I got my hair re-straightened on Saturday morning. It took 3 1/2 hours (reading trashy magazines and one issue of Maclean's) and I've had to be super conscious of not tucking it behind my ears or getting it wet or anything until this afternoon when I could wash it and treat it normally again (hooray for the perma-bun). We went out on Saturday night and I felt like such a princess fussing with my hair all night. It was really hot at the bar and I was so worried about sweating too much and ruining the straightening process. It was pretty sad.

The good thing about going out on Saturday night was that we got to see Theovis' friend Jamie Perry play as Bocephus King with his Band of Doom. I'd seen Jamie play at an open mic night years ago, so I knew he was a talented singer but it was really cool to see him performing with a band in a club venue for the release party for his new CD All Children Believe in Heaven. He was on the cover of the Georgia Straight paper this week too. You should all go out and buy his album!

I've been bustling around getting ready to head off with Theo and Jeff to GenCon in Indianapolis. I'm not much of a gamer myself but I thought the trip would be fun and it will be cool to see a city I'd probably never get to otherwise. With my incredibly poor knowledge of US geography, I was convinced Indiana was in the mid west. I looked on a map and boy was I wrong. We've got a long way to go. The cats are unhappy because they can tell something bad is coming when the suitcases show up on the bed. Their Gramma spoils them rotten with tuna juice so I can't imagine they'll be too hard done by, though.

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For any of you that were worried, I did eventually find them, without assistance from my contacts. Turns out they'd fallen into one of the storage boxes kept beneath the bed that was sticking out the side somewhat.

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Does anyone know why I can't access Blogger in Mozilla anymore? If other people use Blogger for the commenting system on their blogs, I can't read them with Mozilla anymore either. Why has Blogger got it out for us Mozilla users? Did they sign some sort of proprietary contract with Microsoft or something, so we all have to use IE? Kimph!

I can't find my glasses this morning so I've been wandering around in a blurry world since I got up. I've been wearing my contacts more since it has been so warm (sweaty glasses on my nose aren't so nice) but it means I'm not keeping as close tabs on my spectacles as I should - keeping them in a consistent place might also help but that would take organization I don't have. I searched the place several times this morning, despite my lack of visual acuity. Theo helped (he can see) but didn't come up with them either. One of the reasons I buy coloured, plastic frames is that they're easier to see when I don't have them on - I had thin, metal ones that were impossible to track down at one point, never again. I keep hoping I'll just come across them as I go about my day, but I think I'm going to have to resort to putting in my contacts so I can see well enough to find my glasses. It's a pretty sad state of affairs.

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