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Journey - Growing Out My Hair

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After 10 years, why am I putting myself through the grow out pain? I've had my hair short for almost 10 years... It's seems crazy to think that it's been that long, but even in the couple of years before I went super short, my hair got progressively shorter. And now I plan to do that in reverse. If you watch as many grow out videos as I have (and trust me I've watched them all) you get pretty familiar with other people's horror stories... "Grow out your pixie cut is a horrible process" is the general consensus. But these people cut their hair and for the most part hated it. I, on the other hand, have loved my short hair - I've grown up with it and grown into it. For so long it’s been a symbol of who I am. I’ve said before that I don’t get much choice on whether I stand out and for a while I wasn’t entirely okay with that. Put simply, I am now. I have accepted that and embraced it. So why do it now? Why grow out my hair? I have two....

January - I Survived 2018, but I Plan to Thrive in 2019

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Welcome back to Vintage Girl Running and another year on Planet Earth! To say it's been a while is a bit of an under statement...  About six months, but who's counting. I've been back at work for about two weeks and I'm find my way back into it after not even two weeks off at Christmas. Christmas, what's that again? We'll have to wait another 11 months to find out. A lot can change in those 11 months and in 2019 I'm going to try and make them changes for the better.  I feel like I floundered a bit in 2018 ; somethings got good, like really good and others less so. Is happiness or enjoyment of life one of those spider web diagrams where you can only have an average value of happiness, but the parameters that make you happy can range wildly in values? Some are top notch and others are less than mediocre. But in the end they average out to a middling, happy-ish value. I moved for work last year and have kind of been using it as an excu...