Fingerwave...Lazy Beauty Queens

So Molly came to visit me this weekend. We've successfully gone for a bike ride, played some video games, made tasty fish sticks, and a mediocre curry. We've both discovered that a raw squash salad is a delightful idea.

We also thought we would try our hands at fingerwaves. It's harder than it looks. We weren't entirely unsuccessful, but we definitely need practice.

Molly won't let me post her before and after pictures.


So here I am. My nerdy self in all my glory, sporting my frequently scrunched hair and lack of makeup.

Here I am with my pseudo-failed-but-on-the-right-track fingerwave hair. Also, I am sporting my new yellow dress, which needs pressed.

 

Needs some work. I think next time I will try dry hair and hairspray instead of wet hair and gel. I think I will also curl the bottoms in spirals first. I couldn't do a good job with that after the fact because it was hard to get a curl while not messing up the wave.

I'll keep practicing.

Things Are Nice

I feel pretty good about life.

1. I turned in a full draft of my project on Friday.
2. I got a hair cut to get rid of the nasty dead hair from my misadventures with hair dye over spring break.
3. I cleaned the house today. Everything smells like orange. Mmmmm.
4. Lindsey and I are frying fish for dinner.
5. It looks like I'm going to beat Chris at Scrabble.
6. I think I found the perfect place to live in Grand Junction.

The only things working against me are allergies, my cat is shedding right now, and I'm a bit behind on my tech writing project. I can't really complain. Two of those are seasonal, and the other I can get done.

Nothing can take me down now that I have a full draft of my writing project. I best be grading now though. I promised my students I would get caught up this weekend.

Starring in the Life of Cheryl: Strawberry Shortcake

I've been wanting a little of what my friend Angie calls "hair therapy." I wanted to dye my hair dark, but I kept getting the "it's spring go for something bright response." I thought maybe red. My sister who is getting married said I should go red because she wants to go dark. We're twins, and we try to be different, so I decided, okay I will go red. Dying brown hair red often results in burgundy hair. I wanted natural, so I perused several boxes and found what I thought would work.

I'm not burgundy, but I look like Strawberry Shortcake, sans freckles and giant face. I'm trying to get a picture of myself to compare to this one, but I have no chord for the camera I have, and the web cam and the phone camera are too dull.