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June 5th, 2007 @ 10:57 pm | dc, miscellany | Post a CommentGuess what? I stopped being a weenie and cut my damn hair already. This afternoon I got on the phone and I booked an appointment with a new guy at a new salon and I took the bus there after work and told him to do whatever he thought would look good and voilá! I like the new look and I’m glad I didn’t overthink it. Let me know if any of you are looking for a new hair guy in DC who will give you wine and become your friend instantly while working magic on your tresses. Steve from Subairi. Thanks to Betty for the original reference.
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Instead of being a boring old married lady who hangs out with cats and ponders optimal hair length, I’m thinking about stepping out of the ol’ comfort zone and attending a DC Blogger Happy Hour. Any brave souls want to join me? We can even stop and get a strong drink somewhere before we show up to make it easier. And if it’s a raging drunken success we can all walk back to my house and I will make my patented drunk quesadillas for you!
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Speaking of things that are bad for you, I know I promised to stop drinking coffee, but that just meant I moved on to coffee ice cream and that just made my butt even bigger. So I’m back on the coffee. But I don’t like paying for coffee (unless it’s made by Lana at Big Bear, where I totally need to check out soon!) so I think I need a coffee maker at home.
The problem is, I know N-O-T-H-I-N-G about how to make coffee. Tell me, oh smart people, in what products should I invest? I was thinking about getting this pod-coffee maker because it seems so damn easy, but I want to be able to make iced coffee so I think I need more than one cup brewed at a time.
Now don’t go getting all coffee snob on me with your reccomendations. Sure, I plan on being a coffee snob within the year, but for now let me enjoy my ignorant bliss and help me with the very basic essentials for a good price.
Confidential to Alexa: Please send me your iced coffee recipe. Also, please move back to DC. Thanks! Or perhaps I could stop being a bad friend who relays messages to you on my blog and instead actually pick up the phone and DIAL YOUR NUMBER.
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This time of year it seems like a lot of people are moving in and out of DC. Students are out. Interns are in. In the midst of all of the moving, heaps and heaps of abandoned housewares are just (irresponsibly) left on the sidewalk. Most of it’s junk, but today I found some gently used art canvasses, which to me is a sign that I should dabble in a new hobby — painting! Painting supplies are now on my birthday wishlist.
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I only just realized that this post is mostly about DC. Despite living here for three years (and five days), only recently have I started thinking we might be here for the long haul. Sometimes I feel sad about this, because I’ve always thought I’d move home to Colorado and my family. Other days I feel excited and okay with it. Of course, the cost of housing and the amount of traffic and the lack of nearby breathtaking mountains and crisp mountain air makes me think I’m crazy for even considering staying here. But I am nonetheless. And trying not to worry too much. We’ll be happy wherever we are.
LOVE THE HAIR!!!!
written by E :)
June 6th, 2007 @ 1:22 am
As expected, the cut suits you and you look gorgeous.
written by alyndabear
June 6th, 2007 @ 2:10 am
Oooh, love the hair! You look amazing.
written by Janssen
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:21 am
Hair looks lovely.
I have become 100% addicted to coffee over the past year, and it became a problem on the weekends when I NEEDED a cup of coffee but did not feel like leaving the house to get it. I got a simple, no frills coffee pot, and it works really well for my purposes. I think the brand is Mr. Coffee? I heart it. It’s simple and cheap and it’s easy to measure the coffee beans/water ratio to make as much as I want (aka NEED).
LOVE the hair. Of course.
written by Jennifer
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:49 am
Yay for haircuts! Love it!
Also, I am jealous of your DC blogger happy hour. How does one set up a happy hour in one’s own region…?
written by RA
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:51 am
I love the cut! It looks really good on you.
Um, I am not a coffee snob so I can’t really help you. But I tried making my own coffee for a while instead of going to sbucks everyday.
::Takes sip from grande non fat dulce de leche latte::
Yea. That didn’t work to well.
written by Julie
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:53 am
Drunk quesadillas? This sounds like my drunk egg sandwiches; best served at 3:00am with a beer and shot.
Hair cut looks great, the kids at the HH don’t bite (often) and it’s always a raging success. So, be careful who you tell that you’re serving drunk food…you might wind up with like 20 people at your dor step. For real.
I gave up coffee and cigarettes this year, which was basically the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse. Long and the short of it is it’s more about the water and the coffee than it is about the coffee maker. Get any good maker, use clean water and a good coffee, play with the amounts to find your strength. Presto. Oh, and make it stronger if you’re going to ice it.
written by INPY
June 6th, 2007 @ 9:09 am
You hair cut looks adorable. I know nothing about coffee except for the fact that the biggest plus of being married to a teacher is that all of his students give him Starbucks gift cards. Now I never have to learn. Although, I do have to say “Grande non-fat, sugar free, vanilla iced latte” and it makes me die a little each time.
written by Sarah
June 6th, 2007 @ 9:29 am
I can’t see the pictures (grrrr), but I am soooooo glad that you had a good experience with Steve! He really is fantastic.
While I won’t be attending this Blogger Happy Hour (I’ll be out of town), I highly encourage you to check it out. I went to my first one back in October 2005 (yeah, I’m THAT old school), and it’s been a pretty fun ride ever since. The current crew is very fun and very welcoming, so you have nothing to worry about!
written by bettyjoan
June 6th, 2007 @ 9:36 am
The hair looks AWESOME, Janet!
written by Marianne
June 6th, 2007 @ 10:14 am
I barely know enough about coffee to make instant folger’s. When AS and I move in together, my resolution is to begin making coffee at home! I’m not sure if that will stick, since I’m pretty good about drinking the [free] work coffee on weekdays.
Also, your hair is awesome. If only I could get MY hairs cut in DC!
written by Laurel
June 6th, 2007 @ 11:13 am
I LOVE your new hair cut! It’s gorgeous and you are totally seducing me in the second picture. That’s hot!
As far as coffee, I’m addicted, but I just do the basics when I’m at home. I have a 4 cup coffee maker that I used in college. It was cheap, probably a Target find or something like that. There are definitely fancy schmancy makers out there, but all you need is a regular ol coffee maker and some yummy coffee. I use anything from Kroger brand coffee to the Starbucks stuff. You just have to find what you like.
During the week I drink the free stuff at work!
written by Lindsey
June 6th, 2007 @ 11:41 am
Your hair looks great!
And I would kill for a drunk quesadilla about now — that sounds so delicious.
I make my husband make my coffee, so I have no knowledge to give you. Except that maybe you should make sure your husband doesn’t suddenly decide to start drinking tea instead of coffee without telling you so that when you see him off in the morning and he’s leaving with a coffee go-cup you don’t assume there is fresh coffee waiting for you when you have to leave only to discover cold, old, icky coffee in the coffee pot, which is a sure sign that the husband secretly filled his coffee go-cup with tea and didn’t make you any coffee. That’s my advice.
written by Audrey
June 6th, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
Hair is fan-freakin-tastic!! Love it!
I know nothing about coffee - so I’m out on that. But I love hearing about life in DC, I have a friend there right now for an internship and another heading at the end of the summer for law school, and I love getting the inside scoop from DC’s favorite blogger.
(Ok, my favorite DC blogger… perhaps more appropriate, although not necessarily more true)
xox
written by heidikins
June 6th, 2007 @ 1:16 pm
Hottie!
~Jef
written by Edge
June 6th, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
Very cute hair!
Coffee–get yourself a 4-5 cup maker, I think cone shaped filters make better tasting coffee than flat bottom. (I love my 5 cup Melitta from Target) If you like strong or making iced I use 1-2 Tb of ground coffee per cup on the maker. The “cup” on most makers is only 6 oz. If you like less strong coffee back off on the amount of grounds. I love to sprinkle some cinnamon into the coffee grounds before brewing every now and then when I get to make coffee at home.
written by KG
June 6th, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
The cut looks lovely on you.. and your hair is beautiful whether it is shorter or long and ‘hippy dippy’.
After having waist length hair for most of my school days, I cut it to mid-back, then to upper back, then up to the top of my shoulders. It was ultra cute and flippy and all, but every time a girl walked by with a sheet of long hair, I longed for my long gone tresses. After all my highlighting and dyeing and damage and getting rid of the coloring, my hair is finally growing out and it has been it’s natural color for a couple years now. It is about mid-back now but I probably have another year of growing until it’s as long as I want it to be. Just sayin’…
Regarding coffee: my husband and I drink tea. He drinks it sometimes twice a day, hot and cold. We love tea and don’t even have a coffee maker. We have to borrow one from my mom when we have house guests. But I do like an iced coffee from time to time, especially a blended mocha.
written by Chiada
June 6th, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Oh, so when you said you wanted to cut your hair you didn’t mean a pixie cut?! I didn’t know that.
Your hair is still longish and gorgeous. And I heart it. And you.
And thanks for reminding how freakin’ excited I am to finally get to come to DC.
(I know nothing about coffee and I live in Seattle. Good luck.)
written by Isabel
June 6th, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
love the hair! it always makes you feel better to get your hair done. no matter what. plain and simple.
written by amy
June 6th, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
The haircut is adorable…well, maybe not adorable, cause that sounds too little girlish. How about cute? Nope, still little girlish. Hot & sexy…now we’re talking!:)
I’m so glad you wrote about the whole coffee thing. I soooo need to learn how to make my own coffee. I’ve become a coffee addict in the last few months and the $5/day that I spend on coffee adds up!
written by Shesabigstar
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
we’re very serious about our coffee at this house. we used to use a french press which was fun and made great coffee, but during the week it’s too much, you know with work and all. Sooo, after much research and consultation (i kid you not) we purchased a Cuisinart Brew Central. Love it.
written by meegan
June 6th, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
i love your hair cut. you look great!
written by cady
June 6th, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
LOVE the hair. You look so beautiful!
As for the coffee. Ryan got me addicted to our Keurig pod maker! You can get it for $100 at Target or BBB… and then you can order at http://www.coffeewhiz.com - it comes to around 40¢ a cup in the end… of course, I also love our cuisinart (Kay has the brew central one)… it’s pretty awesome, but I usually make your cousin do the coffee when we do that machine.
I’m babbling…
Your hair looks terrific! mazel tov!
written by Cuzin Renee
June 6th, 2007 @ 11:52 pm
Thanks for the shout-out!
Since I’m now in the coffee business, I feel I can tell you that the way to make the best tasting coffee at home is to use either a french press or a melitta (like one of your commenters mentioned). We’re not even using a drip machine at the shop, because press coffee tastes so much better.
And, get yourself a burr grinder, to grind your coffee fresh for brewing.
And find yourself some freshly roasted beans .
And the haircut looks fantastic!
written by Lana
June 7th, 2007 @ 7:54 am
Great new hair! One of the best cuts I ever got was when I went in and said, “chop it off - shoulder length(ish) - just make me pretty. hee.
written by Aimee
June 7th, 2007 @ 10:33 am
My first HH was like October or November 05 and sadly enough, I’ve kind of moved and yet I still go to HH and I will be at that HH. So come! It’s fun and exciting and there’s lots of drunken debauchery.
written by Heather B.
June 7th, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
Your hair looks fabulous!!
My trip to Denver was breathtaking. It is so beautiful out there and I had never been west of Chicago. I wish I was one of those people who could actually entertain the thought of moving somewhere totally different…
written by Erika
June 7th, 2007 @ 2:49 pm