Fathom This!

This is why I have trust issues when it comes to hairdressers

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 18:29:06 GMT

I had my annual haircut the other today, and because my housemate had bought me a voucher for my birthday I took the unprecedented risk of having something a bit different. So I asked for an ombre. In retrospect, I probably should have insisted on having a bit of a chat first to make sure his idea of the end goal was also my idea. I should have shown umpteen reference photos. But he seemed to know what I was after and I went with it.

It... isn't 100% terrible.

When my hair's down, it looks more or less like it should - but with hair up, you can see where the blending did not work very well underneath. He actually didn't do the same backcombing technique on those sections as he did on top - no idea why. But the line is pretty visible, and it is not a subtle change in colour either! Ack.

So while I contemplate whether to live with it, try and fix it myself at home, or be terribly un-British and actually go back and ask them to fix it, I decided to live with it for a couple of days and see how I feel. Meanwhile, I have noticed that my hair is now not unlike my tabby-tortoiseshell cat's.

She definitely wears it better.

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How does this work, again?

Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:54:11 GMT

So in my "what does this do again?" drive, I'm trying to remember how all the crossposting goodness works between DW and LJ. And how tags work. And I'm also wondering if password changes will screw everything up.

My life, folks: it's so exciting!

But there's wine and Christmas music and really good cheese, so maybe things aren't too shabby.

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Still not dead...

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:22:23 GMT

I saw Avatar in 3D yesterday, and it was a fantastic experience. Was a bit confused at the sense of deja vu, but hey. The effects were clearly expensive, so I guess there wasn't too much left in the budget for the scriptwriting - originality being extra! I will say that the attention to detail in the world building on Pandora meant that I din't mind at all, and I would probably pay to see it again.

All the forest life was very marine-inspired, too - lots of giant Christmas tree worms, comb jellys and bioluminescence. That was cool.

This is my first post of the year (and for a while), and I guess it's customary to wrap up the previous year and proclaim lots of resolutions for the coming year - but I'm not really sure where to begin. Last year was pretty rubbish from certain angles, but I've survived with most of my confidence and sense of humour intact. I have a job, and somewhere to live, and my fab friends and family. So things are fine. But it's always surprising how much room people leave in your life when they go, and how life feels a bit like a favourite jumper that's been stretched and is now strangely baggy and shapeless. And then, eventually, you realise that either you've grown or it's shrunk back a bit in the wash because the fit seems better again.

That's about summed up last year, except to say that I played a LOT of Guitar Hero and can now probably take on most people around (other than those nutters on YouTube).

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Not dead yet

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:04:34 GMT

I've been back from Canada for just over a week now, and am still alive and well - just in a bit of a funk due to being back at work, which is why I haven't been around much - not that that's unusual these days, of course!

The cats ignored me for a few hours when I got back, but it was a cold evening so they deigned to sleep on the bed; clearly the promise of a warm person to sleep on outweighed their disgust at being left.

I can't believe it's November already; is anyone doing NaNo this year? I feel completely unprepared - and it's a busy month - but although I don't anticipate completing 50k, it's always good to have a bit of a push to write more, and it's something I should do more of.

Tomorrow I'm off on a two-day survey. It will be cold and involve early mornings - neither of which I'm too keen about - but it should be fun, and nice to get out of the office for a bit. I haven't done a picspam in ages, so I'll try and get some action shots of work on the boat. Because nothing says "glamourous job" quite like dayglo-orange oilskins and a hard hat :D

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Travel plans afoot

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:10:04 GMT

Back again; I never seem to be able to get the hang of posting regularly for more than a week at a time. Lame.

We've just had a Bank Holiday 3-day weekend here in the UK, and I went to visit one of my best mates. We had a really relaxing time doing fun crafty things, and had a collective genius idea for a craft business / creative type thing. I'm hugely excited about it, and feel more motivated and inspired to create and to write than I have in ages. Will reveal more when things start to kick off...

Despite work being just okay (not bad at all, but less than inspiring) at the moment, and recent relationship!fail notwithstanding, life feels full of possibilities right now. It's a welcome feeling, and I really hope I can capitalise on it...

I think part of the excitement is coming from my upcoming trip to Canada to visit the bro. I will arrive in Toronto the day before my birthday, and stay for two weeks! I hadn't really planned what to do, although I was thinking of a train trip to Montreal and Ottawa at some point. Yesterday, my brother suggested going with him and some of his mates to Las Vegas for my last weekend, which might be fun (but sounds like an expensive way to spend two days). Vegas! Perhaps I should go, if only to emulate a work colleague of mine, who is going this month to see, amongst other things, an act called "Fat Elvis". Nice :)

Perhaps I can win back the cost of the flight from Toronto to Vegas. I must try and learn how to count cards, because my luck in this sort of area is really poor. Not as bad, however, as that of my friend's parents. They have a set of numbers that they use for the lotto, quasi-religiously. The numbers are printed on a card - however, his dad forgot to take the card the other week when he popped to the Offy to get the ticket. He got a lucky dip - which was not so lucky, it turned out, because in not using "their" numbers they missed out on over £200,000 as a result. Error! Understandably, things were rather frosty in that household for a while.

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Is this thing on? clears throat

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:11:23 GMT

Okay, so this should crosspost to LJ, right?! *is hopeful*

Thanks to pandoraculpa I've now got a DW account - not intending to flee LJ anytime soon, but it seems as though a slow exodus is occurring, and I wanted to reserve a seat :)

I'm now off to discover this brave, new world... Anyone else out there?!

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