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Mar. 30th, 2003 06:36 amA thing I like about LJ: getting up at six, powering up the computer, checking the Friends page, and discovering at least twenty updates since I shut down and toppled into bed around ten the previous night. I picture all of you typing away through the night, (anxiously, cheerfully, drunkenly), while I've been sleeping, like the elves in the bakery ads of my childhood.
Yesterday was odd. I spent some time attempting, in an update, to sketch out the progress of the sudden plummet into depression, the swoop back up to good cheer, both equally inexplicable. I do know that one thing that cheered was the sudden whim to go get my hair cut--almost three inches chopped off the bottom--after which I went home and re-colored it. I am especially cheered that the color turned out not at all what I'd expected; it's now a *very* dark brown, almost black, with odd coppery/purpley glints.
My stepmother will be dismayed; she's fond of retailing the received wisdom that women Of A Certain Age should never color their hair too dark, as it makes them look older. To which I say, what the hell, I *am* older, I'm going to have fun with it. And then this makes me remember my old neighbor Vera, who had no truck with any received wisdom about the necessity for restrained decorous behavior on the part of aged females. ( Read more... )
Yesterday was odd. I spent some time attempting, in an update, to sketch out the progress of the sudden plummet into depression, the swoop back up to good cheer, both equally inexplicable. I do know that one thing that cheered was the sudden whim to go get my hair cut--almost three inches chopped off the bottom--after which I went home and re-colored it. I am especially cheered that the color turned out not at all what I'd expected; it's now a *very* dark brown, almost black, with odd coppery/purpley glints.
My stepmother will be dismayed; she's fond of retailing the received wisdom that women Of A Certain Age should never color their hair too dark, as it makes them look older. To which I say, what the hell, I *am* older, I'm going to have fun with it. And then this makes me remember my old neighbor Vera, who had no truck with any received wisdom about the necessity for restrained decorous behavior on the part of aged females. ( Read more... )