Devastation!!!

Devastation: the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed; stunned

My friends, sheer and utter devastation has set upon me on this beautiful Tuesday. At approximately 12:20(CST), I was sitting in my car, saying goodbye to my sweetie in the driveway. Today in Texas, it is a bright, sunny, cool- breeze in your hair, fall day! Absolutely gorgeous day outside. As I glance into my visor mirror, I see shimmer on my head. Something shiny. Something that looks out of place. I get closer to the mirror and the devastation occurs.

I HAVE A GRAY HAIR!!

Don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with gray hair, except when it is on me! Everyone says, it's no big deal, it's pretty, it's distinguishing...yeah-yeah, I hear ya... that's your head. We are talking about me here and this is my hair and it's horrible!

I frantically call Patrick back to the car to show him this "THING" on my head. He tries to pass it off as one of the highlights in my hair. I say to him, "No honey, there is no highlight on that particular clump of hair. This hair is different, it's shiny, it's wirey!" It's definitely gray and IT'S HIDEOUS! Patrick then proceeds to want to pull this monstrosity out of my head, but I will allow none of that! "Don't you know when you pull a hair, two grow back in its place! I don't want two!! One is bad enough!" So he leaves it be, per my command.

Another kicker to this story is that this demon piece of hair decided not to come in on the back of my head. A place I will never see it. No, no, no, it's right on the hairline of my face over by my ear! I wear my hair up quite a bit and it's right there-- for all to see, in its shining, shimmering and wirey glory! Is this why I didn't get carded on Saturday night at the bar? Did the door guy see my grey hair and know I was old? My sister who is 5 years older got carded and I didn't! Was this a sign of today coming? Was today the day that I HAD to discover this creature of another color on my head?

I am doomed in life to get gray hair. This is a fact I have known for a long time as both my mother and father possess this trait. I have not however, expected or prepared myself for gray hair at 33 years old! I don't even have a kid yet! Couldn't it wait for me to at least become a parent before rearing it's ugly shiny, shimmering self?

With this tragedy being fresh on my mind, I decided to do a little fact finding of gray hair. Here is goes:

1) Hair turns gray slowly over time. As you get older, the production of your color pigment slows down and gray hair begins to appear. (WHAT?? My color pigment is slowing down! I’m still young!)

2) Your chance of going gray increases 10-20% every decade after 30 years. (HOLY COW, I’m just 33—not even close to 40, so what happened to my 30’s decade. This statement says “every decade AFTER 30”)

3) There is no scientific evidence that any diet, herb, supplement, or natural product can prevent or reverse gray hair. (And now you are saying to me that I have no control over the infestation of grey over my head?)

4) Gray hair is very coarse and wirey. (For real, this is no longer funny! My hair is horribly curly, frizzy and fine as it is. Now you are adding coarse and wirey to the mix~ This is not fair!)

At this point, I guess I only have 3 options:
1) Hope that all the other hair follicles on my head scares this gray follicle so much that he will pack his bags and leave! (this is my 1st preference but I doubt it will happen!)
2) Pull it-- (Ouch and NO, I don't want to be bothered by 2 more!)
3) Have Missy the hair dresser and her magic brush take care of you the next time I go to the salon (Unfortunately I just had my hair done so I will have to live with this irritation for at least 6 more weeks!)

So there it is boys and girls. This has been my terrifying, horrifying, devastating experience of the day! May not be much to you- but it sure got me going! :)