Clown hair

I went to get my hair cut yesterday. I like the results of a haircut, but the process is taxing. I have to sit in a chair with only a stranger for company and try not to be too introverted for an hour. Compounding the problem is I know nothing about hair other than I have it on my head and ya gotta take care of it and stuff. 

Yesterday, the stylist noticed I have natural curl. Which, yes, I do. But I never had natural curl when I was a kid (as a baby, yes, but then stick straight, and somewhere, some curl came back), so I'm used to straight hair. I've gone through a couple of periods of wearing it curly (not tight curls, mind you). But it always takes so much product and who wants crunchy hair? For peanut butter, acceptable, but I don't like it for my hair. 

Anyway, when she asked, I said go ahead and style it curly and she showed me how to style it in a way that isn't crunchy at all. It mostly looked lovely, and I debated buying some of the product she used, but then I remembered a couple of things:

1. There is always one spot that refuses to behave and it drives me crazy! It curls wonky, or it starts with a curl then goes straight. It seriously drives me nuts and I keep messing with it all day long and honestly, I don't need that in my life. And the odds that I'll chill out? Not good and I'm realistic enough to know that I should focus my "let's make a change" energies on more important things.

2. The odds that I'll be able to style it as well as the stylist are slim. This one did seem pretty easy, but also for me, it would be time consuming. And would it ever look as good?

3. I like running my fingers through my hair. I don't know that I remembered this so much as I realized it. And, curly hair isn't super conducive to running your fingers through your hair, at least not my curly hair. Doing it just turns my head to frizz.

4. Most importantly, when I let my hair have curl, I feel like I'm wearing a clown wig. I feel like my hair is huge. And it doesn't matter that I know it isn't--I feel like it is and it makes me super self-conscious. Also, I look like a bit of a stranger. I'm not used to myself with curly hair and it's weird to me to see myself that way. And since it's my head and my face and my me, and I just don't love it and go nuts feeling like my hair is huge and someone else's, I don't see any reason to wear it curly.

And so, I didn't buy product. It's good to know how to style it in a simple, non-crunchy way. Maybe I'll try it some day. But for now, straight is fine with me. 

An ordinary

Today's ordinary award goes to the guy who saw that my grocery bag was tearing and kept tabs on me until I got to the other side of the store to get a new bag and helped me double bag the groceries. And the clerk who helped double bag the other bag at the same time. And both of them who wished me a good night and the first guy who, as he was loading stuff onto his delivery truck as I walked out wished me a good Thanksgiving.

10 steps to going in circles

It seems like the last couple of weeks at work have been that kind of busy where there are a lot of different things to get done. Some weeks, it's busy but busy with processing collections. But this is the busy with a little bit of everything. Which I don't mind, it just seems like to get one thing done, I have to do five other things first.

For example, I needed to research Florianopolis. But, before I could do that, I needed to return some collections which were either overdue or I'd hit my limit. So, before I could do that, I had to review those collections for whatever I had them for, which involved doing two or three other tasks, and those tasks opened another task can of worms. 

I think I finally got a handle on everything, so hopefully this next week will just be busy with processing collections. Which will seem like a nice respite (although now that I am thinking of it, I don't think that will happen, and it's Saturday, people!!!). 

At the very least, maybe there won't be such a domino effect for getting anything done.

Saving time is nonsense

Yesterday, I was working in the nursery at church and one of our kids was not doing okay. His parents mentioned that ordinarily, he would be taking a nap at that time but with daylight savings, it had disrupted his schedule.

This poor little kid was in tears and while I love a good snuggle, I'm sure it wasn't what his parents were expecting when they went to church that day. 

And all I can say is, why are we still doing this daylight savings time nonsense? Why?! Someone pointed out that people just hate change, but that's only a good argument for getting rid of it, so that we don't have to change twice a year.

And if nothing else, let's do it for the children.