Attitude of Gratitude for 2017 – Dec. 4, 2017 – Making Changes
I’m the type of person who finds a hairstyle I like and sticks with it – for YEARS. How I look is not something I fixate on as I tend to live in the world behind my eyes. So it was a very significant decision to do something different. For seven years, I had what I called “business women hairstyle number 5” – shoulder length, straight, a little longer in the front then the back. I wanted to move into something different than business woman 5.
Mid January, I downloaded one of those change your hairstyle apps and tested out a bunch of different looks. Yeah that is entertaining – try it some time if you haven’t seen them. I was thinking of going shorter with curls. Not having a stylist in the area, I checked on yelp and called the salon in town with the best reviews. The shop I called, the stylist preferred text – PERFECT. I sent her some of my ideas, she said just come in we will see what we can do.
And this is where I met Kim – who now almost a year later has become a great friend and a fantastic dog and house sitter. When I first came in she had no idea who I was from Adam – except I had innuandated her with these crazy images of myself with these various hair styles. And I was wearing my all purple outfit (I have this penchant for dressing monochromatically – must be from my Air Force Days). She didn’t really know what to make of me at first (I think my brand of eccentricity may be an aquired taste).
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This is a couple days after my first perm in about 30 years. An event that would change my life in ways I couldn’t even yet imagine.
Kim had other ideas – as all good stylists do. So we permed my hair at the length it was. And then we stopped. No she wasn’t going to cut it – she wanted to see how I liked it. We didn’t go too curly the first go round as afterall it was a big step breaking out of pin straight hair business women number 5 to something new. I totally loved the new look. My life changed from that point forward in some ways I had to yet to imagine. Stay tuned…..