Anybody else feel like they are struggling right now?\u00a0 DESPITE the world going back to normal?\u00a0 Stores open.\u00a0 Indoor dining.\u00a0 Hair cuts.\u00a0 Fitness classes.<\/p>\n
We can do “all the things”.\u00a0\u00a0We should be doing alright.\u00a0 Right?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n So why this feeling of not really feeling OKAY?\u00a0 I don’t mind sharing with you that I have been having some issues lately.\u00a0 With getting older.\u00a0 Feeling<\/em> older.\u00a0 Feeling BLAH.<\/p>\n I’ve escaped in Netflix too many times.\u00a0 Eaten peanut butter out of the jar too much.\u00a0 And have been really trying to feel okay with me.<\/p>\n I’ve deleted most of my social media and limited my circle of friends.\u00a0 I consider Genoa City my second home from watching too much Y&R, and that should probably worry more than it does (smile).<\/p>\n I need to shake things up!\u00a0 I need to get back to feeling like myself.\u00a0 So, tomorrow I am taking a vacation day and starting it off with changing up the “do”.<\/p>\n New hair fixes everything.\u00a0 Or so I tell myself.<\/p>\n Anybody else put a whole lot of pressure on a new thing?\u00a0 Like a new hair cut or colour?\u00a0 Because I DO!\u00a0 In my mind, new colour or a new style brings me back to life.\u00a0 It rejuvenates.\u00a0 It invigorates.<\/p>\n I tend to be very spontaneous with my hair cuts.\u00a0 I will wake up on a Saturday morning and decide “today I’m getting a cut”.\u00a0 \u00a0 Which doesn’t always work in my favour.\u00a0 There has been some regrets over the years. (smile).<\/p>\n This time, in the midst of a pandemic and lockdowns – it’s been a hole lot harder to be spontaneous.\u00a0 \u00a0I’ve had to live with this mess like everyone else has had to do.\u00a0 \u00a0Last year I let the grey take over until looking through pictures had me feeling nostalgic for my younger days when I coloured my hair – and often.<\/p>\n I love that we can change how we feel about ourselves with a haircut.<\/p>\n Sitting in that chair, full of hope.\u00a0 I put a lot on a hair cut.\u00a0 Lots of pressure.\u00a0 I plead with the hair dresser to “fix me”.\u00a0 \u00a0A lot of pressure on a hair cut.<\/p>\n Am I alone in that?<\/p>\n Inches cut off feels like a weight lifting in other ways.<\/p>\n In my mind a hair cut will change me.\u00a0 It will take away all the negative thoughts I’ve been thinking about myself.\u00a0 It will change ME.\u00a0 It’s like a re-start.\u00a0 I always secretly hope I will someone LOOK different too.\u00a0 You know the Jennifer Aniston cut?\u00a0 I wanted that.\u00a0 But I also hoped I would look more like HER and less like myself.<\/p>\n My apologies to hair dressers everywhere whose chair I have sat in with big eyes full of hope and anticipation.<\/p>\n “Please change me, change my life.”<\/p>\n Just have to get through that awkward and ugly phase first, of sitting uncomfortably in that chair, staring at your own reflection in the mirror, hair dripping down, feeling so ugly.\u00a0 Feels like punishment of sorts.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n Anybody else feel the same?\u00a0 Like you just need some big change in your life?\u00a0 Maybe to shake off the last year and a half.\u00a0 Maybe to shake off the last 49 years.\u00a0 (smile).\u00a0 \u00a0I’m not sure why the approaching 50 mark is so challenging.\u00a0 \u00a0Any advice is always appreciated.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 How do you handle getting older?<\/p>\n I’m excited about a new cut and a new attitude.\u00a0 And if I look more like Julia Roberts or Jennifer Aniston when I’m done – who would complain? (smile)\u00a0 #wishfulthinking<\/p>\n I’ll share more when I get back from stay-cation on Monday.\u00a0 \u00a0Unless it goes horribly wrong.\u00a0 Then I will send you my forwarding address as I disappear.\u00a0 Ha.<\/p>\n Let’s stay in touch!\u00a0 Email me anytime!<\/p>\n