I took the plunge today, and did my roots with REAL salon hair color. My hair dresser did me a solid and hooked me up with the real deal. Two tubes of color to do whatever magic he does, and then the activator. His parting words were, "equal parts color and activator, mix well, 30 minutes...and remember, this is the real permanent stuff, so don't screw it up". Easy right?
I got out the kitchen measuring scale so I could do the exact right amount of each color tube and the exact right amount of activator, and then I mixed that bad boy up and came up with a very, VERY thick mixture. I texted him a picture and got the thumbs up and then I went to town. Of course when it came to the back of my head I couldn't do that without assistance, so who better than Gia? My 12 year old who has yet to have cultivated an arsenal of snarky comments that I no doubt would have gotten from either of the older girls. Gia took it to task and I think managed the whole back of my head, but the good news is that if she actually missed any spots I couldn't see it anyway.
30 mins later I was grey root free, a miracle!! It also looks about 100x better than last time I tried something myself which included the clairol grey root color touchup from Walgreens which while not horrible, wasn't nearly "normal". It's pretty awesome to have my 'not natural' hair color back...I feel myself again!!
As I was sitting in my bedroom waiting out the 30 minutes while the hair color did its magic I could hear Romeo in his room having a playdate with his cousin who is also 9. They were playing the equivalent of "house" within their Roblox game. Remember playing "house" as a kid? Where you basically pretend to do all the stuff we do in real life, but I guess better? You take care of kids, make food, go places. We also played "roadway", which consisted of going up and down the long driveway, stopping at the stoplights, crosswalks etc., and trying not to get pulled over by the police (which was always my brother). Kids love the kid version of adult things.
The amazing part is that they have managed to figure out how to have a virtual playdate on multiple levels. First off, they are both on their computers and they are navigating around their house on Roblox together, and then they have iPads set up with video capability AND of course audio, so they can talk to each other about what they are doing. "Go tell me it's time to go to school and then I'll grab my lunch", "can you take me in your car to school", "pretend that your my dad". There is also a lot of singing going on. It was hysterical. I need to secretly video tape it so I never forget how funny it is. What a different world the kids have now compared to when I was 9, but that's what every generation says looking back and waxing nostalgic about their childhood. Really though, the world is a crazy place now, even without the corona virus and every once in awhile I realize how much it's changed.
We live in a really urban area, so Romeo's "yard" is the street where he plays basketball with his friends and rides bikes (neither of which he can do right now). It's also the huge park three blocks away where he plays (also can't do that right now). He's starving for interaction with kids other than his sisters and it's amazing to me that they have this whole virtual world where they can meet, interact and "play" and it actually WORKS really well. Lack of physical fitness element aside.
Lastly, we are about to enter the LAST week of April. The very last one...of APRIL!!! It's blowing my mind really. Our first full month of quarantine and for most of us when the end of the month hits we'll have been sheltering in place for 6 weeks. Wow, that's all I can say. Wow.
So I was thinking we might want to hit it hard this coming week with our goal, so that we can hit the ground running right into May (which hopefully will hold some lock-down relief). We need a nice strong goal, so we picked the goal of exercise and moving our bodies to stay healthy. I think I voted for this goal now because I've noticed in the last few days I've been dragging. A little physically, and probably mostly mentally. It's been hard for me to rally the energy to exercise and I've felt tired and blah. I know I feel better when I DO exercise, especially when I feel in the aforementioned mood. So that's it people....let's exercise next week! Let's commit right now to kick off Monday with something healthy and strong, and to do something every single day to better our body. No excuses, and even if you are dragging, or feeling in a mild-depressed-quarantine-state-of-mind, or feel puffy from too many quaran-tinis, let's just do it anyway because we know it'll make us feel better. I'm in, so get in too!
Signed, ME {lv}
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