My Hair (because that's an important topic to blog about, right?)

For many years, my hair was straight.  Board straight.  The joke was, you could hear it bend around a curling iron.

Senior picture.  Many years ago.

It was also long, usually.  There was one time that I got it cut "short", and then had a huge identity crisis.  I didn't go that "short" again for a long time.

This used to be my profile photo on Match.Com

Then, around the time that I turned 30, my hair started changing.  If I wanted it to be straight, I had to blowdry it.  Otherwise it would start to have this fuzziness around the edges when it dried.  By the end of the day (if I played with it enough), it would be oily and straight again.

Also a Match profile photo for a period of time.

A while later I noticed that if I wanted it to be straight for an evening social event, that I needed to blowdry it around a big round brush AND straighten it with a flat iron to really make it look best.

Someone please warn me the next time they want to take Division Head photos so I can do something about the 6 inches of roots I got going on.

Lots of times I tried to go with the new wavyness, but then it just looked frizzy.  So I tried curlers a time or two for a different look.

While I was pregnant with the wee one, my hair was just a friggin mess.  I wore it in a ponytail all. the. time.  Finally, I decided, it was time.  For the Mommy Haircut.

It was short.  Way short in the back.  Took me a while to get used to it.  I went back for a trim when the wee one was about 4 weeks old.  But I couldn't get used to the price the salon girl charged.

See, curly.  Baby's first bath at home.  God knows I probably hadn't bathed in days.

I went to see a family friend, and got a great cut.  Again, I went back for a trim.  The second time I didn't like it so much.  I couldn't get it to do anything I liked the day we had Wee One's first birthday photos taken.

Crazy hair.

So, back to finding a hairstylist and a hairstyle that I like, that works with minimal effort.

Then today ...

Love it.