Random 5 for April 21, 2024 – A very organic post!

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What’s up with that? – Lately I’ve noticed that some shops charge you extra for using a credit card. At first it was the pizza shops. I understood that. Small purchases, extra work. Then it happened at regular restaurants where the costs were more substantial. Last week I got a notice from a hair salon, they will start doing that too. I loved the freedom from carrying cash. No runs to the MAC or ATM machine to get money. Flip out the card and I was good to go. Pay at the end of the credit card cycle and all was good. Now it’s back to paying 3% more or carrying cash. Argh. One step forward, two steps back.

Speaking of my hair salon – I got a hair cut this week. Long time followers know that it’s a trauma for me. I never use the right words to get the cut I want. Bringing pictures doesn’t work either. This time I wanted to go shorter. My hair stylist used the words “close” and “tight” when she referred to the hair above my nape. I have no freaking idea what that meant but I said “sure.” You know those boy haircuts with a big floof on top and the sides and back shaved? I have a moderate variation of that. Hair on top is a little longer and in the back it’s short (but not shaved). She was amazed that my back hair is curly. (Seriously after all these years?) I like it but I’ll like it better when it grows out about a bit. At least it’s easy.

Speaking of haircuts – My husband couldn’t find me at the grocery store. He said my head shape is different and he couldn’t pick me out. I had a haircut not cranial surgery!

Speaking of words – A trip to the hairdresser always sends me to the internet to see what the latest terms are for describing cuts. It’s a big deal. I remember movement, texture, choppy and organic used to describe haircuts. (Yeah, I have no freaking idea what any of them mean either.) I love organic though. People use it for anything at all. I suspect it means something that happens naturally. It used to be confined to food without pesticides. Now it’s used for anything from haircuts to parties. My blog is organic. It has replaced gobsmacked as my favorite word. Gotta love language.

A memory – That reminded me of a story way back when I was working. One guy in my training workgroup was tasked with making a list of book resources. In his presentation he kept referring to symbiotic and synergy, They were “key business phrases” at the time. He had more descriptives than actual physical resources. That was a definite snooze fest!

So how was your week? Have a favorite word?

 

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  1. Haircut terminology changes all the time for sure! You used to say “undercut” to do that layering with the shorter hair as the bottom layer to make your ends flip up. Now “undercut” means that thing where they shave the sides of your head and leave the hair on the top of your head. So yeah. Now I know not to say that!

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  2. Haircuts are trauma. I got my first cut post pandemic while in rehab last spring and it looked pretty good. I based it on a nurse’s cut I liked and she showed me all around her head so I could tell someone to cut it. I went back two weeks later to get a little touch up and it came out a whole different cut. It’s now long enough that it looks okay again but that just means I need to find someone to cut it. Not a lot of choice in this little town. I went to one salon’s website where they posted a bunch of favorites. All the exact same style. No. Not going there.

    Good luck to you! It’s always better after you get used to it, right?

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  3. I insist on “wash ‘n’ wear” hair … but my hair seems to be as stubborn as I am, and only does what it wants anyway. Occasionally I get a perfect cut, one that suits my face and no hair gets in my face, but arrrrggghhhh it is a process, isn’t it. Hard to find a hairdresser who knows what to do with certain kinds of hair to cut it correctly. I feel your pain. Yours and all your other readers!

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    • I get perplexed when I get a perfect cut only to go back and ask for the same thing and come out different. Everyone has bad days but not on my hair please!

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  4. Business terms: Worst ever: ”onboard,” as in we’re onboarding the new hires. 

    Haircuts: My stylist has been doing my hair for years, hundreds of cuts by her. She is a closet stand-up comedian – I keep telling her she should have been one – and uses the mirror and her station as her stage. She’s wildly expressive and hilarious. All the time she’s entertaining me and gesticulating and making me laugh so hard I’m sick, she’s cutting my hair. I’ve had some strange hair cuts!

    But some good times!

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    • Business terms are the weirdest. I remember about “getting in the weeds” as in getting in the details. You are lucky to get such a haircutter. I don’t think any made me laugh.

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  5. Haircuts are stressful – even though I know it will always grow out eventually. I haven’t had a good one since just before COVID. My absolutely perfect hairdresser and her kids kept getting it over and over again so she was MIA and now not working I guess. Her replacement is Ok but she seems obsessed with giving me the new trendy look. …not always a good idea (and so expensive – although I understand small businesses). My hair is straight. Mom tried perms, but they rarely took on my fine hair. Why fight it? My former hairdresser knew just how to cut it – I always had wash and wear hair that looked shiny and smooth… lengths varied from chin level to shoulder level depending on the season, but simple. The new one has never heard of “simple”…I do not have time for adding “product” and struggling with hairdryers trying to get it to cooperate and look right. Has taken almost a year to grow out some sort of modern Farrah shag. Right now, husband is trimming it straight across periodically. Not sure ready to risk another “styling” HAHA

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    • This cut may be better when it grows out a little. I asked for layers and she did that but the bottom back is too short. Fortunately the top is longer so I don’t look like I got caught in a lawn mower! 🙂 I did well with a perm just on the top so the texture blended with my natural curl but my stylist thinks my hair is too old or fragile for that. Fortunately, I don’t care as much as I used to. When I was young a cut that I didn’t want was the end of the world! 🙂

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    • I don’t know. It’s a little short in the back and I’m not used to that. Because my hair is curly there, it looks choppy to me. The top is good. Maybe another week or so will tell. When I moved from NJ I missed my hairdresser there. She cut the way I wanted them cut but I also wore my hair longer then. I may not do well with short cuts.

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  7. I copied and pasted your comments about hair salons and haircuts to my wife because she finds the whole experience to be equally stressful. I wasn’t aware of this anti-plastic payment movement! Great, I too have enjoyed the whole cashless aspects. Ugh. – Marty

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  8. I get my hair cut a few times a year. He blows it out and styles it, it’s shoulder length. Then I go home and pull it all back and clip it up. An older person’s version of a pony tail but not quite a bun. I don’t know why I cut it. I guess I figure I still want the option of fixing it up but I never do. I mean NEVER. I think it’s too time consuming. When I was I was younger, I would spend an hour doing my hair! I was stupid. I would go really short but I look awful with really short hair.

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    • My hair is unruly when it’s short and I have cowlicks. This cut is too short but it will grow. I always go hoping that this will be the time I get the perfect cut. I have had a few but it’s more likely when I wear my hair longer. I’d love to do a short curly look but my top hair is not curly enough for that. The worst part is that cuts are very $$ these days. Too much to be unhappy.

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  9. I kind of like “kerfuffle” for a word that describes things that go astray. Today the ants marched in and took over the one side of the house – grrr. Since I had only found five or six so far this year so far I thought they skipped me. But our frosty weather likely brought them in.

    I had to laugh that your husband couldn’t find you with your new head shape. Tell him not to feel badly as I “lost” my mom in the grocery store, as I was wandering aimlessly down the aisles looking for her. First, to my credit, she had a new coat – bright red, which she got at an end-of-season clearance and I was used to her brown Winter jacket. But there was more. My mom had black hair as long as I could remember, needing “a dye job” about every three weeks. She went prematurely gray, so she had died her hair black, her natural color hair, for years. She finally decided to let it go gray. Her hairdresser recommended frosting her hair with golden highlights in the Fall and since her hair was short anyway, a few cuts and the frosting would be out and she’d be totally gray by Spring. This would be accomplished over the Winter and she could wear a hat. My mom agreed, but said “Okay Joe, but in between, please don’t make me look like the back end of a deer!” So, she got the cut in the Spring, very short for Mom as she always had naturally curly hair. She looked like a guy and it was a silvery gray. So, then we went to the grocery store, where I “lost” her after going to find something across the store. I was starting to worry something happened – did she fall, taken ill suddenly, whisked away to a “sick bay” in the store? She said she saw me walk by her a couple of times and finally said “Linda, you stupid fool, I’m right here!”

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  10. Your haircut sounds cute.

    I like to carry cash for small purchases. I feel bad making extra work and expense for everyone along the line from store to credit card and whoever else might be in between to handle something under $10. I don’t use marijuana, but I understand that stores that sell it don’t take cash. It encourages robbery. So there’s that.

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    • Can you buy anything for under $10???? Oh yes, my mocha at Starbucks but I use an app for that. I always keep a $20 stashed but that won’t cover a haircut. I’m starting to keep a blank check in my wallet. Most places that take cash, take checks. My husband buys his CBD oil at a marijuana shop. I should ask. I doubt that he would pay cash though as it’s around $40 to $50.

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  11. There’s only been a few times that I’ve been happy with a hair cut. I have shoulder length hair and have been putting off going to the salon and trimming it myself.

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  13. Like you, I’ve come to dread hair cuts. Yesterday I told the man the last cut was the best I’d ever had. I just wanted my hair shorter. He read the comment from the computer, and it was fantastic. The top should be 3 inches, followed by four or five other measurements. He even read aloud that I didn’t want cut outs around my ears. The last operator was meticulous. The man did fairly well, but I noticed my ear areas didn’t match. He’d cut too much around one ear. *sigh* I don’t know if I ought to keep my head aimed to one side so the person I’m talking to will see only one ear treatment. The alternative would be to keep turning around so that my conversee can balance my ears in her mind. What do you think?

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    • I think you should ignore it all and act like you are perfect! Most people don’t notice the things we notice on ourselves! I’m impressed that they kept measurements.

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        • We have that chain here too. I’ve been tempted but getting a different rookie every time throws me off. Since I have natural curl my hair is tricky to cut. Maybe knowing they keep notes will make me brave. Besides, it grows!

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          • My hair isn’t tricky. I’ve had only one cut in five years that I was quite disappointed with. I went back three weeks later. They noticed and said I should have come back within a week, and they would have cut more for free.

            I found when I first came down here that going to a salon would cost $50 for a cut. That’s what I had been paying in NY. My son would trim it a little, and then Great Clips opened next door to my favorite supermarket. I’ve taken my chances and have been moderately satisfied. Like you said, it grows.

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  14. I have no idea what organic hair does or should look like. Should there be mushrooms sprouting from it or something??? Or should you look like you never do anything to your hair, and why would you pay for that when that look could be achieved easily for free with enough time, don’t you think?! 😉 Hmmm…organic is a good word though. Funny post, Kate – thanks!

    Deb

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  15. I get my hair cut every four to five weeks by the same hairstylist in the same cut. Of all the things in life that stress me out, a haircut is not one of them. 🙂 Up here, we moved from Tuscan to organic, and organic is still ruling. I’ve noticed the upcharge for using a credit card and also got hit with an upcharge when asking for separate checks. Using a credit card has become normal because I don’t have to worry about carrying cash, but I guess I’m going to have to adjust because I don’t want to pay the extra charge either. 🙂

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    • Some people enjoy going to the salon for a cut but not me. Even getting the same cut always looks different and it’s not always the same cut even with the same person. Perhaps it’s my hair. My credit card gives me point so not I have to investigate if the points offset the charge. Argh! I don’t like carrying cash.

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  16. I get my hair cut every five weeks, same person, different every time. Laughing over the Husband not being able to find you with the new do! Bananas are a good place to meet 🙂 We always seem to meet in the coffee aisle. I am not a coffee drinker. I really like gobsmacked!

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    • I tried getting regular haircuts at a set interval but my hair kept getting shorter. Hair is weird! Godsmacked has been my word for years. You don’t hear it much so it’s fun to say.

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  17. So much for the advantage charging and then paying off monthly without interest on credit cards. I am see more of that % here too. I have paying to use my card.

    I wondered what an organic post was – guess it could be anything. Authentic gets tossed around a lot too. Have a good week.

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    • Yes, authentic is another one I don’t get. This is an authentic post! (no clue what it means but it sounds good!) How can you post an unauthentic post? Who would know?

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  18. There are a lot of stores here that will only take a card payment, not cash. Then you have others that will only take card payments over the value of £10. I have taken to taking out a lump sum when my pension goes in and use that to do my shopping. It’s a way of keeping to a budget but costs are still rising here.
    Glad I cut my own hair and Hubby has clippers which have paid for themselves tens of times over.

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    • For a while, places preferred card payments here but that’s been changing. They don’t like to pay the fee associated with it so they are passing it on down. Truth is that it was embedded in the cost anyway. I occasionally cut my own hair and yes it saves money. Haircuts are $$ here.

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  19. I have the same problem trying to explain what I want for my hair. My favorite word right now is lollygag. I love to lollygag or even dillydally when leaving home or an event.

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  20. I was a hairdresser for 30+ years. It was great but challenging. Then I sold furniture for 20 years. It always amazed me when people thought sales was hard work. I thought it was easy compared to hairdressing.

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    • I think cutting hair is tough. The communication between stylist and customer is critical and not always effective. I’ve often gotten several great haircuts, then a really bad one from the same person. I don’t know what happened. My mom cut hair (not professionally) and my high school bestie’s mom cut hair (professionally) so I’ve been around it for a long time. I’m not a good client though. I don’t go regularly, preferring to let two to three months or more go by between cuts. Selling furniture would definitely be easier. You get what you see.

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  21. I don’t really keep up with hairstyles, especially not with that terrible middle part! Among the young celebs, I think only Zendaya has figure out that a side part is more flattering. I’m lucky to have a stylist that seems to know what is going on and I leave it to her. My husband and I rarely ever go shopping together. When we do, it’s for a big ticket item–like a couch at Costco.

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  22. I remember “synergy” was THE business term when I was in grad school. All our projects seemed to be based on us finding a way to stick the word/concept into our reports, to show we knew things! I didn’t know “organic” was a cool word now. I’ve abided by it when it comes to blogging, too. And would guess my hairstyle [a ponytail] is organic. 

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    • It’s a thing alright! Since it is used out of context, I had to think what it might mean the first time I heard it! I remember synergy all too well. Most people don’t really understand it.

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  23. Yeah, I empathize. Going to a hairdresser is a little like traveling to another planet. I love how they say “yeah, sure, we can do that” and “yes, I totally get it” and then you leave with nothing like you the image had in your mind. Sigh. And maintaining short hair seems like the impossible dream. I leave the shop wondering “why can’t you just follow the hair as it was cut and just make it shorter?”

    As for a husband not recognizing you in a store after a haircut…all you can do is smile and say thanks for coming with me. And maybe wear a bell? There’s always the creating a pre-arranged rendezvous point strategy. Grocery shopping is a lot like having small kids with you when you are accompanied by an adult male. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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  24. Alright – I admit to loving all your posts but this one “got me” – and I’m still giggling……getting a haircut has become more difficult for sure – terms (whatever happened to saying short, long and medium…..period).  I’ve resorted to saying “whatever you think” and get the same cut every time because I assume she thinks that’s what I SHOULD look like. I’ve given up power over my own hair I guess. Anyway, I’m not all-together sure I would like my husband telling me the only way he recognizes me is by the shape of my head. I wonder how he’d feel if I told HIM that and further explained that I look for the most POINTED or MOST BALD head in the store then I know I’ve found him????? Hee Hee Hee……….anyway, loved this post.

    Hugs, Pam

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  25. I have a haircut this week…will have to watch for the credit card fee. I can carry cash if needed! So funny that hubby didn’t recognize you with the cut! And my favorite part of the haircut – other than really liking my stylist and what she does – is that this wonderful cake bakery is located a couple stores down, and I have to walk past it to get to my car. What’s a haircut without a little bundt cake, or tiramisu, for dessert?

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