My priorities: slightly flawed

[blamebrampton]

Good news: I have FABULOUS hair, with really, really red stripes poking out from the dark black on three levels. And I discovered that Martin Millar has written a sequel to Lonely Werewolf Girl, called Curse of the Wolf Girl, which is just as idiosyncratically brilliant as everything else he has ever written. And because I have the Surprise!Kindle, I could order it and read it immediately, which I did!

Bad news: Which means I did not finish Fathers this weekend, missing the June 5 festivities.

Good news: But I do have 10K off with the betas and 1.6 of the final 3 scenes written! It will be done! I will be able to move on!

Bad news: So much to do once I finish it, aiya!

Good news: Seriously, the hair is amazing and worth four hours effort ;-) It has cheered me up enormously after three and a half weeks having to wear the same boots thanks to the stupid new orthotics (NB, size 41 boots, not size 37, to fit the orthotics in. I feel as though I am wearing clown shoes!) Strangely, I wore the same boots for months or even years in my teens and twenties without minding. Those days are gone ...

Comments

[brinian.livejournal.com]

I think I want your hair. Or at least the guts to try something different after 47 years! Mine is almost long enough to donate again and I'm contemplating whether or not to have a grownup haircut...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about a grownup haircut (am 44), but then decided that it was just the getting in the way length that annoyed me, so cut it back from hips to waist. Then I met my mad Irish hairdresser and went from having just a few shorter bits at the front to layered and choppy and shoulder-blade length, with some subtle red bits now very stripey and with added stripey extensions as of the weekend. (I asked her if this was a cultural revenge for my people's oppression of her people, she told me I was an idiot and to shut up, it suits me. Which is true.)

A friend asked if this was an ongoing midlife crisis, I replied that it was more a revisiting of my twenties now that I don't worry about what my editor thinks, because it's me ;-) The extensions may not last, though, they feel very strange. Still, they cost less than one expensive meal, and I have not been out to a good restaurant in a while, so I can justify it to myself.

Try something exciting -- it's only hair! You can always change it or wear a hat if you don't like it :-)