My new hair color is really groovy. Not an overall color change like I expected, but a single process done in streaks and chunks in a brilliant deep candy red only a shade, if that much, lighter than my brown. Looks great.

Vanity
Getting my hair done tonight by The Artiste. Getting a new color, hightlights now that every bit of previous experimentation has grown out. Maybe I don't need to be spending so much, but it's usually a good morale boost to have a new 'do. If I wasn't going to get in before the pool party last week, I wanted to have the 2003 hair update in time for DragonCon and Drive Invasion this weekend.

Health
The post-viral cough is still here. I'm on my third day of prescription drugs to try to knock that last remnant of the cold I had out.

Romance
And I got to spend time with the Nice Boy last night. He drove into my part of town and we ate at Ru San's.

Bites

Pretty good for a Monday. Quiet at work. New girl being trained to work up front and handle the writing of orders, etc.

Yesterday I got a call from Nick on my cell phone while I was out to invite me over for fresh peach pastry he was making. Nick is trying his hand at baking now and had actually made puff pastry - from scratch.

We were preparing to take the dogs out walking when a fight broke out between the mongrel and the pit bull. Nick managed to get a pretty bad bite in his left hand - thankfully a puncture wound rather than a tear. Too many bitches vying for daddy's attention.

Insomnia

So, I'm wide awake. I have been since around nearly 4:00 a.m. I've given up the fight now and I'm just going to stay active until my body and mind are good and ready to shut down. It's sunday, the day of rest. The day I don't have stay up and will be able to nap whenever I feel like it or turn in early if I need to.

Should be a quiet, easy day. My plans are to do laundry and maybe, just maybe, go to the mall. I hear some neighbors just getting in downstairs from a big night of partying. Are they arguing or just drunk and talking loudly? I can't tell.

It's a day of rest ahead of me. Looking forward to it.

Dreaming
I had that same kind of frustrating dream again. The one where I'm at work and given a job that I can't complete because I don't have the instructions or description of the final piece.

Pool Party
Today was a fun gathering of the women and their guys at my parents' pool. The nice boy even made an appearance in his jag. My parents enjoyed having company at the house and had a great time telling family stories, both real and imagined. As usual, a lot of the events changed in the retelling or disappeared altogether or were replaced by entirely new events. It's always interesting to hear what the current version is. Sometimes things change in my favor.

Dive
The highlight of the day seemed to be when one person managed to embarrass his wife by taking of his swimsuit in front of my parents and jumping in the pool. His wife was mortified (not easy to do - she's pretty impervious to most things) and my mother (thankfully) was giggling. My father dubbed him "Little Egypt" for the stripper. We tried to assure him it wasn't a statement about his, ummm, manhood.

I learned a new term today:

Man-crush - A non-sexual infatuation one male might have for another.

Why does my tap water smell like burning hair this week?

Tweaking again. Hopefully the comments link will work better now.


Or maybe it won't work at all...

Scary Peter Kuper poster.

Last weekend was good for music.

Friday night I went with E to East Atlanta and spend the night jumping between the EARL and the Echo Lounge. Was glad to catch Hope For A Golden Summer and Twittering Machine at the EARL. Also saw Hubcap City (from belgium) and Blue Valentine at the Echo Lounge. Alex tells me that Hope For A Golden Summer will perform at the Echo on August 14. I highly recommend them to anyone who likes very arty very southern lovely music.


Twittering machine is great lounge music with proficient musicianship and a singer who seems to do so effortlessly.


Blue Valentine is a Tom Waits cover band with a sultry female singer who bears the same gravely voice as the beloved songwriter.

Saturday night I went with the nice boy to Atlantis Music Confence. Hung out at Vinyl and made a few photos of the APC recording artists in the line up. I was glad I'd brought a few lenses to choose from even though it's a very small room. The setting was far too intimate for me to feel comfortable using anything other than a telephoto so I didn't have to be noticed. A wide angle was necessary for the crowd and candid shots. A 50mm alone would have done me no good at all.