Personally, this is a cool self portrait...alas, I should have been doing something more productive. What do you think?

Here was my haircut after my previous post! Love it! :-D

After 5 months of living in So Cal, I have finally made an important decision. Get my hair cut. Sounds odd that I've regarded it as a serious decision, but when you move to a new part of the country, it's hard to take the time to find a hair stylist. I've procrastinated long enough, and finally called a salon at the Tyler Galleria mall in Riverside. Easy enough, right? Well, I scheduled a haircut for this afternoon, but I have a male stylist. Is it wrong of me to be nervous about having a man cut my hair? I've never had a guy cut my hair before, so I shouldn't be THAT nervous about it. But it involves hair, and like any other reasonable person, being nervous about getting a bad hairstyle is a big worry factor in this "predicament". I don't think i'm biased to having females cut my hair, but a part of me wishes it was a female doing this. Is it weird to miss the stylist I had back in Minnesota? Her name was Ashley. I really miss that short bubble of energy that styled my hair...so now I'll have to keep an open-mind when I get my haircut today because this is ridiculous the more I write about this topic. Isn't it odd that things such as getting a haircut by someone new, or shopping for new clothes when you've either lost or gained weight makes you nervous and timid? Perhaps it's a part of human nature that makes you want to kick yourself for feeling cowardly about it. I think it is. So here's to another timid leap of faith, and hopefully this will be a good experience. At the very least, at least my hair will be cut for another few months, and that seems worth the risk!