Gone Gray!

This morning I replaced my blog photo. It's not a great photo (I'm really terrible at taking selfies, hence the mouth breather look), and will probably be replaced soon with a better photo, perhaps today even. I just need to get son to take camera in hand. Meanwhile, it's more me these days than my other photo was. That was taken in the middle of summer a couple years ago,  when I was still tanning at will at least on my face (I've tried to cut that down the last few years) and was my reddish brown former color.

You all may remember this ask the reader post, where I discussed the going gray factor, after years of coloring my hair-sometimes as often as every three weeks, since I keep my hair very short by choice (waving to Laura over at the Occasional Nomads). While there's still a slight bit of the brown on top (it may take one or two more hair cuts) the rest of said hair is gray-or really white in my case. A new look for me.

While I like it (we'll see what the offspring say), I do feel a bit paler, and kind of wish I was still going non-sunscreened at least once a day (I have to work on keeping my vitamin D levels up as well, with my severe arthritis). Clothes as such are not an issue most of the time, since my clothing choices naturally tend to be lavender and blue and yellow and pink and yellow green when I can find it at this kind of year. I'm not a black and navy and white kind of gal, so I'm ahead of the game in the sense of keeping soft and a few bright colors around my face-mainly.

I'm still getting used to the new me as I look in the mirror, but am really glad to have at least temporarily gotten rid of the aggravation and effort of a more often than once a month hair color habit. I'll use this holiday to evaluate, see what I think and decide if this is where I will say. Who knows? Maybe I'll keep this and put a streak of blue in once it's all grown out, or maybe I'll return to the old color. But I doubt it.

I'm committed to mainly staying at home today, because I have more than a few Amazon packages arriving (Not paranoid, but why risk anything). Only I just realized that one of the two sweater coats I bought last week is nowhere to be found in this house. So at some point I need to wander over to church, where I'm fairly sure I left the thing, after last week, when I spent every day from Monday to Friday supervising and helping our temporary Family Promise residents

Hopefully it will be just that easy.