Twas Brillig

Yes, yes it does. Because if I’m in here, it smells like smoke.

Sigh. I swear this stuff happens to me just so that I can blog about it.

So… this morning, I was getting ready for church. I jumped out of the shower, got dressed, and started blowing my hair dry.

Suddenly, I noticed a weird patch of hair—a very strange, orange-colored horizontal stripe about three inches long in my black hair. “What on earth is that from?” thought I. And then POOF! Right along that stripe, my hair begins to smoke and suddenly a huge chunk of my hair FALLS. OUT.

The house smells like a rat died and was then set on fire. I, of course, freak out, and then run and show the clump of burnt hair to Hubby, who thinks it’s the most hilarious thing ever.

We’re almost late for church, so ruined-burned-melted-sizzled-frayed hair or not, I just have to figure out a way to pin it all back and get out the door.

Throughout the meeting, Hubby keeps looking at me and busting up laughing. He would lean towards me and say, “do you smell fire?” and so on. (And yes, I stank of rotten smoke all day— I still do, in fact.)

Fluffy then went to Primary (which I was observing today) and from the moment the meeting began, she was raising her hand. When the teacher finally called on her, she announced to the whole group, in very serious tones, that her mommy’s hair had caught on fire and fallen out. The children all looked at me in wonder, the teachers all looked at me with a mix of pity and laughter. No one ever asked me to actually explain what happened…

Then again, what would I have said? How DOES such a thing happen? It’s not like my hair dryer is exceptionally hot, nor is my hair exceptionally dry or damaged or anything. Ummmm? HOW DOES ONE’S HAIR SUDDENLY START SMOKING AND FALL OFF????

So… yeah. I have no idea what to do with it now. Bic it? Sure! I could totally do the Sinead O’Rebellion look…

Please tell me that that one scene from Empire Records just popped into your head! I was about to describe the scene to you, but then I found this mini-clip—seriously, mini. 27 seconds! So here goes. (And yeah, I was actually told many times in my youth that I look a lot like this chick, so maybe I can just be a now-aged and rounder version of her…)