It’s been a crazy week. Finally calming down now. I did ALL the things! All of them. Every last one. I know. It’s impressive.
Now I can relax a little and breathe and enjoy my real weekend that’s coming up soon soon soon. AND, in news of AWESOME, on Monday, which I have off because I work at an amazing place that gives actual holidays off, possibly for the first time in my LIFE, thank you new job that I love more and more every day and also MERKA for giving me a holiday on Monday, I will be hanging out with THE NEPHEW! His mom said he was asking about me the other day! I AM SO EXCITED! We will have some sort of adventure. I get to see their new house, and hang out with my favorite little guy. I’m very excited and totally counting the days. NEPHEW ADVENTURES! HOLIDAYS! I might just be so excited I’m flapping my hands all around like a looney.
Just in case you need your daily dose of the cutest little guy in the history of ever, here’s The Nephew and his very first snowman.
There might be cuter photos in the world, but I don’t know of them AND I DON’T WANT TO. Look at that FACE! SO HAPPY! I cannot wait to see him again!
ALSO, tonight, I treated myself to a real haircut. Well, I mean, my other haircuts in the past weren’t FALSE haircuts. They HAPPENED. But they were at Supercuts. Now, I’m not running down Supercuts. It’s fine, and you can get a haircut in like twenty minutes for about $20. So that’s nice, especially for busy poor people.
But it’s not like they do anything GOOD with your hair. You have a choice of “I’d like a trim” or “shave my head” or “give me a mullet” and that’s about it. And you kind of have to go in knowing what you want, because it’s not like you can trust them. You don’t know those people.
So I’ve been going to the same stylist for years and years to make my eyebrows less scary. YES! It is TRUE! I have insane scary eyebrows. Left unchecked, I look like a crazyperson. I’m not even exaggerating. I’ve seen old photos of myself before I started getting them done and I say, “Oh holy hell why didn’t anyone TELL me I looked like that, my friends should be yelled at.” My stylist is wonderful and funny and affordable and I don’t trust anyone else in the world to make my eyebrows look like a normal person’s eyebrows. If your eyebrows look normal without upkeep, you are a lucky human. Thank your genetics.

I was trying to find a photo that looked like my “before” eyebrows but found this instead and now I’m just confused.
So the last time I was there, I thought, I need a haircut. Everyone who leaves after having her do their hair looks not only beautiful, but happy. I’m totally going to splurge and have her do my hair. Because listen, I’m totally serious about this, I haven’t gotten a haircut in a year. A YEAR. That sounds like an exaggeration, but it’s the most true. The last haircut I got was last January. I remember and everything. It’s not like I’m haircut-averse, per se. I just don’t bother. I have other things to do. Plus my hair just does what it wants, so why bother, you know?
So I made an appointment with my lovely stylist and then she moved to a new salon and left me a panicky message all “You’re still coming, I hope?” and of course I was. I’ve followed her to two different salons, I’m happy to move to a third one as long as she’s there.
The new salon is FANCY, yo. They offered me a BEVERAGE. I felt like the time I got accidentally put in first-class on an airplane and I was all, “these cookies are all for me? this hot towel is for me? This whole big bottle of water is all for me?” because I am country mouse in the city. Always and forever.
Then I got fancy haircut. She said, “What do you want to do?” and I said, “I don’t know. What do YOU want to do? All I want is to keep most of the length, because I love how long it’s gotten. And something easy, because mostly I’m lazy. Otherwise, I trust you.”
She liked that a lot. That’s why she’s the best, because when I say “go to it,” she does. If you say that at Supercuts, you might walk out looking like a mental patient who got left alone in a room for twenty minutes with a Flowbee.
First she was all, “your hair has some natural curl to it. Let’s do something to enhance that.” Then she played with it a little more, and decided that no, she wanted to give it a blowout to see what THAT looked like. I was just along for the ride. I had never had anyone that excited about my unruly hair before.
So she put in pretty layers and blowdried it for a billion years (yeah, that’s…not going to happen in my life, that seems like a lot of work) and then taught me pretty things I could do with it involving twists and curls and bobby pins and mousse. These are things that I might or might not try at some point. I’m fairly lazy, hair-wise.
ANYWAY, I paid less than I probably should have for all that magic (YES, I totally gave her a tip, she works SO HARD and she’s a kickass single mom and I love her so much and she’s such a hard worker) and then I came home and just stared in the mirror and swung my hair around like a shampoo ad.
What’s that? You want to see? YOU TOTALLY CAN. (Well, if you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook or are my cat, you already did, but if you are just a PERSON, you can see NOW.)
Pretty and shiny and smooth! LIKE A BUSINESSLADY!
Also, I like this photo, it looks like I have a secret. I totally do, too. MULTIPLE secrets. NO, I won’t tell you what they are, then they wouldn’t be secrets, now would they.
And now I have to go to bed, because it is late late, and I have to go to work tomorrow and do work-things. As I do.
I’ve totally knocked a bunch of things off my to-do list over the past few weeks, I feel very accomplished.
Happy weekend, everyone! Enjoy, do many things, be happy, be safe, be brave, be fearless, love your faces.
(You totally win imaginary prizes if you got that the title was from the titular song of the musical Hair. ALL THE IMAGINARY PRIZES. Since they’re imaginary, dream yourself something awesome, yo. Also, hee, “titular.”)
January 18th, 2013 at 11:50 am
I love your new hair cut!
I don’t go to the salon very often, either. Usually once every 12-18 months. It’s expensive. I’ve gone somewhere less costly, and they wrecked me. I’m not vain. I don’t have much to be vain about. But it is important to me that I not look like someone who was styled by a caffeinated raccoon that closed its eyes.
BTW My MIL has a Flowbee. And sometimes uses it. I swear!
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Thank you!
EXACTLY. That’s part of the reason I didn’t go to the salon much – if you go to Supercuts, you don’t come out feeling like a million bucks. This makes me feel like a million bucks. For sure.
OMG, I don’t know anyone with a Flowbee. I would like to see someone use a Flowbee. I think it would make me laugh and laugh.
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January 18th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
I will see if I can catch a video of it next time we’re there.
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January 18th, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Hee! I would LOVE that! :)
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January 18th, 2013 at 11:51 am
New hairstyle looks GREAT, Amy! And belated congratulations on your new job. Sounds like you found a healthy, sane place to work (I hope that’s true).
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
Thank you! And yes, it’s just an amazing place to work. I’m so happy. I feel so level and so calm and so…relieved, I guess. It’s just a blessing. Every single day. I still can’t believe it’s mine.
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January 19th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
They are lucky to have you.
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January 19th, 2013 at 8:15 pm
They seem to think so. I might have tricked them. YAY ME!
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January 18th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
if you can then my hair’s too short! Hair, long short …..
i love your hair. It looks very polished and very you, all at once. Very nice indeed.
I award myself an RV. Because I could use one. But a cool RV, not a doofy one. Thank you.
Also: Yay. Auntie time!
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January 18th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Okay, there’s a guy in your ads that’s telling me he got RIPPED in only 4 WEEKS and without PROTEIN POWDERS OR CREATINE or Killing himself or dieting.
And his veins are sticking out of his arms and if he’s not killing himself at the gym then he’s friends with Lance. It’s one or the other, buddy, I don’t care what your secret is.
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:53 pm
Ugh, those stupid ads. I should get rid of those. They make me no money and they’re so sell-outy.
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Thank you!
You can totally have an imaginary RV. I only wish it could be a real RV. An Airstream! Those are VERY cool!
SO EXCITED about auntie time! Only a few more days!
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January 19th, 2013 at 2:24 pm
It is possible, we shall see, that good home news is coming up. :)
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January 19th, 2013 at 8:18 pm
Ooh, really? YAY YAY!!!!
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January 18th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
I’m pretty lucky to not be just a PERSON. I mean, that would be the worst. The worst*.
* Probably not the worst, come to think of it. There are some pretty horrible things around all in all. But still; pretty bad.
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:52 pm
You’re absolutely not just a person. You’re MY person. One of my TOP people. Don’t you dare go anywhere, either, mister. I mean it.
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January 18th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
And I agree with everyone; your new hairstyle is very good and very you.
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Aw, thanks, Andreas! I love it, too! Tomorrow’s the true test – can I make it pretty all on my own? Only time will tell!
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January 18th, 2013 at 1:10 pm
The photo of The Nephew with the snowman is hilarious and adorable :D
I love your new hairstyle! It looks really nice on you. :) I tend to not get my hair cut as much as I should as well, because I should probably maintain the layers in it so it doesn’t look like a triangle instead of a halo, but yes, better things to do I suppose. :P Plus expensive around here! And no one seems to understand my hair. Apparently extreme curls+fine hair+straight on the bottom, crazy on the top=Hairstylist has no idea what the hell they’re doing. -_- The last stylist who did my hair really nicely is a two hour drive away. Meh.
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Isn’t it great? That’s one of my favorite nephew photos yet. And I see a LOT of them. He’s got so much personality!
Thank you! I know, it’s tough to find a good stylist. I’m lucky. Mine’s very good, plus she’s a really cool person. I love talking to her. My appointments go by so quickly because we’re just talking and talking. I hope she never leaves, I’d be heartbroken!
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January 18th, 2013 at 3:45 pm
SO CUTIFUL!
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January 18th, 2013 at 6:48 pm
Me or the nephew?
Doesn’t matter! YAY, THANKS JIM! :)
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January 19th, 2013 at 10:59 am
That snowman has the longest nose I’ve ever seen.
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January 19th, 2013 at 8:33 pm
I know, right? I was thinking the same thing. “K.,” I was thinking, “where the hell did you get that carrot, it’s like genetically modified or something, good gracious!!!”
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January 19th, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Totally got the title. “Hair” was the first musical I ever saw live, when I was in high school, back in the early 70’s when it was still very relevant and shocking (NUDITY!!!!! Gasp!!) and I bought the soundtrack and practically wore out the LP! So, thanks for the blast from the past!
And I love the nephew pic – totally great face! Glad you will be seeing him on Monday! (and double yay for a holiday!)
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January 21st, 2013 at 3:36 pm
He’s adorable. We had a very good time today!
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