The beauty of being this old is that you stop giving a shit
Last December, a few weeks before my birthday, I sat in my mom’s kitchen discussing with her how freaked out I was about turning 29. I wasn’t anywhere near where I’d thought I’d be at 29. Single, in a job that made me miserable, and still bringing laundry home to my parents’ house. In the midst of this conversation, I took a pee break. After, when I was washing my hands, I looked into my parents’ bathroom mirror and saw one of the most frightening things I’ve ever seen: my first grey hair.
Two months later, I had Courtney (the man, the myth, the legend) put platinum blonde streaks throughout my hair to disguise this new evil. I’ve since had him redo my roots twice. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to let this current color style grow out and go back to my natural dishwater blonde hair. Which means that I can now see how much grey hair has grown in over the past (almost) year. Holy crap. There’s a lot. Two months before my 30th birthday, you know what, I couldn’t fucking care less.
Maybe it’s because I’m just blonde enough that only I (or someone REALLY close) can see it. Maybe it’s because my brother told me he’s almost completely grey at his temples, and he’s only three years older than me, which makes me wonder whether I should bother fighting it. Or maybe it’s because last night, I spent at least part of the evening at the Tin Hat playing “Spin the Treo” with two of the cutest 25-year-old guys I know. Yeah, I still got it. Grey hair or no.
November 4th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
Howdy. I’m Slamm and Glamm’s friend from down south. I’m tired of feeling creepy, so I wanted to say that a) I’ve been reading your blog for about a month now–hi, and b) personally, women with a few grey hairs is kinda attractive. Not that I think you’re looking for validation, but there it is. Surely I’m not the only male who thinks that, am I?
November 6th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Ummm… I’ll translate for my ‘creepy’ friend down south. When he says “women with a few grey hairs is kinda attractive,” what he means is “Salt and pepper is the bomb-diggity!”
November 6th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
Umm, something like that.
November 7th, 2005 at 9:03 am
Well thanks to both of you. I always knew I liked boys from the south. Even if the “south” in this case is Portland, OR.
November 9th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Puhlease! You are more lovely today than you were at twenty. Take it form an old broad; a few lighter than the rest hairs aren’t the measure of your age. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy being while you are young. You’ll be young longer.