😦 Megyn Kelly’s new hairdo.
Not only was it better when it was long, but I especially don’t like the “over the eye look”.
Oldest GD, Becky, the one with the blog, used to have long red hair, hanging down her back.
It was beautiful, but must have been lots of trouble because as soon as she got the man, she cut it.
Elvera never had long hair. Not even shoulder length.
Because it bushed out, didn’t hang down like most other women’ hair.
But it wasn’t the hair that I noticed.
😉
Donna was talking, on yesterday’s thread, about how women dressed in “the plain look” in the seventies.
None of the women at work adopted that fad. They all came in looking nice.
As did the men. The only time I ever went in, during regular working hours, without a tie, was the day I retired.
😦 Time to Fall back. Ugh. I hate it.
😦 People don’t dress nicely for work anymore and if you try you can’t find the clothes–even at places like Talbots.
🙂 I went on a job interview. Great sounding company and job, but I don’t think I am what they need. I should write thank you notes today.
Chas, I had hair several inches past my shoulder in college (as long as it would grow). Sometime during college, a friend convinced me to let her cut it, and I urged her not to cut too much off. She said she wouldn’t. But I almost cried when I looked in the mirror–it was just shoulder length, and the difference was about two years growing time. Well, over the next two weeks it seemed like everyone on campus told me, “your hair looks good!” Even strangers were telling me that. So I kept the length.
Recently I looked through college yearbooks and was amazed how much hair I had in those days. (People have always told me my hair is thick–I never get a haircut without the beautician being amazed at how thick it is–but it was close to twice as thick when I was a child, and it doesn’t seem thick to me.) Anyway, I decided I’m married now, and men are supposed to like long hair, and I have been wearing it shoulder length for more than 20 years because other people told me it looked good. Me, every time it starts to grow I want to let it, but I resist because I know that shoulder length is the best length for me, so I get it cut again.
But I’m middle aged now and may not get another chance, and my hair is the healthiest it has been in years, so now’s the time. I asked my husband if he had a preference one way or another (thinking he would say yes, let it grow, but willing to be content if he said no, I like it like that), and he said he didn’t care, so two or three years ago I started letting it grow. (And I started from “too short” since a hairdresser had cut a couple inches too much off it.) For months now it has been back to my college length, and I love it, and my husband tells me he really likes it long. It really isn’t that much longer, but I can feel it against my shoulders if I wear sleeveless tops, and I love that feel, and I love the length. (If it grew longer, I wouldn’t have kept it at shoulder length all those years, no matter what other people thought. Bu I figured I could willingly keep it six inches shorter than my own preference if other people agreed it was so much better a length for me.)
Shortly after it had grown out again, we visited my old church. One very outspoken woman used to have beautiful hair that grew most of the way down her back, but she cut it off and began to color it, so now it is short, boring-colored hair, and I never saw her without wishing she hadn’t done it, but I never said anything. But she saw me and immediately told me I shouldn’t have let it grow, that it looked so cute shorter. Oh well, I like it, my husband likes it, and I work from my home and it doesn’t matter what other people think! I’ll probably cut it again in a few years, but for now I’m just enjoying having my hair back! And honestly, it probably makes me look younger, since I’m at the age when a lot of women cut it off. But it has some gray in it, so maybe not. At any rate, it doesn’t make me look older. (And I don’t live in fear of that anyway!)
🙂 I’ve already changed all the clocks downstairs and in the cars.
And all the batteries in the smoke alarm, except two. I’m probably wasting 9volt batteries by changing them each time I change the clocks, but I have noticed over the years that that is better than waiting for the alarm to beep because the battery is low.
It would be better if they beeped every ten seconds, or so. But it is so long between beeps that it’s hard to locate the source of the bad battery.
It’s easier to change all at once. and the cost isn’t great.
That is what I think, every time I change them. I am sure this battery has lots of juice left, but do I really think my time is so worthless that I can spend hours trying to find which one is not functioning. Maybe not hours….
I always wanted long hair but my mother kept it cut short in a pixie cut. I cried every time my hair was cut. I let it grow in college but it has mostly been short all of my life, never really touching my shoulder. I think it makes me look older and draws my face down now, so it is cut and layered.
Today is the 31st day of October and the former landlord still has not returned our deposit money. I ALWAYS took the rent to their bank on the 1st of each month except for one month when I was sick that day and deposited it on the 2nd. We agreed to prorate the rent for the 6 extra days we didn’t have all of our things out and he had someone he liked to use to clean the carpet so I told him to pay for those two things out of the deposit and send me the rest. I also paid someone $150 to clean it when we were completely out. I have contacted him multiple times about it and again last night to which he replied this morning “argh”
Kim, my mom grew up desperately wanting her parents to let her cut her hair (her barber uncle promised to do it if they gave permission), but they kept her in Shirley Temple curls. Me, I have lots and lots of hair and it tangles easily. Mom would take scissors and cut out about half of it from underneath, obviously not the best thinning technique, but it worked. And she’d comb the snarls out, which hurt dreadfully and left my head sore for days. I’d cry the whole time, and she’d chop it off and tell me that once I learned to take better care of it I could have it long. And I’d determine that I would, but for days I couldn’t touch my scalp, and by the time I could, I had snarls again. As an adult I learned that my hair needs a pick (or finger-combing) and not a brush, and a comb is pretty much worthless on it. It thinned out on its own when I was a teenager; I lost maybe 40% of my hair in two or three years, and it concerned me a bit, but I had so much that I just kept watching it, and it got to a point of a decent thickness and I stopped losing it. And then I finally grew it long for a few years, but was disappointed it stopped at a few inches past my shoulders; I thought it would be cool if it could grow all the way down my back, but it won’t do that.
Funny story on that. My husband and I were recently out walking in the woods, and another couple went by us. She was probably a few years younger than me, and she had long, braided hair. I told her, “I like your hair” and she said thank you. But it wasn’t till she passed us that I really got a good look at her hair, and my husband and I both stifled our laughter. See, she was wearing a backpack, and she had hair long enough to sit on, in a braid. So, under the backpack you could see a tail like a horse, only braided. Or that’s what her hair looked like, because it looked like it started where the backpack ended, and it ended right where a tail would grow. 🙂
I had short hair as a kid and began growing it in junior high (cried when an aunt and uncle treated me to a haircut — by a talented stylist who lived in the singles apartment building they managed — and he cut it way too short! All that work, out the door). After that, I grew it and never looked back (though I began going a little shorter — just a few inches below the shoulders — later in college).
I love long hair on young girls — it’s just harder to carry “the look” off past 50. Some women can do it, most can’t. So I say enjoy long hair while you can. I’ve gone shorter lately, just barely shoulder length with layers, which seems to work best for me.
And let’s face it, Megyn Kelly is still young enough and is obviously gorgeous that any length looks spectacular on her. Lucky woman. I didn’t like the long-long look she sported recently, though, it looked to girlish for her, and even kind of hang-dog, not professional. So I’m glad she got rid of that. This new ‘do is a bit too short, but still looks great on her.
But back to rants and raves ….
🙂 Saturday!!
🙂 An extra hour of sleep tonight! Hibernation time.
🙂 Cooler weather (at least at night, still in the 80s during the day but that will go down next week, according to the forecast).
😦 Learned about the death of a neighbor from another neighbor I ran into at the store last night. I still think about the people who were in the neighborhood when I moved here but who have since passed on — when I walk the dogs past those houses or apartments, now filled with new people.
😦 Planning to skip candy handouts tonight I think, my porch light isn’t working — I want to try another bulb in it, though, maybe I can get it to work.
😦 I need so much done around here. Wish I were handier.
🙂 He asked daughter’s fiance (who fixes his own cars) to check the oil of the car our daughter has been driving, and add any if necessary. Fiance offered to change the oil next week, as well.
🙂 Work continues to come in. Ten, even five years ago, editing for individuals was a barely worthwhile side element of my editing. I give individual price quotes, based on how much work the book needs, so it takes a little bit of time out of my schedule to do them, and for years and years I got about one in three of the projects I quoted. And they usually weren’t well written, took more work than books for publishers, and I charged less. I’ve gradually increased my prices for individuals, have gotten more and more business “word of mouth,” and now (at higher prices) get at least two out of three of the projects I quote. And it has gone from one or two a year to perhaps ten this year. As self-publishing has become a less expensive, more viable option, being situated to edit for people who want that option has proved to be an important part of my business–which I never expected when I went freelance in 2003 and took an occasional project from an individual almost as a favor! Anyway, I am currently working on projects for two individuals and another just came in for a price quote. For publishers this is a slow season, so it has been a nice surprise to have nonstop work for the last several months.
Chas, I didn’t either. Did it mean the average household or average adult? Because you have two adults in your household and we have four in ours, and to the best of my knowledge none of us spent a penny.
OK, I take that back. I spent a dollar on cotton candy (candy-corn colors). And my husband and I may go to the store in a couple of days to pick up after-Halloween half-price chocolate (or I may have to go by myself Monday if he is still sick). But neither of those is truly a Halloween purchase.
😦 Until leaving time when one of our more volatile members (a PTS vet who needs a wide berth on his good days) got into a big four-letter word shouting & dog-kicking match with an incoming woman whose dog was kind of out of control (but they both were in the wrong thinking they could “share” that tiny entry/exit space at the same time — one of them needed to back off, step aside and let the other come or go first).
I didn’t spend anything on Halloween either. The next door neighbor told me when we first moved in that no one trick or treats on this street.
I did see photos of two cutie pies. S was Riley and E was an owl. Neither of them was anything scary.
We usually get a lively crowd of kids on our street, but not last night for some reason. Odd ….
🙂 I have to disagree with Chas, I just got another look at Megyn’s new haircut and I think it looks great on her — very polished. The super-long hair looked cheap or something. Of course, a length in between would probably be good, too, she went from one extreme to the other.
Now I look cheap? I love coming here to find out more about myself.
Anyway, we have not done Halloween in recent years except the neighbor likes to do something with the children. This year she had a couple of her bio grands and our two youngest for a little party. She wanted a green theme so we have been discussing conservation and environment and trash cans and recycling. Eight year old daughter went as a green grasshopper and nine year old went as a green knight. They have a very creative brother. All made out of sheets, pillowcases and cardboard. They were happy, she was happy, it worked.
No Donna, you’re in deep.
A man, at an early age, learns to believe everything he sees WRT women.
A great truth in the world of male/female relations:
No matter what you saw yesterday, if a woman’s hair is blond, brown, anything but grey, it has always been that way.
And he believes everything he sees.
Wandering Views 
Watch out for ghosts and goblins tonight.
And don’t forget to sit your clocks back.
Is it “sit” or “set”? Seriously?
I thing it’s “SET”.
LikeLike
😦 Megyn Kelly’s new hairdo.
Not only was it better when it was long, but I especially don’t like the “over the eye look”.
Oldest GD, Becky, the one with the blog, used to have long red hair, hanging down her back.
It was beautiful, but must have been lots of trouble because as soon as she got the man, she cut it.
Elvera never had long hair. Not even shoulder length.
Because it bushed out, didn’t hang down like most other women’ hair.
But it wasn’t the hair that I noticed.
😉
LikeLike
Donna was talking, on yesterday’s thread, about how women dressed in “the plain look” in the seventies.
None of the women at work adopted that fad. They all came in looking nice.
As did the men. The only time I ever went in, during regular working hours, without a tie, was the day I retired.
LikeLike
😦 Time to Fall back. Ugh. I hate it.
😦 People don’t dress nicely for work anymore and if you try you can’t find the clothes–even at places like Talbots.
🙂 I went on a job interview. Great sounding company and job, but I don’t think I am what they need. I should write thank you notes today.
LikeLike
🙂 fun visit to Idaho– lots of conversation and silliness with great niece and nephew (4 and 1)
🙂 all sorts of weather, including snow!
🙂 flying home today and back to real life.
😕 Not sure I remember much about real life . . . .
LikeLike
Chas, I had hair several inches past my shoulder in college (as long as it would grow). Sometime during college, a friend convinced me to let her cut it, and I urged her not to cut too much off. She said she wouldn’t. But I almost cried when I looked in the mirror–it was just shoulder length, and the difference was about two years growing time. Well, over the next two weeks it seemed like everyone on campus told me, “your hair looks good!” Even strangers were telling me that. So I kept the length.
Recently I looked through college yearbooks and was amazed how much hair I had in those days. (People have always told me my hair is thick–I never get a haircut without the beautician being amazed at how thick it is–but it was close to twice as thick when I was a child, and it doesn’t seem thick to me.) Anyway, I decided I’m married now, and men are supposed to like long hair, and I have been wearing it shoulder length for more than 20 years because other people told me it looked good. Me, every time it starts to grow I want to let it, but I resist because I know that shoulder length is the best length for me, so I get it cut again.
But I’m middle aged now and may not get another chance, and my hair is the healthiest it has been in years, so now’s the time. I asked my husband if he had a preference one way or another (thinking he would say yes, let it grow, but willing to be content if he said no, I like it like that), and he said he didn’t care, so two or three years ago I started letting it grow. (And I started from “too short” since a hairdresser had cut a couple inches too much off it.) For months now it has been back to my college length, and I love it, and my husband tells me he really likes it long. It really isn’t that much longer, but I can feel it against my shoulders if I wear sleeveless tops, and I love that feel, and I love the length. (If it grew longer, I wouldn’t have kept it at shoulder length all those years, no matter what other people thought. Bu I figured I could willingly keep it six inches shorter than my own preference if other people agreed it was so much better a length for me.)
Shortly after it had grown out again, we visited my old church. One very outspoken woman used to have beautiful hair that grew most of the way down her back, but she cut it off and began to color it, so now it is short, boring-colored hair, and I never saw her without wishing she hadn’t done it, but I never said anything. But she saw me and immediately told me I shouldn’t have let it grow, that it looked so cute shorter. Oh well, I like it, my husband likes it, and I work from my home and it doesn’t matter what other people think! I’ll probably cut it again in a few years, but for now I’m just enjoying having my hair back! And honestly, it probably makes me look younger, since I’m at the age when a lot of women cut it off. But it has some gray in it, so maybe not. At any rate, it doesn’t make me look older. (And I don’t live in fear of that anyway!)
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂 I’ve already changed all the clocks downstairs and in the cars.
And all the batteries in the smoke alarm, except two. I’m probably wasting 9volt batteries by changing them each time I change the clocks, but I have noticed over the years that that is better than waiting for the alarm to beep because the battery is low.
It would be better if they beeped every ten seconds, or so. But it is so long between beeps that it’s hard to locate the source of the bad battery.
It’s easier to change all at once. and the cost isn’t great.
LikeLike
That is what I think, every time I change them. I am sure this battery has lots of juice left, but do I really think my time is so worthless that I can spend hours trying to find which one is not functioning. Maybe not hours….
LikeLike
I always wanted long hair but my mother kept it cut short in a pixie cut. I cried every time my hair was cut. I let it grow in college but it has mostly been short all of my life, never really touching my shoulder. I think it makes me look older and draws my face down now, so it is cut and layered.
Today is the 31st day of October and the former landlord still has not returned our deposit money. I ALWAYS took the rent to their bank on the 1st of each month except for one month when I was sick that day and deposited it on the 2nd. We agreed to prorate the rent for the 6 extra days we didn’t have all of our things out and he had someone he liked to use to clean the carpet so I told him to pay for those two things out of the deposit and send me the rest. I also paid someone $150 to clean it when we were completely out. I have contacted him multiple times about it and again last night to which he replied this morning “argh”
LikeLike
Kim, my mom grew up desperately wanting her parents to let her cut her hair (her barber uncle promised to do it if they gave permission), but they kept her in Shirley Temple curls. Me, I have lots and lots of hair and it tangles easily. Mom would take scissors and cut out about half of it from underneath, obviously not the best thinning technique, but it worked. And she’d comb the snarls out, which hurt dreadfully and left my head sore for days. I’d cry the whole time, and she’d chop it off and tell me that once I learned to take better care of it I could have it long. And I’d determine that I would, but for days I couldn’t touch my scalp, and by the time I could, I had snarls again. As an adult I learned that my hair needs a pick (or finger-combing) and not a brush, and a comb is pretty much worthless on it. It thinned out on its own when I was a teenager; I lost maybe 40% of my hair in two or three years, and it concerned me a bit, but I had so much that I just kept watching it, and it got to a point of a decent thickness and I stopped losing it. And then I finally grew it long for a few years, but was disappointed it stopped at a few inches past my shoulders; I thought it would be cool if it could grow all the way down my back, but it won’t do that.
Funny story on that. My husband and I were recently out walking in the woods, and another couple went by us. She was probably a few years younger than me, and she had long, braided hair. I told her, “I like your hair” and she said thank you. But it wasn’t till she passed us that I really got a good look at her hair, and my husband and I both stifled our laughter. See, she was wearing a backpack, and she had hair long enough to sit on, in a braid. So, under the backpack you could see a tail like a horse, only braided. Or that’s what her hair looked like, because it looked like it started where the backpack ended, and it ended right where a tail would grow. 🙂
LikeLike
I had short hair as a kid and began growing it in junior high (cried when an aunt and uncle treated me to a haircut — by a talented stylist who lived in the singles apartment building they managed — and he cut it way too short! All that work, out the door). After that, I grew it and never looked back (though I began going a little shorter — just a few inches below the shoulders — later in college).
I love long hair on young girls — it’s just harder to carry “the look” off past 50. Some women can do it, most can’t. So I say enjoy long hair while you can. I’ve gone shorter lately, just barely shoulder length with layers, which seems to work best for me.
And let’s face it, Megyn Kelly is still young enough and is obviously gorgeous that any length looks spectacular on her. Lucky woman. I didn’t like the long-long look she sported recently, though, it looked to girlish for her, and even kind of hang-dog, not professional. So I’m glad she got rid of that. This new ‘do is a bit too short, but still looks great on her.
But back to rants and raves ….
🙂 Saturday!!
🙂 An extra hour of sleep tonight! Hibernation time.
🙂 Cooler weather (at least at night, still in the 80s during the day but that will go down next week, according to the forecast).
😦 Learned about the death of a neighbor from another neighbor I ran into at the store last night. I still think about the people who were in the neighborhood when I moved here but who have since passed on — when I walk the dogs past those houses or apartments, now filled with new people.
😦 Planning to skip candy handouts tonight I think, my porch light isn’t working — I want to try another bulb in it, though, maybe I can get it to work.
😦 I need so much done around here. Wish I were handier.
LikeLiked by 1 person
😦 Hubby is sick.
🙂 He asked daughter’s fiance (who fixes his own cars) to check the oil of the car our daughter has been driving, and add any if necessary. Fiance offered to change the oil next week, as well.
🙂 Work continues to come in. Ten, even five years ago, editing for individuals was a barely worthwhile side element of my editing. I give individual price quotes, based on how much work the book needs, so it takes a little bit of time out of my schedule to do them, and for years and years I got about one in three of the projects I quoted. And they usually weren’t well written, took more work than books for publishers, and I charged less. I’ve gradually increased my prices for individuals, have gotten more and more business “word of mouth,” and now (at higher prices) get at least two out of three of the projects I quote. And it has gone from one or two a year to perhaps ten this year. As self-publishing has become a less expensive, more viable option, being situated to edit for people who want that option has proved to be an important part of my business–which I never expected when I went freelance in 2003 and took an occasional project from an individual almost as a favor! Anyway, I am currently working on projects for two individuals and another just came in for a price quote. For publishers this is a slow season, so it has been a nice surprise to have nonstop work for the last several months.
LikeLiked by 3 people
I just saw on TV that the average American spent $74.00 on Halloween this year.
Somebody spent a lot more than that because I didn’t spend anything.
😉
LikeLiked by 2 people
Chas, I didn’t either. Did it mean the average household or average adult? Because you have two adults in your household and we have four in ours, and to the best of my knowledge none of us spent a penny.
OK, I take that back. I spent a dollar on cotton candy (candy-corn colors). And my husband and I may go to the store in a couple of days to pick up after-Halloween half-price chocolate (or I may have to go by myself Monday if he is still sick). But neither of those is truly a Halloween purchase.
LikeLike
🙂 Relaxing night at the dog park.
😦 Until leaving time when one of our more volatile members (a PTS vet who needs a wide berth on his good days) got into a big four-letter word shouting & dog-kicking match with an incoming woman whose dog was kind of out of control (but they both were in the wrong thinking they could “share” that tiny entry/exit space at the same time — one of them needed to back off, step aside and let the other come or go first).
Dog Park 101.
LikeLike
🙂 Sunshine by 6 a.m.
LikeLike
I didn’t spend anything on Halloween either. The next door neighbor told me when we first moved in that no one trick or treats on this street.
I did see photos of two cutie pies. S was Riley and E was an owl. Neither of them was anything scary.
LikeLike
Kim, a mouse would find an owl pretty scary! (Who’s Riley, BTW?)
LikeLike
We usually get a lively crowd of kids on our street, but not last night for some reason. Odd ….
🙂 I have to disagree with Chas, I just got another look at Megyn’s new haircut and I think it looks great on her — very polished. The super-long hair looked cheap or something. Of course, a length in between would probably be good, too, she went from one extreme to the other.
LikeLike
Now I look cheap? I love coming here to find out more about myself.
Anyway, we have not done Halloween in recent years except the neighbor likes to do something with the children. This year she had a couple of her bio grands and our two youngest for a little party. She wanted a green theme so we have been discussing conservation and environment and trash cans and recycling. Eight year old daughter went as a green grasshopper and nine year old went as a green knight. They have a very creative brother. All made out of sheets, pillowcases and cardboard. They were happy, she was happy, it worked.
LikeLiked by 1 person
No mumsee — Megyn’s hair (choppily/oddly layered, kind of thin and very — too — blond, worn loose) looked, well, just not right somehow.
LikeLike
Of course, there were also the short-short, skin-tight dresses & false eyelashes.
She’s beautiful, but sometimes they just make these gals up way too much and it winds up taking away from their natural beauty.
In my opinion.
Not in Chas’ I’m sure.
LikeLike
In fact, I always wondered if she was using hair extensions, it just didn’t look natural or something.
LikeLike
OK. Have I sufficiently dug myself out of that hole yet?
LikeLiked by 1 person
No Donna, you’re in deep.
A man, at an early age, learns to believe everything he sees WRT women.
A great truth in the world of male/female relations:
No matter what you saw yesterday, if a woman’s hair is blond, brown, anything but grey, it has always been that way.
And he believes everything he sees.
😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yeah, mumsie’s not speaking to me now. 😦
LikeLiked by 1 person
It won’t help that you just misspelled her name. 😦
LikeLiked by 2 people
hi donnuh
LikeLiked by 2 people
OK, I’m sunk.
I’m going to start growing my hair, too.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I may even dye it blonde.
And whack some layers into it.
LikeLike
Randomly
LikeLiked by 2 people
Donna, are you ranting or raving????
LikeLike