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Things is good lately.

Morgan has started kindergarten and _loves_ it. When Alan and I went to pick her up after her first day (she had been staying at her Montessori school until six, but we thought it might be a long first day, so we showed up at 4:30), she and her classmates were walking across the playground in a very nice single-file line. "Mommy, Daddy, we're going to the music room, come with us!" No amount of us saying we were there to pick her up would dissuade her. She never even stopped or stepped out of line to talk to us or give us hugs or anything. Just Music! Now! and I got the feeling that there might be a Scene if we tried to remove her, so we went home and came back an hour and a half later. When we asked about her day on the ride home she said she was so happy that she almost cried happy tears. HAPPY TEARS for school! Oh, baby love, don't you ever change.

The weekend before school started I took Alan and Morgan to Great Clips to get haircuts, and since they were cheap I decided to take the plunge I'd been thinking about for a few months and get one, too. Fifteen inches later. Locks of Love should be very happy. Oh, and I discovered my hair is _wavy_! WTF where'd that come from? My hair's always been straight as a pin (though it at least takes a curl well for those times I bother to futz with it), and this late in the game I don't think I can blame post-pregnancy hormones. Anyone else's hair randomly do something radically different at some point in their life?

I have a little bit of remorse when I look at the pictures from Chimera and realize that my hair is now anachronistic for most of the games I'm interested in, but that's what wigs are for, right? Alan enjoys not having to fight with my hair to bite kiss my neck, which, you know, isn't so bad from this end, either. ;) And it's _sooo_ much cooler; I can't take heat the way I used to and even ponytails weren't helping much. Also, dude! I hardly use any shampoo at all now! Showers go so much quicker! And my hair dries like *that*! Well, relatively: it used to take a solid hour of blow-drying. And it's still as thick as ever, but that, coupled with aforementioned waves, makes for volume liek woah. Plus it bounces. I feel all cute and girly even when I don't do anything to it. Which is most of the time because I'm not exactly dressing up much these days.

Alan has started work at Kohl's and it sounds like he's impressing people there. Yay! He's got himself up to 40 hours this week so here's hoping they decide he's worth it and keep him at that level. I probably still need to find something at least part-time for myself.

Eek! Speaking of which, I need to go pick him up.

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Things is good lately.

Morgan has started kindergarten and _loves_ it. When Alan and I went to pick her up after her first day (she had been staying at her Montessori school until six, but we thought it might be a long first day, so we showed up at 4:30), she and her classmates were walking across the playground in a very nice single-file line. "Mommy, Daddy, we're going to the music room, come with us!" No amount of us saying we were there to pick her up would dissuade her. She never even stopped or stepped out of line to talk to us or give us hugs or anything. Just Music! Now! and I got the feeling that there might be a Scene if we tried to remove her, so we went home and came back an hour and a half later. When we asked about her day on the ride home she said she was so happy that she almost cried happy tears. HAPPY TEARS for school! Oh, baby love, don't you ever change.

The weekend before school started I took Alan and Morgan to Great Clips to get haircuts, and since they were cheap I decided to take the plunge I'd been thinking about for a few months and get one, too. Fifteen inches later. Locks of Love should be very happy. Oh, and I discovered my hair is _wavy_! WTF where'd that come from? My hair's always been straight as a pin (though it at least takes a curl well for those times I bother to futz with it), and this late in the game I don't think I can blame post-pregnancy hormones. Anyone else's hair randomly do something radically different at some point in their life?

I have a little bit of remorse when I look at the pictures from Chimera and realize that my hair is now anachronistic for most of the games I'm interested in, but that's what wigs are for, right? Alan enjoys not having to fight with my hair to bite kiss my neck, which, you know, isn't so bad from this end, either. ;) And it's _sooo_ much cooler; I can't take heat the way I used to and even ponytails weren't helping much. Also, dude! I hardly use any shampoo at all now! Showers go so much quicker! And my hair dries like *that*! Well, relatively: it used to take a solid hour of blow-drying. And it's still as thick as ever, but that, coupled with aforementioned waves, makes for volume liek woah. Plus it bounces. I feel all cute and girly even when I don't do anything to it. Which is most of the time because I'm not exactly dressing up much these days.

Alan has started work at Kohl's and it sounds like he's impressing people there. Yay! He's got himself up to 40 hours this week so here's hoping they decide he's worth it and keep him at that level. I probably still need to find something at least part-time for myself.

Eek! Speaking of which, I need to go pick him up.