As I wrote yesterday, we are fully into election season for my union election now. This is going to be a big part of my life for the next month until the ballots are counted. I still have to do my normal stuff while doing election stuff, but I know I will find ways to fit it in. I won’t be doing campaign stuff in person, so maybe saving that commute time will help me.
The good and bad part about doing social media work is that my phone can always be with me. I do try to have breaks when I’m not looking at every notification, but it’s hard when things are so crazy as they are now. But I do try to time out when I’m actively working to be when I don’t have to focus on other things. And then I can monitor social media and respond to comments when it’s not my full focus. And that’s exactly what I was doing this week.
I got my hair done pretty recently, but it was starting to grow out and all my gray hair was showing a lot. Normally, I’d wait another few weeks before getting my hair done since I don’t need to go all the time. I’m trying to be better about doing my hair at regular intervals and not letting several months go by. I think 6-8 weeks between appointments is probably ideal. But this time, it was only 5 weeks but I wanted to get my hair done so it would be nice for my birthday.
Even though I have nothing planned for my birthday, I like the idea of having my hair look nice even if I’m celebrating at home alone. So I messaged my friend who has been doing my hair to see if she could fit me in sometime this week. She had availability after I was done with work so that was perfect for me! Of course, I hadn’t planned that would be the day I posted a ton of things to my slate’s social media and I would need to be tracking a lot of stuff that afternoon.
But it all worked out fine. I tried to not always have my face in my phone and to spend the time also catching up with my friend. We haven’t been working out together lately, so it’s been a while since we’ve seen each other and we were catching each other up on our lives. Both of us haven’t been doing a lot because we are trying to stay safe, but it was still nice to have some time to catch up with a friend since I have so few hangouts these days that are in person. So I tried to focus on being present when she was putting my color on and then doing my work while we were waiting for the color to set.
Also, regarding the mask, this is the mask my friend gave me the first time she did my hair during the pandemic because she had an extra KN95 mask. I’ve pretty much only worn it when getting my hair done, so it’s got a bit of hair dye on it. But I also don’t mind if it gets more dye on it since I consider it my hair dye mask and I don’t wear one that I worry about getting dirty.
I was at the salon for about an hour and a half before my hair was done. I only got it dyed and not trimmed, so it was a little less expensive than normal. And I’ll get a trim when I go back in 6 weeks (or whenever I end up making it back). But just having fresh hair color makes me so happy and, like I’ve said so many times before, it makes me feel more like myself. My hair is a bit of a struggle sometimes. Between going gray since I was in color plus losing my hair with alopecia, it doesn’t always look how I want it to. And I have explored options to help, like partial wigs, that might help both issues. I just haven’t looked too much into it. But the more I get my hair done, the more I’m really starting to think I should consider it. If it makes me happy, why not?
But at least for now, I have nice-looking hair for my birthday and that’s something that brings me so much joy. And I don’t have to stress about covering up my gray hair when I have so much else to stress out about this month.
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