HAIRCUT!!! HAIRCOLOR!!! MEGA-SUPER-NEON-AWESOMENESS: Number TWO!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY MANWICH!!!!

It's two shades of red and dark brown. NOT black, black is vomit.

So the story: I wanted to go light. LIGHT. Like, as light as mum would let me. So we got some colours to try it out, and did a couple of test strips, but even after double processing, they weren't light enough. She didn't want to bleach my hair, and it would have had to be bleached more than once, which would have fried my hair, so she tried to convince me to do a different colour. I said fine, but I was a tad disappointed because all I've ever done is go darker. But mum said she'd rather do dark brown + red strips instead of light blonde + dark brown strips, so I said sure, and I got the brightest she would let me (if I had it my way, I'd have it lipstick red, but that's not BYU-I honor code appropriate). So after much trial and tribulation, we came up with haircolours that I wanted and a haircut that I wanted (at first, all I knew was that I wanted short and light, which became short with lots of red, and I had to re-persuade mum to let me get it as short as I wanted it).

1. bought stuff

2. test strip 1

3. test strip 2

4. go back, buy different stuff

5. test strip 1 (red) and test strip 1 (dark brown)

6. go back, buy more stuff

7. test strip 2

8. red highlights

9. brown

10. red star

11. haircut

12. haircut

That's just for my reference, 'cuz I don't feel like writing it all out. It's a LOOOONG (and I'm not even kidding) story, much longer than I've written. But in a nutshell, we did lots of deciding, lots of trips back and forth, and many hours actually doing my hair. With all the time added up (driving, buying stuff, doing hair) it probably comes to about 10-12 hours. I FREAKING LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE my mum. She does so much for everyone, and no one cares. She stayed up 'til 4 am colouring my hair, spent 4 hours cutting it (3 the first time, 1 the second time) (yes, she cut my hair twice), she cut my hair based on only a picture, she really didn't know what she was doing when she coloured my hair, and EVERYTHING turned out so well. I love my mum. She's so talented, and such a good example, selfless, caring, helpful, devoted to her calling; she tries to give us all that we ask for, loves us unconditionally, doesn't complain anywhere near as much as she deserves to, gets treated like crap, and still is kind. I asked her why she just takes it all, and she said, "I don't treat people based on how they treat me." Talk about Christlike. I want to be like this. I want to be like her. She's still so cool, and is spontaneous and fun, and funny, has style, is beautiful, thin, and so fun!!! I LOVE MY MUM!!! I wish everyone knew her and knew about her, because she's so awesome, and gets screwed so much!! Tomorrow is her birthday, and she's spending all of it driving people around for dentist appointments and stuff. Her birthdays always suck, her mother's days always suck, da doesn't really ever get her anything she REALLY wants for Christmas, even though she drops hints (don't get me wrong, da is awesome too and I love him and mum loves him and he loves mum), and she's still so cool. I wish I could repay her for everything she's done for everyone. She deserves SO much more than she's getting.  But I suppose that she'll be blessed in Heaven. 

Aurora's a jerk, to put it VERY VERY mildly. Especially to mum. "Oh, I'm a nice person to my friends. It's only to my family that I'm mean." I could go on and on and on about how awful she is, but you wouldn't believe me unless you saw it, and I don't want to sound like a butt. So whatever.

But yeah. My hair's awesome.

Other thoughts:

*Church was cancelled on Sunday (I was sad) but we all got along as a family, and people didn't do as much electronic stuff as they usually do; we all got along, and played games, and were together, and it made me happy. Except for Aurora. Aurora was asleep for half the day and wasn't around us. Maybe that's why it was a good day...Yeah, I do sound like a jerk. But I'm not kidding (and I'm not just saying this as "sibling hate" or whatever), if you saw the way she acted at home, when she was really being herself, you'd understand.

*We watched Wall-E on Sunday. It's a cute movie.

*I went to an FHE for YSA's tonight. We watched the new church movie about Gordon B. Hinckley. It was really good. But there were only two guys, one was 27, one was that nerd-stalker that I ranted about in a previous post, and the rest of the girls didn't really seem like my type of person. Sure, they are probably okay people, but I don't really want to hang out with them. 

*I went to the woods today and took pictures. It is so pretty out there, especially in the mid-morning light

*I sang along loudly to my music in the car and drove around for an extra 20 minutes because I wanted to keep singing along and driving

*I love playing the piano; I just wish I were actually good at it

*If I want to learn to play the guitar, I'm not gonna be able to have ANY nails. And it's gonna be a lot harder to learn than piano

*I love taking photos

*I don't mind sleeping, but I hate falling asleep

*I actually went somewhere on Saturday. With people. A girl who I was friends with in art class, and a couple of her friends. We ate then went to a school talent show. The talent show was AWESOME, I still love music, I still LOVE piano (oh my gosh, it was cool), ana ballerinas are beautiful, some random guy introduced himself to me (he was a junior...heh...), I was stared at by all the clones, but I didn't care, 'cuz I gots me some confidence, and I was reminded of Music Outlet. It was SO fun

*I got all the housing stuff worked out; it took forever. I'm gonna be rooming with E, and I'm gonna be in the same ward. Thank you, Heavenly Father! I know I had loads of help from Him.

*Everything happens according to the Lord's time. Patience. I've got my whole life ahead of me

Life is still cool