Gotta dye my hair blue now

[csberry]

Today is "Scout Sunday." After finding four volunteers this past Wednesday at the troop meeting to usher for today, I told the boys that it would be great if some extra scouts would show up just because it is Scout Sunday and the blue-hairs (old ladies) of the church would love the opportunity to say how nice they look and pinch their cheeks. Additional volunteers were non-existent...so I said that I would dye my hair blue the following week if I had 8 scouts in uniform for the church service. Depending on who you include, there were 7, 8, 9, or 10 "scouts" there.

Although I can weasel out of this on a technicality that neither the two Cub Scouts nor the over-18 Eagle Scout are youth in our troop (which would only show that I'm a wishy-washy asshole), I've decided to go ahead with the dye job.

I know I can probably find blue hair dye at Hot Topic, but I'm really hoping to find it somewhere else in town now. Hopefully I can purchase the dye tomorrow (I'm thinking about going to Sally Beauty first, then Enchanted Masquerade or Zero Gravity if no luck at Sally) and dye my hair either Tuesday or Wednesday before the next troop meeting.

Comments

[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

Darlin', you can dye your hair with Kool-Aid, should you be so inclined. It comes out a lot easier than traditional dye.

[csberry.livejournal.com]

I've done the Kool-Aid hair coloring before. It didn't do squat for me. When one of the older scouts that bonds with me about Chuck Taylors asked for clarification during the meeting last week, I explicitly said I wasn't going to cop out by doing something quick and dull like that. I pledged to try to turn it a bright blue, but with my hair coloring it would likely be more of a navy blue.

No, I'm perfectly fine having a "mid-life crisis" session of coloring my hair blue. As JD told her mom today, it's cheaper than buying me a sports car. There is no way I could have done this in my last job with all the networking and the govt aspect, but I'm clear to do nearly anything w/ the severe lack of face-to-face contact with coworkers, business partners, and customers at the current job.

I think the business partners might question my showing up to meetings in drag, though. :)

[auronsgirl.livejournal.com]

Mid-life crisis, pah. We've got a few more years before that.

While you're dying, you could always grab some Betty Beauty and surprize the heck out of JD.