Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Regularity

No not that... but doing the same things over and over.  Some of it drives me nuts, like wiping the kitchen counter and laundry, other stuff I can't seem to handle very well.  Like right now.  My halo is showing; the gray hair around my temples and forehead.  I feel a nice glow, yet how often do I take care of it?  Let me pause while I go do it right now.  Alright, I'm processing and I've just swapped laundry loads.  I've given into vanity, because my goal was to get out of the house by noon, but I'm going to see someone who certainly takes the time and money to do regular hair maintenance.  I have this innate need to buck the system.  Always pushing the limits, never wanting to be tied down. I have boasted many times that there is nothing I do every day aside from go the the bathroom.  Not eat, not sleep, not run.  Hey man, don't fence me in.  But the really weird thing is I like rules.  I majored in math - they gave you the rules.  Follow them and every problem could be conquered.  Easy A.  But real life?  I don't know.  If I followed the life rules, could I conquer every problem?  I suppose we'd have to define what the problems really are.  Hair color - what's the real problem.  If I dye my roots every three weeks, what do I solve?  I loose the halo, but do I really gain anything?  I used to tell my hair dresser (yes, I have one, I can't give myself a good cut, and a good cut is the secret to not having to do your hair every day.) that no one will ever die (no not dye but come to the end of life) and wish they had spent more time doing their hair.  So now that my processing time is nearing completion, I guess the only real thing I've solved is the crown of gray around my face, but the kicker is as soon as that is gone, I've got plenty more vanity problems to look at instead.  I guess I'll see you in three, no make that five... well maybe six weeks.