Wordless Wednesday: Hair With a Mind of it's Own

AAM Hair Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow

This is not a color I've had for quite sometime but I decided to have a change once I got back from Italy. I must say, DH just looks at me and I'd say he isn't overjoyed. However, it is close to the color I had when we got married.  I don't think I'll keep it for a long time because it will take more upkeep. But for now, it's fine. It's different and that's all I wanted. I also think my green eyes are become more of a teal as I age but if they look blue, that's fine with me. I once had brown contact lenses for the intense Middle East sun and that was truly a different look. I didn't like brown at all.

Maybe I need pink streaks in my hair...well, maybe not. In fact I know it's a NOT. Do you make major changes to your hair color? I figure it's less than $10 and if it's really a disaster, I can pay a pro to make it better.  I've never had to so I guess I like change.  If not, you'll see me with another color soon.

Hair Happenings

Cyber Monday?

As much fun as it is to shop on line, at any hour, and in jammies or barefoot or...today is not Cyber Monday for me.

It's Color Your Hair Monday! I got up early and out to the post office to return my Netflix so I don't start jonesin' about the next Mad Men disc. After that swing round, a quick dash into RiteAid with two coupons and so for $4.44 my roots are gone. Yeah!

But shopping? I think there will only be this today. Free shipping too!














How bout you? any good buys online that I should know about?

Flashback Friday

Get Out The Celery

Need something special for your new fall look??? well cut your hair and get out the celery. As many things as I've done to my hair, this is not going to be one of them. But it might be what YOU need! Send me a picture if you decide to go Leopard to match that new Snow Leopard on your Mac

the how of it

what shall I do

What shall I do with the rest of my life, I mean.

No, I'm not planning on checking out any time soon, tho One Never Knows. That is one of those dubious awareness's (apostrophe? one more s? add es?) that comes to us the longer we live. You know how you hear strange stories and think what you never thought at 30 or 40....That could happen to ME. I could just up and die from (insert weird happening) Any Day. Pass me a piece of that fudge now, just in case.

I also have to apologize for possibly putting fear into two of my children. I realized this year that I am so over putting a tree up and taking it down etc etc especially when we both want to go Somewhere Else over the holidays. DH has been a bad influence on me here since he suffered from too many More, More, More Christmases in the past and tries to avoid those recollections. I don't want to be the one putting the brakes on his desire to travel but doing Christmas does conflict with a trip in November and December AND January.

So a mental decision was made last year to get a smaller tree, which I got on sale at Jo-Ann's for $29! This 'you get what you pay for tree' called for very few ornaments and so I have at least half a big plastic bin of ornaments that were not used this year, and I don't want to feel guilty about not using them in future years. Flylady says Give them AWAY. Hey, I made a lot of those so shouldn't the people whose names are on the ornaments get them??? Shouldn't they have trees of their own by now??

And so I went to Facebook and asked my chicks Do you want your Christmas ornaments now or when I'm dead? One told me to drink lots of water and take my vitamins. This apparently is the secret to mumsy's long and healthy life in the mind of a 30sumthin. No comment was made about the ornaments. The other chick, male, said Burn them. I suspect he has not looked at a Christmas decoration for a while if he thinks you can put them on the barbie and they will turn to ash. Or will they??

I have come to the conclusion that we rarely want any of our parents' things till we reach 50 and by then the parents are fed up and have trashed the lot and gone minimalist. And so I decided to let the issue rest for a week or so or 50, and color my hair. Not that my Artist Way peeps would care about my roots, but when it's time, it's time. DH walks in after I'm done and says

DH It's darker. I like it lighter.
moi Yes it's darker, but it was getting brassy looking.
DH Ohhhh. Obviously not knowing that brassy is not a look one aspires to unless..well, you know.

This is as far as I've gone in looking into my future. But I know 2009 will be good, because I am dealing with those Christmas decorations with non-brassy hair. Some days, for a Virgo, that's almost enough.