Yesterday I got some terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, life altering news and after letting it sink in I made the following observations:

And before you all get too concerned-I’m fine, my husband and kids are all great.  Our sisters and their families are all fine as far as I know.  Two of Kevins sisters kids are having kids of their own soon.  The fact that my girls aren’t even seeing anyone for me to even think about grandkids, at least to my knowledge, is an observation for another time:)

My terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, life altering news…
THE PERSON WHO CUTS MY HAIR IS MOVING!

OK, so you’re thinking “That’s it?”

YES!  THAT’S IT!  But think about it.  You see that person, at least for me, every month and a half or so.  They can make your day or next few weeks feel great if the haircut is good.  Or perhaps the opposite if the cut goes somehow wrong, but that rarely happens because they know you so well.  They probably know more about you than they should.  Think of the things you tell them:)  And if you find the right person you carry on this relationship for years.

Now to find that right person to cut your hair, to start over again, it could take months.  You call a salon for an appointment.  You can just go with whoever isn’t busy.  If you do that you get the person who just graduated from school and has no clients and probably no experience.  You might get lucky…you might not.

You go in for your appointment and the connection just isn’t there.  They don’t want to cut your hair the way you want, if you even know how you want it cut.  The same person has been cutting it for years and you pretty much let them decide how they wanted to cut it anyway.  Or this new person has no idea how to cut your hair at all.  They don’t want to cut it too short.  They suggest you die it red.  They try to sell you 100 products you will never use.  But you notice across the room is someone you think might do a better job.  Well you know you can’t go to them.  What would the person who is now cutting your hair think if a month later you are sitting in the chair of the person across the room!  So it’s on to the next salon in the yellow pages.  (And no, I don’t use the yellow pages, but the next listing that comes up on google just didn’t sound right.)

So what do you do next.  I’ll ask a friend who they go to.  That has disaster written all over it.  You go to the person who your friend suggests.  Their hair looks great, what can go wrong.  They have been going to this person for years.  The connection just isn’t there.  Your friend asks later how it went.  Can you really say “Why is it again that you go to them?”  or  “No, they just weren’t for me.”  Well your friend goes back to get their hair cut and are asked how their friend, me, liked the haircut.  What are they supposed to say then?

After a couple of months hopefully you have found someone that you think might be the one.  You go back a second time, then a third and you continue until you have to start this process all over again.  ARRGH!

Maybe I should just cut my own hair!  No, I’ve tried that before.  It never works:)

Ok, so I know there are much worse things that can happen to someone on any given day.  My hope for you is that nothing worse than losing the person who cuts your hair happens to you today.  Know I’m there for you.  But if I’m wearing a hat, you’ll also know I haven’t found that perfect stylist just yet:)

And Molly (I’m not even sure I know your last name after all these years-shame on me) Molly at Avalon, thanks for all the great haircuts and conversation.  Good luck in KC.