are naive in their views (I am sort of egotistical). Also I feel that livejournal is an inappropriate forum for many of them. Though I will thank whoever supplied the link to the ACLU yesterday, I wrote and complained to my congressmen and senators about marriage in general (and not just the lack of gay marriage, nosirreee).