Banged

For the past couple of years, I've gotten my hair cut at a barber shop or a cheap-o place like Great Clips. Generally I don't do anything fancy with my hair, so it just made sense to avoid paying $35 at a salon. Then I had a string of really bad haircuts, and I called it quits on the cheap places. A couple months ago, I made an appointment at the salon I went to when I first moved out here and got what I called bangs--though they were really more like short layers that didn't quite tuck behind my ears.

Today I took it a step further. I'd have to look back at some of my freshman year high school pictures to be sure, but I'm relatively positive that I have not had bangs since I used a curling iron and lots of hairspray on them in junior high. That streak has ended. And it's VERY strange to have bangs again. Now I'll have to get a picture taken so that I can have you vote on whether I should start growing them out immediately or keep them.

On another note, I'm very uncomfortable with what's going to happen in 12 days. I'm going to make the final lap of my 20s. When I was younger, I really didn't care how old I was. My birthdays weren't huge occasions--I didn't dread them or eagerly await them. As the years go by, I'm leaning more toward the dread side though. What makes this coming birthday even worse is that I'll spend it alone in Santa Monica, in the middle of a training class that I've been informed will involve assignments and group meetings each night. Fun, fun. At least this year, I'll know not to be tricked into a surprise party under the guise of giving our friends an in-house demonstration of our vacuum cleaner.

On another completely unrelated note, I'm getting into the Halloween spirit this year. My mom sent my first wedding dress to me to use as my costume. (Thanks to the diet we're on, it fits really well again.) I'm gonna be a corpse bride. Originally I thought of this before the movie, so I don't know if I'm going to be THE corpse bride or just some random dead bride. Either way, it should be fun. We usually have a costume contest at work where they give away gift certificates and stuff. I'll do my best to win something.