13 Thursday: A Hairy Situation
1. Overnight my hair reaches critical mass and I can’t go another day without a haircut.
2. Sometimes I find myself in front of the computer and I don’t know how I got here.
3. People like me who regularly burn food need a whistle on ever pot and pan in the house like the one on my tea kettle.
4. For the whole thirty minute drive to Christiansburg for my haircut I composed little sips of poems about tea, like this one: Basic black … fills an ample white pot … Tea-ball chain dangles … like a necklace on a queen.
5. I regret that when I was in high school, I never wore my hair in a ponytail. I wanted to. I wanted to look bouncy and fun like the teenagers on American Bandstand. Cheerleaders wore ponytails. So did Gidget. Read the rest and see a photo of my high school class picture in which I’m not wearing a pony tail HERE.
6. It seems that the Red Sox aren’t the only ones who have been cursed in Boston, and when it comes to presidential campaigns JFK is like Babe Ruth.
7. I’m still convinced that the Red Sox finally won the World Series for the first time after 86 years because most of the players had long hair (think Sampson).
8. I just this minute realized that curse and cures is the same word.
9. You can test your vocabulary while also donating rice through The United Nations to help end world hunger HERE.
10. Leah, the girl behind A Girl Named Guy, recently posted a podcast about her April visit to Floyd that features some familiar Floyd faces. A Girl Named Guy is a multi-media company that offers tools for positive living to conscious consumers. On TV. On the web. In print, their website says. Check it out HERE.
11. How do you look up a word when you don’t know how to spell it? Or maybe you can spell it but don’t know how to pronounce it. Check out THIS talking dictionary I found at Shepherd’s Alley.
12. About that thing I said last week: “I’m not good at telling jokes or lies, which may be why I don’t write fiction.” The truth is I just don’t have a good enough imagination to write fiction. Last Thursday Amy the Black at Creekistan did “13 Things You May Find Yourself Saying in the Future” with lines like: “That was a really good steak. See if you can get the Chef to give us a DNA sample,” or “I’m going to Walmart for the sex-change surgery, again” – to which I commented, “You have a really good imagination. Is there a pill for that yet?”
13. Please don’t try THIS at home. It makes my hair stand on end.
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January 24th, 2008 12:43 am
Your 13 is just too cute. And with that you were a beautiful Teenager. If I had hair like yours I would never wear it in a pony tail. I’d be showing it off!
I’m with you on #2 all the way! Well Happy TT and have a great weekend!
January 24th, 2008 1:43 am
If it’s any consolation, I never had a ponytail either! Though you were way prettier than me.
I watched #13 and then started looking at several other similar YouTubes and before I knew it, half an hour had gone by. That site is addictive!
January 24th, 2008 3:48 am
How is it that hair can go from “long but reasonable” to “omg it’s completely out of control” in just one night?
January 24th, 2008 7:02 am
I think you’ve been at the computer a little too long…check out your numbering.
1. Tell me about it! It’s uncanny, but it does. Whenever Judy says your hair looks great, I know that the next day I’ll be needing a haircut.
3. Wish we had one last night – another burned pot.
5. Oh my God! You look so preppy!!!
January 24th, 2008 8:38 am
Is that your new haircut at the top?lol DId you superimpose the “Thursday Thirteen” on to this guys head or what? You clever thing.
Do you wear ponytails now?
Susan
January 24th, 2008 9:18 am
Curse and cures, you know, you have your own style of imagination that most people could never dream up!! I just had to tell you how much I laughed at the Portland drivers clip. I come from West Virginia, so I know how easy that sort of scene can unfold.
January 24th, 2008 9:20 am
That’s not the first time I counted to 13 wrong but it’s the first time I was off that bad! Somehow the fact that I did fits the (loose) theme, burning pots, curses. I think it was mostly because II posted it late last night.
I got the shaved haircut photo from imagechef.com. I do wear ponytails now, pinned up with a jaw clip.
January 24th, 2008 11:32 am
We share your number 1 slot! I am the same about my hair…
January 24th, 2008 11:41 am
Wow. Stream of consciousness brilliance. A poem disguised as a Thursday Thirteen.
I gotta read that again…
January 24th, 2008 11:46 am
I think you are in a very joyful mood today, lol ! and I certainly won’t try “THIS” anyway we didn’t even have real frost this year.
Your neigbor who dressed your little son is completely crazy and insain, must be a frustrated church mouse. Our Maneken Pis is very famous and Presidents and Kings from all over the world offer him clothes. On January 8 he wore an Elvis costume because it was Elvis’ birthday ! I don’t know how he was dressed up for Bush’s visit though probably he remained naked or maybe as terrorist ? I have been in the museum on Wednesday and have seen all his costumes it is just unbelievable. You have to see it to believe it ! I will write a post about it soon.
January 24th, 2008 12:01 pm
I always enjoy your T-13s … your free associations and links were fun. I can certainly relate to the “hair” thing. Mine needs to be cut NOW, but my appointment is next Wednesday. Sigh! Such is life.
Hugs and blessings,
January 24th, 2008 12:22 pm
I’m the same way with my hair….all of sudden it just has to be cut now. I enjoy giving rice and stretching my vocablulary. Maybe you are on to something about having a whistling pot or pan that signals you to check it before it burns.
January 24th, 2008 1:48 pm
Love the high school pic — how cute were you! And just last night I woke up to go to the bathroom and found myself in front of the computer. It’s fun to share and laugh about these things.
January 24th, 2008 5:37 pm
what a beautiful teenager you were, colleen! those eyes and that skin are exotic.
the portland snow drivers remind me of a wreck i had in an atlanta snow storm in the early 80s when i came down a small hill in downtown atlanta sideways, just like one of the cars in that video! i landed on another car which had done the same thing while the car behind me landed on me! we were all parked horizontally at the bottom of the hill and before too long there were 40 or so of us.
January 24th, 2008 6:53 pm
1-3 are me. I’m sitting here eating burned potatoes, but I don’t know how or why.
Hygiene and the Red Sox. Can’t go there. Especially not since that director said such horrible things about 46!
This is a marvelous TT. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
January 24th, 2008 7:18 pm
I could definately use a whistle on all of my pots and pans. Why don’t you invent it Colleen? I’ll be your first customer.
January 24th, 2008 7:29 pm
Oh… Colleen…. Hair…. I desperately need a haircut but I just can’t deal with it – the smells, the salon. You are so brave!
January 24th, 2008 9:09 pm
you were (are) gorgeous 🙂
Was that street a sheet of ice? I can’t believe those cars slid about the way they did!
January 24th, 2008 9:18 pm
I’ve slid on ice while driving in Boston, but nothing that bad. I guess it was a sheet of ice on an incline.
My dad didn’t like that shot of my senior class picture because I wasn’t smiling. So the one my parents had hanging in their house is a different one. I had to sleep on curlers and tease my hair to get that look!
January 24th, 2008 10:13 pm
Pony tails were not my thing but unless you count a pony tail on top of your head like Pebbles from the Flintstones a pony tail. Where is this comment going. I just lost track. Sorry…
I enjoyed your tt anyway…
January 24th, 2008 10:40 pm
I am the same way on number one. I wake up one day and it is just out of control. It has to be taken care of. Boston also has the Patriots going for it now right, aren’t they from close by? So they have Superbowl power too? But they aren’t cursed there.
January 24th, 2008 10:42 pm
PS- I meant to say that the ever reason I really hate cutting my hair short is losing my pony tail. I was even the 80s side pony tail girl in the 80s. I still love the ease of throwing it back. But I look good with my hair pulled out of my face so I miss being able to do that.
January 24th, 2008 10:47 pm
The Patriots are doing well and have been winning since my brothers died, which would make them both happy. But the Red Sox World Series win in 2004 was myth breaking monumental. They say many old geezers hung on to see it and died happy after that.
I wore a side ponytail for a little while too. Right after the summer I wore a crow feather in my hair. I think June said it best about hair. As soon as someone tells her it looks great, she needs a haircut the next day. Right before a haircut I think my hair looks good, but the next day it’s out of control and I wonder what I was thinking.
January 25th, 2008 12:02 am
It’s never too late to wear a ponytail. 🙂
When I saw your high school photo, I figured out the famous person you resemble. Your high school photo bears a striking resemblance to Janine Turner on Northern Exposure. 🙂
MIchele sent me tonight.
~S
January 25th, 2008 12:12 am
You are lovely with or without a pony tail and I’m not even a girl watcher- Miss purple beret.. Very fetching website Shepherds Diary
January 25th, 2008 9:35 pm
Thanks for the mention. I guess I could say that there is a pill, or at least a drug, but it’s not legal! Imagination is a tool that I treasure. It helps me communicate to children. Great list–I have the critical mass issue, too, but if I can hold off on the haircut, it gets better again, like the weight of the hair holds it down.
January 25th, 2008 9:51 pm
That’s either some wicked ice or a really powerful electric magnet!