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All the adulds dyed their hair tonight!

I refreshed my green streak, Longpig refreshed her usual teal and magenta, and Wererogue was convinced to give it a shot and it looks to have turned out a cool dark pink! He wanted teal originally but it didn't bleach out very light and had a lot of orange tones, and Longpig didn't think it would work all that well. I'm not sure he is super happy with it, but it will grow out and we can get the bleach better and try for teal another time.

I also started my yuletide, finally! So far so good :)

Naughty naughty, I know...

I'm waiting for my anitvirus to tell me that a program is safe to install, even though I know it is :p

A Big Thing is happening at work after literally years of negotiation! It is exciting!

My hair is green! Well, part of it... ( (image below cut) )

Tonight is poutine and kitting!

Someone left me kudos on this story form Jukebox a few years ago and it reminded me how much I love it. I think this might be one of the best stories I've come up with, though probably the actual writing could be improved in some areas:

Embers Just Waiting for Breath (7306 words) by Measured_Words
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fire in the Head - Sharon Knight (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Bards, Storytelling, Songs, Bechdel Test Pass, Fae & Fairies, Ordeals, Faustian Bargain, Madness, Megaliths, Rituals, Fire, Pilgrimage, Folklore
Summary:

Efa goes to the Giant's Chair
To make a Feyre pact...

My hair has been engreened! Just the underneath.

I've tried to green my hair in several previous occasions, but this is the first time I've dared to bleach it. So far so good, though it is still wet and I'm not blowdrying it twice in one night! But I am pretty excited.

Work was dumb and annoying today but I persevered.

I think that's it! Tomorrow is poutine and knitting. Not at the same time.

This was a larp weekend! Technically the next game is in two weeks, but I've already told myself no. I'm going away to Toronto for the weekend with Nary the following weekend, and then back to Toronto with geek girls folks the weekend after *that* (just a day trip though). That's too many weekends away, I think, and too close together. ON the other hand, what's one more? :V

We're on our final storyline for Thirteen, and I'm sad :/ I really liked that game! But I think the GM was finding it hard to sustain, in terms of coming up with stories, and not get sidetracked into worldbuilding. So we're going to go back to Adventure World and do something set in that campaign world's early history. I think it is going to be sort of another kingdom-level game too, like the Scaermar game I was in a few years ago in College Station. We're using the Game of Thrones RPG rules this time, which will be interesting. Our GM is going to need to write up a lot of stuff, so we'll see how that goes ;) Another option that was tossed around was going back to Ashland, but I don't think we have the right mix of players for it, unfortunately. I'm not really sre we have enough players for this new game either, but I guess we'll see.

In non-gaming news.... I bleached the underside of my hair on a whim! Longpig was doing her roots, but since she basically has no hair these days there was a loooot of bleach left over. So hey! Now the underside of my hair is blond. Not platinum blond, because my hair doesn't do that, but really frickin' blond comparatively. I'll try and get a picture tomorrow when it is all dry. Next step - get some good green hair dye, or mix up some green and black, maybe..... I'm going to try and get to Sally Beauty some day after work this week, assuming they are open late enough! Otherwise, it'll be the weekend.

For now though - bedtime! I'm still wrecked from LARP @_@

naryrising asked me to talk about jewelery!

I like jewelery in theory. I have a few nice pieces - I have a real Thing for labradorite and am lucky enough to own some pretty nice pieces if it. I tend to prefer semi-precious stones to precious ones, or even non-precious things like agates and jasper. I prefer silver over gold, but I like brass and bronze as well.

I don't like cheap-looking jewelery, which is why I am super wary of buying stuff off of etsy a lot of the time - that said I have some Very Nice pieces that came from there, like my cast silver tentacle with garnet that I got from my sister. But a lit of it is like.... dodads hot glued into a cheap copper setting. Or set stones that are just not very nicely set.

That said, it isn't like I only like Super Fancy stuff - one of my favourite pendants is just a drilled polished jasper on a black cord. I just got a piece I really like for Christmas from a friend that is just three overlaid coloured enameled discs.

But thing about jewelery is, really, that I hardly ever actually wear it. At the moment most of it is packed away because I don't really have space for it. I miss it occasionally, but I can't even remember all the things I have that I like? The other labradorite, the tentacle... I have a BPAL scent locket.... the jasper... uhhhh... stuff?

I technically have pierced ears but I hardly ever wear earrings (partly because my ears don't like stuff). I have a few rings I have and like (one is... guess... a labradorite! I have a garnet - another of my very favourite stones - ring somewhere that I got from my sister and I can't find it and I am Very Sad about this). I have a moonstone one that I got from my mother. My last job I couldn't wear rings for and I got out of the habit.

That all said, I wear hair ornaments all the time. I have a bunch that I really like, mostly gifts. Most are wood, but I have a couple of antler ones as well. I have a lot of hair and strong neck muscles, so I can handle pretty heavy ones (and tend to break ones that are too fine, or if they are wooden and cut across the grain, those will last like 2 min :p). I don't like ones that have additional Bits one them, and especially not dangly things, because they just get caught in my hair :p But cool carved ones, especially - yes please! I like the ones with multiple tines - I would probably be inclined to buy more singles now that I have a good easy style that can be held with just one. But yay! Pretty and practical! Gimme!

I had given up on the showers here, because the water pressure is so crappy that it is almost impossible to get the shampoo out of my hair. Instead I figured I'd just do it in the sink, which might have been marginally better.... If the water hadn't run out! Run out! Bah! I had managed to get it more or less wet enough, but not actually wash the shampoo out. Grrrrr... >:|

On the other hand.... It seems like they have wifi in the lobby here. How I missed this information previously, I'm not entirely sure O_O I haven't trested it out yetr, but I'll give it a whirl for exia.

*sigh*

Happy birthday Kitkat!

I as trying to write you an amusing birthday limerick but I couldn't think of enough good things that rhyme with monkey :o

Also speaking of Robbinses, for people who haven't seen it yet, this is a picture of ladyiolanthe and I being silly the day we both got out hair cut. She of course generally has super curly hair, while mine is not quite so sproingy.

And here is a less tarty pic, though i should say that our matching sweaters look much more flattering in person! ;)

I have been having an excellently awesome time visiting everyone that I have seen this year.
Right now I am at my dad's place, where I have been doing nothing - reading, watching movies, getting back to some much negelected writing. Tomorrow I head back to F'ton (is it strange that I still think of Charlotte street as 'home'?) - get n around 5, and then gaming in the evening. I have to go to the bank sometime soon so that I can wire myself some money and pay my tuition on time (I have until the 10th). I am still working out how exactly I will get to Halifax, but it will sort itself out somehow. I hope.

In other news, I am thinking about cutting my hair. Not *short* short, but short-er. It isn't that I am tired of it long, it is just that I haven't been keeping very good care of it lately and it shows. Also the water in Tex-ass is especially horrible. I don't know what I will do, or when, or where, but I think it might be a little different than just straight and as long as I can grow it. For now, anyway....