Damaging the Earth One Dye-Job at a Time
First, for all of you e-mailing and calling and begging — my news is about business and NOT that there is a baby in my future. Please stop knitting baby things.
The other day I was getting my haircut and touching up my blonde to find out….that my greys will not take certain kinds of dye! Oh, yes, I’m serious here, folks, not one but TWO dyes were tried and TWO dyes failed. My guy sighes and looks at me kindly and says, “Well, I guess we are just going to have to go to the damaging stuff, I’m sorry.” I looked up and said, “I have East Coast hair, it doesn’t believe in non-damaging, earth friendly, hippy dyes.” Now, why he didn’t laugh is still beyond me.
And tomorrow is a major holiday here in the land of the hippy, Earth Day. Now, I remember when this ranked up there with Arbor Day and Talk like a Pirate Day, but oh, boy, folks, tomorrow is a BIG deal here. Ok, it is the Earth folks and we all live here and we should take care of it — I get that. But we should have Earth Day parties? Huh? Oh, wait, maybe we should celebrate our finally taking the REALLY old electronics out of house to somewhere to turn in (because frankly in my wrapped thinking, if you really care about the Earth instead of having a parade on Earth day, perhaps, you should reward people for recycling by cutting their garbage bill or have year round locations to take your electronics for free, instead of charging 364 days a year — but then again, I don’t do Valentine’s Day either, so I must not get these holiday things)? I don’t know, maybe I’m cold in my old age, or maybe the chemicals on my hair have damaged brain cells, but I don’t exactly get why Earth Day is a top story on the news here.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I have the same problem trying to cover my grey hair with dye. I think my hairdresser sometimes forgets to do the heavy-duty dye.
On Earth Day, I’m headed to a hippie college town to have lunch with my aunt. I wouldn’t have thought twice about it, but she seems to think it’s going to be extremely crowded. It seems odd to me, too. Should everyone be hiking in the woods or something instead?
April 27th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Happy Earth Day! (heehee)
There is a place in Novato that takes any household electronics for free year round. We brought them an old monitor, CPU, and blender base, plus a bunch of cords. They refurbish them and give them to people who don’t have computers or recycle the parts, etc. and make sure they don’t get sent to China for children to burn. It’s right off Bel Marin Key. All you have to do is give them a CA address.
http://www.mcrc.org/
Marin Computer Resource Center
60 Leveroni Court
Suite 200B
Novato, CA 94949