I'm not worried I'll burn down the apartment complex--I'm worried my dinner won't be moist and delicious. So I got the kind of crockpot that turns itself off.

Fuck property damage.

Nora - I'm making a cajun-y chicken and sausage dish in my crockpot. Joe would not quit whining about his lack of gumbo. I did not make gumbo b/c I have no spoons, but I'll add rice to this and call it good enough for now.

I swear to god I was all "you can use other things to stir with" for a second there.

Wishing you (and all of us) more spoons today and in the future.

I swear to god I was all "you can use other things to stir with" for a second there.

My first reaction was "What did Joe DO with the cutlery while she was in NOLA?"

He and Emeline used it all when they made All the Cookies.

I got my hair cut. It's okay it's not what I wanted exactly but the stylist didn't try to talk me out of it and did her best. But I can't describe exactly what I want different.

However I'll be trying another salon in town next time. I wanted my chin/upper lip waxed. When started waxing she went straight for the eyebrows and I didn't say anything until the wax was on. So I got my eyebrows waxed. I figured what the hell. Only she didn't ask me what I wanted and went way thinner than I like.

Plus I realized she was reusing the same stick and when I asked she use different stick each time she said that normally they just do that if there's blood. She seemed surprised that anyone would use a new stick every time.

Between that and some other stuff I'm not going back.

But I can't describe exactly what I want different.

Pictures are good. Or I could try to translate what you want into Stylist Speak.

I took pictures. I showed them to her and in the process tried to show them to her again and she said "I remember what they look like." This is one of the pictures [link] I took with me and this one [link]

(except I wanted it shorter in the back)

Here are pictures of my current hairstyle after I came home and styled it and sprayed the hell out of it with Aqua Net [link] , [link] , [link] , [link]

At one point there was a visible line around my head where she had buzzed it short but didn't blend it in. I even went back when I realized the back wasn't blended in at all - there was a visible line.

I also told her that when I had it styled before when I was thrilled with it the stylist (after the hair was short), twisted sections of hair and cut into the twists either straight down or at a slight angle. She didn't do that.

I think there was, to use Tabitha, a lack of education.

I'm not sure how to put in stylist terms I want a short, choppy hair cut that can be styled spikey.

When I was a kid in the 70s, we once let something in the crockpot for two days (we got trapped somewhere, as I recall). The food inside was burned to a crisp and we had to throw out the crock pot (and oh, the smell!), but no adverse effects to the counter or kitchen. I figure that they've only gotten safer since then. I leave it on with impunity.

I think there was, to use Tabitha, a lack of education.

I think so. A short cut like yours needs a lot of attention to detail. It doesn't sound like she listened to you, or tailored the cut to your face.

The good news though, is that when your hair is that short it's easy to make little changes to it in a relatively short period of time. In a few weeks you can tweak it a bit with a better stylist.

Is there any Stylist speak I should use for next time? I wanted something that I could either wear either styled or without product and it would still look good.

I'm going to see how long it gets and maybe try to get it shaped up before Will and I go to Maine.