By Nancy | August 27, 2008
You would think Wordpress would have automatically updated me to 2.6.1 since I only installed the darn thing two weeks ago! In any regard, I don’t know if I’m going to take it upon myself to update. I’ve heard that a few people’s layouts got all mashed up after updating. I’m not smart enough with Wordpress to do that, yet.
So, you all want to see the front of my new hair, do yaass? Actually, only one person really does, since that
was the only comment on my previous entry. Boo I’m a boring blogger! It really doesn’t look much different from the front (or at least, I don’t think so). It’s just darker and a few people commented and have told me my eyes look lighter … not exactly what I was going for. Light eyes creep me out, like that guy from the movie Red Eye: Cillian Murphy. Yeah! Holy hell, I hate his eyes or maybe it’s just his overly big eyelids or sharp chiseled cheekbones or flaming big lips. Perhaps everything about him then? I can’t stand seeing him in movies. He was even in Batman Begins which surprised me in an unpleasant way, and I couldn’t stand it. Ramble ramble…back to my hair, right? Let me know what you guys think! Click that mini image to the right to enlarge. Unfortunately my hair is totally fried and in order for it to look great, I have to straighten it, which in turn — kills hair. Right? I’ll never get around this, if I want to keep my hair longer than shoulder length. Trying to grow hair out beautifully, sucks and never works with baby fine hair, like mine. Ugh!
How much are extensions? Has anyone had experience with them? Can you brush your hair with them in? lol My hair is a tangly mess when I get out of the shower. I’d like to maybe think about investing in something like that…maybe.
By Nancy | August 25, 2008
I decided to write an entry about “the Boyfriend“. I must be missing him or something huh? He’s been gone since last Monday, currently away on vacation back home in Newfoundland and won’t be returning until midnight Tuesday. Anyway, Boyfriend started doing duathlons in 2006, but this year he has seen the light and is now a triathlete. I’m probably going to get in crap for posting photos of him, but I’m so proud of his athletics! I’m getting the grand tour each year, of Ontario being his cheerleader for every race, taking photos of him. The big race 70.3 in Muskoka is coming up in September, and we’re going to spend 3 or 4 nights up in Deer Hurst. Apparently it’s a very posh place to stay — I’d say it is, at nearly $450 a night! We’ll be taking a day off work and driving the 4 hours to get there. I was going through some photos last night and put together a few favorites from various different races. Have fun!
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By Nancy | August 23, 2008
That was the fastest time I had my hair dyed and cut. I’m definitely going back. The stylist was awesome and he even trimmed my hair. I was in and out within an hour. I’m very pleased with the color of my hair, and the trim ow ow! Check out my before/after picture!
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I’m heading out to the Busker Festival now! Have a great weekend all.
By Nancy | August 22, 2008
I plan on posting in the freebies* and coupons* categories once a week. These are coupons/freebies that I have found online, and are reliable (yes, they actually do come!). I thought I’d share some of my recent favorites. Some of these coupons are only $0.50 off certain products, but when you see a sale you should use your coupons then and not on regularly priced items. Get more bang for your buck!
*Remember I am located in Canada, so these links may not work for the people in the US. If I find some good deals that are US Only, I will post them.
By Nancy | August 21, 2008
I cannot wait to get my hair done by a professional stylist. I haven’t gotten a trim since May 3rd, yuck. My hair needs a trim badly but I’m not going to do it unless I trust the person cutting it. I’ve had enough going to First Choice Hair Cutters. The people there are either foreign and don’t understand what a trim means and hack off my hair to my shoulders, or they suck and cannot get a job at a better salon. It’s true! Though, $13.20 for a trim isn’t that bad. But I quit! For now anyway, until I go back to my old ways when I don’t want to pay $45.00 for a hair cut.
I made an appointment with a brand new salon that sells AVEDA products (I’m an AVEDA feen)! But instead of getting a hair cut, I decided to try them out by just getting my hair dyed there. I’m more afraid of cuts, than I am color (see link below lol). Then I will make my decision after they dye my hair. Last summer was the last time I actually went to a salon to get my hair dyed, and then it was stupid blonde. BF liked it, I hated it. After that I went back to box dye, and the last time I put that horrid stuff in my hair was back in February. I felt soo guilty when I was applying it on my hair. That stuff’s bad for your poor hair. So as of right now I’ve got brown roots and a tinge of reddish/blonde on the rest of my hair. It’s not that noticeable, but enough to make me want to go to a salon and get it fixed. Saturday afternoon is my appointment! Going to get my hair dyed dark brown again. Maybe a lot darker than my natural color. I’m undecided about that part. I asked them if they did funky colors, since I had it done in 2005. The receiptionist told me I’d have to go buy the funky hair dye down at some clothing store down the road from them? Uhh.. no. Weird.
Okay! Excited!
By Nancy | August 19, 2008
Scratch that — I meant Mr. Picasso Head! Har har…
Look at this cool site I found, where you can make your own Picasso. I’m quite a fan of Picasso’s artwork as you can see on my paintings page, I used to do Picasso replicas. Here are some images I found that other people created using this site.
By Nancy | August 18, 2008
My neck hurts, from yesterday.
Last week or so I made a chiropractor appointment. A co-worker goes to one that is right across the street from our apartment, so I made one with him. I’m going to tell him about my neck (left side isn’t as flexible as my right), my lower back (frequent pinched nerves), and my foot (stomped on so many times during soccer). I’m not as nervous as I first was about chiro’s. Someone I know has been practicing for 7 or 8 years and I had her adjust me in March. I used to be very skeptical about it, but now I think it’s time for me to get serious and go to one regularly. Plus our work covers 100& of the cost. Awesome.
By Nancy | August 17, 2008
Today was insane at soccer. First 5 minutes I got taken down twice by their defenders. One of those times I banged my head on the grass, both the times they grabbed me by the shirt because they got angry I ran past them full force. Don’t grab me or I’ll freak. I don’t think I’ve ever sworn so much in my life. J**.F**.C**!! 
Second half they put three freaking defenders on me. Good thing they were slower than I, did some nifty tricks and went past them, hehe. Anyway, it was a tough game. Got taken out again in second half. I got SO many free kicks today. I don’t know why I didn’t score, nobody scored. Tied game 0-0. It’s ok. Three more outdoor games this season. Then it’s indoor season where I’m playing in two leagues. I think I’m in need of purchasing some neat indoor shoes. I don’t even know if these are men’s or women’s, but I sure do like’em. Toronto shopping here I come!
By Nancy | August 16, 2008
Graphic Designers from time–to–time are faced with difficult clients who in retrospeck shouldn’t have hired a designer in the first place. These are the people who think they know what good design is. The people who want to make their logos bigger, and bolder and quite frankly, ugly and dated looking. I promise you, whether or not you’re a designer you will appreciate this video and will most likely be singing it for the next few minutes afterwards. I know I did, and had a great chuckle out of it. Watch: ‘Make my logo bigger.’ This clever website & video comes from the people over at Agency Fusion.
By Nancy | August 14, 2008
Don’t be alarmed! 
It’s still me.
Obviously, I deleted my previous layout and installed wordpress, downloaded a new theme and I’ve been trying to tweak it - with no luck. Seems anytime I do anything to it, the darn thing breaks on me and all the links are all on the bottom instead of on the right hand column over there. I also want to create a nice banner instead of having a bland ’simplistic’ black bar with white text showing my web url up top. I guess that will come with time. But I gotta say, updating this way makes it a lot more easier for me to come home from a day at work, and update more freqently than having to open Dreamweaver’s index.html file, copy and paste my code and then enter br’s anytime I want a new paragraph. I’m way far behind on this whole wordpress thing, seeing how when I went into my dreamhost thing, it looks like I tried to create a new account back in 2006… oops. I guess I should have saved my previous index files, with like uh… ALL of my posts from forever ago? Guess that’s a long gonerrr.
During my frustrations, trying to conquer wordpress… I came across some pretty neat blogs. I’ve updated my Blogroll and added some new daily reads to my list. There’s one girl, who resembles myself in a way. Unfortunately I do not know her name, so we’ll just call her ’she’ for now. She too is a Graphic Designer, I read that she plays/played soccer, she climbs too! How cool is that? Keepin’ her in the links.
How good are you at spotting a fake smile from a mile away? I was completely confident in my ways, but the quiz totally proved me wrong there. I thought I was doing awesome during the whole thing picking out who wasn’t smiling genuinely or who was. Pressing the ‘play’ button to see their cheesy grins. My marks show that I got an embarrassing 11 out of 20 questions correct. Try it for yourself! See if you beat my score, lol.
Anyway I’m off to edit the design page and get some updated work on there.
By Nancy | August 13, 2008
Starting from scratch. Installed wordpress
was the only comment on my previous entry. Boo I’m a boring blogger! It really doesn’t look much different from the front (or at least, I don’t think so). It’s just darker and a few people commented and have told me my eyes look lighter … not exactly what I was going for. Light eyes creep me out, like that guy from the movie Red Eye: Cillian Murphy. Yeah! Holy hell, I hate his eyes or maybe it’s just his overly big eyelids or sharp chiseled cheekbones or flaming big lips. Perhaps everything about him then? I can’t stand seeing him in movies. He was even in Batman Begins which surprised me in an unpleasant way, and I couldn’t stand it. Ramble ramble…back to my hair, right? Let me know what you guys think! Click that mini image to the right to enlarge. Unfortunately my hair is totally fried and in order for it to look great, I have to straighten it, which in turn — kills hair. Right? I’ll never get around this, if I want to keep my hair longer than shoulder length. Trying to grow hair out beautifully, sucks and never works with baby fine hair, like mine. Ugh!
