Daily Lessons

Today I learnt a heck of a lot. I just hope I learn from the mistakes I made and the mistakes I nearly made. Here’s my advice:

• Whatever happens, make an effort at all costs not to slam the door shut onto your own finger.
• When you’re fainting, the best thing to do is elevate your feet. It works!
• It’s ok to cry at the doctor’s and make the old ladies feel sorry so they let you go before them.
• It’s finally ok to stick your rude finger up… if it’s bandaged.
• Sometimes things don’t, can’t or shouldn’t always go as planned.
• Homework can actually be the best thing about your day and make you feel good (afterwards).
• When you get older, your parents leave you to make the tough decisions for yourself.
• It’s culturally impossible for a girl and a guy to be ‘just friends’.
• It takes, and is going to continue to take courage to follow through what’s best in light of the future rather than what feels good now.
• Just because everyone else is doing it (and I mean the whole city)… doesn’t mean you should.
• If a guy has a girlfriend. Run away! (Or so I’m told).
• Coke spiders are amazing.

Why “Op Shopping” Trumps Shopping:

Op shops are 1 millions times more fun than normal shops because:

a) Everything is pretty much 99% off the original price.

b) You find and buy things you wouldn’t normally buy, just because they’re cheap AND you end up loving them!

c) You can muck about and try silly things on. There are no pretty sales girl to impress and the old lady at the counter definitely doesn’t mind.

d) Their stock never goes out of fashion.

e) You can find clothes, bags, shoes, cds, kitchen ware, books and jewellery all in the one shop.

f) There are new and exciting things every time you visit.

g) You can visit as often as you like and wear clothes you bought from there. No on will remember anyway.

h) You can buy 20 things for the price of one thing at the normal shop.

i) Oh and all the money goes to charity- that’s gotta be a good thing!

j) Knowing you’re doing something good for the community gives you a shot of endorphins.

Hopeless With Hairdressers

Feeling let down yet again!

This morning I rang up to get a hair cut. I have thick, dark hair that reaches half way down my back and it is hard to find a good hairdresser. Or even a half good one for that matter.

In January I finally found a really good one not far from my house. She was only young and pretty rough around the edges but she did an amazing cut and she was really good to talk to. I was so excited about it because I have a running history of hairdressers that have let me down. I’ll tell you.

1. Mum: growing up I had a few mishaps, lopsidedness and skewif fringes. Plus she would always cut too much off!

2. [2004- 2005] chick did an ok job, actually she was pretty bad. Didn’t know how to cut long hair but she was alright and did my eyebrows well enough. BUT she left the salon.

3. [2005] went to this new one up the road. I had the most gorgeous long, luscious hair. I told the girl I wanted it slightly layered and an actual cut not a trim. Turns out this girl was an APPRENTICE and found my hair too irresistable. Chopped all of it up above my shoulders, a fringe above my eye brows and the top layer above my ears. I cannot tell you how much I cried. I have never been the same again.

4. [2006] I let my hair grow and grow, too afraid to return to a hairdresser. But somehow I trusted my friends. I had two friends who cut one side of my fringe each. One side feathered, one side blunt and different lengths. Mum fixed it up.

5. [2006] I decided to go up to the same salon as last time and refuse to let an apprentice cut my hair. The owner cut it and fixed up my fringe. I kept going to her for the rest of the year but she wasn’t fantastic and would never cut it the way I asked her to. Plus she had this colsore on her mouth and she would scratch it then touch my hair… eww!

6. [2007] I went back to the first salon I went to. They had changed management and there were some young girls there. I got my hair cut by a girl named Tara. Now at this time I had blond streak things in my hair that were growing out. I’d killed it with the straightener and wanted it all shopped off like Mandy Moore. But Tara cut it above my shoulders and made the top layer incredible short but it looked great! She thinned it out which was incredible and I kept going back there. She could do any thing I asked! But the shop changed management again and Tara left.

6. [2007] I went back and tried the new hairdressers at the shop. Her name was Jasminca and she was great. Not quite as good at cutting as Tara but she was so friendly and pampered us so we were happy with it. Yeah she did such a good job and I loved going to her. But one day we went in to make an appointment and guess what!? They had changed management again.

7. [2008] I went a long time without getting my hair cut until my mum dragged me into just cuts. It took 2 seconds and they didn’t blow-dry my hair for me. I didn’t like the experience so I decided I would find another hairdresser at a salon.

8.[2009] My mum had found another hairdresser and she had taken my sister there. My sister has really short hair and she cut her hair really well so I decided I’d try her out. Her name was Sharon. She was friendly enough but she smelt like cigarettes and getting my haircut wasn’t pleasant. She cut my hair but didn’t blow-dry it so instead of leaving feeling beautiful I left feeling like a drowned rat. Oh and I had an allergic reaction to the wax when she did my eyebrows so I had an ugly rash for a week. Yes and I did not like the way she did my eyebrows. Mine are black and she did them much much much to thin. But I went back anyway. Until i couldn’t stand her anymore. Sure she cut my sister’s hair well but she was a shocker with long, thick hair. (as mine had grown back by then)

9. A friend cut my fringe for me and she did a way better job than that last hairdresser! Unfortunately we stopped being friends. Plus I needed my whole hair cut.

10. [2010] We have this Italian street with cafe’s and boutiques and I was down there over New Year when I saw they did cheap back to school cuts. I figured I didn’t have anything to lose so I went there. Stevie cut my hair. She was great! Exactly what i asked for and better. It still looks good 4 months later! She even did my eyebrows well. I felt like I could trust her with my hair because I’ve grown quite protective of it after all these hairdressers. And now I don’t know what to do. She’s not there anymore. :(

31 Signs You’re Growing Up

31 Signs that let you know you’re growing up:

1. You can click your fingers
2. You don’t have to cut your toast in quarters
3. You don’t have to cut your toast at all
4. You can open a newspaper without it falling apart *
5. You actually read the newspaper *
6. You can eat chilli
7. You get your own house key
8. You get your own bank account and key card
9. You’re driving
10. You’re driving on your own *
11. Your parents trust you
12. You can stay out heaps late and not get in trouble
13. Singing a duet with a guy *
14. Eating a hamburger without cutting it in half and without it falling apart
15. You’ve had those jeans for 5 years and they still fit
16. You have guy friends and it’s not weird
17. You share a guy’s coke and realise boy cooties don’t even matter… they’re good :)
18. You can be yourself
19. You have your own taste in music
20. You can buy your mum a birthday present with your own money
21. High heals become regular
22. You stop worrying about what everyone else thinks
23. You can say sorry and forgive
24. A guy smells good and your knees go weak
25. When your mum stops cleaning your room *
26. When you learn that change is inevitable *
27. You can let got of the past *
28. When you’re allowed to go shopping on your own
29. When you’re in a big group in a dangerous place, but you’re old enough to be trusted and safe
30. You wear pink again
31. When you realise you’ve fallen in love *

* means I am still yet to achieve.