Slowly (very, very slowly) my hair is starting to grow back. The places where I lost hair last (eyebrows, eyelashes, parts of my head) are the places its growing back first. My nose and armpit hairs are nowhere to be found yet. So, I thought it would be fun to document my hair re-growth – at least above the nose hair re-growth, that is both appropriate for mass consumption and isn’t going to get trimmed much for the next few months / years. So, on the first of every month, starting tomorrow, I’ll be posting a pic of my eyelash/eyebrow/head hair onto Instagram (@TheRealAriG) and at the same time I’ll be reminding everyone to do their monthly breast self exam. You get to see my hair growth journey, and I get to remind you to check your boobs. Win-win.
Speaking of my fuzz covered head – since returning to work, the most frequent question I’ve been getting is “so what are you covering your head with?” … which I guess means you people actually read this garbage from time to time. (I’m kidding. I know this isn’t garbage. calm down.) I’ve been back at work for almost 3 weeks (and still have 8 work days to go) and I’ve been wearing a mix of fancy-tied scarves (which work well on mornings when I’ve got loads of time, not so great on mornings when I’m racing out the door and don’t have the patience to perfectly wrap) and my floral beanies – which feel slightly fancier than my favorite solid gray beanies that are found more often at a hipster coffee shop than at Target Corp. On Fridays though, I go casual and wear the slouchy hipster beanies. Its my new version of casual Friday.
This past week has been an all beanie week though. Because I don’t know if you’ve heard, but POLAR VORTEX. Its been really truly very cold here in Minnesota this week. So cold that I’m actually wearing a coat to go outside (I hate coats, they’re always getting in the way and make me feel trapped in a sleeping bag). So cold that I turned the water off in my house Tuesday night when my pipes started to freeze. So cold that the dog has NO desire to get up in the morning knowing that I will force his butt outside to pee. So cold that there hasn’t been school in most of the state all week. But did that mean work was cancelled? No. So it’s been an all beanie all the time week (and sometimes a winter hat ON TOP of the beanie). And honestly, its fine. Its so cold that people WITH hair are wearing winter hats at Target. And my teeny tiny regrowing baby eyelashes are too short to collect icicles when I’m outside. though.
Unfortunately my water is still off until temps are back in positive territory
Fortunately my baby-fuzz head of hair doesn’t need to be shampooed all that often
Fortunately Unfortunately 