bleached blonde

My little sister and I have decided that we can't afford to get our hair done in the salon anymore so we are leaving the hair dying to ourselves. A couple weeks ago we bought a kit and she highlighted my hair. It was the kind with a cap and it actually turned out pretty good. SO, yesterday we got ambitious and we decided we would do her hair with foils. The hairdressers make it look so easy!! --It's not!!!! It's nearly impossible to get close to the roots and how do you guess how long to leave it on to match the blonde hair that's already there. Taking the foils out I think my sis was laughing so she wouldn't cry!! WE put the remaining dye all over her head and hoped for the best...but it didn't get any better. Her entire head is a mishmash of super bleached pieces and random darker ones that survived. haha. maybe we'll just have to bite the bullet and pay for the people that know what they're doing to take care of our mops.

driving with my eyes closed

Today at 1230 am, halfway between winnipeg and brandon i decided for some reason that i wanted to have a blog. knowing me, i will probably find it interesting for a week or maybe two and then ditch it for something else. that's what i do when i get bored, i bail. BUT right this instant i'm making a decision to stick with it....I'll give it a month of honest effort. Here goes:

Half of my drive was occupied with much needed phone conversations. Leaving the city at 11pm is not a good idea, especially if you're exhausted. So I let my friends entertain me for about an hour, and then with my phone battery about to die i turned to my thoughts to keep me awake. I think by now i can do the winnipeg/brandon drive on autopilot...so my mind can wander wherever it wants to, I'm pretty sure I'd still be able to make a quick decision if a deer jumped out or a crazy hitch-hiker came running onto the road :) ....ok back to where i was going with this. I was thinking back to this past weekend. It was an amazing weekend spent at a friend's cabin in Minaki. We had such a great time. The picture is of our "rip tear" aka an after dinner boat ride tradition at the Meyer's family cabin...it always includes a group of great people and a chinese fire drill where you have to swim around the boat twice and ride back shivering and huddling for warmth with your friends/family. I loved our three days spent laughing, joking, swimming, sunning and taking rediculous family photos with the random cabin clothing we dug out of the closets. Looking back though i feel super sad about one thing. Last weekend a man who i don't even know, drowned in the very same lake where i boated, swam and laughed. when we were up there the police were still searching for the body. one afternoon on our boatride we saw a dock with three officers standing on it and i got a really eerie feeling. When i got home from the lake i googled "minaki body search" and i came up with the winnipeg free press article telling me that the body had been found. I read on, and kept jumped to "related articles"...reading more about this man only two years older than me who's life was now over. I can't even imagine what his family and friends are going through right now. i sat and cried while reading loving words spoken by his parents. driving home today it really hit me, this life is short. I bet Dave Christopher Pundyk didn't leave a great evening with his friends that night thinking about this devastating boat crash that was about to happen. I think that the best way we can honor and remember Dave and other young lives lost way too soon, is to live life with no regrets. To let our best selves out, to be kind and selfless and live each day to it's fullest potential. My heart goes out to the Pundyk family. I will not forget this man i never knew.