I made a couple of resolutions for the new year - one of which I'm really already regretting and the other, to blog regularly, I've already failed at. Yet, realizing that each day is a new one and this is actually only the 10th day of the new year, I figure I can catch up. Besides, there are a lot of seriously humorous things that happen in my life, and I want to be able to remember them. Case in point, today's hair drama.
Harold and I are going to Austin to attend State Representive Jim Pitt's swearing in to the new session. There's a dinner tonight, a night away by ourselves at a hotel, the swearing in ceremony itself, and the real draw for me, a chance to see Baby Brenna and Kristi. I have been putting off getting my hair colored because it bothers me so much to sit in a chair for three hours, to say nothing of the fact that I have to plan ahead to get it done. So this morning, on the way to taking Kathryn to school, I decided to run in to CVS and get a box of Perfect 10 which has worked pretty well in the past. I have the annoying problem of only having gray hair around my hairline and, worse, in my eyebrows. I begin to look like Frosty the Snowman landed on my forehead if I'm not careful. Anyway, I've used Perfect 10 several times and it's pretty good. I was going for a little darker shade today since it's winter. I've used dark blonde and lightest brown, but I found a new color that was just light warm brown or something of the like. The sample looked like just what I needed. Now I happened to be on the phone with my real estate mentee, Fernando, who was working with a buyer making an offer on a foreclosure. He had some questions, and I was trying to multi-task. I finished with him, got the hair color, picked up a few snacks for Kathryn in the check-out line, and rushed home with just enough time to get the color done before Harold got home.
It is a little scary trying new hair color, particularly since my hair tends to turn green or some weird color if I put in anything with "Ash" in the color. It can also turn red pretty easy, too, but I'm an adventurer and a cheapskate and it is a lot easier to use "Perfect 10" than to sit for a "Boring 90" in the hair stylist chair. I first did my eyebrows, then started on my roots and hair, all the time, keeping an eye on Disaster House on DIY. After about 8 minutes, I realized the eyebrows looked like a different color than I'd expected and decided to wash off the color in the sink. They were a seriously different color than I'd expected with a reddish tinge. Not good. I looked at the color on the box and it said "Dark Auburn." HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???? I clearly was looking at the boxes, even picking up a couple of different ones... no matter, I had to do something fast. I jumped in the shower to wash out the color, slinging reddish drops all over the shower walls. OH, NO. I could just see myself when Harold walked in with Lucy-colored hair. It would be even worse when he turned his hair yellow (but that's a totally different and even sadder story).
I kept trying to peek over the shower wall to look in the mirror and couldn't see anything. I finally got it washed out, shampooed and conditioned (all I needed was for it to look like red broomstraw) and got out, carefully wrapping it in a towel to avoid the shock of seeing it red and soaking wet. After a couple of minutes, I unwrapped it and found, to my relief, it looked okay, a little reddish but not bad. Praise the Lord, another castrophe avoided. Now we'll see if Harold notices it...
