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Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Progress towards resolutions:

• Kilos lost to date: 0.5kg - thanks to being too lazy to leave the house yesterday to get food! Unfortunately my tummy really really hurts now...
• Gorgeously Green: Curly hair - the eco way!
• Carbon Footprint initiatives: Obtained a second hand bicycle from mum for riding to work!
• Creative Recycling Sales: 0, though site design is complete and coding has begun!
• Hours Volunteering: 1 for Sustainability Street, fixing up their website requests, so I guess that doesn't really count
• Nepali Word: Ghumriyeko Kapaal (Curly Hair)
• Book of the week: Green to Gold - half way through, it's a bit businessy but it's not bad
• Friends: Haven't done anything about this yet! Suggestions greatly appreciated... Though I did see an interesting looking CAE course regarding the art of conversation which may help next year!
• Lifetime Goal (43 Things) progress: None as yet, though I found a good article on the Yangtse River as a proposed destination and have researched transport options from Shanghai to Hangzhou for the eclipse day... AND I have been drinking a lot of tea!
• Adventure of the Month: I think Sovereign Hill can count as the adventure of the month! Lachlan is STILL teasing me about having such childish interests and hanging out with the 5 year olds in old fashioned costume. I'm sure I'm not the only adult in the world who thinks dressing up in national dress of varying countries is fun!

(Quote courtesy of Shakespeare) I now have curls!! Another b'day present from Ganesh was a trip to the eco hair salon in South Yarra. I have always wanted curly hair and now there is a sustainable (though very expensive) way to get it! Well it's not super curly, it's half curly half wavey... but it's an exciting way to start the new year. I took a very very long time though... More than 4 hours! I can't imagine how some ladies find time to get this done every week... I had a long discussion with the lady in charge about sustainability and a water treatment plant on site and she said she'd bring it up at the next team meeting!

I'm actually relatively inexperienced in terms of going to hair dressers... When I was 13 years old and very excited about my first trip to a real hair dresser (no more hair cuts from mum!) the lady convinced me she had a great style for me and I'd look amazing... I suppose vanity beat down any concerns I had and I went with it. Unfortunately she cut my hair in a diagonal right across the front of my face and then gelled it up like a visor. I was devastated and almost started crying in the salon while my mum and the hairdresser tried to convince me that it looked great (it looked awful!)... I had to walk around with crooked bits of hair in front of my face for weeks before it grew long enough to pull back. I don't think I braved another salon for a good 3-4 years after that, at which stage my brother was at the height of the primary school head lice phase and I was ejected mid hair cut from the salon in shame, covered in oil and very smelly head lice lotion with disgusted looks from all the clients and hair dressers combined! (I might add that my mother wouldn't let me go home but insisted I walk around Chadstone and see a movie with half a hair cut, dripping oil like some sort of deep fried papadam). I don't think I braved another hair dresser until Thailand... I figured that perhaps the curse would be lifted in another country... and that was it up until this year! This year I required 3 formal hairdos (Dad's wedding, the Banksia Awards and the Melbourne Awards) and nothing went wrong, and when I found out about the eco hair salon I was sure the curse was completely lifted... and all seems to have worked out for the best!

I must admit that I was a little bit disappointed with the eco hair salon's green credentials. There were plasma tvs everywhere (huge energy hoggers), lots of decorative lighting and a worrying amount of water going down the sink... but they were willing to discuss it which was good, and they were quite friendly...

Hmmm... well after spending most of the day getting my hair done I suppose I should do something useful! Oh yes, and I should probably have included 'be less sensitive' as my number 1 priority resolution - life is difficult always being excessively sensitive :-)

Labels: curls, hair, style

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