Friday, May 31, 2013

The Final Hair Change (for now)

Last night I went back to my stylist friend to add more brown tone to the top of my hair, so that the lighter colors could show through.

So here is the final progress:

Last month
Last week
Now

I feel a lot more comfortable now with the brown tones than the blondish in my hair.

The funny thing is, I started getting used to having lighter hair. Maybe next month I will add more blond to the tips or more highlights overall. Everyone says once you start coloring you can't stop, and I think it's true now!
(But I won't go extreme and dye my hair to a crisp. My hair is already naturally big!)

I even got the bang I wanted. I'm a really happy camper now! No more hair crisis! All I have to learn now is how to style it. That means more Pinterest tutorials and Youtube videos for me!

Now to grow my hair longer and practice putting waves in it (thanks to Fashion, Love & Lauren for the great tutorial!)

 



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Pin To WIN - The Year in Color: June

Feels like May was the longest month. Maybe it was because of the Memorial day weekend. June is tomorrow, and that brings another Year in Color from Glamour and Revlon. THis month's color is my favorite: Fruity Coral!

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

What Are You Doing? Wednesday Blog Hop #5

Good morning! Welcome to week 5 of my blog hop. I'm happy that a few more blogs were involved, and there are a variety of fun things to read about. Thank you all for sharing!

The most visited blog entries last week were from The Nautical Owl and Jewelry Making Journal. check out their work!

Jewelry Making Journal
The Nautical Owl







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What am I doing this week?

Well besides the hair adventure I've been having, I haven't had time to create anything new. 



Hopefully I will find time to work on a new pattern for next week!

Let's start the blog hop!

Make sure you visit another blog that interests you and leave them a message. It's always nice to make new friends! Don't forget to share this blog hop, and visit other blogs to see what they're doing.

And watch out for next week's blog hop. Your blog entry might be featured!

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Hair Adventure: Part 1

I say this is part 1 of the "adventure" because she needs to do some touch-ups on my hair this week.

I am getting used to the color. It is something completely different than what I thought it would be.

Let me stop talking and show you:

This is how my hair looked when she cut it last month.


Here is what my hair looks like now.


After looking at pictures of my new do, it's not looking as bad as I thought. It is a lot more brighter, but not like the picture (I figured it wouldn't be). All she needs to do is define the darker roots and cut the bangs shorter. 

This is what it looks like when I washed my hair this morning.


We'll see the difference once she adds the bangs.

Everyone else is liking my new hair. Guess I have to get used to it. And I hope my hair gets past this crunchy phase soon. Any suggestions on a good conditioner?



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Friday, May 24, 2013

Plans for the weekend

Are you excited for the weekend as I am? Although I don't get paid for memorial day, I get a whole day off to do whatever I want...which might mean sleeping in. But I do plan to do a few things.

I'm usually busy on Saturday, but tomorrow I have absolutely NOTHING planned! How exciting! Funny how we used to made sure we had weekends booked, and now that I'm older I enjoy some break time at home. I plan on doing some Yoga Meltdown and start on a bunch of crafts. Oh, and I need to get more supplies for my garden (so I can make a post on that next week).

Sunday is Fun-day Hair Day! Can't wait to see what my friend Melissa will do to my hair!

I know everyone in Florida will be at the beach, and I will go eventually. But I have so many other things to look forward to, especially on this weekend. You know, a lot of life changing things have happened on memorial day weekends in my life:

  • Memorial day 2003 - bought my first guitar. It's our 10-year anniversary!
  • Memorial day 2004 - going to the first of many retreats as a youth leader that changed my life.
  • Memorial day 2005 - bought a bass guitar!
  • May 2006 (close to Memorial day) - First real job at Starbucks (stayed there for 2 1/2 years).
  • Memorial day 2008 - I was is a boat accident that changed my life. It made me think of everything in my life and made me appreciate what I have.
  • Memorial day 2009 - my first flat tire, on the Howard-Franklin
  • Memorial day 2012 - Started my first garden!
  • Memorial day 2013 - New hair do!
I had to look at my old blog to "check", but life changing things did happen on Memorial Day!

Enough with my nonsense, and I hope we do spend a little time to remember why we have this holiday.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

I'm getting my gym back!

Gym

I woke up this morning with a mission: to get my gym membership, one way or another (finally).

Here's the short of this long story. I've been working at a university for almost 5 years now. I was taking classes and working part-time. Now that I finished my bachelor degree in Sociology (in December 2011), I was hoping to get a full time job on campus with benefits. That way I can do my graduate classes fo FREE! That's right, FO FREE. This is why I wanted to get a full-time job on campus in the first place.

Anyways, it's been almost a year and a half, and no luck getting a full time job in the same position. I love my job, and I love helping the professors. The department has been trying to hire me for full time every since I graduated, but the higher ups are not budging (yet). So what the department had to do was keep me as a part time 20 hours a week employee, and they are paying me overtime of 20 hours. So I am working full time, with lower pay and none of the benefits. It's been frustrating at times, but I hope things will change by next month.

This lack of a full time position has stopped me from getting the benefits that I want need right now, especially a lower fee for using the gym monthly. So this morning, I woke up with the determination to get my gym membership back! If I can get a staff I.D. (since I am working full time), I can pay less monthly to use the gym. If I can't, I am still an alumni, and I have to pay $10 more than staff.

Either way, I am getting my gym back! It's been so difficult trying to exercise on my own. I have been eating better, but I need that extra time on a machine. With the gym on campus I get free classes, access to the pool and SHOWERS (thank you God for showers)! I worked out at another gym that had no showers. I felt so awkward going to work a sweaty. NEVER AGAIN.

 It makes me sad when I can't fit into my fat pants anymore. These extra pounds have got to go! NOW!


How to show HTML in a textbox in the sidebar on Blogger


I've been blogging for about 10 years now, and I've picked up some HTML basics along the way, like creating text boxes, changing backgrounds, etc.I had this problem recently and it took me a long time to figure it out. I tried googling how to do this specific thing but I couldn't find it.
So this is my entry on how to add HTML in a textbox in the sidebar on Blogger.

Do you see how I have these button html code on the sidebar?


For a while, they looked like this:



To get the html to show in the textbox, all you have to do is go to layout, click on the area where your button is, and click on the Rich Text link on the right.


When you open the section where your buttons are, you can clearly see the problem. The program has changed the "<" and ">" symbols into gibberish: &lt; and &gtl; is showing on my html.


When you click on Rich Text you see the same &lt; text.


All you have to do from here is edit the html in the box or copy/paste to show what you want. Don't forget to save it!


You should be able to see the HTML in the textbox on you sidebar. I hope this tutorial helped!


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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

New hair adventure

I've been wanting to do something different with my hair for a while now, but I didn't know what to do with it. I also did not want to do something too extreme or shocking. Now I'm getting tired of it.

Last week I wanted to chop it all off and do something crazy, but after I put my thoughts together I decided not to. Especially if I decided to go to a salon and a stylist I did not know.

So I am deciding to keep the length of my hair (give or take an inch), but I want to try ombre coloring with a side bang.

This is what my hair looks like now:


My hair is a little overdramatic, mostly big and wavy. I've been coloring it dark brown lately. I remember having it a lighter brown color and loving it, especially when it was summer time.

I've decided to color my hair the way Mila Kunis has it, with the bangs from Vanessa Hudgens.


What do you think? I should be getting this done this Sunday! I'm really excited about it!



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What Are You Doing? Wednesday Blog Hop #4

Welcome to week 4 of my blog hop, now bigger and better! I'm happy that a few more blogs were involved, and there are a variety of fun things to read about. Thank you all for sharing!

The most visited blog entries last week were from Lauren at Fashion, Love and Lauren and Elsie from Elsie On The Lake. I hope everyone received more blog followers from this blog hop!

Elsie on the Lake
Fashion, Love and Lauren








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What am I doing this week? I finished my mystery crochet. I decided to start making something to see what it turned into, since I didn't have enough yarn to make a specific pattern. Turns out it decided to be a hat.


Ok, let's get on to our new blog hop!

Make sure you visit another blog that interests you and leave them a message. It's always nice to make new friends! Don't forget to share this blog hop, and visit other blogs to see what they're doing.

And watch out for next week's blog hop. Your blog entry might be featured!

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