Holy cow, I just took out the bobby pins holding my poofy hair up. How many, do you guys think? Bet now! Bet now! Bet now!

In weddings I have been in, the bridesmaids have a contest to see who has the most bobby pins the next morning (clearly, we are too drunk/tired to deal with it the night of).

I like the hair, and would t worry about too much poof. As the night wears on, the hair will go down, and then you won't have flat hair :)

I appreciate the support that the poof isn't as horrible as I think it as.

But when I have my hair done the day of the wedding, I will be instructing her to not give me poofy hair, and I won't get out of the chair until it's not poofy.

Just for the record.

Had to google what TENS is.

Lovely hair, Steph!

Thanks for the new year's wishes, all. I have a lot I want to accomplish and change this year (including seeing y'all, F2F!), so that's what mostly on my mind these days. How to change things, when, and in what order.

And now, some house cleaning and cooking. I think all of the food from New Year somehow only made me more hungry. We had So Much Food, my God.

The hair is lovely, Steph.

Good luck in accomplishing and changing things this year, Shir. I would like to do that myself.

A two-pound unopened box of cake flour that had been in the pantry must have smelled like mouse. Sometime during the night, Mr Peabody, who weighs 25 pounds, dragged it from the kitchen to the living room (about 15 feet with two turns). He chewed on the cardboard, but, fortunately for both of us, he didn't get through the plastic to the flour. There is, apparently, no limit to the potential for chaos.

I think we need to make sure bubba and Mr Peabody never meet. (Remembering the Splenda incident)

Oh no Mr Peabody! Flour is not delicious. I keep telling my cats the same thing about oats but every time i bring home a bag of bulk oats I can't leave it anywhere not locked down or the cats go bonkers for it and have an oat party in the kitchen while my back is turned.

I think the wedding hair is lovely, very flattering, and looks remarkably un-pooofy, especially for wedding hair which tends to be a very poofy-haired special event.

looks remarkably un-pooofy

Okay. I appreciate the supportive comments. Still not going to look like that on my wedding day.

It will be equally or more beautiful without the poof, I have no doubts.

Steph - I loved your hair! So gorgeous!!

The swirly back of the hair is amazing, Steph. I really like it.

So the notes I made for the new evaporative cooler were: Turn On. Set Tep. So, apparently I am intended to wait for Tep to set it. But I just picked a goal temperature and have been letting it do its own thing.

How's the healing, smonster?

I get a lot of wrong numbers from generally Hispanic people. I pick up the calls and try to explain that someone is giving the wrong number out, probably quite unintentionally. It makes me feel bad because sometime once in the last year, there was a vm from an immigration attorney. (I spent a few hours calling them back until I could get to a person and let them know the situation. I really don't want someone's dreams to be dashed because of this.) Four calls today. I've got this phone number ... maybe 15 years ago. These calls for the last two-ish of them.