Pearls of Wisdom and Foolish Mutterings

In Honor of Queen Scarlett

What a day today was! Holy crap! It really wasn't all that busy, it's just that I've become such a .... errr... uhhhh.... energy-conservationist (I prefer that term to the less flattering - but, more accurate - "lazy bum") that the activities of a normal day are exhausting. Anyway, one of the things I did today was to pay a visit to my hairstylist. I was inspired by scarlett_o_h's new and lovely hairdo courtesy of Jo Paulo. Check it out here:

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Thanks for the inspiration, Scarlett. My new default picture shows me with the new 'do. And then there's this one:



Dang! I had no idea my nose was such a ski slope when viewed from above.

I'm still gasping in surprise every time I pass a mirror. Note to self: Get some spray on tanner. That should contrast nicely with the new hair.

Coincidentally, while I was getting my hair done, I missed a call from Nada and Scarlett. We played phone tag a bit, but finally connected and I had the pleasure of speaking with Queen Scarlett. What a lovely accent she has. After we hung up, I kept chuckling to myself about how our two accents couldn't have been more different. You know, Texan meets Brit. Scarlett probably hung up and turned to Nada to say, "I couldn't understand a word she said!" I'll have to admit, I had a bit of difficulty understanding Scarlett. It took me a few extra beats to process what she said, so I may have appeared to be a bit "slow."

My other excitement of the day included a visit to the bone cracker (ahhhhhh!!!) and  meeting a termite inspector at one of the houses we bought to flip that has given us no shortage of enormous surprises. And, sure enough, the latest in a long string of surprises is an infestation of termites. Yippee! Actually, termites are small potatoes compared to the mother of all surprises, which was that the wiring had been stripped from the house by the previous owners. So the first thing we had to do was have the house completely rewired. Tons of fun. Never a dull moment.

It did make me happy tonight when Chris Allen won American Idol. Yay!!!

I think I'm going to go lay my blond head down on my pillow. Sleep well, all my wonderful writer friends.