Hats, hats and more hats

It was like Christmas.

I was so excited to receive this parcel, it really did remind me of a small child on Christmas day, running to the tree to rip open all the wrapping and boxes to see what lay within.

It was a parcel that I had been expecting. I had ordered many coloured hats from my favourite hat seller in the US and they had arrived.

I could barely control myself as I tore into the envelope.

And I was not disappointed.

 

All of them fit and were exactly as I had hoped for. Colourful and bright and able to be matched with many of my outfits.

You see there is joy within Alopecia!! Just not where you would expect to find it.

 

Wet hair

Sunday night used to be bath and hair wash night - remember?

Ok well I wash a little more regular than that, however hair wash is still once a week and usually on a Sunday. Last night was no different.

So I washed and conditioned my hair with the special "second" hair lotions and let it dry in the shower, like usual. However somehow I managed to hang it up slightly differently. As a consequence when I woke this morning, I was dismayed to find that it was still wet! Yikes.

The hair itself had actually dried but the band inside which holds the wig onto the head was still damp. Really nastily damp. This meant I had to wear what felt like a wet dish cloth round my head to go to work. Yak!

I debated my options. Wear a hat. Wear a new wig. Go bald. 

In the end I went for the easy and yet obvious choice. The wet one.

It was awful.

For the first few hours of the day, I felt this squelchy damp ring around my head. really unpleasant. By lunch time I think I had steamed it dry, but for the first few hours of the day, I grinned and bore it.

Of course no one in the meeting room had a clue.

It made me also wonder, what other people had going on to them, that I had no clue about. Surely I was not the only one with a secret.

Sigh, I guess there is no way of knowing.

Oh well its all dry now. Better luck next Sunday!

2.5 lies a day?

I was listening to my podcast this morning and it was an article on lying.
It says the average person lies 2.5 times a day, although older people lie less with around 1.5 lies.
Does that sound familiar?

Of course one can debate, well what exactly constitutes a lie, but surely just by asking that question, we are actually suggesting we do lie, but only slightly.

So I guess if I text someone to say "on my way", when the reality is that I am brushing my teeth just before I leave, this is actully a lie, so maybe 2.5 lies a day is actually not bad at all.

The article suggested women lie, in general, to ensure harmony and social living, whereas as men tend to lie as an exaggeration or a form of bragging. Truth in that?

So today I am going to watch my lies, lets hope I keep under the 2.5!!