Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

So blog friends, my real life friends don't want me to cut my hair so I turn to you for outside advice. I have been growing my hair for about a year and had planned on continuing until it was to the middle of my back (which is my normal length). I have been really wanting to cut all of my hair off for a while but I am always discouraged, especially by my long-hair-loving boyfriend. So, as my loyal readers know, I now work at a hair salon and have unlimited access to colors, cuts, anything hair!
First, here is a picture of me now...

Normal, brown hair. I do get a lot of compliments because it is so thick but its relatively plain.

Now, a picture of my first thought for a little something different... Ombre! 

Like this look at it is something that would require little upkeep and also, I wouldn't have to cut my hair. Like the funky vibe to it to match MY funky vibe!

Option 3, the most daring and the most poorly received option.

I love love love this cut! It is so precious and I can just see my big, chunky earrings going so well with it! Its pretty and feminine and still modern and edgy.

Gimme your thoughts people! I need advice! (Actually I just need someone to tell me to go short because that's really what I want.) But please be honest! I do NOT want to come out of this looking like a fool! 

Thanks friends!

Love and Happy Blogging, 

Hannah 

Miscellany Monday

So this is my very first Miscellany Monday link up! Carissa created this fun little link up and it gives me the opportunity to tell you random things without having to elaborate enough to get an entire post out of it! 

1. I start my first day at my new, second job at Stage One today at 3. I'm excited and nervous at the same time! Please keep your fingers crossed for me cause I am gonna need some serious back up!

2. I started my healthy eating again today. For breakfast I had nonfat plain yogurt and granola. Not too shabby. Meeting the boyfriend before work for lunch and finding something healthy will be much more difficult than it was this morning!

3. I was so exhausted that yesterday I slept in the car on the way to my grandparents, took a 2 hour nap once we got there, and slept for nearly 10 hours last night. Ugh. I think I am FINALLY caught up on my sleep though! Thank goodness!

4. In case you haven't read my blog before I have to let you know that I, Hannah Jennings, do, in fact, have the very best boyfriend that a girl could ask for. He is amazing and loving and thoughtful and even more than I ever dreamed I would find. He makes me laugh like no one else can and I am so thankful to have him in my life. 

5. It makes me really sad (okay, that's slightly dramatic) when I sleep in and miss watching Gilmore Girls at 11 AM on ABC Family. That has been my favorite show for years and although I have seen it from beginning to end at least 5 times, it never gets old. Excited that I woke up early enough to watch it today! Nerd. 

Hope ya'll all have a wonderful Monday!

Love and Happy Blogging, 

Hannah

Living Healthy... Soon

So, I know I said I was going to start eating healthy but I had my boss' birthday, a sweet baby girl's birthday, and Mother's Day all in one week so I knew it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to reject birthday cake and Mother's Day dessert... So, me and a couple of friends have been joking that we will put it off til Monday! But I really mean it! Tomorrow! And I plan on starting yoga tomorrow as well! Like I said, hold me accountable. Its okay if you have to tell me that it was bad to allow myself those days... I probably deserve that.

Here's to healthy eating!

P.S. Had ice cream for dinner in honor of my last night as an unhealthy girl. Oops...

Mother's Day... Plus Some

I think I should start this post with an ecard. 

This is SOOOO my mom! She is quite the talker and I am currently trying to convince her to get texting so I don't have to listen to a 5 minute voicemail while I'm at work or sitting in the movie theater. But obviously this post is not about the things my mom does that annoy me. So let me get it started...

I was always been my Moma's sidekick. Where she went, I went. What she did, I did. We were two peas in a pod. After my dad died, our bond became even stronger. As I have grown older we have had our differences and I have become very different from her in many ways, but in others I have remained the same. I am thankful every day that I have her on my side. She is my fighter. When I am sick (and I am always sick) she gets things done. She gets my medicine, even when everyone gives her the run around. She buys foods she knows that I can eat. She does anything and everything to make me better, even if I don't appreciate it at the time. Some days when I am mad at her I forget how lucky I am to have her. But then there are days when her love for me truly shines and I can't be more thankful to have her as my mother. I hope all of you are so lucky as to have or had a mother as wonderful, caring, selfless, and loving as mine.

On another note... I got a second job! At a hair salon in Milledgeville called Stage One. I think I mentioned it in one or two older posts. I am quite excited! I start training tomorrow and I am a little nervous. New jobs always scare me but I know I can do this, and I think I am a likable girl so I shouldn't have a problem with the other girls working there. (Fingers crossed!) I am hoping that it can help me make a final decision about cosmetology school. I mean, I really want to do it and I know I would be good AND enjoy it, which is important, but making the commitment is stressing me out. My sweet boyfriend is finally home after spending 3 years, our FIRST 3 years, apart and I hate to do anything that would separate us again so I am waiting on him to get a good solid job before I apply anywhere. I know what ya'll are thinking, but please think of how you would feel after so long of seeing each other only a couple of times a week and finally being together now. 

Just wanted to let ya'll in on my good news and please, for those of you who do, pray for me because I am so so hoping that this job will be flexible with my current job and vice versa. I am totally wigging out and may need some divine intervention for this to work out. 

Hope ya'll are all having a wonderful Mother's Day and don't forget to remind your mothers how much they mean to you EVERY DAY! And keep me in your thoughts!

Love and Happy Blogging, 

Hannah

The Truth of the Matter

So, I was eating very healthy for about 2 months. I mean, low fat, low calorie, more protein, less carbs. But due to an illness I have I became unable to eat hardly anything and got dependent on bland foods and ended up living on animal crackers and Nilla Wafers. Since then I have slowly become able to eat again and let me tell you, it is NOT a healthy diet! So I am trying to get back on track! I've begun counting calories again and trying to eat less fat and sugars. I started back on Sunday and did well until yesterday. I went out to lunch with a good friend which I mentioned in my last post and got a salad. Had I used the dressing, it would have been a 1,115 calorie salad! That is CRAZY! Thank goodness I did not use salad dressing but it was still a whopping 715 cals. (Lesson of the day: salads are not always healthy!) Then, my sweet sweet boyfriend went to get something sweet from the grocery store and I asked him to look for sugar free chocolate candy. He couldn't find any so he came home with M&Ms (bless his little heart). Well, of course I couldn't NOT eat them! So, needless to say with the salad and candy, I was at about 1,600 calories for the day. That is not okay. I am trying to stay around 1,200 or less. So, in conclusion to this little post... KEEP ME ACCOUNTABLE please my sweet followers! I need motivation, support, and feedback or I am afraid I'll give up. And if you are starting a new healthy lifestyle please let me know and I will follow you back and we can support one another!

Love, Happy Blogging, and Healthy Eating,
Hannah