Wow! Hello! Happy Friday! It’s been a hot minute. Here’s a catchup: My knee is at 95% and is giving me no trouble aside from a pang every once in a while. I’m fortunate to have a job where I…
Skelly Saturday
Our Halloween decorations include a plastic skeleton head and hands that we jam into the overgrown ivy in our front yard. The trick-or-treaters love it. WM loves it too and this year asked if we could leave it out and…
Still too much effort
If your tutorial for an ‘effortless messy bun’ includes hairspray… You’re already putting too much effort into it.
Adventures in hair color: Garnier Light Nude Brown
It to ANYONE that I dye my hair. People at work don’t even blink anymore when I swing from reddish to brownish to blondish. This is my dream hair at the moment. It’s a simple textured bob with some brown…
Tangled up and blue
Back in October, I embarked on a tiny work project that had never been done before. It was something that should be obvious and easy, but somewhere along the way we all became okay with The Old Way which was…
Haircut #217
After a series of YouTube video hairstyling mishaps, I finally turned to a professional to get a real, grownup haircut. Since the bottom half of my hair was very, very dead and very, very layered (thanks, YouTube kiddies) I decided…
Hair
As longtime readers have noticed, my hair changes a lot. I blame a childhood of peeling latex gloves off of the Nice’n’Easy inserts for my Mom. Lately, all I want to do is dye it very blond and cut it…
Dreams: Making that bucket list happen
Tell me what a weird dream this is: The world will be ending in a few days — predictably & disastrously. I think it was an upcoming natural disaster. I end up in Miami with a bunch of other people….
what price beauty?
From the PhoneCam! What price beauty? Originally uploaded by ladygypsy. (taken at hair salon. No makeup. scary scary!) what possessed me to make a 9am hair appt on a saturday? I love reading magazines, and the salon lets me indulge…
Voyeurism
(now…what was that pic I was supposed to post again? I can’t seem to recall…) This TV season I only watched 3 shows: Survivor, The Amazing Race, and The Apprentice. They’re now finished, and I was pleased with the results…
Overheard
(Thor and I sit on our sofa, watching our first-ever episode of The West Wing* on Bravo. A commercial for Kraft Cheddar Cheese comes on. Two kidlets are dashing round the kitchen, thrilled that Mama is cooking with Kraft Cheddar…
