stephanie is: 
working off and on all night…
so as a part of all my computer troubleshooting i reinstalled my osX. (it appears the cam is dead do to my firewire hardware dying.) so when i was setting up the things that don’t get copied over i decided it was time for a new desktop look. it’s always nice to have a fresh tidy desktop (both computer and furnature) -makes me feel more productive. and just because you don’t care, here it is:
i haven’t been sleeping much, but at least i have been putting that time to use braiding my hair. i did 20 more today. i expect to take 2 more days to do the remainder as i have work i have to do and can’t devote more than a few hours to braiding per night. 20 braids takes about 2 hours if i don’t have any dreaded hair or major distractions.
(uh, okay. 2 hours just passed cause i got sucked into work type stuff)
when i was at the halfway point in braiding i took some pictures, in case those of you interested in braids wanted to know what my roots looked like up close after two months. keep in mind, my hair grows super super slow. a normal person would have around 1.5″ of growth in 2 months. add that to the .5″ of roots that started out flat against you scalp and you get 2″ or more. my hair grows less than a cm a month. slooow. always has. i guess in a way it is lucky cause my roots are much shorter then they could be (inch to an inch and a half). (note that i redid the braids along the front of my part at one month so i’d look less ratty.)
tonight danny and i went to bertucci’s restaurant with our coupon. i hadn’t had pizza in soo long (being that cheese is hard for my tum to digest) – i can’t even remember when. prolly earlier this spring when i had a black bean pizza at cpk. but i ordered a cheeseless pizza with black olives, garlic, and sun-dried tomatoes. mmmm good! pizza pizza pizza! tastes good cold too.
beware! personal vanity/insecurity rant ahead… i have always hated my forehead. it is huge. it will eat you and still be hungry. it is way too big – my hairline is all lame and uneven with wispy baby hairs and an off-center widows peak. there were some mean stinky boys in middle school that would make fun of me as i walked to school every day. butt holes. for many years i wore bangs/fringe to hide it. not a good solution as my hair is fine and stringy. (seriously it is – i could only make it look nice for a few minutes to take pictures then it went back to being lame.) oh and i have a dumb cowlick on one side. at the end of high school i finally started to grow them out, but had a bang-relapse a year later. it took till 98 for me to finally accept that, while it is large, my forehead is not freakish and it does not scare small children. and here i am today, in love with my braids that hide my icky limp fragile hair but emphasizes my forehead. ah well, you can’t always have everything. i have my moments where i freak out and i actually measure it to make sure it isn’t growing bigger. how lame is that?! heh. if i were back in medieval times, i would be one styling ho! i wouldn’t even have to pluck. and now, the “stephanie’s killer forehead of doom” gallery…
1. bang! bang! they were just brushed, otherwise they’d be clumpy. c. 1997
2. failed comb-over due to a cowlick on one side. c. 1997
3. gave up hiding it. run away! c. 1998
4. the braids really emphasize that a lot of my hairline is made up of fine baby hairs. c. 2003
5. Portrait of a Lady Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1455; National Gallery of Art, Washington
danny is taunting me with the fact that his work has cheetos in the 25¢ snack machine.
i did not know till this week that you can spell check a word in safari while writing in a form. i always copied words and pasted them into google to find the right spelling. but instead of key-stroke-copying, i right-click-copied a misspelled word and there at the top of the menu was the correct spelling. huh!
my cat is hoggin my chair big time.