Well, finally. For the first time since August, I got a haircut yesterday. How badly did I need it?

Here’s what it looked like yesterday before the cut.

Actually, it’s been so long, it’s been tangling a lot, so I’ve been brushing it before my shower each night–and here’s what it looks like then:

Lots of hair! The minute you break up all those curl-clumps, every hair goes wild and you end up with frizz.

So, anyway, I got my hair cut. Now, my stylist–the one I found after several really bad cuts when my last regular hair-dresser disappeared from the old salon–is really wonderful, but she recently got a promotion, which means her haircuts are $20 more than they used to be, which I can’t really afford. But I like her, so I’m trying to make my cuts last even longer than before.

So, today, it’s much shorter.

Oh, but yesterday after the haircut? By the time she was done combing through it and doing all the cutting, trying to salvage any curl was pretty much impossible, so I let her blow it out .. making yesterday the first time my hair has been blown dry in, well, years.

I took a picture as soon as I got back to the car.

And one when I got home, figuring it wasn’t going to look like this, well, pretty much ever again.

(Oh, and more or less as soon as I took these pictures? I got out a headband to keep the hair out of my face!)

In other news, Mom has a cold again–her third since October. Because she didn’t feel well, I cooked supper for the three of us last night–beef stew and homemade biscuits. The stew (in all modesty, I make great stew). For whatever reason, though, the biscuits chose not to rise–but tasted good anyway.

I had been going to bake a cake, too, but it turned out that we were low on flour, so Dad said he’d run to the store this morning to pick some up … which he did. About 20 minutes later, though? A phone call. He had somehow lost his keys and needed me to come and bring him the spare keys. Okay… turns out, his had fallen out of his pocket INSIDE the car as he got out. (No, don’t ask me how. I don’t understand it, either.)

By the time I got home, though, Chappy was a little put out that I’d put a coat on and gone out without him, so he convinced me to go out for a quick walk. Good thing, too, because it’s now sleeting and raining outside and we would otherwise have missed the one opportunity to go. So, you know, silver lining.

Okay, back to working on my book!

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