NTS: Apply Heat

If you want a deep, brilliant color in hair: apply heat.

We bleached Kyra's hair and then put in turquoise dye. It sat in her hair for almost an hour and came out a light green. She was gracious and did not act too disappointed. In fact, I think I was more upset than she was. I did not sleep well.

Today I reread the bottle and it said to apply heat for deeper colors. OK, how do I apply heat? I made it up: add color, wrap in tin foil, fry hair with the straight iron, unwrap hair, heat hair again with straight iron, rinse.

Wha-la, deep, brilliant turquoise.

Who knew? Not I. I've never dyed hair before. I've only recently watched a zillion 12 year olds on YouTube doing it, mostly with kool-aid and chalk pastels.

I've Thought About Cutting It...

...but then I saw the pictures on the sidebar and decided he can rock the long hair look better than a shaved head.

Vocab at the D's home

I walked into the room as Bill was helping Kyra study for a vocabulary test she was having tomorrow. The room stunk, Bill had, well, passed gas. And the party had just started.

B: Unjulate
K: I don't know.
B: This was Larry's word. He said it on the golf course all the time. He would look at the course and say he didn't like the unjulation. He didn't like all the waves on the course.
K: OK
B: To move in a wavelike motion, smoothly.

B: aupicious
H: It's something your parents are not.
K: Oh, kay...
H: we're not favored by fortune or rich, we're not promised success.

K: Mom, how do you pronounce this word (assuage). Our teacher asked the class and a lot of people said "a sausage".
H: ah-sawj (That's how I'd write it anyway not like the dictionary puts it down)
B: assuage
H: it sounds like "massage"... think about that word
B: to make milder or less severe
H: see, when you massage someone it makes them hurt less (eventually)

B: ascertain
K: what?
B: ass-cer-tain
H: you make it sound like it has something to do with your ass
K: (laughs) it's not even spelt like that, dad
B: it means to find out definitely
H: well, we know for sure that the smell earlier came out of your ascertain

Good Bye, NYC

It wasn't until this weekend that I took the subway and bus maps out of my purse, making it official that my New York dream was officially over. It was a good 5 days, sweet city, I'll see you again soon. I promise.

On that note, I've updated the picture posts that I put up by adding the who's and where's that they were. I took a TON more pictures, but may just decide to scrapbook them all since I doubt that anyone really needs to see 10 pictures of Central Park, obscure on location shots from my favorite romatic comedies, or address fronts of buildings that not even I cared about, but was in the neighborhood so I figured I might as well get a shot.

10 St Marks Place

This is the Huxtable residence, from The Cosby Show. Interestingly enough, unlike Friends and Seinfield, they actually filmed The Cosby Show in New York. (on a sound stage in Astoria, to be exact) I say, "interestingly" because this show really only took place inside their house. They didn't meet friends at any NY locations, nor did they refer to the city during many of the episodes. I will say that there is a nice little park JUST accross the street, so when Theo and Cockroach went out to shoot hoops, there really wasn't very far to go.

66 Perry Street

These are Carrie's steps from Sex in the City. Well they aren't ALL of her steps because there is a chain across the bottom of the stairs with a sign that says, "no tresspassing". I kid you not. It kind of ruins a picture if you are posing people in front of the place, which is what some other people were doing as I arrived. This happened to be one of only 2 buildings that I went to that were on other people's tourist locations. (I kind of met up with these same people and others at the Friends building).

Corner of Groove and Bedford, in the village

Yep, this is the Friends building (90 Bedford), home to all the friends at one point or another, except for Ross unless you count the time he lived with his grandma (or something like that). I took another picture of the building across the street where "ugly naked guy" would have lived. Let's just say that it would have taken an extremely long poking device to see if he was dead, but totally doable- there are a couple of trees between the buildings so I don't think anyone would have noticed the poker.

While walking from this building to the Huxtables I found several other interesting sites:

• Chumleys (86 Bedford), a former speak easy that apparently had a secret entrance. It was gone, completely gutted with barricades around it. Looks like the police finally shut the place down.
• The Narrowest Home in Manhattan (75 1/2 Bedford). It's seriously 9 1/2 feet wide. Home to an old poet or something. I took a picture of the plaque outside so I'd know for later.
• A delish bakery where I bought a piece of crusty bread to take to my aunt later. I ended up eating it when I realized I wasn't going to get my pastrami sandwich and that my aunt was in a grouchy mood.
• A Hardware Store (in the village, somewhere). They close at 8:30 on the weekdays, earlier on Friday and Saturday.