I don’t know when I got so into my hair, but now I’m pretty obsessive.  I guess it all started when I was 17 and was asked to be a hair model.  It’s not like I was famous or anything.  I just let these stylists dye and cut my hair however they wanted.  One woman that I would work for made hair videos.  Her name is Marcie and she is from Canada.  She discovered this way to cut hair with using the shape of a persons head.  She was making instructional videos to teach other stylists.  I would sit in a salon chair while she walked through her systematic way of cutting my hair.  Then I would parade around in a flashy outfit, showing off my new hairstyle.  She always cut and colored my hair in funky ways so it would take a few days to get use to it.  I would also do live shows.  They had these hair show conventions where all these people came to watch.  Most of them were stylists themselves trying to learn new techniques.  It was fun, sometimes I felt like a real model.  And I always got to dress up in cute clothes.  The last show I did was at Navy Pier on one of their boats.  In the beginning I was getting paid to do this work.  Then the stylists would give me free gifts.  But as I neared the end of my hair career, the free gifts and money stopped.  Since I was in college and working I figured I would stop anyways, I didn’t really have time.

After years and years of having my hair dyed all different colors and trying different styles I was addicted.  So I started doing my own hair.  I was at the point I was dying it every 3 weeks.  If I was in a bad mood, I’d dye my hair and I’d feel better.  Then I started getting hair extensions.  The first time I went I knew nothing about them, how many to get, or how much I should pay and tip.  The lady at Salon 212 talked me into getting 150 pieces.  My hair was full and beautiful when she was done.  It cost me $800!  Luckily I was single then and had some money to play with so it wasn’t a big deal.  But I learned the hard way how to take care of them and how many my hair could really hold.  150 were definitely too many.  In a couple of months of wearing them I had a huge rats nest in the back of my head.   That was fun to deal with!

I got a lot done today for a change. I have been so lazy lately but I turned that around in a big way today. I woke up early and started out by cleaning my whole apartment while sipping on coffee. I am the kind of person that loathes cleaning but once I get started it isn’t that bad. Getting started is my problem which is why I wanted to do it right off the bat. That took me about 2 hours from start to finish which wasn’t that bad considering how dirty my place was. I should clarify that it wasn’t like a pigsty or anything close to one but it wasn’t clean either.

I then hopped on my computer and got a lot of stuff done online. One thing I’ll talk about is getting set up with my own VPN. I have a company-issued one but I don’t like to use that for personal stuff. I read a bunch of reviews and one in particular, an ipvanish review, stood out so I am going to go with their service. That along with everything else I did while online took me 3 hours. That isn’t counting stopping for lunch which was me going to get Subway.

When I got done with that I shifted gears to cleaning and washing and detailing my car. I haven’t done anything with it since winter came so it was overdue for all 3. I really went to town on it and it looks great now. I spent a good 2 hours on that. I then went and met up with my friend Richard and his wife Candace for an early dinner. He’s in the Army and is going back overseas next week so I wanted to see him before he left. He’s a good guy and one of my best friends so I’ll be thinking and worrying about him while he’s gone.

I got home from meeting with him and that was about it until I decided to get back on my computer and write this. That all in all is a very productive day for me and writing and finishing this will cap it off. I’m going to then retreat to the couch and watch some TV until I get sleepy enough to go to bed. I have to be in at the office early tomorrow so I want to get at least 8 hours of sleep tonight which means going to bed no later than 10:00.