Shifting Gears

According to the Wall Street Journal of May 8th, you’re a nobody unless your name Googles well.  In fact, couples are now Googling potential baby names to see how prominent the ranking will be on this website.   To ease my mind that I’m a “somebody” and not a “nobody”, I Googled my name (including my maiden name which I use as my middle name) - fortunately I came up in the first 8 listings which meant I qualified for prominent placement.  Hope you’re more impressed than I am but at least my curiosity has been satisfied.

I’m facing the fact tonight that I’m a total hair retard (I didn’t Google “hair retard” but if I had, I’d probably get the top 8 listings for that too!)  Somehow I never mastered the art of having great hair – I made it through high school and college sleeping in rollers every night.  Lest you think that wasn’t cool, you have to remember that was back in the days of non-co-ed dorms and everyone slept in their rollers with a puffy bonnet-type thing over them.

Post college I graduated to hot rollers and eventually settled on a curly perm as my gift to myself upon divorce – hubby #1 couldn’t stand that style so getting it was my “in your face” gesture to him.  More importantly, it was wash and go hair and at the time wasn’t too out of style – not that I’ve ever been known for stylish hair.

My mother spent the last few years of her life suggesting I should cut my hair and I resisted – 2 weeks after her funeral, I cut it short and loved it.  Yes, Mother, you WERE right as usual.  So for almost 10 years I kept it short and then about a year ago, started letting it grow a little.  Found a 2-minute style with some gel and a hair dryer and that worked – then a few weeks ago I told my stylist to take off a little more than normal.  I wasn’t sure just exactly what I was going to do with it but at her suggestion I bought a set of hot rollers (flashback 35 years!).  Now I do the hot roller thing every morning but decided today I need a different hair cut.  Daughter Tammy (she of the always-awesome hair) has a book of short hairstyles so I’ll be calling on her for assistance before my next appointment in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, I bought a headband today to keep it back from my face a little and actually kind of like the effect.  It’s another easy solution so with my nifty headband and hot rollers I can hopefully get by until I decide just exactly what to do.  Shaving my head is definitly NOT an option!  Stay tuned to see how this hair saga unfolds.  Too bad I can’t wear ball caps to work – they are always a good solution to bad hair days!