Six Flags & Hair

The stake paid for the Young Single Adults to go to Six Flags on Saturday & Mama talked me into going. Thanks, Mom! It was her birthday, so I especially enjoyed the roller coasters as my present to her. ;-)

However, we do have a test this Friday, so the above picture is an "action shot" of me studying while waiting in line for Superman. I'm a dedicated student, what can I say? Though it's probably more accurate to say that I'm dedicated to taking advantage of free social events that involve roller coasters & bus rides! I did learn all about some anti-viral drugs & got a good start on the adrenergic ones. And I rode Goliath! Still not really sure how that happened because once I had a chance to step back & realize exactly how high it is, I completely chickened out for round 2! I was given no time to think or argue the first go-round, for which I'm grateful; it is a fantastic roller coaster.

The picture above is all effectified to look prettier, but here's one that shows my new hair color better. It doesn't usually look quite that red; the sun was hitting it, I think. Also, here's a before shot (from the Braves' game in May) that I found lurking on my computer.















(photos courtesy of Nathan)

Ode to iTunes

I'm a newbie in the iTunes world. I just barely converted this Spring (after much goading from my dear father)! It took me about 4 hours to literally convert all my music from Windows Media Player format to iTunes format. And at that point I only had a small fraction of my CDs on my computer!! I probably spent another 3-4 hours this summer shoving the rest of my CDs onto my hard drive. All this effort & I don't even have an iPod! (hint hint wink wink nudge nudge parents) Just kidding, I really don't neeeed one...

Anyways! Today it's been made 110% worth it. The most recent iTunes update included a magical tool called Genius, which really is quite genius! In addition to suggesting songs for you to buy from the iTunes Store (yeah, that wasn't too hard to anticipate), you can select any song from your library & at the click of a button Genius will generate a playlist of similar songs. It's fabulous! No longer am I bound to the same playlists that I know inside out, backwards, and forwards! Nor do I have to shuffle a single artist for "confined variety" of listening pleasure! No, I am free.Besides, it's incredibly amusing to me that the (now) universal (among iTunes users at least) symbol of genius is the quintessential diagram of an atom with electrons zooming around a nucleus. Except they always seem to forget the nucleus...guess it's more aesthetically pleasing that way.

Belated Hair Picture

Take a moment to look at the consistency of posting. Now, can you tell that school started back? Anyways, that's no excuse for being so late in posting a picture of my new hair color!


As many of you know, I have talked about dying my hair on & off for quite some time (like years). I finally did it! Well, to be more specific, Jen, my fabulous neighbor, did it. Not the best picture in the world, but you can tell somewhat that my hair is now a slightly auburn brown color. It's semi-permanent and already starting to come out, especially where I had highlights (sad day!), but I'll probably keep it up for a while. At least while I can justify the expense!

I apologize for the lack of a "before" photo, but my hair's been the same since, oh, senior year of high school so I imagine that y'all've got a picture somewhere to look back at for comparison!

Mama Loves Me

My lovely mother came to visit me this weekend & we had a BLAST! Most of y'all have probably already heard the play-by-play, but I just couldn't resist sharing it with the world. Too bad there aren't pictures...though the funny ones would probably not be suitable for the internet. Haha, that peaked your interest!

No, there were no scandalous activities, but we did go see Iron Man at the dollar movie. First of all, ANY movie at the dollar movie is fabulous simply because it's so cheap! Even when our lovely Masters Cinema down here charges $2 instead of $1...but yeah, Iron Man. Robert Downey, Jr. is freakin' hilarious! I really didn't expect to laugh as much as I did, but I'm not gonna argue. Plus, the beautiful "new-ish" Audi is in it & that's worth the money in and of itself. The whole movie could've been on mute & I'd've been OK just because that car drives around really fast a couple of times.

We then stuffed our faces full of delicious fried shrimp & crab legs at Rhinehart's, a beautiful little hold in the wall seafood restaurant/bar that makes you want to take a shower after you leave. Hey, you do whatcha gotta do for great seafood!

Side note: Mama, if you're reading this, that spider that I wanted you to dispose of, you know the creepy one with wriggling antennae? It's staring at me from atop my printer at the moment. Definitely not dead yet...

After a Friday night full of What Not to Wear & the like, we went shopping on Saturday. Target is amazing. (Except that they're perpetually out of stock of heel grips, but that's a gripe for another day!) We had great successes at Target & a lovely lunch at Chick-fil-a before getting pedicures & going to the grocery store. A totally girly day, but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! Mama made omlettes for dinner-- FANTASTIC! Yes, I'm still raving about the omlettes. The Sound of Music was on TV so Mama got to shed a few tears at "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" & the day was complete.

Sunday was the usual church, lunch, pack up & leave affair, but it was also quite enjoyable. Needless to say, I took a 3 hour nap in the afternoon before FHE!

So I have gotten zero studying in thus far this Labor Day weekend, but sometimes you've just gotta let your hair down & play with your mommy! I'm dying my hair brown this weekend after the test, so stay tuned for pictures. Now it's definitely study time, however. Ciao!