Thursday Thoughts
I first got highlights when I turned 16, meant to hide the issue of my sunny blonde strand's rapid transition to mousy brown. For the next five years my hair colors spanned the rainbow, ranging from $200 salon colors to stinking $6 box dye jobs in my dorm room sink. When I cut off most of my hair in fall of 2011, it was as penance to my poor, bone dry strands. I continued to cut it even shorter for the next year and never colored it. This is all to say that it's finally grown (I estimate it's at about 10 inches) and I actually love the color. Kind of auburn, kind of chocolate. Who knew?
Speaking of coworkers, one of mine is pregnant and instead of cards, everyone is picking a book and writing a note in it. Such an adorable idea. I picked a beautiful version of the Velveteen Rabbit, and I'm excited to give it to her. I say it all the time, but I really do with some of the most awesome people ever. We’re mostly in our 20-30s and are total go-getters and hilarious English majors. Pretty ideal.
Two of my good friends from college had babies last week and they are so, so, so precious. It makes me think about life and work and loving work, but loving my family, too. I guess you'll never really know what the 'right' thing is to do, so I try to remove all preconceived notions about the timeline of what 'should' be and focus on what we want and where we find our happiness.