This Past Saturday...

definitely an activity-packed Saturday. The most exciting part, of course, was finally getting my hair cut - something that has been bothering me since like the beginning of February (Wait, is it normal for someone to be excited about an haircut? Oh well, I never claimed I am normal anyway). However, with the deadline on 2/17 and things were kind of behind schedule, taking a trip down to Chicago for my haircut really wasn't an option. So finally the deadline had past and the weather was somewhat decent (or so I thought), I decide to pay a visit to my hair stylist - No more getting frustrated trying to gel my hair in the morning!!! I also have my hair colored this time to a copper-ish color. Since the "brownish-red/reddish-brown" I did last time was too subtle, I decided to go for something that's "easier to see the difference". I remembered I tried similar color in 06 or 07 and really liked it, and so far I'm loving this one as well.

Oh... might as well do an advertisement for my stylist here then: Headquarter Hair (Norris: will I get reimbursed for this? Hahahaha....)

Also met up with the Chen's for lunch... the little kiddo is definitely growing fast. At 6 months, I felt okay to hold him now as chances of me accidentally dropping him has receded. Hahahaha.. Also went to the MS store afterward at Oak Brook. I guess that's MS's response to the Apple store, but honestly I wasn't very impressed. It's definitely lacking something but I can't exactly pinpoint what it is. To me, it's not much different than simply walking into a Best Buy.

All the above happened in Chicago, which means a 2.5hr drive each way. To Chicago, it was an okay trip but definitely not a good one. I knew this pretty much as soon as I got on the Belt line and I started yawning... 945am? Definitely too early for me to function on a Saturday (And I already head to bed early the night before... at 2:15am)

On the way back it was much worse. Besides the constant need for caffeine to keep me awake, there was also the freezing drizzle which forced to me to stop from time to time to clean up the ice on the wiper blades and the wind shields. Yikes!

Fun continued when I got back to Madison with another night of "Bang!" with the team. In our last two team game nights, it has replaced Settlers of Catan and became the game of choice.

Like I said in the beginning, it was definitely an event-packed Saturday.