a little bit of hair (or bit ON hair, as the case may be…)

wednesday – another slow day at the office. magnified by the fun i had running around, visiting, and OCCASIONALLY working in SA the day before…slow enough to where i was able to write the ‘SA leftovers’ piece and nobody seemed to notice i was writing instead of working. then, oddly enough, it was off to the gym. wednesday was chest/back/shoulders day since i’m skipping out on work on friday and therefore SOMETHING’S gotta be skipped this week and i decided it needed to be legs, since they itch like a bitch anyway after being the main course at a mosquito buffet in angel’s front yard tuesday night….but i’m rambling here (shock…gasp…shudder). let’s head back to the gym for a second (BAD pun)…

this was the first time i’ve hit the gym to do bench press (the cornerstone of any good chest workout if you’re a guy…if you’re a girl, i recommend incline bench..it’s kinda like your body’s natural bra…makes “them” perky and stand up like little toy soldiers) since i got the hair chopped off. milliseconds before my head hit the bench, i reached around and swept my hand across the back of my neck so the ponytail (that’s no longer there but had been since 1990 give or take) wouldn’t get caught under me or sit funny. i also find myself reaching back there to pull it out when i put on a shirt or chain around my neck (as in jewelry, not some fetish thing…in those cases i apply the chains and collars to others…but perhaps i’ve said to much here)

so here’s MY question…how long will i do this? i like myself better with short hair, and have no plans of growing it back out. but i guess some habits are hard to break. i still load up a HUGE amount of conditioner into my hand when i’m in the shower just out of habit….which means i need to stop showering alone for a while so it doesn’t go to waste, right? i mean, i used to buy the tigi bed head stuff (moisture maniac shampoo and self-absorbed deep conditioner, in case your curious…and i am NOT gay) and they’d last me about six months or so. my stylist, steve, recommended i switch to the paul mitchell tea tree stuff, and since i found a sale where i could buy the conditioner and get the shampoo for free at the beauty store, i hopped all over it (had i mentioned i am SO not gay?) during my post-gym errands last night that delayed me to the point of STILL not getting the house cleaned up (which is yet ANOTHER reason why i’m taking tomorrow off of work).

a quick polling of some of the women in my life while i was in SA (not meant in THAT way, unfortunately) showed 100% approval of me with the shorter ‘do. the only thing i got close to a complaint was one of them said, “i like it…but i DO kinda miss the longness…”. this shows that she and i have NEVER been anything more than friends, because if we had, it would be more the thickness and the piercedness she missed…but never mind that now. i think she meant it as a hair reference…

so for any of you guys (or ladies) who have chopped it down (your hair, that is, not meant as a lumberjack reference…) lemme again reference the “question of the day”, as it were…which is your favorite hole?

(gotcha)

but seriously…how much longer will i be like some war vet who SWEARS he can feel his missing appendage with this whole hair thing?