After a few weeks break, we returned in full force. And man, was it a nailbiter. I’ll try to get the writeup posted soon – these things always take a little longer in the summertime.
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Well, you can see it now.
Best part: Em just went and put on her bikini, then a bathrobe over it. She ran into the den, swept out of her bathrobe, and said that she was a superhero and I had to be the villain. Then she defeated me. Behold the power of green hair.
That night, Tvini learned a valuable lesson about making hair care decisions based on internet dares.
Hey, we had some left over from re-doing Em’s hair (which turned out much better). As the friend who dared me said, “waste not, want not.” The dye is Special Effects in Sonic Green. The picture was taken after a shampoo with lots of vigorous scrubbing.
Sorry for the lack of updates. Time has been very scarce lately, with Em out of school. She’s doing a morning camp this week, but it took all of that time to sort through a mound of Jayne e-mails. I love that she’s being so engaged this year, it’s exactly what we want. However, I did not expect it and it’s throwing me behind on other things.
Tomorrow morning I hope to go running. I passed the 100 mile mark on Nike Plus, which was a good feeling. Hopefully the sweat from the run won’t send green dye down my face.
Just wanted to be sure everybody knew about We Choose The Moon.
From Geek.com: “The goal of the website is to allow visitors to experience the Apollo 11 mission in real time. In fact, the website will go live at 9:32am on July 16th which is exactly 40 years to the minute after the historic launch.
The website is sponsored by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum because it was under President Kennedy’s direction that a mission to the moon be planned and executed. To allow visitors to experience the Apollo 11 mission as it happened the website utilizes archival audio, video, photos and “real time” transmissions. Besides the AOL powered website, visitors can also receive mission updates through three different Twitter accounts.”
The “launch” has already taken place, but stage four will be coming up in a couple of hours. It’s neat to tune in and hear the audio as it was spoken, real time but separated by 40 years.
I’m also uploading some of my old Life magazine finds. At right, Michael Collins proves that a man separated from society will always try to grow an ill-advised mustache. Even in space.
Godspeed, Apollo 11!
Spring-Summer 1962 McCall’s magazine
Craft project – tennis racket cozy
Somehow I doubt this will strike fear into your opponent’s heart.
The 40th anniversary of the first time a human being walked on the moon is upon us. We know now what happened, but let me share with you this little gem from 1961, well before the details were ironed out.
Well, the greening of Em was a bust. It actually looks more green in the sunlight, but inside under low light you can barely see it at all. There’s a closeup at right which shows it a little bit, but it’s really hard to see in this picture.
I think “subtle” would best describe it. However, when you’re ten, you don’t want “subtle.” You want ANIMATED SUPERHERO AWESOME GIRL FANTASTIC. We may try some Special Effects brand but I don’t think it’ll do much more without bleaching her hair, which we’re not going to do.
Oh well. She had fun doing it, so we can chalk it up to another learning experience.
On an unrelated note, Em went to the dentist to see if the amoxicillin had cleared up her infection.
It had not.
The previous x-ray didn’t extend all the way to the base of the teeth. This one does. The dentist says that the two dark areas at the base of the roots on the second-to-leftmost tooth (the biggest tooth) are advanced decay. She has referred us to a general dentist with pediatric experience for a root canal.
Em’s taking it surprisingly well. I, on the other hand, may run the X-ray by someone else for a second opinion. She’s probably correct in what needs to be done, but I still need to check if there’s even a chance we can avoid it.
Em, meanwhile, has taken an eight-second-long shower (she timed it on a timer), changed into her princess costume from Halloween, and is watching PBS kids’ shows while hanging out on the couch. ETA: Now she’s added a swim mask. Just another day at Casa de Tvini.
To say that I don’t know what I’m doing dyeing hair is an understatement. I think she can pick up Radio Free Europe on that headset.
By the way, I’ll be taking this photo down fairly soon – this seems like the kind of thing that a young teenager might be mortified to have out there on the web in a few years.
My daughter would like to put two green streaks in her hair. Me being the permissive liberal type, I say “why the heck not?” I’ve settled on Manic Panic semi-permanent dye so it’ll last for a while but it she won’t have to live with it too long, and it could in theory be gone by the time school starts. Em’s chosen color: Green Envy.
However, I have absolutely no experience with hair dyeing. Yarn dyeing, yes, but I don’t think I can dunk my daughter’s head into a crockpot for a few hours.
Does anyone have any advice? Any links on the web that you think are particularly helpful? Anyone in Charlotte who can recommend good sources, or who might be willing to try to help us? I’d rather my daughter not come out of this looking like Sigmund the Sea Monster.
Little help?
ETA: Her hair has lightened a little this summer to a light brown. We would rather not bleach before adding color, as that creates a bigger problem come Fall.
ETA-again: I misspoke. Her chosen color is “Electric Lizard.”