SHEARED

Three years ago, Jene’ convinced me to buy a “big girl bed,” which meant replacing my 11 year old twin mattress and elevated wooden bed frame (3 1/2 feet off the ground) with a new queen size bed. I have not regretted this decision, though I do miss all the storage I had under my bed.

Today, I got my “big girl haircut,” which means my shoulder length hair is now a short, short bob. I actually really like it, and the cut is very good and will grow out nicely, so I got my money’s worth (which wasn’t much because I can’t afford a salon haircut right now). I also had to finish off the damage of the home perm I got this spring which fried my baby fine hair. So, I’m down to mostly healthy hair and it’s easy to take care of… and it’s the shortest it’s been since I demanded my waist length hair be chopped off in the third grade.

The funniest part of this whole experience was the photo shoot we did in the living room so I could send out pics to friends and family. I made all sorts of faces, and had fun with it. Then I tried to send the picture out at the size Jene’ shot them at (high resolution) and they were oh, about 1.1 MB each. LOL. Nobody needs to see me that up close and personal! And, since I’ve had DSL for a few months, I also forget how long it takes to download one of those pictures! To all those people who received that huge file… I’m so sorry. Though I have this fancy new haircut, it did not decrease my blonde-ness at all.

Well, it’s time to go figure out what I’m going to wear to work tomorrow to debut the new ‘do…