Hi Mate

I’m watching the Australian Open Womens’ final. Caroline Wozniacki is playing. She’s a favourite of mine because when I was in Belfast, she and Golfer Rory McIlroy announced they were ending their engagement. That day in the office, people said things like “Have you heard about Rory and Caroline!?” and “Poor Caroline. How could Rory do that?”. I had no clue who Rory and Caroline were, and figured they were an office couple who had split so of course I wanted to hear more. Turns out Rory McIlroy is Belfast’s favourite son, because he grew up around there and is really good at golfing. (I guess Liam Neeson comes from another part of Northern Ireland.) Caroline was a tennis champ and his girlfriend and the people of Northern Ireland embraced her wholeheartedly. They became engaged and Belfast rejoiced. Then, a week after they sent out their wedding invitations, Rory called the whole thing off. What a total dick. How could he do that to her? I couldn’t help but care and I couldn’t but choo

I feel like I have nothing to say all the time, but then I saw your post about Margot Robbie and Gorman and Obus  and of course I have thoughts about that.  Margot Robbie’s face looks very 1980s to me, which I guess is kind of bogan by default. I can totally see her on Baywatch, you know? That’s how she’s imprinted in my mind.  I totally agree about Gorman and Obus and their inability to combine a nice print with a good cut. This is not too much to ask, this is one of the basic things they have to do for their jobs. Do your jobs, guys. I also want to highlight that when we were in Sydney and going to the beach and stuff, I was highly amused to see lots of girls wearing Calvin Klein crop tops and shorts or jeans. The kids are crazy about the 90s and I’m crazy about them being crazy about the 90s!  So Mate, let’s go see this Hemsworth movie called 12 Strong for our next dinner and a movie date. 

Obviously I don't mind that whenever I look at this blog I'm welcomed by the picture of Chris Hemsworth I posted a month ago, and yet I think it would be good if we really got this blog going a bit more. It's effing hard though, isn't it? Just writing it for ourselves and with no real guide and no imaginary audience to please.  And it's annoying because I actually have a lot of things I've been thinking about it. But I don't know how to approach a blog post anymore. It's disturbing. Like, I used to think Margot Robbie was a total bogan face and I couldn't understand how she could become a Hollywood star. But look at her: Now I want to look like her and think about her hair all the time! Luckily while looking for pictures of her on the internet I see that she still kind of is a bogan face, but nothing is black and white I guess. Something else I've been thinking about lately is WTF is with Gorman. I went in their the other day and t

Negotiating boyfriends' opinion is tough. On the one hand you are a strong independent woman who does what she wants. On the other your boyfriend has to look at you all the time and find you attractive. And although how attractive you are is largely dependent on things other than your hair colour you want them to like what you see. Of course you do.   I'm constantly negotiating this difficult situation. Here are a bunch of things LB doesn't like very much on me: when I dye my eyebrows (i think this is largely confined to the first day but he can't dissociate the beautiful after effect from day 1); when I get a fringe; short hair; any change to my appearance.   Sometimes when I think about going blonde I ask him what he thinks and he says something unsupportive and I ask him if he doesn't imagine himself with a blonde beach babe by even this doesn't work.   I just scrolled through a bunch of photos on the internet of 'dark brown hair with caramel highlight

I thought it would be fun to just update this blog on the DL and then we can each be pleasantly surprised when we log on and find something. So darker brown with caramel highlights sounds fantastic. Anything caramel sounds pretty fantastic. Side note: how good does that recipe for middle eastern millionaire’s shortbread in Sweet sound? So good, that’s how good.  Back to hair. This do by Lucky Buster appeals to me. It’s kind of where I want to go. But then I showed Holloway and said “what do you think of this?”.  He said “I’m not sure you...” before getting cut off by the H bomb going off.  I don’t know whether he was going to say “I’m not sure you should show me these photos because I love them all and could never pick a favourite!!” Or  “I’m not sure you should go there” Or something in between.  The prospect of my boyfriend not liking my hair makes me not want to dye my hair. It’s not like I can’t think for myself or nothin. It’s just that I have no interest in doing something that h

So I kind of stopped checking to see if you'd updated this blog after 8 days. Or maybe I checked once or twice more but just saw the heading 'RE: Tuesday thoughts' and didn't realise it wasn't 'Tuesday thoughts'. Anyway, I guess that's one reason it has taken me a week to respond. I have tried dying clothes a few times but it's never been successful. I look forward to hearing more about your experience. What colour?! (I'm sure this makes a different.) How did you do it?! (One time I broke my washing machine doing it.) Did you get an even dye? (I never have.)  You seemed please so I guess you did. This is also exciting about dying your hair. I'd like to do it to. I was thinking about going darker but getting caramel highlights. Obvs I want to go full blonde but the cost and effort is beyond me. In truth the cost of dark hair with caramel highlights is beyond me too but it feels like something that could be achievable in the foreseeable fut