Right now it’s about 4:30 in the afternoon and I either need a caffeine infusion, a nap, or both. I suppose I could “cook supper” for my “family” so that they can “eat,” but I think we’re gonna have a make-do supper. Cheese quesadillas for everyone! With Doritos! I’m way behind on the laundry and need to get us packed so we can head out of town tomorrow, but I’m telling you, people: it is difficult to do laundry when you’ve been overtaken by a bout of the narcolepsy.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell all of you who emailed me about the Praise Baby blogging stuff that you’ll have some specific information from me in the next couple of days. Y’all pretty much tripled my expectations in terms of how many people might respond, and I want to make sure all the info I send you is accurate. So just as soon as I talk to The People In Charge, I’ll shout you a holla via email.
Hey. You know what’s sort of sad? When a mama in her late thirties says “shout you a holla.” Teenagers around the world cringe in unison when that happens.
But I can’t help it. Because I’m street, yo.
Also: I got my hair cut today and it’s way too short and I’m borderline traumatized by it but trying to tell myself that it’s a good thing because the world’s economic systems are falling apart and now I won’t have to spend money on another haircut for a very long time.
Seriously. I’m thinking I’ll be ready for another cut sometime around 2011. By then it hopefully will have grown out below my chin.
I’ll be back later with an “Office” recap. Because even though I’m sleepy and my hair situation has me contemplating some extensions, Andy Bernard will make it all better.
Oh yes he will.
perhaps you did need me to hold your hand at the salon today! I’m sure you can rock it at whatever length. Like you said, you’re street, yo.
BooMama,
Flip your hair at the ends with a roller brush if you can. I had a too short doo and when I did that, it just kinda seemed longer. That was 4 years ago, and it’s now just a distant memory. I feel for ya, though. It can be traumatic!!!
And guess what? Our Time Warner company and NBC affiliate aren’t getting along, so who suffers? No OFFICE for us tonight!! Arrrgghhh!! I’ll be watching it on NBC online as soon as it’s up, that’s fo sho ~ (another mama in her 30’s)
I love your blog – I have been reading it for a while now. I can feel you with the haircut situation. I have always been a little too prideful about my hair and God just smacked me right on the butt about that when I reluctantly let my friend who is in hair school “trim” my hair. She trimmed alright – to the tune of about 4 inches. Bless her heart I think she was more traumatized than me – we are still friends, but it took a while for me to come out of hiding. I almost packed my bags and headed to a convent just so I could wear something that would cover it up! Remember, this too shall pass!
Thanks for your ministry!
oooh, did you say Doritos? those sound mighty good with a cold diet coke right about now!
Funny, I was just sitting here posting on my blog, so I clicked on my blogroll–where your name is!–and saw that you, too, are struggling to get dinner on the table. I guess I’d better pull myself off the couch to do that, too. :(
Would it be too insensitive to ask for a picture of your hair?
If so, just pretend I didn’t ask.
I love short hair!
And I’m nosey.
Yippee for The Office!
I haven’t figured out dinner, yet. Chris is doing a Bull’s Eye competition on Thursdays, so we may just all go to Sonic. or not. or have leftovers. Decisions are hard.
I’m all for “shout you a holla”, but what I’m puzzling over is “Cuckoocachoo.” Who says that? I’m hearing a voice from a kids’ show with someone saying “Well, cuckoocacho! Blah-dee-blah-blah.” WHAT is that from?! I know, a nutcase here. But it’s driving me crazy now, trying to figure it out. Thanks. Thanks bunches.
Two things:
I love that you say holla. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Please continue.
Knowing that The Office will be on tonight (and not bumped off by something as inconsequential as a presidential debate) also makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
After two weeks of denial, I’m just beside myself with anticipation for some more Office. I’ll be back later to get your take.
Can’t wait for your Office post! Yeah, Thursdays!
Knowing you from this blog, I’m sure you’ll put the sass in that sassy cut!
But did you go to a “discount” chain hair place and pay $80 for highlights? EIGHTY DOLLARS MY FRIEND…EIGHTY STINKIN’ DOLLARS!!!! Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest…Oh and No one can tell I got anything done to my hair – color or cut! Grrrrrrr
Everything I picture in my mind about your short cut is looking extremely cute. Is it short like Kate, from John and Kate + 8? Cuz you could totally pull of that look, yo.
I only know the South through you and some other Southern bloggers, and I’ve learned already that hair for “y’all” only comes in one size: big. :) So recommending a straightening iron would not even be in the realm of possibility for you, right?
Didn’t think so.
So, my friend, who came to my door sobbing over a cut that was way too short (it actually looked cute on her, but she hated it), went online and found a pill that made (somehow) only the hair on your head grow. Sure enough her hair grew out a full inch in just four weeks! I can find out the name of it if your situation stays dire!!
Sorry to hear about the haircut. The same thing happened to me last week. Time cannot pass quickly enough.
Yo.
Oh, BooMama…I am feeling your pain. I, too had a haircut this week and it is way too short and the ends are more spikey than I meant for them to be. It is chin-length, but the layers are all laying funny and it looks nothing like the picture in the magazine I chose. (Not that I blame my hair stylist. I think it might have something to do with the fact that the picture shows a beautiful blond model and I am a regular brunette mom. But…whatever.)I am a little bit in mourning over the loss of my hair. I’m thinking some brownies might help.
Anyway, may it slighty ease your pain to know you are not alone, girlfriend!
God Bless,
Kelly @ The Beauty of Sufficient Grace
Many, many times, I have said, You know, Sophie is so cute, but she’d be way cuter with a buzz cut.
Finally, you take my advice.
Is it military of blonde German woman? Which, come to think of it, are quite similar.
meant to be OR not of
argh, the torment of a typo in a comment
I am sorry to hear about your tramatic hair do. The Office will cure what ales you:-) Hee, hee, hee.
I’m feelin’ ya on the hair thing! I’m happy to say my “way too short” cut is finally at the stage where it looks like I just got it cut, just right. It’s been about 6-8 weeks since my last cut, so I think I’m good for another 6-8. Economically friendly. Hang in there. It will grow…eventually!
Oh, Andy. He holds a special place in my heart.
I feel ya on the hair trauma. But I’m dealing with my own personal trauma too much right now. Commenter Ashleigh? Not knowing what cuckoocachoo is from? I now officially feel GERIATRIC.
But I’m still street, yo.
PS Ashleigh – The BEATLES.
B-Mama,
I’m so sorry for the bad haircut. Girl, I’ve been there. A few times, in fact. Once, a 3″ trim turned into a 13″ trim (the hairdressers choice). I did not leave smiling. Then, I donated my hair. The girl decided to scalp me. It looked like someone flopped a bowl on top of my head and SHAVED around it. The stubble on the lower half of my head was shorter than that on my legs. Not kidding. The last time I went to the offending hair salon was when I took a real sassy hairstyle in. I decided to donate hair again. I had pictures from the front, side and back. She got the back perfectly. It was spikey and sticky-up fun. The front was to be long and chunky. I was supposed to be able to pull it back with bobbie pins and whatnot. When I left, I had not enough hair on top to bobbie pin at all. On the third day, I cried. I proceeded to wait another three years before cutting my hair and I only did that blindly at a high end salon on vacation. My sister in law bought the haircut for my birthday and it was the best one ever. Makes me want to go to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin just for a trim!
In the end, it is just hair. You have hair and there are folks out there that would any. It will grow out soon enough! (Oops, I forgot the southern hair thing. Up in Ohio, we just chalk it up as a bad hair experience.)
Perhaps you should borrow Jim Halpert’s stopwatch. You can equate the seconds to dollars you’re saving while your hair grows out again.
Oh, and today at Target on the dollar rack I found some completely awesome “The Office” notepads, post-its, and mini dry erase boards. I couldn’t pass up some sticky notes that say, “Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam.”
Cuckoocachoo!! That’s from Nemo, right?!
Don’t fret about the hair…it’ll grow back really soon.
Oh my goodness, I can’t wait for you to post about The Office. I could’ve sworn that was Todd Packer (packard?) on the phone in Michael’s office scolding Holly. Was it? I waited for Michael to ‘fess up, but he never did.
Have a good trip!
Ohhhh, naps :) Makes me smile. Especially the kind of naps where you get back UNDER the covers. Then its like a night-time redo!
:)
First, I bet your hair is just presh.
Second, I wholeheartedly support your use of the word “cuckoocachoo.”
Third, I’m getting my haircut Tuesday, and I’m PMSing, so there’s no telling what I’ll come back with. I might need some moral support before that day.
I just betcha that your hair looks cute and you’re not used to it yet! There’s no way you can’t look great, Soph! :) You are, after all, YOU!
When I got home from my last haircut, my husband remarked, ” Hey Katie Holmes, do you and Tom have a little meeting you would like for me to attend?”
It took him a solid week to get used to it.
Well, fortunately, you’re not in your 40s, because if you let your hair grow out until 2010, you might have to have some chin whiskers cut too. A 40-is yr old woman can’t afford that!
I am sure it looks great. But way to be fiscally responsible. My husband would call that a “turn on”.
Leaves me wonderin’, though. Is it more Eggman? Or walrus?
Looks like there are quite a few of us recovering from a bad haircut. I had mine cut a month ago. It was the kind of cut where people would look at me and either say nothing at all or go “You got your haircut.” and then nothing. Every once in a while I’d get the “So,…..do you like it?” No! No, I don’t! Thanks for reminding me. Anyway, here’s to a few more episodes of The Office to make it all go away. I feel your pain homegirl (mid-thirties mom with some street cred, yo)
April C.