Hiya!

Is it SUPER COLD and SUPER SNOWY where you are?   Because that’s what I’m facing!  I’m happy on one hand – because I love the white – it makes it seem so much more like holiday time.   On the other hand – IT’S COLD AND WET AND FREEZING EVERY TIME YOU GO OUTSIDE.  

We didn’t have any plans this weekend – but I do have interesting stuff to share!

For lunch Friday – a salad and some carrots with my FAV TJ’s hummus – roasted red pepper!

When I finally finished up my FOREVER HOUR work week – I was really excited to go home and relax.  I really really wanted a glass of wine but I knew Mike was going to be studying for finals all weekend and that he had said he wanted ZERO alcohol this weekend.   And I didn’t want to drink my myself! 

Luckily – when I walked in the door, Mike knew how long my week had been (his had been just as long with studying and stress) – and he was all to happy to have some drinks with me.   We went out and got a HUGE bottle of Sav Blanc:

YUMMMMMMMMMM!

and some Great Lakes Christmas Ale to go with it – DOUBLE YUM!

And on top of that – I decided to make a homemade pizza with whole wheat pizza dough.  Can you think of a better night?   Husband, cooking, relaxing, drinking – amen! 

Here’s the dough rolled out – and topped:

• Her half:  green peppers, black olives, spinach
• His half:  green peppers, black olives, jalapenos

With cheese – I LOVE to put the toppings under the cheese, that way stuff doesn’t slide off!

Finished, DELICIOUS product:

Mike and I had the house to ourselves for once (roomie Josh was gone) – and we had a really great night just relaxing and enjoying each others company – definitely what we needed after such a crazy week.  I had a few glasses of wine, and 1 Christmas Ale and called it a night!

After a great night Friday – I figured “this is going to be a great relaxing weekend”. I had a hair appointment Saturday at the Brown Aveda Institute – where students who are training are your stylist.  Now I know that sounds scary – but I’ve heard multiple rave reviews about this place – and they use ALL AVEDA products, and the services are super cheap because it’s “training” so I thought “why not give it a try”.  WRONG FREAKING THOUGHT.

IT WAS HORRIBLE. Now I know these are students – I knew that going in, and I knew something like this COULD happen.  However, throughout all my story telling – please keep in mind – I was extremely polite and nice to this girl, despite the fact that I wanted yell and scream out of frustration, and cry out of pain.  She has no idea this is how I felt (maybe that’s bad) – here’s a story through bullet points for ya:

• I didn’t eat breakfast because I didn’t think it was going to be an all day event
• I got there at 8:30 – it took her an hour and 15 minutes to decide on the color combination she would use to dye my hair.  After I had said a nice warm dark red/brown a million times – she decided on a nice warm red/brown.  Should that have taken an hour and 15 minutes?   No.  I watched all the other people with 8:30 appoints leave WAY before I did.
• Hair dye was slopped all over my face and neck – I do it cleaner when I’m doing it myself at home, out of a box
• She cut my scalp when she was parting it into sections
• I almost start crying during shampooing and conditioning because she is rubbing, scratching my head so hard – and on top of that – the water coming out of the tap – ICE COLD
• Once the dye was washed out and she was blowing it dry – she realized she messed up the color (YOU KNOW THE ONE THAT TOOK HER 1HOUR 15 MINUTES to decide on)
• At 11am – I got my hair dyed for the second time
• Repeat horrific shampooing/scracthing/conditioning/ICE BATH
• I still haven’t eaten at this point
• She starts cutting my hair – BEFORE I’ve told her what I even want (I almost lost it here)
• She starts doing all these ridiculous movements – cutting and snipping – to the point where I finally speak up and say – “please don’t go any shorter” – and she assures me – it’s not short.  RIGHT
• While she’s styling it – she is actually beating me over the head with a flat paddle brush.  Picture the most tangled hair you’ve ever seen – and being told you could brush it as hard as you need to in order to get out the knots.  That is her brushing method/technique – ON HAIR THAT IS STRAIGHT WITHOUT ANY KNOTS.
• 12:30 – she turns my around in the chair – I see the NAUSEATING RESULT OF MY 4 HOURS at the salon, and I want to throw up.  I have a mullet mixed with a haircut that was popular 12 years ago – and the left side is longer than the right side
• I smile, thank her, pay, go to the car – and call Mike while beginning to cry

Great freaking morning huh?   Now I know some of you are thinking “well – this is what you get” – I know that!  But the scariest part – THIS GIRL IS GRADUATING NEXT WEEKEND!   I could understand the whole thing more – if she was brand new.  But her supervisors there, seem to believe – that she is ready to be unleashed on the world.   God have mercy on her future clients.

Sorry – I had to vent guys – it was bad.  So once Mike saw me – he agreed:  Color – GOOD, Cut – HORRIBLE.   So I have an appointment with my real hair lady on December 17th.   Looks like 10 days of pony tails for me.

After all that – I’m sure you want to see what I’m talking about! 

And I promised you pictures of my new glasses! 

So here’s a combo of the whole bit.   I took these pictures myself so they are pretty much that “extreme close-up type” picture where you can never look good – my face looks HUGE! 

Here’s my hair LOOKING WONDERFUL AND LONG AND LEFT THE HECK ALONE (although the color and cut are BORING – hence my idea to go to the salon) – with old glasses:

Here’s pouty Allison (go ahead and laugh – I tried to make a lame face) – with my hair color looking fine, but with my hair cut looking like a mix between “The Rachel” haircut that was popular 10 YEARS ago – mixed in with a  little bit of mullet-ry. Although – please notice – my FINE looking new glasses.

So that’s that. 

Since I was ready to chew my arm off – I stopped at Chipotle on the way home – and grabbed lunch for me and Mike.  I actually got a burrito and not a bowl – that hasn’t happened in years.  Can you tell I’m an emotional eater?  Or was it just that I was starving to death?  Who knows.  My day did get better right there though – because the lady at the register gave me free guac.  HELLO – WHO DOESN’T LOVE FREE GUAC!

Then I headed over my to my parents with Lando (to give Mike peace and quiet for studying) – and worked on some Christmas presents.   I headed home around 6:30 with two movies – Tropic Thunder, and Hancock.  During movie time, I had an apple, orange, and PB – I was still STUFFED from that whopper burrito

Hancock was really cute – I liked it alot.  But I’m also a huge fan of Will Smith and Jason Bateman (HELLO – ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) – so their was basically no way I was going to think the movie was bad.   I fell asleep during Tropic Thunder, so you can take that for what it’s worth.

Since we are going on marathon post length – I figured I’d keep it going! 

This morning – I started off with some Kashi H2H with hemp milk

And decorating for the holidays – here’s a quick little peek – no tree this year because of Lando:

Here’s Lando trying to stay warm – the vent in the bathroom blows right on that rug – it cracks me up she goes to lay in there:

Phew – tired of me yet?  Anyone even still reading? 

Off to do some more chores and work on more Christmas presents!  Enjoy your Sunday!