For the longest time, I had green hair. A huge fan of Japanese anime as a kid, at the age of ten I first watched the American version of Robotech: Macross Saga and seeing Miriya Sterling's green hair I knew then that green was the proper color my own hair was to be. Of course, I had to wait until adulthood before I could do anything about it.
So, for the longest time as an adult, I had green hair. Occasionally riddled with the random month or two where I allowed it to brown again (oddly, every time my distant friend Adam has visited has been a time when I let the brown lapse back in). Then, for the past year I've been lax and brown again.
Having no idea WHY I'd let it go brown again for so long, I decided today to undergo the process of re-greening my hair. Now I remember why I let it go for so long... damn that bleach is irritating!
See, I have dark brown hair so in order for the green to show, I have to bleach my hair blonde first (which really turns out a light orange, but hey, it's green soon after). The whole bleaching ordeal is a nightmare. Enduring that for thirty minutes of application, and hours of continued irritation after rinse makes every trip down the green dye highway a trip fraught with sacrifice.
So, for next week's vacation I will be freshly green again. Huzzah!
Friday, July 16, 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Reconnected
Sometimes I try to think of witty titles to my blog postings, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I try and they really just come off lame. Guess which this is?
So anyway, after a year of shunning television, and after two months of light exposure to the Chrises' satellite tv, and after six months of Kazaa being a butt-load slower than usual I bit the bullet and became a tv viewer again. Having had a bad taste in my mouth, still, from digital cable and its constant outages, I went with the only other option in our area: satellite.
This, in turn, left me two options: Dish Network and Directv. The major decision factor came when Directv was charging for its Tivo and Dish Network was giving its tivo-like program away gratis to new members as part of a promotion. Their dvr, as they call it, is really cool. Now I can record and store 100 hours of tv shows... and I can rewind, pause and fast forward tv shows as I watch them--sommething I was never able to do with cable. The only major downfall, for me, is I can't watch one channel while I record another; I need a different receiver for that and don't want to pay the extra charge, as I'm cheap.
Now I have a lot more than when we had digital cable, and for about 20 bucks less per month. Now I can watch Simpsons and Dead Like Me again, and Queer as Folk... and now I can get in to shows like West Wing and CSI as they air and not as they release on dvd.
Now I can see me wasting far too much time in front of the telly. I knew there was another reason I stopped having cable.
So anyway, after a year of shunning television, and after two months of light exposure to the Chrises' satellite tv, and after six months of Kazaa being a butt-load slower than usual I bit the bullet and became a tv viewer again. Having had a bad taste in my mouth, still, from digital cable and its constant outages, I went with the only other option in our area: satellite.
This, in turn, left me two options: Dish Network and Directv. The major decision factor came when Directv was charging for its Tivo and Dish Network was giving its tivo-like program away gratis to new members as part of a promotion. Their dvr, as they call it, is really cool. Now I can record and store 100 hours of tv shows... and I can rewind, pause and fast forward tv shows as I watch them--sommething I was never able to do with cable. The only major downfall, for me, is I can't watch one channel while I record another; I need a different receiver for that and don't want to pay the extra charge, as I'm cheap.
Now I have a lot more than when we had digital cable, and for about 20 bucks less per month. Now I can watch Simpsons and Dead Like Me again, and Queer as Folk... and now I can get in to shows like West Wing and CSI as they air and not as they release on dvd.
Now I can see me wasting far too much time in front of the telly. I knew there was another reason I stopped having cable.
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Canada Day
Happy Canada Day, all my beautiful Canadian-American readers. For some reason, my Canadian friends grouse ever so slightly when I remind them that Canada is America too.
Today I took the van in for an oil change and check up. The owner of the shop was giving out American flags to all of the customers. Lash really dug that. What I really dug was that the owner gave flags to the car next to us, and the owner got all three of her kids waving their flags and singing "O, Canada." That was a hoot.
So, afterward I had to drive foster kid #B to Sacramento Airport and shuffled him on his merry way to a family visit elsewhere (I am being dodgy because foster child identity and whereabouts is CONFIDENTIAL. Shhhh). This was also a pre-test on my part to see if the van would be more likely or less likely to survive the SDCC trip in three weeks. So far, I'm guessing more likely, though I need to watch the temperature. #B was supposed to call here when his plane landed, which would have been 4 hours ago... he's forgetful, and I'm positive I'd have heard frantic calls from other people by now if he hadn't arrived all safe and sound, so I'll just chalk his lack of call to the usual forgetfulness.
Today I took the van in for an oil change and check up. The owner of the shop was giving out American flags to all of the customers. Lash really dug that. What I really dug was that the owner gave flags to the car next to us, and the owner got all three of her kids waving their flags and singing "O, Canada." That was a hoot.
So, afterward I had to drive foster kid #B to Sacramento Airport and shuffled him on his merry way to a family visit elsewhere (I am being dodgy because foster child identity and whereabouts is CONFIDENTIAL. Shhhh). This was also a pre-test on my part to see if the van would be more likely or less likely to survive the SDCC trip in three weeks. So far, I'm guessing more likely, though I need to watch the temperature. #B was supposed to call here when his plane landed, which would have been 4 hours ago... he's forgetful, and I'm positive I'd have heard frantic calls from other people by now if he hadn't arrived all safe and sound, so I'll just chalk his lack of call to the usual forgetfulness.
Ugh
Yesterday the Mustang broke down. Very frustrating as we can't repair it right now unless we want to give up going on our vacation next month, and we can't repair it next month unless I want to give up paying my tuition for the semester. Right now I only hope the Plymouth stays strong and successfully shuttles us around town, to and from our vacation, and etc. for the remainder of the Summer. Light a candle for us or something.
I really should stop letting Denise use our vehicles. Every car we've ever had since marrying has broken down within two years, and always when she was driving it. This is the second time the Mustang died under her watch... I love her, but her luck has been pretty shady thus far with our vehicles.
As I said, light a candle for us or something--this vacation is a biggie for us and I really really really need it. *Chanting* Let's go, Plymouth! Let's go! Let's go, Plymouth! Let's go!
I really should stop letting Denise use our vehicles. Every car we've ever had since marrying has broken down within two years, and always when she was driving it. This is the second time the Mustang died under her watch... I love her, but her luck has been pretty shady thus far with our vehicles.
As I said, light a candle for us or something--this vacation is a biggie for us and I really really really need it. *Chanting* Let's go, Plymouth! Let's go! Let's go, Plymouth! Let's go!
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