as the world turns. on a dime.

i got my haircut today and bought a rug.

that's the short story. a longer story is that my hair cut is beyond adorable. maybe the best haircut i've ever had. and that my rug, i got at a low, low, low, low discount price.

a seriously good good day, i'd say.

an even longer story would be to tell you that i HATE long hair on women my age. i HATE it. i don't care how nice of hair it is or whether your husband or boyfriend likes it, it smacks of "i can't accept that i'm older." and it makes you look older, whether you know it or not. or whether it does or not, because it just looks like you can't accept who you are. and that's just ugly. anyway, over the summer, my hair just plain got too long. it went from good to dragging my face down. so even while everytime i get my hair cut it makes me nervous, i went today. because i couldn't stand it anymore. and since i hate planning ahead, i went to the cheap walk in places and took my chances.

oh anyway, the point is- my hair cut looks both cute and rather sexy. (i feel fine saying that because once i had the ugliest haircut ever.) anyway, later today I tried on a dress, heels, jewelry that i plan on wearing to a rather important event next week. and while i probably won't photograph well, because i usually don't, i can tell you that in person, i'm going to look good.

and it makes me laugh. because my haircut was 13 bucks and i kid you not, my dress which is super nice was all of 9.99. really. i'm telling you- it cost me 9 dollars and 99 cents. crazy crazy deal from last spring. so ok, my shoes were more. but i bought them some 10 years ago, so they don't count. so for all of less than 25 bucks, because i need to buy a new pair of pantyhose, i'm going to look like a million. that makes me happy.

and then my rug. this hallway runner rug was $229 dollars. and it wound up costing me 28 bucks. SCORE! don't even ask me how i finagled that. because to tell the truth, i'm not even sure i understood how it happened. but my home is brightened up for next to nothing. seriously, i've walked on it all evening just for the sake of walking on it and looking at it.

so you wonder why i go on about this and why more important things aren't on my mind? well, the truth is that many more important things are on my mind. that i was thrilled about the nobel peace prize awards. tthat education issues in my state are at a critical point with midterm elections are coming up. that i'm struggling with trying to be the bigger and more kind person with a long time friend, even while it hurts my feelings a bit. and brings up bad memories of other things.

yeah. there's all that, that is so much more important. but you know? sometimes i just need to be delighted by things to keep the world turning for me. and i have to tell you that being able to pull off things that look good on a poverty budget makes me happy as all heck.