So last night I had about a dozen close friends around for my house-warming/head-shaving party... at this moment in time I have raised $810 for the Leukaemia Foundation, and last night my head was shaved to a number two, and dyed purple with pink stars.... it's rather fabulous if I do say so myself!!

The shaving part was a bit scary, not least because I had 12 people in my little loungeroom all staring, laughing and exclaiming with many cmaeras clicking repeatedly as the one with the clippers gleefully removed all my hair... the first touch of my head with it's short shorn stubble made me yelp and laugh with something approaching hysteria, and I nearly died when I made it to the bathroom to look in the mirror, myself with a crew cut was just so completely alien and strange!! now that I've had a bit of time to get used to it I must confess though that I love it very much and may even keep it this short for a while :o) I was very relieved to discover that I have a good shaped skull with no strange lumpy bits, and my ears sit close to my head... it actually suits my quite well I think!

The dying process was quite long, as we bleached it first, then dyed it all pink, then painted the purple over the top leaving pink star shapes, and there were hundreds of photos taken at all stages of the process... so I can't wait to see those!! I don't think I've ever had that many cameras taking that many photos of me ever in my life, in fact I know I haven't, it was a bit strange!!

A very good fun night with friends, lots of laughter, and a truly unique experience (for me at least).... and now I'm just having to learn to deal with people staring at me!! The choir sang at a commitment ceremony this morning which was great fun, but my rather outlandish head earnt quite a few stares which was a bit disconcerting, and a friend and I then headed off to Newtown for coffee and a bit of a window-shop, and you'd think in Newtown a purple with pink stars No. 2 wouldn't earn THAT much attention but I was still very conscious of more people than usual staring at me... and the friend I was with found it quite amusing when she watched someone walk into a wall because she was so busy ogling my head!

I'm off to a twilight concert at Taronga Zoo tonight with some other friends, which should be an interesting venture, the concert is Monica Trapaga and Frank Bennett doing Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra songs, which should be fabulous, but I'm tipping this will be a crowd not at all used to seeing a chick with a purle and pink crewcut, bracing myself for more staring! The reaction at work on Monday will also be quite interesting I think, although I work in a cancer centre, and they've been hugely supportive of me in this fundraising venture precisely because of the type of fundraising it is!

I'll see if i can get some photos up here when they are all emailed to me :o) YAY!!!! 'tis fabulous, and makes me very happy indeed!!!
I'm stuffed... have spent the day packing and I'm still not done, although the main stuff is in boxes and what's not will be easy for me to move myself in the car, so I'm off to bed soon... I rang the removalist I booked from LOTL (lovely gay boy, sadly, no butch dykes on his payroll...) to ask a stupid question this morning and he said "Oh I was just about to ring you, we can't move you tomorrow" AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fortunately he had rung around and got me someone else who will do it for the same price, but they can only do it if they come at 9am, instead of 11 as I'd booked so I have to be up extra early in the morning, on the positive side though everything will be moved by midday, and I will have more time to get everything unpacked and organised in the afternoon... I can't sleep on moving day until everything is unpacked and in it's place, fortunately, I'm MUCH better at taking stuff out of boxes than putting it in!! I've also been slowed down by going through everything and chucking out about 5 garbage bags of stuff, feels good to have a clean out, i haven't done that in YEARS!

In other news, I am up to about $230 in sponsorship for the WGS, woohoo!! Going bald in two weeks :o)

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