What an exciting last three days

My contacts came Tuesday! I'm soo happy. They came Tuesday and even though I'd already put in my other contacts, I'm took them out immediately and put the new ones in. I'd forgotten how good it is to have contacts in and not be able to feel them. Shows how dreadful the other ones are. I only have one pair of them but Mum ordered more today so I hope Wal-Mart is in a timely fashion and I have them soon. I'll be very upset if I have to go back to wearing my old contacts for a while. The new ones are Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism. They're wonderful.

Wednesday night this week I went for a drive in the thunder and lightning storm. Oh and there was an impressive amount of hail too. The view from my driveway to the backyard is incredible. Really, really beautiful. I did leave my driveway and go for a drive which was very nice, if not a bit lonely. I really don't have the gas to do that very often either.
The storm was very powerful. Our power went out at 11:45 p.m. and it wasn't back when I went to sleep at 1 something a.m.
I lit two candles in my room and set them on my floor, like a little fire. I don't like putting them on furniture because I always worry there will be something that happens to catch on fire, even if there is NOTHING near it. In the middle of my floor was a good idea. I did it again last night because it was so nice.
I went to sleep with my room smelling of Macintosh apples and lilacs. An odd candle combination to be sure, but they actually mixed nicely.

When I got home from my drive, before the power went out, I watched the last quarter of the Celtics game. The Orlando Magic beat them down. Brutally. They won 113-92, with a lead of 21 points.
There were an abundance of injuries and fouls for the Celtics. Glen Davis and Marquis Daniels left the game with concussions, Rasheed Wallace left the game with an injured back, Kendrick Perkins was ejected from the game after two technical fouls. Hopefully they're rescinded because it did become clear later in the game that they actually weren't what they'd seemed to be. The team was covered in fouls, and for some reason the Celtics were paying the most attention to  Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis. They covered them with fouls and sent them to the free throw line enough times to give them the lead that helped them win. If the Celtics hadn't had the injuries and fouls they did, they would have had a much better chance of kicking Orlando's butt.

Tonight is the 6th game in their playoffs, and it's a home game for the Celtics. I hope they can pull it off. They lead the series 3-2, and won the first three games, with the Magic stealing the 4th and 5th. The green team has gotta win tonight!!

Oh, Tuesday was the season finale of NCIS. I haven't been able to watch it yet (a silly sister CANCELED it from recording), but that's what I plan to do right now.

I remember Wednesday now. Sophie and I got haircuts! It was really nice. Sophie had bangs added to her hair and they suit her.
Mum and I showed Julie my hair. The hair that in February I paid her a nice sum of money to bring it back to my natural hair color. She stripped the black hair out (my hair was a bright dreadful orange, very entertaining) and then added the light brown in. But something has happened in the last 8-10 weeks and I've noticed that my hair was getting very dark.
It was somehow back to the color she'd taken out of it! I hadn't done a thing to it and I was very worried because I couldn't pay her to do it all over again. Mum and I showed her my hair and poor Julie was just as confused and shocked as we were. She was standing examining my hair for 10 minutes, trying to figure it out. She said this had never happened before and she didn't know how it could have happened. She said "This is not in any of my books."
She was willing to do the stripping/dyeing process again (for a lower price this time, phew) and this time leave the stripping stuff on my hair for a longer time, and add an even lighter brown to my hair. I was under the dryer with the stripping stuff for so long, I was so hot when she finally let me up and rinsed it out.
The color is light again. I'm pleased. It's not a perfect match for my natural hair of course, but it's much much lighter and blends well with the virgin hair I have growing so far.
For the actual hair cut, she trimmed it and then took about three fourths of an inch off the longest under part of my hair. I didn't like how there was a big gap between the top layers which are getting long now and the bottom part of my hair. I want my hair to be close to one length, or at least, grow out the layers evenly. What she did is very helpful because she didn't cut enough to make me feel like I had short hair again, but she brought the bottom closer to the layers. It looks good. The last thing I wanted was to feel like I had short hair, especially since we're going to Disney soon. I'm really looking forward to the sunshine because it will lighten it even more. The virgin hair I have has gotten quite a bit of sunlight and the golden blond elements of my hair are really showing, which is part of the reason she used an even lighter brown dye this time.

I'm once again happy with my hair.

Thursday was blah. I forgot to take my phone off silent, so I had no obnoxiously noisy alarms to wake me up. What does that mean? It means I sleep until my body decides to wake up. Yesterday that meant 4 p.m. And on those days, I can very easily fall asleep again. It's not a good thing.

Today is Friday and I'm up early. I was up 15 minutes before my alarm. Congratulations to me.

Some exciting news! Daddy came to my room last night to tell me that I'd been given a scholarship! How cool is that? Me, the girl with the like 1.8 GPA, was given a scholarship. It's from Mt. Pleasant, my dad's country club and it's for at least $500.00. I feel that I must specify that it's for college, because someone I told about it didn't seem to realize it was for college. Very odd in my mind. My cousin was given a scholarship too from Mt. Pleasant. There is an awards banquet (a banquet! Can you imagine?) on June 22nd and my cousin will be there too and it will be very exciting. Oh dear, I'll have to walk across a stage of some sort. All eyes on me. Ick. But so worth it. I feel honored.

In passing, I will mention that BP has still not closed the leak. They have tried their "top kill" approach involving shooting mud and cement into the still leaking from the well. They have done that, but now they've said they won't even know if it's working for another 2 days. 2 more days of oil infecting the already poisoned waters. It's been 37 days. Thirty-seven! It's just amazing to me. One of the latest press releases is that President Obama is now going to take the responsibility for this, in the area of fixing it. As far as I know, he has still not taken the blame for it. We shall see what happens.

These are two quotes I've found this week. I like them both very much.

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time." -George Orwell

"Life is the real game to play. Life is the game where it matters if you win or lose. And yes, how you played the game." -Unknown.



Goodbye for now