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right, so i forgot to update y'all on my blue hair adventures. the results are somewhat disappointing, i'm sorry to say. if i were standing outside in the sun, you'd say, omg! you're hair is blue!!!. if i were standing in some direct indoor lighting, you'd say, hey, wow, is your hair highlighted blue?. if i were in a well lit room, not under direct light, you might think you're eyes were going funny and squint at me to figure out whether there was really a blue sheen to some of my hair or not. and if the room were a little dark, you wouldn't notice a thing.

which is... fine. but not what i was going for. the good news is that now i know how to get what i was going for. and i'll give it a shot in about a month, when my hair hasn't gone the the dye-bleach-dye-dye-dye process quite so recently. what would it take, you ask? the streaks would have to be bleached to white* (no easy feat with my dark, dark brown hair) and then dyed blue with a specific brand of dye**.

rach is off to nyc this weekend with her friend C. so i am left alone to enjoy our lovely, clean apartment. i'm rather excited for a weekend of relative downtime. there's plenty i need to be doing but at least no major, scheduled events to get in the way of me doing those things. and it's lovely and sunny out. ::happy sigh::

*katie previously told me that bleaching to white was a mistake because you need to leave some pigment in your hair for the new color to cling to. but when she called manic panic to say wtf? they told her that the blue dye had combined with the yellow in my hair to make green. hmph.

**i was going to link the brand but i can't find it anywhere and i don't know how to spell it. katie said the name and it's something like pirvana. and it's soooooo much better than manic panic. the shade of blue is gorgeous and she put it right over the streaks that had been manic-panic'ed and it made them a perfectly beautiful (if subtle) shade of blue. clearly, it is a superior product.

sunny

i'm so in love with this day. i'm sure there're a million important things i'm not doing, but it's so beautiful and i'm so pleased with what i have done, that i just can't find it in me to care. i wish you could all be in my front room this afternoon, with the huge windows and all the sunlight. or maybe we should just all be outside where it's warm and sunny and ahhhhhh. happy.

i am contemplating pizza dough. i'm hanging with annelarissa and scottxwl and wildgreentide tonight and we're going to have pizza but i've thrown a wrench in the works with my NO SIMPLE CARBS lifestyle. eh. but they're sweet and accomodacting folks. i haven't mentioned the carb thing here, have i? it's part of my grand effort to stay mostly sane. here are the components of such effort at present:

-therapy
-NO SUGAR. and cutting as far back on simple carbs as possible.
-(almost) daily yoga
-daily exercise (most days this means walking. but, omg, today i did this alternating walk-jog thing that totalled 12 minutes of jogging! that's huge for me, folks.)
-daily journaling and other more mental/emotional/spiritual things that i feel too protective of to discuss here
-daily flax seed oil, multivitamin, calcium-magnesium, and B6
-less caffeine (i haven't really started working on this one yet, but i'm contemplating it)
-stimulant medication (alternating between concerta and ritalin these days)

whew. it's a lot of work, changing your life.

tonight, anney and wgt and i will sing through our concert music. all schutz, all the time! which reminds me i should plug our various upcoming performances. soon, soon.

i hope you're all loving today too. mwah!