{"id":8350,"date":"2011-12-19T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2011-12-19T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:07:11","slug":"in-which-i-lose-something-and-gain-a-whole-new-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111219-8350.htm","title":{"rendered":"In which I lose something and gain a whole new me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made my haircut decision<\/a> almost two weeks ago–but time is something rather hard to find. So Mr. Husband had over a week to “speak now”. He not having spoken, the deed is now down.<\/p>\n

My hair before:<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

Gena brushes my hair out and tells me not to freak out as she suggests where she’ll cut.<\/p>\n

She sticks her hand on the spot and I say “Okay”. I’m thinking “Isn’t that how long my hair already is?” <\/p>\n

I say this out loud and Gena laughs “No, your hair is down here<\/i>.” This time, her hand chops into my back below my waistline.<\/p>\n

Oh. Okay.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

She holds out my hair for the first cut while N. (Gena’s daughter) works to get the right angle. They want to coordinate to get a picture of that snip. I hear the camera auto-focusing, then the flash goes off and the snip is complete.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/p>\n

My hair is now at its finished length. There’s no going back.<\/p>\n

Gena takes a picture so I can see the results.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

Gena asks me how I feel about layers.<\/p>\n

I give her the go-ahead.<\/p>\n

We take another picture so I can see what’s happened.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

Layers in front? Gena searches online for an example so I can see what she’s thinking. <\/p>\n

I tell her to do it, but not too high. A few snips are enough for me.<\/p>\n

She shows me myself again and asks if I want more. <\/p>\n

This time, I’m ready to be done for the day.<\/p>\n

My hair, in its new raw form.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

But Gena doesn’t want to leave it raw. Can she curl it for me?<\/p>\n

Sure. A few minutes later, I emerge–a totally new me.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-haircut\"<\/p>\n

My hair may have been longer than I thought–but I definitely recognize that some of it’s missing now. Scratch that–a lot of it’s missing now. <\/p>\n

As C. (Gena’s son) said, “It’s short.”<\/p>\n

Not actually–but short for me. But it looks nice, and I’m eager to enter into the world of healthy hair. If I can keep it up until it’s long again…<\/p>\n

Thanks, Gena, for offering to do my hair and for holding my hand throughout the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made my haircut decision almost two weeks ago–but time is something rather hard to find. So Mr. Husband had over a week to “speak now”. He not having spoken, the deed is now down. My hair before: Gena brushes my hair out and tells me not to freak out as she suggests where she’ll … Read more In which I lose something and gain a whole new me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}