Blue hair...Pink lines??
So yesterday I had an interesting experience...let me start out by saying that I made LIFETIME!!!! I am officially an AFTER! I did the 6 weeks of maintenance & weighed in yesterday within the 2 pounds of my goal :) YAY!! And maybe one of the best parts of me making lifetime was that I got the spotlight all to myself...Tina (*name changed) was doing her 6 weeks of maintenance too and made lifetime the same day, but since she had made lifetime before it was nice that I didn't have to share the spotlight with her and hear the same old speech of "I'm not typical" as everyone oh's and ah's over her losing over a hundred some odd pounds...that is great and all, don't get me wrong...but she just has such a "one upper" type air that it is just irritating. So to be able to have a standing ovation all for myself, that was just priceless :)
I was slightly irritated when I was talking to the WW girls later on and she was standing there trying to get in on the conversation & get the focus on her...she kept trying to manipulate the conversation about her journey...so frustrating! But what can you do?
So the four of us (the boys went to the meeting too...to support me making lifetime, which was really cool) went to lunch & then headed home since Dennis had to head out to our nephew's birthday party & I had a hair appointment in Silverdale. This is where the interesting experience comes in...I have been going to my hairdresser Andrea for over 5 years now & have had highlights done for about that long too...this appointment I was having them retouched & everything was going normal. So she is taking out the foils & we go over to the shampoo bowl to wash my hair & she is taking a long time and keeps working & kinda pulling at my hair in places, which makes me wonder what is going on...I am just hoping that the color didn't burn through & my hair is breaking! It turns out that my hair wasn't releasing the color of the highlight solution, which is blue...so everywhere on my head there are blue pieces, like SERIOUSLY blue pieces. This has NEVER happened in the over 5 years that I have had highlights. She tried using a clarifying shampoo & left it in for a few minutes to hopefully open the cuticules of my hair & get that blue out...no such luck...so she puts an auburn rinse on it to help counteract the blue & while she is doing that we are talking & laughing about what happened & what could have caused it...and then one of the girls she was consulting comes over and says that this exact thing happened to a client of hers. Turns out it was the result of a hormone change & her client was pregnant and didn't even know it!
Great....
Instantly Andrea & I are silent...cause she knows my whole stance on babies at the moment & I am a little freaked out. The other girl moves on and Andrea tries to reassure me that I am probably not pregnant & the reason the color wasn't coming out was probably because of the heat (cause it was really hot in there)...but I am still not convinced and tell her that I will have to take a test to make sure...we start laughing about this whole thing eventually & she says that she already knows the sex of the baby because my hair is blue...so it has to be a boy!
So on my way home I stop by Rite Aid, pick up a test and head home. I grab Dennis, tell him I need his help & pull him upstairs. He thinks he is in trouble (not really) and says "I didn't do it!"...typical husband response :) I tell him that he might have...and then tell him about the blue hair, the hormone change & how this happened to a client who was pregnant & that we needed to take a test right now to see...he was so great...much more calm than I was, but then again he wouldn't have to carry a baby for 9 months!! Never would I think that peeing on a stick would be so nerve wracking, but it was...luckily the test turned out to be negative...so it wasn't hormones & do you think I would be telling this story on a blog if it actually was positive?!?! I have quite a few people who would literally kick my butt if they found out I actually WAS pregnant via my blog!
The funny thing was...I kept thinking that if I actually was positive I would be able to one-up Tina for once...when she made goal (or lifetime, I can't remember) she found out 3 days later that she was pregnant...Well, I made lifetime on Saturday and had I actually been pregnant I would have found both out in the exact same day...make lifetime AND find out I was pregnant...HA, take that!! Well, I won't have my one-up moment after all...but that's ok...I kinda prefer having some time to enjoy being at my goal weight before I do start on the baby track...I just didn't think that this would be what would go through my head at the possibility of seeing 2 pink lines!!
What a day huh??
I was slightly irritated when I was talking to the WW girls later on and she was standing there trying to get in on the conversation & get the focus on her...she kept trying to manipulate the conversation about her journey...so frustrating! But what can you do?
So the four of us (the boys went to the meeting too...to support me making lifetime, which was really cool) went to lunch & then headed home since Dennis had to head out to our nephew's birthday party & I had a hair appointment in Silverdale. This is where the interesting experience comes in...I have been going to my hairdresser Andrea for over 5 years now & have had highlights done for about that long too...this appointment I was having them retouched & everything was going normal. So she is taking out the foils & we go over to the shampoo bowl to wash my hair & she is taking a long time and keeps working & kinda pulling at my hair in places, which makes me wonder what is going on...I am just hoping that the color didn't burn through & my hair is breaking! It turns out that my hair wasn't releasing the color of the highlight solution, which is blue...so everywhere on my head there are blue pieces, like SERIOUSLY blue pieces. This has NEVER happened in the over 5 years that I have had highlights. She tried using a clarifying shampoo & left it in for a few minutes to hopefully open the cuticules of my hair & get that blue out...no such luck...so she puts an auburn rinse on it to help counteract the blue & while she is doing that we are talking & laughing about what happened & what could have caused it...and then one of the girls she was consulting comes over and says that this exact thing happened to a client of hers. Turns out it was the result of a hormone change & her client was pregnant and didn't even know it!
Great....
Instantly Andrea & I are silent...cause she knows my whole stance on babies at the moment & I am a little freaked out. The other girl moves on and Andrea tries to reassure me that I am probably not pregnant & the reason the color wasn't coming out was probably because of the heat (cause it was really hot in there)...but I am still not convinced and tell her that I will have to take a test to make sure...we start laughing about this whole thing eventually & she says that she already knows the sex of the baby because my hair is blue...so it has to be a boy!
So on my way home I stop by Rite Aid, pick up a test and head home. I grab Dennis, tell him I need his help & pull him upstairs. He thinks he is in trouble (not really) and says "I didn't do it!"...typical husband response :) I tell him that he might have...and then tell him about the blue hair, the hormone change & how this happened to a client who was pregnant & that we needed to take a test right now to see...he was so great...much more calm than I was, but then again he wouldn't have to carry a baby for 9 months!! Never would I think that peeing on a stick would be so nerve wracking, but it was...luckily the test turned out to be negative...so it wasn't hormones & do you think I would be telling this story on a blog if it actually was positive?!?! I have quite a few people who would literally kick my butt if they found out I actually WAS pregnant via my blog!
The funny thing was...I kept thinking that if I actually was positive I would be able to one-up Tina for once...when she made goal (or lifetime, I can't remember) she found out 3 days later that she was pregnant...Well, I made lifetime on Saturday and had I actually been pregnant I would have found both out in the exact same day...make lifetime AND find out I was pregnant...HA, take that!! Well, I won't have my one-up moment after all...but that's ok...I kinda prefer having some time to enjoy being at my goal weight before I do start on the baby track...I just didn't think that this would be what would go through my head at the possibility of seeing 2 pink lines!!
What a day huh??