well, at least i posted *something*

my last 40 minutes at the shop today, and i'm going to write a bit of a post. 

thing have been going... well, going.  things have picked up at the shop a bit for me.  today alone i did hip piercings, a nipple piercing, and a nostril piercing.  which is a pretty fucking good day as far as piercing is concerned. 

i had a call back on one of my many resumes submitted.  a phone interview.  which i guess might lead to an in-person interview.  who knows how long this process could take lol.  and i put in an application at a place i used to work before i got married.  it's a great company to work for and it would be neat to go back.

and i'm still personal training with my personal trainer.  we did lower body today and ZOMG OW.  i had to do squat thingies and calf raises and these backward-lunge-into-a-kick thing and my obliques and my glutes and holy fuck, he made me lean against a wall and squat and hold it for 30 seconds and it FUCKING HURTTT.  but i know it's good because i burned over 500 calories during my 50 minute workout.

of course, i'm eating back all of my workout calories today because i'm fucking hunnnnnnnngrrrryyyyyyyyy.

tomorrow i have a facial and a massage lined up, as well as my 'phone interview'.  and i may weed the garden a bit if it stops fucking raining.  we'll see about that.  we'll see.

on a final note, my hair is no longer mostly pink.  i'm dark brown again.  awesome husband was a bit taken aback, i've been pink for almost 5 years.  pictures soon, i promish.  but until then, here's a reminder of what my hair *used* to look like...

i don't usually 'review' products, but...

so i haven't shampooed my hair in just under three weeks.

yup, you read that right.  how's that for an attention-grabber?

about two and a half weeks ago i got my first taste of wen.  i had been considering the no 'poo crusade for some time.  back in florida, i tried co-washing ('washing' your hair with conditioner only) and had horrible luck with it.  i have very fine hair, but i have a decent amount of it.  it's not too thin - just each hair is so fine.  it's naturally medium brown (the non-pink parts of my hair are my nature color) and i strip my roots every few weeks then dump the color of the month on the hair from the crown of my head.

mah hairz.  pink on the top, brown everywhere else.  and white, when samantha's rubbed all over me.

lathering up every day was annoying because the lather would turn bright pink and i'd watch my color swirl down the drain.  so i started using dry shampoo and only washing my hair every other day.  this extended my color a bit, but it was annoying because, well, my hair is fine.  my scalp gets a bit oily.  my hair got nasty fast.  i wanted to wash every day, but getting my hair wet and then using dry shampoo didn't change anything.

i switched to the ol' standby of baby powder in the hair.  it didn't cake up or weigh my hair down as much as the dry shampoo did (i'm thinking because it actually had CLAY in it.  srsly.) but it was still, you know.  NOT clean feeling.  so i started looking into wen.

wen doesn't have shampoo.  it's conditioning cleanser.  no lather.  a lot of reviews were like 'i can't deal with it not lathering'.  you know what?  I CAN'T DEAL WITH MY NASTY HAIR.

there, i said it.  fine, very soft, but not very manageable i guess.  flyaways.  not shiny and lustrous.  i used to think maybe i SHOULDN'T wash my hair.  maybe all the oils is what makes the model's hair so shiny and lustrous (not so much, at least in my case).  it always looks okay, but that's because i was smothering it with chemicals and sulfates that suck the color out of my hair and leave it listless and dull.

so i bit the bullet and got the wen.  i got it at a major home shopping website (hey, i'm not plugging EVERYONE for free, bitches).  $50ish later, i have two 6oz bottles of cleansing conditioner, 2oz bottle of replenishing spray (wtf?), and a 2oz bottle of styling creme.  NOT cream.  CREME.

that's some fancy shit right there.

so three weeks ago this friday, i stripped my roots and laid in some cherry bomb and hot hot pink (and got some on our carpet.  but it came out - no matter what awesome husband says.  IT CAME OUT).  i washed with shampoo to get the lightener out.

saturday morning i pranced to the shower ready to play with my new hair toys.  it said 20 pumps for my hair length.

twenty. pumps. from a 6 oz bottle?  this shit's running like $2.50 an ounce, and you want me to use THAT MUCH?? the math almost made my head explode.  that's like $2 a wash.  my blood pressure started to rise and i figured, you know what?  let's try 14 pumps.  the reviews said it should feel really thick and creamy in your hair.

14 pumps did it.  incidentally, i'm down to around 10 for some flavors and 16 for others, and it really seems to cover my scalp and hair well.  so i massage that shit in, let it sit for 3-5 minutes, and rinse THE HELL out of my hair.  you know how things are 'squeaky clean'?  my hair was squeaky clean.  fo' realz, yo - it was SQUEAKY in my hands.  amazing.

and shine?  LIKE THE SUN, BITCHES.  i could NOT stop looking at my hair.  we went out to dinner with my aunt, uncle, cousin, and her bf and i COULD NOT stop playing with my hair.  it was so soft and silky and shiny and i was in love.

it said to wash every day to start with, because it will alter and correct the pH of your scalp/hair.  i have the cucumber aloe and lavender flavors.  lavender seems to cleanse better for me, but i want to try the other flavors too because I AM HOOKED.

i am a wen girl.

my hair after one week?  LUSTROUS.  it feels stronger.  it's lush, silky, my pink is still vibrant and my mousy medium brown even looks shinier and like it came from a very expensive bottle.

after one week of washing with wen

that's my natural brown  it's never looked so good.

i wanted to try all five flavors, so i went to the same shop-from-home network and ordered another kit they had that contained three 6oz bottles of the other three flavors - sweet almond mint, tea tree, and pomegranate.  i love the way they smell and i think they all cleanse my hair great.  the cucumber aloe seems to be the least awesome for my hair.  i'm still trying to decide which are best for my hair, but they all seem to help my color.

slightly creepy photo of me taken on my macbook pro 13 days into wen.  i'm not creepy, i promish.

and now, here we are at almost the three week mark.  i'm still washing my hair almost every day, which is really annoying, but it's been hot.  i know my hair is cleaner than it has been, and honestly?  my hair is awesome enough with the wen that i can't imagine going back to shampoo.  took this photo last night and i have NOT touched up my color.  that is 19 day old color, manic panic mixed with special effects.  anyone who's colored with semi-perm pigments like that before knows how fast that shit fades.  LOOK AT MAH HAIRZ

still so pink! so vibrant!  so AWESOME!

i am not using ANY extra product in my hair.  i have that fancy styling CREME that i put in my hair from mid-shaft to end once in a while to help with the few flyaways i get, but seriously.  no hairspray or anything.  i've needed hairspray for over a month and stopped using it the day i started using wen.   i love it.  i love it so much i might buy it by the gallon after i decide which flavors are best for my hair.  i've read reviews where women who used to get their hair cut and colored every 6 weeks because of split/dead ends and color fade who now go over TEN WEEKS between cuts and colorings.  TEN WEEKS.  that's two and a half months.

do you remember what happened the last time you didn't cut your hair for two and a half months?  and forget about the inch-long roots, do you remember how shitty your color was? 

i'm a wen girl now. 

destination: TRUTH.

awesome husband is obsessed with destination truth and ghost hunters.  all i want to do is like watch cartoons and baseball and have loving, caring, meaningful conversations with him... or my cats.

and josh is all underwater in some boat and just went into a room and was like 'oh, *bleep* i'm in a room full of bombs'.  and some other guy who is not in the watery room full of bombs is like, yeah, don't blow yourself up because a bunch of locals HAVE DONE JUST THAT.

who insures these guys?  i mean, i've seen them like repel down ridiculously sheer cliff faces at the drop of a hat, dive in pitch black water filled with sharks at night, and hunt in dark forests in the middle of nowhere for mythical creatures.  i mean, hello, there are still like bears there and shit.  and last week they were on the plains of africa, and LIONS were staring them down.

the destination truth people CANNOT be insured.  they must be, like, independently wealthy OR they own their own hospital or something.  because this is ridiculous.

in other television news:  i am devastated to inform you that the hilstrands and hansens will NOT be returning to season 7 of deadliest catch.  i understand why they're leaving, but it doesn't make it suck any less.  from what i have read, the cornelia marie will be back with jake and josh at the helm, but other than that, who cares?  i mean, did you REALLY want to listen to keith and the dicks on the wizard for another season?  lynn is the only thing that makes that boat bearable.

we are having a garage sale this saturday.  we keep moving dumb shit around with us, from new york to the apartment in florida then this house we live in now.  and we'll be moving back to new york (hopefully in the next few months) and i refuse to move some of this shit BACK UP THERE.  like i have a million partylite candles from when i was a candle lady.  i moved them from new york to florida and i still have a fuckload left.  i am not moving candles back to new york.  so i've been burning a lot of them.  i may sell some.  but probably not.  because they'll just melt out there.

that's right, it's still like 90 degrees every day here in central flori-fucking-da.  and it's about to be october.  which is like my favorite month.  i like the onset of fall IN NEW YORK.  here, we don't have fall.  dicks.  i got married on october.  halloween/samhain is in october.  the run up to the holidays hasn't started yet, it's not SUPPOSED to be a million degrees, and it's playoff time for baseball. 

so we're rockin' the garage sale this weekend.  we're actually going to have it IN the garage.  awesome.  and then next tuesday my brother and his girlfriend are coming down from new york!  they'll be here until sunday, and we're going to harry potterville at universal studios and disney.  and we'll do some hanging out and being awesome and general fun times.  i'll be busy as a little bee the next couple of days, between the garage sale and getting ahead on my school work, so i don't have to leave epcot early to finish assignments.  because that is not awesome.

and i dyed my hair today.  i used to use manic panic hot hot pink, but was told about special effects colors, and i bought atomic pink and hi-octane orange and this is what happened:

ohmahgah it's all pink and orange! please ignore my zit :/

it's like super bright.  the pink is a bit light in some areas, and that happens when you use some dyes over already dyed hair.  so awesome husband will help me hit those spots again.

while i was out there with my camera, i took some shots of taylor cat, the yowling fuck that he is.

holy fuck he's super handsome!  look at that boopable nose!

as annoying as he can be, i really really really really really love him.  he's my furbrother, and at 16 i know we're basically on borrowed time.  i do love him though.  his lips are grey, and his nose used to be all grey.  it's like a sign of his age and wisdom, since he's seen so much action in the fields (or yards) his greyness had rubbed off.  he's that hard core.  truth.