Hallejuah

I've been on a 'making myself feel sentimental' kick. It's resulted in me listening to Jeff Buckley on youtube a lot. It's a sham that Shrek tried to make that mainstream. He was definitely not mainstream. It's a bit repetitive song, but for some reason reminds of winter and Christmas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ

However, it has reminded that I'm very grateful this year. My life is nothing like Jeff Buckley's. Like Milhouse, everything is coming up Shannon this year.

Off for a week and a bit - going to Ottawa and positive that blogging will get lost in all the merriment.

I chose Canada?

So Ontario has been smacked with a snowstorm. Yesterday in my 5 degree brilliantly perfect sunny London day, my boyfriend witnessed white-outs and 37 cm drop of snow. I'm choosing to go back there for Christmas.
That's love.
And the desire to do winter sports.

Fed up with roots.

Naturally, I'm a dark blonde with red undertones. It's hard to recreate my hair colour, so I have no celebrities to match it too. It's frizzy, it's big, but surprisingly there's not a lot of it. Anyway, about two years ago, I thought I should go lighter. Slowly but surely I got to super blonde. This summer, a couple photos looked a bit white blonde. However, maintenance on it got way too much. In the summer, it wasn't as bad because my blonde hair absorbs sun like it's going out of style and lightens naturally. However, as you can see in this pic - the roots are just a tad bit too obvious.

However, in this grey country - the dark roots were taking over. So I've taken the plunge and gone back to dark blonde/light brown. Now I just need that red tint my mom had and my hair will be back to normal. So far, I still surprise myself in the mirror. And my flatmate misses the blonde (but won't pay for the maintenance costs). I miss being thought of as a dumb blonde and then surprising people.

Give me a week, I'm sure I'll be happy that there's no roots.

In need of coffee?

Though an avid lover of Starbucks, I despise coffee. Don't like the taste, don't like the weird energy it gives me, and just think there are better drinks (even at Starbucks) to drink. Maybe I have a weakness to peppermint hot chocolates (downsize the peppermint to two shots though). But maybe I need to re-think my plan. According to the BBC, coffee can help offset the onset of dementia. Read the article, it's an interesting case.