Celibate and Sane: I've Gone to the Dark Side

March 5, 2010

I've Gone to the Dark Side

I've done it! After about 8 years of being a blonde, I've gone back to being a brunette, and it has been quite a shock. Whenever I look in the mirror or see myself reflected in a window I think to myself, "Who the heck is that?" and then realise that it's me.

I enjoyed being a blonde although several of my workmates and friends regularly tried to get a bite out of me by referring to dumb blondes. The silly thing is that after going brunette, tonight I went frantically looking through the house for my glasses, and there they were, perched on my face where they are supposed to be...Obviously, you don't have to be blonde to have a blonde moment!

My hair is naturally crazy curly, wavy, frizzy and dark brown. About ten years ago I started getting it chemically straightened, but because my wave is so strong, the straightening process never completely works and my hair tends to still be a little frizzy and wavy. Thankfully it does make my hair considerably more manageable.

In its natural state, my hair either has to be very long or very short to keep it manageable. If it's very long, there's not a lot I can do with it other than to put into lots of de-frizzing product and pin the top back.

If I keep my natural hair short, I have what I like to call the "pensioner perm" look. This is the look that women 20 or 30 years older than me love. It's curly, wavy and always a little frizzy. It also tends to make me look like my own mother...and I'm telling you now that NO woman wants to look 20-30 years older than they are!

While I will try to maintain my straight hair, I'm trying to reduce my monthly costs by getting my hair coloured much less frequently, which is the reason I am now back to a colour closer to my own.

So, drum-roll please .... here it is.

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”