The Accidental Haircut

When I say "accidental haircut", I'm not talking about the kind like my oldest brother gave me with his jackknife when he accidentally spit his gum onto the top of my head when I was 10. No, I am referring to the haircut I got the other day, when I wanted one kind of haircut but accidentally got another.

Now, I am no stranger to this kind of thing. It has happened to me on other occasions, and whether it has happened because of my poor description of what I wanted, or because of my not understanding what the haircutter was suggesting...or whether we have a different understanding or what a "layer" is, or even what "shoulder length" means I don't know. My suspicion is that it is all of the above, perhaps with some creative license thrown in by the hairdresser. This is one of the reasons while overseas I rarely get my hair cut. And I almost never get my hair cut in my usual country of residence.....because all of these factors PLUS a language barrier, well it's just too risky. I'd rather just be perpetually "growing my hair out."

Well, I got my second haircut in almost a year the other day. Also a colour and hilight. It was a very interesting time. My head looks nothing like what I asked for. But I like it. The colour isn't too far off what i wanted, I'm a little blonder than I've ever been before but that's ok. It's kinda fun. But the style....how to describe it... my hair before getting it cut was longer, just past my shoulders, pretty close to being all one length. and i said "just cut it above shoulder length...but please don't make it triangle shaped." (Because I hate looking like a character from Dilbert)

I actually think that the triangle comment was what threw it off. He asked if he could "put some soft layers in"...sure, anything that will prevent triangle head. Well, it just took off from there. He just went off on his own creative streak. I can't even describe what my hair is like. But it's definately not triangle shaped, and for that I'm thankful. Perhaps that hair dresser - the whole time was being chased by fear that at the end of all his work I would look into the mirror and declare "How horrible! It's triangle shaped!" Maybe he was doing everything in his power to avoid the horrid triangular label. I don't know. He just kept snipping away, and thinning and snipping... and now I have short hair. But as I said before, I like it, and my hair seems to be taking to it. I think that he did a pretty skillful job. It's a good cut.

You might think it's shallow but I actually prayed for a good haircut before hand. And, I know compared to other problems in the world, it's a small thing, but I am thankful for it just the same. And maybe it wasn't so accidental after all.

Another Day in Paradise

I was saying to M the other day that coming here to this place is our version of "Going to the Lake." Where I'm from in Canada in the summer many people "go to the lake." It doesn't matter what lake, where, they've just "gone to the lake." Our church tends to empty out and you know it's because most of them have "gone to the lake." Summer is short in Canada, but beautiful, and the lakes are a wonderful refuge. Generally. The place we are staying right now, is by the ocean, very beautiful. But what I like the best about it is that in the evening the little Bay we are near calms down and reminds me of a lake in Canada. The lights come out and twinkle as the restaurants get rolling for their supper business.

I've noticed that it takes me a good 2-3 days to actually become relaxed enough to enjoy a vacation. I'm glad that we are here for a week. I don't know why it takes me time to chill out. Maybe I notice more that I am feeling stress when on vacation because I know I should be relaxed. Maybe it's because we are watching lots of "24". (haha. joke. some of you know that said I would not watch 24 anymore, but this season we are watching is not as violent....)
Well, anyway, I am just entering that part of our vacation where I am destressed, and liking it.

And, I am happy to say that we haven't run into any serious health concerns or biting things during this trip. (Although a baby Praying Mantis did land on M's head on the bus trip here- it didn't hurt him at all. I don't think they bite, just creep you out.)

Now what are we going to do today? Whatever we feel like. Maybe swim later this afternoon. Probably watch some 24. Skip lunch because of the huge breakfast we had.... take some more pictures, exclaim a few more times about how beautiful the butterflies are and what an amazing creator God is, laugh at some stupid jokes, and I just may write a postcard. I have a book with me "Death By Meeting" that I'm tempted to read more of, but I am becoming more convinced that it doesn't belong on this here vacaction. But I do have a pilates DVD that I may break out and do this afternoon. May. We may also go exploring to another area, just to see what's there.

Well, there you have it, with all that said , I'm gonna scoot. Will update again later. If I feel like it. :)

doing nothing in particular

So, I wrote a post yesterday, I really did, but after it was published it didn't show up on the blog. What's up with that? I felt a little gyped. After actually going to the trouble to actually write something, then it couldn't be seen. I dont' know why. Hopefully this will work.

We are still away from home, currently we are in a very beautiful area, and have a week to relax, so relaxing we are. It's been nice so far. Although it's the rainy season, it's been quite sunny this week. There is also an abundance of butterflies that flutter past the place where we are staying. So beautiful. Today while we were sitting in our lawn chairs, we saw a bird that looked like a toucan but in black and white. That was cool.

I'm writing this from an internet cafe, and finding it hard to write because of the people that keep coming and going and how small it is.. nobody cares about what I'm writing but I do feel a lack of privacy, which leads to a lack of creativity. So, I will stop there, also I'm not sure if this will publish correctly... talk to you later!

Happy anniversary!

July 12th 2006 has come and gone. It is not forgotten though. It marked 3 years of M and I being married. Happy Anniversary to us! It has been a great first three years. We've learned a lot and laughed a lot, grown a lot.

To celebrate our three years, we went out for a night on the town. First we hit a nice little restaurant with western cuisine. He had the grilled chicken, and I had the Greek salad in a pita, sans onions- accompanied by an A&W rootbeer. ( we are on a bit of a food holiday here as we can get stuff here that' s harder to get in our usual country..) A friend of ours that we bumped into at the restaurant paid for our meals (unbeknowst to us) We were SO surprised!! It was such a nice treat!

We then attempted to go mini golfing, but when we got to the place it was closed down. So, we just went over to the large night market and strolled around there. It was such a nice evening.

Before we went out, M had given me a card and some flowers with chocolate. He got this great bouquet, he tried getting the same colours as our wedding colours but the flower place didn't really have that many in the right shades. It was still very beautiful. He also found some bird of paradise flowers growing along the road which he snipped for me! I thought that was fun too! And he had these other flowers and flower petals that he decorated the room with that had fallen off a tree in the courtyard. I don't know what kind they are but they are beautiful, and smell amazing. Did I ever tell you I married a romantic?

Thanks M for 3 great years!

Pubs, head butting, and night markets

For the last week we have not been at home. Nor are we at home right now. In fact we are in a different country all together. We have some things to do here, then in a few days we'll have a week of vacation! Yay!
Tonight, I am thankful for old friends. While we are here, there are also some old friends of ours that are in town. It's great. We've had a chance to spend some good time with them. We went out to a restaurant tonight called "The Pub"... I had some pea soup and eggs on toast with fresh squeezed lemon juice. Pretty good.... then we crowded around the tv to see the replay on the guy who head butted the other guy in the World Cup.
Afterwards we just went down to the night market, and strolled around. It was nice, very relaxing.
That's my report for tonight.