Life, lately. Plus before and after photos of my face.

I feel like my days are numbered.

I am due in 7 days.

So I feel like I need to do a quick update on life, just in case I go into labor. It will be nice to have some sort of record of what I'd been up to on my last few baby-free days.

I finally broke down and started cleaning the baby's room a couple of nights ago. I took out anything that doesn't need to be in there like the baby shower cards, threw out some hangers, sorted more baby clothes. Most of the decor is on the wall.

[ Baby's room when it was empty ]

The crib and bedding is all set. The change table is ready. I just need to finish making a princess castle, buy and decorate the letters of her name, and hang a few more things. Then it's done. It sounds like a lot, but hopefully I'll get it done quickly.

I rearranged our bedroom then set up the playpen in there on Wednesday. The apartment is a bit of a mess as I try to clean and find a place for everything. I still have more things than I have places for them. Hopefully I will fix that problem a bit today when I buy some new shelving.

I've actually been reading a lot. Right now I'm reading A Dose of Murder by Lori Avocato. I'm enjoying it, but I find it is way too similar to the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, which is my favorite book series ever, but it doesn't mean I want to read a book that seems almost the same except with different character names. Still, I can't wait to finish it and continue reading more. I've missed it.

I now have my forum linked directly into my blog now. It's through BlogFrog, one of my favorite blogging-related websites. Are you a member?

I've been thinking of putting a little more effort into my crafting blog. I've become obsessed with all things crafty lately, and I don't want to pour it all into this blog, as I'd still like it to be most about me. Because I'm awesome. So two blogs it'll be.

I have a couple of guest posts ready for when I get home from the hospital with baby, so I can take a bit of a blogging break and not worry about my blog going completely ignored. I also have a few recipes and tutorials of my own to post. If anyone else would like to help out and guest post, let me know.

I plan on taking belly photos today for month 9. The last belly photos. Just for fun, I plan on wearing the same pjs and tank top I wore for my 10 week belly photos. If I knew where the shirt was from my first belly photos, I'd wear that but it's packed away somewhere. I know I've seen the tank top kicking around though. Looking at those photos is so weird for me. My face (and I suppose my belly / other part of my body) looks so different compared to recent photos. Chubbier. I'm not really complaining. It's just strange to notice the difference. Can you tell?

The photos on the left are from January/February and the two photos on the right are from mid-August and last week. 

Hope you guys have a fantastic weekend. Any exciting plans? 

Hair Tales

Once upon a time I was 15 years old. Okay, I guess that would be obvious. Let me start over.

Once upon a time, 15 year old me went to get her haircut by a new hairdresser.

I searched and searched the internet at school, printing off photos of celebrities that had the hairstyle I wanted. I had long hair for most of high school - it always fell quite a bit past my shoulders. My hairstyle was just a straight across cut - nothing fancy, barely even what you would call a style. I looked something like this:

I'm cute, right? But the hairstyle is pretty 'meh'. This is after the 'bad hair incident of age 15'. I dreamed of long layers on the inside part of my hair, framing my face. A la Jennifer Aniston: 

Now I don't have any photos of me post bad haircut, so you'll have to use your imagination. Picture Jennifer Aniston's hairstyle on me, but picture those layers on the outside of my hair. The pieces closest to my face were full length. The shortest layer, the most visible, was the length of the bottom of my ears. I couldn't even hide this hairstyle in a ponytail until it grew out. Picture me walking home from the hairdresser almost in tears at the atrocity that was my hair. I cringe now just at the thought. 

I wore my ear-length layer pinned up for months until it grew enough to use the ponytail method, then finally got those horrible layers chopped off. Back to one-length it was. 

Now that you've heard my hair horror story, here is the 'after' picture that I promised yesterday. 

This is what I looked like before (ew) and after my haircut yesterday: 

I can't tell you how amazing it is to be rid of my mustache bushy brows and grown out bangs.

Anymore hair horror stories anyone would like to share? 

The Before Photo...

BEFORE

This is me. Yesterday, December 17, 2010. My first thought upon taking this photo was "Wow I'm basically back to my natural color." My first thought upon uploading this photo to the computer was "Wow, it's already December 17th." I had no idea the month was going by so fast. 

This is my before photo. Note the hair that has grown out. Ignore the scary-brows. 

As this posts, I will be on my way to the hairdresser. Stay tuned for the 'After' photo. 

While you wait, tell me about your worst hairdressing experience. We've all got em.