Yeti gets haircut

Okay I no longer look like a yeti and it really really needed doing and does look a lot better than before BUT why do barbers and hairdressers and the sort find it difficult to follow simple instructions???  I remember now why I've been cutting my own hair for the last few years 1. Because nobody cuts it how you ask and 2. I thought I was being clever and thrifty.

My hair had got quite long partly because I've gotten to like it long and partly because my clippers are broken.  I ask the woman for short back and sides but to leave it long on top and just trim the ends off.  I think I have now realised the problem though, it's that all hairdressers only know 3 different haircuts and ultimately whatever you ask for they'll get scissor happy and do you one of their pre-programmed standard cuts.  All these long locks are fluttering down from my head making it look as if I'm wearing a bearskin rug, whilst I'm muttering very quietly and politely under my breath "yeh just a trim, keep going".  I think once or twice in my life I've had the haircut I've asked for and that was when I've had it shaved short all over, or also known as barbers standard cut number 1.

 I am currently sporting barbers standard cut 2 which is short back and sides and shortish on top, not quite what I wanted and so when she finishes and puts the mirror behind my head I decided that this time I had to complain and so I said.......... "Yeah that's great thanks, it's much better now"
I'm now wondering what standard cut 3 is like.  Maybe it doesn't exist, I think I may have made that one up.

chillin with the yetis

On reflection of my previous post i had a word with myself for being so depressive and now feel much better although probably still a bit lazy.  This week will need to be spent sorting out our plans for Nepal.  been having odd dreams about being in Kathmandu for the past few weeks probably caused partly by eager anticipation and partly by feeling anxiously unprepared.  We have booked flights only and so all travel and accommodation will be done spontaneously although i have contacted a guest house in Kathmandu to book a room for the first two nights.  From then on our slightly sketchy plan includes a trek  in the Himalayas for 4-5 days where I hope to become famous by finding the first conclusive evidence for the existence of the yeti.  maybe i'll befriend one and we can go for a few beers and a game of darts, maybe catch a film then go bowling?
The theme of the dreams I've been having is that we don't come back! I don't know why though, the dreams haven't explained this yet.  Maybe we'll get lost in the hills, maybe our bus will plunge off a mountain road, maybe we'll take up residence in Kathmandu or maybe i'll get killed by a yeti.....