Last week I colored my hair. Not a dramatic color change, I just covered the gray. Well, I covered a lot of it. There's so much gray now that I can never get it all. The spouse was oblivious. Today I substituted at the high school in the same classes that I covered several weeks ago. Numerous girls commented on my hair. They had me as a teacher three weeks ago for only two days and they notice that my hair is different. The spouse sees me daily and doesn't notice a thing. Last week I was congratulating myself on a subtle color transition. I was thinking that it was such a natural appearing color that the spouse didn't notice a difference. I'm having to rethink those assumptions after my experience with the students today. Either they are very observant and the spouse isn't, or that understated, refined color isn't as subtle as I convinced myself that it was.
This weekend I celebrate another birthday and the title of my blog will no longer be accurate. I will have surpassed the benchmark. I realized that I need to update the sidebars and the page design could probably use a freshening. On the other hand, if I make a change will anyone notice? I know for sure that the spouse won't!
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I'm not very observant. My spouse rolls his eyes at things that changed months ago that just dawn on me.
ReplyDeleteJust today I asked hubby if he had trimmed his beard, and he smiled because he did indeed, but not recently! It goes both ways. :-)
ReplyDeleteAh, he sees you in so many other ways!
ReplyDeleteI had a mustache from about 1969 until September 2006 (okay, and a beard, too for about two years at the end). Some folks today ask me when I shaved off the mustached.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think about my wife of many years the details blur and my mental image of her stretches to include all of the phases of life we've experienced together. Then and again, I'm probably just not paying her enough attention. Happy Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI would notice.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday a little early! Sometimes people we see every day just don't notice changes, subtle or not, as quickly as people who haven't seen us for awhile. I've lost 17 pounds in the last few months, but my husband can't see the loss. However, a friend I hadn't seen in a year noticed it right away. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteAh, subtle changes. I always feel a bit chagrined when I notice my husband had a haircut, and it's been over a week! And, I still have people telling me they like my hair color, when I haven't done anything! I just quit getting it permed, and I guess it looks darker!
ReplyDeleteBut, it isn't surprising that a few of the girl students noticed. My kids are only 5th grade, but when I get a haircut (really just a trim) I always have a few that notice right away. My husband . . . not so much!
Young women have hair color on their minds; they notice those things. Men, particularly husbands, notice almost nothing, it seems. Sometimes that's a good thing.
ReplyDeleteI am so in love with my silvery strands that I don't think I'll ever color it again, although I have an emergency box in the closet just in case.
My guess is that the people who love you are too busy noticing the real you to care about the colour of your hair. Hope it's a fabulous birthday weekend.
ReplyDeletePictures? Men...What should we do with them? I am always amazed at how much students notice. I remember at one point, I had gone too long between having my hair colored and the roots were showing. I had about three colors in my hair. A student asked just what my real color was. "As if I know," I replied. "I haven't seen my real color in years."
ReplyDeleteMy man knows when I go to have my hair done. When I come home, he says, "let's have a look at you". Just to be on the safe side he adds " I like it but I liked it before too".
ReplyDeleteI have recently decided to go with nature and let the grey happen. But I disguise it with having highlights put in; I've gone from a dark brunette to an almost blond. I think it makes me look younger. I don't know what anyone else thinks.
The 'R' word is the kiss of death. Be careful how you use it. You may have stopped working at a salaried job but you have not retired. Retired people talk in the past tense. You are starting a new phase in your life.
ReplyDeleteI'm not always very good at seeing changes that my wife has made. I try, but not so good...
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