I just got a great new haircut today, and I'm so happy! I hadn't cut it since last April (when it was completely shaved), so it feels nice to now have a stylish haircut again. It's kind of a pixie cut, that I can either spike up or leave down, so very low maintenance but still cut. Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging is because of my Sweeney Todd obsession. I will never think of going to the "barber" the same way again. :)
I first thought about Sweeney Todd when the stylist tossed the sheet around me to keep the hair off. I had a quiet chuckle, then put it out of my mind. She shampooed, conditioned, then cut my hair, and I thought we were done, when she said she wanted to razor my ends so they would spike better. She then pulled out a razor that looked almost exactly like the one in Sweeney Todd, and proceeded to start cutting my hair. I nearly lost it. I kept expecting her to reach around and slit my throat. And for some reason this made me very happy. O_o I'm a strange person. . . but anyway, that was my real life Sweeney Todd experience. I shall ask for my ends to be razored every time from now on. :)
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Other blog
So if you truly want to know what's going on in my life, I'm posting most of my daily crap along with my photos in my project 365 blog now. I'll still put random individual things in here, or things I want to elaborate on more, but that's where most of my blogging is now. An alternate title for this blog is random and not-so-rarely updated. :)
I really like keeping the other blog, because I'm actually "journaling" for the first time, something that's been my goal for a while now. So. . . yep.
I really like keeping the other blog, because I'm actually "journaling" for the first time, something that's been my goal for a while now. So. . . yep.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Snow and Driving
Oh, and I forgot to mention that on Christmas we got 2 feet of snow! It was pretty amazing, the biggest snowfall we've had for many a year. Our car got stuck at the bottom of our street. . . and at the top of our street. . . and at the middle of the next street. . . .
So anyway, many a picture was taken of this: of our inflatable lawn penguins being buried, of me shoveling, of the impressive drifts, and of the MOUNTAINS of snow plowed from the Walmart parking lot.
Oh, and going with the driving theme, a few days before Christmas I got in my first accident. I wasn't driving, but I was in the passenger seat, so it was a bit scary. Ice was to blame: we (my friend Sam and I) tried to turn onto a street in my subdivision and the car just slid right into a chainlink fence. Thankfully, we were going very slow, so the chainlink just kind of caught us in a net, and we somehow missed hitting both of the nearby poles, so the car wasn't really damaged either. The worst part was that all the neighbors came to look, and since this was two blocks from my house they all knew me. . . so a bit embarrassing. Plus standing in the freezing cold while the cop filled out the accident report wasn't fun either. But anyway, as first accidents go, it was pretty good: no injuries, minimal damage, a good reason for it. And apparently soon afterward, someone else slid into the same fence, so we can feel less stupid.
So anyway, many a picture was taken of this: of our inflatable lawn penguins being buried, of me shoveling, of the impressive drifts, and of the MOUNTAINS of snow plowed from the Walmart parking lot.
Oh, and going with the driving theme, a few days before Christmas I got in my first accident. I wasn't driving, but I was in the passenger seat, so it was a bit scary. Ice was to blame: we (my friend Sam and I) tried to turn onto a street in my subdivision and the car just slid right into a chainlink fence. Thankfully, we were going very slow, so the chainlink just kind of caught us in a net, and we somehow missed hitting both of the nearby poles, so the car wasn't really damaged either. The worst part was that all the neighbors came to look, and since this was two blocks from my house they all knew me. . . so a bit embarrassing. Plus standing in the freezing cold while the cop filled out the accident report wasn't fun either. But anyway, as first accidents go, it was pretty good: no injuries, minimal damage, a good reason for it. And apparently soon afterward, someone else slid into the same fence, so we can feel less stupid.
Blanket and numerous poems!
I finished the blanket yesterday! Hurray! I'll post pictures later, but I really am impressed. It took a long long time, but it's so warm and cuddly and pretty. It's officially the biggest and most complicated thing I've ever crocheted, so that's exciting too.
Anyway. . . not much else has happened since I posted last. Same lying about the house, crocheting or writing and watching Stargate (blew through seasons 9 and 10 and both new movies in just a few days). Oh, but I figured out that on allpoetry I posted 196 poems in 2007 and 196 poems in 2008. Weird! That's out of a total of 468, five of which are this year, so although I've been on it since my sophomore year of high school (2004), I really wasn't active until the latter part of my senior year. Interesting and useless data there. :)
I know I say this every few months or so, but I'm becoming really comfortable with where I am in my poetry. I can pull pretty interesting lines and ideas just straight off the top of my head, and form some good poems (if I do say so myself) rather quickly. And I like my poems, so that's really all that matters (though it is nice to get appreciation and praise :).
And I've decided this year that I'm going to do the project 365 thing, which is to take a picture every day for a year. My first picture was of the blanket I just finished yesterday. Today I think it's a picture of my cat with my ps2 controller. Not that inspiring or marvelous. . . I'm sure I'll get better at it as the year goes on. I'll be posting the pictures eventually in a separate blog in this account.
The other blog is My eyes of 2009.
Random and rambling as always.
Anyway. . . not much else has happened since I posted last. Same lying about the house, crocheting or writing and watching Stargate (blew through seasons 9 and 10 and both new movies in just a few days). Oh, but I figured out that on allpoetry I posted 196 poems in 2007 and 196 poems in 2008. Weird! That's out of a total of 468, five of which are this year, so although I've been on it since my sophomore year of high school (2004), I really wasn't active until the latter part of my senior year. Interesting and useless data there. :)
I know I say this every few months or so, but I'm becoming really comfortable with where I am in my poetry. I can pull pretty interesting lines and ideas just straight off the top of my head, and form some good poems (if I do say so myself) rather quickly. And I like my poems, so that's really all that matters (though it is nice to get appreciation and praise :).
And I've decided this year that I'm going to do the project 365 thing, which is to take a picture every day for a year. My first picture was of the blanket I just finished yesterday. Today I think it's a picture of my cat with my ps2 controller. Not that inspiring or marvelous. . . I'm sure I'll get better at it as the year goes on. I'll be posting the pictures eventually in a separate blog in this account.
The other blog is My eyes of 2009.
Random and rambling as always.
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