It's been almost a year since I cut my hair, and I still love having it short. But part of the fun of short hair is experimenting and playing around with it. And I've played around with rag curls (epic disaster) and color (amazing) and curling irons (still don't really know what to do with them), and so it's about time to start playing around ( Read more... )

Okay - I promised I'd write here yesterday, or the day before, or something like that, but life is kind of blurry and hectic and stuff like that, and I've been busy hospicing my butt off.  Seriously, like 300 miles and half a dozen house calls in the last 2 days.

But somewhere in there umbran and I also made it to the Topsfield Fair, because it is a ( Read more... )

Seriously, can I tell you how much I love my new hair ( Read more... )

Those of you who've known me for any length of time have known that I've had the same haircut for, well.... for a long time ( Read more... )

For anyone who's seen my posts about aerials, and wondered what the stuff I'm talking about looks like, I had a friend with me at Open Practice today, and convinced him to take a couple of pictures.....

They're not fancy - just me with a sweaty ponytail, no costumes, practicing pretty low to the ground, but it at least gives some context.

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So while I'm on the subject of arts, crafts, and Intercon, I'm going to be self-indulgent and share the photographic evidence of what I've been doing with my downtime (admittedly, in one case with a great deal of help)....

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Most of you reading this know that I'm kind of makeup-incompetent. I never made it through that set of lessons in Girl School, for a multitude of reasons. I've taken baby steps at fixing that, here and there over the past couple of years, but I've never gotten much beyond lip gloss and mascara ( Read more... )

So remember a while ago I asked folks for advice about fun and exciting new hair colors ( Read more... )

I'm doing my best to continue to think of positive side effects of being out of work for an extended period of time. Right now I'm still maintaining about one day a week (the most I can manage and still feel vaguely non-miserable), but once I have surgery (assuming that that's an option), I'll be flat out of work for somewhere around 6-8 weeks ( Read more... )

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