Yippee! I'm OLD!

[ailbhe]

Finally, finally, FINALLY, after years of waiting and wondering why I hadn't inherited my mother's genes in this regard, I HAVE A WHITE HAIR.

OK, it's only one, in my eyebrow. But it's a start!

Pillar-box red hair with blue eyebrows, you are in my future. I can SEE YOU.

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Other symptoms include really, really enjoying playing word games after the children are asleep, thinking the Reading Festival kids are incredibly cute as they rock up in their mothers' cars and their mothers help them carry the tents, sleeping bags, beer and novelty hats down the street, and clucking in irritation at postal delivery operatives who leave little red rubber bands lying around everywhere.

I'm so happy. If I work hard and age well, maybe I can be a bit like kightp later. I can learn how to do awesome, right?

Comments

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. You're the only other person I've come across, apart from me, who was delighted to find their first white hair! I waved mine triumphantly at my family and said 'this means WISDOM, this does!'

Dyeing eyebrows blue could be a fiddly and messy process... *grin*

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I feel somwhat ambivalent about the white stripes in my beard. I like them well enough, but the bits that went white were the bits that were previously red. And I REALLY liked having red bits in my beard.