woah, hello June! Its gotten cold here lately, and now I'm starting to regret planning a 5 day trip to Melbourne for middle of July, middle of winter. BRRRRRR! I'm wondering if I should invest in some thermal underwear hehehe.

We're staying in an apartment in the middle of the city, rather than doing the backpacker thing. I can't wait!

Rhiannon and I have been talking about accommodation options while we're on our roadtrip and we're considering Couch Surfing. At first I was a bit worried, but after signing up and doing a few searches for female hosts who have room for 2 travelers, I've been pleasantly surprised.
There are some really cool sounding people on there, who have really detailed profiles, plus the regular couch surfing hosts have plenty of referrals and feedback from people who have stayed with them. So I feel like we could find a decent and trustworthy person through this site.

A few of them even have spare bedrooms available, not just a couch in the middle of the lounge room, so I wouldn't feel like we're completely invading their space.

This could potentially save us so much money. And with the ever increasing gas prices, any money we can save in other aspects of the trip is an extra bonus! More spending money!


Last weekend mum came down to Brisbane and she dyed my hair for me. We decided to go a lighter copper colour. I had gone to a few salons and got some quotes to go this colour and holy crap! I dont know how I'll survive when mum is not able to do my hair for me. My regular place I go to for trims was pretty hopeless. The girl had NO idea and was suggesting doing back to back foils or some shit, but pretty much said I would have to go back for a second visit in 6 weeks to really get to the colour. So it would cost so much, because she "didn't want to damage my hair by doing a straight bleach wash".
Another really pricey salon actually knew what they were talking about, but their price for a bleach wash, permanent colour/tint, cut and treatment was $325!
I told mum and she laughed. It would use about $20-30 worth of product, but these salons have an incredible mark up. I guess they have to cover their wages and rent (since they were both inner city salons) but screw that!

Luckily mum was coming down and we did the bleach wash & tint and it worked fine. It didn't damage my hair at all, in fact we probably should have used a stronger bleach wash to really bring the colour down.

Sometimes I think I would like to be a hairdresser and I regret not taking an interest in it when I was younger and living at home. But I think I mostly just like having my own hair done :D

Anyway the long term goal is to keep growing my hair and when it gets a bit longer, maybe go a lighter copper colour, and get some blonde foils underneath the tops layers of my hair, around the sides.
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