Not Quite Yet

Ok, so I'm not ready for my Grand Unveiling just yet - for those of you who follow my hilarity and insanity on facebook, I chopped off a huge length of my hair recently and have a new 'do to reveal!  BUT (there's always that darn butt, butting in and ruining my plans!), I should've taken a picture as soon as the salon lady whipped that hair-cutting-tarp-thingie off of me because she made my hair pretty in a way that I can't do myself, as I own neither blow dryer nor round brush.  I know, I know, but I've never been much of a hair girl...or a girlie girl...so I'm ill prepared for beauty emergencies such as this one.  Now I need to figure out...some other way to make my hair picture worthy for my Grand Unveiling, and I better hurry because more and more and more people have seen my hair and it's really ticking me off that I haven't been able to hide in a bat-cave until I'm ready to show myself off.  Haaaannnng on..........I'll try to get a decent sneak-peak shot for you.......

This is my "I'm not so sure about this" face - the picture in general, not the hair.  I'm super diggin' the new hair!  And yes, my pursed lower-lip really is that full.  I like to think of it as a God-given half-off coupon if I ever wanted to collagen my lips.  (...NOT! Hahahaha!!!)

In other news, Nicholas has a science project due.  It's the first year that it's mandatory for any of the kids, and it's only mandatory for Nicholas (and all of the fourth and fifth grades), being the oldest.  Even though I thought we got off easy with a simple project, it's turned a lot harder than I had originally anticipated.   Apparently, doing the project the RIGHT way (eyeroll), instead of just the "this looks good to me" way, requires a lot more effort and research and technical blah-blah-blah than I was even aware existed for elementary school science projects.  The last time we did this, we just had to slap pictures and captions on a piece of poster board.  Elementary school is a lot harder the second time around!  It's a mental workout, teaching Nicholas enough about the scientific process for him to do the experiment and presentation on his own.  The cool part is, he totally gets it.  The balls part is, he totally gets the enormity of the quality and quantity of work expected of him.  

I'm right there with you, dude; this is overwhelming to me, too!

I'll get y'all some science project pictures soon, if this whole affair doesn't kill me.  At least we're almost done.  We got the question down, and the research and the hypothesis and the experiment; we've collected the data and cited our references.  Now we just need to type, print out pictures and arrange everything on that stupid tri-fold board. 

Seriously, whose idea was this whole science fair thing, anyway?