change is good

Still no baby.

Yesterday morning I was having mild, but fairly consistent, contractions. They were consistent enough that I wasn't sure if I should send Tim out the door to work or not. (since he has to drive an hour each way...) He waited at home for an extra hour, then the contractions stopped, so I sent him off to work. BUMMER MAN~

I think the disappointment got to me, because for the rest of the day I felt totally unmotivated, super lazy, and unable to do anything! So after doing absolutely nothing all day - I decided (at 7:30 at night) that I needed a haircut. (go figure...) I found a beauty school nearby that had an 8:30 appt available, so in I went. It was nice to get out of the house, be away from the kids, and I think I lost 3 or 4 lbs of hair. My head feels SO much lighter! She took off about 4 or 5 inches to start, then put in long layers. The shortest layers are just above my shoulders (taking off an additional 5 or 6 inches) and the longest layers fall about 4 or 5 inches below my shoulder.

Believe me - there was quite the pile of hair on the floor when she was finished, but as I said, it feels so much lighter. My challenge now will be to figure out how to work with it. (I did insist that all layers were long enough to pull back into my mainstay hairdo - that of the ponytail!)

I got home and was happy to find that Tim had all the kids in bed asleep. I was in my bathroom examining my new cut, when my super bushy, uni-brows jumped out at me and were totally bugging me. SO - I decided, on a whim, to pluck them! (this was a first for me, and I didn't do that great of a job, but oh well) I wasn't going for a huge, drastic difference, and unfortunately they aren't exactly even, but I got to the point where I decided that I had no idea how to fix the unevenness, and I knew I'd better stop plucking before I had no eyebrows left. It's not bad enough that I feel the need to find a babysitter, make an appointment, and rush in to a professional to get them evened out, but maybe in the near future I'll consider it.

I think it is safe to say that I was discouraged by the lack of change in this baby situation, so I took matters into my own hands and made what changes I DID have control over. Today I'm feeling like an almost new woman - still not super productive in the housekeeping arena, but I'm not lying on the couch feeling sorry for myself either, so that's good news.

Later -