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Send positive vibes to victims and their loved ones. So sad.

And so fucking unnecessary.

My roots were in dire need of some color. I was grocery shopping for dinner tonight and I could not figure out what I wanted so I was kinda circling the store hoping I’d come across something that caught my eye and I did. The hair care isle.

I picked up a box L’oreal Colour Experte in Toasted Coconut. I really thought that this would lighten my hair up some more. I’ve been trying to go progressively lighter since the great red disaster a year ago. So… my roots are looking 100% better. But my hair is the exact same damn color.

Next time I’m going to try a going like two (or three) shades lighter instead of just one. I really want it back to a ‘blonder’ state again but it’s such a slow process going lighter. Going red was easy! One time and BAM! There it was!! It’s taken a YEAR to get to where it is now. I’m growing impatient.

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My poor tummy has been in overactive mode lately. It’s been upset almost non-stop. I sat down yesterday and realized that Ben and I have been eating REALLY bad. Like, not trying to eat healthy at all since about the time Cassidy left. heh The thing is, my tummy was starting to show symptoms of this before that. I’d say for about the last three to four months it’s just gotten progressively worse.

Anytime I eat, within about 30 minutes my stomach starts to cramp up. It’s not a nausea thing. It’s more like a food poisoning feeling. Like my body is rejecting what I’ve eaten and is having to REALLY try to process the food. In the last week or so I’ve noticed it’s much worse if I eat a lot of protein. Meat or dairy in general don’t react well in me but it’s to the point now that I’m sick pretty much every night.

Yesterday Ben got us some subs from Quizno’s. That even upset my stomach. Then last night for dinner I had a green salad with a very small grilled chicken breast and I managed to make it through without much pain. Starting today I’m going to try and completely cut out dairy and only have some meat at dinner. I’m thinking I’ll just grill up some chicken and veggies… grilled zucchini… Mmmmmmm. *drools*

Anyway, I KNOW that cutting out all diary is going to help but I’m scared about the fact that I might not be handling meat well. I love meat. I love a big, juicy, rare, dripping red, just cooked enough to be warm steak… Plus protein is GOOD for you and if I’m not getting it from meat then I need to find a way to get it into my body without upsetting it. It might come down to shakes. But I’m prepared to do whatever it takes to get rid of this daily nusance. It might just be as simple as keeping my meat intake limited to chicken and fish since they are both easier on the digestive system.

EDIT - I’ve decided to try and either grill or bake a whole chicken tonight. I’ve found a recipe that sounds good and pretty easy to do. If you have any suggestiong though, please let me know!!

Man, I cleaned pretty much aaalllllllll day. The house was a mess and I just can’t STAND leaving to go on vacation knowing that it’s a mess. We leave Friday evening so I wanted to get all the laundry done and do a deep cleaning on the place before we had to start packing and whatnot. I hate it when ALL the clothes are clean because then we run out of hangers. No matter how many I buy it never seems we have enough. And I don’t get how we can have like 30 socks with no matches!!! Explain that!

Enough of that. We had the the most random and weird thing happen last night. At 3AM I woke up to the sound of a helicopter hovering what seemed like RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR BEDROOM WINDOW. I mean that’s a slight exaggeration, but still. It was 3AM! And LOUD! And we live in an area of virtually NO crime.

I tried to get a picture of it but the combination of blond, crazy and 3AM made it not come out. Anyway, there was a point here somewhere… tomorrow I’ll take the time to write out the internal/vocal dialogue I had with myself and Ben regarding the whole thing… at 3AM. It was rather amusing and ended with me coming to the conclusion that the best way to take the thing down would have been the heat sinking rocket launcher from the original old school Unreal Tournament.

My Little Pony’s suddenly appearing on trash can’s.

*I’ve been cleaning and doing laundry all day. I was scrubbing the outside of the trash can and suddenly remembered out of the blue that I had snapped this picture awhile ago and meant to post it.