DIY Hair!

Argh! I'm literally in the process of dying my hair blonde. Well, attempting to. I did a warm blonde first to make it go ginger. Entirely intentional. And now I'm using an ash blonde. The thing is, most people will say (especially hair dressers) that you can't go from brown to blonde by DIY. They'll say you must must must get expert help. 8 times out of 10, that's basically been true for me. But for four years I had blonde hair that I loved, and it was all out of a bottle baby. As confident as I sound, I have an old brown/red hair dye sitting on the counter, just in case. At least that will look great. Oh shit.

{EDIT} Okay, my natural hair that's grown out, clearly wants to be blonde. The rest of my hair... it has just said "No thanks!". I hope my son recognises me in the morning!!!

No time no time!

My gorgeous little boy has just gone down for a nap after having his breakfast, playing in his DJ station and watching Peppa Pig. I always said I'd never let my children just sit in front of the TV, and because of that, I always feel guilty whenever he's watching anything. But I know a little now and then is fine, plus he's learnt what a frog is from Peppa Pig!

While I have a little time, I thought I'd quickly make a note of the things I want to get finished within the next couple of months.

• Sell some of Baby's old clothes/toys. 
• Cut my hair. (Done - it looks terrible, I'll say Baby did it!)
• Make a Giant Cupcake!
• Spring Clean our bedroom! (Well, summer clean?)
• Make Photo/Video CD's for various family members.
• See my friends! (Ninj, AK, Gomez, ST)

The most interesting thing that has happened to me recently is that I got a GIANT swede for 45p, and two big brocolli flowers (is that what you call them?) for 30p last night, so our freezer is now full of little portions of mashed swede and brocolli. I also saw an advert at the bottom of one of the webpages I was looking at, entitled How To Make The Most Of Your Pool, that actually made me LOL. Here I am buying as much veg for under 97p as possible... but I also must find out how to make the most of my pool. Hahaha.

My first post.

I'm about to start a blog. I've had so many blogs before, that I'm not that excited. For a long time i've not needed a diary. When I was younger I had countless paper diaries, then as I got older and I realised that I could force my emotions upon anyone willing to click on a livejournal link, I shunned the privacy of a paper diary and wrote every day for years within my generic LiveJournal template. Once life really started for me, I found I didn't have time for diaries and when hard times fell upon me, I felt so disloyal to my paper and electronic journals that I couldn't write anything down, it felt too... "out loud".

So, what's different now? Well, I'm a full time mum now and when I was younger I always imagined that stay-at-home-mums had blogs, made jam and cakes, had coffee afternoons with other mums, that they sewed and grew their own vegetables. My baby is 7 months old now, and I'm yet to do anything off that list... so here we are! Number one - have a Blog. I know many people would say "Oh, that's not real life. We mums don't really do such things." But, there are some mothers who do manage all of those things and I want to be one of them.

A few pledges to myself:

• I promise not to hold myself to the blog - I don't have to write if I don't want to.
  
• I promise not to censor myself within the blog. (Other than names, bank details etc)
• I promise to feel at home. If I want to post crap then I will. But at the same time...
• I promise to make an effort with my posts at least half the time.
  

I think it's also obligatory to say a little something about myself in my first post - although I already have, but for the lazy, here's a quick summary: I'm 27 (1984) and live in Oxfordshire in the UK. I live with my partner, my 7 month old son and my disabled mother. We have two dogs, a cat and four goldfish. I've worked in web-design, property, insurance, admin and I've been a PA. My new printer has just arrives, so... That's all for now folks.