Everyone loves mullets
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brightbluegirlDay 2 of my diet. So far so good. I'm actually a little hungry right now, but it's only 10am. I'm trying to see if I can wait until 11 before eating. Oh yes, I'm so tough. Grr.
Day 1 was actually quite good. I spent the night before cooking (I made vegan rice pudding and carrot soup), and the actual day of was spent in celebration of food as well (I made a tofu maple syrup dip for fruit, and a yummy salad with broccoli and cucumber and chick peas and a balsamic/maple dressing, and tuna salad open faced sandwiches on sprouted grain bread (I used Nayonaise, since regular mayo has sugar in it).
I actually was so careful with food, that I had to find myself something to eat before bed, to get up to 1400 calories (my calorie limit is 1500, but I thought I'd eat only 1400 yesterday in case I felt like I needed the extra calories today, I can go up to 1600 if I save the calories from previous days). So I had popcorn with garlic and pepper butter on it. MmMmmMMmmMmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmMMMmmmmMmmmm that is possibly one of the tastiest things EVER. I can't believe I don't eat it every day.
If I thought it would work, I would eat only popcorn every day on this diet. Except, of course, the whole "protein" thing, and the "vegetable" thing, and pesky health issues like that.
Halloween was ok. We had a pumpkin carving contest at work. My team, at my suggestion, carved our pumpkin into a ladybug. It was super cute. :D We won "Most Creative". It's all good. I mean, I didn't expect to get "Scariest" or anything. And we did Think Outside The Pumpkin (ooh, I'm so funny).
But anyway. There was a halloween party at work, I didn't dress up, I stayed a while, ate some food, raced back home to give candy to the chillen... and there were no chillen.
APPARENTLY kids only go to apartments with jack-o-lanterns. Which we didn't have time to carve this year (opposing schedules and sicknesses). Ah well. I gave our neighbour kids a bunch of candy, ate some of my own, and read most of the evening.
Saturday was good, Andrew and I went to Lonsdale Quay to see what the big deal was. Riding on the Sea Bus was fun. It reminded me of the ferry to PEI. Good memories. Sweet, sweet memories. Lonsdale Quay is almost useless - An Upscale Granville Island for Yuppies. Yeah, ok. BUT they have a tea store, which I haven't found at Granville, although it could be there. And the tea is relatively good priced, and there's all SORTS of things. I got a Rooibois "Tropical Punch" tea, and a Green Roibois "Lemon", yummy, yummy, yummy!! There's also some really good fresh fish at Lonsdale, I can see us shopping there for our fishy needs.
(I was thinking yesterday about the fact that I would GLADLY go vegan except for fish. Fish fish fish fish. I love fish. I mean, I still eat chicken, too, and I like it - I like the texture and the flavour and the feeling in my tummy. But I could give it up. But fish. I don't want to give up fish. Ever. Bad Lisa. No Vegan.)
Oh yeah, and I got my hair cut. Now THERE's a story.
Did you know that there are people out there who ACTUALLY find mullets attractive? And I am NOT still talking about fish here.
So we had a coupon for 25% off a haircut at a place near us. I'd finally decided to go through with it - to get my hair cut off and just go back to what works for me. We agreed to go to this place, and if they had hair books, we'd pick out the photos of what I wanted, show it to the hairdresser, and hope for the best.
So I found two cute hairstyle photos. One I liked for the front and sides (sort of wispy onto the face, really nice), and one I liked for the rest of the hair (short, a bit of volume the way it was styled, but nothing fancy). The hairdresser (Sheila) seemed very knowledgable, she said she could do blah blah blah and it would be easy. So that's good.
I told her I didn't want a "Shampoo, cut and style", but just a "Cut", but she dragged me over to the sink anyway "just to wet my hair, and oh... while I'm at it, put a bit of straightener in your hair, to see if we can 'do something' about all that curl".
"Ok," I thought, "I'm in for it."
Well.
I was REALLY in for it.
So she started cutting. And she cut my bangs so long they were in my eyes, even though I'd specifically told her I wanted my hair OUT OF MY EYES so I could forget about it.
AND SHE GAVE ME A GODDAMNED MULLET!!!!!!!!
I told her to cut the back shorter, I said I didn't want it that long, and she said to me "But you've got a long neck, we need to hide it"
Huh?
I told her I didn't want it anyway, and that I like long necks, and to cut it.
That's when she told me she'd had a mullet for 10 years and had just gotten it cut off, and she still wasn't used to it.
Then I told her to cut the bangs shorter, and she said "you've got a short forehead, we've got to hide it!"
HUH???
Oh, yes, I have a small forehead. SMALL, not short. It looks really cute framed with bangs. Not COVERED in them. So I told her I wanted it cut short anyway, for the same reason.
So she did, disagreeing with me the whole time, and she STILL didn't cut them short enough. I ended up cutting them to the proper length when I got home.
So then she starts "styling" my hair, even though I didn't want her to. She put some god awful mousse in my hair and starts pouffing up the back, but not ALL the back, just the bottom, in this ugly old-woman-I-don't-have-a-mirror-to-look-at-the-back-of-my-head-way. So I just pushed it all down with my hands, and she said "What, you don't want it pouffy?", and I said "no, it's a hair down kind of day"
Needless to say, she charged me for the "shampoo, cut and style", but I had the coupon. And I didn't tip her.
(I have NEVER not tipped a hair person before!)
And we got out of there and I ranted and raved to Andrew about the horribleness of hair cutter people, went to the bathroom, wet my hair to get rid of the worst of the goop she put in it (and the worst of the "style"), and slicked it all down.
Now I'm very happy with it. I'm even used to the fact that it's my own hair colour (boring brown - EVERYONE else's brown is nicer than mine - I haven't had hair my 'natural' hair colour for at least 10 years). I trimmed my bangs, it looks verra nice. And short. Don't forget short.
Day 1 was actually quite good. I spent the night before cooking (I made vegan rice pudding and carrot soup), and the actual day of was spent in celebration of food as well (I made a tofu maple syrup dip for fruit, and a yummy salad with broccoli and cucumber and chick peas and a balsamic/maple dressing, and tuna salad open faced sandwiches on sprouted grain bread (I used Nayonaise, since regular mayo has sugar in it).
I actually was so careful with food, that I had to find myself something to eat before bed, to get up to 1400 calories (my calorie limit is 1500, but I thought I'd eat only 1400 yesterday in case I felt like I needed the extra calories today, I can go up to 1600 if I save the calories from previous days). So I had popcorn with garlic and pepper butter on it. MmMmmMMmmMmmmmMMMMMMmmmmmMMMmmmmMmmmm that is possibly one of the tastiest things EVER. I can't believe I don't eat it every day.
If I thought it would work, I would eat only popcorn every day on this diet. Except, of course, the whole "protein" thing, and the "vegetable" thing, and pesky health issues like that.
Halloween was ok. We had a pumpkin carving contest at work. My team, at my suggestion, carved our pumpkin into a ladybug. It was super cute. :D We won "Most Creative". It's all good. I mean, I didn't expect to get "Scariest" or anything. And we did Think Outside The Pumpkin (ooh, I'm so funny).
But anyway. There was a halloween party at work, I didn't dress up, I stayed a while, ate some food, raced back home to give candy to the chillen... and there were no chillen.
APPARENTLY kids only go to apartments with jack-o-lanterns. Which we didn't have time to carve this year (opposing schedules and sicknesses). Ah well. I gave our neighbour kids a bunch of candy, ate some of my own, and read most of the evening.
Saturday was good, Andrew and I went to Lonsdale Quay to see what the big deal was. Riding on the Sea Bus was fun. It reminded me of the ferry to PEI. Good memories. Sweet, sweet memories. Lonsdale Quay is almost useless - An Upscale Granville Island for Yuppies. Yeah, ok. BUT they have a tea store, which I haven't found at Granville, although it could be there. And the tea is relatively good priced, and there's all SORTS of things. I got a Rooibois "Tropical Punch" tea, and a Green Roibois "Lemon", yummy, yummy, yummy!! There's also some really good fresh fish at Lonsdale, I can see us shopping there for our fishy needs.
(I was thinking yesterday about the fact that I would GLADLY go vegan except for fish. Fish fish fish fish. I love fish. I mean, I still eat chicken, too, and I like it - I like the texture and the flavour and the feeling in my tummy. But I could give it up. But fish. I don't want to give up fish. Ever. Bad Lisa. No Vegan.)
Oh yeah, and I got my hair cut. Now THERE's a story.
Did you know that there are people out there who ACTUALLY find mullets attractive? And I am NOT still talking about fish here.
So we had a coupon for 25% off a haircut at a place near us. I'd finally decided to go through with it - to get my hair cut off and just go back to what works for me. We agreed to go to this place, and if they had hair books, we'd pick out the photos of what I wanted, show it to the hairdresser, and hope for the best.
So I found two cute hairstyle photos. One I liked for the front and sides (sort of wispy onto the face, really nice), and one I liked for the rest of the hair (short, a bit of volume the way it was styled, but nothing fancy). The hairdresser (Sheila) seemed very knowledgable, she said she could do blah blah blah and it would be easy. So that's good.
I told her I didn't want a "Shampoo, cut and style", but just a "Cut", but she dragged me over to the sink anyway "just to wet my hair, and oh... while I'm at it, put a bit of straightener in your hair, to see if we can 'do something' about all that curl".
"Ok," I thought, "I'm in for it."
Well.
I was REALLY in for it.
So she started cutting. And she cut my bangs so long they were in my eyes, even though I'd specifically told her I wanted my hair OUT OF MY EYES so I could forget about it.
AND SHE GAVE ME A GODDAMNED MULLET!!!!!!!!
I told her to cut the back shorter, I said I didn't want it that long, and she said to me "But you've got a long neck, we need to hide it"
Huh?
I told her I didn't want it anyway, and that I like long necks, and to cut it.
That's when she told me she'd had a mullet for 10 years and had just gotten it cut off, and she still wasn't used to it.
Then I told her to cut the bangs shorter, and she said "you've got a short forehead, we've got to hide it!"
HUH???
Oh, yes, I have a small forehead. SMALL, not short. It looks really cute framed with bangs. Not COVERED in them. So I told her I wanted it cut short anyway, for the same reason.
So she did, disagreeing with me the whole time, and she STILL didn't cut them short enough. I ended up cutting them to the proper length when I got home.
So then she starts "styling" my hair, even though I didn't want her to. She put some god awful mousse in my hair and starts pouffing up the back, but not ALL the back, just the bottom, in this ugly old-woman-I-don't-have-a-mirror-to-look-at-the-back-of-my-head-way. So I just pushed it all down with my hands, and she said "What, you don't want it pouffy?", and I said "no, it's a hair down kind of day"
Needless to say, she charged me for the "shampoo, cut and style", but I had the coupon. And I didn't tip her.
(I have NEVER not tipped a hair person before!)
And we got out of there and I ranted and raved to Andrew about the horribleness of hair cutter people, went to the bathroom, wet my hair to get rid of the worst of the goop she put in it (and the worst of the "style"), and slicked it all down.
Now I'm very happy with it. I'm even used to the fact that it's my own hair colour (boring brown - EVERYONE else's brown is nicer than mine - I haven't had hair my 'natural' hair colour for at least 10 years). I trimmed my bangs, it looks verra nice. And short. Don't forget short.
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Date: 2003-11-03 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 02:06 pm (UTC)When I was really poor after getting laid off and deciding to live the life of the starving artist (I called it my dilettante year), I pretended credit cards were money and ordered delivery sushi.
Which I am STILL paying for, now.
Mullet mania...
Date: 2003-11-03 08:00 pm (UTC)... from http://destroyteenangst.slampt.net/glossarymq.html
I have a music video on tape (I can't remember where it is, or who did it) that portrays a mullet farming operation (and I don't mean the fish...). I'll let you know if I find it...
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Date: 2003-11-03 08:58 pm (UTC)hee hee. i'm pretty sure that everyone feels that way about their own hair. especially when they've just that that horrid an experience with a hairdresser... it sounds like the woman was a real horror.
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Date: 2003-11-04 11:02 am (UTC)The reason I haven't bleached it again is because I have this sneaking suspicion that I look stronger with it brown. I stand out more... er... I don't want to bleach my personality away. Or something weird and flakey like that.
Also, I know I've been moving more and more towards a granola/hippy/organic lifestyle, and bleaching my hair just doesn't seem to fit with that.
Plus, I'm lazy. Less work = good.
:D
Wasn't THAT more than you wanted to know?
xoxoxo
L
P.S she WAS. I'm never going back to her again.