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Before you ask, my big life changes do not have anything to do with babies. If I say that I'm announcing news, 90% of you will assume I'm pregnant. The other 10% wound up here by mistake. The whole thing has such a convoluted story, I have a hard time figuring out where to start. So, let's start with the fact that Mike and I are becoming those people. The ones that have gardens, don't shop at Walmart, buy meat from a farm and make their own granola. We've been thinking about moving down to only one car. Namely, getting rid of my lemony car. Eventually. Like say, leaving my job sometime in the summer of 2012 because, by then, maybe I would be pregnant. And, bebe or no, all three kids would be in elementary school and I would because just about useless here. And then, when that transition happened, we'd transition to the one car. Until we were able to find a used hybrid Ford Flex. A hybrid Ford Flex does not exist yet, however, so Ford's

Okay, so, no photos this time, however, I did make some decisions: I started using non-color-safe shampoo. The blue comes out in droves. I also dyed my hair brown. I forget what color, but it was one of the John Frieda precision foam in the "Radiant Red" family. However, it was reddish-brown. So, I say brown. Anyway. That didn't work so well. My roots are GORGEOUS. All 1 centimeter of them. The rest of my hair was black. Whatevs . I thought. I can live with that. Until I got to work and I was looking in the mirror and I realized that it wasn't black, it was still BLUEish-greenish. Lauren, the 6-year-old, sagely told me to just stop looking in the mirror if I hated it so much. At a photography workshop a few nights ago, I asked a photographer friend who is also a hair-stylist  for advice. She told me that blue is a base color, so it's going to fade out slower than the purple did. Who knew? That's the opposite that I heard from so many people

I dyed my hair Atlantic Blue on July 29th, a Friday. And this is what it looked like two days later, on Sunday. This photo is after no washings, just the initial rinsing and conditioning. I knew it couldn't last. I knew it was bound to fade sooner or later. And, really, I was kind of hoping for sooner because the blue hair has been SUCH a pain. (More on that later.) But I did not expect it to fade how it has faded. One and a half weeks and about 4 washes later, my hair is practically green. GREEN! So, I'm trying to decide whether I should: keep doing what I'm doing (washing it with color safe shampoo every few days) and let it continue to fade at this rate. use cheap shampoo, daily, to help get the color out faster. dye it brown. I think I'm going to dye it again, but, as I'm going to a cousin's wedding in a few weeks, I thought I'd don some normal hair for that occasion. I'm not sure quite what to do and I'm not