I’ve had my hair dyed pink for about a month now, am getting some compliments and some “oh wow you dyed your hair” which I generally interpret as…not a compliment ;) But had an amusing moment this weekend of having someone walk up to me in the airport who I’d chatted with at the conference, and she was like “yeah I saw your hair from far away and was like I know her!” And for some reason that part is entertaining me. Still not sure what to do with the hair (right now it’s very straw like still, despite attempts at olaplex and deep conditioner) and if I want to keep it pink for a while vs go a different color (I’m thinking light purple).

Which also brings up something I was thinking of the other day—why do we have a specific word for “light red” (pink) and of “light black” (gray) maybe, but not any of the other colors? I mean yeah, I could say “robins egg” or something but I could also say “light (whatever color)”?

That is a good question!

I feel like it's going to be related to how "wine-dark sea" is from how they thought of dark colors to be more similar than different levels of the same hue, but I'm not sure why I think that! [link]

I don't remember where exactly I was, although it was not the Mediterranean, but I have looked out at the ocean and thought "ah, yes, that is a wine-dark sea" so I have my doubts about all those ancient-people-thought-about-color-differently whatsits. I mean, experts in the subject know more than me, of course, but still.

Didn't Crayola have a "light red" crayon that was different from pink? Possibly I am remembering off-brand crayons.

And didn't pink come from a flower first and then get applied to the color? I wonder how it became so widespread.

Pretty, msbelle!

Msbelle I'm glad your friend avoided surgery.

Just to be clear I don't work off the clock . Well I may log into my handheld device right before I clock in or answer a customer's question if I'm stopped going to lunch or as I'm leaving but that's the extent of it. It was just kind of hard to feel like a couple people seemed to act like it was a bad thing, not working off the clock.

When I was on the register I would constantly tell people not to clock off before they dropped off the deposit bags. And unless I'm in danger of going into over time I will clock out as I'm walking out the door rather than before I get on the elevator.

Mom is going back to Florida. She wasn't going to but my aunt called her and she's not doing well. My aunt has , apparently, a severe UTI and a yeast infection AND she's having memory impairment that may be from the UTI, since severe UTIs can cause memory issues (and can look like dementia). My aunt said she briefly forgot how to operate her car and then got lost because she coudln't remember how to get home.

So Mom is going down between tomorrow and Thursday and then plans to stay until my cousin's ex wife gets out of jail (which should be next week) and see about my cousin's son going to live with his mom and then getting my aunt into assisted living. This is not ideal. But my aunt cannot continue to take care of her grandson. My cousin's fiancée won't take temporary guardianship of him if she has to deal with his mother at all (which honestly I can understand). Or he is going to have to go into foster care.

None of this is ideal but my aunt needs to be in assisted living.

My cousin has made improvement from his stroke but after being sent to the hospital from the rehab center because of a kidney infection due to his catheter not being cleaned regularly he is back at that rehab center because it's the only place that will take him.

askye, lots of ~ma to you and your family.

msbelle, lots of ~ma to your friend and her family.

Oof, askye, sounds like there are no good options there. I hope your Mom can help out.

Awesome, my company is implementing a vaccine mandate as of December 8. There's still a lot of corporate bullshit that goes on, but they do a lot of things right.

My office doesn't have a vaccine requirement (yet?), but we do have required masking and social distancing. For so long, I was the only one in the (huge) office, so it's disconcerting to have OTHER PEOPLE around. They make noise. They ask me questions. They don't take the used coffee packs out of the coffee maker. They should be working remotely, right?