Parade

Today, as I was laying on my couch watching a movie, I heard all this music outside. I looked out the window to see a bunch of cop cars and my interest piqued, I got up to check it out. There was a parade that went right by my house for Caesar Chavez day. Here's a picture taken from my front porch, pretty cool that I didn't even need to go anywhere to see this.

Blond

Here's the picture of me as a blond. It's not very good but it was the best I could do with the lighting and all. I'll put one up later of my hair as it is now.

Fix Up

So I still have to post pictures of myself as a blond but I have now changed my hair color yet again. I couldn't quite get used to the blond so I decided that I would just dye it back to dark brown. I was still at work when I decided this so I couldn't do anything about it right away, however, I had started talking about it and two of the residents decided that a third resident should dye his hair. They even went so far as to go and buy the dye, which ended up being platinum blond. I helped him dye it and it came out pretty well, although he might not be leaving it in for very long. I ended up taking the left over dye with me so I could attempt some highlights again.

I got dye on the way home and did the initial dark dye when I got back. It covered most of the blond, although it wasn't as dark as I would have liked but it was much improved. Then I did the highlights, which also came out okay but the problem was that I had to wash the highlighting dye out of my hair, which in turn washed some of the dark dye out. Now my hair is mostly light brown/reddish with some reddish and blondish highlights. It's going to be this way for a while though because I'm afraid if I keep dying it, it will just all fall out.

Whoopsies

There are two reasons for the name of this post. The first is that today at work, I was playing wiffle ball and when I swung at the ball and missed, I said "whoopsies." I immediately was made fun of for using a word that apparently hasn't been used since 1959 (or so I was told). I replied saying that I was bringing it back, to which I was told, "Bring it back to Boston, not Sacramento."

The second reason for the title has to do with my hair. I have often been rather impulsive when it comes to my hair, deciding in a minute that I should cut it, by myself, which doesn't always turn out well. I've decided to grow it out a little bit however so instead of cutting it, I decided to add some highlights. My hair gets natural highlights with the sun, which have already started coming out, but I was ready for a change and wasn't feeling very patient so I went and got some highlights. They were supposed to be chestnut and with my hair color being rather dark, they shouldn't have been very noticeable, just a slight change was all I was looking for. After washing the dye out however, I found that my hair was a little blonder overall. In the past, my hair hasn't taken very well to dye, with the exception of an accidental black hair dye incident but apparently, the highlight dye is a little stronger. Oh well, as Meghan pointed out (and she has yet to see my hair so her opinion may change a little) I might as well do this now before getting a real job. I'll post a picture later so you can all see me as a partial blond.

Easter

This Easter was the first year that I was away from home, kind of like Thanksgiving. It was a great day anyway even though I still missed being home with my family. New Start had a cookout/Easter egg hunt/softball game that quite a few people ended up going to. I played softball for a good chunk of the day, ate a hamburger for my Easter meal, and met the families of some of the residents. It was a lot of fun!

Lent

Lent officially ended yesterday, on Holy Thursday. I had given up junk food so naturally, all I ate yesterday was junk food. I started the day with a chocolate chip cookie (one that had been frozen from a package I had so luckily received) and then continued eating cookies for the rest of the day. I don't have an exact count but I definitely ate more than 20 cookies. Quite disgusting really. There were points in the day where I thought I was going to be sick and around 1PM, I was crashing from my sugar high. It goes to show how much sugar does to your body. I will begin exercising some more self control after yesterday's experience.

Shamrock'n Half Marathon

This morning, I ran a half marathon! I was very proud of myself. It was over in West Sacramento, which I had always heard was a little sketchy but the run went through a really pretty part of the city. I had been training some but it was still a real push for me to finish but I did it in 2 hours, 26 minutes. It's a little slower than my time from the 10-mile race I did last year but I'm still very happy with it!

Wiffleball

The weather out in Sacramento has been great. 60s-70s and sunny almost everyday. Because it's been so nice out, I've been spending a lot of time outside at the programs. We play a lot of wiffleball and plastic horseshoes. I'm not so great at horseshoes but it's just nice to be doing anything outside. I'm so excited that it's only March and it's already beautiful weather. It should make for a great spring/summer.