Hair Today, Gone Last Summer

Hey, do y'all remember that one hilarious time when I went to get my hair cut and the hairdresser was drunk or something and ended up chopping off all my hair?

 And I had a concert to go to that night, and I ended up crying the whole way there and my friends and family tried to console me and I tried to convince my friend Casey to sponsor me getting a new do.

Well, it was a rough 16 months full of head bands, hair wraps, bandanas, pony tails and hair clips . . . but it finally happened. I pulled the locks down, yanked out the blow dryer and very nearly orgasmed with glee at the final results.

Tada! And for the record, I think this is actually my natural hair color. I say "I think" because I haven't dyed it since the last cut and I don't actually remember what my natural hair color looks like. My birth certificate says "strawberry blonde" and the boxes I buy at the store usually say "burgundy" so I'm gonna call this an awesome combination. I'm gonna name it "perfect red". Cause seriously? Tada!

"Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen!"

To celebrate this momentous occasion, here are some of my favourite quotes about redheads:

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead!"
-Lucille Ball, 1972

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."
-Mark Twain

"If you want trouble... find your self a redhead."

"Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but it takes a real man to handle a redhead."

"Of course, part of the problem with redheads is that there aren't enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they're pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted."
-Grant McCracken

"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
-Anne to Marilla in Anne of Green Gables

"Blondes are noticed but redheads are never forgotten."

"When a fellow has a home and a dear, little, red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life?"
-Gilbert in Anne's House of Dreams