Dear Wonderful Friends and Readers,

Today is Wednesday, May 14, 2008.

This is Entry Number 51.

About four or five months ago, I would say, I chopped about eight inches off of my hair. Sick of it being down my waist (I know, it's insane), I just woke up one morning and said, "Mother, get in the car; we're choppin' all this hair off!" After roughly eight inches were gone, I was so happy with it. But I still didn't really have a style to it. So last night I went to this new place quite close to where I live and got it cut to about a half-inch below my shoulders. I also got these really cute bangs. With the bangs, I'm sort of getting a Hayley Williams of Paramore vibe; but the whole shebang looks very Britney in the "Baby One More Time" era. You know, before she was a mess and all.

So anywho, Mother and Daddy went hiking again. I would go with them, but I simply can't give up having a day all to myself. So I, once again, opted to stay home. But Mother is going to stop by before picking up Lily and Liam at school, drop off Daddy and pick up me so I can show Regan and Bobbie my hair. Maybe Max will be there and see what he's missing . . .

God, I really need to stop thinking that way, don't I? I just feel so resentful toward Connie for screwing everything up. I mean, things were going so good and then she had to decide that she wasn't getting enough attention and make it hell for Re and me. I mean, I know she has social and emotional issues, but the thing that just makes me sick to my stomach is that her mother, Annilee, will do nothing about it. Connie needs help and she's not getting any. But anywho, I don't really want to start talking about this right now.

I ditched again on Monday because I just couldn't take it. Max is just driving me crazy and I just didn't feel like dealing with him. But Mother really wants me to go to the party next week, just because it's the last day. I guess I'm going to go and just hang out with Re and Allie.

Hmm . . . what else? I mean, I guess that's it.

Take care.

Charlotte

It's funny, I never had an interest in getting a DS till my niece brought hers with her on a visit and I figured I'd just try it, out of curiosity. And then I had to have one. I told my boyfriend about how much fun I'd had with it so he went out and bought one for himself and when he did that I really had to go get one - mostly just so I could prove to him (and I did!) that I could beat the new Super Mario Bros. before him. He's still mad I beat it twice before he beat it once. [rofl] And he needed my help to beat it. hehe.

Anyway. Your hair cut sounds cute - I'm sure it looks great! Still long enough you could invest in some pretty hair toys and do fun things with it too, depending on how thick it is of course. Technically I should have the length for a ton of styles but it's so thick I can't really do too much with it in the way of buns/twists etc. But I'd imagine you could definitely do french braids, and some various twists (definitely a peacock twist, which was my favorite when my hair was shorter!) and possibly a small bun but as I said that'd depend on thickness. Probably a gibson tuck as well. And of course half-ups are nearly always an option! Get yourself some hair sticks (Ketylo has great hair sticks - I have them linked on my blog.) and some nice barrettes, pins and clips and you might be surprised the things you can do with no other styling aids and in just a few minutes!