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Conquer the bay

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I’m typing on my laptop right now as I type this. Which I haven’t used in about a year – mainly because it’s overloaded – which makes it SO SLOW and definitely needs to be cleaned up.

Last night I decided I wanted to fix the RSS feed on my site here. The computer engineer of a boyfriend of mine decided he’d take it into his own hands since I haven’t had the urge to realllllly fix it, myself.

All my files were on my laptop. We (meaning, him) kept walking back and forth to both computers to do… computer things. Then finally after a half hour of backing up files and whatnot, Scott decides that I need to “define a site” on my desktop – the one I use on a daily basis. I couldn’t believe I didn’t set it up on my desktop before. But. It’s been downloading my spiffykerms site since LAST NIGHT at 7pm. It’s still going strong. So, nothing is getting fixed just yet.scott-pre-racerace-start2race-start
Also? The BF ran the 30km Hamilton’s “Around The Bay” road race today. He’s disappointed with his time. I still thought he did pretty well though.

finish-lineThere was also a 5K race right after the 30K start – the winner of the 5 ended up coming in at 14:10, now tell me that isn’t clippin’er. Holy fast. I also took a video of the guy coming in on the 30k with fireworks booming indoors for his first place marking. Wows. I think he came in at 1:32-something? Moses.

While waiting for the first place winner of the 30k, and of course for Scott to come in, I went walking around downtown Hamilton for a bit and took some pictures. lol yay.

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auto-carHello beautiful auto car. Are you feeling alone in this strange city?

king-st2This may or may not be King Street.

king-stNice buildings though!

Totally random, and off topic? Alfie is starting to fart. Literally making little peeps out of his butt and stinking up the whole place. Naturally, the BF blames me. :( Sad day.

ps: I’ll answer hair questions in tomorrow’s post. I have to do laundry, cook supper and get ready to do my ttaxes.

Have a good night!

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Hair, Health, Photos

Don’t be afraid

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It’s difficult moving to a new city and finding a new hair stylist, don’t you think?

I’ve only had one great stylist in my lifetime and it was for a mere two years or less. Unfortunately for me, he disappeared into thin air one day and I was stuck going to the owner of the salon. He didn’t do a fantastic job on me, and ended up always cutting off more than I could handle. He didn’t get tipped very well, let me tell you.

I moved to Ontario and ended up going to the dreaded First Choice Hair Cutters for the first little while. The split ends were non-stop. Do. Not Recommend.

Finally, a new salon opened up in walking distance of our apartment building and I’ve been going to this guy ever since. Except there’s a few things that are bothersome when I go there. Let me organize a pretty little list for you.

  1. He pushes products on me. I’ve talked about this before.
  2. He always wants to wash my hair. (I only accept “head massages” if they’re good. He’s not good. Plus, it costs extra for a shampoo!)
  3. He straightens the heck out of my already flat, straight hair. I always end up putting my hair in a pony tail straight after I come out of the salon.

I keep going back, because I don’t have to go to his salon that often. He cuts my hair so great that I end up going to him once every 4 or 5 months! I’m only now showing signs of minor split ends and I can’t even recall when my last cut was. November? I don’t remember!

I booked an appointment in early February, for late March. This was the length of my hair before I went in. Beautiful, no? Okay, maybe it was a bit ratty looking. No hate.

beforeExcept when I re-booked for March. He ended up canceling on me. “A way out!” I thought. So I jumped the gun and ended up leaving a voice mail for Mister Hair cutter himself, and canceling my re-booked appointment with him, and WENT TO ANOTHER SALON. Oh the shock, and horror.

So. I went to the top hair stylist in the salon, as they were listed on their website

  • New Talent (no thanks. Don’t need newbies screwing up my hair)
  • Advanced
  • Master – I went to this fabulous man named Dan.

He cut my hair. I had the best scalp massage I have had in years. I got a hand massage and also some products to take home.

before-after-haircut(Please! Click to enlarge.)

Here’s the before and afters right next to one another. Hot dang. It looks gooooood. I’m not afraid to compliment myself.

I’m pleased, no doubt. I mean, I straighten + blow dry my hair every day. So it says something about his scissor skills. Right?

after

I’m not sure how long I want my hair to be. I like the length that it is now, but my ‘bangs’ (I quote, because I haven’t had bangs since 8th grade) still isn’t the same length as the rest of my hair. Perhaps I’ll be done with the length as it is, and just grow my ‘bangs’ (or layers, whatever they are) out and I’ll be set. I think I love this length on me. I haven’t dyed my hair in over a year now and not professionally since 2008! Primarily I want to see what my natural hair color is like for a little while before I go gray. But I want to try something wild again! And since I’ve found a new stylist (because the other guy I went to didn’t “do” crazy colors lol), my new stylist can maybe do that for me!after-haircut-smile

flashClearly, I love it. Oh, and my hair isn’t really that like — I don’t think. It’s the flash that made it red/brown.

In order for them to do something crazy on me, I’ll have to start from scratch again and they’ll have to work to get my trust in dying my hair. I haven’t dyed my hair in about a year and a half just so I could see what shade my natural hair color was. Oh the circle of life…

hairI just had to take another one. He curled my hair just using a round brush. This one shows it really well. EEEE!!! Ignore my ugly chair and dirty desk, I was catching up on some google-reader reads.

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Health, Photos, Triathlons / Duathlons, Vacation

Twitter networking

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I think twitter is really great. There are so many endless networking possibilities. I mentioned on there the other day that I was looking for plane tickets so the BF and I could fly to BC to attend Ironman Canada again in August. Then what do you know, @Canadaironman ended up following me on twitter. I took notice, and wrote him a friendly hello and he “Direct Messaged” me saying:

“canadairoman Thank you for following Ironman Canada! Wishing you all the best in your grueling training. Keep it up! Ron Zalko Founder of Ironman Canada”.

Pretty impressive, I have to say. I thought that was the coolest thing that he wrote me. I showed Scott and promptly replied to him: “canadairoman Thanks! My boyfriend does all the suffering. He completed his first Ironman (at Penticton!) last year :) See you in August!”

Boy oh boy. It’s the little things in life that makes me smile.

So who wants to sponsor my Boyfriend in training? Haha!! He’s pretty hardcore, if I do say so myself. He’s self-motivated by training alone all the time, and not missing a workout. All that training in home gyms he’s in impeccable shape. I cannot wait to see him complete his second Ironman, this year. :)

Recap of our vacation + Ironman in 6 parts (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6).

Oh! I’m getting my hair cut at a new (to me) salon tomorrow. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to cut much off except have a trim. But stay tuned for before/after pictures! Have a heck of a good Friday evenin’!

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