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Happy New Year


Daneela

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First, I'm wishing for your new year to be filled with happiness. I feel respected here. I try to be very thoughtful in every way with everything I write in the message board and here. Many of you have shared yourselves with us. I've offered what I have. Thanks for listening.

Wednesday I took the next tiny step on the journey. I've been letting my hair grow off and on throughout my life. When I had to attend a 2 day meeting in D.C. I donated 12 inches of natural brown hair the day before and got a "businessman" cut. This was the first time I'd be meeting members of our project team and I wanted to make as good an impression as I could. I also clipped the nails and took off the polish. I wore my smallest gold stud earrings; it turned out the the project leader noticed and mentioned it during the meeting. Oh, well, I really don't like meeting with customers, especially when it's critical that I avoid all mistakes.

I regrew my hair immediately after that trip. I'm maintaining it at the point where my first natural wave appears which reaches the bottom of my shirt collar. When I visit the salon for a trim, I get a blow dry and style as well. Barb, my hairdresser, puts it in a bob, framing my face, covering my ears and using bangs to cover my high forehead. The day I took my wife to her for a beauty day, my wife outed me to Barb because she forgets I pass for other people. Barb's okay with it, though she has never known anything about transsexuality before.

About the third visit, Barb said she wanted to color my hair. I resisted. But a few weeks ago, we were flown up to Connecticut for my boss's Christmas party. I was fully en homme at the party. I met a bunch of really nice folks but meeting my newest co-worker was one thing I'd hoped to do. She's a few years older than I but has been a computer programmer for at least as long as I have. We share a lot of history and I joke that we're really clones raised apart. We've had many similar experiences with customers, managers, juniors and all the other people computer programmers have to deal with.

I bring MA into this story because she turned out to be exceptionally cute. She's petite height, has a healthy weight and a terrific sense of humor. Her fair was an auburn page boy cut. It looked so good, I decided I'd get my hair colored too.

I trust Barb so I let her decide what colors we'd use. She described the base color as Golden Blond. She gave me the bundled special, so I got highlights, too. When she brought out the bowls, I got a little nervous. The blond coloring was the brightest yellow I could imagine and the highlight coloring was almost completely white. I could only hope the dye would darken.

We took about 2 hours to color, highlight and style my new hair. We maintained the bob style and since she'd placed the highlights on the crown of my head, they naturally part and land on top of the blond base. I'm very nearsighted so I could only get a vague impression of the colors on my head and I saw a dark blonde with golden highlights. I was pleased and grinned from ear to ear. After we finished the styling and I could put my glasses on, I liked it immediately. Barb was pleased too.

My wife had told me she thought coloring my hair was not a good idea. She tried once to talk me out of it. She'd asked to visit the mall with me and she'd do a little shopping while I was in the salon. There was no seating in the salon so she sat down in a chair around the corner. I approached her and playfully bent over, peering into her face and asking, "Have we met before?" When she looked up from her book, her immediate reaction was, "I like it!"

So, there it is. I'n now a bottle blonde at 59 and happy, very happy. Nice way to prepare for a new year.

Happy New Year, everybody!

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