this picture, but if that’s not it, all the pictures I posted of Mia and her babies are in a set on Flickr, here.
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I ended up having a fairly productive day yesterday, all in all. I left the house a little before 9 to have my hair cut and colored. It hasn’t shown up all that well in recent pictures, but the last time I had my hair done, she left the highlighting bleach (?) on too long, and the highlights were way too light and I was hating it. I’ve always thought that maybe one day I’d go blond, but light hair tends to wash me out and doesn’t flatter me all that much.
“What are we doing today?” the hairchick asked when I was sitting at her station.
“I’d like to go about a shade darker,” I told her. “And no highlights. Highlights are more of a summer thing.”
She agreed, and went off to mix the hair coloring goop.
An hour and a half later, she turned my chair around so I was facing the mirror.
“What do you think?” she asked.
I smiled. “Looks good!” I lied.
Now, here’s the thing. I like the way she cuts my hair, she does a good cut, but I will never understand why she styles it the way she does.
When I got to the car, I called Fred.
“I like the way she cuts my hair,” I told him. “But I do NOT understand the way she styles it.”
“Sporting the big hair today, are we?” he asked.
“I LOOK LIKE SID VICIOUS!” I said.
I could hear Fred clicking around on his computer, and then he laughed. “What, she spiked it?”
“Not really SPIKED, but… I don’t know how to explain it. It just looks like Sid Vicious did my hair. Or Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious, anyway.”
You be the judge:
Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious
Robyn And3rson as Robyn Vicious
I’m totally going to change my name to Robyn Vicious. That’s badass. I’m badass. It’s a perfect fit!
Not only do I not care for the way she styled it, I’m not crazy about the color, either. The picture doesn’t capture the color very well, but let me tell you – in person, it’s Elvis black and I don’t think it does anything for me. I can’t blame her for the color, though – I was the one who told her that I wanted to go darker, she was just following instructions. It might grow on me, but it hasn’t in the last 24 hours, so I’m not holding out much hope that it will.
If it continues to bother me, I’m going to get some hair color from the grocery store and lighten it a tad.
I left the hair-doin’ place and headed into Huntsville to run some errands. The traffic was horrid, but I was a little less stressed than the day before, so I crept along and sang happy holiday tunes and ignored the fact that I was moving at, like, ten miles an hour the entire way.
I had to go to Sam’s because I hadn’t been there in forever, and we were almost out of bottled water, paper towels, and a few other things. Sam’s, as you might imagine, was busy as hell. I just will never understand how it is that people don’t think anything of leaving their cart in the exact middle of the aisle, blocking it so no one can get by them, and go flitting around looking at various things on the shelf. Have they never heard of the concept of pushing their cart to the side of the aisle?
APPARENTLY NOT.
So I got everything I needed to get at Sam’s, though I was almost to the checkout when I realized I hadn’t bought trash bags, and had to go back and grab a box.
From Sam’s I stopped by the pet store to pick up cat food, and ended up walking around in a daze for a good fifteen minutes, looking at all the toys. I did NOT buy a single toy, though (for once!), and walked out with nothing but the cat food I’d gone in for.
From the pet store, I went to the grocery store, where I picked up a prescription and a few groceries, and I was home by a little after noon, with the whole afternoon ahead of me in which to Get Shit Accomplished.
I didn’t get a huge amount accomplished, but I did finish wrapping presents, got boxes to my brothers and parents ready to mail, and then watched ER while cleaning the kitchen. I talked to my mother for about an hour, then finished watching ER, cleaned the master bathroom, the downstairs bathroom, and vacuumed the entire house.
By then it was 6:30 and Fred was on his way home from Smallville (over the past few weeks we’ve established a routine where I accompany him to Smallville on Tuesdays, and then he goes alone on Wednesdays for a few hours), so I did some laundry and caught up on some journal reading ’til he got home.
All in all, not a bad day at all, despite the fact that I look like Sid Vicious.
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While I was talking to my mother, she asked if I watched Boston Legal. I’ve seen a few episodes in the past, but don’t watch it regularly, so she started telling me about the most recent episode. And I shit you not, as she was describing the show, she said:
“So William Shatner and that
funny-acting lawyer, I can’t think of his name… Anyway, they’re very close.” She paused for a brief moment and then added hastily, “But not in a homosexual way.”
Alrighty, Mom.
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I have finally accepted the fact that all the crap I need to carry around with me on a daily basis just is NOT going to fit in a size small bag. I’ve tried to force all my junk into the purse, but the damn thing just isn’t made to carry all this stuff:
(Go here to see the fascinating details of what exactly everything is)
AND a hardcover book, an iPod, and a bottle of water. I’ve been shoving all that stuff in there every time we go to the house (not that I do much reading while we’re there, but the times I haven’t had a book, I’ve really needed one, so it’s better to be safe than sorry, I always say) and just barely getting the purse closed, then having to pull everything out and dig around to find anything.
It’s a huge pain in the ass when all you want is a piece of gum or a tampon, to have to do all that digging.
So I gave up and switched from the small size bag I was using to the regular size, and let me tell you, it makes a WORLD of difference. Before I left the house for my hair appointment, I had a hardcover book and two half-liter bottles of water in the purse, and if I’d wanted to stuff, say, a cat in there or something, there would have been plenty of room.
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“I likes to lick my chops.”
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Previously
2005: I AM SO HAPPY, YES I AM.
2004: (I never claimed not to be a dumbass)
2003: I would be ever so grateful if you would restrain yourself.
2002: No entry.
2001: I knew y’all were a hip and happenin’ bunch of readers!
2000: Stuff I’ve bought.
1999: And it tasted excellent, of course, which made the eggfart stenchiness more than worth it.]]>
The fact that your Mom watches Boston Legal cracks me up. That’s one whacky out there show–not for the uptight or feint of heart.
Robyn Vicious – I like it. Maybe Vichypoo?
“I didn’t get a huge amount accomplished…”
Excuse me? That sounds like a lot more than I EVER get done in a day!!!!!!!
You’re funny! 🙂
You are a riot. Oh, that photo of you. Heeeeeeee he!!
Spanky looks like he is warbling a Christmas tune.
Doesn’t your hairdresser have a book of hair color swatches? Instead of telling her to make your hair “darker”, why don’t you look at the color swatches and pick an exact shade you like? 🙂
P.S. It doesn’t look “Elvis black”!!!
Hi robyn – are you going to leave your packages on the front step for the postman to pick up so you don’t have to stand in line behind the crazy at the post office this year? If so, please let us know how that goes? I love the commercials, but I have little faith in my postal worker.
I don’t like the spiked look either! Your hair looks tons better when you style it!! The color looks red-ish in the picture!
I love the purse picture telling what everything is! I have to ask..why so much tylenol though?!
1. You do your hair so much cuter than your girl. In my book, that’s a hairstylist’s greatest sin. When you leave the salon, you should look awesome.
2. I like the brown hair, but I understand about maybe you feel it’s too dark. Give it a couple of days and then GO BACK TO YOUR GIRL. Don’t do it yourself. Part of the deal is she wants you to be happy, let her fix it. Plus, it probably won’t lighten with just haircolor bought from the market.
I recommend that your next color be a level 5. I think L’Oreal Majirel 5.3 would look really lovely on you. It’s a golden brown color. Hey- my mom’s hair is that color you can see her on my Flickr.
3. You ARE a badass. An unbearably cute bass ass.
i know exactly what you mean about the poofy hair…i always look like a walking bowling ball after i get my hair cut.
and amen to the cart in the aisle thing….i think it’s made all the worse by the fact that those carts are just about as wide as 50% of the aisle.
I never go anywhere without those dental flosser things! They’re in my purse, in my car, in my desk at work…. What’s that? A floss fetish? Umm, no….
LOL!! You have the pose just right. Robin Vicious!
LOL!! You have the pose just right. Robyn Vicious!
Hey Robyn. I work in a salon and I see tons of people come in who have coloured their OWN hair at home and it went Elvis-black. (even though they used a warm brown-they swear!)There is no quick fix solution, since you can’t lighten colour with colour. I reccommend that for the next few days, wash your hair with laundry soap, which will help get rid of some of the darkness. If you find its still too dark, the best way to lighten it up is putting those highlights back in it. (but instead of blond, you could choose a warmer tone-say a caramel/butterscotch colour) Your stylist will be able to lighten it to the right level and then tone it to get any brassiness out. As for her styling faux pas, I usually hand the client my comb and ask them to show me how THEY style their hair-gives me a guideline to follow, and they leave the shop feeling and looking great. (I always say to my clients “you know your own hair better than anyone” – which helps them explain to ME what they would like me to do for them.)
First: Robyn Vicious definitely fits with your bad ass face!
Second: Wash your hair a few times before you try anything. There will be some of the color that will come out and it will lighten in a few washes (even if it’s permanent color). Looking at the pic, it looks a lot like mine did when I first colored it this last time and after a few washes it was perfect. Also, a box of color probably won’t take the color out (color doesn’t lift color), but will just change the “tone” of your hair. If you really hate it, you might have to have it bleach washed and then re-colored to a lighter darker shade (oxymoronic, isn’t it?)
Punk rawk, Robyn! You’re totally badass.
Just wondering – how many different kinds of Tylenol do you have?! 😉
Robyn, how often do you have to buy cat food? When it was just the 2 cats, we could go MONTHS on the largest bag Petco sold. Now with 4, I am buying cat food every month. Little piggies.
Love the hair and the pic of Spanky. Thanks for posting it.
Vicious could be your new middle name!
God, I totally know what you mean about the great cut, but the awful styling. My guy (Jason) is exactly the same – he knows exactly how to cut and color my hair, but I hate the way he floofs it up afterwards … and he seems to absolutely LOVE the styling part of his job. Last time I was in, my daughter called me on my cell phone just as he was beginning to style my newly cut and highlighted hair. She was having car trouble and needed a ride, so I had to leave with my hair unstyled, and I was S-O-O-O happy. Usually I drive straight home, so I can brush my hair out and hope no one sees me with the crazy-ass “do.”
The 2 types of tylenol made me giggle…..quick release for when you want to lose the pain quickly, regular for when you want to savour the pain a bit first??!!!
A very brave woman to open your purse to scrutiny:)!!
Go on with your bad-ass self, Robyn Vicious! 🙂 I like your hair MUCH better when you style it, too. What is it with stylists wanting to brush hair back to show a widow’s peak? Mine does that, too, and I hate it. Give me some bangs, please! I look like Eddie Munster without them.
You don’t look anything like that picture of you with Fred in your purse. You need to update it!
Robin: Yeah, I think she does, I just didn’t think to ask to look at it. I’ll know better next time! And actually, the picture just doesn’t do justice to how dark it is; it is seriously Elvis black.
Sharon: No, I’m going to carry my packages to the post office. I don’t NOT trust my carrier… I just don’t particularly trust him, either. 🙂
Shannon: There’s so much Tylenol ’cause I didn’t realize I had children’s Tylenol in my purse, so I bought a bottle of the quick-release stuff to put in there.
Leanne: Thanks, I’ll try that laundry detergent trick! My hair does usually lighten a little; I had forgotten that!
Kristin: Just the two (Children’s and Quick-Release). I am NOT a Tylenol addict, despite appearances to the contrary. 🙂
Amy: I think we end up buying cat food about once a month – of course, we offer the spoiled little brats four different kinds of food (which I’m cutting down to two), so if we went down to one kind, we’d probably have to buy it even more often.
Jayne: Two kinds of Tylenol because I didn’t realize I had the Children’s kind in my purse, actually. 🙂 Right after surgery I was taking Children’s Tylenol when I needed Tylenol because I was afraid the regular stuff wouldn’t absorb well, but it seems to, so now I take the Quick Release stuff. 🙂
Love the Sid V. pos! your mom has good taste in TV.
You gotta watch Boston Legal on DVD starting at Season 1 !!! Netflix has it. You will love it. James Spader & William Shatner are great together. I learned of Nip/Tuck from one of your entries. The British gal that played Quentin’s sister is in some of the early Boston Legal seasons. Don’t try to watch it with commercials though…
HA! You & your hair crack me up.
As someone else already said, you have been wanting to change your middle name. I think Viscious is perfect!
Love the lick picture 🙂
My cat does the lick quite well too
http://www.neargem.blogspot.com/
Awesome expression on the hair photo, and I kind of like the color ms. Vicious 😉
Hi Robyn,
I wonder if this purse organizer would work for you. It is all over TV right now. It looks kinda cool!
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=13936625
The problem is, you are twisting your mouth in the wrong direction. Once I got my hair too dark, I put the juice of one lemon through it and left it in for ten minutes then washed as usual. I did this for several days and it worked real well.
Heehee!! Robyn Vicious, that’s good!
Roby, I used to hate the way my stylist used to do my hair, too. I used to rush right home and redo it myself. Finally I decided to not have it styled, I just get a shampoo, cut, color and thats it. It actually saved me money because they charge me less without the blow dry and style.
Robyn, I will graciously accept your response of,”mind your own fn business” when I leave this comment. Throw that tylenol out!! It’s bad for liver compromised folks..that’s why there is an alcohol consumption warning on the bottle.
Sincerely,
your loyal reader thru good hair and bad!