Dear Waves,
I'm ok at the hair place. I can enter it without going through the mall. I worry about parking. Once I get inside the people are nice to me and leave me alone.
I have no idea what my natural hair color is since I have colored it for 20 years! Years ago I had a medium dark brown I think. Now I think I have more gray than brown. I color it every five weeks or so. And because my hair is thin I keep it short and that needs a regualr cut. I have crappy clothes, shoes, purse. But my hair looks good.
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hey.
going out is traumatic when the depression is the anxious people-eeky kind. the trip, a huge mall, and a probably busy salon would freak me out, |
Grocery stores freak me out more than malls. And I can't say exactly why. I think in a mall people are naturally wondering around but in a grocery store are focused and trying to get what they want and leave.
And yet, I am also more impatient in a grocery store. I expect people to move a long and stay out of my way.
Your hair sounds beautiful. Is it long?
Since I was born I had thin hair, so it has always been short.
My mom gives me slack about everything and never gives input, even when asked, EXCEPT ABOUT HAIR. Weird. She says I should keep my hair natural, what ever that means. And only god knows what that means to her since she speaks in code anyway.
She doesn't have much gray in her hair and for some reason you kind of have to be looking for it to notice it. When she was younger she was a
red head. That is still her color mostly.
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fwiw, i have never dyed my hair. i'm dark auburn and aging doesn't give blonde streaks "to match nicely." so i have odd crookedy silver strands and onto streaks - totally weird. i don't care - it's me, no less than the wrinkles deepening and the skin on my wrists showing less elasticity... it's me in the here and now.
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I'm coming to terms with my wrinkles, but did you have to remind me about the skin on my hands?
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or, can you think of your hair as being SILVER, or salt-n-pepper, rather than grey??? they sound more exciting, don't they?
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Good try, but it is gray. The roots are gray. Never heard of silver roots.
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even if the students got unruly because of your unwellness, their behavior is not your "fault" it was not in your control, period. you did NOT set them screaming. i will NOT give you credit for that, sorry! You DO get the credit (double) for dealing with it, even when you were perhaps too ill to be there.
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You're right, but I had a lot to do with the mess that resulted in the screaming. I had my little cd player in class. . . Two students brought their own cds as part of the assignment. . . I was putting in the cds. . . . One was scratchy.....
The class didn't like the scratchy one. I was soooooo hung over and out of it.
I was just trying to hold on. If I were on my game, the incident would not have happened. But when the yelling did, I had to stop it of course.
Maybe I'll see if I can buy some relaxing tea. That has never worked before, but I can give it a shot.
Warm is good.
Mari