manual recording by time/channel.  while i cant control it by minutes it gives 5 minute intervals. 10:05pm – 11:00pm achieved.

UPDATE
While refrencing my “Fall Lineup” spreadsheet i made i realized.. 10pm ABC after Grey’s is 6 degrees.. I was really looking forward to this show.  How the hell did that one slip? We’ll se if Shark is good enough to take my 10pm slot away from ER.

i usually get my hair done once a month.  sometimes ill lag and i miss a month.  this time around it took me almost 4 months to get my ass back in the salon.  theres just been a lot going on in my day to day life, finding the time or energy to go in was just a bigger task at the time than i needed. 

its autumn about..soon? presently i have tricolor highlights with my own black hair serving as low lights.  its generally really pretty, with a mix of a blonde, brown and plum. I only highlight/color the hair on the top of my head, the rest of my hair stays untouched and black, by just dying the top, it pretty much gives the illusion that my entire head of hair is done.  My hair has been this way for over a year and i decided i wanted to change it up.  with the seasons changing and with christina gone, i needed and wanted some red in my life, and to darken up the look.  as i was talking to danielle (my amazing stylist of 10 years) we decided to keep the brown we use, its a bit of copper color almost, and to keep the plum purple.  i try to always use permanents because semi perms and vibrants never last and all they do is make more mess than i care to deal with.. i miss my purple hair but i don’t miss the upkeep. we changed the blonde to a red. a beautiful vibrant fiery red.

it looks amazing. my hair looks like autumn and in the sunlight or direct light, it looks like fire.  with a mixture of a fiery red with a darker red, no more blonde, the brownish coppery color now against the red almost makes some of the hair look orange and the bleeding into the plum is just georgeous.. oh yah and the standard lowlights of my black hair.  every time i look in the mirror i think of christina. i miss her big blue eyes and red brown hair keeping me company everyday at lunch.

hair tech? oh yah.. i’m getting there.  so as i’m sitting down, my hair colored and trimmed another stylist walks by and says “that color is amazing. what is it”. Danielle proceeds to speak in a technical language i found fascinating.  I thought to myself “this is what people must feel like all the time when my friends and i are talking”.  They talked about how my hair is a level 2, they talked a lot about numbers 20, 30 and 40 and what you use. and the colors? they don’t have names, just numbers.  “8F with a mix 6E, this is a 5F and a 4E.”  “Wow you used 40? i thought 20″ “I have to, with Level 2 hair think about it, she needs 6 levels of Lift not only that but she has asian hair. i mean feel it.  you put 40 on my hair and my hair will fry off.  touch her hair. it still feels silky.” “Wacka wacka wacka…”  After calling a few more stylists over to discuss the method, levels, weird NumberLetter names for colors… I realized i was the subject of hair tech, and i loved being witness to a new kind of geek, all of its own, and i had no idea what anything meant.

//j