So, why don’t hair stylists listen when you tell them you just want a trim?

I’m not saying that I got a bad haircut today, because I think she did a good job. But, I distinctly remember saying I wanted to keep it long.

So–before I left this morning, my hair looked like this, on the left.

After I got home, it looked like this, on the right.

Not exactly a “trim.” Rather more dramatic than that, don’t you think? My hair hasn’t been this short in over a year, since I decided I wanted to grow it out. I’d say she took off more than the 1-2 inches I asked for, huh? (Especially when you consider how much length is taken up by the curl.)

Still, it appears to be a decent haircut, and the length will grow. And my hair never looks good on the day of a haircut–after all the combing and snipping and sectioning and more combing, I have more frizz than curl. So really, I won’t be able to see how good (or bad) this haircut is until tomorrow morning. Right now, it’s dry from my evening shower, but still clumped with gel . . . it will look completely different once it’s been slept on (grin).

(And yes, I know, most people love the way their hair looks the day of a cut, after being professionally styled, and then complain they can’t get it to look that way themselves. Really, I’d much rather have this problem–put up with one bad hair day and then style it the way I want it the rest of the time.)

Of course, with this stylist, my hair was once this short (May 2004, on the left).
Which, thankfully, I had grown out this far (right) by Christmas that year. Really, early 2004 was the shortest my hair had been since the misguided Princess-Diana haircut I had my freshman year of high school, in, what was it? 1981? I suppose every 20 years I go a little crazy with the haircuts!

Still, I’m not actually complaining. After all, my hair did need a trim . . . right? And really, this is probably way more than you wanted to know about my hair . . . (grin) What you’re really here for is the knitting, right?

I did get a fair amount done on my socks today. about an inch and a half (that’s 4 inches to my hair stylist) of the ribbing.

I decided to do ribbing instead of something fancier, but I’m doing a cabled ribbing for just a little extra flair, or whatever. Not just plain 2×2 ribbing.

Here’s a close-up.

I’m hoping that I’ll get these socks done this week . . . a sentence at which I’m chuckling. I only started them last weekend, and I’m hoping to finish them this week? For heaven’s sake, my last pair took me five months, and these may be done in less than two weeks? Astounding.

But, really, I’m hoping to get them done by, say, Thursday. Because of course, the Olympics start on Friday at which time, no knitting is going to be done except my Olympic knitting. But the socks are really going to look so fabulous with my Olympics sweater, I want to have them done and ready to wear for the first time I wear that sweater . . . hopefully on February 27th!

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