Today I did…

  • blog copiously (as this is the second post of the day, well on the way to that target!) This is post three. I think that’s fairly copious 🙂
  • include some pictures Coming soon.
  • install wordpress elsewhere, while keeping notes, and write about the experience Hm. I helped someone else sort theirs out, does that count?
  • hang yesterday’s washing out.Done!
  • do today’s washingNot done
  • take stuff to charity shop, thereby working towardsNot done
  • find space in garage to put tent awayNot done. Which means that the tent is just stood out in the garden. Not good really.
  • get Big to take pictures of my hair so that I canThis I did
  • cut hair following you tube instructions and blog about it (of course)and this. Apart from the blogging about it. So keep reading.
  • update my cv, write covering letter, apply for a jobMost excellently done. Don’t worry, it’s a part-time evening job. And I don’t think I stand a great deal of chance with it, but it’s worth a try.
  • buy english heritage festival of history tickets Done. And receipt printed out. And put in a safe place. (And when I can’t remember where that is, remind me it’s in the letter rack in the hall, ‘K?)
  • make a list, on paper, of everything else I’ve got to do and assign a certain number of tasks to days so that I start doing them and stop feeling so hopelessly incompetent and ineffectual. SighNot done. Bigger sigh.
  • try to remind myself that this too will pass, and I will miss baby days and breastfeeding when they are goneThis I did. And thank you for earlier comments and support.

And I spent time relating to my 10 year old as well as playing with my baby. Big is going through so many changes atm, it is so important to keep talking with her and keep her talking with me. I figure any day we stay friends is an important investment in our future!

And so to the pictures.

before

during

lookie what I did!

after

What do you think?

What do you mean you can’t see it? You want a front shot?

Kicking myself that I didn’t get Big to take a front shot beforehand, but I guess I can get Tim to take one now…nope, sorry, you’re going to have to wait for the daylight for that one. You don’t get the full glory of the hair with flash. I’m such a tease 😉


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Comments

7 responses to “Today I did…”

  1. I am laughting away about the hair. I hate my hair with a vengence, since I was ill it went grey and frizzy instead of brown adn curly!!
    .-= TheMadHouse´s last blog ..Chocolate Weetabix – Review =-.

  2. looks like you did a good job with the hair!

  3. i love that you make lists and annotate them. i do the same, except i always put one or two things on the list that i have already done so that i can check them off right away and feel good!! 😉
    .-= shireenbee´s last blog ..The “M” word =-.

  4. Always start your list with “Make List” then you can cross it off almost straight away 🙂
    .-= Jan´s last blog ..Sunday with some friends in =-.

  5. You’re the second person in two days I’ve seen cutting their hair using that tutorial – I can’t believe how long your hair is/was! Looks cracking!
    Good luck with the application. I’d totally hire you if you lived near me 🙂
    .-= Vonnie´s last blog ..Little Miss Popular =-.

  6. ‘giggle’ at list writing and asking to be reminded where you put ticket receipt, While on phone today to various insurance companies about my car, I repeatedly forgot what company I was on the phone to and lost the paper I was keeping notes on.
    Must be another home ed pheonomina (sp)

  7. @TheMadHouse aw. Could you try henna or something like that? Hugs.
    @Anni thanks!
    @Shirenbee I usually do it Jan’s way 🙂
    @Jan it works for me!
    @Vonnie thanks for the vote of confidence. Yeah, the instructions went round fb, and I just couldn’t resist.
    @Nigel I’m terrible on the phone. I’d really rather do everything online!

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