
I did two things yesterday both of which are I think, part of my mid-life crisis.
I spent all morning at the hairdressers with Rose, having my second lot of blonde highlights in and my roots coloured.
I have been a brunette all my life.....I was born with lots of brown hair which never turned fair as a toddler, it was always dark. I've always loved being brunette and have never wanted to be blonde................until a few weeks ago.
I first started to notice a few grey hairs when I was in my early 20's. When they became obvious I just chucked on some hair-colour to hide them. I continued to do this all through my 30's but it's always been a bit of a pain in the rear-end as my hair grows so fast...and it wasn't doing it much good either.
So,what was the alternative?............I know I thought.....I'll just stop colouring it and grow old gracefully.........................Yeah right! - I lasted about 6 weeks and couldn't stand it any longer so off I went to the hairdresser for some advice.
I'd heard that if you are brunette with some grey hair and didn't want to keep colouring it dark then you had to go lighter and gradually blend the grey hair in. My hairdresser confirmed this but advised me to have the blonde put in little by little and gradually build it up whilst having my roots coloured at he same time.
Not quite as straight forward as throwing on a hair colour from the chemist!
This all made me a little anxious...................I really didn't want people to stare at me and say "Oh dear, look at that sad old bint with her blonde highlights desperately trying to look as if she's still 18" and then laugh,leaving me feeling old and humiliated.
Then the paranoia passed and I took her advice.
The first time she put a few in it took a while to get used to but I soon began to like it .
Yesterday being my second trip she added some more and I LOVE IT!!! I am converted. Brunette and grey or blonde? Oh blonde,definately darling!.............
Before you can say bimbo I'll have a bright orange spray-tan,fake boobs and nails and start wearing a thong pulled halfway up my back!
Now for more mid-life crisis stuff.
Yesterday I went to a gym for the first time in my life...........Well,first time since I was at junior school so a long time since I last did any exercise other than running up the stairs! Rose came with me.........................too scared to go on my own incase it was full of Baywatch types watching with amusement and slight pity as I struggle to complete a minute on the treadmill before collapsing in a heap of saliva, sweat and brand new trainers.
As it turned out ,it wasn't too traumatic at all.I was pleasantly surprised. I knew I wasn't grossly overweight or terribly unfit but I was a bit worried about what the assessment might reveal. Rose and I sat in the room with the manager who was to assess us, both feeling as if we were in the Headmasters office about to be told how badly we had let ourselves down but surprise,surprise(for me anyway,I knew Rose would be ok),everything was good and all within the healthy parameters.
Both happy and with our ego's suitably boosted we hurried off to the gym,full of enthusiasm.
A lovely girl, (half my age) showed us all the equipment and how to use it and then told us to try it out to see what we felt comfortable with. Next visit our personal training programmes will be ready for us but this visit was just a 'try out'.
Well,.................Laugh!!! At one point I was worried that the other, obviously more 'au fait' gym users would get annoyed with us as we were basically just laughing at eachother for the first 10 minutes. Rose is a bit feeble with her arms as she has hyper-mobility (not helped by years of dancing) and I'm a bit feeble, just because I am.
After a while we calmed down and did actually manage to do some exercise.
We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and hope to go a couple of times a week. I really hope the novelty doesn't wear off before we see the benefits!
I WILL NOT GROW OLD GRACEFULLY
I WILL NOT TOLERATE GREY HAIR (yet)
I WILL BE AS FIT AND TONED AS A CHAMPION RACING SNAKE
This will be my mantra.
Wish me luck!!!! ;)