Rules are Made to be Broken.... aren't they?

Tuesday's studipity (yep, I did write it! No swearing on this blog!) hidden

So, you may remember me talking about the 1cm rule... right? No more than 1 cm in length would be cut off my hair at any one time... do you remember this rule? Well, the point is... I do and I have broken it!

You may remember that I haven't had a fringe for a while, over a year at least now... now I do!
What happened on Tuesday to change this situation? Well, I was in the club (for those of you that don't know, we own a Curves women's fitness centre) doing some work. I had put the holes in the concrete walls with the fantastic hammer drill, wearing the appropriate PPE (personal protection equipment - goggles, ear muffs and face mask - to stop me from losing my voice - that is a whole other story!!) and decided that I wouldn't need it for the rest of the job, so I climbed off the ladder and removed it all.

Now, if I was telling you this story face-to-face, this is where I start laughing... this is where Sharn started to go white, which only made me laugh harder. Does this make me a bad person?

I tapped in the grometty things that go into concrete holes (with a rubber mallet) to hold the screws to the wall, but they were too long for the holes that I had made, which were the right length for the screws which I was putting in to the wall.

I climb down off the ladder, and like the bright spark that I am, decide that the best thing to do is to get the needle nose pliars and remove the grometty things from the solid unyielding concrete wall and replace them with some smaller ones. Are you starting to see the error of my ways yet...  I hadn't, I thought this was perfectly logical.

So, I poke the needle nose pliars in and PULL - HARD, no movement, so... I pull HARDER!!! Then (and really when telling this story, it requires hand movement, so imagine this being told with one hand pretending to hold onto some needle point pliars and flying straight towards my face, until the pliars are facing perfectly at my forehead and stabbing firmly into the centre of it - HARD!!) I plow the pliars into the centre of my forehead!

You know that moment when something hurts so much that you cannot make a sound, not one single sound, then you realise that you are not breathing in or out either - well, it was one of those moments!

I realise that I am still standing on the top of the ladder - this is a good thing - I didn't fall off the ladder after said stabbing incident, placing my hand to my head to quell the oncoming thunderous pain, I realise that my forehead feels odd under my hand, so I remove my hand to see a LARGE amount of blood on my palm. Now is a really good time to climb down the ladder, before falling off it. I am not a big fan of blood in general, but, my own blood is something that I am completely against!! Calmly, I begin the self talk - Carly, go into the bathroom and see what your forehead is like.

I look into the mirror - seriously, it looks like I've been shot! From the centre of my forehead blood has made it's way through my brows and is dripping like a horror shot, it is running down my nose and running down my face and dripping off my chin - I mean, this is a lot of blood!! Self talk - now Carly, stay calm, rinse your face off, you know it looks worse than it really is... so, I rinse face, then calmly look at my face... Not too bad, there is only one small wound on my forehead... Wot-tha!! As I am looking blood starts to squirt, yep, squirt, from my forehead (again, to truly appreciate the madness of this moment, the hand motions make this a much more interesting story, so imagine me miming blood squirting from my forehead in fits). I believe it was at this point that I watched the colour drain from my face and watch my face turn a little greyish, there is a strange gently spinning sensation prior to passing out that you can only truly appreciate if you have experienced it - well, that was what happened next, as I watched the splurting, squirting blood pulsate in arcs from my forehead. This is always the perfect time to sit gently down on the floor beside the toilet paper and tell myself that it is a great time to choose not to pass out and press toilet paper firmly on my bleeding forehead instead. That is where I stayed for about the next thirty minutes, until the bleeding stopped.

Tuesday's studipity showing! Lump, hole and all!

Now, early I mentioned my wisdom, my bright spark moment, now that I have a whole in my head that I have created by stabbing with a pair of needle nose pliars while trying to remove concrete grometty things designed to keep things solidly attached to concrete walls, I suddenly have a light bulb moment and get up off the floor, walk over to the ladder and gently cut the grometty things with a knife/saw designed for things such as this!

This entire event has occured the day before Valentine's Day - the major issue with a hole in my forehead on Valentine's Day is not the obvious. The problem is that we have Curves marketing coming into the club to take photos and do some filming, and I have a naked forehead with a hole in it and a rapidly forming lump the size of a quail egg. So... the first rule is broken and more than one centimetre is cut off the length of my hair to create a fringe to hide the studipity that occured the day before!

So from this point forward, I am hoping to not break the 1cm rule again! Remember, the big aim is to grow my hair right up until October, so that when I raise $10,000 for Cancer Research we can shave it all off!

I look forward to sharing with you some adventures of my hair that do not involve violence, please feel free to donate to the cause - raising funds for the Qld Institute of Medical Research by heading to my Ride to Conquer Cancer donation page. In the notes section, write Hair Today. Thanks for reading and thanks for helping. http://br13.conquercancer.org.au/site/TR/Events/Brisbane2013?px=1003158&pg=personal&fr_id=1110

PS. I am looking for hairdressers that wish to play with my hair and be featured on the blog and on the R2CC website. Do you want a head to colour, add bits to, or do an upstyle on? Then this is the head for you! Just send me an email to team.cycle.logical@hotmail.com or make a comment on the blog.

Smiles to you =)




A New Year begins...

So, here it is, the New Year! Did that come along particularly fast this time? So the first day of the year seems like the perfect time to do a basic summary of why I will be shaving my hair off for $10K for charity.

In 2012, as I did in 2011 and as I will in 2013, I rode the fabulous Rio Tinto Ride to Conquer Cancer!

It has been a year that I did not manage to train as hard as I wanted and I certainly did not do as many k's on the bike as I envisioned (I am actually embarassed by the lack of k's that I covered, but I did complete 'the Ride' in a fashion that I would even describe as... easily!). This year I wish to complete it faster and the first thing on my list is to hop into the saddle more, a lot more!

The Ride to Conquer Cancer is my main fundraising adventure of the year and is the catalyst for each fundraising event that we hold throughout the year. We have had Garage Sales and Car Boot Sales and Bake Sales - these are all small fry compared to some of the events that we have held in previous years... but, everyone seems to be charity'd out.

So this year, I am approaching things differently. We are organising an amazing event - a 1920's speakeasy event. We have an amazing Jazz crooner lined up and she is going to help us get the amazing band together that will accompany her - more down the track for that one! We will be having a Charity Auction and lots of fun! This event is our cornerstone event and will set the way for the rest of the year! It will be in 'secret' location and a password will be required - this is the IT event of the year... you get the idea!

Secondly, our fabulous team of riders (I won't call us cyclists, as the only one who truly is a cyclist hasn't put his team entry in yet - Dad, you know who you are, and lives down in Melbourne, far enough away for me not to annoy him constantly about entering this fabulous event!!) have formed a motley crew called Team Cycle Logical - is this not the very coolest name ever?! We are putting our jerseys up for hire!

Our training officially starts in February and we are looking for sponsors to go on our training jerseys, sponsorship starts as little as $500 and is fully tax deductible. As a small business owner, I have to say that this makes for very cheap advertising for mobile billboards that will be going all over the Gold Coast on two wheels. It is not uncommon for us to ride from Southport to Main Beach (out to the Spit), through Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach and on to Burleigh and back via Bundall Road or up through the back to Robina, Carrara and in through Ashmore. This is a good area of coverage for any business, be it big or small!!

The third BIG fundraising tool is my hair! This is also a way for local hairdressers and salons to get some advertising. All who contribute to my hair's adventures will be blogged, facebook'd and linked to left, right and centre... so, all I ask is that you help me with upstyles, colour (it can even be hair chalk!), you can add bits (feathers, extensions, anything that your heart desires!), you can sic your apprentice onto me, but the one thing that cannot happen is a hair cut! The most that will be taken off the length of my hair is 1cm, yep, that's right, one centimetre! Then the salon/hairdresser that has helped me to raise the most funds will be the one that gets to shave my hair off in October. This is the final event for 'the Ride' fundraising and I will be aiming for media coverage.

So, I am looking forward to some fabulous adventures in 2013 raising funds for an amazing group of people who do incredible things daily to help cure cancer - the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.

I wish for everyone a fabulous 2013 filled with Happiness, Strength and Hope.

Yours in health & happiness,
Carly xx

For any fundraising Q's, either comment or send an email through to team.cycle.logical@hotmail.com