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Kristin's New Look

Kristin is growing up. I can see the signs that she's changing from a child to an adolescent/teenager. She questions things more. She has an opinion about the way she thinks things ought to be. She wants her own individual style.

Today we went for haircuts, TB, Billy, Kristin and I. Kristin got a most unconventional cut. She told me yesterday that she wanted her hair cut short, like mine, but that she wanted her "ear tails" left long.

"Ear tails?" I'd never heard of them.

She gave a rapid explanation that people tended to call them sideburns but they aren't, they are growing from ... where ever it was ... and those just aren't sideburns. She also wants blue hair and a trenchcoat like the one Keanu Reeves wears in The Matrix and some black boots.

It's just hair. It'll grow back.

It's just clothes.

It's not something like a piercing or a tattoo, right?

Kristin got a lot of attention from the other stylists. This is definitely a new look! We found out that Kristin wanted to braid the ear tails and dye them blue. The stylists seemed really excited and helpful about that and directed us to the beauty supply store in the same shopping center.

So here she is, very serious:

And with me, smiling:

And as long as I'm showing off pictures, here is Billy & me:

And Little T:

Ten on Tuesday

Ten Great TV Episodes

Oh yikes!!! This is going to be hard! In no particular order:

1. Edith goes through menopause, All in the Family
2. finale of M*A*S*H*
3. The disco episode of That 70’s Show
4. Alien invaders with 3 eyes and love walnuts, Dick Van Dyke Show
5. “City on the Edge of Forever”, Star Trek
6. “Abyssinia, Henry”, M*A*S*H*
7. “Chuckles” episode from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8. the ‘what does yellow light mean?’ episode from Taxi
9. season finale from year 6, Falcon Crest
10. Casablanca episode fromFalcon Crest

And many more!

Tuesday Newsday:

Do you keep up with the news while on vacation or otherwise away from home for an extended period? If so, how (newspaper/tv, etc.)? And has any major news item ever happened while you were out of touch with the news, shocking you when you found out after the fact?

When I go on vacation, I take a break from everything. I don’t bother reading the newspapers and am usually too busy to watch TV for any length of time. I’m trying to remember if anything big ever happened when I was away … I don’t think so.

Posted by Cassie at July 20, 2004 08:53 PM