The time had come. My hair was so long that it was starting to bother me and it took forever to wash. I never did anything with it but tie it back in a ponytail. It had no style. It deserved a better home. Since I had planned on cutting it pretty drastically I decided to donate it to charity — the first thing that came to mind was Locks of Love, but I saw that this was for people in the United States. Then I found Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which accepts hair donations to make wigs for cancer patients in collaboration with the Canadian Cancer Society. So I printed my form, researched on the web for a Vancouver stylist who would tell me what would look good on me, and headed out!
You can see the results by clicking on the image, it will take you to the gallery where I have before and after shots. I LOVE the haircut! It’s the best hair cut I’ve had in my entire life. I went to Taylor Smit at Ego Salon on Granville Street and he was amazing. I didn’t really know what I wanted, and he convinced me to go shorter than I had anticipated because he had to cut off some of my dead ends before donating my ponytail and we wanted to donate as much as possible — over a foot! There were layers, which I was afraid of since the last time I had layers it looked more like a mullet… granted, it was a $12 hair cut from First Choice Hair Cutters, so I guess you get what you pay for. He chose the style and cut my hair and it is so easy to maintain! I even got a fringe! I will go back there for all my hair cuts until I move away from BC, LOL.
For those who are still left in the dark, Lionel and I are expecting our first child, a boy, in mid- to end-October. We’re very excited! We had our ultrasound on May 23, 2008. Unfortunately we couldn’t take a video — we bought an HDTV camcorder for this purpose, but it was against hospital policy. In fact, the technician said that if she caught Lionel she would ask him to leave. We thought that was a bit unnecessary, as we are very cooperative people, but there it was.
During the procedure the technician didn’t want me to ask questions because she was concentrating, and I couldn’t really see the screen, so Lionel would tell me what he was seeing every now and then — torso, foot, head, etc. She had some trouble getting some of the pictures and she shook my abdomen kind of roughly and I could see the baby shaking around! Eep. She said he was fine though. After she got her measurements and determined that everything was OK she was nice enough and showed us Baby’s face, feet, etc. It was hospital policy not to tell the parents the sex of the baby, but we asked very nicely and she said it was a boy — and yup, the image confirmed it. Definitely not a girl!
When we heard it was a boy Lionel and I just looked at each other and were like, “Uh oh!” We didn’t have a name picked out for a boy! We still don’t… but we’re working on it. All this time I was envisioning that it would be a girl, I guess because we have two nieces and I found it easy to imagine, and we had a name picked out for a girl, l and I was imagining my life raising a little girl… then this was kind of a shock, lol. I’m happy of course — we wanted more than one and I think it’s best to have an older brother, it worked out great for me!, it’s just that I was surprised. We’re going to get peed on!
We have to wait 30 days to get the digital copy of the ultrasound photos, but the technician gave us a print out of a few that we’ve scanned in. Click the image to see the rest!
