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Why is it as I am laying in bed trying to go to sleep that I do my most creative thinking? Stories to tell on my blog and I always think I'll remember them the next day to post but morning comes.......and I don't remember a single word.
I know, put a notebook by my bed.....record my thoughts.......I'm too tired.
Last night was no different. As I was on the edge of slipping off into the abyss where dreams become real my mind started to write a story. I told myself that I should probably write it down but it was already late and when it comes to beauty sleep I need more and more as my face continues to slip further south along with everything else attached to me. It's hard wearing an anklet when your knees are now where your ankles used to be and waxing my mustache is actually waxing my eyebrows that have become a uni brow on my upper lip.
Is there such a thing as growing old gracefully? Truly? Because the older I get the less grace I have.
I have this ongoing fight with myself. Grey hair. I started going grey when I was in high school. Ya, I know. Totally not fair. Back then I didn't really think it was that big of a deal. I'd see one, or my "friends" would point one out two seconds after feeling the needle sharp pain of having a hair snatched from your scalp and dangled in front of your eyes as proof that what they'd just done to you was justified. I continued yanking out the grey hairs as they'd come but eventually it got to the point where a decision had to be made. To be bald or dye the hair....THAT my friends is the ultimate question. One of the questions anyway that plagues me once a month.
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The ultimate question now, as I am in need of a major hair dye again is I am once again sporting a dun stripe down the middle of my head. When am I allowed to say, "You know what? I've had a gargantuan amount of kids, I'm no longer in my twenties, I am a mum of teenagers, when have I earned my rightful place to stop worrying about dying my hair"? The problem with letting the hair go grey and this is just strictly my opinion by the way......is that long grey hair on most women doesn't work. The hair would have to be whacked off. If I'm gonna do it....I'm gonna do it good. Short spiky grey hair!
This is the ultimate question I am plagued with these days.....that and did I leave my memory in the bathroom, at the knitting store I went to yesterday, or the fridge along with my car keys..........
I love your long dark hair! I agree with Jody, color it.
ReplyDeleteMy husband keeps teasing me because I have gray hairs and he doesn't; he is a year older than I am. Luckily with my hair color I can claim them as "highlights."
I started going gray when I was 24 and I thought it was totally unfair!! So I have to dye my hair every month. I hate it but I don't want to be in my 30's and gray so I have to do it. But I'm trying to figure out the age where I just won't care anymore and let it go gray and cut it really short too. Probably in my 50's. You are a young hot mamma so you should keep it up. We should be daring together and pick a wild color and do it at the same time. :)
ReplyDeleteI love your hair. So much. In fact I have been terribly envious of it's lovely length more than once. Did you know I can't get mine to grow past my shoulder blades, no matter what I do? It's not fair.
ReplyDeleteSo do whatever you want with the color, but keep that lovely hair long and wavey and gorgeous. (unless you don't want to of course--it is your hair after all!)
And I always think up brilliant stuff right before I fall asleep too. I also compose emails to people that are long due for messages, and usually I think I've done it after that and never really send them. Sad, right?
Have you all been talking to The SM???? He doesn't want me to cut my hair either.......
ReplyDeleteJody, but I feel sooooo ooooold! :D Maybe if I change my hair color!
Chastina, Brian is WAY :) older than me and just now starting to get a grey here and there....SO not fair.
Margaret, see. You feel my pain. Let's go purple. Old ladies have pink and purple hair. I think we should just cut to the chase and go purple!
Ginna, LOL! I can't tell you how many times I've done the same thing. Ummm, ya. I wrote it. I sent it right? I did didn't I? Please tell me I did......
I didn't used to be able to grow my hair out either...odd...then it just started growing. I wish my nails would do the same!
P.S. Jody. I wanna see photos!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have seen lots of ladies who have beautiful longer gray hair. I think it goes with how you take care of it. Go gray and then if you don't like it, go back!
ReplyDeleteFirst, you've got to quit the old lady talk. Anyone who still has "babies" can't be an old lady. That said, you are too young to be gray, so you have to keep up appearances. See.. I am too young to be gray, too, so I try to keep up appearances. (My stripe is growing, but I have to wait until closer to the wedding to color it.)
ReplyDeleteKeeping up appearances.....Kathy, are you calling me Hyacinth? Are you accusing me of being a nosy neighbor who always has my face plastered to the window watching what her neighbors are doing?
ReplyDeleteI just want appearances to keep themselves up on their own.
Oh the great hair debate...will it never end??? Bangs, no bangs, long, short, dye, natural, highlights. What we do to ourselves. Just my opinion- dye and stay long for now, because I am envious of your long locks. Someday when the time is right chop it and go all natural because I'm with you on the long gray hair- yuck!
ReplyDeleteNatalie, it is a debate isn't it. One that never ends and when I've gone natural I'll still be debating.......purple or orange......
ReplyDeleteRach, Definitely purple. Just because of that poem "When I am old I shall wear purple"- only it will be in your hair!
ReplyDeleteNatalie, my father's mother had beautiful white hair. One year for my dads birthday she spray painted a hot pink stripe in her hair! :) I come by my "flair" naturally!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the comments. All I can say is, you would be beautiful if your hair was rainbow striped, or white or anything else. I'd hate to see you cut it, though - it's so poetic and lovely, and I'd nearly kill for it, myself. G thinks that gray, especially sprinkled in with the darker shades, is sexy. He will be frustrated with that, too, in our life together, as you cannot see gray in my hair. I'll be white before we realize I was anything but silvery-goldy-limp blond.
ReplyDeleteDon't dye it anymore. There's actually some opinion that dye can hurt your health - and we've had enough of that.
By the way, cookie - you know NOTHIN' about aging. Not at your age. You've got the miles, I know, but not THESE miles yet. At the rate you're evidently going, at my age, you'll pretty much just be a puddle at the foot of your lovely bone structure. Ha. You're making me feel even older than I should.
ReplyDeleteNice shot of the dun. Pretty stripe. Wish we had natural stripes.
Kristen, if it were sprinkled that is one thing but the sprinklers went full blast and it's chunk. A big ol' chunk down the middle of my head.......
ReplyDeleteKristen, no, not the miles that wisdom bestows on one who has lived longer than me. I've many years before I'll ever get there...if ever I do......
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