yaaaaayyyyyyy for random vacation days!

i feel so energized after taking yesterday off. i crammed so much good stuff into the day, and went to sleep with a big smile on my face.

got up crazy early since jack was up to go to work (5:30am - bleh), and made a hoop for a customer... had a bit of a hairy time driving down my icy street to buy bubble wrap for the hoop, when i backed out of my driveway i literally hit a sheet of ice in the street and slid backwards into the driveway across the street. whew.

late morning, i went to my salon and got all my hair chopped off. :) i'd been happy to see people's responses to my post last week, because the overwhelming choice was exactly what i had planned... so now i'm back to having bouncy hair and feel a million times better.

before the salon:


a couple of hours later:


hard to tell from the photo, but it's a teeny bit shorter in the back so that it angles forward. yay! my stylist was shocked when i told her i was cutting it -- "does your boyfriend know?" (he doesn't -- he'll see it when i see him at work today.) we saved the 4 inches or so that she cut off so i could give it to him. :)

so, after the new 'do, i spent some time window-shopping in some of the stores nearby, then went to my accountant to get my taxes done. i lost more on the hoop business than i'd thought, but the good news is that i'm getting enough of a refund to completely fund all the house repairs i need to do this spring. can i get a WOO-HOO.

after my taxes, i splurged on a mani/pedi at my nail place, and then devoured some of my book over a nummy sushi dinner. i was so happy and relaxed, i was asleep just a couple of hours after i got home.

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!

eeeeeEEEEEEeeeeee!!!!

had an all-day meeting today that i wasn't 100% looking forward to... hard to come back from a snow day and vacation day back-to-back and then sit all day in a meeting room getting "powerpoint poisoning". we were told there'd be a guest speaker, but when i saw who it was i almost fainted -- jack, one of the designers from season 4 of "project runway"!!!!!!! i absolutely loved him, this is the designer who had to leave the show because he got a MRSA infection on his face and needed medical treatment.

it took all of my earthly effort to not turn into a little fangirl in fron tof a room full of senior leaders from my company. during the break, though, i did get up the nerve (with some encouragement from *my* jack) to go over and introduce myself. he was such a sweetie, and when i told him i was friends with Star from season 1, he was all "OMG i love her!" i'm kicking myself for not getting a cell phone photo of us, but just meeting him when i'm such a massive fan of the show was thrill enough. :)