Roots Be Gone!

This is what roots look like when it has been 100 days since they were treated! It has not been pretty and has had me looking in the mirror channeling Stuart Smalley "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me".


It's a wee bit ironic that trying too look pretty comes at the cost of sitting in front of a mirror for two hours (never a good idea for me) looking like a human antennae. My hair covers my face for much of the time, so I don't wig out too much, but it has taken me years of practice not to spiral into an existential funk involving how my face came to look this way, why I have so many chins, the injustice of thin Irish lips and having no profile to speak of. It's best for everyone if I don't have too much mirror time.


Voila, the finished result! I am root-free, my greys are covered or camouflaged and my hair is 3 inches shorter. Ahhh, I can leave the house without a disguise, and am upgrading my status from heinous to just unsightly since my left eye is still red and weird.

**Does too much mirror time wig you out?
Can you believe how bad my "before" picture is?**

Creative Friday--All Hail Hannah Edition

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, our Creative Friday was saved by Hannah watching Eva so Michelle could come to my house since Whitney needed to stay home sick from school another day. This was particularly great because Michelle and I hadn't gotten together since the previous Wednesday (not Friday) because of last week's school Valentine's Day party that I needed to help with. That means if we had missed today we would have been 3 days further out of sorts! Not good.


Our self-portrait isn't one of our better ones, but it's rather fitting that Whitney ended up being in the background on the couch (we didn't plan that). We're dedicated to self-portraits even though I'm going through a heinous period (and to further aggravate things my eyelash curler broke today @#$!) and Michelle had a zit on her forehead and wasn't happy that her hair wasn't dry. Oh well, that was the state of affairs yesterday and is now documented.


Michelle saved the day by bringing 4 Land Before Time videos for Whitney to watch AND half a loaf of banana nut bread because she knows Whitney loves it and that I never make it. Whitney was delighted, and though it was unfortunate that we could hear the awful dialogue and singing (yes, singing) it was a great day for Whitney.


Michelle brought a laughably small amount of stuff to work on, but ended up being productive and didn't run out of things to do until the very end of the day. She assembled more of her fabulous birthday tag packages and wrote several cards.


She also provided lunch, even though we were at my house! She had lunch planned already so since the change to my house was last minute she just brought the food with her. That was pretty nice for me.


We had Green Chili Pork which was even better than the time we had it before. Perhaps it was better because it was being served to me in my own, good-mealless home. Hmmm.


I gave Whitney her first lesson in sealing wax today when I used the cute kit Jane sent me recently. It was very pleasing, I just hope the seal makes it through the postal system and doesn't end up just looking like a brown stain on the envelope.

In this picture, you can see my sheet for keeping track of the mail I send. I forget things so easily that I have to keep track of what I send to people and when, otherwise I can't remember if I mentally wrote them a thank you note or really wrote one. Each week I write on the back of my Excel address sheet, then go home and transfer the info to a Word Document. It's a simple thing for me to do and has been a life saver. It is also a great record of all the good mail I've sent since I started keeping track in January 2006! Any guesses of how many things I've sent (there will be a prize for the person who guesses closest)??

Here is the finished seal!

I ended up writing 8 cards today!

Michelle ended up with these great things to send.


**Did you take a moment to hail Hannah?
Would you have taken a self-portrait even if you were unsightly?
Do you make banana bread very often?
Have you ever used sealing wax?
How many pieces of good mail do you think I've sent since Jan. 2006?**

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

I told Michelle last week during Creative Wednesday that I was going through an ugly period, but it turns out that was only the beginning because I have deteriorated over the past week and am now going through a heinous period!


My left eye seems to be having issues right now. I thought I scratched it last week with a rough cotton ball (is that an oxymoron?) while trying to remove my mascara (it loves to smear under my eyes) but it isn't getting better. It isn't itchy or painful (it sort of feels like a bruise), but it's red and ugly.


My next issue is that I'm overdue for a weave and now have 2 inch roots! It seemed like all was well and then I woke up one day and scared myself in the mirror! My last hair appointment was November 25th, so that means it has been 85 days. Not good. I'm feeling the sting of the economy right now and can't afford to go in, but oh how this hurts. It really does a number on my sense of well-being, because feeling ugly sucks.


In other news, Landon went back to school today but now Whitney is home. What in the world? It was supposed to be Wonderful Wednesday with Eva today, but we had to move it to next week.

**Do you ever have ugly periods?
How's your hair?
Should I go into hiding?**