Maybe you noticed over the past couple of days that there was something different going on here around the ol’ blog. Or maybe I’ve changed my design enough times that you don’t really notice anymore, in which case, I need to slow down! Anyway, the blog received a revamp this past week, a more streamlined and less color-intensive version. I don’t like things clashing with my photos. I want to let them shine!
As I did the revamp, I started really thinking about why I blog. I’m not a pure food blogger or pure design blogger or pure fashion blogger. I don’t have a catchy title and I don’t have a gimmicky voice. I’m just…me. I talk about pretty much whatever I feel like talking about and taking a picture of. I’ve started to talk more about me and less about the trend of the day in this blog, but I still feel like I’m finding my blog voice. Compared to a lot of folks out there, I’m still a newbie, I’m still figuring out my way.
And that’s fine, because in the process, I’m figuring out what makes me happy. That’s what this blog is about. Joie de vivre. Learning to love life and to live with joy. And style 
The blog isn’t the only thing that received a revamp this past week. Yours truly got a little bit of an overhaul as well, which included getting 14 whopping inches of hair chopped off. I’ve been talking about it for a while, but I finally did it.
So here’s what I started with – it might be tricky to see in this picture, but if you look in the mirror, you can see that my hair is more than halfway down my back, maybe 8″ from reaching waist-length. What you can’t see is that the ends are getting brittle and mangled from me leaning back in chairs on them and getting them caught on pieces of the chair. And sure, I can put it up, but I default to the ponytail which just creates more damage.
So I went to the salon. I don’t need my hair – but chances are, someone else does. That’s why it gets banded up and sent to a wonderful charity called Locks of Love. They’re a wonderful organization that takes hair donations and uses them to make wigs for disadvantaged children suffering from cancer. Now, lots of people pick out their best feature, and I happen to love mine. I love the color and wave of my hair, I really do. I only hope that some little girl gets my hair and feels pretty because of it.
You can donate if you have 10 inches of hair. My stylist whacked off 14. We know. We measured. And I think she did a beautiful job.
I absolutely love my new look. Maybe it’s just hair, but when it comes down to it, how you look is more than just how you look. “How you look” is the shallow part. The biggest part is how it makes you feel. And I got a double whammy of awesome, not only getting to feel lighter and sassier with this new cut, but getting to do some good in the process.
So here’s cheers to a wonderful weekend, and hopefully all of you can get out there and try something new, something you might have been afraid to try before. After all, life is too short not to really live it.
