I dyed my hair. It wasn't a dramatic change or anything. I only dyed it like 3 shades a darker brown. I have found 3 things. First, hair dye smells horrible. Second, it takes FOREVER!!! And lastly, people DO notice. I don't mind that people notice. I actually like it; it gives me attention. I know that sounded very conceded, but it's true.
I ran the 5K on Thanksgiving morning... correction I WALKED the 5K. My mom told me I was going to do it again this year. Correction, I gave up and was convinced into doing it.
Mom: Gracie are you planning on running the 5K this year?
Me: Mom.... I want to but I don't want to.
Mom: I don't understand.
Me: I want to go to the event, but I don't want to run in the race.
(ETC. Mom starts giving me a hard time about how my step dad and my Aunt
only did it cause I like to run; blah blah blah; making me feel all guilty and stuff.)
Me: Mom... I don't know if you noticed... but I don't enjoy running. It is not one of my
pleasures in my life. It's actually one of my down points.
Mom: But, I thought you like to run?
Me: No mom, I like to do short sprints NOT long distance. That's why in track I did
nothing more than a 400m.
Mom: Gracie, I think you will do better, because you are much more fit this year.
Me: Mom, swimming is COMPLETELY different from running. Plus, I think am
traumatized from last year's run.
Mom: (laughs) Why?
Me: I mean, we got lost looking for it. I had to wake up at like 5am on a holiday. It
started to snow and my step dad and Aunt left me. By the end of the race I was
cold, tired, hungry, and wet.
Mom: Oh... well then I guess we won't do the event. And, I would rather NOT do that
again.
(I started to tell her how I want to go but I don't do run it. She told me to go call
my Aunt. 30 minutes later)
Me: Mom? I have decided to do the 5K. Aunt Wendy said she would walk with me.
.....My mom always gets her way.
Great one liners of the week:
Me: I think I'm going to grow my hair out again
Mom: I think you're hair looks so much better now that it's short than it did when you had it long
Me: I know, but now I'm realizing that there is so much more that I could have done with my hair than what I did.
Mom: Like what?
Me: Like, I could brush it every day.
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[while discussing an essay I had written about the contrasts between the novel Of Mice and Men and the movie made]
Mom: What sorts of things did you note?
Me: Well, Curley's wife is different. In the book, she's more of a slut, but in the movie she's not.
Mom: I hope you didn't use the word "slut."
Me: I did, but it's ok. My teacher understands. Besides, there's really no other way to say she's a slut than by using the word "slut."
I saw NEW MOON!!!! I'm so obsessed that I have been waiting for it for over a year. I have to say that I like the second film better than Twilight. I think New Moon stuck more to the book. I'm still Team Edward though. ;)
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Team Edward Forever. And hooray for walking the 5k. Walking, running, swimming, it's all good. Long distance runner friend of mine found out she has almost no cartledge left in her knee. Bone on bone. I wonder if running hurts joints more than walking. So I'll stick with walking.
Running was the bane of my existence, I just hated it! Glad you went and walked it, though, but getting up so early on a holiday is hard.
Hair dye REALLY stinks...
Um..
I am actually team Jacob... because he is the underdog, and since I read the books I know how it ends, anyhow. Werewolves for me, please.....
phd: lol. I'll stick to just walking and swimming.
mielikki: I read the books too, and I think that's why I don't like Jacob. I mean, by the middle of the second book I hated him. So, yea.... I'm Team Edward cause he's a gift from God ;)
"Slut"="Woman of easy virtue" :)
Fun!!!
I too got my hair dyed ... a more rich chocolate brown. I call it my wedding hair considering I normally wouldn't spend my extra money on hair. But hey, it's cool. And yay for walking! I once though I could do a half marathon up a canyon. I hiked it after I realized I was going to die if I continued even jogging.
I strongly suggest Clairol Natural Instincts. It doesn't smell bad and takes about 20 minutes, total.
I did my daughter's hair Sat night. She went for a dark brown with bronze tones.
CDP: haha! ok I won't use the word "slut in my papers any more.
Crys: I told my aunt after the race when we got home that I was NEVER do that again and that I was serious about it this time.
Sunshine: I did use Clairol Natural but it did smell kinda bad after a while. But, I just notice stuff like that.
Wow! Everyone is dying their hair dark brown.
I used to be a swimmer and LOVED it. I was also in track, mostly because of my friends. I didn't like running very much.
Yeah, hair dye reeks, and then it makes your pillow reek.
good going, Grace! I love your conversation about your hair and how you could brush it. This whole conversation sound eerily familiar to me :)
OH gosh, I just saw that Grace spelled "conceited" as "conceded." Gracie, these are two different words with two completely different semantic interpretations. They aren't even the same part of speech ("conceited" is an adjective, "conceded" is a past tense verb of the infinitive "to concede." And just in case you were wondering, no, there is no verb "to conceit;" "conceited" is a frozen passive participle.)
OK, I'll get off my mom/editor high horse now.
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