31 December
So I dyed my hair black yesterday.
Yep. No joke. I look like Elvis' little sister.
You see, at the beginning of this year when I did The Unsatisfactory Supper, that show I did with Kevin and Sam, I wore a black wig and like everybody who saw me in it told me that I had to dye my hair black, that it was so becoming.
Of course I had, at that point, just bought a whole year's worth of red dye, so that precluded my doing anything on the spur of the moment, and thus this idea has been fermenting in my skull ever since February.
So, in November, I told my mother that I wanted to dye my hair black. She was not encouraging. I told Nik I was going to dye my hair black. "I think your hair looks good the colour it is!"
So I decided to bring some red dye home with me (my hairdresser no longer uses my brand, so I need to bring my own) just in case I decided not to go through with it. Well, I was sitting on the plane coming to LA, and I suddenly realized that I had forgotten to pack the hair dye.
So that decision was made for me!
It looks good! Renee, my hairdresser, as she was rinsing it out, said "Hey, looks great!" I said, "What would you have said if it didn't, 'cause it's too late to change anything? 'You know what would look really good on you? A crewcut!'"
Of course, there's this line of black on my forehead, marking my hairline. I look like "My First Elvis Barbie".
So then, I, in my guise of "The On-line Journalist Who Has to Meet More On-Line Journalists Than Any Other On-line Journalists", got together with Amanda Erickson.
She lives way the hell out (though she would argue, saying that it is me who lives way the hell out), but I made her drive all the way out to get me, because I'm just selfish that way.
We went to Universal Studios Citywalk, and ate at the Hard Rock. I said that I never eat at the Hard Rock in New York, 'cause I'm just too cool and stuff, but we agreed that if you are at the Universal Citywalk, your credibility is already shot to shit, so you might as well just eat at the Hard Rock!
I had a very nice turkey club, thank you very much.
And Amanda is very nice!
She is really tiny and button-nosed and freckle-faced and dimple-cheeked .and other cutesy-woo things (I have been surrounded by cute journalists this hols!), but she is not cute like Beth! She is actually a pit-bull trapped in the body of a Mouseketeer.
Have I told this story? I'll bet Amanda has by now, but I will anyway. Beth told me that, at a family gathering she overheard a conversation about whether Amanda and I are the same person.
???
This, of course begs the question, why were we being discussed at a family gathering of Beth's, but besides that, what a weird concept! I mean, I know that we have a similar style, but honestly, did they think that I am a single person living in New York who decided to start a second journal in the voice of a married person ten years younger and a foot shorter and living in LA?
Or possibly that Amanda is a married person living in LA who started a journal pretending to be a single person ten years older and a foot taller living in New York, and it went over so well that she decided to start a second journal telling her own story?
God only knows.
Today's horoscope:
Today you just want to be casual and comfortable. This is a time to be relaxed. Do something involving beauty if possible.
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