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Updates are good, right?
I did two important things today. At least I think they were important. The first was get my hair cut. For those of you who have seen me in the past, I don't know, 6 months, you would know that my hair had gotten quite long. Too long for summer, in fact, considering that I wore it in not only a ponytail most days, but usually all wrapped up, as well. I figured I had three options. The first was just do the trim thing - it probably would have meant taking off many inches, considering all the split ends, but still would have been REALLY long. The second was to do my usual - up to my shoulders with some angling layers in the front. It then grows back and I do the same thing. And the third - what I went with - was to suck it up, admit that I could do a nice, good thing with it, and cut off a lot so that I could donate it. So I would up donated a 12-inch ponytail today. The stylist then cut probably another inch off of my hair to make it all even, resulting in a cut that comes up to my chin when dry and bouncy. I look 12 with all these curls. I'd look younger if I wasn't so tall (yeah, I was this tall when I was 12) and had less curves elsewhere. But it'll grow back. The stylist was amazed when I told her that I cut my hair up to my shoulders less than 2 years ago and had cut a coupla inches off last summer. It seems I get 6 inches per year, which means that by the time classes start again, I should have just about shoulder-length hair again. Woohoo. Maybe I'll even look 14 or something by the time my 22nd birthday hits! Seriously, I'm glad I donated the hair and I'm sure I'll get used to the cut. And no matter what, it will grow back.
The other important thing I did today was get the oil changed on my car, including a new air filter. This may not seem all that important - it may even seem routine. But for me.... it had been 5,000 miles since my last oil change (and 5 months) and I knew this was not good. Little did I realize what damage I was doing to my car. Apparently I was half a quart low on oil when I finally brought it in, and the oil was quite black. The people at Jiffy Lube recommended this $50 service to flush the oil from my engine and do other things that I didn't really understand - even said they'd knock $10 off the price and it would take 5 minutes. Unfortunately, $50 (or $40) extra is hard to come by these days so I passed - did do their minimum $13 service, which they said was much better than doing nothing. I really really REALLY need a tune-up and it's unfortunate that I do not have the extra $150 at this time to spend on getting this done. I guess I'll make sure it's done end of August/beginning of September when I go back to living on student loans, but by that time, I'll have to driven to Ithaca and back and to Ithaca again, plus who knows how many trips to Nashua and trips to Somerville/Boston. I feel so bad because I love my car and wish I could treat her better. I wish I could get a new bumper for her and that I could do the maintenance that she requires but having a car is so expensive. =(
So that was my day off. Along with a nap. This was necessary because of the irregular sleep I got last night. I went to bed somewhere around 11:45pm and then proceeded to wake up around 1:45am. I was up for about 45 minutes and then went back to bed. I then woke up around 5:00am again. I was on the computer until about 5:40am, tried to go back to bed, realized it was futile, got up, made myself some hot cereal and watched some news (which made me realize that the 6am news is pretty much exactly the same as the 11:00pm news from the night before, having watched both). I then slept again from 7:00am until 9:30am. I guess that adds up to almost 8 hours of sleep, but I sure was exhausted today. I looked at sleeping pills today when I was at the grocery store, but I still refuse to use them. I don't know why, but I'm scared of getting hooked on them and not being able to sleep without them which would be bad. So I guess I'll try the sleep thing again right now, and hope that it works, but confident in knowing I have about 10 1/2 hours of possible sleep before I have to get up for work tomorrow.
- Lizzardie, at 12:12 AM
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