You those fancy hair salons, the ones with the fancy modern furniture? I’d really love to go to a place like that, it feels so peaceful and energetic at the same time. Modern, funky, unique. Actually, I’d love for my future house to be like that, but that’s a whole other post. Right now, I’m talking about hair.

I’m not a normal girl when it comes to makeovers, and I’m not comfortable with being a feminine person. I’m girly, yes, but there’s a difference. I like pink, chocolate, crying at chick flicks, etc, but I don’t like showing it, like wearing skirts and high heels and styling my hair every day. My mom tried so hard to get me to go to a salon to get ready for prom, and I went grudgingly, ended up crying I felt so out of place and awkward, and ended up breaking my fake nails the next day. It’s just not me.

When I need to get my hair cut, I put it off for months and months. Part of the reason is I don’t know what to do to it to make it look good. I hate my hair. Plus, I’ve never had a pleasant experience getting it cut, usually the woman is rude, won’t tell me what will look good when I ask for her opinion, waits for me to tell her what to do, then I say just a trim, get a crappy haircut and hate it, and end up just hiding it in a clip. I finally cave in and go when I can feel the split ends screaming at me for attention.

Granted, I always go to the cheap places. Well, why go to a pricey place when I have no clue what I want, and don’t want to pay more for the same experience? This time, I went to Wal Mart. I know, really? Well, I needed to get groceries too, lol. I was actually pleasantly surprised. For once, the lady was overly friendly and had that famous southern charm, motherly and nurturing. She complimented my purse, my nails, my jacket, and her coworker could not stop ranting about my glasses. Finally, the type of people I always expected to work in a hair salon! I was beginning to think all those Hollywood movies were all lying to me, that hair salons weren’t gossip centers.

I actually got my hair washed. I really didn’t want to, but apparently it was part of the price. This was such a new experience for me, I had no clue what was going on half the time, I was so dazed. Luckily, I had my glasses off, so I couldn’t really protest to what was going on when I couldn’t see what was going on, lol. Had I known she was going to pamper me I might have got up and left, lol. She was very talkative, and before I knew it she was waxing my eyebrows! I didn’t sign up for that! But after the years of simply plucking it, I suppose it’s time I became more feminine and give it a try. My skin still kind of hurts. Is that just because it was my first time? But I’ll admit, they actually look good.

Then, she finally cut my hair. I suppose I like it, I don’t know, it’s really short. I’ll take a picture of it after it calms down a bit. Right now I feel like I lost 5 lbs getting it cut, so it’s in shock. The only bad part of the experience… she pulled my hair so hard drying it my scalp is bruised.

I feel so proud of myself. I stepped out of my comfort zone and did a rather girly thing. What made it better this time? Eamon was sitting in the seat next to me looking completely out of place. A little bit of unease in him made me feel so much more at ease, lol. Maybe next time he should get his brows waxed too, haha.

2 more classes and I finally get a break! Eamon’s done today. Although, what’s the point of spring break when you have a butload of assignments to do? 2 papers and a java program due right after break? Not cool. So my break is basically just not going to class… whoopie.

Have you ever wanted to buy cigars? I certainly don’t. Eamon use to be quite the rebel till I came around. I apparently tamed him. I think I just made him more practical. Like smoking. He used to smoke cigarettes way before, but seeing my grandmother die from lung cancer, it really bothered me that he did. He stopped for me. I like to think that I helped him be healthier. Does that mean boring? I don’t think so.

Now he spends most of him time at my place. He doesn’t see his guy friends that often, not that he really wants to see them though. But on the rare occasion he comes back completely hammered and smelling like cigars. Apparently his friends buy them online in great quantities, lol. I’m kind of torn. On the one hand, the smell brings back memories of being around my grandmother when I was little and all the good times I had. On the other, it makes me think of the reason she died, and all the health problems she had because she couldn’t stop smoking. So I don’t know how I feel about them anymore. Eamon’s going out tonight to celebrate the beginning of Spring Break. I’m glad he’s having fun, but I don’t want to think about sad things. I’ve been depressed enough already. Maybe I’ll just febreeze him as he walks in the door, lol.

I don’t want him to stop smoking because I want him to, I want him to want to stop. Is that selfish of me? I’m not stopping him from doing anything, he can go out and have a ball, we’re not married or anything, but he chooses to not do certain things because of me. Like smoke weed and drive like an insane maniac. If he does those things out of love, is “taming” him bad?

You know what I’ve been underestimating lately. My bed. I actually don’t have a nice, real bed. I bought a futon and it serves as my couch during the day and my bed at night. It works for now, since I’m a poor struggling college student, but I definitely couldn’t do this forever.

My futon has no springs or coils or frame to it, it’s just a big lump of stuffing. Over the year I’ve had it, it’s gotten flatter and flatter. I finally broke down last week and bought a big box of stuffing from Wal Mart and filled it up again. It feels amazingly comfy right now, but it’s only temporary.

Since I don’t have a bed, I don’t have true bedding. I have a comforter, a sheet, and mismatched pillows. I really wish I had a coordinated bed. But I throw everything behind the bed during the day when it’s in couch mode, so I don’t have a need for matchy stuff.

But one day… my bed will be splendid. I will get a good nights sleep every night, not just when my bed is recently fluffed, and it will be cute. At first I thought I would merely get allergy bedding since I hate sneezing so much, and they seem to be a nice quality product, but I think I want something more fun. But I’d still probably get a couple pillows from them. For one thing, how about this awesome glow in the dark canopy? When I was in 2nd grade I slept in a teepee in my room, on the floor, with a pillow and a quilt, so I think a canopy is an adult way to keep that experience alive, lol. And for my bedding, I want color and fun. But I am obsessed with damask. This cute damask bedding is amazing:

All of that with silk sheets to top it off, that is my dream bed. What’s yours?

Still sick. Oh so very sick. Thanks for sharing your germs with me Jessica, but unlike you doctors scare me, so I’ve been chilling out at home with some NyQuil and tissues being a complete couch potato. But, I just re-stuffed it, since the padding was getting flat, so I’m super comfy now. And I have the urge to surround myself with pillows and blankets and play playstation. That sounds amazing. I’m gonna do that soon.

What better thing to do while being an unproductive member of society than window shop on the web? I think it’d be so much fun to pimp out my laptop. I already have a cute purple cover for my mac, so now my dear Fitzwilliam (Yes I named my laptop after Mr. Darcy ) is colorful, but there is some awesome stuff out there. For one, there are a plethora of creative custom usb drives. And Strapya World has these cute sushi usb drives that are beyond adorable. I want one.

And usb drives serve not only memory, but fun. Check these pets out:

Cuute! They have so many cute computer gadgets out there, it really makes me want to buy them Do you have any cute computer toys to share?