OOPS

It wasn't my fault. Not really. Not this time!

Do you remember how I told you a bit ago that I dyed my hair because it has started to look like I was fading, and how much I hate to dye my hair? Do you know why I hate dying my hair? Because of roots.

I don't think about my hair on a regular basis other than to make sure it's still on my head. I hate getting it cut, I hardly really "do stuff" with my hair, and honestly, I mainly just don't want to be bald. If I look like a swamp witch these days, then I look like a swamp witch.  no one is looking at me. I also have invested heavily in scrunchies to keep it out of my face. Low maintenance in the extreme, as a rule.

However, all that being said, I did dye my hair, and I did look in the mirror about a week ago and realized my roots were showing. On the occasions that I have dyed my hair in the past; I've used semi-permeant dye so that it fades and my roots kind of blend in as my hair grows. However, I didn't look closely at the first dye I bought and got the permeant stuff by mistake. So, OK, that was my fault. My roots coming in were very dark (except for the gray) so I decided to get a color a shade darker than what I'd used before so that when it grew out again, the roots couldn't be seen as easily.

I went to Target and got my new dye (Dark Brown this time) and I went home to do the thing.

I don't have any proof that someone switched the colorant bottles, but I suspect that's what happened because when I rinsed out the dye, my hair wasn't dark brown. It was black. Elvira black.

I've had black hair before. You know that. I had black hair, and I was told well after the fact that it didn't look very good. It was a phase, and I never tried itagain. But now...now my hair is black again and I don't know what to do about it! I'm incredibly pale, so having black hair makes me took even paler!  Now only that, something in the dye made my hair crunchy. I look like I'm going through a crispy goth phase, like Noel Felding! I've tried every kind of conditioner I can get my hands on, but to no avail.

This means I'm probably going to have to get it cut, and I mean, cut short and just start all over. It'll be the December 2000 pixie hair-cut debacle all over again.

SIGH. I don't have any clever way to sign off on this, but I just had to vent. Send thoughts and prayers, and maybe a wig or two. 

HELLO AND MORE RANDOM ACTS OF BLOGGING

Hello again!  

Once again, proof of life, because I know you care!

Of course you care! You're here, aren't you?  Well, either you care or some random string of words in a search engine brought you here by accident and you clicked on the link thinking "This Taebelle fella must know the answer to my query! The Google brought me this link!"

Thing is, maybe I know or maybe I don't, but since we can't chat about it, I won't be able to help this time. However, I've been writing here on and off (most recently off) since 2004, so if you want to look in my archives, the answer could be in there! 

Sorry for rambling. I don't really know what to talk about, but I got the urge to write, so here I am!

Let's see...

1. OMG, I felt so bad. A friend of mine from work made some homemade Asian food for lunch and brought me some to try. One thing I didn't care for, but the other thing was really, really good, so I finished what she gave me. Unfortunately, my digestive system, now sans gallbladder, almost immediately said "Nope!" and I sat there for what felt like an eternity trying to fight my body's urge to violently remove said food from my system. I didn't want her to think her food was gross, or that anything was wrong with it, so I struggled valiantly. Thankfully she was gone from my desk when the fight was lost. I'm just glad she works in a different part of the office. Yikes.

2. For the past three years our office has been having a costume party for Halloween. I've had pretty great costumes each time, if I do say so myself, so I was excited to get my costume for this year. I decided to go as Glenda from Wicked, so I got a blonde wig, the tiara, and a fluffy pink ballgown. Of course, then I find out we won't be having the party this year due to budget restraints, but they said we could wear our costumes and bring snacks! So I put out the call to let everyone know, and we were even going to have the yearly costume contest! So the day comes, and only two of us are dressed up. Two out of a lot.  Well, there were two people kind of "bounding" as characters, but there was me, in full Genda drag, and one of our IT guys dressed as Doctor Strange. So that was a little embarrassing. I mean, I love dressing up, and we had a lot of good food, but it felt weird to be in a sparkly ballgown and tiara while all but one other person was in business casual. Usually, we get a lot more involvement. At any rate, I was very cute and I'm sure you've seen my pictures on FB and Instagram - if you do social media. Please ignore how I look as a blonde, though. That is not a good look on me. 

Silver lining, though, is that me and the IT guy got the costume prizes! So there!

3. I've been trying to write this blog post since October 9th. 

4. Our company has a smart TV in the lobby that is supposed to show the company logo, but I realized a while back that I can get YouTube on it. Usually, I put on nature screensavers or nature live cams, just to give anyone who walks by a little bit on zen. You'd be surprised how well received that is, because people will come and sit on the couch and listen to waves or birds or whatever else I have on. Sometimes I put on fun stuff, like holiday music or a fireplace, or live streams from theme parks, which also gives people a reason to pause and chat for a second. Yesterday I had a Bob Ross Marathon on. It was so soothing that I almost dozed off. Sleeping on the job is a bad look for a receptionist.