I planned on writing a follow-up to Thursday’s post, in which I recognized while writing the post that my focus on weight and diet has gotten obsessive and out of control. But, it’s not to be. At least not right now. I suppose partly because I don’t want to dwell on it. I want to let it sit. I want to embrace the recognition, and when I’m moved to write again, I will. And, I know you understand.

Anyway, I thought we should lighten things up here. Kind of like how I lightened the heavy load on my back that was MY HAIR when I got a haircut this weekend — and can I get a WOO WOO? It’s only been, like, HOW MANY MONTHS? Hee! Check it:

Seriously, I must have taken 20 pictures to get this one OK one. And that’s not berating myself (à la Thursday’s post) or the haircut or my photography. It just plain didn’t photograph well. Basically, the haircut’s awesome, and it was a welcome treat (à la Thursday’s post). The hairdresser insists that I part my hair to the side like that. I’m usually a middle-part girl. What do you think?

And, yes, I do have other hoodies, other clothes. I just happen to take pictures of myself for you EVERY TIME I wear this particular hoody….

To further lighten things up, I’d like to share my anniversary cake with you. Josh and my 6th anniversary is coming up on March 23rd. Since my parents will be away that day, they wanted to throw a wee party for us on Friday. My mom made a really nice dinner and got us this cake….

REALLY sweet. We had a good chuckle over the fact that they misspelled my name (which, by the way, everyone does). But we had an even BIGGER chuckle over the fact that NO ONE WAS AT THE PARTY. My brother and his wife were away, my sister’s husband was sick, and MY OWN HUSBAND JOSH-O had made other plans that he totally couldn’t break because I FORGOT TO TELL HIM ABOUT THE PARTY. So, there I was, cutting the cake and everything by myself, at our teeny tiny little anniversary party. HA! Maybe you had to be there…. But, we DID harass Josh by IM’ing him lots of pictures like this one of me and my new haircut and OUR anniversary cake, ha ha….

In case you think that come hell or high water Josh should have been at the anniversary party, he more than repaid me. He took the kids THE ENTIRE DAY on Saturday — to the mall and to Chuck E. Cheese!

While Josh-O was out with Rascal, Monkey (and her Pablo and Thomas the Train toys), I slept, I FINALLY finished all those the hundreds of pages I was hired to edit, I (half) caught up on some email, I Blipped and Tweeted A LOT, and I cuddled with kitties…. It was BLISS. And so needed….

For a so-called stay-at-home mom, I always have a RIDICULOUS amount of work to do. And it’s ALL self-imposed. Crazy, I tell you! Crazy!

Love!

xo Haley-O

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