Somewhere over the rainbow

One of the reasons people (me) perform such rituals as hair coloring is to rid myself of those nasty grays.  Occasionally I get bored of a color and need a change. I have been coloring, lightening, straightening, perming, bleaching my hair for 30 years.  I'm usually pretty good at it.  Tonight's encounter with the box o'color is due to the former.  That and the fact that my hair was 6 different colors, and not in a good way.  Since Halloween is still 6 weeks out, I figured I didn't want to look like the wicked witch of the west - representin' on the east coast.  So, with trusty gloves on hand, away I go....
I'm gonna wash that gray right out of my hair...

There are few things I hate worse than having the extraneous color all over the side of your face, your neck, blah blah blah.  Fast forward 20 minutes

First comes the rinse; normally the unprocessed color usually rinses out in 2-3 minutes.  When I saw that after 10 minutes the color was still rinsing out, that should have been my first clue. Then put conditioner on and finish in the shower.  Shake out water, wrap hair in towel and take first look in mirror.  If you dont see any residual color on the face/head, thats a good sign.  Again, tonite was not to be one of those times.  The sides of my face are orange.  ORANGE- my hair is supposed to be red....wtf?

This was the second clue...

Hair dries for a bit, remove towel for comb-out and there it is.  The grays are gone but my hair probably has more colors to it now then it didnt 45 minutes ago... Absolutely fabulous :(  If I was going to join a punk band or if this was 20 years ago, I'd say cool.  Now, not so much.  So I will give it a few days and try at it again after a few washes and maybe we'll go with a nice boring color like brown, as long as it's just one color.  Until then I am feeling very Willy Wonkaish

Progession

So the weather is lousy, and not much going on..but the weather, so what else is there to do?
Bathrooms are cleaned, kitchen floor is mopped and Wii has been played for a little (almost entirely by the hubby- I played for 10 minutes).  Three day weekend plus a few bonus hours, as my super cool boss let us go early today.  As long as the weather holds out tomorrow and this tropical storm has moved off of the island, I think we will go to the pow-wow out east in the morning.  Then of course, I have the strange feeling there will be quite a bit of work on the book.  My fingers are buzzing as if they have AAA batteries inserted into them and they have to be let loose.  If you smell burning in the air this weekend, don't fear, I'm sure it will just be my fingers typing at warp speed.