CHOP!

CHOP!!!

This is the haircut I was so afraid to get, but I think it's much cuter than the dead pieces of straw I had floating around my head. I am kinda liking it.

-E.

Snowy night, Goodbye Charlen and TOMORROW....

This is what is happening outside right now. I love it, so beautiful.

GOODBYE CHARLEN

:( Sadly, my friend Charlen had to go back to Germany last Friday. We bonded lots over the last few months, had a couple all nighters with champagne and tons of giggles. (Cackles.) She managed to get back into Edmonton the night before our wedding, and was able to attend our rehearsal dinner. Totally amazing. She is a true and big hearted friend that I am proud to call my girl. 

We hope she can come back in a year, but it is hard to say when she will be back.

So we gathered for a while to send her off, with Thai food and Black Tower table wine.

I made everyone pose in a group shot. They loved it.

Me with the gang and SABBIE LASER EYES!

Did some dramatic lashes on Miss Charlen to take home with her.
We will miss you girl, you were our friend Oakland's very favourite girlfriend, and we had fun together you and I and with the boys as a group. I will miss our parties and can't wait to have a big one when you get home again. 


LOVE YOU MY DARLING!!!!

A random pic of Princess Sabbie being fed meat by her drunk daddy

SABBIE CAT!!!!


Well that was a random burst of photography about a variety of different subjects. I guess that is a testament to my state of mind these days...


IN OTHER NEWS


HAIRCUT TOMORROW!!! URGHHRTHYMMMMMMMEEEEP!


That's the noise I feel like making.


I know I have to cut this garbage excuse for "hair" off and walk away, just grow it back once treatment is over, but I haven't had a serious haircut in quite a while. Bottom line is, I prefer my hair on the long side. I've had all kinds of haircuts, but longer is better on me, or so I think.
At least my hair will start growing again a few months after treatment ends, and I hear it can come back a different colour of straighter, or curlier. I could end up with thick brown curls, or maybe it will be disappointing and come back thin and straight. We will only know in a year or two. I hope for the thick and curly option.


So I do plan on unveiling the hair anyways, though with all the fake hair I wear I doubt you'll see it much. I am just hoping it is a little healthier and can have nice ends again. 


Anyways I could talk about hair forever but I won't and will get y'all some pic-a-tures tomorrow night. Really I should get to bed cause it's late and theres nothing on TV but the Dog Whisperer. That's my cue.


-E.

Hair there hair gone

So remember the haircut I have been so nervous about?

With the dump of snow and the appointment being in Sherwood Park it was cancelled. 

It was a little disappointing to have to wait, but at the same time I get a few more days with this dead animal on my head.

So I don't have the pics of my haircut yet cause it hasn't happened.

Once your hair starts falling out, you lose length and volume, so you are left with these wispy and broken looking ends. I was looking at pics from a few years ago and my hair was long, full and healthy. It's depressing but at the same time I know there is nothing I can do about it.

In other news:

We are going to Bistro Praha to celebrate my mom and Matt's birthday tomorrow. 

Matt will be 32 years old! I'm with an old man!


I met this wonderful man when I was 23 and he was 26 years old. Him and I fell in love and quickly discovered that we are male and female versions of each other. Matt appreciates my corn ball humour and goofy tendencies, and I the same in him.


I will go on about my love on his birthday when I will do his Birthday shoutout, where I will tell the story of our courtship.


It's actually quite funny.


So instead of posting a picture of myself with short hair I am posting this throwback head banging action pics from about a year and a half ago.

Not sure what is happening here. Those are my glasses.

Looks like a drunken yahtzee game

Matt given'er

Yup, hair.


-E.

Vampire chicken, a big decision and MONKEYS

So I am making a very simple, but very garlicky dinner. 

If you like garlic this is for you.

Chicken breasts rubbed with garlic and rosemary with crimini mushrooms, yellow mashed potatoes and cooked spinach with garlic and leeks.

You will need:


Chicken breasts
Crimini Mushrooms
Garlic (pureed)
Fresh Rosemary
Pine nuts
Baby yellow skin potatoes
Spinach
Leeks
Butter
White Wine
An oven
Corning ware
Frying pan
Pot for boiling potatoes


VAMPIRE CHICKEN DINNER

Just throw a couple chicken breasts in corning ware and brush on pureed garlic AND LOTS or you won't keep the vampires away- (you can puree it yourself or get it already pureed- the lazy way is fine) and get some fresh rosemary and toss that in too. The more the better if you ask me, and the slice those criminis and toss em in too. Toss in those pine nuts. Pour a half a cup of white wine or water all over those chickens, and give it a healthy shake of pepper.

Give that about 45-60 mins on 400, depending on the size and amount of chicken. 

Then for the potatoes, I just boil mini potatoes in half broth, half water, and a spoonful of that delicious garlic puree. About half an hour and you can mash em, put about half a stick of butter and you are done.


Then I take a pan and put a little vegetable oil- or toasted sesame oil if you have it- MORE garlic puree and  throw the spinach with chopped leeks in it at a medium/high heat for about 5 minutes.


That's that. Very satisfying.

So there's tomorrow nights dinner for you and your, husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, cat, bird, mom, or just you. Whatevs.


IN OTHER NEWS


I am getting my hair chopped to my chin on Saturday night.


I haven't talked much about my hair on this blog, it has been a sensitive subject for me.
My hair has been long and healthy for years, not the thickest but still enough to look full and bouncy. I would never go shorter than my shoulders, and prefer my hair longer because of the waves I have.


When I first started intron-a, I read that hair loss can occur. I was devastated. My hair was like my safety blanket, if I like my hair then I feel pretty.


I went to my doctor in a panic and asked him about this and he goes "Oh no, only 5% experience significant hair loss during treatment. It may thin, but you won't notice much of a difference."


I am like ok, this isn't too bad.
I made a deal with Lucifer (or Zombie Jesus, whoever was listening) to let me keep my hair until my wedding at least. I was getting married in July and didn't wanna have to wear a wig or whatnot.


My hair was fine until one week after the wedding.
I wake up, take a shower, wash my hair and clogged the drain with all the hair that came out. It felt lighter right away. I cried. It continued steadily for months, chunks falling out in the shower, hair line slowly falling out of my scalp and the ends breaking off. Now it seems like it comes in spurts, and I lost so much hair in the front of my head, which is especially upsetting. I haven't photographed myself with my real hair in quite sometime, I have invested in lots of clip in pieces to make my hair long and full again, but every time I look at my real hair that looks like it was mangled by a large cat, I think it looks disgusting.


So that's it, I give in to the deal I made and accept my hair loss.
I know there is nothing I can do and this was to be expected, there are worse things.
At least I still have some hair.


So it is getting cut on Saturday night, my buddy John has a hairstylist sister, she told me she'll do it as long as I don't cry.
I told her I wouldn't, at least not in front of her.
Maybe in her bathroom.


I am actually excited to have a cute little bob.
It will give my hair a chance to grow back nicely, in a blunt cut to make it look thicker.


This is what I am hoping I look like after.

So expect pictures by Sunday!


Eeeeeeeeep!!!


So there you go all you long thick haired and pretty girls, tanning will lead to some pretty horrible things that have to do with your vanity, and cancer isn't pretty, it is very ugly.  Stop now before you have to face surgery and chemotherapy.
(my anti-tanning rant for the day.)


NOW ON TO THE MONKEYS!

Spider monkeys. I have decided that all manners of monkey scare me, these little guys have sharp little teeth and are way to fast. They could potentially give you an infectious disease. They are fun to watch, but I don't want to try and touch one.

This guy is super cute and melts my heart. But the truth of the matter is these guys are VICIOUS. They will beat you to death, eat your eyeballs, and kill you in the most brutal manner. They frighten me.

I guess this guy just likes smoking herb. That's cool I guess.
Still, quick with sharp teeth. Not cute.


http://youtu.be/dIdpZXC8840

This guy is just a lazy fat pothead.


What's with these weed smoking simians?






-E.