*sneaks up and hides the scissors again* 

Psychology is bunk. Life will be what you make of it, no matter what your hair looks like. You've worked hard to grow your hair to its current length. If you absolutely must cut, don't take off more than a few inches. That way, it won't take long to recover.

Those periods of "blah" are kinda sucky. Like you're kind of passing through a hazy blur of work, home and the usual crapola. My typical solution is to go out and spend money (on things that I sincerely want, of course), but sometimes that doesn't help much.  I'm not going to leave you with the "hang in there" cliché. Everyone has their own methods of breaking through the "blah" but usually it just works itself out. Peace. 

Tuesday 6 November 2007
Hair:Wash day, yay!  Hair is parted down the middle.  My hair looks so good when it's clean that seeing it makes me happy.    The urge to chop off all of my length has once again subsided.  Maybe I simply need to wash it more often?  --Something to consider.  

Other:Hubby and I had our annual dental check up this morning, and both passed with flying toothbrushes.  Flying toothbrushes instead of flying colors, get it?    Ahem.    Then next Tuesday, the 13th, I'll have my annual check up with my gynecological doctor.  
We're gearing up for Thanksgiving, on the 22nd of this month, making up a menu and grocery list.  My daughter will be coming home for 4-5 days.    It's challenging, yet not impossible, to fix dishes for both the regular eaters and us low carb folks.  Hubby, brother in law, and I are the low carbers.  The other 5 people at the Thanksgiving table are regular eaters.  I've been finding some good recipes here:
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/fitfab/articles/lcholiday2.html
and here:
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/recipereview/index.php

I prefer recipes that are simple yet tasty, involving ingredients that I am likely to keep on hand all of the time.  It's usually cheaper that way, too.    
The weather here in Missouri is cold and clear, with temperatures set to drop into the 20s tonight.    You'd best believe Yours Truly will be stoking up the fire this evening!  
Peace and love, everybody  

Quote:

  Couldn't tell ya, Trish. That is usually when I pull all of my long coats out of the closet though.

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Other:  Whew, sorry I've been gone for a while.  Last Thursday and Friday I was out sick with a UTI      My lower back was aching, so I figured something was up.  But I saw a doctor Friday morning, who confirmed my self diagnosis     and he prescribed a lurvley antibiotic that's clearing everything up.  Then today I had my pap test and annual exam with my gyno (the same doctor who performed my surgery in 2003).  He, the gyno, asked, "How long has it been?"  (since the whole hysterectomy/cancer thing).  Four years, says I.  "Four years...you know it's very, very, very unlikely that the cancer will return at this point," he says, smiling.  I think so, too, says I, giving him a return smile.     And yes, he used the word 'very' three times.  I had blood drawn for a CA125 and I'll get the results of that test within a couple of days.  Life is good.   

Thanksgiving is next week, can you friggin' believe it?!   

Our department secretary is going on vacation starting tomorrow, and will not return until Monday the 26th.  Which means Yours Truly will be stuck out front most of the time.  Entries may be sporadic at best, but you know I'll be thinking about y'all.   

Front desk buddies...I like it!   

Wednesday 14 November 2007
Hair:  Wash day, hair is down.  A coworker just said, "Man, your hair is REALLY long."    

Other:  So, yeah, I'm sitting out front, womaning the reception area.  It's terribly quiet and pretty darn boring.  The phone isn't even ringing a lot.  *shrug*  Oh well, who am I to complain.  I'm reading a book loaned to me by our division VP, who also enjoys writing.  The book is called "Hooked" and was written by Les Edgerton.  It's about "writing fiction that grabs readers at page one and never lets them go"     I'm only on page 9, but I've already learned some good tips.  I haven't written in a few days, but hiatuses are normal for me. 
I woke up yesterday to find one of the toes on my left foot slightly swollen and achy in the joint.  It's still swollen and achy today.  This has never happened before and, no, I didn't stub it.  Arthritis?  Possibly.  Strange that it's only affecting one toe, though.  Then this morning I woke up to find I have developed a fever blister in the left corner of my mouth!     I haven't had a fever blister in years!  First the UTI, then the toe, and now the fever blister.  What the heck?!   

Amen to that, BB   

Hair:  Wash day with Pantene's Brilliant Brunette.  Also did a vinegar rinse. 

Other:  I was a busy bee Saturday.  I had the house to myself; hubby was gone to a lodge meeting in St. Louis and Brother In Law was on a run.  So I stacked a couple of wheelbarrows of firewood closer to the back door, changed out the kitty litter, did some dusting, did the laundry, vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom, and Swiffer-mopped the floors.  Whew!    It felt good, though, to get things done on MY time and not have to work around everybody else's schedules and plans.  Wednesday evening, or Thursday morning, I'll do another light cleaning, if nothing else, for the bathroom.  I always feel like the entire house is clean when the bathroom is clean!    

We have a 3-day week here at the university, as we'll be closed on Thursday and Friday.  I'm still womaning the front desk, and expect things to remain calm and quiet.  I haven't been writing because there are too many interruptions when I'm out front.  But it's acceptible that I'm not writing because, using what I've learned from the how-to book, Hooked, I have a lot of revisions to make...as in, EVERYthing needs revising.  That's okay, though, because it's a learning process.  It's progress.  It's evolution.  And my writing continues to evolve.