In which Sky gives her hair its bimonthly dye treatment.

[cerulean_sky]

• Interestingly, one benefit of dying your hair often enough—particularly if it's black, which doesn't come out easily—is that you get to stop doing the ends after a while. So, because I don't have to bundle up under a trash bag to keep the dye in the ends of my hair off of me any more, tonight I put the dye on my whole scalp and then danced to "Fire Burning" around my house in a tank top and my underwear. Sometimes it's the little things in life we have to enjoy. ;)

• I've hardly been depressed for the last several days at all. Mostly because—even if I haven't yet decided to stop putting out effort—I've mostly given up that it will yield anything. Oh well.

• I has two new pairs of jeans! Seriously, I got a $100 pair and a $80 pair for $60 including tax and shipping from Levis.com. Yay sales! Alas, they didn't have the short-legged kind, so I'll have to have these shortened, but wow do they do nice things to my legs and butt anyway.

• *still dancing*

• I'm rereading one of my favorite Lackey books, and I had forgotten how much of it there is. Holy crap, long. There's a lot that bores me now in between the parts that I remember and love. Oh well. At least it refreshes my memory.

• Tomorrow isn't the 8am staff meeting! Whoo! (It's still next week, though...) Yay for not having to get up between 6:30am and 7am. I'm way too used to sleeping until 8:30 now.

•Through various shopping forays, the next week or so is going to be filled with really awesome food. I am excited. Tomorrow is flank steak marinated in my dad's "teriyaki" marinade. There's also half the quiche I made still. I made a giant bowl of jello tonight. And there's bbq beef brisket from Trader Joe's for sammiches. Plus, you know, various snack things. And a whole new loaf of challah for french toast. I am looking forward to this.

• P.S. I want an old style Polaroid camera. (My mom might actually have one somewhere...) Failing that, I would settle for one of the awesome new instant cameras Polaroid makes.

Comments

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

When I had to cover my blue last year, I had them just do the whole thing black, because that was the closest to my natural color. I have yet to see any roots.

I miss my blue streaks, though. Sigh.

And hooray for jeans that fit!

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much the only person who can tell the difference between my natural color and the black I put in it. Unless I'm in like, way bright direct sunlight and I tilt my head just the right way...

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

I think it would be super cool to have an old Polaroid camera! But isn't the problem that they don't make the film you need for it anymore, or something like that?

I just love old cameras. If I had easy access to a dark room I would definitely use my dad's film SLRs instead of my dSLR...

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

You can get loads of it on ebay. I was looking to see if I could find a camera on there, but it seems like other people also want them, so most of them have bids on them, and I would rather just Buy It Now.

Also, it's possible that you'd be able to buy new film. Even if they don't make the cameras anymore, people still use them, so you might be able to get film for them. I don't know, I haven't looked.

I found a teensy old camera in my closet—which my dad had been using for years—and I might see if I can find some of the special film for it. It's got two lenses and a flash, so I'm like, "THIS IS SO AWESOME. FREE CAMERA."

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

Cool!! What kind of camera is it?

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

No idea. I'll check when I get home later. All I noticed was that it takes film, and it takes a weird size of film at that.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_Auto_110) seems to be what I have. With all three lenses (though I am not sure what the littlest one is for), a flash, and a self timer. It's small and neat. I have to figure out what kind of film it takes, and see if I can get more of it. It seems to have a roll of film in it already, and I don't think it's all used up yet, so maybe I'll take some experimental pictures, see if I can figure out how to wind it up (and hope that's not what that winder thing on the wiki article is for), and get it developed. :>

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

Wow, the smallest SLR system ever created, according to wikipedia. That's pretty damn cool. (Though I kind of have a thing for big vintage SLRs myself, haha.) You should totally try to get film for it! And bring it to NYC next time you come so that I can see it in person...because it looks really cool. :D :D :D