I’ve been trying to take more “candid” shots with my iPhone lately, since I haven’t really had the chance to pick up my regular camera and play around with it. I’ve also been involved with the “Photo a Day Challenge“, which I’ve been trying to keep up with on Instagram. Below are my last week’s Instagram photos of the week:
The last week of December I had made the decision that I wanted to be more true to myself in 2012. I wanted to do things that I felt reflected who I am as a person, regardless of what other people would think of me. Part of a therapy in a way. Which got me thinking… What would the first step be?
So, I decided I wanted to dye my hair purple. I took the inspiration from my little sister, who has been a blue-headed teenager for the past few months – and I loved it. I was debating on a few funky colors, but the general consensus was that purple would be my go-to color. I bought the color/bleaching kit, and hoped my hair didn’t fall out.
It took three tries with bleach before my hair was anywhere near being light enough to catch the purple dye. But, by that point, my husband had kind of liked the idea of me being blonde. (Although at the time it was more of an orangey/fire red than blonde.) Not to mention it had gotten to the point where my head was so fried, and I’m pretty sure I lost a bucketful of brain cells.
Off to my savior, Danielle at Scissors Palace! She is quite used to me showing up to her salon with dire hair-situations. She took one look at me and laughed. And so started our four-hour “girl time” while she stripped my hair another two times before toning it and then putting the blonde on with some lowlights. After all that was over and done with? She had to chop off a good couple of inches, since it was fried and dead and completely unmanageable. Oy!
But now? I have to say, I’m kinda in love with the lightness. It probably won’t last forever… But until then? I’m totally rocking the blonde having the most fun ever in 2012.
I always seem to go in these circles with my blogs. I get so excited about starting a new home, and I have so many hopes and aspirations of what I want to do there… And then it just falls by the wayside. No matter how much I want to write, it just never comes out at the convenient times. I wish I could blog straight from my brain.
…Yeah, that would end up badly.
Anyway. I have no real news to report. Things have been up and down, as they tend to go. Work is work. Home is home. Life is life. I still have yet to get Arista up and running, which has become the bane of my existence lately. I want so badly to have it up and running, because I have all these ideas for blogs and pictures and posts… And sadly the one thing keeping me from that is the portfolio. The thought of having to go through all my photos I’ve collected over the past few years and choose which ones I want to showcase… And then have to *gasp* organize them? It’s about as appealing as cleaning out my closet. Which, as you can see from my previous post, I’ve already done in an effort to avoid the task at hand.
I have, however, been spending heaps of quality time with my life-long partner in crime, which has been so therapeutic I can’t even tell you. She will never cease to have me on the floor laughing over the silliest of things (the most recent: “It maybe should have been a clue, when I saw he thought he was an alien.”) as well as make me feel so less neurotic and alone in this world. We have some awesome things planned for this year, which I’m super excited about. One of which is to road trip over to my BFF‘s new digs in Michigan.
So, all in all I guess life has been treating me pretty well. The fact that I don’t have anything noteworthy to write about may just be proof that I’m doing ok.
Which is a nice change of pace, for once.