Just got a text and a picture from my cousin. She got my care package and took a picture with all her new goodies. She is home and looks pretty good in the picture. Her sister has come up from SoCal to keep her company. I'm so happy that she is doing well.

UGH. Haircut FAIL.

Last time I kinda explained what I wanted, and she cut close to my ideal haircut. Not quite, but that's because part of what I said I didn't want was really stacked hair in the back, so she left that longer/less layered than I wanted. So I went back today, and had a picture (of me with the haircut I wanted, which was very similar to the haircut she'd already given me) and explained I just wanted the back and behind my ears shorter. What I didn't say (but should have been obvious from the picture) was that I didn't really want much/any taken off the front. It was a couple inches longer than my chin (and probably needed a trim of maybe 1"). So I'm tired, and not paying enough attention, and she's cutting a bunch off the back, and I"m thinking maybe it's too short, but gonna go with it because I don't actually care that much about the back...and suddenly she's whacking like, six inches off the front. My hair is cheekbone length now. OMG. NOT WHAT I WANTED. But at that point it was too late, unless I wanted cheekbone on one side and longer on the other, which would've looked silly. AUGH. It is poofy and I will have to DO things with it and it is TOO SHORT TO TUCK BEHIND MY EARS. I'm so annoyed. My hair needs some length in order to curl, so this will just be one big ball of frizz. ARGH.

My sister in hair cut fail. Normally I just let my gal do her thing and I love the results. A couple of weeks ago I ask for it a bit shorter in the back and maybe a steeper A line cut. I hate the results but need to let it grow out cause I don't want it even shorter. So it gets straightened or clipped back or something. There is nothing good about the no fuss look.

My hair is cheekbone length now.

::slips meara's stylist an extra twenty::

No, David. Not happy. I have a family wedding in two weeks and wanted to look good. I liked how my hair was!!! This feels like a tribble is sitting on my head.

I guess I need to buy a lot more hair bands and barrettes

No, David. Not happy. I have a family wedding in two weeks and wanted to look good. I liked how my hair was!!! This feels like a tribble is sitting on my head.

I'm sorry. I can't really imagine you looking less than good, no matter what your haircut. I have faith that you can rescue this cut with product and barrettes. Something will work because you're just that damn pretty.

Sorry for banks and finance and haircut fail and stress of Buffistas.

Shir, did you get anything else? What did you put on the biscuit?

I had the biscuit with butter and jam. I also got a chocolate-mint thingy.

omnis, that schedule is a nightmare. Take care.

I'm a bit worked up by my parents. Apparently a signed setlist from a show I've been too (with a lovely story behind it, which made it absolutely dear to my heart and therefore deserved the room on the wall) got detached from the wall in my room in my parents' house, and somehow got mixed up in a bunch of other papers, which somehow got outside of my room/lost/thrown to the garbage. Instead of "sorry we didn't notice that piece of paper" apology, which I would totally get and understand because it's a piece of paper in a house filled with pieces of papers, I got a weekend full of "why are you emotional about it" and "relax, I'm sure we'll find it eventually" every few hours. That worked on my nerves all weekend so I just want to get over it at this point, but it seems that my mother thinks that if she'll say enough times that she's optimistic about finding the setlist, I will suddenly become optimistic too.

My parents' reason is beyond me.

Edited (the second time. First time for grammar) to say this: oh God. I think I realized what drives me crazy about my communication with my mom. She sounds like a voice in my head I try to kill cause it makes me look at and operate in this world in a very stressful manner (for me. Probably for others as well).

Solving this will be a pile of joy, won't it.

Tons of hugs to everyone. Pix & ND, bank~ma for you too. BoA is a PITA. I hope it resolves soon, for the positive. I know how much that loan will help y'all out.

Shir, not sure what to say. I'm going to cross my fingers, and hope that they know you love it, and are having it framed, or something, and are trying to be coy, to surprise you for your birthday, or holiday, or graduation, or some such. What? I can be an optimist sometimes.

Yesterday was a long day. Conference up in Oakland. Woke up at 4:30am. Got home around 10:30pm. Brain isn't sure what schedule to wake/sleep on. I need to shower and go into work for quiet time. And just don't want to. The Yankees are on TV, and winning against the BoSox (first game I've watched all season where they are winning), and just don't want to get up and shower. Tired. and have a big case of "don't want to".

Very tired, but from day full of win. Background: Tomato pickers in Florida are treated horribly, paid below minimum wage, often not paid even their pittance for all hours worked, subject to unprosecuted rape, and (as recently as 2010) slavery. Coalition of Immokalee Workers(CIW) has pressured a number of supermarkets and most fast food giants to pay a penny a pound more for tomatoes to supplier who at least minimally respect workers rights. In fast food world, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Subway and Chipolte's have agreed to join the i Fair Food Program Wendy's is the largest remaining holdout. Given the amount of tomatoes in single Wendy's item, a penny a pound represents a savings to Wendy's of a great deal less than a penny per item sold.

So in support of the CIW we tabled the Olympia Lakefair, a local festival. But as opposed to normal tabling what we did was video people dropping pennies in a hat as a charitable contribution to Wendy's. Then we filmed ourselves "donating" them to the local outlet. Hopeufully the video will shame Wendy's a bit, and contribute to the CIW campaign to bring them onboard with Fair Food Program.

I think it is a fun way to tackle a serious and rather horrifying subject.

That's fantastic, Typo. Crossing my fingers for a huge impact.