I Want My Mommy!!!!!!!!!!!

O.K. so here I go.
I can do this!
I shouldn't be so nervous.
Everyone does it.
Why am I so freaked out?
There's nothing to it.
It'll be o.k.
NO, I can't do it.
I'll just wait.
I know, I have to do it now!
But, what if it is terrible?
I'll be fine.
Oh, I'm so scared.
I don't want to look silly.


Yes, I am totally freaked out. Why, you ask? Well, because I am going to get my hair cut tomorrow. You're probably wondering why I would get so up tight about a haircut. Well, it's like this. My mom, my grandmother and my step-mom were all hairdressers and they were the only people that cut my hair up until I was in my mid-20s. Had it not been for logistical problems, I would have never changed our little arrangement.

All I can say is that in the past, for the most part, my experiences with non-relative hairstylists have gone really BAD. I will give credit where credit is due, though. When I lived in Nashville, I had a great stylist, but again, the whole logistics thing prevents me from continuing the love/love relationship we had.

Since moving back to East TN, I haven't been able to find a stylist that can work with my "challenging" head of hair. You see, I was cursed with the hair genes (or lack there of) of both my parents. Dad's been sporting a comb-over since he was in high school and Mom has the transparent variety of hair. We kindly refer to it as "frog fur". Our hair is VERY thin and VERY fine. If I don't go to someone that is acustomed to working with my type of hair, things go very wrong.

For the last 5 years, I have been trying to time my haircuts around my trips to Mom's in Georgia, or her trips to Tennessee. Or, I have used Mom's stylist in Macon; she is good and knows how to work with my hair-type, since she does my Mom's hair, also. Unfortunately, this time my (our) timing is a little off. Mom isn't coming up this way until the first week of June. AND, as you all know, I will be at the beach then. So, I am being forced to go to a complete stranger and entrust my unfortunate head of hair to him. The stylist does good work (on other people) so I am keeping my fingers crossed that he will do the same for me.

If everyone could just pause for a minute and say a little prayer for my new do and send me lots of good karma, I would be most appreciative.

P.S. If I am wearing a hat in, or missingfrom, all of the pictures that are taken at the beach, you will know that things didn't go well.

Yes, I'm Still Alive

No, the flu didn't kill me, though I thought it was going to for awhile. Things have just been a little crazy around Casa Jennilu. There was the whole volunteering at Kaylea's school thing AND the whole getting ready for Easter thing AND then the whole getting the house ready for Easter company thing AND then the whole getting ready for our spring break trip thing AND so on....... I know, you get the message.

Anywho, ThiThi, Kaylea and I are in Macon at Mom's and Jim Bob's enjoying the semi-warm weather and our little break. There has been lots of shopping and I am happy to say that Kaylea will not have run the streets nakey this spring/summer. She once again has clothes THAT FIT! Boocoodles of thanks from Kaylea (and Bub and me) to Memommy and Auntie M for the wardrobe intervention! Kaylea likes to complain about the "shopping, shopping, shopping" but secretly she loves it!

Today, we are off to get our haircuts. My Beckham Bob is starting to look a little shabby and it needs a trim. After getting beautified who knows where we will end up, but I am quite certain it will involve some food and some more shopping. Yes, we are so predictable, but we don't care; we're just having fun Franklin girl style.

I hope everyone it enjoying their spring. I promise to write more regularly.

Sephora, Knoxville Welcomes You!

Whoot Whoot! We finally have a Sephora in Knoxville. Today is the Grand Opening of their store at West Town. I can't tell you how many times I have wished for this day to come.

I'm sure you are asking yourself, "What's the big deal?"





Well, if you look on The Ever Growing List of Random Things I Love, # 13 is bareMinerals make-up.





Up until now my only choices for acquiring my MUST HAVE make-up were to either drive to a small natural/health herbal remedy type store way out in Farragut or order my stuff on the Internet. Both options were a real pain in my a*%.


Now, FINALLY, I can get my make-up fix at the mall, like everyone else. I am sooooo happy!