Wondrous Apparitions, Provided by Magicians.

My green hair is gone, alas. This was accomplished through no fault of my hair stylist's. Big drama at the hair salon about multi-stage processing and hours of work and how dare I put temporary color on and whether they would take liability for the condition of my hair and so on. Feh. I can do color at home in half the time and for 1/20th of the cost, and I already have liability for my hair. So I did. I'm back to something approximating my usual red now. I did manage to actually have my hair cut at the salon, which was nice. Apparently, I simply do not get along well with long hair.

Last night, we went to the movies and saw American Gangster. I wish more mob films were multi-cultural. It's way easier to tell the characters apart that way.

I'm 700-some words into the NaNoWriMo story. At this rate, I am informed that I will reach my 50000 word goal by the end of next November. I'll try to hack some more on it later (and hack is the word for it, oh yes).

LJ-Balderdash will get posted some time later today. Iffn ya wanna enter, you still have time.

EDIT: In other news, lolhistory is really, really funny today.

Did I start on NaNoWriMo yesterday? Yes.
Did I get any actual writing of any actual novel done? No.
I did get most of the pre-writing done (i.e. decided what the story is about, made some background notes, made some decisions about who was going to be in the story, all that stuff that you're apparently supposed to do in October), though, so I'm counting that as a successful start.

Did I find the best yule present ever for triadruid today, while looking for something completely different? Yes.
Can I actually acquire the thing in question? No, apparently.
The company that makes it has either gone out of business and/or ceased to pay their hosting fees, and the only retailers that might have carried it are small shops in the U.K. I'm gonna keep looking, though.