Step 72: Get a New 'Do

I got my hair cut! That can only mean one of two things: (1) I'm going on a trip or (2) I'm playing a boy again in my school's spring production. Since I graduated a good two years ago, I doubt it's option number 2. Yup. New, easy to maintain hairdo means I'm going backpacking across Europe in March! That's been a big reason why I haven't been blogging as much lately--been stressing over preparing for my trip and making sure all my finances are in order before I leave. But there will be more about that in the next couple of weeks--this post is about hair!

Sometimes I really like my hair long. It looks pretty, and I can flick it in boys' faces when they tick me off. But most days I'm way too lazy to make it look nice, and I don't really hang out around that many boys, so it's usually up in a ponytail or a bun or going all crazy with static and waves. When I'm getting ready to travel, I definitely don't have the time or the patience to mess with it each morning, so I lop it off and choose the messy-hair style. This way I can almost roll out of bed and not have to touch my hair. Almost!

So my question to you is: How do you like to wear your hair?

And my challenge to you: Try something new! The first time I went to my hair stylist, my sister convinced me to let her dye my hair blonde. It was so crazy going through such a drastic change, but it was also loads of fun!

Step 71: Run Out of Time

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein." ~H. Jackson Brown

I absolutely hate this quote. I mean, I know it's true--we do have the same amount of time as everyone else (in fact, with today's longer life span, we probably have more), but we also have more things that we want to do. And more distractions.

There just isn't enough time to do everything that we want. We want to write the next Great American Novel, but we also want to visit with our friends and family. But to see the people we love, we need to be able to drive, and that's hard to do when our car's always breaking down, and we're spending time looking for a new one and trying to pay off the old one. And once a new car is bought we can go to all the doctor appointments we've missed out on, but not before we send the state every paycheck we've ever earned and wait for months for them to decide if we're still eligible for the best damn insurance we've ever had. After we're all caught up on our body and teeth and eyes and mind, we can buy that plane ticket, but not before we spend hours looking at all the violence going on in the world. Then we question whether we should really go or not, so we start thinking. And thinking takes up A LOT of time. And sometimes thinking is painful, so we decide to escape to the world of television and watch an entire season of a 90's cartoon in one day. And that's ok because we've been really busy running around lately, and it's nice to take a relaxation day and we really did want to see our favorite episode again. But now we're a day behind on everything so we're scrambling to catch up. But we've still got to go to work and pick up those extra shifts because we legitly want to help out our co-workers and friends, but we also have to admit the extra money is nice too. And when we get home from work, we could be productive, or we could scan through Facebook and watch funny cat videos. And we want to write a blog about all of this, but like I said before, there just isn't enough time to do everything that we want.

We have to pick and choose what we do with our time, and we've got to accept what we don't get around to while being happy about the things that we do accomplish.

So my question to you: What is your biggest time waster? I never had a problem scanning through Facebook until I got a smart phone. Now I understand how people could spend hours just scrolling through their news feed--its so easy and convenient on your phone.
And my challenge to you: If there's stuff you really want to get done on a certain day, make a schedule for yourself. You probably don't need to get as crazy detailed as I get, but having your plans written out for the day makes it easier for you to stay on track.