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First, I snapped the handle off another brush. While brushing my hair. This is the second one this year and about the 30th in my life. The handle breaks off where it narrows down near where the bristles start. It’s not from trying to pull it through tangles, either. I’m just brushing straight down and then near the end the handle snaps. I don’t know, is there such a thing as too much hairbrush torque?
Second, some strange man accosted me this morning and offered to cut off my hair. This likely would be strange all by itself but what made it really bizarre was that this was in the train station, not a salon, and he was carrying scissors at the time. I declined and then found an official-looking person to report him to. The request is not the worrisome part but that he’s carrying scissors while doing it. Maybe the next person he won’t ask first, right?
In related news I have had to cut my fingernails on the left hand because I can’t play the guitar with them so long. Dolly Parton apparently manages with her talons but I’m not sure how. I’m not even sure how she can play at all with having to prop the guitar so far away from her torso because of her natural attributes in the frontal regions. I suppose she has gotten used to it all. Anyway, my fingernails: I haven’t cut the right hand yet to match so I’m a little lopsided right now.
Today I need to go find a jeweler and see if he can make a ring smaller. It’s a five and I think 4-1/2 would have been better. I don’t want him to have to cut it and re-solder though. This is the danger of buying rings without trying them on in person. Right now I’ve got a piece of tape wrapped on to the underside but that’s not the best solution and it’s rather unattractive. But, if I don’t do something this ring is going to pop off. It already has once. And it’s brand-new and I really don’t want to lose it; it’s a really pretty sterling carved triskele with more carving on the sides. I don’t think exchanging it will work as the maker only does it in whole sizes and I’m pretty sure a 4 will be too small.
Maybe I should just let myself become much fatter, because then the ring will fit fine. Decisions, decisions.