makin' change

First lets start with an exciting development - I went and changed my hair. As any women will tell you, when things get stale in any part of your life, you think about changing your hair. It's weird. I can't explain it... 

When I cut my dreads off in April I was looking to turn a page. Well, just a few months later I'm living in LA and everything about my life is different. Mission Accomplished.


Of course, my "normal" hair is a lovely shade of dishwater brown ... so it wasn't long before I was fed up with it and looking to spice it up. Truthfully - nothing is as spicy as dreads. They are the ultimate in hair "statements" and mine were so damn epic (see picture from halloween of last year) that there's nowhere to go but down from there. *sigh*

That being said - I love this new color. Margie @ Carltons in Century City is magic. ACTUALLY - she's fairly genius. 


In other news:


I decided that since I'm in LA and I have always missed my work in theatre production, that I should try to get some art department work. Build some stuff .. ya know, crafty art+design type work. Great for a kid who can't go a week without using an Xacto blade. Or a kid who is constantly finding uses for fabric scraps or looking for an excuse to buy a band saw... 


This type of work was, by all accounts, made for me. I have the random assortment of skills that actually seem to fit beautifully with this kinda work. Or so I've been told by some. 


It does seems slightly more diverting than staring at a computer screen all day. Not that I don't love my Mac. Because I  L - O - V - E  my Mac. I worked in an Apple Retail store for almost three years - so I am quite the computer nerd. 


Lets be real about this though - I am starting to like my job a bit more. My boss is a good guy, my coworkers are all very nice. The work keeps evolving. So I'm not withering away... it just seems like being in LA means I should explore my options. As that crazy guy in Pretty Woman said, "Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' - this is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'."


My dream is to work somewhere that encourages me to wear sneakers, and to bring my pup to work. Where I get build things, get messy, and see my work come. Maybe I could even have my dreads again ... hmmmm. A girl can dream, right? 


As my sis has said, no one loves their job. And if they do, they can't broadcast it. Everyone would de-friend them if they did. So I'm not alone if I'm bored, or stressed, or just apathetic to work sometimes.  


Day dreaming is fairly genius.