OLD me LOVED to spend money. Lots and lots of money on stupid, expensive, 'have to have it right now' type of things....things that single people buy. Things like $200 hair straighteners that when used on your hair feels similar to taking two sticks of butter and sliding it down your hair. I'm not making that up. The straightener is that smooth and unbelievable. My hair actually feels healthier after using it than it did before. Now that is $200 well spent my friends!
Welcome to my new life and the new me. The NEW me does not spend over $200 on something 'unnecessary' like a hair straightener. The NEW me buys a couch, rugs for the house, stocks up on ziploc baggies and toilet paper and pays the bills EARLY!
Well.....when my gorgeous, beautiful, amazing little piece of machinery's plug was damaged awhile back by careless baggage handlers (Do they even KNOW what they did??) I was devastated. How would I straighten my hair! I tried and tried as hard as I could to justify the purchase of a new straightener...and completely stopped myself from doing when finding out the price had risen to almost $250. Yes people, even I have limits. Shocking even to me.
So the past few months, not only have I had to deal with the heat and humidity (there has been some, believe me!) and being all sorts of fat and pregnant and just feeling very non-cute...but I have had to deal with a very loooooooooooooooooooooong streak of bad hair days. Days filled with fuzzy, frizzy hair. Days filled with my hair flipping out on one side and flipping in on the other, giving myself a very tilted, shouldda-had-a-v-8-today kind of look. It hasn't been pretty all summer, to say the least.
So, NEW me had a little chat with OLD me the other day and decided that No, we could not afford to pay $250 for a new hair straightener but the OLD me (and not gonna lie, the new me) could not handle never looking like a human again and we came up with one brilliant idea! Just fix the plug! I called a few small repair places but they wouldn't help me. Something about safety and legality of replacing a GFI-type plug with a normal plug...blah blah blah. All I heard was "You will look like crap FOREVER!" Sigh.
Then all of a sudden...Grampa Lee to the rescue! This is the same man who basically rewired our house for us when we moved...of course he could replace a simple little plug for me! And that's exactly what he did...
I am happy to report that today, even though it was raining this morning and it's humid as hell, I have perfectly straight, smooth hair. Like butter.
I'm still getting used to the new me, but it's nice to know the old me isn't completely gone.
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