File under “It was supposed to be a compliment”:
Flora: Mama! Look at this picture I took of you, it’s really, really great!
Jane: Wow… that is actually a really good picture of me. Except for my tired, puffy eyes…
Flora: But your eyes always look like that, Mom.
And we both look at the picture for a while. And then she looks at me. And back at the picture. And at me. And:
Flora: Wow. Imagine how beautiful you’d be, Mom, if you weren’t tired.
It’ll happen. It’ll happen soon, I know. There was this one day last week…
File under “Please, add insult to injury”:
Ender: I do not want to hold your hand! You wash my bum with your hands, and they smell BAD!
Sob.
In possibly related news, if I wash and moisturize my hands any more, I might be diagnosed as having emergent OCD. Or something like that…
And finally, to everyone who contributed to “I Just Want To Pee Alone,” and in particular the brain trust behind the title:
Jane: I don’t care! Go whizz off the balcony! Take a dump in the yard like the dog! Water the neighbour’s tree! I don’t give a flying fuck what you do, just let me have the bathroom to myself for fiiiiiiiiive minutes!
Cinder: Geez, what’s up with Mom?
Flora: I think she wants some privacy.
Ender: Does she want to be alone together with me? Mama? Do you miss me already? I’m right here!
It’s good to be loved. Right?
♥
A self-indulgent moment to chastize the blogosphere: I can’t believe you all sided with Flora on the pink hair. What’s wrong with you people? Good thing I didn’t say I was going with majority vote. (Although I did sort of promise Jenn at Something Clever to go pink, didn’t I… Oops.)
Today, the hair looks like this:
And that’s its boring au naturel shade, with a rather frightening amount of grey-white replacing the platinum blonde. I’m trying to love it. I don’t even mind the grey-white, not really. The boring brown, however, is just not doing it.
Stay tuned.
Nothing By The Book 
Oh bless her!!! I think you look stunning. xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you. I like the hair cut a lot. 🙂 Altho it seems to draw attention to the puffy eyes…
it so does not, you are gorgeous! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You look great and seriously I want to know a day that I won’t look tired either. Someday!!
It’ll come. Just in time for perimenopause insomnia to hit, of course…
Looks great Jane! I’m pretty sure you could rock a lovely shade of green!
Green? It’s a conspiracy to make me look 12…
HA!!! Yes, it is good to be loved!
And I love your new ‘do! You are gorgeous, my friend!
xo
Thank you. xx
And again, they make me laugh out loud. However, are you actually suggesting that there will be a time when you won’t be tired? If so, could you please lend me your optimism? *Yawn*
And about the ‘do, not sure what your hair looked like before but I’m jealous you can sport such a short cut! Not many people can pull it off. Luckyyy…xo
You will, one day, not be tired. Unfortunately, as I told Janine above, it will be just in time for the perimenopause insomnia to hit… 😛
SILVER hair is very pretty…
It’s gorgeous. That’s what I will sport when I go totally grey. Silver, shimmering hair…
Red then please!
And perimenopause – a concept I’ve only just found out about which apparently can go on for ten years. Hmmm.
Nature’s an evil bitch.
That sweet Ender. He wants to be with you even during a BM…
I hate my natural brown-ish hair, but I think you rock yours! I’m still for the pink tips, though 😉
I think I’m going to experiment with some wash-in colours and colour gels for a while. Cause I have nothing else to obsess about at the moment…
They’re just so very cute!! Love your look!!!
Thank you! 🙂
I think your hair looks great! And I laughed out loud at you having to hear “Imagine how beautiful you’d be if you weren’t tired.” I hope you reminded Flora that you being tired all the time is partially her fault! 😉
Honestly, it’s mostly Ender. Actually, it’s all Ender. 3.5, please end soon.
Ouch. I think you’re beautiful, no qualifiers. And love your hair! Once upon a time I thought pink hair was super rad (ok. I still do), but right now, natural hair seems so chic to me! Whatever you decide, you will wear it wonderfully.
I’m obsessed with your short hair. I covet it. I want it. I would look terrible. but I want it.
❤
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“Imagine how beautiful you’d be if you weren’t tired”????? Where do they come up with this stuff? It’s probably not nice to laugh. . .but it’s so, so true.
I think the hair is awesome! I started growing out my gray when I was pregnant with Mac. Some days I’m not real keen on the meh brown shade, but I LOVE my silver streak. I completely understand your temptation to try out some different colors. Can’t wait to see what you decide!
I wish I could pull off that kind of hair cut. I think it looks awesome!
I’m slowly reading my way through your blog and I love it. Your honesty is so refreshing and your genuinly funny. xx
Except when I’m mean. Sometimes I’m mean. Just warning you…
I like mean. Mean can be good. I look forward to finding out how that reads.
(What I do not like is that I managed to pull a you’re/your mistake above. Such things annoy me.)