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November 23, 2019

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 he'd put a Santa hat on it for Christmas. With the fall being as it's been, I really don't care about the small things so I said sure. This is what I found this morning. The newspaper is usually left at the end of the driveway, meaning either the delivery person made a trip up ...

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November 19, 2018

Still too much effort

If your tutorial for an 'effortless messy bun' includes hairspray... You're already putting too much effort into it. ...

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June 6, 2017

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 balayage (fancy word for two different colors). Until I work up the nerve to do that, I continue to bring the color of the roots up, and tone the color of the ends down. My most recent color was purchased strictly because the name made me giggle: Light Nude Brown. Is this a brown with ...

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March 5, 2015

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 tedious but worked well. I made a promise to myself that if I got The New Way to work, I would dye a kicky blue streak into my hair. Last month, I got The New Way to work. True to my promise, I went out and bought Garnier wash out color in Blue Burst (not sponsored, I suck, blah blah) and ...

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March 4, 2013

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 to get it cut short again. Thanks to the Internet, I had this pictures saved to my phone .. ...and told the stylist that although I know I am not Jennifer Lopez, I liked the hair. And this is what I got! I know, right? It requires a bit more styling finesse ...

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December 11, 2012

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 short. Like Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail. (oh hai 1998 hairstyle!) Now, time has shown me many, MANY times that "very blond" and "very short" are not good looks for me. (pic from 2004) And I'd end up looking more like Paula Deen than Meg Ryan. But this time of year, a girl can dream, ...

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January 10, 2011

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. We've taken over a commercial area which includes a gigantic shopping mall. Now usually these apocalyptic dreams of mine end with "I buy a gun, go feral and survive it all." But this one was different. So in my dream I decided to make people's bucket list wishes come true. So for the little old ...

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March 4, 2006

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 in the trash that I don't spend my money on otherwise.the feb 2006 vanity fair had a great piece on karenna gore schiff, which unfortunately was overshadowed by lindsey lohan's 'zomg! I used drugz and like omg had an eating disorder!!111! '* cover piece.I always liked ...

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May 25, 2005

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 on all three. Tonight I was hurting BAD for some television. So before I drove to the new library (I am so much in love w/that place that I want to become a librarian) with Mom, I set the DVR to record "American Idol" and ... and ... another show I'm too embarassed to ...

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January 4, 2005

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 Cheese.)Thor: We should make those sometime.Me: Kids?!?Thor: No. Enchiladas.Me: 90% of the commercial is about kids scarfing shredded cheese, and all you saw was the enchilada dish?Thor: They looked good! (pause) You should blog this.Yes, dear.And for your chuckling ...

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January 3, 2005

Luckily, I have a lot of hats.

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January 3, 2005

Mantra

It'll grow back...it'll grow back....it'll grow back...I was going to try and shape my eyebrows tonight, but the way I'm going, I may as just well save myself some time and just shave them off to complete my new 'look.' ...

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I've been blogging for over twenty (2 decades! 2-0!) years and I'm apparently one of the few over-50 female bloggers who haven't sold out to THE MAN yet; hence this blog remains quirky, homespun, and unprofitable. No big. However, if you're from Disney, Doritos, or Dave Matthews Band, I'm open to talk about selling out.

I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband WM, and our dog Murphy. I'm an adult who likes Disney but not a Disney Adult. I used to work a fun (really!) office job in Philadelphia, but since March of 2020 I'm a work from home hermit. So if you're looking for a childless, slightly round, marginally boring GenX woman's blog to follow, you've come to the right place! :)

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