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New hairdresser, new hair! I really like her and the color looks great - still a lot of warmth, since I wear so little makeup, and nice highlights just at the crown of my head. I do have some grey to cover, but it's really more that I find the natural medium-dark brown color of my hair a little flat, a little uninteresting. I just feel like I look better in general with really good depth of color, and when the color looks great I feel great wearing no makeup. I have a complicated relationship with makeup, actually - I love to play with it but I really get irritated with it for everyday. I don't have the patience to keep fiddling with it, I don't like the way it feels on my skin, etc. It's much easier for me to just keep my skin in reasonably good shape (sunscreen & moisturizer & good hydration) with well-groomed brows and a great cut and color combination.

Anyway.

Also, why the hell can't I knit? Actually, I know why - every time I fool around with it I get really frustrated and put it down and don't pick it up again for months. The big problem is that I stitch too tight - I am a freaking PRO at casting on now because I've done it so many times, but the stitches are too tight and then the knitting is tough because I have a hard time getting back into the stitches to knit them. *throws the whole mess across the room* I read somewhere that I could cast on over two needles together - doesn't that leave them TOO loose? Anybody have any other tips for me?

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( So is this what happens when you get married at 21 and it actually STICKS? That seduction meme. )

Whatev. In the car today, I heard "Last Christmas" by Wham and by the time they got to "I gave you my heart and the very next day, you gave it away", I had decided it was my new Kara/Lee theme song. Yes. And I had this whole fullblown bad!crack!fic!vision in my head where Laura Roslin decides they need to address their grievances through the magic of karaoke instead of boxing, and Lee sings it to Kara. I know, I scare myself, too. But look:

( Now with lyrics! )

Right, so the Christmas stuff? Totally doesn't work. But Jesus, work with me here, people. *pictures Lee in a Santa hat, all bitter and weepy*