I LOVE my new haircut! Its super cute!!!
When I got to the salon, I went back for my appointment and the stylist said “What do you want to do with your color today?” and I told her that I was just there for a cut, but apparently she doesn’t do cuts, only color, and I had no cut appointment! She ran to the front and set up a cut appointment, but I decided to go ahead and have her color it while I was already there. 
I told her to put in a couple of shades of lowlights to get rid of the rest of the blue and the blonde that I had. She did a WONDERFUL job!
Then I went to another stylist for my cut and it is exactly what I wanted! Its layered like it was in the other picture, but she also took her regular sheers and texturized big pieces out so it lays nice and flat now. It moves really nicely too. I’m very pleased!
On to less superficial and vain topics:
This morning I found out that the skin that they had tested on my mom came back as cancerous. I can’t believe that both my mother-in-law and my mom have been diagnosed with cancer in just a few weeks. (sigh) Its not like I really expect my life to be perfect and without trials and pain, but I still wasn’t totally planning for this. I can say that I really feel like Kelly’s sermons this past year on Joseph’s life have really prepared me to handle it much better than I normally would have. I think that his series really helped me fix some false impressions that I had, like the expectation that God is going to save us from all pain and difficult times. The study on Joseph’s life really opened my eyes to the fact that God doesn’t promise us an easy life, just that He’ll be there for us as we go through the bad times and that He’ll use those times to make us better people. The funny thing is that the entire series I kept thinking “I hope that this isn’t just warning me that hard times are ahead!”, Oh well, at least I feel a little more prepared.
The other “good” news is that my mom’s cancer came back “mild” which means that they’ll probably just cut off the pieces that may be cancerous, rather than having to do chemo or anything like that. If it had been diagnosed as “moderate” or “severe” then she’d have to undergo chemo. The only questionable part on the report is that they said that it was “focally involving” the skin around it, so they may not have gotten it all out during this last surgery. Apparently her doctor called 5 different dermatologists and none of them could agree on what the “focally involving” part meant, so they’re going to have to figure out what to do now.
My house is super clean right now. Its so nice. I love a clean house. It makes me so much more relaxed! I mean, its not like my house is ever nasty or anything, but when everything is all sparkly and wiped off, it makes such a huge difference.
Well, I think I’m either going to go read some more of Dr. Laura’s book or else watch some reality tv on my TiVo. I need to do something mindless…
