She Bangs! She Bangs!

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  What we have here is a failure to communicateOR
  You'd think I would have learned my lesson after my pedicure experienceOR
  Well, it DOES make me look younger. That's a good thing, right?

In short, I have my college hair. EXACTLY my college hair. Michelle and I went to Great Clips (yeah I know -- bang trim $5 -- you get what you pay for) to have the woman who cut John's hair and who cuts all of her family's hair trim my bangs (because Jimmy could barely stand to give me ANY bangs at all so I'd gone at them at home with my collaging scissors and while I liked the effect they were crooked and needed a little professional intervention) but she wasn't there and instead of LEAVING like, oh, someone who HADN'T just had a pint of beer, I decided since we were already there to have one of the OTHER people working their cut it and NOT TO BE RACIST but she was Asian and I think we hit a language barrier because after I very specifically explained what I had done and what I NEEDED done she tipped my head forward, did some combing and I KNEW the moment I heard the RAZOR zip across my forehead EXACTLY what she was doing, because I remembered the SENSATION from college, and of course by then it was way WAY too late to do anything but let her finish. And then pay her $5. Which is, for the record, about 1/4 of what I TIP my usual hairdresser.

So, in short, a few weeks ago I drove two hours into the city and paid $100 to have my hair very professionally and trendily highlighted and cut and then I came home and promptly whacked at it myself and then I let some beauty school failure give me BANGS FROM 1990. I would have cried but I had no one to blame but myself and John was smart enough to take the, "Wow, okay, now you look so young people are going to think I am a TOTAL cradle robber" angle and well, it does look better pulled back than the geek-librarian-no-bangs look and since it is supposed to reach the mid 90's this week and stay there til, like, September I'll probably be wearing it pulled back a LOT...

So now I look just like me 12 years ago only rounder and older. I was it was a sad moment having to PLUCK 3 gray hairs out of my bangs lemme tell you.