scalped again

Back in 2004, before we met, I grew my hair out real long and donated it to these people. My hair dresser was so impressed that I went and did that selfless hair donating deed that she brings it up every single time I go in for a trim. (All two or three times a year!) I guess grown ups don't do the donate hair thing that often.

Anyway, I was letting my hair get long and I was thinking about doing the donation thing again last year. But I made the mistake of telling grandma about it (before she got sick) and grandma was so worried that I was going to chop all my hair off that she would actually remember that from visit to visit and check to make sure all of my hair was still there every time we saw each other. SO I didn't cut my hair. Because I was humoring grandma. But then last spring it started to get to me so I went in and had about 3 inches cut off and grandma didn't notice a thing. And I felt like I was off the hook, but I still wasn't going to do anything drastic.

Then lil sis came across mom's old digital camera that had never been downloaded in over 3 years so little sis downloaded it onto her computer. She sent me about 20 (or maybe it was 3) emails telling me how much she liked my hair at that particular length. So when I went into the salon this morning, what I had in mind was getting a similar cut because I am nothing if mot a people pleaser, even if by people I mean specifically lil sis.

Here I am getting all excited to go and get my hair cut. My hair had started to do this incredibly annoying thing which was to wrap around my neck and become a virtual hair scarf. The hair scarf made me feel kind of hot and kind of suffocated I was happy to think of it being gone.

Here I am with that lil sis pleasing hair length back in 4/06 when we went to Israel for Matt's Bar Mitzvah. I am holding my local paper up in front of the Dome of The Rock because every summer the paper runs vacation photos of people holding up the paper in the different places they visit and I figured no one else was likely to go to Israel. I considered that photo and decided that this was the length and cut I was going to ask for.

When I sat down with my long long locks in the stylist's chair she asked me if I was donating again and I said that I could probably do that with my long hair but that I did not want to cut my hair that short and that is when the stylist told me there is another place that I could donate to that would take an 8 inch ponytail instead of a 10 inch one. So, being the girl who swore I was going to learn how to say NO but was totally lying about that, I said OKAY and I let her hack off my hair. Also, you should know that the very first thing mom did after deciding that she was going to pursue treatment for her rare and fatal cancer was buy a wig. She was more afraid of being bald than anything else. That totally impacted my decision. Here it is:
I could make several 8 inch jokes, right about now, but I don't want the google hits.

And now here for your viewing pleasure, is the newly scalped (hey, it's hair and it grows!) laughing at something Evan was doing off camera, me!

Comments

[lilsis]

I like it and I will love it once you style it yourself - they always make it flat when I leave the hairdresser too!! I think it is very flattering... did you lost weight?

[lilsis]

PS - Your nephew just walked by and said - "hey she looks good!!"

[Laura]

I love the hair. It looks fantasitc! Shorter hair makes you look younger. Not that you need to look younger, you already look way younger than you are. But I think you should always keep your hair this length. It's very flattering. :)

[Bloggymommer]

Really really darn cute!

[Kristy]

I like it! Kudo's to you for donating it to a good cause too. I would donate my hair in a heartbeat if it grew long enough to donate. It hits a certain length and stops growing. I get it trimmed every six weeks...and it never goes beyond a certain length..my entire life. Very weird.