Happy New Year! It’s felt like ages since I wrote an entry. Where does the time go? Granted, I spent a lot of time the last 2 weeks shuttling myself across the country, but still. I had every intention of keeping track of all my exploits. It’s funny how 12 hour days of driving can sap your energy to do anything else other than collapse into bed and do it all again the next day.
Still, for all the bad weather and bad motels I encountered, I have to say that it wasn’t all bad. If nothing else it made me a little homesick for my road warrior days. As long as I’m flying, of course. That driving business is nuts. I don’t know how my brother can stand it.
So this was my first New Year’s in Las Vegas. Shall I tell you of wild parties and fireworks and crowded streets and kissing strangers at midnight? Well I could, but I don’t like to lie if I don’t feel I need to. I did have plans to go to the Strip with Heidi, but she ended up coming up with other plans. Really, the only thing she could have come up with that would not have made me angry at being ditched was if she ditched me for a man. She did, so I can’t fault her for that.
Instead, I watched the fireworks on the Strip from my balcony. I am pleased to say that I am in fact close enough that I could see most of them quite easily. Plus it also meant I was a heck of a lot warmer than the 300,000 that crowded Las Vegas Blvd and I had no traffic problems. I tend to think of New Year’s as yet another holiday for couples, so avoiding crowds was really fine with me anyway.
I don’t have any New Year’s resolutions to speak of either. I think making them is a recipe for failure. One change that I have decided to make this year in general is about my natural “sparklers” in my hair. I have made the decision to see just how much white hair I actually have and go natural for awhile. My hairdresser is on board although some of the other girls think I am nuts. I don’t care at this point. I may change my mind as time goes on and it starts to really grow out, but for now I feel committed to seeing it through.
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Oh, you are a brave soul. I tried to let my natural sparklers come through for a while in 2006 but failed. My hairdresser says I would have a "helmet" of white and color at the bottom. Wouldn't that be a nice look? Good luck!
Yeah, well, since I'm the only one around here who bares her "sparklers" with pride, I'm quite excited to see just how abundant yours are compared to mine. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a freak for being so casual about mine when the rest of the female world acts like they would rather leave the house bald than sport a few white hairs. I have to say that the few times I've used a 6-week rinse out dye, I've actually felt like I looked my age instead of ten years older, so I keep a box of dye in reserve for special occasions. That's something you can try, too - the rinse-out dyes, I mean - until all of the permanent stuff has grown out and you can see the real you all at once. Yay! Won't that be fun!?
We'll see how much my vanity can take....
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