Ten Quick Points Because I'm Too Tired For A Real Post

1. Finally resolved, for sure, my insurance issue. It turns out that my previous coverage through my employer was ALSO through this same insurance company so I am covered. Whew!

2. The interview at the Mobile Home Park (NOT a trailer park, sorry Dawn) went extremely well and it appears we will be approved with no problems. Yeah! We settle on the property (we own the building, not the land--it's an odd deal) on the 17th of this month, so by May we'll have a place in the mountains to stay! I am so excited I can't believe it! Thank god for that silly check from the government...we'll be using it to hit a bunch of thrift stores to furnish it...

3. Went to see Joan Baez in concert last night with my mom. Wow, she was awesome. Especially liked this song that she performed that was written by Steve Earl (sadly, Steve Earl did not perform with her last night):

4. Tori has picked up the phrase "Hey, baby!" from somewhere. It's both alarming and hilarious. She mostly says it when she's in trouble. It cracks me up.

5. Have you all seen the latest copy of Fitness Magazine? Well go buy it, cause a certain BFF of mine is prominently featured, dudes!

6. The more I read about the government bail out of Bear-Stearns, the more pissed off I get. Fucking corporate welfare. It's fucking Chrysler all over again. Fuck everyone losing their houses! Save the CEOs!

7.  My pink hair is already disappearing. It washes out too easily. I have to go start scanning teenage message boards for the best product to use to fix it. What color should I do next? Blue? Green? Purple?

8. My head hurts. I've been taking birth control pills for six days now. When are they going to start helping? And how weird is it to be on the pill at my age?

9. I am finally going to change the design of this blog to no longer have a dark background. I can hear a lot of you applauding. :)

10. Since I can't think of anything else, how about a photo?

Comments

[Catherine]

1. Thank goodness.

2. Yay! We'll be subtly awaiting our invitation. :)

3. I like Joan Baez. Never seen her, but I have seen Steve Earle. And that was good.

4. Heh.

5. Does it actually help Sarah if we BUY the magazine? Because I was going to go look at it over my lunch hour, but if it helps her somehow for us to buy it, I will.

6. Yes. Let's not talk about it, because it's supremely rage-producing.

7. Stay with pink - it's very flattering. Manic Panic dude!

8. Sorry. :(

9. THANK YOU JEEBUS!!!! Since you are a headache sufferer yourself, you must be glad you will be saving us one, too!

10. Cute. :)

[amyinbc]

Awesome shot of you and Tori! And congratulations to Sarah for her article, will have to see if I can find it :)

[Carla Hinkle]

adorable smoochy baby ... mmmm ...

[Jo-Ann]

TO make your hair color last longer put the color in and SLEEP overnight with your hair wrapped in a towel. Make sure you sleep on a towel too. My hair color would last for a long time that way.

I love the dark backgroud!

[Erin]

Seconding the Manic Panic. Lots of product choice these days and it comes it tons of colours!
http://www.manicpanic.com/

[anonymousey]

Personally, I dig this stuff:

http://www.amphigory.com/special_effects_hairdye.html

You can find pictures of people who use it and the manner in which it was used (bleached first? how long was it in?). The colors are amazing!! And they last a long time! If you click on the color names it goes to the pictures of the people who use it. I've been scanning the pics and some of them show the color one month-three months later and it's still vibrant!

xoxo
katrina

[Beth]

Purple!

[JuliaKB]

I vote for purple. And yay for coverage. Big huge yay!

A question, if you know anything about it, but the remember personal info feature doesn't seem to work lately, so I have to re-enter my info every time. So I am not sure if you did that on purpose or if that's just a local bug here, or what...

[Diana]

I think you should go with Fushia, One trick I learned doing Nat's and Mine when I was younger. Get the Semi-Perminent (cant spell for shit) also get a color sealer. I buy them at Sally Beauty supply here in NM. Dont was your hair for at least 24-36 hours after to let the color set. Congrats on the mountain hide away, Hopefully be able to send you picks of my new house All the space is over whelming.

[diana]

OOOPS was suppose to say WASH for 24-36 Hours.... See cant type either.

[Leta]

Hmm. I am naturally very dark haired, as Cecily appears to be, and with red/orange/pink, I always had better luck with Punky Colour rather than Manic Panic.

(Oh, and by the way, Cec, I love the red with the pink highlights. I would stick with that, at least for a little while, because it works SO.WELL. with your complexion.)

Plus, the Punky Colour left my hair feeling really soft, like it was the world's greatest conditioning treatment.

Anyway, on both natural and/or bleached hair, I would put the dye on my hair while my hair was DRY, wrap in plastic wrap, bobby pin the plastic wrap, then wrap my head in an old towel, clip the towel, and sleep on an old pillowcase.

Then I'd use a color sealer on my chunks of dyed hair, before AND after rinsing the dye. This did the trick. I only had to do this once every three weeks, vs. 2-3 times a week just going by the instructions on the bottle. I didn't do my whole head, just highlights, and a $10 bottle of Punky Colour lasted me about 3 months, so even with the color sealer, it was cheaper than drugstore dye, and so much better for my hair.

Sigh. I miss my cool hair now. It was a lot of work, but man, I was hot.

[Julie]

Love the photo and Yay for Sara!!

[Ann]

Yay, on the insurance thing. They knew they had to cover it, they just love to say "no" first hoping that you would just take that answer. I freaking hate insurance companies!!!

[Ann]

Hey I just remembered you live in Philly, where I am going for a conference in a week or so. Can you PLEASE tell me where to go to get the best cheesesteak when I'm there? Also, any other hints on cool places to check out (near downtown preferably) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[G-mom]

Hey Baby!
Yeah! for the government check subsidised (msp) purchase LOL.
I love Joan Baez grew up listening to her.
Bear-Stearns yeah, banker hubby said he "understood" why, consumer wife said it was BS!
Ahhh "the pill" the good 'ol days.
I say green w/blue highlites. I love that you do this. May I live vicariously?
Could you really hear me applauding?
Love the pic of you and Tori.

[Hanlie]

I'm a huge Joan Baez fan! And I would really love a light background.

[Teenuh]

Cuuuuuuute pic of you and Tori. I go crazy with how fast the brightest colors fade, it's just their nature. You could look for some colored conditioner (I use a red one after my hair is colored), it deposits some color on your hair when you leave it in for a few minutes in the shower. Though I'm not sure they make it for your bright pink. The should! That would be awesome.

I like how your blog looks, but I think I am easily amused when blog layouts look better than my canned blogspot layout! ;)

[Sugared Harpy]

Also promoting the Manic Panic!

It's like $7 here and one jar lasts a while. Be sure to get a 50 cent highlighting brush thingy and a regular cheap comb, it makes it go on in a snap.

Lots of colors, it does wash out but so does that professional "permanent" color, and this is way cheaper to keep up. And you can change it any time you want!

[alyssa]

hell, i'm on the pill, and i'm a hundred years old.

more so, i'm so old that i was using manic panic in 1980, when you could only buy it in a basement on macdougal street in greenwich village

[carosgram]

I am soooooo jealous/envious of your Joan Baez concert. I haven't heard her live in 40 years. I still play some of her old albums. What a gift she has and is.

[Christine]

I love your hair!!! Keep pink. :)

[kt]

point 6: This was explained on Marketplace on NPR this evening, from lessons reaped from the Great Depression. They convinced me that this was not a CEO bail-out, but a necessity.

[Lynn]

I think there is going to be a lot of bailing-out of the rich, but I strongly feel the Bear Stearns deal is not among them. The shareholders of Bear Stearns are over 30% employees. These folks have been wiped out and punished by the market. This stock was trading at $150 a year ago, now it's at $10. Their execs aren't going to be homeless, but their lives are going to be seriously impacted.

We are in a liquidity crisis which is caused by an underlying valuation crisis. Investors are unwilling to invest in products that are constantly downgraded (ex: mortgage-backed securities) because no one knows what these investment products are actually worth (much less than originally anticipated!) Banks are unwilling to lend money to institutions such as Bear Stearns that have invested heavily in these products because no one knows ultimately how large the hit will be to the institution's balance sheet if they continue to write-down the value of their assets.

If Bear Stearns had been allowed to file for bankruptcy, it would have frozen the assets of many hedge funds, banks, and others that had invested in Bear Stearns funds. This would have been catastrophic. We are already in a liquidly crisis. Suddenly many other institutions cannot lend money because too many of their assets are frozen in bankruptcy proceedings. We are already in a valuation crisis, now it gets worse. No one will lend money to these institutions with frozen assets because no one knows how large the hit will be to their balance sheets.

Now you have more banks failing exactly the way Bear Stearns did, spreading out and possibly causing the collapse of the entire credit market. Meaning little guys like you and I cannot get loans, cannot get mortgages. Meaning my IRA, my 401k, is worthless. Meaning massive layoffs because everyone from small businesses to large corporations cannot raise money through loans.

Or that's the theory. Bear Stearns was not allowed to file bankruptcy, so mercifully we will not find out if this great depression type scenario is correct.

[Melissa in TN]

That is one of the cutest photos ever! Love it!!!

I also love Steve Earle. He is one of my absolute favorites. I have seen him several times and read his biography.

Congrats to Sarah.

I am looking forward to all sorts of cool camping photos.

[RainbowW]

how weird is it for you to be INFERTILE and on the pill at this age?

kids picking up phrases: a week or so ago, my wife and i awoke on saturday morning to the sound of our four year old daughter marching through the house yelling at the top of her lungs. "I CAN'T FIND MY FUCKING MIRAPOSA DOLL! WHERE'S MY FUCKING MIRAPOSA DOLL?!"