Electricity~ma to you and TCG, sj.

The Yankees are my home team. I root for them.

And no, it's not a question of picking either the Yankees or the Mets as the home team. I'm from the Bronx. It's the Yankees. They've got the history, they've got the myths, they've got the pinstripes. They're Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, and they're "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning" and the Bronx Zoo, too. They're my team.

We still love you Hil, even though you prostrate yourself before the dark lords of baseball.

A family died in a terrible motel fire here today, and, when being interviewed on television, the suburban city's fire chief just said, "It's the kind of thing that makes you want to go home and drink hard liquor to forget."

Oh, Ginger. Oh my word. That kind of tragedy really eats at fire fighters. Oof. That poor family. Poor everyone.

A local family from our church just lost their home and everything in it, in a fire, but they weren't home and really, that's what matters in the end.

Cindy, I'm having a hard time choosing a favorite from that second batch.

I have even less of an opinion today, than I did yesterday. I think these are the pictures I'm taking to the salon (but now they're in no particular order, because I keep dithering):

1. the first one everyone liked (Scott, too): [link] same cut, side view: [link]

2. short layered gelled up Pixie: [link]

3. messy pixie: [link]

4. almost a pixie shag (although I think I'd get it without the long back): [link]

5. Hec's sort-of Cashmere: [link]

6. very posh: [link]

I really love the last one, but I'm afraid my face is too full for it. I do have an oval face, but I'm chubby-for-me right now, and I always tend toward apple cheeks, anyhow.

The new salon is my cousin's daughter's salon. I haven't seen much of J in years, but when she was tiny we were very close. My cousin adopted her as a newborn and she looked just like me. I went on vacation with them one summer as a babysitter, and everywhere we went, people thought I was the teen mother of this baby (which sort of thrilled me, because I was such a goody goody). She continued to look just like me through her toddler/little girl years. Years later, when Scott saw her at our wedding shower, he said to my mother, "Um...does Cindy have a little sister?"

So, I'm basically going to trust this kid to help me figure out which cut would work best on me. She knows the face, and it's only hair. It will grow back.

(Right?)

Happy Birthday, Cass!

Right.

Happy Birthday Cass!!!

The pixie shag one, with the long back, would grow out into a mullet in about four days. Good instincts, Cindy.

I need new hair in the worst way. I'm still angsting about breaking up with my hair guy - my friend had hers done the other day and he asked about me. I may have to give him one more shot. But I need a picture to take with - I think we're not communicating all that well, and I know he shies away from doing things short unless you really push.

Absolutely right, Cindy.

It's Cass's birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GIRL!

Hippo birdies, Cass!

The pixie shag one, with the long back, would grow out into a mullet in about four days. Good instincts, Cindy.

Oh! Good catch, brenda. You're absolutely right about that. I was just thinking I'm not willowy like that model, and it's summer and I love having my hair off my neck (either cut that way or pulled up) in the summer.

Cindy, I love the last one (the one you called "posh"). I don't think face shape would make a difference.

he shies away from doing things short unless you really push

This surprises me. Although maybe Hec has just indoctrinated me too well.

Hippo birdies Cass!

... yeah, that's all I got. Me no brain today.

Happy Birthday, Cass!