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The kids have gone back to school and I’m coming to the end of a very busy 3 weeks!

I kinda feel the need to collapse in a heap for a few days.

My nightmares from childhood issues have returned (an indicator I need to really take care of myself).

My list of P&F stuff that “needs to be done” has done nothing but grow over those 3 weeks.

My house is in need of some TLC after having had 7 kids run rampant through it the past week.

And all I want to do is go back to bed. 

What to do?  What to do?

Think I’ll make a list with a few priorities and try to take it as easy as possible in the next few days (in between getting a few important/urgent things  done).

In other news,

My fitness trainer is returning to work after maternity leave.

It’s been 12 months since I’ve worked with her.

EEEEKKKK!!!!

Thank goodness I’ve been playing some Centre in netball - at least I’m not totally unfit!!!

Can’t say the same for my muscle strength though!

Hopefully a good workout will help with the serotonin levels.

My local hairdresser recently switched to using PPS products and as part of that, they had a day with a couple of PPS reps where they offered free colour consultations.

I jumped at the chance to have a chat with someone about possible options for “change”.  I’ve never been all that adventurous with my hair although have started to do a few different things in more recent years.  The problem is, I very rarely know what I want so to have someone make suggestions was awesome.

She suggested a copper colour for my skin tones so I made an appointment and yesterday I had it done.  It didn’t turn out quite as “coppery” as I was envisaging but I’m still really happy with it.

I’ve never had a semi-permanent before, usually opting for foils which are usually a bit more subtle.  I’m quite excited at the propect that every time I wash my hair, it’ll probably change colours.  LOL.

Naturally you want to see it, yeah?

I’ve made another appointment to have it redone just before Christmas and I think we might even go a little more “orange” next time.  We’ll see.

To be honest, I was pretty impressed with PPS.  Often companies can’t be bothered with rural areas.  It’s a long way to travel and smaller population might mean less profit or return on their effort.  The afternoon they put on at our local salon was lovely and has really endeared me to the company.

Oh, and they’re good with the freebies too.  That always helps! ;)  I was given a free treatment for booking my colour at their afternoon and then yesterday I was given another FREEBIE as part of a current colour promotion (I think).  Plus, I wanted to try a different shampoo so I bought a pack they had there which included some lovely freebies as well.

I was talking to the hairdresser doing my hair yesterday about how good it was that they came out to where we are and she commented on how much she likes the company because they really seem to care and provide good client and customer service.  Sadly something that can be really lacking these days in the quest for the biggest profit possible.

So, thumbs up to PPS for their efforts and thumbs up to my hairdresser for making my day.  I feel like a new woman!

When I was a teenager, I wished my hair was curly.

Curly hair was THE thing to have.

Mine?

Dead straight.

Well, not quite “dead straight” but pretty straight nonetheless.

Actually, in this photo, it is pretty much “dead straight”.  Don’t mind me sucking my thumb.  We’d bought these dummy lollies at the Melbourne Show and so I was pretending to be a baby.

It wasn’t all that easy to find a decent photo of me at that time to show you.  My official school photo’s have gone walkabout and it would seem I’m being a “nutter” in most of the “casual” photo’s I have of me:

That one shows that it wasn’t quite “dead straight” but had a little bit of movement (sometimes).

My best friend in year 11 had hair so curly it drove her nuts.  I’m sure if the two of has could have combined the straight and the curly so we both had a happy medium, we would have both been quite happy (or probably not, because you’re never happy with what you’ve got are you?).

When I was almost 18, I went to the hairdresser (my first salon visit as I was a “home haircut” kid).  I had a job and money to actually be able to go to a hairdresser.

She layered my hair and showed me how I could get some movement using mousse and scrunch drying it.

I was impressed.

It wasn’t curly but it had some movement which was a vast improvement on dead straight.

The above photo was taken at my 18th Birthday Party and believe me, it took a LOT of time and effort to get that much movement in my hair.

Various styles followed.  Permed, non permed, long, short-ish still long but not “mega long” like it was before we got married).

Then a few years ago, I walked into my local hairdressers salon, sat down in the chair and said something along the lines of “I’m sick of it, do what you like”.

I’ll never forget the look on her face as she was cutting away.  “It’s curling”, she said to me in shock.  Not just a little bit of movement but curls.  When it gets longer (generally I prefer is more shoulder length for easy care), some of it even goes into ringlets.

Who’d have thought I’d ever get ringlets????

All this trip down memory lane (should have left the photo albums in the cupboard) simply to say that I used to have “straight” hair and now I have “curly” hair.  No-one is more surprised by that fact than me.

I guess I could have just posted a couple of pictures of my latest “do” and been done with it couldn’t I?  LOL.  But where’s the fun in that?

I had blonde and copper foils put in.  This picture doesn’t really show you the colour very well.

You can see it a bit better in this back view:

Because it’s a little shorter, it’s not quite as curly as it sometimes goes but as you can see, it’s far from the “straight” it used to be.

I am very lucky because it’s now so easy to do.  I simply wash it and pop a small amount of curling creme into it and it’s done.  For a “going out” look, I usually straighten my fringe (which I have done in the first image).  And if I’m in a hurry, I’ll sometimes blow dry some of the “just washed” wetness from it.  If I have time though, I just let it air dry.

I’m not taking a hair dryer with me on the “big trip” so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t too long.  That way it shouldn’t take too long to dry.

I’m really happy with it and my hair is now “ready to go”.  LOL.