lots of stuff
hmmmm it's been awhile since i posted. i'm not going to lie, i'm thinking about moving to a new blog platform. livejournal doesn't make it all that easy to make this a fun blog without buying into it. and i don't want to have to buy into LJ to post pics if i can post them to blogger for free. something to think about.
i would like to blog more. we finally got a desktop at home. granted it's old and kind of slow, but with a dedicated computer at home, i think i'd be more inclined to blog. right now i blog at work which i know i shouldn't be doing. and i have friends who have such cute blogs! it makes me want to blog more.
blog about what though? well today, i turn 27. i'm past my physical peak. dang. i don't feel like i took big enough advantage of that. on the other hand, i do get to look forward to my beauty peak at the age of 31. :) that should be exciting.
so far, this has been a really good birthday. my birthdays have been kind of blah in the past, but this year i went out and celebrated early in indy with my girlfriends. and we had a blast [as is evidenced by all the pics on fb]! i haven't had that much fun in a long time. no offense to the bachelorette parties of the summer, but that night felt like all of those parties should have felt. i think it helped that we all knew each other to some degree and we all got along really well. sooo much fun! i even got 2 cakes and a batch of cupcakes out of the night :)
plus, we're not broke this summer, so i made doug get me a present to make up for not getting one the last 3 years. i got a new camera :) i heart it. :) i did have a 3 year old pink, polaroid point and shoot that took crap photos indoors. the flash washed everyone out. i hated it.
so we took peeps advice and went with a canon powershot. we invested in a mid-range model and i'm sooooo happy with it! it's not as fancy as it could've been, but i realized that i really wanted a camera that took decent pics on the auto setting. i was tired of having to fiddle with the iso and the exposure and the white balance. so i didn't need the bells and whistles of the more expensive point and shoots. best camera decision of my life!
what else to blog about? my hair. last summer i promised myself that i would grow it out for a year. i was curious to see if i would like long hair again now that i have a decent handle on my hair and how to style it. so my last "short" haircut was in August. since then, i've been getting it trimmed and shaped every month so i didn't look stupid while growing it out [although there were definitely weeks when the hair didn't look that great].
now it's the following august and i don't know what to do. my hair isn't quite long enough to pull up in a ponytail. pig-tails, yes. and my bangs aren't long enough to tuck behind my ears. but it's long. long enough to know what it's going to look like even longer. long enough to realize that no matter how much i blow dry it upside, no matter how many volumizing products i put it in, no matter how big my barrel brush is, my hair is FLAT. flat and straight. flat, straight, and boring. when i wear it down, it does nothing for my face. now, when i put it up in some way, i like it, it's cute. but i don't see the point of having long hair just to wear it up all day. it's not worth all that time i waste blow-drying it.
all this to say that i'm contemplating chopping it all off tonight at my hair appt. what's stopping me? well, the hubby would like to see my hair get longer so i can do the updos. he loves me with short hair, he loves me with long hair, but it's been awhile since the hair has been long. and why waste the year of growing it just to chop it when it's almost long enough to do stuff with? i've also got some friends who like my hair now and think it looks cute. and i guess to a certain extent i'd like to be able to wear a pony tail again before i chop it all off.
maybe i can give it another year. or maybe just till christmas. i will say, whenever i see a chick with short, spiky hair, i feel a twinge of jealousy. i want her hair. i could have her hair; i just have to cut mine off. *sigh* i'll probably just get a trim and hopefully feel better about my hair afterward.
i didn't intend to blog this much... this is what happens when you don't update for month. if only liked my blog more! :p
i would like to blog more. we finally got a desktop at home. granted it's old and kind of slow, but with a dedicated computer at home, i think i'd be more inclined to blog. right now i blog at work which i know i shouldn't be doing. and i have friends who have such cute blogs! it makes me want to blog more.
blog about what though? well today, i turn 27. i'm past my physical peak. dang. i don't feel like i took big enough advantage of that. on the other hand, i do get to look forward to my beauty peak at the age of 31. :) that should be exciting.
so far, this has been a really good birthday. my birthdays have been kind of blah in the past, but this year i went out and celebrated early in indy with my girlfriends. and we had a blast [as is evidenced by all the pics on fb]! i haven't had that much fun in a long time. no offense to the bachelorette parties of the summer, but that night felt like all of those parties should have felt. i think it helped that we all knew each other to some degree and we all got along really well. sooo much fun! i even got 2 cakes and a batch of cupcakes out of the night :)
plus, we're not broke this summer, so i made doug get me a present to make up for not getting one the last 3 years. i got a new camera :) i heart it. :) i did have a 3 year old pink, polaroid point and shoot that took crap photos indoors. the flash washed everyone out. i hated it.
so we took peeps advice and went with a canon powershot. we invested in a mid-range model and i'm sooooo happy with it! it's not as fancy as it could've been, but i realized that i really wanted a camera that took decent pics on the auto setting. i was tired of having to fiddle with the iso and the exposure and the white balance. so i didn't need the bells and whistles of the more expensive point and shoots. best camera decision of my life!
what else to blog about? my hair. last summer i promised myself that i would grow it out for a year. i was curious to see if i would like long hair again now that i have a decent handle on my hair and how to style it. so my last "short" haircut was in August. since then, i've been getting it trimmed and shaped every month so i didn't look stupid while growing it out [although there were definitely weeks when the hair didn't look that great].
now it's the following august and i don't know what to do. my hair isn't quite long enough to pull up in a ponytail. pig-tails, yes. and my bangs aren't long enough to tuck behind my ears. but it's long. long enough to know what it's going to look like even longer. long enough to realize that no matter how much i blow dry it upside, no matter how many volumizing products i put it in, no matter how big my barrel brush is, my hair is FLAT. flat and straight. flat, straight, and boring. when i wear it down, it does nothing for my face. now, when i put it up in some way, i like it, it's cute. but i don't see the point of having long hair just to wear it up all day. it's not worth all that time i waste blow-drying it.
all this to say that i'm contemplating chopping it all off tonight at my hair appt. what's stopping me? well, the hubby would like to see my hair get longer so i can do the updos. he loves me with short hair, he loves me with long hair, but it's been awhile since the hair has been long. and why waste the year of growing it just to chop it when it's almost long enough to do stuff with? i've also got some friends who like my hair now and think it looks cute. and i guess to a certain extent i'd like to be able to wear a pony tail again before i chop it all off.
maybe i can give it another year. or maybe just till christmas. i will say, whenever i see a chick with short, spiky hair, i feel a twinge of jealousy. i want her hair. i could have her hair; i just have to cut mine off. *sigh* i'll probably just get a trim and hopefully feel better about my hair afterward.
i didn't intend to blog this much... this is what happens when you don't update for month. if only liked my blog more! :p