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Not a Good Week

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Lily Adams
, 03-15-2008 at 12:34 AM (1482 Views)
Let's go in chronological order, shall we?

I really have been feeling like sewing. So I did but it all turned out a mess and I spent ten hours on my hoodie and had to take out part of the decoration because I sewed it so badly. So now it just has spacey star pockets and a spudcollar. I guess I'm okay with that now but earlier this week I was absolutely furious. Furious at the fact that I really can't sew worth for beans no matter how hard I try and that I have a really cruddy sewing machine.

And then on Wednesday I was supposed to get the ends of my hair dyed electric green but the hairdresser cancelled at the last minute saying she had an emergency. Fair enough, but I was still upset. I had been looking forward to that for a while. We'll come back to this later...

Yesterday we had our last Knowledge Bowl competition and we got third place. "What's so bad about that?" you may be asking. Well, I would have been overjoyed had I actually been on a good team. It's not like they were bad at the actual playing, they knew a lot and all but they were just...MEANIE HEADS. Especially this one kid. He thinks he knows everything and would make fun of the other teams. They all did. All in all, I was basically ignored on that team like last year. I really felt like we didn't deserve it. I felt basically no pride because of the general scumminess of our team. This year and last year I saw other teams having so much fun and actually being a team, and it just made me feel left out. Always the ignored one. So I look pretty blaaahhhhh in the pictures they took of us.

Now back to my hair. We re-scheduled it for tonight and I went there and got it all done. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? She dyed it the wrong color!!! It's a blue-green and I said LIME GREEN. I KNEW they had it because they I saw the jar for it, but when she went to go get it, I said, "I think it's called Apple Green or something." and she mistook that for "Alpine Green" I guess. It's so irritating! $50 down the drain and it's the wrong thing! I am so mad. I didn't say anything because those types of people who complain like that and don't take it generally annoy me. I don't like being outwardly picky even if I really am on the inside. But I just gotta forget about it even though the color really doesn't go with anything I wear. There are far worse things in this world. This was my first time getting my hair dyed, too and I was really excited.

But now my hair looks and smells like a crayon and that's kinda interesting.
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  1. kiz_paws's Avatar
    Lily, about the sewing -- I think it is just a matter of keep trying sort of thing. Although a decent sewing machine would be an asset .... Well, good luck with that. Sorry that the Knowledge Bowl left you disillusioned. It would be so cool to work with those who thought of themselves as a team, but anyhow, you did your best, so what can ya do? As for your hair, I'd be tempted to go back and say it was not what you had banked on. Even though you mention that you don't feel right about doing that, fifty buckaroos is fifty buckaroos! Crayons, eh? Hmmm ... loved the smell of pastel crayons, I have to admit!
  2. Virgil's Avatar
    Too bad Lily. Perhaps the next week will be better. We all go through things like that. They are frustrations, but at least no tragic events occured. There are things to be grateful for.
  3. Shalot's Avatar
    Fifty bucks is a lot to pay for the wrong color, and I don't think it's your fault that the hairdresser got it wrong. I think there is an art to complaining - you start off with being nice about it. If they don't seem to hear you or don't want to deal with it, or if they're rude about it, you can take a more aggressive approach. Like, I tried to get my hair dyed red this past Christmas, and it didn't turn out, even though I discussed what I wanted it at length with my hair stylist. And when it dried, I just said, "I am sorry, I don't like this - it didn't come out like I expected." And I wasn't a jerk about it, and the hairdresser wasn't upset, she just got to work on fixing it, and then later we finally got it to where I wasn't horrified, and I apologized for being so icky picky and she thanked me for letting her work it out. You deserve to get what want, imo (within reason - you know what I mean).
  4. 's Avatar
    Hey Lily, that stinks about the hair. You didn't get what you paid for and generally salons want you to be happy and will fix it without question, you should at least give them a call.
  5. Niamh's Avatar
    I'd love to see a pic of your hair. I'd say the blue green would be nicer than the lime green in your hair...
  6. Lily Adams's Avatar
    Kiz-I do keep trying. Oh well. Yeah, it would have been nice, huh? I already asked my dad if we could go back and he said he didn't want to. I don't blame him. I didn't want to, either. But really, what are they going to do? I remember she asked me at the end, "Do you like it? Is that what you wanted?" I mean, what was I supposed to say? It's okay. My mom bought some of the right stuff herself and we're going to do it ourselves next time in a few weeks. It is just really dissapointing.
    Virgil-Yeah, I know. Like I said, there are worse things. I shouldn't be so upset over it.
    Shalot-Maybe someday I will get the courage...next time...
    Papaya-Aw, s'okay. Like I said the Kiz, we got it covered.
    Niamh-I'll send you a pic later. I'm taking ones of my hoodie tomorrow probably and I'll combine it with a picture of my hair.
  7. BulletproofDork's Avatar
    GREEN! Lucky dog. I'd kill to have my hair dyed green, but my dad would die first. Too bad you didn't like it.
  8. mtpspur's Avatar
    Apples and Alpine. Too bad the cosmotologist didn't double-check. A little surprisedthey didn't offer to fix things. My daughter went to a career center for two years to be a hair dresser and she would still like to do something along those lines.
  9. mtpspur's Avatar
    Apples and Alpine. Too bad the cosmotologist didn't double-check. A little surprisedthey didn't offer to fix things. My daughter went to a career center for two years to be a hair dresser and she would still like to do something along those lines.
  10. Lily Adams's Avatar
    Well, I'm still trying to deduce. I'm over-thinking things, I guess, since it's gone and done and I can't do anything about it now, but "alpine" also sounds a lot like "lime", too. Plus I noticed she was back there picking the color for a long time and when I went back to see if they had the right color dye after she dyed it I noticed the color I wanted was kinda buried in there so maybe she thought, "Oh, shoot, I just bleached this kid's hair and now I don't have the color she wants. I'll just get as close as I can and hope she doesn't say anything." That sucks your parents won't let you do what you want, Bulletproof. It's not a big issue...maybe someday you can persuade 'em.