bad hair month

Note to well-meaning girl at the Aveda Institute who cut my hair yesterday:

This is a Halle Berry haircut.











This is a pixie haircut.











Please note how irrevocable the pixie choice is when your customer asked for a Halle Berry.
Now the money I saved by going to a student needs to be spent on a cute hat.

rockstar on the bus

I usually buy coats that are cheap and warm. Really warm. And really cheap. Thrift-shop fuzzy things. The only people who see me in my coat are my fellow passengers on the bus and I don't think they care. But, you know, it being a long-ass winter here, I guess I see my damn coat a lot. So I finally laid out a little extra for a seriously awesome coat. It was consignment and on sale, so it was still pretty cheap.

I was a vegetarian for 15 years, so leather, like bacon, was always a secretly filthy little fantasy of mine. A fantasy I've never indulged. And based on some of my thrift-shop purchases, I've learned that evolution makes warmer coats than anything humans can invent. Fur. It's warm and it feels good ... good in a way that you just know is sinful.

So I got me a funky brown leather coat with a racoon-fur collar. The way I see it, who's going to miss one racoon? And it was consignment, so I didn't directly fund the people who skinned the cow. And anyway, I eat meat now.

I can't wait to ride the bus tomorrow.

barks and grunts

Our dog is mostly a quiet dog. Pensive, philosophical, we like to think. He only barks for three reasons.

1. Please love me - A very polite little grunt to indicate he'd like to come back inside with us.
2. Please play with me - Big happy yelps to demand that another dog or friendly-looking human come on over and play with him.
3. Hey, what are you? - Territorial growls and ranting barks filled with bravado to ward off humans with skateboards, bicycles, large hoods, children on their shoulders, big coats or any other extensions that make them just not look the right shape to his limited dog eyes.

Seems like the reasons most of us make noise too.