hello loves. i'm going to be making my blog private in a few days, so if you want to keep reading, please email me at hcklaver@gmail.com so i can send you an invite.
i think that's how it works. we'll see. haha.
peace.
Monday, February 25, 2013
other stuff
the other morning i came into the kitchen to find tesla like this.
i was informed that he was making lemon cookies. he sawed a lemon in half (i stepped in to supervise/assist right after i walked in and saw that huge knife in his hand), squeezed it into the bowl, and then dumped in some 9-grain cereal. mmm. tasty.
he was really set on having cookies though, so i promised him that we'd make some after he and D took their baths. we ended up making chocolate chip cookies (for breakfast). i was ready to make lemon but he changed his mind and decided chocolate chip sounded better. can't blame him.
i love desmond's posture in this picture.
we found some kipper books at the library (not pictured) and the boys were THRILLED. thrilled, i tell you. they adore kipper. so much so that i've been informed by several people that the boys sometimes speak with british accents. (it's very amusing.)
the boys are finally getting to the age where craft projects might be in our foreseeable future. i let them paint the other day and they loved it. it actually occupied them for around 20 minutes, too, which is about 16 minutes longer than the last time we tried it.
and in other, very exciting news...the subaru keeps breaking down so i have been forced to learn to drive a stick shift. i am proud to announce that today, i drove the troopacabra* to the grocery stores and home without any mishaps, tickets, or maiming of pedestrians!
i was informed that he was making lemon cookies. he sawed a lemon in half (i stepped in to supervise/assist right after i walked in and saw that huge knife in his hand), squeezed it into the bowl, and then dumped in some 9-grain cereal. mmm. tasty.
he was really set on having cookies though, so i promised him that we'd make some after he and D took their baths. we ended up making chocolate chip cookies (for breakfast). i was ready to make lemon but he changed his mind and decided chocolate chip sounded better. can't blame him.
i love desmond's posture in this picture.
we found some kipper books at the library (not pictured) and the boys were THRILLED. thrilled, i tell you. they adore kipper. so much so that i've been informed by several people that the boys sometimes speak with british accents. (it's very amusing.)
the boys are finally getting to the age where craft projects might be in our foreseeable future. i let them paint the other day and they loved it. it actually occupied them for around 20 minutes, too, which is about 16 minutes longer than the last time we tried it.
tesla
desmond
the final products
and in other, very exciting news...the subaru keeps breaking down so i have been forced to learn to drive a stick shift. i am proud to announce that today, i drove the troopacabra* to the grocery stores and home without any mishaps, tickets, or maiming of pedestrians!
ye olde troopacabra. i feel so legit driving it around.
what's new with you?
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*a while back we nicknamed the trooper "the troopacabra" (see chupacabra), and now that's what the boys call it every. time. "where's daddy's troopacabra? you gonna drive the troopacabra mommy? we go ride in the troopacabra and see the snow**?"
**they're obsessed with snow, even though we don't get any here. we're going to have to take a trip up to flagstaff during break so they can see some.
pixie cut--two month update
so...two months, no trims. i've definitely hit the awkward "what in the world do i do with it" phase. today i straightened it for the first time since i got it cut so i thought i'd post the comparison pics.
...and the other side.
now people, he honest with me. do i, or do i not, have a mullet?? i want to give it at least another month before i trim it (mostly because i don't know what to trim it into...i don't want to just cut it all off and lose the last 2 months of growth), but i fear we are entering mullet territory.
i would also like to get my bangs trimmed (considering trying to do it myself, armed with nothing but a pair of cheap scissors and some youtube tutorials) and my hair dyed to match the roots that are coming in (which i will not do myself; i've had too many bad experiences).
when it's not straightened, it doesn't look quite so mullety. but i'm having issues with the back (longest part) of my hair so i'm thinking it may be time to trim it into a very short bob. or something.
pictures and ideas welcome.
that's really all i have to say about that.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
pixie cut--one month update
so, it's been a month since i cut my hair.
now the big question: do i grow it or trim it?
to nobody's surprise, i have decided to grow it out. (come on...did you really think i'd be able to commit to one thing for any length of time?)
i did/do love my haircut. and it is SO. MUCH. easier to style. however, i like change. and growing it out will allow me to experiment with a lot of different hairstyles along the way. i also miss long(er) hair a little...i feel pretty boyish sometimes, even though i know i still look like a girl.
i might end up keeping it shortish. right now i'm aiming for a medium-length bob...i can't wait until i can do tiny pigtails. i really like my hair wavy and short, so i might keep the bob for a while if i like it.
anyway...here's what my hair looks like after a month! (it hasn't really grown much, but i can tell it's fuller.)
here's what it looked like a month ago, a few days after it was cut:
ah, the days when i could just comb it and let it air dry. she layered it a lot and thinned it out a TON when she cut it. now it's starting to...fluff up.
and here's a poor-quality, floating-head picture...but it looks a bit longer here. it gives me hope that maybe it is growing a bit.
and from today...an attempted faux half up-half down! (bobby pins used: only 4!)
and there you have it. one month later.
[if you were bored to tears, i apologize...this post was more for my own documentation purposes. i always wish i'd taken more pictures of my hair at different lengths so i could remember what it was like. so now i'm trying to.]
now the big question: do i grow it or trim it?
to nobody's surprise, i have decided to grow it out. (come on...did you really think i'd be able to commit to one thing for any length of time?)
i did/do love my haircut. and it is SO. MUCH. easier to style. however, i like change. and growing it out will allow me to experiment with a lot of different hairstyles along the way. i also miss long(er) hair a little...i feel pretty boyish sometimes, even though i know i still look like a girl.
i might end up keeping it shortish. right now i'm aiming for a medium-length bob...i can't wait until i can do tiny pigtails. i really like my hair wavy and short, so i might keep the bob for a while if i like it.
anyway...here's what my hair looks like after a month! (it hasn't really grown much, but i can tell it's fuller.)
here's what it looked like a month ago, a few days after it was cut:
ah, the days when i could just comb it and let it air dry. she layered it a lot and thinned it out a TON when she cut it. now it's starting to...fluff up.
and here's a poor-quality, floating-head picture...but it looks a bit longer here. it gives me hope that maybe it is growing a bit.
[i was trying to figure out why this picture looked so weird to me...i think it's the "senior portrait smile" i've got going on.]
and from today...an attempted faux half up-half down! (bobby pins used: only 4!)
and there you have it. one month later.
[if you were bored to tears, i apologize...this post was more for my own documentation purposes. i always wish i'd taken more pictures of my hair at different lengths so i could remember what it was like. so now i'm trying to.]
Friday, January 25, 2013
playing grown up
i'm not much of a makeup person.
i really want to be. i admire women who know how to transform their look--who can go from day to evening with a sweep of smoky shadow or bold lipstick. there's a certain power in knowing how to flaunt your femininity. i want that power.
my "evening look" is very similar to my "day look"...just a little more smudged. what i thought was a "fresh face" in the morning light usually turns into the "i just rolled out of bed after sleeping in my makeup" look--my mascara has traveled down to create a dark ring under my eyes and my eyeliner, if i'm wearing any, has mysteriously disappeared.
i have a few tubes of lipstick that i picked up on a whim. once or twice a year, i break them out and pretend i'm going somewhere fancy. (a.k.a. i just wear them around the house.)
two weeks ago i wore heels to church. i own exactly one pair of heels and that three hours was the most wear they've gotten in the last, oh....four years or so.
i want to have plans tonight. i want a reason to look pretty and wear my heels and a gorgeous little dress (note to self: buy a gorgeous little dress). even though i've pretty much come to terms with my jeans-and-tee personality, sometimes i still want to live the glam life a little.
we tend to keep it pretty low-key around here, though. most of us don't even bathe daily.
and that's okay, too. i can just pretend to be glamorous.
maybe i'll start teaching the boys the fine art of dress-up....
i really want to be. i admire women who know how to transform their look--who can go from day to evening with a sweep of smoky shadow or bold lipstick. there's a certain power in knowing how to flaunt your femininity. i want that power.
my "evening look" is very similar to my "day look"...just a little more smudged. what i thought was a "fresh face" in the morning light usually turns into the "i just rolled out of bed after sleeping in my makeup" look--my mascara has traveled down to create a dark ring under my eyes and my eyeliner, if i'm wearing any, has mysteriously disappeared.
i have a few tubes of lipstick that i picked up on a whim. once or twice a year, i break them out and pretend i'm going somewhere fancy. (a.k.a. i just wear them around the house.)
two weeks ago i wore heels to church. i own exactly one pair of heels and that three hours was the most wear they've gotten in the last, oh....four years or so.
i want to have plans tonight. i want a reason to look pretty and wear my heels and a gorgeous little dress (note to self: buy a gorgeous little dress). even though i've pretty much come to terms with my jeans-and-tee personality, sometimes i still want to live the glam life a little.
we tend to keep it pretty low-key around here, though. most of us don't even bathe daily.
and that's okay, too. i can just pretend to be glamorous.
maybe i'll start teaching the boys the fine art of dress-up....
Thursday, January 17, 2013
a post about nothing
i have, once again, taken an unintended absence. i wish i had some big, exciting news to break the silence. but alas, i do not.
i've suddenly decided i want to reminisce a bit. please do indulge me.
2012 was a transformative year for me. and probably (in the end), one of my best.
funnily enough though, nothing "big" happened.
i didn't get pregnant or have a baby, i didn't start school or graduate. i didn't fall in love or get married or travel to an exotic land. (i did read 78 books though.)
it started out being one of the worst years i've experienced*. i was so lost, and i felt hopeless and beaten down. i didn't see how things could possibly improve. i began making contingency plans.
but somehow, miraculously, things did get better. not overnight. not in a month or even two. but gradually, very gradually. it wasn't until the very end of the year that i could say with any certainty, "hey. we made it." (and not only did we survive, but we're happy!)
i changed in 2012. i began to discover who i really was. as cheesy and stupid as that sounds, it is the truest thing i've said all day. i've spent most of my life as a chameleon--one of the things i like about myself is that i can adapt quickly and with relative ease to my friends and their interests.
and one of the things i don't like about myself is that i can adapt quickly and with relative ease to my friends and their interests.
i've spent a lot of time being other people, so when the cumulative events of last year struck (allow me to invoke a wee bit of melodrama and say it was a bit of a crisis year), i was forced to figure myself out.
and it was one of the best things that's ever happened to me.
i'm hoping to continue that trend this year--one of my resolutions is to "be heather" (thank you, gretchen rubin).
happy 2013, my internet friends. (17 days late, yes.)
*i know it's highly annoying when people talk about their lives in vague, cryptic terms. my apologies. i'll try to fill in more details later if i deem it appropriate.
i've suddenly decided i want to reminisce a bit. please do indulge me.
2012 was a transformative year for me. and probably (in the end), one of my best.
funnily enough though, nothing "big" happened.
i didn't get pregnant or have a baby, i didn't start school or graduate. i didn't fall in love or get married or travel to an exotic land. (i did read 78 books though.)
it started out being one of the worst years i've experienced*. i was so lost, and i felt hopeless and beaten down. i didn't see how things could possibly improve. i began making contingency plans.
but somehow, miraculously, things did get better. not overnight. not in a month or even two. but gradually, very gradually. it wasn't until the very end of the year that i could say with any certainty, "hey. we made it." (and not only did we survive, but we're happy!)
i changed in 2012. i began to discover who i really was. as cheesy and stupid as that sounds, it is the truest thing i've said all day. i've spent most of my life as a chameleon--one of the things i like about myself is that i can adapt quickly and with relative ease to my friends and their interests.
and one of the things i don't like about myself is that i can adapt quickly and with relative ease to my friends and their interests.
i've spent a lot of time being other people, so when the cumulative events of last year struck (allow me to invoke a wee bit of melodrama and say it was a bit of a crisis year), i was forced to figure myself out.
and it was one of the best things that's ever happened to me.
i'm hoping to continue that trend this year--one of my resolutions is to "be heather" (thank you, gretchen rubin).
happy 2013, my internet friends. (17 days late, yes.)
*i know it's highly annoying when people talk about their lives in vague, cryptic terms. my apologies. i'll try to fill in more details later if i deem it appropriate.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
figuring out my hair
so, now that i've had four days to get used to the cut, i think i can officially say that i'm happy with my hair.
(whew.)
the first day i had it cut, i felt amazing. liberated, beautiful, awesome.
then i woke up the next morning, took a look at myself in the mirror and had my first "what did i just do" moment. day 2 i was pretty iffy. i didn't like how layered the back was--it was giving off a serious "mom hair" vibe. (no offense, all other moms with hair.) on day 2 i decided to cut it shorter and booked an appointment for saturday.
on day 3 i was still adjusting, but liking my cut more. getting sort of bored of the "down and straight" look i'd been sporting.
day 4, i figured out a new way to style it,
and decided that instead of cutting it even shorter, i was going to give it a month or two to let the back layers grow out a bit. i cancelled my saturday appointment and vowed to buy some more cute headbands and stalk pixie-haired youtubers for styling inspiration.
i'm not really hair-savvy, but i know that having longer layers in the front gives me some room to play. so i'm going to try to come up with some fun ways to style it. ideas are welcome!
in the meantime, here's my slick look.
haha.
(i did not go out in public like this.)
(whew.)
the first day i had it cut, i felt amazing. liberated, beautiful, awesome.
then i woke up the next morning, took a look at myself in the mirror and had my first "what did i just do" moment. day 2 i was pretty iffy. i didn't like how layered the back was--it was giving off a serious "mom hair" vibe. (no offense, all other moms with hair.) on day 2 i decided to cut it shorter and booked an appointment for saturday.
on day 3 i was still adjusting, but liking my cut more. getting sort of bored of the "down and straight" look i'd been sporting.
day 4, i figured out a new way to style it,
no curling iron or straightener necessary. add a little product, et voila. blast it with a hair dryer for a minute if you want extra volume.
and decided that instead of cutting it even shorter, i was going to give it a month or two to let the back layers grow out a bit. i cancelled my saturday appointment and vowed to buy some more cute headbands and stalk pixie-haired youtubers for styling inspiration.
desmond. my other hair muse.
i'm not really hair-savvy, but i know that having longer layers in the front gives me some room to play. so i'm going to try to come up with some fun ways to style it. ideas are welcome!
in the meantime, here's my slick look.
haha.
(i did not go out in public like this.)
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