Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

This post title has two different meanings...
1. My hair.
2. My ex co-worker.

First, my hair. After years and years of having fairly 'long' and curly/wavy hair - see the current picture in our heading I decided it was time for something new. Actually I had decided this at my last hair appointment, in December, but didn't quite know what I wanted for a new style. My stylist, though, was delighted just for the opportunity to really cut my hair, instead of just my standard trim and color. Apparently, she had wanted to cut my hair for quite some time - well why didn't she just say so?! I'm open to suggestions! Doesn't mean I'm going to take them, but I'm open. So I chopped quite a bit off in December and requested a hair straightener for Christmas. I got two. Unfortunately, by the time I was brave enough to open it up and try it out a couple weeks later, my hair had already 'grown out' and I once again resorted to the 'never-fail' ponytail/bun 'do. Fast forward to last week. All week I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my hair. I knew that I wanted to cut it pretty short and have a new style, but I couldn't figure out what. Saturday morning, about 3 hours before my appointment, Sean and I were watching a DVR recording of the results show of American Idol when inspiration hit. Kelly Pickler! I yelled for Sean to pause the TV and said, "what about that for my hair??" He liked it. I liked it. And the rest is history. Well, not really. We re-watched the interview segment and found a good place to pause it. Then, get this, we took a picture on my cellphone of the TV and this is what I took to show my stylist. She LOVED the idea! Something completely different. So I now have an a-line cut, which means it is longer in the front and the back is slightly what they call 'stacked'. Of course, it's still blonde, but she even did bolder highlights to try to match the picture. I LOVE IT!!! I'm pretty sure I haven't had it this short since it grew to this length naturally as a child! I wear it straight now (though the curl doesn't look too bad) and have only had my hair in a ponytail once this week, during my kickboxing class. I think that's a record. I will post a pic of my fabulous new 'do (which Sean loves!) soon.

2. My co-worker. This is what NOT to do at a fairly new job - or any job, for that matter. Tuesday afternoon, our new A/R person left for lunch between 1pm and 1:30pm. Before her lunch hour was even up, my manager had received an email from her saying that her sister had been in an accident and she had to go to Idaho to be with her. Ok, fine. That's understandable, I would leave at a moment's notice if something serious happened with my family. Then she says she's not sure how long she's going to be and to consider the email her written resignation!! Are you kidding me? Am I being punk'd?!?! She also mentioned that she may even just move to Idaho because that may be better for her in the long run. Oh, and she wasn't going to call because she didn't want any negative/harsh words said - or something like that - just send her last check in the mail. So here we (my office manager and I) are. High and dry. I think I can see my family life fading into the distance as I get ready to finish my 50+ hour work week - I'm scheduled for Saturday and couldn't take my comp day because of this. Someday I'll see Sean and Ethan... :( Actually, it's not all bad. We got a temp person in right away, the next day, to answer the phones - this is a big help! Hopefully we can find someone soon. I've already got the OK to keep my day-off for the 9th - I'm spending the whole day with my li'l guy on his first birthday and I can't wait! I also intend to take the week off in the summer for Girls Camp, so they really better have things figured out by then.

And just when I finally had someone fully trained on warranties... ho-hum... at least I have great hair! :)