She has magic hands

I love love love my haird dresser here. Have I ever said that? I so look forward to my hair appointments. I've been 3 or 4 times since we moved here and to date she's spent no less than 2 hours on my hair. 30 minutes or so give or take a few just on shampooing, conditioning, and massaging my scalp. That's how I started off my day. 2 hours of bliss with my most favorite ever hairdresser. I hope she stays here forever. It amazes me how my hair is still long and I have tons of it yet every time she finishes it looks like an animal laying on the floor. There's not much cutting really. Mostly thinning and trimming up layers. I'm already looking forward to my next appt. If there should ever be a time we're rolling in mounds of money I hope to visit her more often. Much more often. That girl can give a scalp massage like nobody's business. For a while I forgot anything else existed. It was really nice.

I spent a huge part of the day out by myself. When I got home mike had a couple of packages waiting for me. It's been a little while since I got happy mail so I was thrilled to receive these. More so when I saw what was inside.

First was my Christmas in July package from Angela. She stitched a beautiful ornament for me from my favorite designer. Yep, The Prairie Schooler! I was really thrilled that she stitched this one for me because I don't think I would've stitched it for myself. As a matter of fact, surprisingly I don't have this chart. Isn't it fantastic? Thanks for the great ornie, Angela! Now just waiting a bit for my person to receive hers.

The next package was from Juli. I signed up for her PIF exchange last July and I received my PIF gift from her today. It's fantastic! I LOVE it! She stitched a wonderful sea themed design for me! Juli, you're right, I did miss the ocean a lot when we lived in TX. I'm thrilled that it's only 2 hours away from me now and am really looking forward to spending some time gazing at the ocean next Saturday. She made the design in to a really great pinkeep. I love the ribbon she used for it. It's yellow and says Summer Sun all around it.It's much prettier and brighter in person. It's perfect , Juli! Thank you!

That reminded me that I'm finished up with all of my PIF gifts and the last person has received hers so I can post a pic now. The last gift went to Gaby in Germany. I stitched the cardinals from the Prairie Schooler's Prairie Birds chart. I made it in to a pinkeep for her. The mail man had to pry this one from my hands. I love cardinals.

I picked some corn today. Just kidding. There are corn fields ALL over the place here. I just happened to go to the market to get a few things when they brought in a whole truckload of locally picked corn. I've never bought corn like this but there were so many people diving for it I thought I'd might as well give it a try. Plus who can pass up 12 ears for $1.99? Guess what we had for dinner? And guess what we're having tomorrow? And the next day? Yummy.

I still haven't decided for sure what we're doing for the 4th tomorrow. My eyes are pretty fixed on D.C. If only we could take a helicopter in instead of driving. I'll look forward to letting you know this weekend what we did end up doing. We were watching the news this evening and Cassie got wind of some famous people who interest her being there so I think I might have the votes to go. Yay me. The thing is, I don't want to do any museum hopping or anything. I just want to go for the fireworks, so I don't want to go until late. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. The good thing is I've pretty well memorized the map of the launch site and the best places to see them so I know where to be if we do decide to go. We're supposed to get thunderstorms so I'll make sure I have a plan B.

In my husbands quest to make a rec/game/entertainment area, he has just come home with himself some presents. One of which has a nice sized screen on it. I'm just happy they're hooking that blasted Wii up to it. Now I won't have to worry about my stuff getting broken upstairs. He's had his eyes on one of those LCD HDTV's for quite a while now. Yay for 4th of July sales....I think.

We went to Busch Gardens yesterday and just had the best time! To my surprise, it wasn't busy at all and we rarely had to wait in line. We rode tons of things, lots more than the other times we went. Some things twice. I thought they'd be jammed packed because it's Summer but they weren't. I think maybe everyone's waiting till tomorrow. Lucky us. I'll remember that next year. The only thing is, I made the mistake of drinking a vanilla milkshake on the drive over. That sucker wanted to come back up on every single thing I got on. At least I assume it was the shake. I've never felt like that on anything. I can spin around for hours and it won't phase me. Not yesterday. That won't happen again.

I hope all of my American friends have a great 4th of July! I've got my apple pie in one hand and my sparklers in the other. I love the 4th.

In case you wonder why this is one massive paragraph instead of several I can tell you. Blogger sucks and I've tried to edit this about 20 times and it won't let me. It looks great when I'm typing and then when I post it it looks totally different. I really should invest more time in to looking in to Wordpress. You here that Blogger? You stink.