March Madness ‘09
For me March is SOOOO crazy. I used to take a personal day in March because of this craziness...
Part of that crazy is my birthday… my brother’s birthday… my sister-in-law’s birthday… my brother-in-law’s birthday… my friend Cathy and Cory’s birthdays… it’s nuts!
Then lets add in St. Patty’s day… March is Art Education Month which has an accompanying art show at the Fremont Area Art Association… RWTB (as you know) has promotions in March. RWTB instructors will have our quarterly meeting with Mr. Rosenbach in March… and all my usual stuff too (Logan View after school program).
So I go a little crazy. How Crazy? How about “cutting off eleven inches of my hair” crazy.
Locks of Love: I like having long hair. It’s getting to a point in my life where I’ve lived with a pony tail more of my life than I have without. That’s just guessing but I think it’s pretty close. I’ve only cut my hair really short a handful of times since childhood. This time it wasn’t to start school… or land a job… or for any practical reason… This time it was because I had the hair to give. I believe this was my longest ponytail ever and I thought I can cut off the length and it will still be long. So I did… I’m sending my hair to Locks of Love… this will be I believe the 3rd time I’ve done this? Eleven inches of hair… if you don’t know what locks of love is please visit their site: http://www.locksoflove.org/
Why is it so important? Well a lot of times I’ll get snarky responses from people like “Hey ever heard of Locks of Love?” and sometimes I get indignant… yeah… I’ve donated twice… how about you? Well being that it was long enough… I felt it was time to add #3 to that response. It’s a good cause and it only requires me to be self-less. That’s all. It doesn’t cost me anything to grow my hair and often times the barber or stylist is more than happy to donate the hair cut. I love having a pony tail… but sometimes I feel like I need to be giving to others… this is something uniquely me… that I’m giving away. I miss that length… but I’ll live well without it and I’ll hopefully watch it all grow out all over again.
So no… it’s not some mid-life crisis just because it happened around my birthday… I’ve known and planned on it for months. It just happened this month as a matter of convenience.
Thank you to everyone who has wished me well for it, it’s not a decision that was easy to make… but it was probably the right decision for me to make.