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The Enchanted Forest - that's what I call my new home on Sand Mountain, Alabama. I tagged it with the name as soon as we drove the U-Haul onto the property in late June, partly to trick my psyche into loving this new, very different locale that I wasn't sure I really wanted. I knew if I told myself often enough that this place was a treasure, I would eventually believe it. It worked. I love my small piece of the planet, and have accepted (almost) everything about it. I wish I'd started this journal the day we arrived - it's too labor-intensive to retrace all the steps that have brought me to this point, so I will begin here and let each day decide what is worthy of documenting. It's self-indulgent, and will surely vacsillate between celebratory and borderline-depressing - but that's what life is. And I find comfort in that cycle. So here goes . . .

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Dumb blonde jokes - personified!




So if anyone saw me this morning, doing this totally ridiculous thing, they would surely either have called the police or the psychiatrist - or maybe both. But it made sense to me at the time. You see, when I look in the mirror, I see something entirely different from what I see in photographs of myself. My face is faaaaaarrrrr from symmetrical (and they say symmetry in the face is the mark of true beauty!) so when I see the camera's mirror image of what an actual mirror tells me, I'm always appalled at how terrible I look. I digress. So, anyway, I'm especially pleased with my current haircut, and wanted to capture a close-up of it to remind my hair stylist for future cuts. So here goes. I grab the camera, point it at the mirror, and I kid you not, I was surprised to see the camera right in front of my face in the reflection. I laughed out loud at my stupidity, and was totally embarrassed even though I was standing absolutely alone in my own bathroom! So I tried holding the camera over my head, thinking I'd just crop out my upraised arms and the camera, leaving a gorgeous, in-focus, and perfect close-up of this wonderful haircut! NOT! (See image above right, in case that's not obvious!)

So, although it's not such a good pic of me, I did finally get a decent photo of the super-great haircut! See:


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