However, you would never know it because it usually looks like this...
Me with my favorite iRONman. |
It's always pulled back and into a looped ponytail. When I do leave it down, by midday it's annoying me and sitting on my neck and, yup, it gets pulled up.
I was thinking about cutting my hair. It's only hair. It'll grow back. I'm healthy enough that it will. I did the usual musing out loud on Facebook. I did some crowd sourcing. I was given some reasons I shouldn't cut it:
- ponytails are low maintenance
- ponytails are great for working out
- you have such pretty hair
- short hair with your curls will take effort
The reason that caused me to launch into an obscenity filled rant:
Men like long hair. Men don't like short hair. If you want to be dating you should leave your hair long.This isn't the exact quote because I pretty much stopped listening and started cussing my girl friend out. These were some of the topics/thoughts/themes I shared with her: I am not dating anyone. I live my life for me. I'm open to the idea of a someone, but I stopped holding my breath YEARS ago. So I should leave my hair long just in case I might meet some guy who might want to date me but he might only want to date me if I have long hair? I went on to say if he doesn't want to date me because of my hair, then he's not the right guy for me.
I stopped waiting for a knight in any sort of armor to swoop in and make my life complete a long time ago. If I were waiting for that to happen, I'd still be watching my life go by. I never would have taken a cruise. I never would have gone to Israel. I never would have started running. I never would have started tri-ing. I never would have bought my condo (well, that might have been a good thing, I digress.)
Most of the knights I have met have turned out to be a bit goofy |
You know how some single people don't understand why they are single? I'm not one of them. Here's the reality of it all: THE LIST OF REASONS NOT TO DATE ME IS SO FREAKIN' LONG, and the length of my hair doesn't even earn top 20 status:
- I'm outspoken
- I'm a planner
- I don't like surprises
- I stay busy
- I bite my nails
- I have endurance but no six-pack
- I don't understand a single gaming system
- My idea of a great first date is a nice easy run.
- I like food and have difficulties with hyper-picky eaters
- I don't need a man in my life
- I don't know what I want to be when I grow up
- I have no patience for 'dating games'
- I have no idea where the latest hot spot to hang out is
- My alarm is often set at 05xx seven days a week
- I am going to eat all of that
- I don't watch Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or Mad Men
- I don't have cable television (or won't as of May)
- Very quickly into dating I lose interest in getting dressed up to go out and am quite content to cook a meal together and just hang in except sometimes, I want to go out
- I don't like cats
- I have killer tan lines of a perma-tri kit and socks
- I have no interest in rearranging my life around any one specific sports team
- I speak sarcasm fluently
- I'm a strong personality
- I'm deeper than a kiddie pool
- If I sit still, I often fall asleep
And well, if you are a guy who only likes long hair, then I'm SOL. Because I have short hair:
Left: The first cut through. Right: half my head cut, the other half not. |
All done by Devon at Van Michael, and then the aftermath of a cap and rain. |