Bad Hair Day (Life?)

Thursday is when I have a hair appt. and I am counting the minutes. My hair is never good -- it really isn't - -but sometimes it's better than others. I have naturally curly hair that I have never learned to deal with, grew up in the straight-straight hair era, and have fought it all the way. Obviously living in humid Austin doesn't help at all. I keep hearing that I need to give in and work with my hair but I have no skills -- none! So I just do what I've always done and it's been OK as long as I have a good cut. Two cuts ago (about 14 weeks ago, I guess) I got brave and told our stylist Monica at Maximum FX Salon (a great place and a really gifted stylist) to cut it short and do something cute and different. Since she's so great, I'm sure she did, but I could never make it look cute. It does look different for sure! So when I went back 7 weeks later, I told that I was giving up on different, and asked her to point it back towards where I've always had it -- at least that way I can make it behave. So she did but of course that will take time as she cut it all off the time before. Right now it's a mess. Very shaggy, all weird lengths, sticks up every which way and I hate it. I really do. Not sure what she can do about it but she's a magician so I know she will find something. And I can't wait. I need hair help. No pics because it's that bad! (ask Natalie -- she will report on the hairdo I sported in Port Aransas -- so bad I had to get a hat!) Hair is not my area for sure.