Chop chop

Relief! Chopped the fuzz today. M is not pleased, but I have received a ton of compliments already and I love it. It's not so short that it borders on masculine, but short enough to be easy to style, cool for the summer, and should maintain its style through most of the day. While I loved the look of my longer hair in the morning right after I styled it, by noon it invariably looked as frazzled as I felt.

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Parish Picnic

I missed over half of it (damn work meeting) but had a blast while I was there. The child ran wild. The husband consumed beer. I bid on and won "beer school" at the brewery and a Barret Jackman-signed hockey stick in the silent auction.

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And that’s how the cat got a middle name

I just woke up because the dryer kicked on again (it has the wrinkle guard setting that’ll run it for 30 seconds every eight minutes after the cycle to, you know, guard against wrinkles) and it’ll keep going all night until I get up and take the laundry out so it doesn’t wrinkle which makes my dryer an annoying, naggy bitch. I woke up with M on one side of me and Max on the other, and as I climbed out over Max (only because he’s smaller and less likely to grumble) I remembered this conversation Zoe and I had the other day:

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