My life is funny. Is everyone's life funny?

[carreyd away]

My sister used to take her kids shopping with her (as she was a single mom) to the grocery store or wherever. Being boys, they constantly beat the crap out of each other and act up while having to wait in line. I think if boys under the age of 10 have to sit still for longer than 30 seconds they will internally combust if they can't release it. Anyway, she finally figured out if she embarrassed them the way they did her it would halt the chaos. She would tell them, "Stop it right now or I'm dancing and singing at the top of my lungs." They'd say "NOOOOO!!! Mom DONNNN"TTT!!!" One time at a "mart" store they were playing KC & the Sunshine Band and she actually did it. They are both 14 & 16 now and this tactic still has a tremendous effect.

[Janel]

So PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!

[quirky]

I was a perfect child. I never misbehaved and MY MOM would totally bust out in song in the middle of Penney's. Like we're walking up the aisle and all of a sudden the spirit would move her and she'd just obliviously launch into the chorus of "On a Clear Day". I hid in clothing racks.

I didn't realize that was a punishment. I was an abused child!

[mav]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread.
I hope never to meet a dormouse. I feel guilty for not watching 'The Majestic'. I dont know tan from toothpaste and I'm glad my mom couldn't sing. Hallelujah!

Awaiting tales of fried hair and the liar liar project.
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[quirky]

Yes, where is JT? Out getting a weave?

Neeta - you can go rent The Majestic. You'll need some popcorn and a box of Kleenex...and don't have any mousetraps set.

[JT Carrey]

My story about my hair is quite sad, when I started, I had normal, straight with a slight wave, dark ash blonde/light brown hair. Well I decided in April 2004 to dye my hair bleach blond for a change, it came out orange. So I walked around for 2 days with a hat on my head and bright orange locks underneath, I called the hair color company, Clairol, and they told me to buy a product called ..I forgot, so I did, that turned it yellow and on top of it, burned my scalp, my mom helped me...never let someone help you dye your hair after they had brain surgery, anyway, so for a week I walked around with now yellow hair, so finally I went to a salon and had them bleach it, it was incredibly fried, thick and frizzed, so I said whatever and used my curling iron on it to flatten it, who cared what the salon said Well the next week in May, I got an agent...DARNIT! They didn't like the blond, so they sent me to (omg) Fredric Fekkai the next week to have my hair dyed "chocolate brown", well it came out almost a purplish black, but it was super smooth and shiny lol, however this is not what my agent wanted, so they sent me to The Parlour (omg again ((this is Renee Zellweger's hairdresser)) and this guy gave me a "funky edgy" haircut, well when I started, my hair was down past my shoulders, after his haircut, it was about 3 inches long all around, plus he curled it, so I looked like an edgy grandmother with hair that looked too dark for me, needless to say I HATED it, my agent thought they'd wait for my hair to grow out cuz the cut wasn't exactly what they wanted (@!&!@#*) so around October they said f*** it and dropped me from their agency, probably because they were sick of my hair, so anyway, my hair started to grow out after all that time and in November I worked on Dick and Jane (omg) I didn't know whaaaaaat on earth to do with my hair cuz it was at an awkward stage, it was short yet not too short so the hair lady made it curled under and stuck out, so yep, again I looked like a freak lol anyway, about December or January 2005 I got a new agent and she thought my natural color was too boring, it is a little mousy I must agree but I was trying to grow it out, so anyway, she wanted me to go to a hair show to get it coloured for free. So I did in February, I went to a hair show where Goldwell colored it and KMS did the cut, it was NOT what I expected, I came out with half red and half purple (literally) hair and one side of my head had 4-5 inches of hair, the other side had about a half inch, I was pissed and infuriated and very very upset, almost to the verge of tears, my agent hated it too, so I figured fine I'll try and remove the color, but no salon would bleach it cuz it would literally fry my hair off. Finally, about 3 weeks ago, a guy Totts, at Joseph Martin in Beverly Hills, said "I bet I could bleach it" I tried everything myself to remove the color and it would NOT come out, so he worked his magic and it bleached out to a pale pink, I was then able to put a brown tint over the pink and bleached ends and it's now a golden blonde/light brown color, it's not still perfect, it's VERY fried, dry, and frizzy, and it did cost me 350 to do it, although I've probably spent over 1000 already in all these months on my hair, but it's better than red/purple, and he gave me a short but cute sharon stone cut, so it's easy to maintain, however my hair grows fast so now I look more like a "werewolf" like the guy at the gas station told me, oh well, maybe someday I'll have real hair again, it really made me appreciate my mousy ash blonde hair, from now on...only subtle highlights and NO HAIR SHOWS! I'll post pics if you want lol

no wonder Jim gives me weird looks, my hair changes everytime he sees me lol *remembers the one time Jim didn't recognize me and treated me like a pest* *cringes*

[Janel]

oh yeah--definitely post your pics!! I can't believe you even have hair left after all that!
I see you made it through with your sense of humor intact! Well done!!
Plus, guys can shave it all off if they are done with the look or something isn't right....what was a girl to do??

[JT Carrey]

not to mention the hair show people dyed my hair 3 times for their stupid show

ok let me find pics

[JT Carrey]

ok here are pics LOL with comments, I don't know how to resize pics.



this is my normal hair which I always hated



after the whole orange to yellow deal



after they dyed it blonde at the salon



after Fredric Fekkai dyed it "brown", the color of my cat, Frisky's, fur



after The Parlour
yes I know #6 is missing, deleted it lol, it was TOO scary



OMG wtf, this was when I worked at Disneyland LOL I was usually referred to as "excuse me sir" lol



I look like some rock and roll drummer or singer in the 70's, all I needed was a mustache lol



stopped putting the curl creme in my hair and tried to make it more normal



who knows



weird pic, but it was growing lol



red/purple, super short cut



looking pissed (and tired) at Disneyland lol "let me rest please while you guys go have fun"



my hair now, better than red

ok, so some of those pics are scaringly close to my face but what can I do lol someone tell me how to resize on this board lol omg freaky

[quirky]

JT posted her hair story!

Ebert says:

never let someone help you dye your hair after they had brain surgery

Some people have to learn everything the hard way. Sorry about your mom JT. My mom had brain surgery, too.

At least we have warned others.

Though, admittedly...it sounds like some hair salons didn't do much better! What's their excuse?

[fluffy]

i quite like the purple /red edgy cut.............very trendy.....quite British actually...............but your normal hair is beautiful too.............
You'll laugh at the photos in a couple of years we've all got them......

I've been a goth, a hippie, a 'trendy'...(ancient British term for dressing in suits and dancing to early House music...a great look!!)....and a Rockabilly.......that was the most fun......i dressed as though it were 1953.........i had the pony-tail with the quiff at the front......the starched petticoats and big skirts..........ankle socks, hoop earings and 50's make up...y'know red lippy and black winged eyeliner..............and we listened to Elvis and the Cramps and Jived............it was SO MUCH FUN.................and the innocent 50's look was a serious 'pulling' look.............AAAhhh..........the 'good ole days'.......

bring back the 80's..............sigh.....

fluffy

[Clemmy]

bring back the 80's..............sigh.....

sigh... I miss the 80's too... such a good time!

i quite like the purple /red edgy cut.............very trendy.....quite British actually...............but your normal hair is beautiful too.............

-- I agree.

But, what is the problem with us ladies ... why aren't we ever satisfied with our hair ... people can compliment our hair... but we... oh no... we have to suffer... hours and hours at the hairdresser ... actually, I gave that up... too much time and money for little... I only go to the hairdresser for hair cut (every two months) and some highlights once in a while... sigh...anyway... deep there I am grateful for my hair and for having it! So many women out there with real hair problems... or health problems that make them lose their hair...

[quirky]

In an attempt to use my moderator powers for good and not evil, I am trying to figure out which of JT's pics are stretching the screen. Since I can't put a rubberband around the thread. Please bear with me...I think it MUST be the pics, but right now I'm scratching my head.

Oh, and me trying to resize pics and place them back in is kind of funny.

With all the talk of 80's music, I need to go listen to "Safety Dance" while I figure this out.

[quirky]

[quirky]

My evening was funny.

I spent it seeing "The King and I" at a pretty neat little historic local dinner theatre with my grandma and her friend.

This is one of a handful of dinner theatres around the country where the wait staff performs before the show. They are called the "Bootleggers". Since it was "The King and I"...they did a medley of things called "East Meets West". They had songs from "Flower Drum Song", "South Pacific" and "Miss Saigon"....they didn't do "I'm gonna wash that Man right out of my hair" from "South Pacific" (that one's my fave because I sang it in one of our high school variety shows)...they did a really REALLY cheesy bit of "Happy Talk" and some of "Nothing like a Dame". Towards the end, the music from "One Night in Bangkok" came on and I thought:

I cannot believe they are going to try this here. I'm not sure it would play well in Peoria and this is smaller than Peoria.

But the bootlegger doing the spoken part had tailored it and was just camping it up hysterically. Still, looking at the audience....they sort of had an "I'm not sure about this song, Harriet" expression on their faces...so during one of his spoken bits, he comes up and says, PERFECTLY in rythm..."Oh for Chrissakes people, lighten up...or we'll sing "Happy Talk" again!" ...without interrupting anything.

...and I think I'm the only one that completely LOST IT...head down on the table mouth on the napkin, laughing at the wall LOST IT.

The show was enjoyable. The actress playing Anna was completely emulating Deborah Kerr...and she had an asterisk by her name because she was appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity. She was very very good and had a terrific voice, but my favorite part was the scene where the King tells her she has to bow down lower than him. Something happened with her mic pack, whether the bending caused a wire to do something, I have no idea...but she said three lines and they sounded like she had sucked on helium. It was beautiful and over much too quickly. The helium part, I mean...the play with intermission went on forever.
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