Some people express themselves through piercings.. Some through tattoos.. Others through their clothing..

Me?

Well, I like to give my hair a little shaZAMM from time to time!  Rarely do I go all out with a cut and style, because, quite frankly, that scares the hell out of me!  Sure, hair grows back, and mine does at insanely fast rate, but I’m just not really for the drastic change.

Instead, I just like to change my color.  A splash of this or a splash of that.  Sometimes I go so overboard with the dying of the hair, that I inherit the nickname Rainbow Bright. Well I guess it was only that one time..

Now I’m sure you are wondering how or why or maybe WHAT IN THE HELL DID YOU DO TO DESERVE A NAME LIKE THAT?!?!

Let me explain…..

You know Jenny.  I have talked about her in my blog before.  She is my best friend for f**king ever (BFFFE)!  Well, you see, Jenny and I always have these ideas that we find to be awesome or great or whatever the case may be.  We like to think that whatever plan we are about to make is going to be the coolest thing ever.

Moving on…… One of us (and don’t ask who because I couldn’t tell you-we run on the same wavelengths) decided that we should really go all out and dye our hair these fascinatingly crazy colors for a New Years party that we were going to.  The year? 2007 /2008.

We really had no idea what we were doing or how we were going to do it when we bought the boxes of dye, and the stuff to bleach our brunette hair blonde.  Never did it run through my head that this was an utterly stupid idea, and I surely couldn’t see past this party to realize what maintenance this hair was going to require.

First, we bleached the top of our heads (because we wanted the under part to be dark, naturally).  This step alone should have been enough for us to realize that: HELLO!?!?!?! BAD IDEA!!! STOP NOW!  Why?  Other than the fact that the bleach was frying our hair and making us smell bad….?  Well, that about sums it up.  Heh.

After our hair was bleached and dried, we started to add color.  What color, you might ask?  Oh you know, the normal.  Turquoise and pink.  Oh yeah, you heard that right.  Streaks of hot pink with turquoise in my bangs.  Good times!

I went into work the next day.. And let me tell you…. First, I work in a call center, where the average age of the person working there is in their late 20s, early 30s, and that is

being generous.  These are people that, for the most part, have outgrown the wild and crazy life.  Their reaction to my hair?  Absolutely priceless. There were, of course, those who said nothing to my face, those who loved my hair, and those who wondered if I, perhaps, had gone insane.

Of all of my co-workers, one thing was decided.  That my new name was Rainbow Bright.  No one could really deny the fact that I was the only one in the call center to have any unnaturally colored hair, and it really was quite bold.

Sadly, that hairstyle lasted about two weeks before I realized that my hair was growing (again, at an alarmingly fast rate) and my roots needed to be bleached (again).  So back to bleaching I went (again, frying my hair), and then came the decision – to put the pink and turquoise back in or not?  Eh, I knew it couldn’t possibly be as great, so I went with a mixture of the two to make a purple, which was applied to my bangs.

A little less shocking to the eye, I kept this hairdo up for another couple weeks, bleaching as needed, before I gave up the color all together and went straight blonde.  Pulling off the blonde wasn’t nearly as hard as one might think for me, because at that point in my life, I was also very tan.

The blonde hair lasted all of a few days (a week if you want to push it) before I gave up the color all together and went back to being a brunette.  My hair was not tolerating the bleach treatment very well, and I figured that I should wait a few (50ish) years before wearing the bald do.

Just saying!

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Go ahead, this week I am DARING you to do it! =)

This weekend, I had a mini photo shoot with the kids. 

Where Konnor ACTUALLY posed and ACTUALLY smiled a REAL smile

Where Ariana was way too active to get a decent shot.

Where I fell in love with my kids all over again.

..and where I got some ‘tude from the little Missy.

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This will be a not so wordless Wordless Wednesday.  I apologize in advance, but I just received the news and this is all I can think about.

Please, if you could spare any positive energy or thoughts for my younger sister (pictured in the far left), I would really appreciate it.

Last week, she sliced her finger trying to wash dishes, and it was pretty serious cut.  My mom went to find some stuff to clean it up, and while she was doing that, my sister passed out and fell out of the chair, hitting her head.

They went to the ER to have her checked out and get the cut cleaned, and everything came back normal.

Well, she went to school yesterday only to realize that she didn’t know a couple of the people that were coming up to her and talking to her.  Yes, my friends, she is experiencing memory loss.

I just talked to my mom, who says the long term memory loss is increasing, and she is now having pain in her neck.  She will be calling my sister’s doctor tomorrow.

My family means everything to me, so this is completely devastating to me.  She is only 15 years old.  At this point she doesn’t remember our dad (who was a big part of the first half of her life).

Cydney, Me, and Amanda. Sisters

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